Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ripped into a ruling that lets gun owners turn semi-automatic firearms into machine guns, seven years after a man fired off more than 1,000 rounds at a Las Vegas concert with a bump stock-equipped AR-15 rifle in 10 minutes.
“Bump stock” devices were later banned under then-President Donald Trump, but the high court’s conservative majority now puts them “back in civilian hands,” Sotomayor wrote in a desenting opinion released on Friday.
