If the Supreme Court rules that bump stocks aren’t machine guns later this summer, it could quickly open an unfettered marketplace of newer, more powerful rapid-fire devices. The Trump administration, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a ruling last week regarding the proper classification of bump stocks, but made a more important decision that further expanded the court’s view of the rights of gun ...

A bump stock harnesses the recoil of a semiautomatic rifle to accelerate trigger pulls, technically “bumping” the trigger for each shot after it bounces off the shooter’s shoulder Then-President Trump ...

In a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines Friday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority decided that congressional intent be damned in siding with a plaintiff who had sued against the federal Bureau ...

In 2013, a company called Slide Fire Solutions introduced a device called a “bump stock” that enabled a semi-automatic assault rifle to behave like a fully automatic one — dancing around the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its statutory authority when it purported to ban bump stocks by classifying them as ...

As a presidential candidate last December, Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized bans on pistol braces and bump stocks issued by his opponent, former President Donald Trump, and current President Joe Biden.

Under the interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority, a duck is not a duck, even when it functions as a duck; and the same goes for bump-stock-equipped firearms, even when they ...

The shooter in the horrifying 2017 Las Vegas massacre used a “bump stock”—a device that drastically increases a semiautomatic rifle’s rate of fire. While Congress didn’t respond, the Trump ...

The National Firearms Act of 1934 (“NFA”) defines a machine gun as “Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Unless a court intervenes, a federal ban on bump stocks — attachments that essentially allow shooters to fire semiautomatic ...