Bump-Stock Ban Held Invalid Under Recent Supreme Court Precedent

A challenge to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ ban on bump stocks was supported by two recent US Supreme Court opinions, a federal circuit said, reversing its prior ruling upholding the ban.

The bump-stock rule “was an invalid exercise of ATF’s regulatory authority,” Judge Jill N. Parrish of the US District Court for the District of Utah held Tuesday, granting the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment. Parrish relied on the Supreme Court’s 2024 rulings in Garland v. Cargill—holding that ATF exceeded its statutory authority by issuing the bump-stock ban—and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo—declaring that ...