Maryland’s top legislative leaders are backing a proposal to expand the state’s automatic-weapons ban in 2018 by prohibiting the sale of bump stocks, a device used to accelerate the firing of semiautomatic weapons, including during last month’s Las Vegas mass shooting. “There is no reason that bump stocks should exist,” Busch said. “Think of the number of people who could have been saved in Las Vegas if there wasn’t a bump stock.”Sen. Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) and Del. David Moon (D-Montgomery) have promised to introduce a bill next year to ban such devices, and Gov. The proposal from Moon and Ferguson would not prohibit possession of existing bump stocks or the inheritance of such items if they have already been purchased legally.

Source: Washington Post November 29, 2017 19:40 UTC