The United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Sept. 1 that machine guns and suppressors are not protected by the Second Amendment under the standard set in the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.
In deciding United States of America v. Joseph Paul Berger, the three-judge panel agreed that machine guns are not in common use for self-defense and that suppressors—attachments that muffle gunshots, commonly called silencers—are not firearms because they are not necessary for a gun to operate properly.
The court also found that registration requirements for suppressors did not infringe the Second Amendment. …