The United States Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era federal ban on “bump stocks,” which are gun accessories that enable semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly.
The rule was imposed after the devices were used during a 2017 mass shooting that killed 58 people at a Las Vegas country music festival.
In a 6-3 ruling on ideological lines with the court’s conservatives in the majority upheld a lower court’s decision siding with Michael Cargill, a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas, who challenged the ban.
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