On Bump Stocks, the Supreme Court Is Divorced From Reality https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-02/supreme-court-bump-sto... Every so often, a Supreme Court oral argument is so divorced from reality that even a seasoned court-watcher like myself finds it jaw-dropping. The court’s consideration of whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was right to define guns equipped with bump stocks as machine guns was exactly that shocking.