The Supreme Court has ruled to strike down a ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that enables semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. This accessory was infamously used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history during the 2017 Las Vegas attack.
The conservative majority of the high court found that the Trump administration did not adhere to federal law when it reversed the ban on bump stocks. The 6-3 majority opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, stated that a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock does not qualify as an illegal machine gun as it does not fire more than one shot with a single trigger pull.
