Bump stock sales surge after use by Vegas gunman

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By Rich Mitchell

Bump stocks allowed Stephen Paddock, the Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and injured almost 500 more, to fire semi-automatic rifles at cyclic rates similar to fully automatic versions. Politicians’ and media’s fixation on the legal, for now, devices are creating a rush on them. Firearms distributors have run out of the devices as gun owners rush to buy them ahead of a possible ban on the easily-installed systems that can allow a semi-auto AR-15 to fire more than 500 rounds per minute. While machine guns are heavily regulated and require a lengthy paperwork and review process to obtain, the bump stock is an attachment that uses a gun’s recoil and the shooter’s shoulder to achieve rapid fire. Machine guns, for those who can even get them, can cost more than $20,000 while the bump stock systems regularly sell for between $90 and $300. An entire industry popped-up around these devices and its now seeing record demand. Bump Fire Systems’ website was down due to an overloaded server and a better-known maker of bump stocks, Slide Fire Solutions, posted a notice on its website notifying customers that the company has stopped taking new orders as demand had outpaced their ability to manufacture. Usually, it’s …

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