By: Kayleigh Hamilton
The Supreme Court is under assault after its ruling on bump stocks.
The justices made the bold decision to fight back against federal overreach.
And now they are paying the price for it at the hands of one powerful governor.
The Supreme Court’s reversal of Trump’s bump stock ban was a powerful moment in the fight against creeping authoritarianism from the feds.
The president has no authority to simply ban a gun accessory by executive fiat without any input from Congress, in violation of the Second Amendment.
And yet presidents have been doing things like that for years. It wasn’t until now that the Supreme Court finally mustered up the courage to do something about it.
Democrat politicians had been getting used to the status quo of ever-expanding executive power, and they were happy with it.
Now that the Supreme Court has curtailed that power, they are furious, and many of them are taking their anger out on the Court itself.
This includes New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who is going on a rampage against the Court in the wake of their ruling on bump stocks.
According to Bearing Arms, “New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has already been fact-checked and forced to ‘clarify’ her first official statement about the Supreme Court’s decision in the bump stock case known as Garland v. Cargill after falsely claiming that the perpetrator of the Tops grocery store shooting in Buffalo used a bump stock-equipped rifle in the 2022 shooting. If Hochul wasn’t aware of the facts before she made her falsehood, she’s certainly been made aware since her comments came under media scrutiny. Yet on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Hochul insinuated that the Buffalo shooting involved a bump stock, while chiding the Supreme Court for ruling that the ATF overstepped its authority in promulgating a ban during the Trump administration.”
Of course, it is completely untrue that a bump stock was used during the Buffalo shooting. Bump stocks have been very rarely used in shootings, with the only exception being Las Vegas.
Here is what Hochul said: “I mean, they are so out of touch. They’re literally living in the 1700s. They go back to what our Founding Fathers said about guns at a time when we had muskets. We didn’t have bump stocks. We didn’t have machine guns. We didn’t have the capacity of a mass shooting that steals the lives of people in my hometown of Buffalo or that kills so many at a gathering of young people out west at a concert.”
By comparing Buffalo to Las Vegas and referencing bump stocks, it’s clear that she meant to leave the impression that a bump stock was used in Buffalo.
And in addition to that, her attacks on the Supreme Court for following the Constitution, which she clearly thinks is outdated and should be scrapped, are disgusting.
The Supreme Court appropriately ruled that the president can’t just take away a constitutional right by executive fiat. But Kathy Hochul isn’t happy about that.