Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era bump stock ban

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Bump stocks don’t convert semiautomatic rifles into “machineguns,” the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision by Justice Clarence Thomas, a ruling that the dissent pointed out 'puts bump stocks back in civilian hands.' Bump stocks attach to semiautomatic rifles, enabling rapid fire. After the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives under the Trump administration said that the devices meet the definition of a machine gun.

” Affirming the 5th Circuit, Thomas concluded for the majority that a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock 'is not a 'machinegun' because it does not fire more than one shot 'by a single function of the trigger.

 

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