Supeme Court rules that ‘bump stocks’ are not the same as machine guns and cannot be outlawed.
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on “bump stocks” like those used in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting, when 60 people were killed and 500 wounded at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas in 2017.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices rejected the views of the Biden and Trump administrations, and ruled that bump stocks could not be prohibited as illegal machine guns because the trigger action operates in a different way.
The court’s six conservatives were in the majority and the three liberals dissented.
After the Las Vegas shooting, President Trump ordered the federal regulators to reclassify bump stocks as illegal machine guns because they permit a shooter to fire hundreds of rounds per minute.
