Supreme Court will rule on ban on rapid-fire gun bump stocks, used in the Las Vegas mass shooting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : 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 decision in 2022 in which the six-justice conservative majority expanded gun rights.
46% : The full U.S. 5th Circuit ruled 13-3 in January that Congress would have to change federal law to ban bump stocks.
43% : Federal appeals courts have come to different decisions about whether the regulation defining a bump stock as a machine gun comports with federal law.
34% : Federal appeals courts have come to different decisions about whether the regulation defining a bump stock as a machine gun comports with federal lawThe Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether a Trump era-ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, violates federal law.
33% : The new case is not about the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms," but rather whether the Trump administration followed federal law in changing the bump stock regulation.
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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