A federal judge upholds Trump's ban on Trump's stockpile stocks

February 26, 2019, 05:43 GMT

By Tim Stelloh

A Washington state federal judge on Monday rejected a challenge to the Trump government's ban on so-called "bump stocks," a device that killed 58 people and injured nearly 900 in Las Vegas in 2017.

In a 64-page decision, US District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich said the plaintiffs who had filed the challenge failed to prove their case.

The ban, issued on December 18 by the Ministry of Justice, is expected to come into effect on March 26.

Individuals will not be allowed to sell mogul stocks or similarly designed devices that allow a semi-automatic rifle to function as a machine gun.

Those still in possession of the devices will have to destroy them or entrust them to a local office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

In court papers filed on Dec. 26, Damian Guedes, the Firearm Policy Foundation and other plaintiffs argued that the new rule "smelled of agency abuse" and was "the product of the law." serious and multidimensional legal offenses ".

They also said that Attorney General of the time, Matthew Whitaker, did not have the power to impose the ban.

But Friedrich rejected the case, saying it did not prove that the government had made a mistake in drafting the new rule.

Federal law does not prevent Whitaker from enforcing the rule, Friedrich writes.