The Supreme Court issued rejected ruling on two cases pending before it, ruling legal the federal ban on bump stocks that for all intents and purposes allow a gun to function as an automatic weapon capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute, ABC News reports.
The cases, Aphosian v. Garland and Gun Owners of America v. Garland attempted to claim that the regulation of the accessory violated the Second Amendment freedom to own a firearm even though the device is not actually a firearm: it uses the inertia of a firing semi-automatic weapon to quickly chamber and discharge a round without requiring the shooter to physically squeeze the trigger.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives banned the sale and use of bump stocks after the 2017 massacre of scores of people attending a Las Vegas concert by a man armed with a small arsenal who sprayed the audience with gunfire from a hotel overlooking the venue.
“This decision sets a horrible and dangerous precedent, one that will allow the ATF to further arbitrarily regulate various firearms. This very same precedent is already being abused by Joe Biden to ban millions of lawfully purchased pistols even without an ACT of Congress!” Gun Owners of America Tweeted in a statement, refusing to acknowledge that an accessory is not actually a firearm.