A 10th Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the federal government’s ban on bump stock accessories for guns, striking down a Salt Lake City resident’s challenge to the federal ban on the device that allows semiautomatic guns to fire ammunition at the same speed as automatic weapons.
After a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas left 58 people dead and hundreds more injured, the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a final rule categorizing bump stocks as machine guns, which are banned nationwide.