--- title: Las Vegas Shooting: NRA Wants to Regulate Bump Stocks description: The National Rifle Association is requesting a federal review of bump stocks, a gun accessory used during the Las Vegas shooting. canonical: https://time.com/4971255/bump-stocks-nra/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-05T20:01:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:55:41.795Z article:section: Politics og:title: The NRA Wants to Regulate 'Bump Stock' Gun Accessories. 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Paul Ryan: We Need to Learn More About Bump Stocks_  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Oct 5, 2017 8:01 PM UTC Paul Ryan: We Need to Learn More About Bump Stocks  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Oct 5, 2017 8:01 PM UTC The National Rifle Association says it’s open to new regulations on [“bump stocks,”](http://time.com/4970720/bump-stocks-ban-how-work/) a gun accessory reportedly used by the shooter in the [recent massacre in Las Vegas](http://time.com/4965896/las-vegas-shooting-victims-names/). Bump stocks can greatly increase a weapon’s rate of fire, enabling a semi-automatic rifle to function more like a fully automatic one. “The National Rifle Association is calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law,” the NRA’s statement reads. The statement is among the NRA’s first formal responses to the Oct. 1 shooting, which the group characterized as an “evil and senseless attack.” Read the full statement below: --- > “” --- ## Transcript [00:00] I did not know about [ INAUDIBLE ] until this week. So I [00:03] think a lot us are coming up to speed, and I am [00:04] average sportsman. So a lot of us are coming up to [00:07] speed just what this is. But having said that, fully [00:11] automatic weapons have been outlawed for many [00:14] many years. This seems to be a way of going around [00:17] that So obviously we need to look how at we can [00:21] tighten up the compliance with this law, so [00:25] that fully automatic weapons are banned. We all have [00:27] to get more educated as to what these are, how [00:31] they became available in the first place. Was it a [00:35] regulatory misstep by ATF some number of years ago? [00:39] And we all know and believe that fully auto [00:43] weapons are illegal. 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