Legal Update

Legal Update September/October 2024

Ban on “Bump Stocks” Overturned Larry E. Holtz, Esq. Bump fire stocks are gun stocks specifically engineered to facilitate bump firing without converting the firearm into an automatic weapon. They enable rapid firing by allowing the trigger to “bump” against the shooter’s finger instead of the finger pulling the trigger. This is achieved by utilizing the firearm’s recoil and applying constant forward pressure with the non-shooting arm to actuate the trigger. On June 14, 2024, the United States Supreme Court,…

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Legal Update May/June 2020

Larry E. Holtz, Esq. TRAFFIC STOPS: THE “OWNER IS THE DRIVER” ASSUMPTION May a law enforcement officer, consistent with the Fourth Amendment, initiate an investigative traffic stop after running a vehicle’s license plate and learning that the registered owner has a revoked driver’s license? In Kansas v. Glover (U.S. 2020), the United States Supreme Court said, “Yes.” The facts in Glover unfolded in late April 2016, when Douglas County, Kansas, Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Mehrer, while on patrol, ran a registration…