US Supreme Court lifts ban on gun bump stocks

The US Supreme Court has lifted a ban bump stock; the rapid-fire gun accessory used in America's deadliest mass shooting.

In a decision on Friday, the court said the government did not have the right to ban the accessories.

The Trump administration banned bump stocks after they were used in a shooting that killed 60 people at a concert in Las Vegas in 2017.

But a Texas gun shop owner who challenged the ban said the government went too far in defining the accessories as machine guns, which are mostly illegal under federal law - with some exceptions - and took his fight all the way to America's highest court.