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Supreme Court leans in favor of upholding ban on bump stocks that work like machine guns

A bump stock device that fits on a semi-automatic rifle to increase the firing speed, making it similar to a fully automatic rifle, is installed on a AK-47 semi-automatic rifle at a gun store on Oct. 5, 2017, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed prepared to uphold a Trump-era regulation that would outlaw "bump stocks" that work like machine guns and allow a shooter to spray hundreds of bullets per minute.

The justices, both conservative and liberal, said Congress had intended to forbid rapid-fire rifles as especially dangerous. And that would include devices that convert a legal semi-automatic gun into one that "produces a torrent of bullets with one

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