Senate Democrats tried Tuesday to pass a federal ban on “bump stocks” that allow rifles to mimic the pace of automatic gunfire, but Nebraska Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts blocked the procedural move and said the bill went too far.
The unanimous consent request came less than a week after conservative justices on the Supreme Court threw out a Trump administration rule that banned the device, which was used in a 2017 mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas.
It remains the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
