Congress must act NOW to ban bump stocks
Dear Friend,
After hundreds of Americans had gunfire rain down on them at an outdoor music festival in 2017, I led the effort to ban bump stocks – the device that allowed the gunman to murder and injure so many people, so quickly. Even former President Trump agreed then, heeding my calls to ban bump stocks in a federal rule.
But this morning, a pro-death decision from an out of touch Supreme Court majority made bump stocks legal again. Innocent Americans will die because of this decision.
Bump stocks serve no legitimate purpose. That’s why I have introduced legislation to ban bump stocks and help keep Americans safer from gun violence, while safeguarding Americans’ constitutional right to own a firearm for legitimate self-defense, hunting, and sporting purposes.
This includes:
- The Banning Unlawful Machinegun Parts (BUMP) Act, a bipartisan bill that I first introduced in 2018 to prohibit the sale of bump stocks and other devices that allow semi-automatic firearms to increase their rate of fire and effectively operate as fully automatic weapons.
- The Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act, which would regulate the sale, transfer, and manufacture of gas-operated semi-automatic weapons, and also ban bump stocks.
Congress must act NOW to pass my legislation to ban these deadly devices once and for all.
Sincerely,
