Trump and the NRA counted on the Supreme Court to keep bump stocks legal

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Jonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Washington.

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 exactly what the justices did. The ruling revealed Trump's true feelings on the issue after a seven-year political drama, as he accepted a court reversing him with his spokeswoman saying that Americans should respect the decision.

' Trump found a third option that lowered the temperature on the gun-control debate in the short term — robbing momentum from congressional efforts to ban bump stocks — and kicked the issue to a conservative-leaning Supreme Court. Taking a cue from the National Rifle Association, Trump used his executive authority to write a Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives regulation banning bump stocks. 'I went with them,' Trump said of the NRA in a 2023 interview on CNN.

 

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