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It's unclear whether Supreme Court justices would uphold the ban on gun bump stocks

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By Nina Totenberg

Published February 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM EST

The Supreme Court today puzzled over a federal regulation that outlaws bump stocks, which modify otherwise legal semiautomatic guns into guns that fire as rapidly as 800 bullets in a minute.

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