"From a personal experience, it is very difficult to maneuver," Anthony Cooper, owner of Maryland-based Gun Monkey's Armory. While it's too early to tell if Paddock's weaponry met that standard, the bump stock changes the way the gun is held and fired and is known to increase the rapidity of fire.īesides being readily available to purchase, there are how-to videos online showing ways to trick out a semiautomatic weapon with a bump stock.īut while bump stocks up the ante in terms of firepower, experts told ABC News they sacrifice accuracy. In a letter dated June 7, 2010, the ATF said the bump stock "has no automatically functioning mechanical parts or springs and performs no automatic mechanical function when installed."Īt a press conference on Tuesday, Jill Snyder, special agent in charge of the ATF's San Francisco Field Division, said the classification "of these devices depends on whether they mechanically alter the function of the firearm to fire fully automatic."
While bump stocks simulate the same action of an automatic firearm, they are not fully automatic and so have not been banned by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).Īn automatic weapon is defined by the ATF as "Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.” Diane Feinstein introduced a bill on Wednesday that would make it unlawful to sell or trade devices that are designed to "accelerate the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle but not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun."Ĭurrently, bump stocks can be bought and used in most states, giving gun owners a free-flow motion that's the closest thing to a machine gun firing experience. Some members of Congress have already begun an effort to stop the sales of bump stocks and similar devices. Father pens emotional letter after son killed in Las Vegas shooting
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