Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), who oversees gun issues as chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said Thursday that Republicans will look into bump stocks, the mechanism found on some of the guns owned by the Las Vegas shooter that increases a weapon’s rate of fire.
“We’re going to look at the issue,” Goodlatte told the Washington Post.
“I have a personal concern about what happened,” he added when asked if he had concerns about the legality of bump stocks, according to the Washington Post.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and several other Republican members of the House and Senate also said this week that Congress should hold hearings on bump stocks in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The gunman killed 58 people and injured more than 515 others.
Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) became the first Republican lawmaker Wednesday to call for Congress to ban bump stocks, and others since have have said they would be willing to consider a ban or restrictions on the sale of those devices.
Look? We’ll see.
Talk is cheap. Let’s see what legislation comes out of this. I’m not holding my breath.
A real fire-breather ain’t he?
“Personal concern?”
Wow, the next thing you know, he’ll be offering both thoughts and prayers!
Look at = Ignore after Thoughts and Prayers
How much you wanna bet all these asshole Goopers plan is to slow-walk what they’re going to do about any of this? They’re all just waiting for this to blow over with the next mass shooting or national crisis, which very well may involve different dynamics to focus their attention on in order to deflect this issue. This shit about bump stocks isn’t going anywhere. Call me cynical. I don’t see them ever doing anything that would upset the NRA or gun manufacturers before the 2018 elections…or afterwards either.