US Supreme Court lifts ban on rapid-fire gun accessories
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Bump stocks were banned after they were used in America's deadliest mass shooting in 2017. Western leaders dismiss Russian President Putin's call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, as they meet at the G7 summit in southern Italy. Also: A Chinese court sentences a journalist who reported on #MeToo to jail for "subversion", and why grey whales are shrinking.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Saturday the 15th of June, |
| 0:08.7 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.6 | The US Supreme Court lifts Donald Trump's ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory used in America's |
| 0:16.4 | deadliest mass shooting. Western leaders at the G7 summit reject Russia's proposal for a ceasefire based on Ukraine surrendering four and after bands start to boycott them over their links to Israel. |
| 0:36.0 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:37.0 | I can keep their mouse moving for as long as it's needed. |
| 0:40.0 | Always jiggle responsibly is the key messaging. |
| 0:43.4 | The popularity of mouse jigglers and how one firm is cracking down on workers using them |
| 0:48.8 | and why gray whales are shrinking. There's been a setback for Americans calling for more gun control. |
| 0:59.0 | The US Supreme Court has struck down a ban on a gun accessory called a bump stock that enables semi-automatic |
| 1:05.0 | rifles to fire more quickly. Six bullets a second. They were banned by Donald |
| 1:10.0 | Trump after one of the most deadly shootings in US history but the court |
| 1:14.0 | ruled it was unconstitutional. My colleague Paul Moss spoke to our |
| 1:17.8 | correspondent in Washington, Nomea Iqbal. This ban on bompstocks was |
| 1:21.8 | actually enacted back in 2018 and that was a year after 60 people were killed at a Las Vegas music festival. |
| 1:28.0 | It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in US modern history. |
| 1:32.0 | More than 800 were injured and the gunman in that incident |
| 1:35.6 | used a bump stock to fire more than a thousand rounds of ammunition and so this |
| 1:40.3 | was a policy this was a decision that was brought in by the Trump administration. |
| 1:44.6 | It was actually a major decision in recent years to address the nation's gun violence problem. |
| 1:50.0 | It is worth adding that this ruling does not mean that they will suddenly be readily |
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