Supreme Court bump stocks ban oral arguments

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan said the federal law at the center of the case was written such that “small adjustments of a weapon” would not allow for crafty exceptions to it.“This statute is loaded with anti-circumvention devices,” Kagan told Jonathan Mitchell, an attorney representing the challenger to the federal bump stock ban.”The entire way the statute is written suggests that Congress was very aware that there could be small adjustments of a weapon that could get around what Congress meant to prohibit,” Kagan said.“And in all kinds of ways, you’re accepting of that and…