The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a slew of new and proposed rules today. One of these is the rule titled “Revising Machine Gun Definition in Response to Supreme Court Decision” (FR Document: 2026-08926). The rule is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on May 6, 2026, and becomes effective on that date.
The rule responds to the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 14, 2024, decision in Garland v. Cargill. The Supreme Court ruled that the ATF exceeded its authority with the 2018 final rule (“Bump-Stock-Type Devices”), which had classified bump-stock-type devices as “machine guns.” The Court held that a semi-automatic rifle equipped with a (non-mechanical) bump stock does not fire more than one shot “by a single function of the trigger” or “automatically,” as required by the statutory definition in the National Firearms Act (NFA, 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b)) and the Gun Control Act.
The new rule removes the two sentences added by the 2018 bump stock rule. This change is the direct result of the Supreme Court’s Cargill ruling.
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