>President Donald Trump said Monday his administration is nearing a ban on bump stocks, the gun accessory that can make a semi-automatic weapon function like a machine gun. While machine guns are illegal, this accessory is not.
>“We’re knocking out bump stocks,” Trump told reporters, according to Reuters. “We’re in the final two or three weeks, and I’ll be able to write out bump stocks.”
>His statement comes on the one-year anniversary of the country’s deadliest shooting, when 58 people were killed at a Las Vegas country music festival.
>Trump first moved towards a ban last spring, after reports revealed the Las Vegas shooter had bump stocks on at least a dozen of his weapons, greatly increasing the lethality of his attack.
>The National Rifle Association, which typically opposes gun control efforts, said, when the bump stock ban was proposed, that it would not fight it.
>“Devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations,” the group said last spring, according to NBC News.
>In March, the Department of Justice proposed a rule outlawing the manufacture, import, and possession of bump stocks. The change would also require any current bump stock owners to surrender or destroy the device.
>The proposal had to go through a required comment period, which ended in late June.
>“We are now at the final stages of the procedure,” said Trump, Reuters reports.
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