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The Supreme Court’s New ‘Bump Stock’ Firearms Case: A Victory for Gunowners

Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinion for the Supreme Court ‘bump stock firearms’ case may be more important for what it does not say than for what it does.
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The Supreme Court’s New ‘Bump Stock’ Firearms Case: A Victory for Gunowners
A bump stock on an AK-47 at Good Guys Gun and Range in Orem, Utah, on Feb. 21, 2018. George Frey/Getty Images
Rob Natelson
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Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinion for the Supreme Court in Garland v. Cargill—the “bump stock firearms” case—may be more important for what it does not say than for what it does.
Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
Author
Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant” (3rd ed., 2015). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”