A divided Supreme Court seemed to struggle Wednesday with the legality of a federal ban on bump stock devices, which allow semiautomatic rifles to fire hundreds of bullets per minute.
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Supreme Court divided over gun-rights challenge to Trump bump stock ban
While some conservatives were skeptical, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called bump stocks ‘the kind of weapons Congress was intending to prohibit because of the damage they cause’
Updated February 28, 2024 at 5:02 p.m. EST|Published February 28, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST