Earlier this year, the Washington Post published a story detailing the devastating effects that bullets from an AR-15 have on the human body. On Thursday, the Post went.
The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider the legality of a federal ban on "bump stocks," an accessory that converts a semi-automatic weapon into a rapid-fire machine gun.According to the Justice Department, bump stocks allow a "shooter of a semi-automatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger" and "effectively turn the weapons into machine guns."