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Gun rights advocates want compensation for loss of bump stock sales

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While federal courts have upheld the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks, gun rights advocates are vowing to press forward in a separate legal battle…
While federal courts have upheld the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks, gun rights advocates are vowing to press forward in a separate legal battle to try to force the government to at least compensate them for their surrendered or destroyed property.
One of the co-founders of Texas-based RW Arms, which destroyed more than 70,000 bump stocks ahead of the effective date of the ban last month, said the company took an estimated hit of more than $20 million in the process.
“It is going to hurt us — about 40% of our company was in bump stock sales — but we’re going to continue on,” said RW Arms co-founder Mike Stewart.
Mr. Stewart’s group announced earlier this month that it had joined with The Modern Sportsman, a Minnesota-based company, to sue the federal government, arguing that the ban is an unconstitutional taking of property without compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
The lawsuit, filed in federal claims court in Washington, D. C., said the company destroyed 73,462 bump stocks in order to comply with the ban, and that Mr. Stewart destroyed 25 of them.
Bump stocks, which attach to semiautomatic rifles to mimic the firing rate of machine-guns, gained attention after the October 2017 Las Vegas massacre, in which the gunman used the devices to rain down fire on concert-goers, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds of others.

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