The Illinois House turned aside efforts to ban bump stocks, a gun modification that allows a user to operate a firearm in nearly automatic fashion. Bump stocks have been in the crosshairs of gun control advocates since the Las Vegas mass shooting. Jacksonville Republican C.D. Davidsmeier described the legislation as rushed and under-researched.
Davidsmeier gives little credence to talk of a bump stock ban making Illinoisans safer.
The bump stocks vote failed 54-48.
