The Supreme Court overturned a Trump-era ban on “bump stocks” Friday.
Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz of Florida praised former President Donald Trump for being “right” in imposing a federal ban on bump stocks, a measure the U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday.
Bump stocks, an accessory that gives semi-automatic firearms the ability to fire automatically at speeds comparable to machine guns, were banned in 2019 following devastating mass shootings at a music festival in Las Vegas and a high school in Parkland, Florida.
The Supreme Court overturned the ban on Friday, with the court’s conservative 6-3 majority concluding that the Trump administration had incorrectly used its regulatory power to reclassify bump stock-equipped weapons as illegal machine guns.
Moskowitz, who helped pass a Florida bump stock ban as a state lawmaker following the Parkland shooting, lauded Trump’s ban while arguing that the three conservative justices he appointed were “dangerously wrong” in voting to quash it.
“Former President Trump was right to ban bump stocks!” Moskowitz wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “The Supreme Court Justices he appointed are radically and dangerously wrong today.
