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Utah gun lobbyist will have to give up his bump stock after all

For the past few weeks, Utah gun lobbyist Clark Aposhian was the only man in America who could legally own a bump stock.

Gun owners were supposed to give up or destroy the shooting accessory, which makes a semi-automatic weapon fire in quick bursts like a machine gun, after the federal government banned them. The deadline was in March.

But Aposhian filed a lawsuit challenging the bump stock ban, arguing that outlawing the shooting accessory was unconstitutional because it amounts to the executive branch rewriting laws, a job reserved for Congress.

He also asked that he be able to keep his bump stock until his lawsuit is resolved.