WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department is proposing rule changes that will effectively ban bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like a machine gun, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Friday. Sessions has been a defender of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, which protects the right to bear arms. Gunman Stephen Paddock used a bump stock in a massacre last October that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds of others at a music festival in Las Vegas. In February, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing the Justice Department to make the regulatory change. “As I promised, today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning BUMP STOCKS with a mandated comment period,” Trump said on Twitter as the announcement was made.

Source: Huffington Post March 23, 2018 22:30 UTC