Nov 3 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday trained its sights once again on gun rights, agreeing to decide the legality of a federal ban imposed under former President Donald Trump on "bump stock" devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire like machine guns.
Federal law prohibits the sale or possession of machine guns, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Machine guns are defined under a 1934 law called the National Firearms Act as weapons that can "automatically" fire more than one shot "by a single function of the trigger." in public for self-defense, and adopted a stringent test for assessing the legality of gun regulations.The justices next week are set to consider in aon whether to uphold a federal law that prohibits people with domestic violence restraining orders from having a gun.