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If it's just the bump-stocks then they are perfectly legal to buy and use.

In this case unmodified semi-automatics would have done significantly less damage. He was basically shooting fish in barrel so his only limitation was rate of fire. Though as Adamantium said it's usually not practical to use "automatic" fire with assault rifles in most situations.
i agree there would have been less damage, but again, look at other mass casualty situstions like pulse night club and you see that you can still shoot a ton of people pretty easily
Obv. I'm not saying that civilians should be allowed to own AR-15esque weapons because they can only cause limited carnage. For civilian use that limitation isn't enough.

I have no idea what you can possible gain by letting the civilian population carry something like AR-15. How often are you in a position where you need to gat down 20-30 vermins at a single go? That's literally the only scenario that's not better served by a shotgun, lever-action/bolt-action-rifle or a handgun.