I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday, June 14th.

Here are today's headlines. The Supreme Court ruled today that the government can't use a decades old ban on machine guns to ban bump stocks.

A bump stock is a device that can be attached to a semi-automatic firearm that allows the gun to fire more rapidly.

The six justices that voted that the ban on bump stocks is illegal include Chief Justice

John Roberts and justices Clarence, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito,

and Neil Gorsuch.

The case involved whether a bump stock device

is a machine gun as defined within US law.

Justice Thomas wrote the majority opinion

and he said, semi-automatic firearms, which require shooters

to re-engage the trigger for every shot are not machine guns. This case asks whether a bump stock

an accessory for a semi-automatic rifle that allows the shooter to rapidly re-engage the trigger and therefore achieve a higher rate of fire, converts the rifle into a machine gun. We hold that it does not.

The three dissenting justices

include justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elaine Kagan,

and Katandji Brown Jackson.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the dissenting opinion and she said Congress's definition of

machine gun encompasses bump stocks just as naturally as M16s. Just like a

person can shoot automatically more than one shot with an M16 through a single function of the trigger,

if he maintains continuous backward pressure on the trigger, he can do the same with a bump stock equipment

automatic rifle if he maintains forward pressure on the gun.

For a deeper dive into this case and the ruling, you can check out today's show notes to find

Elizabeth Troutman's full report. Well two can play at that game that is the

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