Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms’s (ATF) 2019 ban on bump stocks, dangerous devices that allow semi-automatic firearms to increase their rate of fire and effectively operate as fully automatic weapons.
“Bump stocks like the one used in the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival massacre in Las Vegas that left 60 people dead and hundreds more injured have no place on our streets. I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Trump’s 2019 regulation. Now, I’m calling on Congress to urgently pass my commonsense legislation to save lives by permanently prohibiting these devastating devices.”
Cortez Masto is an original cosponsor of the Banning Unlawful Machinegun Parts (BUMP) Act to enshrine a ban on bump stocks into federal law. Senator Cortez Masto initially introduced this legislation in March of 2018, prior to the Trump administration’s enactment of the ban on bump stocks. U.S. Representative Dina Titus (D-Nev.-01) has introduced companion legislation in the House.
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