The attempt at a new prohibition had no chance of passage, but it was proposed to spotlight Second Amendment supporters and paint them in a negative light.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) of New York proposed restoring the federal rule that the 6-3 high court majority found unconstitutional.
Schumer sought approval of a unanimous consent request, which would fast-track legislation through the upper chamber if there was not a single vote in opposition. It had no shot of clearing the vote, which was not its purpose.
This hopeless ploy was derailed by Sen. Pete Ricketts (R) of Nebraska, though if he had not stood against it, there would have been dozens of other volunteers.
The senator noted that prohibiting bump stocks “would literally ban any item that makes a firearm easier and sometimes safer to shoot.”
Bump stocks are popular devices invented a decade ago to assist disabled veterans in continuing to enjoy sport shooting. They were deemed perfectly legal by the ATF until the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, and then they were banned.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D) of New Mexico brought the Senate request for a unanimous consent action Tuesday afternoon. However, Ricketts blocked the Banning Unlawful Machinegun Parts (BUMP) Act.
Unfortunately, it is a common tactic among the anti-Second Amendment lobbyists to grandstand and exploit tragedies that would not have been prevented by the hollow measures they support after the fact.
Instead of meaningful legislation that would make Americans safer, gun rights opponents wasted energy on empty gestures such as this week’s Senate vote. In this way, nothing is solved, and the problem of criminal violence just worsens.
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