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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Sherman

Supreme Court will rule on ban on rapid-fire gun bump stocks, used in the Las Vegas mass shooting

Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether a Trump era-ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, violates federal law.

The justices will hear arguments early next year over a regulation put in place by the Justice Department after a mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017.

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