Posted October 30, 2017 8:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

A Slide Fire bump stock in action. (Photo: Slide Fire/Facebook)
A measure to ban bump fire stocks and a host of other accessories has picked up the support of most of the Democrats in the House in less than a month but could end up in limbo.
Introduced on Oct. 4 by Rhode Island Democrat U.S. Rep. David Cicilline as H.R.3947, the prohibition on devices meant to up the rate of fire on guns without transforming them into machine guns by Friday had the support of 175 of the 194 Dems in the chamber. However, there have been no defections from across the aisle to join the legislation, with a dozen of House Republicans instead moving to sign on to a similar bipartisan ban, H.R. 3999.
Cicilline holds that the restrictions he is backing take aim at devices that no one needs.
“No person should possess a device that turns a semi-automatic rifle into the equivalent of a machine gun,” said Cicilline. “The sole purpose of these devices is to fire as many bullets as possible as quickly as possible.”
Cicilline’s measure would ban the devices as well as “trigger cranks” and any device, attachment, or accessory that accelerates the rate of fire of a

Source: Guns.com

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