A group of gun owners are suing the state of Florida for signing into law a ban on bump stock devices in the wake of the deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
According to the News Service of Florida, the suit was filed last week in Leon County circuit court.
Bump stocks attach onto the stock of semiautomatic rifles and speed up the rate of fire to mimic that of an automatic rifle. They were used in the deadly Las Vegas shooting last fall, and there have been calls to ban them ever since.
A new Florida law passed in the wake of the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School banned bump stocks in the state of Florida. It also made it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to purchase firearms in the Sunshine State.
The 17-page lawsuit argued that the law "is so onerous that its effect is tantamount to a direct appropriation of property, and therefore, a compensable taking under the Fifth Amendment."
A new effort to enact gun control measures has been underway since the Florida high school shooting. Florida took the lead and passed the abovementioned legislation, while other states and lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are working on bills to strengthen things like gun purchase background checks and, potentially, ban bump stocks.
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