Supreme Court Shoots Down Trump-Era Ban on Bump Stocks, Rules That They Are Not Technically Machine Guns

The court’s six conservative members found that the ATF overstepped its authority.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP, file
The interior of Stephen Paddock's 32nd floor room of the Mandalay Bay hotel at Las Vegas after a mass shooting in 2017. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP, file

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a bump stock cannot be regulated as a machine gun device.

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