Reaction to bump stock maker Slide Fire suspending operations

By Chris Eger

Slide Fire announced they will soon stop accepting new orders, but bump fire stocks are not going away. (Photo: Slide Fire Solutions)
While the country’s primary manufacturer of bump fire stocks may have signaled they are leaving the industry, the question of the stocks themselves remains.
On Tuesday, Texas-based Slide Fire Solutions said they would stop accepting orders for their signature product next month and move to close their website afterward. The news was met with gratification from a national gun control group who is backing a class action lawsuit over the use of bump stocks in the Route 91 Harvest shooting last October.
“Bump stocks should not be available for sale to the general public, and they should never have been allowed to be sold,” said Avery Gardiner, with the Brady Center, who characterized the development from Slide Fire as a “positive development.”
Though recently banned in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Washington, and a federal regulation concerning the devices is looming, it is believed hundreds of thousands of the devices are in private hands.
According to research by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the agency freely states they do not know how many bump fire stocks are in circulation, but

Source: Guns.com