Slide Fire Solutions halts bump stock orders again to replenish inventory

By Christen Smith

Slide Fire Solutions halted bump stock sales for the second time since the Las Vegas shooting as it tries to keep up with overwhelming demand for its signature product. (Photo: Slide Fire Solutions/Facebook)
Slide Fire Solutions, the inventor of the now-infamous bump stock, suspended orders again this week as it “replenishes inventory,” according to the company’s website.
It’s the second time the Texas-based manufacturer halted sales since its product — a legal gun modification known to increase the rate of fire — became synonymous with the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
Some 58 people died and more than 500 were wounded Oct. 1 when a 64-year-old gunman fired into a country music festival from his hotel suite 32 stories above the Vegas strip. Bump stocks promptly soared from obscurity into national headlines after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed 12 of the modifiers were found in the shooter’s two-room suite at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
Major retailers, including Walmart and Cabela’s, pulled the devices from store shelves in the days after the shooting. Slide Fire, likewise, suspended new orders on its website for most of the month. In an Oct. 31 email promotion, Business Insider reports the company said it would resume selling a “limited release” of two bump

Source: Guns.com