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. 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. “We will BAN all devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.”
The National Rifle Association, the most powerful U.S. gun lobby, supported more regulation of bump stocks but has not endorsed Trump’s ban and said previously it was awaiting the publication of the regulation before rendering judgment.
The Justice Department announcement comes as hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to rally nationwide on Saturday for tighter gun laws in “March For Our Lives” protests led by survivors of the Florida school massacre, which reiginited the debate over Americans’ access to guns...
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I am so glad they are going to ban bump stocks! Weeks after the Las Vegas shooting, a man with the skeletal remains was identified as Joseph J. Mulvaney. Mulvaney was identified one day after the hero cop's mother went Home to be with the Lord. The hero cop was Charleston Hartfield.
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