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Supreme Court Tosses Out Bump Stock Ban in Gun-Rights Win
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June 14, 2024
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0:17Now PlayingA divided US Supreme Court dealt a fresh blow to firearm-regulation efforts by throwing out the federal ban on bump stocks, the attachments that let a semiautomatic rifle fire at speeds rivaling a machine gun.
On a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, the justices voided a criminal prohibition put in place by the Trump administration after the 2017 Las Vegas concert massacre, when a man using bump stocks killed 60 people. The attack was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
Writing for the court, Justice Clarence Thomas said bump stocks don’t turn a semiautomatic weapon into a machine gun, which are outlawed under a 1986 law.
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