The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on rules regulating firearm accessories and the national background check system in the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Las Vegas.
Sen. Chuck Grassley‘s (R-Iowa) office announced on Tuesday that they will hold a hearing in one week on “firearm accessory regulation and enforcing federal and state reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).”
The formal announcement comes after a spokesman for the Iowa Republican told The Hill on Monday that the Senate panel would hold a hearing on bump stocks, a device that can simulate automatic gunfire with a semi-automatic weapon.
Lawmakers have honed in on bump stocks after a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, where nearly 60 people were killed and more than 500 others were injured.
Authorities have said a dozen of the rifles used by the suspect, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, had been modified with bump stocks.
Meanwhile, senators are also mulling legislation to try to strengthen NICS in the wake of this week’s shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Devin Kelley, the identified gunman, received a “bad conduct” discharge from the Air Force after being court-martialed on a domestic violence charge. Kelley’s court-martial conviction should have been reported to the FBI’s database and could have made it harder for him to purchase a gun legally.
But Air Force officials on Monday said the Holloman Air Force Base Office of Special Investigation did not enter Kelley’s information into the system.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Judiciary Committee, said earlier Tuesday that he will introduce legislation to strengthen information sharing with NICS.
And Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) are working on legislation to require that the military report domestic violence convictions to the national background check system.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, separately told reporters that he will hold a hearing on the Air Force’s failure to report the conviction to the background check system, according to Stars and Stripes.
A strong rubber band is the same as a bumper stock. Looped on the trigger around the lower and back to the trigger.
Nancy Pelosi uses one on her mouth.
That’s one of about a dozen ways to bump fire a firearm. Any enterprising individual with rudimentary tools can make a stock that’ll out perform the toy accessory known as a ‘bump stock’. They got the idea from people already doing it with other things. With a two pound trigger you can bounce it off your shoulder.
Oh what a joke this is…They need to ban opposable thumbs and any inclination of very simple, garage work bench, mechanical engineering. A$$holes.
“Oh what a joke this is…They need to ban opposable thumbs and any inclination of very simple, garage work bench, mechanical engineering. A$$holes.”
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I wish I had a bump stock back when I was able to have sex in my younger years.
That way I could eat a sandwich at the sane time.
Oh…. god help me.
I’m killin tonight…
This is a private online party…
Ughh.. right?
Maybe I’m on the wrong web site…,
I should be on….
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Ford F-150 next