A Las Vegas bartender who tried to save a victim of America's deadliest mass shooting condemned the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a ban on the bump stock device that let the killer fire more than 1,000 rounds in 11 minutes.
"I think it's disgusting," Heather Gooze told the Independent, according to a report Friday.
Gooze, 50, also said there was "no reason for a civilian to use a mass shooting machine," according to the BBC.
"Who has ever used a bump stock for good?" she asked.
On Friday, the high court's conservative majority struck down a 2018 federal rule that banned the possession of bump stock devices, which allow semiautomatic rifles to fire multiple rounds with a single pull of the trigger.
The 6-3 majority ruling, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, said the administration of then-President Donald Trump wrongly classified weapons fitted with bump stocks as illegal machine guns under federal law.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicted the case "will have deadly conequences."
The Justice Department's ban came after a disgruntled gambler perched in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino opened fire on a crowd attending an outdoor concert below on Oct. 1, 2017, killing 58 people and wounding more than 500.
The 64-year-old gunman, who reportedly had a dozen rifles fitted with bump stocks and high-capacity magazines, died by suicide inside his 32nd floor hotel room.
Gooze said she helped people flee the carnage and tried to save one who was shot.
"I had my finger in the bullet hole of one of our angels in the back of their head," she said.
"I watched people's lives change right in front of my face, as well as my own."
The Texas gun dealer who challenged the bump stock ban celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling on social media, saying that "more guns" meant "less crime."
"You go out there and buy yourself a gun. Better yet, get yourself a bump stock," Michael Cargill wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
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