Garland v. Cargill

Garland v. Cargill
Garland v. Cargill
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 28, 2024;
Full case name	Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Michael Cargill
Docket no.	22-976
Case history
Prior	Cargill v. Garland, 57 F.4th 447 (5th Cir. 2023)(en banc).; Cargill v. Garland, 20 F.4th 1004 (5th Cir. 2021).; Cargill v. Barr, 502 F.Supp.3d 1163 (W.D. Tex. 2020).;
Questions presented
	Whether a bump stock device is a "machinegun" as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5845(b) because it is designed and intended for use in converting a rifle into a machinegun, i.e., into a weapon that fires "automatically more than one shot * * * by a single function of the trigger."
Court membership
	Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito; Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan; Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh; Amy Coney Barrett · Ketanji Brown Jackson

Garland v. Cargill, (Docket No. 22-976), is a pending United States Supreme Court case regarding bump stocks. The court will decide whether bump stocks are "machineguns" as defined by Title 26 of the United States Code.

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