Survivors of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas and families who received sombre calls hours later said they were alarmed when the US Supreme Court yesterday struck down a ban on the gun attachment used by the gunman who rattled off over 1000 bullets in 11 minutes.The Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a rapid-fire accessory that allows a rate of fire comparable to that of machine guns, was nixed in a six to three majority opinion.Justice Clarence Thomas, who authored the opinion, wrote that the Justice Department was wrong in declaring that bump stocks transformed semiautomatic rifles into illegal machines guns because they don’t “alter the basic mechanics of firing".
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