The 1968 Gun Control Act defined “machine gun” to include accessories “for use in converting a weapon” into a machine gun, and the ATF concluded that bump stocks meet that definition.

"Without repeating the intricacies of those positions here, there can be no doubt that a significant number of reasonable jurists have reached diametrically opposed conclusions as to whether the ...

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, controversial devices used to increase the firing rate on semi-automatic rifles. But that doesn’t mean they will be ...

With a federal ban approaching, Washington State Patrol bought back its budgeted number of bump stocks, including nearly 100 in Vancouver. Since March 17, WSP collected 1,000 bump stocks in ...

Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock used a bump stock to fire rapidly into the crowd, killing 58 last year The Trump administration has banned the use of bump stocks, devices that let rifles fire ...

Gun lobbyists sued then-Attorney General William Barr, claiming the ATF overstepped its authority when it added bump stocks to the statutory definition of machine gun with the passage of a final rule.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like a machine gun, could open the door to more lethal ...

It is not true that a firearm with a bump stock becomes an automatic weapon, because it does not fire more than one bullet per trigger function. Therefore, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco ...

U.S Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., has reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would ban bump stocks, the devices used during the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting on the Strip. “It’s been ...

Bump stocks don’t fit that definition because “the trigger must still be released and reengaged to fire each additional shot,” Thomas wrote. He also pointed to over a decade of ATF’s ...