Bump Stocks Shouldn’t Be Regulated, Public Tells ATF
The agency was flooded with about 36,000 comments on the issue.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was recently flooded with comments requesting the agency to abstain from regulating bump stocks, a firearms accessory that gained notoriety after it was used by a gunman who targeted a Las Vegas concert in October 2017.
A bump stock effectively allows a semi-automatic weapon to simulate automatic fire. In 2010, the ATF found that “the stock has no automatically functioning mechanical parts or springs and performs no automatic mechanical function when installed.”