US Supreme Court strikes down ban on gun 'bump stocks'

The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a ban introduced by ex-president Donald Trump's administration on "bump stocks" -- which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire like a machine gun -- is unconstitutional.

The court voted along ideological lines, 6-3 in favor of the conservative justices, that the Trump administration did not follow the law in extending a ban on machine guns to include bump stocks after a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.

AFP