The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over whether a 1930s ban on machine guns should be applied to bump stocks — modern devices that allow rapid, repeated fire. The justice repeatedly asked ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a "bump stock" attachment does not convert a semiautomatic rifle into a "machine gun," which is prohibited under federal law. The 6-3 vote aligned with the ...

The Supreme Court’s conservatives pressed the Biden administration Wednesday to justify a federal ban on bump stocks, a device that can convert a semi-automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire far ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court today overturned a federal ban on bump stocks, the devices that can attach to a semi-automatic rifle to make it fire as fast as a machine gun -- potentially hundreds of rounds a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled with the technical aspects of bump stocks during a hearing Wednesday on whether the federal government can ban them as "machine guns," with a few conservative justices ...

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declared unlawful a federal ban on "bump stock" devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, rejecting ...