{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-statement-on-supreme-court-decision-striking-down-federal-ban-on-bump-stocks", "Booker Statement on Supreme Court Decision Striking Down Federal Ban on Bump Stocks", "2024-06-14", "2024", "2024-06", "Democrat", "Senate", "NJ", "Cory A. Booker", "B001288", "www.booker.senate.gov", "booker", "https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in Garland v. Cargill:\n\n\u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s radical decision today to strike down the federal ban on bump stocks will make Americans less safe from gun violence and mass shootings, period.\n\n\u201cRemember, it was President Trump\u2019s own Republican-led ATF that classified these weapons as machine guns in the wake of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history \u2013 the horrific 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and wounded 500 more in just 10 minutes, because the shooter used a bump stock that enabled them to discharge more than 1,000 rounds, firing at a rate of hundreds of rounds a minute, converting their gun into a weapon of war.\n\n\u201cIt defies logic to say that a bump stock yields anything less than a machine gun. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent, \u2018When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.\u2019\n\n\u201cElected leaders have the ability to protect Americans from senseless and preventable gun violence tragedies. Congress must act to reverse this ruling, and I urge the Senate to take up legislation to ban bump stocks and protect our communities. We owe it to the victims of Las Vegas and to every community plagued by gun violence to take decisive action now.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:11:47Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-statement-on-supreme-court-decision-striking-down-federal-ban-on-bump-stocks"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7827139925211668, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}