“I overturned Donald Trump’s bump stock ban - but I will still vote for him’ | US election

Michael Cargill is a gun owner, activist, dealer and Second Amendment purist. Around 42 per cent of Americans own a gun and there are more than a million firearms in Texas alone. Although gun control measures are broadly popular, Democrats fret about alienating gun owners in swing states. In June, Mr Cargill won a Supreme Court ruling against Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s attorney general, over the use of bump stocks, a device that hooks onto a rifle’s stock, held against the shoulder, and uses the energy from the recoil to bump the trigger against the shooter’s finger so weapon fires faster. Bump stocks were banned by Trump in 2018 after the Las Vegas mass shooting—the deadliest in American history—in which Stephen Paddock, 64, killed 60 concertgoers and wounded 413 when he fired more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition in 11 minutes. Investigators found a dozen rifles fitted with bump stocks in his hotel suite. Mr Cargill was disappointed that it was Trump who banned bump stocks,