The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Trump-era nationwide ban on bump stocks on Friday. The justices ruled along party lines 6 to 3 to invalidate the alcohol tobacco firearms (ATF) prohibition on bump stocks.

Nevada has a statewide bump stock ban, so the ruling will not directly impact our state.

2 News Nevada spoke to the Las Vegas assembly member who spearheaded the statewide bump stock ban, Assembly Majority Leader Sandra Jauregui.

Jauregui is a survivor of the deadliest mass shooting in modern history, which happened in Nevada in 2017.

"One October was very traumatic and difficult for me," said Nevada Assembly Majority Leader

Jauregui was at the "Route 91 Harvest" country music festival on October 1, 2017, when bullets sprayed down on the concert crowd she was in.

"It sounded like a war zone. For months, I would hear the bullets just raining down, and it was not in a tat tat tat, it was a "tatatatatataaat" (machine gun sound), and you could hear it over and over.

Jauregui was inspired to action by the Parkland High School shooting that happened just five months later, killing 17 students and staff members.

Jauregui, a new legislator, became a champion for gun reform.

" I could share my story no matter how difficult it was, and I'm an elected official at the Nevada state legislature who could actually produce policy and make a difference, and you know that it was my responsibility to do so.">

In the 2019 Nevada Legislative Session, Jauregui sponsored AB-291, a bill that would ban bump stocks on the state level. She received substantial opposition, but her bill was signed into law by former Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak.

"People were telling me we don't need this in Nevada. There is a federal ruling that bans bump stocks across the nation; why are you introducing this? This is duplicative?" said Jauregui.

Jauregui wanted to establish a duplicative law that would ban bump stocks to withstand any changes to federal laws.

And Nevada's law goes further: it bans any modification made to semiautomatic firearms.

"Because we know that gun manufacturers are smart, and they're going to create a new technology that acts like a bump stock, but it's called something different," said Jauregui.

Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court does not rule on whether bump stocks should exist; they are indifferent in this case.

The court's ruling explicitly determines that the ATF (Alcohol-Tobacco Firearms) went too far or that the agency pushed a rule that was beyond its legal jurisdiction. In short, the court determined that the statutory language was insufficient.

Donald Trump, who was the U.S. President, directed the ATF to ban bump stocks in the wake of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.

In a statement on Friday, Donald Trump's spokesperson Karoline Leavitt says that "Americans should respect the decision" made by the court.

Governor Joe Lombardo provided 2 News Nevada with the following statement:

"While I have always been a supporter of the Second Amendment, I have been a vocal opponent of bump stocks since my time in law enforcement, and I'm disappointed by the Supreme Court's decision today." - said Governor Lombardo.

A leading progressive group, Battle Born Progress, says it is disappointed by the ruling but grateful for the Nevada Legislature's work to ban bump stocks at the state level.

"We are grateful that Assemblywoman Jauregui, in the 2019 Legislative Session, was able to pass a bump stock ban anyway for the state of Nevada. So, essentially, the ruling doesn't do anything to change our laws, but overall, we are disappointed because it's a step backward," said Amber Falgout, Communications Director for Battle Born Progress and Institute for a Progressive Nevada

"This is a small setback for the country if states don't have individual laws that address bump stocks. But, it's certainly not as devastating as the Dobbs decision or other decisions we've seen from the Supreme Court," said Falgout.

We will post (D-Las Vegas) Assembly Majority Leader Sandra Jauregu's full interview here later: