News about Robert Wilkins

The justices will hear arguments early next year over a law put in place by the Justice Department following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest shooting in US history. At the Route 91 Harvest Festival, Stephan Paddock, 64, fired more than 1,000 rounds the Mandalay Bay Hotel into the audience. At least another 413 people were killed and 60 were injured, while at least another 413 were wounded. Federal appeals courts have arrived at contradictory conclusions about whether the law defining a bump stock as a machine gun is in violation of federal law. The justices also announced that they would hear the Biden administration's appeal of a decision by the 5th U.S. Supreme Court. The ban was invalidated by the Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.