WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas. (nytimes.com)
• Investigators were still struggling on Thursday to understand what motivated the gunman to open fire on concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. (nytimes.com)
The Las Vegas gunman fired down on concertgoers from the 32nd floor of a nearby hotel. (nytimes.com)