The U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt a new federal ban on ownership of bump stocks, the attachments that can make a semiautomatic rifle fire like a machine gun.
The justices turned away a request, filed by people and groups challenging the ban in a Michigan lawsuit, to block the policy while the litigation goes forward. The ban, which imposes criminal penalties, went into effect Tuesday.
The court made no comment and no justice publicly dissented. Chief Justice John Roberts previously rejected a similar request in a separate lawsuit.
The lawsuits contend that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ...
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