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Guns are back in focus at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Justices like Neil Gorsuch are doing all they can to make sure “bump stocks”—which turn regular guns into machine guns—are legal.

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When Marcia Smith moved to a small town in New Mexico last year, she did not expect to find herself battling a Donald Trump-linked lawyer's plan to effectively outlaw abortion across the United States."It would effectively ban abortion nationwide, or make it very, very difficult for abortion to happen even in blue states like New York, California, even New Mexico," Mitchell said at a meeting on the proposed ordinance.

The Supreme Court will weigh whether the federal government can ban bump stocks and whether they, by definition, turn semi-automatic rifles into machine gun.

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Wednesday on a challenge to the federal ban on bump stocks. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.

Is a “bump stock” a “machine gun”? That’s the question for the Supreme Court at oral argument Wednesday morning.

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After dozens of people were killed and hundreds more injured at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas, the Trump administration moved to ban bump stocks of the type used

The Supreme Court during oral arguments Wednesday wrestled with the Trump-era ban on bump stocks, which convert semi-automatic weapons to fire hundreds of rounds per minute. The justices appeared divided as to whether the government lawfully prohibited the devices, used in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, by classifying them as machine…