US Supreme Court Agrees to Take up Ban on Gun 'Bump Stocks'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : In October 2022, the top court turned away two previous cases brought by gun rights advocates challenging the ban.
50% : The case pertains to whether the Department of Justice, which oversees the ATF, followed federal law in changing the regulation around bump stocks, which are able to increase the rate of fire in some semiautomatic weapons.
50% : The Supreme Court already is weighing a challenge to another federal law that seeks to keep guns away from people under domestic violence restraining orders, a case that stems from the landmark gun rights decision in 2022 in which the six-justice majority expanded gun rights outside the home.
45% : The full U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 13-3 in January that Congress would have to change federal law to ban bump stocks.
44% : Federal appeals courts have come to different decisions on whether the ATF regulation defining a bump stock as a machine gun accords with federal law.
23% : In 2010, under the Obama administration, the agency found that a bump stock should not be classified as a machine gun and therefore should not be banned under federal law.

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