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Podcast: c2stories
Episode: Bye-bye Bump Stocks?
Description: In 2017, Stephen Paddock perpetrated the deadliest modern mass shooting in the US, firing over a thousand rounds in 11 minutes from the Mandalay Bay Resort using bump stocks. Seven years later, the US Supreme Court hears a case challenging the ATF's ban on bump stocks, accessories that increase firing speed. Conservative justices question the legality of the ban, citing concerns about agency power, while plaintiffs argue the ATF overstepped. The outcome will determine if bump stocks, banned nationally under the 1968 Gun Control Act, are lawful accessories, a decision with implications for gun rights and federal agency authority.
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