The deadly attack by a gunman at a country music concert in Las Vegas on Sunday night is now the worst mass shooting in modern American history. WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains if there will be policy consequences on Capitol Hill. Photo: APWASHINGTON—House Republicans said Tuesday they don’t expect legislation that would make it easier to buy gun silencers to come to the House floor in the aftermath of this week’s shooting in Las Vegas. Some Democrats, meanwhile, pushed to end the sale of “bump stocks,” devices that increase the rate of fire on a semiautomatic rifle. Law-enforcement officials said the Las Vegas gunman had at least one of his guns outfitted with such a device.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 03, 2017 15:59 UTC