What Are Bump Stocks? Gun Accessory Could Be Banned After Las Vegas Shooting

Oct 06, 2017, 11:53 AM

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Senior Republicans in Congress are considering a bill that would ban “bump stocks” — gun accessories the Las Vegas shooter apparently used to turn semi-automatic weapons into more rapid-fire machine guns.

A handful of Republican congressional legislators have shown interest in a bill that would stop shooters from essentially converting semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic ones by using bump stocks.