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As the grieving Florida students demanded action on guns, President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid - fire bump stocks used in last year's Las Vegas massacre.

As a grieving Florida community demanded action on guns, President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid - fire bump stocks used in last year's Las Vegas massacre.

WASHINGTON - As a grieving Florida community demanded action on guns, President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid - fire bump stocks used in last year's Las Vegas massacre.

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had directed the Justice Department to propose a ban on devices that modify guns, such as so - called bump stocks, which increase the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms.

Slide Fire resumed selling bump stocks in November.

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.

There are other devices that allow guns to simulate automatic firing on a semi-automatic weapon, but bump stocks are the most well known of the legal options.

«Bump - fire stocks, while simulating automatic fire, do not actually alter the firearm to fire automatically, making them legal under current federal law.»

A lawsuit filed in Clark County District Court alleges that Slide Fire, along with unidentified bump stock makers and retailers, behaved negligently by producing and selling the devices.

Bump stocks have never been more than niche firearms accessory, although Slide Fire's sales exceeded $ 10 million its first year of business.

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.

At the moment, however, shoppers can still purchase bump stocks from Slide Fire and on firearms resale websites such as Gun Broker.

Bump stock manufacturer Slide Fire Solutions will stop taking orders and shut down its website next month.

Slide Fire Solutions said on Tuesday it would shut down its website and stop taking orders from next month for bump stocks.

While there are a number of legal devices on the market that can make a semi-automatic weapon act as if it were fully - automatic, «bump fire stocks» are the most well known.

But in a sign the pressure is beginning to tell in Washington, Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department to propose a rule to ban bump fire stocks, the device that allowed the gunman at the Las Vegas massacre in October to fire on concertgoers more rapidly, mimicking automatic weapons fire.

On Tuesday, President Trump ordered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose regulations that would ban bump stocks, accessories that increase the firing rates of semi-automatic weapons.

But bump stocks, like those used by a gunman to kill 58 people and injure hundreds in Las Vegas in October, can modify a semiautomatic weapon into one able to fire shots more frequently.

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.

Rubio said he also supported the banning of bump fire stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons, and a bolstered background check system.

Trump repeated his pledge to unilaterally do away with bump stocks — devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons — which he said would give lawmakers one less issue to worry about.

Congress might ban «bump stocks»: Since the Las Vegas shooting in October, there's been bipartisan support to ban a device the shooter used that can make a legal semiautomatic weapon fire more like an illegal fully automatic gun.

They will also seek a ban on «bump stocks,» which are used to make semiautomatic weapons mimic automatic weapons in rate of fire; more money to harden school campuses; and funding for mental - health initiatives and to provide trained school security officers.

And the students» campaign may already be showing signs of having an effect: President Trump has directed the Department of Justice to ban bump stocks (which allow shooters to pull triggers more frequently and fire in rapid succession) and tweeted his support for strengthening background checks.

Bump stocks are devices that can be attached to rifles to enable them to fire faster, and they will no longer be legal in Florida if the bill is signed.

Law enforcement officials confirmed on Tuesday that 12 of the rifles in Paddock's hotel room were outfitted with a device called a «bump stock,» which enables semi-automatic weapons to shoot rapid fire, like a machine gun.

The company said it had never sold bump stocks, like those used by the gunman in October's Las Vegas shooting, that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly.

Bump stocks are devices that harness a gun's kickback energy, making semiautomatic gun (which fires one bullet with each trigger - pull) mimic a fully automatic one (which can fire off multiple rounds until the shooter takes their finger off the trigger).

At least one of the weapons in the photographs appears to have been modified with a «bump stock,» a device that allows a semiautomatic rifle to fire rounds faster, at a rate similar to a fully automatic weapon.

The bump stock — a previously obscure gun accessory that became infamous last year when a shooter in Las Vegas used one to speed up his lethal rate of fire at helpless concertgoers — is on its way to being banned in Maryland.

«Bump stocks» are attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire faster, almost like machine guns.

Twelve of the rifles the Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock, had in a high - rise hotel suite when he opened fire on a crowd on Sunday were outfitted with «bump stocks,» devices that allow a semiautomatic rifle to fire hundreds of rounds per minute, which may explain how he was able to shoot so quickly, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds of others.

YouTube said this week that it would start removing videos next month that promote the sale or manufacture of firearms and accessories, especially those that allow simulated automatic firing, like bump stocks.

As Bloomberg News reports, «YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to websites selling firearms and accessories, including bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic rifle to fire faster.»

Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock had at least 12 «bump stocks» attached to his guns, which allowed him to fire his weapons at a machine gun - like rate.

«As we continue to make sense of Sunday's tragic events, one thing is clear: the gunman's use of bump - fire stocks made a horrific situation exponentially more deadly,» Hoylman said.

Lanza is the Senate sponsor of a bill released the week of the Las Vegas shooting that would ban so - called «bump» stocks and other devices that when attached to a semiautomatic weapon mimic automatic fire.

There's a push by some Democratic state lawmakers to explicitly ban so - called «bump» stocks and other devices that allow a semi-automatic gun to mimic automatic fire.

Bump stocks attach to semi-automatic weapons and enable sustained firing by using the force of the weapon's kickback to bounce the firearm against the shooter's trigger finger over and over.

Republican Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito of Massachusetts signed a bill Friday, approved one day earlier by the state's Democrat - led Legislature, outlawing so - called bump stocks, accessories that allow semi-automatic firearms to mimic the rapid firing action of machine guns.

At the moment, however, shoppers can still purchase bump stocks from Slide Fire and on firearms resale websites such as Gun Broker.

He announced the state will create a new website for students to lobby their state and national electeds on gun control, and also touted a bill working its way through the state legislature that would ban bump stocks — devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates comparable to automatic rifles.

More than 80 percent of Americans at least somewhat favor a ban on «bump stocks» that make rifles fire much like automatic weapons.

A bump fire stock, also known as a bump stock, is a device that effectively turns a semiautomatic weapon into an automatic weapon, also known as a machine gun.

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.

State lawmakers in Albany are making a push to ban the possession and sale of devices like bump stocks that can allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic rifle.

Columbia, South Carolina is one of the first cities to ban the use of gun bump stocks - an attachment that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire faster.

The Las Vegas gunman used at least 12 bump stocks as he fired a staggering 1,100 bullets in roughly 10 minutes.

Slide Fire, the original manufacturer of the bump stock, did not attend SHOT in 2018.

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.