The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock, which enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.
About a dozen bump stocks were found among the weapons used by Stephen Paddock when he unleashed a hail of bullets from his high-rise Las Vegas hotel suite, killing 58 people and leaving more than 800 others injured.
The announcement comes about a month after President Trump said his administration would “ban” bump stocks.
Three of the victims of the Las Vegas massacre have filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against Slide Fire and any future bump stock manufacturers for negligence. According to the complaint, “this horrific assault would not and could not have occurred, with a conventional handgun, rifle or shotgun, of the sort used by law-abiding, responsible gun owners for hunting or self-defense.”
Court documents also alledge that Slide Fire manufactured, marketed and sold devices to gun owners who wanted semi-automatic rifles to mimic fully automatic weapons, “thereby subverting federal law that has highly regulated machine guns for over 80 years.”
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