TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Nov 3, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by President Biden's administration of a lower court's ruling in favor of a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas, who challenged a ban on "bump stock" devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire like machine guns. Reuters reports the ban was put in place during the Trump administration following a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas using weapons with bump stocks that killed 58 and wounded hundreds more. The case centers on whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives properly interpreted a law banning machine guns as extending to bump stocks.