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One of America's leading and most controversial gun-accessory makers says it will resume sales Tuesday of a device known as a "bump stock." Bump stocks dramatically accelerate the rate-of-fire of semi-automatic rifles, allowing them to shoot almost as fast as fully-automatic machine guns, which are far more tightly regulated and expensive in the U.S. Slide Fire, a company based in Moran, Texas, suspended sales of its bump stock line of products in early October.
In this Sept. 30, 2015 file photo, High Bridge Arms general manager Steve Alcairo reaches into a display case of handguns while being interviewed in San Francisco.
Here's a good question to ponder: how much should you spend on a carry gun? Really, the answer is whatever you want to and/or whatever you can reasonably afford, but the idea is that perhaps there's a dollar amount beyond which you shouldn't spend on a carry gun. Granted, some of us are poor.
The ruling by an 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a California county's ordinance banning new gun stores within 500 feet of schools, day-care centers, residential areas, liquor stores and other gun shops. A majority of the panel said the law did not violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms of would-be gun owners because there were other stores in the county where they could buy a gun.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein , who authored the 1990s ban on assault weapons, said over the weekend that Congress must pass a law banning the so-called bump stock devices used in last week's massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival. Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation" program, Ms.
Repeal the Second Amendment - I have never understood the conservative fetish for the Second Amendment. - From a law-and-order standpoint, more guns means more murder. "States with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides
Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaking, joined by, from left, former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., call for action on gun safety legislation with fellow Democrats on the ... A federal judge is denying a death-row challenge from a Utah prison inmate whose double-murder case was chronicled in the book "Under the Banner of Heaven." . A federal judge is denying a death-row challenge from a Utah prison inmate whose double-murder case was chronicled in the book "Under the Banner of Heaven."
In the wake of Sunday's deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, lawmakers and gun-control advocates have turned their focus toward a little-known but powerful device police say the gunman used on his weapons: the "bump stock." Authorities say the shooter, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock , had affixed bump stocks to at least 12 of the 23 firearms they later recovered from his room.
In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, as in the wake of all the high-profile mass shootings that preceded it, the big question looms: Why? John Whitehead puts the question this way: "What is it about America that makes violence our nation's calling card?" This is the enormous question - you might call it the $700 billion question, which is the size of the 2018 military budget recently approved by the Senate - that most media and law enforcement personnel do not ask or acknowledge, as they search for clues about the motive behind Stephen Paddock's rampage on the night of Oct. 1 amid the scattered wreckage of the killer's life.
In this Oct. 3, 2013, file photo, a custom-made, semi-automatic hunting rifle with a high-capacity detachable magazine is displayed at a gun store in Rocklin, Calif. Such magazines enable a shooter to fire to fire 30, 50 or even 100 bullets before having to reload.
The American flag flies at half staff over the U.S. Capitol following the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas this week, in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaking, and House Democrats, including former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, fourth from left, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, call for action on gun safety legislation on the House steps Wednesday morning after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas this week, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017.
"The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history." That was the summary of the horrific end to the country music festival on the Las Vegas strip, with 59 people killed and more than 500 injured.
D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine, center, will decide this week whether the District will appeal a federal court's ruling against one of its gun laws to the Supreme Court. D.C. officials say they will decide this week whether to ask the Supreme Court to review a ruling striking down the city's restrictions on carrying concealed guns - a choice that could determine the fate of similar laws in cities such as New York and Los Angeles and that is being closely watched by national gun-control activists.
Democrats are renewing calls for gun safety legislation after Sunday's deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, but their pleas are falling on deaf ears in the Republican-controlled Congress. House GOP leaders had been moving forward with bills to ease regulations on gun silencers and allow people with concealed-carry permits to take their weapons to other states.
On Sunday, a gunman in a hotel overlooking the Las Vegas Strip opened fire on the crowd at a country music festival, killing at least 59 and injuring at least another 527, making it the deadliest mass shooting incident in US history. Three experts shared their views on the incident with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang and Wang Han: Discussions over stricter gun control have been gonging on in the US for a long time, but there is hardly any progress; That's because it is increasingly more difficult for different groups in the US to reach consensus.
There's a new firearm on the market with an attached silencer that is not covered by federal gun control laws because it's not considered a gun and it's not considered a silencer. The Maxim 50 from SilencerCo, a silencer manufacturer in Utah, is a .50-caliber muzzleloader, a modern version of the single-shot muskets used in the Revolutionary War.
It has not appreciably changed their overall murder or suicide or accidental death rates, which were already low and falling when the scheme was implemented. As Australia is a continent considerably separated from the rest of the industrialized world, it is a near ideal test case for the efficacy of gun control schemes.
American Outdoor Brands, the company formerly known as Smith & Wesson, says gun sales last quarter dropped by half from a year ago. Sales of long guns, including assault rifles, hunting rifles and shotguns, dropped by two-thirds.