GOP/GUNS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans said Tuesday [10-3-17] they don’t expect legislation that would make it easier to buy gun silencers to come to the House floor in the aftermath of this week’s shooting in Las Vegas.
Some Democrats, meanwhile, pushed to end the sale of ‘bump stocks,’ devices that increase the rate of fire on a semiautomatic rifle. Law-enforcement officials said the Las Vegas gunman had at least one of his guns outfitted with such a device…
A White House official, in an interview Tuesday, said the shooting isn’t likely to soften Mr. Trump’s pro-gun-rights position. The official said it is also important to let the Las Vegas investigation play out…
GOP lawmakers had expected a bill including a provision expediting the sale of silencers, also known as suppressors, to come to the House floor later this month. But after Sunday night’s deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, Republicans said they no longer expected the legislation, which was approved by the House Natural Resources Committee last month, to come up for a full House vote.”
-Kristina Peterson, “House Republicans Say Legislation on Gun Silencers Unlikely to Move Ahead,” The Wall Street Journal online, Oct. 3, 3017 07:25pm