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A divided Ohio Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to a Columbus city ordinance banning "bump stocks," spring loaded gadgets that can turn rifles into rapid-fire assault weapons, ruling that two Ohio gun-rights groups had no standing to sue the city.

The 4-3 decision released Friday morning found that Ohioans for Concealed Carry and Buckeye Firearms Foundation had suffered no harm in a case the justices heard despite that the Columbus City Council had repealed its ordinance a year ago, telling the court that made the case moot.

The city's repeal of the ban came just weeks after the Supreme Court, also on a 4-3 decision, agreed to hear the case late last year.

The ordinance was not moot, the court found, because the city could simply pass the ordinance again in the future. However, because the two gun-rights groups "are not taxpayers in their own right, they have not established standing to bring a taxpayer action," among many other technical reasons for the dismissal, the Supreme Court found.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2020/12/18/divided-ohio-supreme-court-kicks-out-groups-suit-bump-stocks/3957826001/