GOP rep: ATF should re-evaluate bump stocks

Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.) in an interview broadcast Sunday said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) should re-evaluate bump stocks in the wake of last week’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.

“I think that should be re-evaluated,” Taylor told ABC News’s “This Week” during an interview focusing on gun legislation with Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.).

“I’m not willing to impede on someone’s rights just because of emotional rhetoric,” Taylor said in the interview. 

{mosads}The conversation between the two congressmen comes amid an ongoing debate on the bump stock devices, which were found in the hotel room of the suspected Las Vegas shooter after the attack. The device can be used to increase the rate of fire in semi-automatic weapons.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) last week said bump stocks “should be subject to additional regulations,” though it stopped short of calling for new legislation on guns.

“The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations,” the NRA said in a joint statement from CEO Wayne LaPierre and executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action Chris Cox. 

The ATF in 2010 declared that bump stocks were considered a part and did not require regulation like a weapon.