The Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge to a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in the tragic Las Vegas massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. A Texas gun shop owner argues that the Trump administration did not follow federal law when it reversed course and banned bump stocks, which enable semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.
The Biden administration is defending the ban, asserting that regulators were justified in revising previous findings and banning bump stocks under laws against machine guns dating back decades. The case has divided federal appeals courts and presents a significant test for the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court in defining the boundaries of gun restrictions in the wake of mass shootings.
