A major gun case is going before the Supreme Court today. The justices will weigh in on bump stocks banned by the Trump Administration following the deadliest mass shooting in u. S. History. Abcs devin dwyer spoke with the man who invented the bump stock, allowing semiautomatic weapons to fire like machine guns. Could come on, mamas to some Jeremiah Cottle is an american hero. Ive got my air medal. My aerial achievement medal, my nato medal to his critics, the father of four is a promoter of mass death. How did you conceive of the bump stock . I wanted to create a way that people could go out and shoot their guns safely and have fun and shoot similar to shoot as fast as you want to be able to shoot, coddle is the inventor of the bump stock, the nonmechanical device that harnesses the recoil power of a semiautomatic rifle to fire shots in rapid succession. For eight years, the government approved its sale and patents protected its design. He sold his first 500 bump stocks in just four d
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