In a 6-3 ruling, the court found that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) had overstepped its authority by classifying bump stocks as illegal machine guns. “We conclude ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments Wednesday on whether the ATF can ban “bump stocks,” the gun attachments that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. The ...

The ATF declined to comment for the story. The Trump administration, through the ATF, reclassified bump stocks in 2018 after a shooter in Las Vegas used semiautomatic weapons equipped with bump stocks ...