Fully automatic weapons are legal, but they are scarce, prohibitively expensive and subject to strict regulation. Gun enthusiasts have found a cheap alternative in “bump stocks,” a modification that, for a couple hundred dollars, allows a semiautomatic rifle to mimic a fully automatic weapon. The devices, legal in Nevada, had attracted little attention until the massacre of at least 59 people at a Las Vegas music festival on Sunday. Law-enforcement officials told The Wall Street Journal and other outlets that the shooter appears...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 03, 2017 19:40 UTC