Public comment period on bump stock reclassification closes

By Christen Smith

The ATF closed the public comment period on bump stocks as it prepares to reexamine the device’s classification under federal law. (Photo: Slide Fire Solutions/Facebook)
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives closed the public comment period on bump stocks Thursday as the agency prepares to re-examine the controversial device’s classification under federal law.
Bump stocks made headlines Oct. 1 when a lone gunman modified at least a dozen rifles with the accessory and sprayed bullets into a crowded music festival on the Las Vegas strip, killing 58 and wounding some 850 others.
The deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history stirred the gun control debate on Capitol Hill, with leaders on both sides of the aisle — including House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions — calling for the ATF review bump stocks and reconsider a ban.
Even the National Rifle Association pressured the agency into revisiting its intial 2010 ruling, telling cable media hosts the ATF “needs to do its job.”
“ATF needs to look and if there’s technology that’s come to the market that allow for a semi-automatic rifle to function as a fully-automatic rifle, they need to be regulated differently,” Chris Cox, NRA’s lobbying director, told Fox News during

Source: Guns.com