The Supreme Court on Friday stepped into a new gun rights battle by agreeing to weigh whether a Trump-era ban on so-called bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly, is lawful.

The justices were asked by both the Biden administration and gun rights activists to take up the issue, with lower courts reaching differing conclusions on it. …

President Donald Trump’s administration imposed the ban after the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017, when Stephen Paddock used bump stocks to open fire on a country music festival, initially killing 58 people. Paddock died by suicide as he was about to be apprehended.

[The court apparently didn’t have much choice, considering the lower-court split. The Supreme Court is never anxious to take up 2nd Amendment cases, and this decision doesn’t offer much hint as to what they may do with it. Check in at Bearing Arms in a while for more analysis. — Ed]