Trump orders ban of rifle ‘bump stocks’ after Florida shooting

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump ordered a ban on gun accessories known as “bump stocks” that allow semiautomatic rifles to be fired more rapidly, taking the administration’s first concrete measures in response to a Florida school shooting last week.
Trump said that he had signed a memorandum directing the Justice Department to come up with rules prohibiting “all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns.”
“I expect that these critical regulations will be finalised, Jeff, very soon,” he said, speaking to Attorney General Jeff Sessions during an event at the White House.
The school shooting has ignited new calls for restrictions on guns, especially AR-15 style rifles like the one used in a Florida school shooting to kill 17 people last week. The suspect in the Florida shooting didn’t use a bump stock, though the accused sniper in a mass shooting in Las Vegas in October used such a device in an attack that killed more than 50 concert-goers.