The National Rifle Association (NRA) said in a statement that it agrees to tighter control of "bump stocks", which are used to replace a rifle's standard stock to give a semi-automatic rifle the rapid firing speed of a machine gun.
"The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations," the group said.
"The NRA is calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law," the statement said.
US federal law bans private citizens from owning automatic firearm manufactured after 1986, and requires a special license to own any made before that date. However, bump stocks, which boost the fire power of a semi-automatic rifle, are not banned.
A comparison by The New York Times said while automatic rifles can fire 98 shots in seven seconds, in the Las Vegas shooting, semi-automatic rifles used with a bump stock fired 90 shots in 10 seconds.
In 2016 another deadly mass shooter on a rampage, Omar Mateen, used a semi-automatic rifle to open fire at a night club in Orlando. He fired 24 shots in 9 seconds, killing 49 people.
Police found 12 rifles used by Las Vegas shooter Paddock had been fitted with bump stocks.
[globaltimes.cn/Xinhua]
6/10/17
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