REP. TITUS RELEASES STATEMENT FOLLOWING SUPREME COURT RULING ON BUMP STOCKS

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“I am appalled at the Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the years-long ban on bump stock devices. In siding with a far-fetched challenge to the ATF rule, conservatives on the Court are allowing these destructive devices to return to our streets. This ruling hits home for many communities that have been impacted by gun violence caused by rapid fire gun accessories, including District One. To this day, the Route 91 massacre in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, remains the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Let me be clear that the level of carnage we saw was enabled by bump stocks.

This is a setback, to say the very least, for an issue especially close to my district, but I will never stop fighting to keep these devices away from our communities. Congress must pass my Closing the Bump Stock Loophole Act to codify the ATF ruling, legislatively treat bump stocks as machine guns, and ban them once and for all.”

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