The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 3 rejected two challenges to the federal government’s ban on gun bump stocks that were imposed following the Las Vegas mass shooting in 2017.
Bump stocks are devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to increase their rate of fire. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) reversed a previous conclusion and classified bump stocks as forbidden under a 1934 U.S. law called the National Firearms Act.
