The U.S. Supreme Court is currently deliberating on a crucial question regarding the government's regulation of bump stocks for guns. Bump stocks gained notoriety after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, where the perpetrator used one to effectively convert a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun, resulting in one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history.
A gun rights group has brought the case before the justices, challenging the Trump administration's decision to ban bump stocks in 2018. The heart of the argument lies in the interpretation of a statute dating back to 1930, originally aimed at curbing the use of machine guns by notorious figures like Al Capone.
