US Cities, States, Take Lead in Banning Device Used by Las Vegas Shooter

In the immediate aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, there was a fevered pitch to ban bump stocks, the device that allowed the shooter's semi-automatic rifles to mimic the rapid fire of machine guns. With that push stalled at the federal level, a handful of states and some cities are moving ahead with bans of their own. Massachusetts and New Jersey — two states led by Republican governors — as well as the cities of Denver and Columbia, South Carolina,...

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