The justices will hear arguments early next year over a regulation put in place by the Justice Department after a mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017.Federal appeals courts have come to different decisions about whether the regulation defining a bump stock as a machine gun comports with federal law.
In 2010, under the Obama administration, the agency found that a bump stock should not be classified as a machine gun and therefore should not be banned under federal law.Following the Las Vegas shooting, officials revisited that determination and found it incorrect.Bump stocks harness the recoil energy of a semi-automatic firearm so that a trigger 'resets and continues firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter,' according to the ATF.
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