WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether a ban on bump stocks, implemented after a mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017, is legal.
Both gun rights activists and the Biden Administration urged the High Court to take up the issue. The Supreme Court announced that they would review the ban on November 3.
According to an NBC News report on the case by Lawrence Hurley, bump stocks are accessories for semi-automatic rifles that use recoil from pulling the trigger to allow the user to rapid fire up to hundreds of rounds a minute.
The ban on bump stocks was implemented in 2019 when the Supreme Court declined to block it from taking effect.
The challenge to the bump stock ban alleges that the government does not have the authority to ban the stocks under the National Firearms Act of 1934 according to NBC’s reporting.
