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Podcast: Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Episode: Opinionpalooza: SCOTUS Says Yes to Bump Stocks, No to Gun Safety Regulation
Description: A bump stock is an attachment that converts a semi automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire as many as 800 rounds per minute - an intensity of gunfire matched by machine guns. The deadliest mass shooting carried out by a single shooter in US history - the October 2017 Las Vegas massacre - was enabled by a bump stock. On Friday, the US Supreme Court struck down a Trump-era bump stock ban introduced in the wake of that tragedy, in which 60 people were killed and hundreds more injured. Writing for a perfectly partisan six to three majority, gun enthusiast...