Justice Department Considers 'Bump Stocks' Ban

on Tuesday, The U.S. Justice Department said it is considering a potential ban on certain bump stocks, the attachments that make semiautomatic rifles fire faster. Such attachments were used in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history in Las Vegas this October. Gunman Stephen paddock used bump stocks to allow his weapons to fire like fully automatic machine guns, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds. It has led to rare bipartisan agreement in Congress on the need to review whether they should be banned.