Largest Manufacturer Of Bump Stocks Will Stop Taking Orders, Shut Down Site

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Source: Talking Points Memo

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largest manufacturer of bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, announced Wednesday that it will stop taking orders and shut down its website next month.

The announcement comes about a month after President Donald Trump said his administration would “ban” bump stocks, which he said “turn legal weapons into illegal machines.”

The devices became a focal point of the national gun control debate when they were used in October when a man carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

About a dozen bump stocks were found among the weapons used by Stephen Paddock when he unleashed a hail of bullets from his high-rise Las Vegas hotel suite, killing 58 people and leaving more than 800 others injured.

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Out of good social conscience why don't they stop the manufacturing for public consumption immediately instead of waiting a month..............................

[mark67]

1. Before anyone gets too cynical...

...this is a small step in the right direction. We need to do a lot more but I'll take it.

[gfwzig]

2. In one month they can produce enough bump stocks to have one for every assault rifle in the hands of

the public and sit on the rest until the lack of supply increases their profits to astronomical levels

[forgotmylogin]

3. My thought exactly.

What they need to do is immediately say, "No further orders will be taken," then manufacture what they need to fulfill outstanding orders than stop.

This is a step in the right direction...so long as they're not cynically planning a monthlong "blowout" sale.

[truthisfreedom]

4. Couldnt sell any before the Las Vegas event.

Now that they’re discontinuing manufacture, business will be boomin’. I’ve seen this before.