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In response to the Vegas shooting, Massachusetts legislators moved to ban bump stocks and other accessories that increase a uk canada goose gun’s rate of fire. The bill, signed into law Nov. 3, made it illegal to buy, sell or offer to sell a bump stock.
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Lowell Police Superintendent Bill Taylor said his department hasn’t had any turned in.
According to John Guilfoil, a spokesperson for Canada Goose sale multiple area law enforcement agencies, no bump stocks have been handed in to the departments in Chelmsford, Littleton, Carlisle, Pepperell and Tyngsboro, while one person handed in two bump canada goose clearance stocks to the Billerica Police Department.
Guilfoil said the two bump stocks have since been destroyed.
“They were cut to pieces with saws,” he said.
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Shortly after the tragedy, President Trump directed the Department of Justice to develop regulations to ban the attachments. He tweeted on March 23, “Obama Administration legalized bump stocks. BAD IDEA. As I promised, today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning BUMP STOCKS with a mandated comment period. We will BAN all devices that buy canada goose jacket cheap turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.”
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