WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats sought to pass legislation Tuesday banning bump stocks for firearms after the Supreme Court overruled a previous ban, but a single Republican objected on behalf of ...

If passed, rapid-fire devices would be outlawed and local governments could ban concealed gun licensees from possessing guns within certain buildings.

WASHINGTON — In a loss for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that a Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks, gun accessories that allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more ...

A bump stock device (left) that fits on a semi-automatic rifle to increase the firing speed, making it similar to a fully automatic rifle, is shown next to a AK-47 semi-automatic rifle (right) at ...

The ban classifies bump stocks as illegal machine guns. The bump stock ban is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. It heard arguments on the legality of the ban in February. In addition to covering ...

And since that isn’t enough — it might be said, as I said above, that a bump stock helps the user “pull” the trigger faster, and that the gun still fires once for each of these “pulls ...

The D.C. Circuit on Monday upheld the Trump administration's ban on rapid-fire gun attachments known as bump stocks, which were used to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in ...

The push to ban bump stocks followed the deadly mass shootings in Las Vegas in October 2017 and Parkland, Florida in February. Pro-gun advocates have said they are prepared to fight the rule in court.

has joined other senators in introducing a bipartisan bill to ban the sale of bump stocks and other devices or modifications that effectively turn semi-automatic guns into fully automatic weapons.

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms ...