Texas Bump Stock Producer Announces May Shutdown

MORAN, TX — In a small, West Texas town of only a few hundred sits Slide Fire Solutions, the nation's biggest producer of bump stocks — the device that allows semi-automatic rifles to mimic the rapid fire of a fully-automatic gun.

The producer's website said the website will shut down on May 20 and that no more orders will be received. "Orders placed prior to May 20th, 2018 will all be processed and shipped. Enter your email below if you'd like to stay updated on any future news. We thank you for your support."

Bump Stocks were used to modify guns in one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings in Las Vegas in October 2017. The shots fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino left 58 dead.

The shutdown comes less than two months after the Department of Justice proposed a plan to ban bump stocks.

"We've had to deal with previous ATF legal opinions, but our top people in the Department of Justice have believed for some time that we can, through regulatory process, not allow the bump stock to convert a weapon from semiautomatic to fully automatic," Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a gathering of state attorneys general.

The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms approved bump stocks in 2010 after deciding they didn't amount to machine guns, which are prohibited under federal laws.

The ATF approved bump stocks in 2010, finding they didn't amount to machine guns, which are outlawed under federal firearms law.

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