Las Vegas massacre survivor rips Supreme Court’s bump-stock ruling: ‘It’s disgusting’

When a deafening noise erupted at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, bartender Heather Gooze thought she was hearing audio feedback from the speakers.

The source of the sound, Gooze soon learned, was gunfire.

That was just the first of 1,057 rounds that a mass shooter fired at the crowd in just 11 minutes, killing 58 people and injuring 500 more. It was the deadliest mass shooting in US history.

In the Mandalay Bay hotel suites where the shooter was perched, police recovered 24 weapons, and at least half of those were AR-15-style rifles with bump stocks.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled on Friday that a Trump-era ban on bump stocks — devices that can be tacked onto semi-automatic firearms to allow them to fire bullets faster — was unconstitutional.

“I think it’s disgusting,” Gooze said of the Garland v Cargill ruling in a message to The Independent.

The bartender saw firsthand the carnage caused by powerful weapons, which are only made more dangerous by bump stocks.

In the wake of the massacre, the bartender told Congress about her harrowing experience. Clarifying that she was “not anti-gun,” Gooze spoke in support of then-Senator Dianne Feinstein’s 2017 bill to ban bump stocks.

Gooze shared with lawmakers her “night of terror,” when she sprung into action as the festival transformed into a bloodbath.

She recalled getting covered in blood as she held a jean jacket up against an unconscious concertgoer’s head to try to stop the bleeding. As they waited for medical help to arrive, Gooze recalled: “The jacket fell, and I was left plugging the hole in the victim’s head with my bare fingers.”

At some point during the nightmare, Gooze met another victim whose hand she held until