New York leaders are sharply criticizing the US Supreme Court, which overturned a ban on the sale of bump stocks.

New York leaders on Friday sharply criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a ban on bump stocks, devices favored by mass shooters that effectively turn semi-automatic weapons into machine guns.

The nation’s Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling struck down a federal ban put in place under Trump.

Mayor Eric Adams said New York’s local ban on the rapid-fire device will remain in effect.

But Adams said in a statement: “While these devices remain illegal in New York, this decision – and the Supreme Court’s legacy – makes our country less safe.”

The actions have been used in deadly fashion in mass shootings, such as the 2017 massacre that killed 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas.

Former President Donald Trump’s administration banned the device in 2019, and the Empire State followed suit the following year.

However, compression stocks are still used illegally, including against New York residents by a racist in the 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo.

“Exactly one month ago we marked the anniversary of the deadly massacre in Buffalo – the terrible day when a hate-fueled gunman murdered ten of our neighbors by using the stock to transform his firearm into an even more deadly weapon,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement Friday.

Likewise, state Attorney General Letitia James, who has been embroiled in a high-profile legal battle with the NRA, condemned the decision.

“This decision threatens the safety of every community in this country,” she wrote on Twitter.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, said the stocks could not be considered illegal machine guns.

“We conclude that a semi-automatic rifle equipped with a stock is not a ‘machine gun’ (sic) because it does not fire more than one shot ‘with one trigger action,'” he wrote.

State Assemblymember Michaelle Solages, who chairs the New York Black, Puerto Rican, Latino and Asian Caucus, noted that the ruling came during Gun Violence Awareness Month.

“While Justice Clarence Thomas’ explanation of fully automatic weapons may legally justify the use of this accessory, it does not change the fact that it has enabled individuals to take the lives of countless innocent Americans across the country,” she said in a statement.

With postal wires