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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks

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The Supreme Court has struck down the federal ban on bump stocks Friday, declaring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority when it banned the devices.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Trump-era ban on"bump stocks," simple devices that can allow automatic fire from otherwise semi-automatic guns.The U.S.

The question before the court was whether a bump stock converted a semiautomatic weapon into a machine gun. The court said it does not.

 

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