Month: June 2024

In short: The US Supreme Court has struck down a Trump-era ban on rapid-fire gun accessories known as bump stocks. The court’s conservative majority found the Trump administration overstepped when it banned the gun accessory.  What’s next? The high court is soon expected to rule in another case, challenging a federal law intended to keep

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives unlawfully exceeded its authority by classifying bump stocks as machineguns. The National Firearms Act defines a “machinegun” as “any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual

President Joe Biden called for Congress to ban bump stocks just hours after the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the ATF’s ban on the firearm accessories. Biden did this via a post to X, where he wrote: “Today’s Supreme Court decision strikes down an important gun safety regulation. We know thoughts and prayers

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a ban on bump stocks — attachments that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly — implemented by former President Donald Trump in 2017 was unconstitutional. In a 6-3 ruling, the court found that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) had overstepped its authority by classifying bump stocks as illegal

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WASHINGTON — In a loss for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that a Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks, gun accessories that allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more quickly, is unlawful. In a 6-3 ruling on ideological lines, with the court’s conservatives in the majority, the court held that an almost 100-year-old

On 1 October 2017, Heather Gooze was serving drinks at the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas when concert-goers began running into her bar, screaming and covered in blood. A gunman perched high in a Las Vegas hotel had opened fire on the festivities below. He killed 60 people and wounded over 400 more.

Today, NRA filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a challenge to California’s prohibition on the possession of billy clubs. The brief argues that billy clubs are neither uniquely dangerous nor unusual. Clubs have existed for millennia, and billy clubs in particular have been known by name to

The Supreme Court’s decision invalidating the nationwide bump stock ban ignited a firestorm among Democrats and gun control groups who have long maligned the device used to perpetrate the nation’s deadliest mass shooting.  The groups expressed worry about not only the impacts of lifting the ban, which could trigger a booming rapid-fire marketplace, but also

Topline The Supreme Court struck down a Trump-era ban on “bump stocks” for guns on Friday—devices that allow a semi-automatic rifle to fire shots rapidly, mimicking a machine gun—reviving a years-old controversy over the devices after they first came under scrutiny following the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting. Timeline June 7, 2010In a letter to

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms back into the nation’s political spotlight. The high court’s conservative majority found that the Trump administration overstepped when it

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided some notable cases in 2024. Donald J. Trump v. Anderson was a unanimous decision by the justices to allow President Trump on this year’s ballot, despite efforts from states like Colorado and Maine to remove him. National Rifle Association v. Vullo arises from a New York state official accused

Topline The Supreme Court struck down Friday a Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks that allow firearms to mimic automatic rifles, tearing down one of the few major federal moves on gun control in recent years after the devices came under scrutiny following the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting. Key Facts Justices ruled 6-3 the

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

Republican House members are playing defense in expensive primaries in Virginia and Oklahoma, with Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good of Virginia facing a conservative rival endorsed by former President Donald Trump, while House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole has a challenger in Oklahoma who’s put more than $5 million of his own money into the race.