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The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a federal ban on “bump stocks,” the devices that can enhance semi-automatic firearms to fire ammunition almost as quickly as machine guns and have been behind some of the most devastating mass shootings in recent history. .
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Garland v Cargill invalidates the Trump administration’s 2018 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) regulations that ordered anyone who owned bump stock to destroy it or submit it to federal hand over agents. The rule was adopted after the devastating 2017 mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas, in which a gunman fired more than 1,000 shots, killing 60 people and injuring nearly 500.
After the ban, Michael Cargill, a US Army veteran who owned a gun shop in Austin, Texas, gave up several bump stocks in his possession. He subsequently challenged the ordinance in the Supreme Court.
The repeal of the ban will dismay gun control organizations like Sandy Hook Promise, which has warned that bump stocks make guns all the more deadly by allowing multiple shots to be fired per second with just one pull of the trigger. Public reaction was so strong after the Las Vegas disaster that even the National Rifle Association, an organization notorious for its opposition to gun regulations, joined the call to remove the add-ons from circulation.
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