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Sonia Sotomayor torches Supreme Court’s bump stock ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday to throw out the federal ban on “bump stocks,” an attachment that allows semiautomatic rifles to fire at a speed comparable to a machine gun, prompting a blistering dissent from liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In a 6-3 vote on ideological lines, the court’s conservative justices decided that a 1986 […]