Utah’s biggest gun advocates believe the ban on bump stocks announced Tuesday by the Trump administration — a little more than a year after a gunman used one to massacre 58 people in Las Vegas — infringes on their civil liberties and will do little to stop any future mass shootings.
“They were just looking for a scapegoat,” said Clark Aposhian, chairman of the Utah Shooting Sports Council and one of the state’s staunchest Second Amendment lobbyists. “And they found one.”
Bump stocks alter semi-automatic rifles to fire in quick bursts like a machine gun.