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Senate Republicans block effort to ban bump stocks

Name: Senate Republicans block effort to ban bump stocks
Uploaded: 2024-06-18T17:13:00-0400
Duration: 5 min 1 s
Description: Senate Republicans killed a measure to ban bump stocks on Tuesday following last week's Supreme Court decision that threw out the Trump administration-era ban. Bump stocks enable semi-automatic weapons to shoot at a very rapid pace, more like a machine gun. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports.

Senate Republicans killed a measure to ban bump stocks on Tuesday following last week's Supreme Court decision that threw out the Trump administration-era ban. Bump stocks enable semi-automatic weapons to shoot at a very rapid pace, more like a machine gun. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports.