How to Use bump stock in a Sentence

bump stock

noun
  • The Supreme Court is deeply torn about whether bump stocks are legal.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
  • After that mass shooting, many bump stock owners saw a ban coming.
    — Martin Kaste, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • At issue was whether bump stocks fell within those definitions.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 2 July 2024
  • The federal rule made possession of a bump stock a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
    — Cnn, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
  • In that case, the court had to decide whether the ATF was right to define bump stocks as machine guns.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The measure would also ban rapid-fire trigger activators and bump stocks, which increase the fire rate of weapons.
    — Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The rule ordered owners of bump stocks to destroy them or surrender them within 90 days.
    — Erwin Chemerinsky, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
  • The bump stocks ruling The reason is that, on that day, the justices sidestepped discussion of the law’s purpose.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Legislators also banned bump stocks, which had been used in the 2017 shooting.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The Supreme Court leans in favor of upholding a ban on bump stocks that enable rifles to work like machine guns.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The case hinges on whether bump stocks convert semiautomatic rifles into machine guns.
    — Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The question before the court was whether a bump stock converted a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • Both these guns and accessories that convert other guns into them are banned, which makes the bump stocks unlawful under federal law.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
  • Because this case does not involve the 2nd Amendment, Congress could adopt a law prohibiting bump stocks.
    — Erwin Chemerinsky, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
  • Even if the Supreme Court overturns the regulation, bump stocks would still not be available nationwide.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Since Wisconsin does not ban bump stocks, Milwaukee could not ban them, Pederson said.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • Since 1934, federal law has banned machines guns, but there has been dispute over whether a bump stock can be outlawed as a type of machine gun.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Proposals that focused on school security and banning bump stocks failed in 2019.
    — David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The government stresses the lethality of semiautomatic weapons when they are modified by bump stocks.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Along with the bill banning bump stocks, Senate Democrats also passed legislation banning ghost guns in Michigan.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Just last month, the high court struck down a federal ban on bump stocks — an accessory that allows gunmen to fire off rounds much more rapidly, and which were used in the Vegas shooting.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
  • The House will also consider two separate bills approved by the Senate that lengthen waiting periods for gun purchases and a ban on bump stocks.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But rifles outfitted with bump stocks were involved in other mass shootings, most notably a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Lawmakers also raised the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21 and turned the ownership of bump stocks, which could make a semiautomatic rifle fire more rapidly, into a felony.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The state House this summer also passed a bill that would have banned bump stocks and other rapid-fire modification devices, but it, too, was rejected by the Maine Senate.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In 2018, the state legislature passed a law that outlawed the possession and sale of bump stocks, along with trigger cranks and devices that make the gun operate like an automatic weapon.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
  • In 2018, the state legislature passed a law that outlawed the possession and sale of bump stocks, along with trigger cranks and devices that make the gun operate like an automatic weapon.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026
  • That case was based on whether the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms had correctly applied the law’s technical definition of a machine gun to a bump stock.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
  • That includes bump stocks, which were briefly banned federally after they were used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, America’s deadliest mass shooting.
    — Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
  • In addition to beating the national ban on bump stocks in the courts, Cargill was the proxy for a lawsuit by Attorney General Ken Paxton against the city of Austin over its ban on firearms in City Hall.
    — Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 12 Jan. 2026

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