SCOTUS overturned Trump-era bump stock ban, ruling firearms with bump stocks aren't machine guns, in case brought by Texas gun store owner.
In a 6-3 decision, delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court very technically analyzes the physics behind the use of a bump stock arm before ultimately concluding that, despite a bump stock 's use to replicate automatic firearm s, it does not inherently make the weapon an automatic firearm . banning bump stock s for semi automatic firearm s, saying that a firearm with a bump stock attached does not automatically make the weapon a machine gun .
The case began in 2019 when Michael Cargill, an Austin-area gun store owner, sued the federal government after he had purchased two bump stocks just months before the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives issued a new rule that qualified bump stocks as machine guns.
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