The Supreme Court has agreed to review the legality of a ban on bump stocks, accessories that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly. The ban was implemented by the Trump administration following the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017. Gun owner and licensed dealer Michael Cargill, who owned two bump stocks before the ban went into effect, later surrendered them to the government and sued, claiming that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives did not have the legal authority to implement the prohibition. Lower courts have reached differing conclusions on the issue, prompting both the Biden administration and gun rights activists to seek Supreme Court intervention. Bump stocks use the recoil energy of a trigger pull to enable the user to fire up to hundreds of rounds per minute. The case will be heard and decided sometime this term, which ends in June. |||||