Alito says he's sure Congress wanted to ban a rapid-fire gun device, but sided with the ruling to overturn the ban anyway

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• The Supreme Court threw out a ban on bump-stock devices.
• The devices allow rifles to fire bullets quickly and were used in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.
• Justice Samuel Alito wrote Congress would agree with a ban but still voted to strike the ban down.

There's "little doubt," Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote, that Congress would have considered bump stocks akin to a machine gun.

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