US EditionU.S. Supreme Court strikes down ban on bump stocks
- The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of a challenge to a federal ban on "bump stock" devices, enabling semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns, a setback to a firearms restriction under Republican former President Donald Trump.
- Justices upheld the ruling by siding with Michael Cargill, a gun shop owner from Texas, who claimed a US agency misinterpreted a law.
- Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, criticizing the decision to allow bump stocks for civilians, stating it disregarded Congress's definition of 'machine gun.
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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…
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