But after a gunman killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 at a Las Vegas concert, Democrats are going to try again to revamp the nation’s gun laws. At least a dozen of the 23 firearms recovered in Las Vegas were semiautomatic rifles legally modified using bump stocks to fire like automatic weapons. What Feinstein unveiled Wednesday is drawn from part of her 2013 bill but focuses only on bump stocks and similar accessories. ), the second-ranking Senate Republican, said that hearings on banning bump stocks would make sense. The National Rifle Association, the nation’s most prominent gun-rights organization, did not have immediate comment and has remained publicly silent since Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Source: Washington Post October 04, 2017 18:51 UTC