Massachusetts Becomes 1st State To Ban Bump Stocks After Las Vegas Massacre
The restriction was added to a budget bill Thursday and was signed into law with minimal dissent on Friday.
Republican Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito of Massachusetts signed a bill Friday, approved one day earlier by the state's Democrat-led Legislature, outlawing so-called bump stocks, accessories that allow semi-automatic firearms to mimic the rapid firing action of machine guns.
Massachusetts is the first state to enact a ban on bump stocks in the wake of last month's shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.
Authorities say the gunman
