United States national firearms actagency authoritymachinegun definition

Garland v. Cargill

602 U.S. 406 (2024)

JurisdictionUnited States

CourtSupreme Court of the United States

Year2024

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a 'machinegun' within 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) because it does not fire more than one shot 'by a single function of the trigger', so the ATF rule reclassifying bump stocks as machineguns exceeded the agency's statutory authority.

Area of Law

public-law

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