The Supreme Court refused to hear two cases, leaving in place a ban on the use of bump stocks, attachments that can make a semiautomatic rifle fire like a machine gun.
. The plaintiffs in those cases filed lawsuits on the grounds that the DOJ did not have the authority to redefine machine guns and therefore the regulation change was improper.
Appellate courts found that the alteration was not improper, however, and upheld the DOJ’s changes. On Monday, the Supreme CourtThe Court did not elaborate on why it refused the cases. Neither of the cases asserted that plaintiffs’ Second Amendment rights to own weapons had been violated, meaning that a challenge on those grounds could come about in the future.
For the time being, however, the regulation change will stay intact, and bump stocks will remain illegal in the U.S. A person can faceThe decision to reject the cases has been celebrated as a win by gun reform advocates.
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