The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected two challenges to the federal government’s ban on gun bump stocks that was handed down in the wake of 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.
Gun rights groups, including Gun Owners of America, and a Utah-based gun rights advocate brought several cases to the nine Supreme Court justices to reverse the ban. They made no comments in declining to hear them (pdf), which were among several that the court declined to hear on Monday—the first day of the high court’s term….