High Court Could Draw Line Between Administrative and Criminal Law in 2nd Amendment Decisions

A lawyer who will argue the so-called “bump stock” case before the U.S. Supreme Court said there is much more at stake than a firearm accessory. “This isn’t really a Second Amendment case,” Mark Chenoweth, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), told The Epoch Times. “This is an instance of an agency trying to do something without the authority of Congress.” Cargill v. Garland is about the reclassification by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) of the bump stock. This device increases the rate of fire of certain semi-automatic rifles. From 2010 to December 2018, the ATF held that bump stocks did not convert rifles into machine guns and were, therefore, legal....