Sentences with phrase «semi-automatic weapons fire»

Slated for discussion are local bans on assault - style rifles and high - capacity ammunition magazines, both carried by the Douglas High shooter, as well as bump stocks, the accessories used by the gunman in last year's Las Vegas massacre to make his semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns.

Establishes a ban on bump stocks, a piece of equipment that make semi-automatic weapons fire faster

Not exact matches

The helicopter then hovered above the prison courtyard while the hijackers laid down suppressing fire with semi-automatic weapons.

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.

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.

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.

Slide Fire, the primary manufacturer of the accessory that effectively turns a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun, has been hit with a flood of traffic and its website is currently down.

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.

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.

Technically, that means the finger is pulling the trigger for each round fired, keeping the weapon a legal semi-automatic.

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.

«But the gangbangers came in with semi-automatic weapons and opened fire.»

«Accessories that accelerate the firing rate of a semi-automatic weapon are nothing less than instruments of death.

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.

The State Police this week pointed to a law that bans the attachment of devices that mimic automatic fire on semi-automatic weapons.

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.

Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at least one of the 23 firearms recovered in Las Vegas was a semi-automatic rifle legally modified to fire like an automatic weapon, using an alteration known as a bump fire stock.

We never have and never will sell bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.

In addition to the waiting period, the new law includes raising the minimum age for gun purchasers from 18 to 21 and a ban on bump stocks — an add - on that can allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic weapon with a single pull of the trigger.

Some semi-automatic weapons have had their rates of fire adjusted to fit this change.

Results were the same with Max Payne 3, as all of the semi-automatic weapons I used could now be used as automatics, but at a pretty normal rate of fire that pretty much anyone could pull off by pulling the trigger manually.

Black Ops II was a pretty average experience, as most semi-automatic weapons were limited to fire rates that you could probably pull off by pulling the trigger repeatedly yourself.

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One problem with laws as written is that while it is illegal to modify a semi-automatic weapon to be full automatic, it is not illegal to add attachments that will effectively change the firing nature of the gun.

Police say 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and teachers with a semi-automatic weapon.

We're not talking about banning all semi-automatic weapons, which automatically load the next bullet, but require a trigger pull to fire each round.

The bill bans «bump stocks,» which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly; imposes a three - day waiting period on all gun sales; and increases the minimum age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21, with exceptions for military and law - enforcement members.

We never have and never will sell bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly.

Cruz was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, the day after opening fire with a semi-automatic weapon in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (Instagram via AP)