The Trump administration is preparing to ban bump stocks through a change in federal regulatory rules.
U.S. officials told CNN [1]that the Bureau of Alcohol[2], Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would enact a rule soon following a claim by the president on the anniversary of the deadliest massacre in U.S. history that it would be coming 'over the next couple of weeks.'
Owners of the devices will reportedly have 90 days to turn in or destroy them, the rule will say.
The Trump administration is preparing to ban bump stocks through a change in federal regulatory rules
Owners of the devices will reportedly have 90 days to turn in or destroy them, the rule will say
Trump said he would outlaw the devices that allow approved firearms to mimic machine guns after the Las Vegas massacre 14 months ago, but it has taken until now for the proposed rule to make its way through the regulatory process.
He told reporters his administration was in the 'final stages' of the rule-making process during a Rose Garden news conference at the beginning of October.
He predicted that it would be wrapped up in the next two to three weeks.
'Bump stocks are gone. But to do that, you have to go to public hearings, which we have had,' he explained. 'You have to go through all sorts of regulatory control systems.'
That regulatory process was still dragging out nearly two months later at the end of November.
A Justice Department official told CNN that the regulatory rewrite is almost finished, though. 'This final
