presidential debate now, just four days away, that is the live countdown clock. the first major showdown between incumbent president joe biden and former the president donald trump, since 2020, and the earliest general election debate in us history. now the two candidates are preparing in very different ways, trump taking a less conventional approach, meeting with potential running mate s and hitting the campaign trail where he s again been mocking the man. he ll be facing off against right now, crooked joe s gone to a log cabin to study, prepare. no, he didn t do his sleeping now because they want to get them good and strong so a little before debate time, he gets a shot. i say he ll come out all jacked up, right. all jacked obviously, no basis for that. but meanwhile, biden is currently at camp david with a close team of advisers poring over possible questions, holding mock debates, and focusing on how to best frame trump as unfit for office. cnn senior white house re
administration. bump stocks are accessories that essentially allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly. but in a 6-3 decision, the court said a law aimed at banning machine guns cannot be interpreted to include bump stocks. majority opinion reads in part, quote, we conclude a semi-automatic rifle is not a machine gun because it does not fire more than one shot by a single function of the trigger. joining us now, nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor, laura jarrett, and katie phang, msnbc legal contributor and host of the katie phang show on msnbc, also barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of michigan law school and an msnbc legal analyst. so, yamiche, you were there, just as this decision came out. what are we learning about this decision? well, this decision is the supreme court saying the atf was wrong when it banned bump stocks as part of a regulation that was passed under former president donald trump and in particu
Few things are guaranteed at the Supreme Court. The justices can almost always choose to hear or not hear certain cases, to rule or not rule on certain questions, and to decide or not decide specific matters. This usually means they don’t act. But in an upcoming gun case heading their way, they might not have much of a choice in the matter.Five years ago, the federal government banned the sale of bump stocks for semi-automatic rifles after they were used to carry out a massacre in Las Vegas. A n
The National Firearms Act of 1934 for all intents and purposes eliminated the automatic weapon of that day, the Tommy gun. The point is that those elected officials did what
at the networks of nbc news, good night. it s good to have you. here shotguns are legal. sawed off shotguns are not legal. the national firearms act of 1934 put in place new federal rules, again 1934, against owning a whole big class of weapons and weapons accessories that are believed to be associated with serious crimes. so that 1934 law included things like, machine guns and silencers and sawed off shotguns. and now, just because i just said that small sequence of sentences all of the gun people are now going to write me