BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 16 -- Boston University issued the following news on June 14, 2024: By Joel Brown The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Tuesday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire at high speed like machine guns, which was enacted after the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The 6-3 decision in the case Garland v. Cargill is "a major setback" in preventing mass shootings, says Cody Jacobs, a School of Law lecturer  more