Sentences with phrase «bump stocks after»

Lawmakers have homed in on bump stocks after a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas last month, where nearly 60 people were killed and more than 500 others were injured.

«A real leader would have gotten Congress to pass a ban on bump stocks after the horror of Las Vegas, the worst mass shooting in modern American history,» Ambler said.

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In October, Stephen Paddock mowed down a crowd of concertgoers from his 32nd - story hotel room in Las Vegas after affixing bump stocks to at least 12 of his semiautomatic rifles.

The announcement comes after it was revealed that the Las Vegas shooter used bump stocks on his guns when he killed at least 58 people and injured hundreds more on Sunday.

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On Tuesday, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations that would ban bump stocks, after pressure to do more to curtail access to deadly weapons following the Florida shooting.

The debate over these gun accessories first flared up after the shooter in Las Vegas, who fired into a crowd of concertgoers and killed 58, modified a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock.

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The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

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After the review was announced, Feinstein said, «current law does not allow the agency to ban or regulate bump - fire stocks» and said Congress needed to act.

A few weeks after the announcement of the review, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) said that the acting director of ATF was unsure if the agency had the legal power to ban bump stocks in the first place, with regulation being perhaps the only available option unless Congress passed legislation.

After the Las Vegas shooting, which left 58 people dead last October, there appeared to be bipartisan agreement to take some kind of narrow legislative action to ban bump stocks, an accessory that can effectively turn a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun.

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Given that prior position, A.T.F. officials had indicated privately in the months after the Las Vegas massacre that any ban of bump stocks would require new legislation.

Shortly after the Florida shooting, Trump called on the Justice Department to ban bump stocks and similar devices.

After that massacre, the N.R.A. said it supported a national ban on bump stocks, an extremely rare gun control endorsement by the group.

The bump stock ban is among several proposals Trump has made to tighten gun controls after the Florida shooting, such as improving reporting to the background check system and raising the legal age for purchasing assault - style weapons from 18 to 21.

This sounds like the same sort of language we heard going after Vegas, right, about the bump stocks.

The other issue, of course, is the bump stocks conversation, which the White House still — I was in that briefing room, repeatedly pressing Sarah Sanders after the last shooting, after Las Vegas, about whether the president would support this.

After 58 people were killed at a country music festival in Las Vegas last year by a gunman who used bump stocks, GOP senators said they would be open to Feinstein's legislation.

So, Democrats — including several Catholics, such as Senator Tim Kaine, who are «personally» though not professionally opposed to abortion — voted to filibuster the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the Republican leaders who could have moved a bump stock ban bill to the floor after the Las Vegas massacre did not.

«After the tragic mass shooting in Vegas, the New York State Police and our Attorney General reviewed the language of our law and concluded that bump stocks were banned.

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

After the tragedy in Las Vegas, in what appeared to be an unusual display of bipartisanship, Democrats, Republicans and even the NRA expressed support for some kind of regulation for bump stocks.

Robert Csak was arrested Saturday night after officers found the guns, including one with an illegal bump stock, and high - capacity magazines, officials said.

«If ATF tries to ban these devices after admitting repeatedly that it lacks the authority to do so, that process could be tied up in court for years, and that would mean bump stocks would continue to be sold,» Feinstein said.

Bills to ban bump stocks were introduced this week after a gunman in Las Vegas is believed to have used the device to fire into a crowd at a concert, killing 58 people.

The relatively inexpensive add - ons became a major gun control issue after the Los Vegas shooter used bump stocks to upgrade his semi-automatic weapons during the October 2017 massacre of 58 concert attendees.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R - Iowa, held a hearing Wednesday that addressed bump stocks, making good on a promise after the Las Vegas shooting.

Trump, asked during his news conference for specific proposals he would push on guns after the Florida shooting, listed improving background checks, getting rid of bump stocks and thwarting the mentally ill from buying weapons.

Five days after Stephen Paddock's Oct. 1 slaughter in Las Vegas — when he opened fire on a concert, killing 58 and wounding nearly 500 — the NRA said it was in favor of tighter regulations for bump stocks.

Dave Jenkins, a training counselor and instructor for the National Rifle Association, says though bump stocks are legal to purchase in New York State, it becomes illegal after the modification.

«The ATF does NOT have the authority to address bump - fire stocks — and has made this point clear to Congress MULTIPLE times,» Sen. Dianne Feinstein tweeted Friday after the ATF briefing.

The use of bump stocks gained national attention after authorities said they found a number of the devices in the hotel room of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock.

Bump stocks, which can increase the rate of fire on a weapon, came under intense scrutiny after investigators said they believed Stephen Paddock used them to modify weapons used in a mass shooting in Las Vegas last October that killed roughly 60 people and injured hundreds more.

Rep. William Tong, a Democrat and the House chairman of the judiciary committee — where the bump stock ban was approved 36 - 5 — said earlier Tuesday, «in 2017 we learned about bump stocks; we learned after hearing that 58 people had been killed in Las Vegas and 500 had been injured.»

Three weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in modern history, efforts to ban the gadgets known as bump stocks — which the Las Vegas killer might have used to turn rifles into machines guns — have come to a screeching halt.

Given that prior position, A.T.F. officials had indicated privately in the months after the Las Vegas massacre that any ban of bump stocks would require new legislation.

Over the weekend, Suffolk County police officers say they arrested the Csak, after finding 19 guns, nine of which were illegal, an illegal silencer, ammunition and bump stocks in his home.

After a man shot and killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 in Las Vegas last month, Katko said he would be open to more restrictions on bump stocks, which can make a semiautomatic rifle fire at a faster rate.

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«If ATF tries to ban these devices after admitting repeatedly that it lacks the authority to do so, that process could be tied up in court for years,» Feinstein said, «and that would mean bump stocks would continue to be sold.»

In 2013, after a gunman murdered 20 children and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California proposed a law that would have banned bump - fire stocks and similar devices.

After the Las Vegas shooting on October 1, 2017 it banned videos showing how to install bump stocks on assault rifles.

After the Las Vegas shooting, in which the shooter used bump stocks to enhance his firearms, YouTube banned videos demonstrating how to install the accessories.

Restrictions on bump stocks, the device that makes semiautomatic weapons more like machine guns, faltered in Washington after they were used in the Las Vegas massacre.

The legislation would raise the age requirement for long gun purchases to 21, require a three day waiting limit, outlaw bump stocks (after - market rapid fire attachments) and allow police to temporarily confiscate firearms owned by the mentally unhinged.