U.S. Supreme Court strikes down ban on bump stocks

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms back into the nation's…

The 2017 mass murder in Las Vegas convinced even the Trump administration to ban the use of a firearm that played a role in the bloodbath. But now a divided Supreme Court has ruled otherwise.

Starting this Friday, it is once again legal in the United States to buy and sell an accessory that converts an automatic rifle into a weapon as fast and deadly as a submachine gun, capable of spitting out hundreds of bullets in a few seconds. The Supreme Court handed down a ruling in a case questioning the veto for the use of that butt that accelerates shooting known as a bump stock in a country with a large semantic field for everything that h…

D.C. Download: The Supreme Court overturned bump stock ban. What does it mean for Nevada? - The Nevada Independent

Bump stocks — firearm modification devices that allow semiautomatic rifles to fire faster and were used to devastating effect in the 1 October shooting in Las Vegas — are now legal again after a Friday ruling by the Supreme Court. I usually do a pithy introduction here, but given the seriousness of the topic, we’ll move right to it. The News of the Week: Bump stocks In 2017, a gunman at the Mandalay Bay opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest countr…

In the USA, the Supreme Court has overturned a ban on so-called rapid-fire pistons.

US Supreme Court Overturns Bump Stock Ban for Firearms - Texas Scorecard

The ruling serves as yet another major victory this week for gun rights activists. The post US Supreme Court Overturns Bump Stock Ban for Firearms appeared first on Texas Scorecard.