A divided US Supreme Court threw out the federal ban on bump stocks, saying regulators exceeded their power by outlawing the rapid-fire devices after they were used in the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history.
Voting 6-3 along ideological lines, the justices voided a criminal prohibition put in place by the Trump administration after the 2017 Las Vegas concert massacre, when a man using bump stocks killed 60 people. Bump stocks let a semiautomatic rifle fire at speeds rivaling a machine gun.
Writing for the court, Justice
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