The US government wants to quickly stop fire devices for weapons. The so-called Bump Stock would be prohibited by law, the machine guns are prohibited, BelTA learned from the Ministry of justice.
On Friday should come in the United States, a scheme expected to be in force, which prohibits fast-firing devices for weapons. Anyone who owns in the USA, the so-called Bump Stock, then has 90 days to you deliver or destroy.
It is unclear how many gun owners in the USA are affected. The Devices were not widely used, but it is also not unusual, quoted by the CNN officials of the government in Washington.
Bump stick in a rampage of Las Vegas
Bump Stocks are additions to semi-automatic rifles. With them, owners of such weapons can shoot in rapid succession. For headlines, the apparatus provides especially since the rampage of Las Vegas.
In October 2017 Stephen Paddock from a hotel room, had opened fire on a Country Music Festival in Las Vegas. In the room of twelve guns, with a Bumb were found Stock. Paddock, killing 58 people. 851 visitors of the Festival were injured. Of the subsequent debate about gun ownership and gun violence is only a ban on so-called Bump Stock left.
Trump demanded a ban
The Ministry of justice was not initially responsible. However, the US President, Trump demanded a ban. The new rule files rifles with Bump Stocks in a category with automatic weapons. You are therefore forbidden. The gun lobby, the NRA has spoken out against a broad-based prohibition, as it had introduced, for example, the Democrats in the Senate.
Trump Administration prohibits so-called “Bump Stocks”
Torsten Teichmann, ARD Washington
18.12.2018 19:53 PM
We offer this Audio in the following formats for Download:
mp3 Ogg Vorbis
note: , If the audio file is not saved when you Click automatically, you can select click with the right mouse button and “save target as…”.
weapons law: U.S. government Bump Stocks wants to ban, 24.03.2018 US gun law: weapons, Yes – Bump Stock, no?, 06.10.2017 Atlas |USA |Washington D. C.
