WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a bid by weapon rights advocates to overturn President Donald Trump’s restriction on “bump stocks” – devices that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like a gatling gun – executed after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.
The justices left in location a lower court’s decision that supported the Trump administration’s action to define bump stocks as restricted machine guns under U.S. law.
The ban, which entered into result in March 2019, was accepted by Trump following a massacre that killed 58 people at a music festival in Las Vegas in which the shooter used bump stocks. It represented an unusual current instance of weapon control at the federal level in a country that has experienced a series of mass shootings.
Many gun control proposals have been thwarted in the U.S. Congress, largely since of op