DailyKenn.com — Donald Trump notoriously banned the bump stock firearm accessory in 2018. The Justice Department accommodated the president's order by defining bump-stock-equipped firearms as machine guns and, in so doing, made them illegal.
It is possible — even likely — that the president knew the order would not stand up in court. He merely wanted to pacify alarmists, it seems.
Recently, a federal court in Michigan overruled the president's order.
In a bombshell ruling delivered this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit not only denied Chevron deference to Trump's bump stock ban, but held that "Chevron deference categorically does not apply" in the criminal law context. The 6th Circuit then took its own look at the text of the federal machine gun ban and decided that "a bump stock does not fall within the statutory definition of a machine gun." In sum, Trump's attempt to impose gun control via executive fiat lost big.
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