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NRA Backs ‘Additional Regulations’ for ‘Bump Stock’ Device Used in Vegas Massacre

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Modification device helps convert a semi-automatic weapon into a fully automatic one.

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The National Rifle Association on Thursday issued a statement that the organization believes certain modifying devices that allow a semi-automatic gun to function as a fully automatic weapon, like the “bump stock” used by the Las Vegas shooter, “should be subject to additional regulations.”

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