A federal court has ruled that the last man in America to legally own a bump stock must hand it over to the government.
The shooting accessories were banned by the Trump administration more than a year after a Nevada man used one to shoot hundreds of people at a country music festival in Las Vegas. The president said they turn .
鈥淲e鈥檙e knocking out bump stocks,鈥� President Trump told reporters in October 2018. 鈥淚鈥檝e told the NRA. Bump stocks are gone.鈥�
Bump stock owners were told to either to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms by the end of March. But Clark Aposhian, a firearms lobbyist in Salt Lake City, was an exception.
He had filed suit against the ban in January and received a temporary stay to keep his bump stock until a final ruling.
鈥淭his lawsuit is primarily about government overreach,鈥� Aposhian said. 鈥淚f we鈥檙e going to start down the road of banning, restricting, mitigating, and registering items that one person uses, we鈥檙e going to have a pretty long list of things we鈥檙e restricted from.鈥�
On Tuesday, the U.S. 10th District Court of Appeals issued a two-page ruling that his temporary stay was 鈥渘ot warranted.鈥�
Aposhian will now need to hand over his bump stock to the federal government until the lawsuit is resolved. The bump stock will be held in safekeeping by the federal government in case Aposhian is successful in his suit.
This story was produced by the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between Wyoming Public Media, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUER in Salt Lake City, KUNR in Reno, and KRCC and 萝莉少女 in Colorado.
Correction 4:35 p.m. MT 5/2/19: A previous version of this story stated Aposhian filed his lawsuit in Februaru. The suit was filed in January of 2019.
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