Bump-Stock Ban Left Intact as Supreme Court Rejects Challenges

The US Supreme Court left intact the federal ban on bump stocks, the attachments that can make a semiautomatic rifle fire like a machine gun, turning away arguments from advocates including the National Rifle Association.

The justices without comment rejected two challenges to a criminal ban the Trump administration put in place after the October 2017 Las Vegas concert massacre, when about a dozen bump stocks were found in the shooter’s hotel room. Sixty people were killed in that attack, the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

The order comes three months after the justices ruled in a New ...