Active shooter in Las Vegas

[blake]

only the fact that he made his gun automatic was banned. he could have done just as much (or nearly as much damage) if he left it semi-automatic. (see the 100 people shot at pulse night club for example)

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.

you know, i had no idea what you were talking about with "bump-stocks," and now completely get what you were saying after seeing a ton of news articles on it the past day or two.

apparently these are completely legal to buy (and cheap), can turn a semi-automatic assault rifle capable of shooting 50 shots a minute, into something that shoots 400-800 shots a minute.

so basically, it's a completely legal loophole to the machine gun ban and is apparently what the mandalay bay shooter used.

again -- our gun laws are a complete joke.

on the bright side, even GOP senators and newt gingrich have come out and said that this loophole needs to be closed. obv trump will do nothing though