LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Supreme Court Friday overturned a federal agency’s rule banning bump stocks, the devices used in some of America’s deadliest mass killings carried out by lone shooters. The ATF issued a rule in 2018 reclassifying bump stocks as machine guns, making them illegal for civilians to own under federal law. Congress, however, did not move swiftly to ban bump stocks in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting. AdvertisementThe new Supreme Court ruling clarifies that Congress would have to impose the bump stock ban in order to remove the devices from the market. AdvertisementReporters asked Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), one of Trump’s biggest boosters in the House, if there would be any appetite for reviving Trump’s bump stock ban.

Source: Huffington Post June 14, 2024 20:44 UTC