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Garland v. Cargill, 602 U.S. 406 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the classification of bump stocks as "machine guns" under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2018.
Bump stocks or bump fire stocks are gun stocks that can be used to assist in bump firing, the act of using the recoil of a semi-automatic firearm to fire cartridges in rapid succession. The legality of bump stocks in the United States came under question [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting , in which 60 people were killed ...
The Trump-era ban was imposed after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, when a gunman used a bump stock to fire more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition into a music festival crowd, killing 58 people in ...
The ruling, issued on June 14, found that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority by saying a bump stock attachment on a rifle reclassified the weapon as a ...
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump didn't really want to ban bump stocks. When he did, he knew the Supreme Court was likely to overturn his action. In a 6-3 decision Friday, that's ...
In a loss for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that federal ban on “bump stocks,” gun accessories that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly, is unlawful.
President Donald Trump’s administration imposed the ban after the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017, when Stephen Paddock used bump stocks to open fire on a country music festival, initially ...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said he respected the Supreme Court’s decision last week to overturn a Trump-era prohibition on bump stocks. “The job is simply this, so we trust and believe and ...