Supreme Court Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban

Published on June 14, 2024

The Supreme Court ruled on June 14 that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its authority when it interpreted a federal firearms statute to outlaw the use of bump stocks. “We conclude that semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a ‘machinegun’ because it does not fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger,'” Justice Clarence Thomas said in the court’s majority opinion. The vote was 6–3, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing a dissent joined by the other two liberal justices. The prohibitive measure was introduced after the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which a gunman used bump stock-equipped firearms. It reversed years of ATF interpretations allowing nonmechanical bump stocks, or those without a spring....

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