The US Supreme Court rejected the latest bid to thwart a Trump administration rule that requires the destruction or forfeiture of so-called bump stocks that convert semiautomatic rifles to machine gun-like weapons.
The challenge denied Monday involved an appeal by individuals and gun suppliers who argued that the regulation amounted to a “taking” of property under the Fifth Amendment and required “just compensation.”
The justices in the past have rejected similar challenges to the 2018 bump stock ban, which was passed in response to the mass shooting in Las Vegas the previous year.
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