US Supreme Court lifts ban on gun bump stocks
The US Supreme Court has lifted a ban bump stock; the rapid-fire gun accessory used in America's deadliest mass shooting.
2024-06-14 18:56:05 - VI News Staff
In a decision on Friday, the court said the government did not have the right to ban the accessories.
The Trump administration banned bump stocks after they were used in a shooting that killed 60 people at a concert in Las Vegas in 2017.
But a Texas gun shop owner who challenged the ban said the government went too far in defining the accessories as machine guns, which are mostly illegal under federal law - with some exceptions - and took his fight all the way to America's highest court.