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