The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal ban on the devices, which could have wider implications for what qualifies as a machine gun.
In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a device called a"bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks. Following the 2019 ban, tens of thousands of the devices were destroyed by owners or handed over to authorities.
With a bump stock, you pull the trigger once, holding it, bracing the stock against your shoulder while the recoil moves the trigger for you very rapidly, firing those rounds at machine-gun speeds; one pull, but multiple trigger functions. That seems to be a very technical distinction. Could this end up permitting other kinds of gun attachments?
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