Las Vegas shooting survivors alarmed by Supreme Court's bump stock ruling

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Las Vegas shooting survivors express alarm after Supreme Court strikes down ban on bump stocks for firearms.

Survivors of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas and families who received somber calls hours later said they were alarmed when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a ban on the gun attachment used by the gunman who rattled off over 1,000 bullets in 11 minutes. The Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a rapid-fire accessory that allows a rate of fire comparable to that of machine guns, was nixed in a 6-3 majority opinion announced Friday.

Amid ricocheting bullets and the screams, Bartlett helped load her friend into an ambulance, and she survived. “I’m not telling you that you can’t get a gun,' said Bartlett, but “why does anyone need a bump stock? Why does it need to be legal? People don’t use them for hunting, or in law enforcement.” “These guns that are able to shoot way more because these bump stocks give you the power to do that. Nobody needs this stuff. It is absolutely ridiculous,” she said.

 

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