Proposed Illinois, Massachusetts bump stock law also includes weapon bans

By Chris Eger

While bump stocks are ostensibly the main dish, some state lawmakers are adding other restrictions on semi-auto firearms and their magazines to the menu in upcoming ban legislation. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
Bills filed in two states after the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas go after bump fire stocks but also target other guns and their magazines.
In Illinois, the proposal would also forbid guns defined as “assault weapons” and those chambered in .50 caliber while a Massachusetts bill would include currently legal magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
“These devices were created by gun manufacturers as a workaround of the federal law banning the sale and possession of automatic weapons, and there is absolutely no reason for any citizen to possess a ‘bump stock’ device or a ‘high-capacity magazine,” said  Massachusetts Rep. David Linsky, D-Natick.
While Massachusetts has long-maintained a ban on guns classified by the state as assault weapons and magazines capable of holding over 10 cartridges, mags made before the ban have been grandfathered and can still be legally owned. Besides adding a prohibition to bump fire magazines to the Commonwealth’s laws, Linsky’s bill would strip away the protection for grandfathered magazines.
In Illinois, state Rep. Marty Moylan, D-Des

Source: Guns.com