Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) on Thursday said that bump stocks, devices that make semi-automatic guns behave like fully automatic weapons, should face the “same restrictions” as the latter.
“Bump stocks generating automatic rates of fire should face the same restrictions as automatic weapons,” Buchanan tweeted.
Bump stocks generating automatic rates of fire should face the same restrictions as automatic weapons.
— Rep. Vern Buchanan (@VernBuchanan) October 5, 2017
Kansas Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder also said Thursday that he would support “measures to regulate or ban these types of devices.”
As the details of the shooting in Las Vegas have become clearer, it's evident that action must be taken with regard to bump stocks: pic.twitter.com/QWCYDVsPPt
— Rep. Kevin Yoder (@RepKevinYoder) October 5, 2017
Yoder and Buchanan joined a chorus of Republican lawmakers who have said they would support measures to regulate or ban bump stocks, including Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dean Heller (R-NV), though none have yet proposed any legislation that would do so.
And Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who would have jurisdiction over the matter, told reporters that the Senate is unlikely to move forward with any gun control legislation.
“We need to wait and see what the police reports say,” he said on Wednesday. “Were loopholes exploited? We need to study everything before we make some judgment.”
Wow, something might actually happen for once. We can only hope.
My guess is there are other ways to make these guns go “automatic” and these Republicans know it.
This is the very least they could do…and it sounds like they’re not going to do it.
Until we properly interpret the 2nd amendment, I don’t know that we make much headway. As I see it, it’s meaning has been grossly distorted.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Despite the legislation introduced by Dianne Feinstein, nothing will happen except for fatuous statements like these—because these GOP stalwarts know that Grassley won’t hold hearings and that McConnell won’t allow the bill to come to the floor.
There’s too much NRA money at stake—over $5 million in 2016 alone—and it’s widely known that GOPers are all whores for the NRA.
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