Sentences with phrase «semiautomatic weapon fire»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

While a semiautomatic weapon requires one trigger pull for each round fired, with automatic weapons, one trigger push can unleash continuous rounds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A fire department in Putnam County reconsidered its decision to raffle off an AR - 15, a semiautomatic weapon similar to the ones used in recent mass shootings, and a shotgun after a heated public meeting held in the wake of the Parkland tragedy.

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.

The ATF wrote letters in 2010 and 2013 explaining how current laws — the Gun Control Act (1968) and National Firearms Act (1934)-- do not provide an avenue for the bureau to regulate the gun attachments, which enable shooters to fire semiautomatic weapons at nearly the rate of automatic ones, according to CQ - Roll Call.

Semiautomatic weapons will no longer «jam» if the player presses fire faster than the weapon is capable of shooting.

- Ban the sale or possession of bump fire stocks, which allow a semiautomatic weapon to fire more like an automatic weapon;

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 fewer issue to worry about.

Instead, there was a more nuanced discussion about banning a device few had even heard of before the Las Vegas rampage: bump fire stocks, also known as bump stocks, a small attachment that when placed on a semiautomatic weapon allows the gun to fire more like an automatic weapon — extracting even more carnage.

It bans «bump stocks» that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly; increases the minimum age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21; and imposes a three - day waiting period on all gun purchases.

Instead, Pence pointed to Trump's call for members of Congress to «strengthen background checks» and for the Justice Department to expedite new regulations for «bump stocks,» devices that can convert a legal semiautomatic weapon into one that fires like a fully automatic one.

While not calling for a registry or banning assault weapons, Gov. Rick Scott unveiled a host of reforms Friday, including raising the age to purchase a rifle to 21, creating a «violent threat restraining order» that would bar people deemed a threat from buying guns, boosting funding for mental health and banning bump stocks, an attachment that causes a semiautomatic rifle to fire faster.