Tom Cotton Suggest Bump Stocks Ban is Borderline Unconstitutional

(OurNationNews.com) Republican Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is taking issue with a measure seeking to preserve the ban on bump stocks for handguns that was passed during the tenure of former president Donald Trump.

According to the Arkansas legislator, the move “treads close to the line” of violating Americans’ Second Amendment rights, which allow for the bearing of arms. He added that the legislation infringes on the “rights of law-abiding American citizens”, stressing that any firearms-related legislation should instead focus on preventing violent gun crimes and other violations.

“What we need to do to stop crime in this country is to get tough on crime,” Senator Cotton said.

Cotton’s remarks come just before the Senate is set to vote on a bill that would ostensibly prohibit bump stocks for good – despite a ruling from the Supreme Court that struck down the Trump-era ban.

The Trump administration imposed the bump stock ban following the deadly shooting rampage in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2017, where a deranged gunman killed 60 people and injured hundreds when he opened fire at a music festival. Many of the firearms the killer used were equipped with bump stocks – firearm attachments that convert semi-automatic handguns into rapid-fire weapons akin to machine guns.

Still, the Supreme Court recently ruled – with the justices voting across ideological lines, 6-3 – that the ban implemented by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was outside the purview of the agency’s authority. Cotton lauded the decision, saying that the court did its job, and despite it being a Trump-era legislation, the justices stuck to the “meaning of statutes and of our Constitution.”

However, Democratic New York Senator Chuck Schumer vowed that the liberal-dominated U.S. senate would work to undo the “the chaos the MAGA court just unleashed.” The progressive senator claimed that the majority of Americans are in favor of banning bump stocks, which seek to replicate the much-maligned AR-15-style assault rifles.