What to know about bump stocks and the Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on the gun accessory

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The gun accessory the Supreme Court just ruled on allows a rifle to fire dozens of bullets within seconds.

on bump stocks, the gun accessory used in the deadliest shooting in modern American history — a Las Vegas massacre that killed 60 people and injured hundreds more.

Authorities found an arsenal of 23 assault-style rifles in the shooter's hotel room, including 14 weapons fitted with bump stocks. The court's three liberal justices opposed the ruling. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent that there's no common sense difference between a machine gun and a semiautomatic firearm with a bump stock.

 

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