Garland v. Cargill

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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.^[1] The court will decide whether bump stocks are "machineguns" as defined by Title 26 of the United States Code.^[2]