Sam Bankman-Fried Faces 110-Year Max Sentence After FTX Trial—Here’s How Long Experts Think He’ll Be Behind BarsThe Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider the Biden administration’s question of whether it is legal for the federal government to ban bump stocks—which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly and were used in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting—after lower courts gave conflicting opinions on the legality of the ban originally put in place by the Trump administration.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued on behalf of the Biden administration that bump stocks fall under the definition of machine guns, arguing that they allow the shooter’s stationary finger to bump into the trigger, firing another bullet, according tothe ban on bump stocks and said a ban would need to be passed by Congress, with Judge Jennifer Elrod writing an opinion saying the ban did not give a “fair warning that possession of a non-mechanical bump stock is a crime.