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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 p ....
The nra script which will cost you your support from the nra. well of course and what they say about the second amendment has nothing to do with the second amendment which talks about a well regulated militia. this is hardly a well regulated militia when any kind of kook can get ahold of a semiautomatic weapon and kill 20 people in a matter of seconds. this is not to do with the second amendment. this has to do with the nra s distortion of the second amendment. but we can fight this, in both political parties. in the republican party, people support republicans on other issues and need to make it clear to the republican party that they will not support candidates who continue to refuse to enact sensible gun regulations. and that that is a key issue. and whether you re a pro life republican or whatever your reason is for supporting the republican party, make it clear, you will not accept the nra agenda. on the democratic side, most ....
And center as doug mentioned at a time when republicans want to talk about a lot of other things. let me hope it doesn t obscure some of the other important topics that country needs to face now, especially in the wake of what happened in florida. let me read you some new poll numbers from abc news and the washington post. this has to do with gun control. six in ten americans fault congress and president trump for not doing enough to prevent mass shootings. 58% of adults say stricter gun control laws could have prevented the shooting. and a bus load of students from the high school in parkland, florida, on their way to tallahassee right now to push for action. what do you think the impact of that combination of things is? we also have, you know, who knows how many, but i would venture to guess at least a million students coming to washington on march 24th to march and protest and speak their minds for sensible gun ....
The president and harry reid who has a lot of complicated things he s dealing with. to me, i haven t lost hope yet. in the other piece, the nra, while they are experiencing this sort of fundraising boone, for the first time there is powerful interests allied against them. which in the long term can have the effect of shifting this conversation and putting politicians into place who are going to be more forceful and more effective advocates for sensible gun regulations. s.e., i m glad you noticed absurdity in the gun control conversation. it is everywhere. because the actual absurdity, it is full of absurdity but almost on the gun control side which is filling all these lies, telling all these lies to america and locating the conversation around this lie that what do you do when a criminal walks in with a gun? when studies show that is a once in a lifetime or less likelihood. you re right. ....
Assault weapons as an amendment. secondly, it s important to keep in mind the long view here. we re at the beginning of a process, not the end of the process. we are seeing, as david pointed out, not just in colorado but elsewhere, change in public opinion here. public opinion has clearly shifted on the side of sensible gun regulations along the lines we ve been talking about, feinstein s proposal and others. what david is pointing out, what you are seeing is similar to the anti-tobacco debate and apartheid debate where congress and washington were the lagging indicators of public opinion so you saw a lot of action happening in the states. colorado is not just the only place, a number of there states are thinking object taking action. it s a much, much better indicator of how quickly public opinion is shifting on something. i think you will see movement in the states and eventually you will see movement at the federal level as well. i hope that s the case. david, one-third of homes i ....