‘Bump stock’ videos banned by Youtube after Vegas shooting

YOUTUBE has banned videos that show how to adapt guns to make them more deadly following the mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left 58 dead.

The video sharing site deleted content explaining how to make guns fire more rapidly using a device called a “bump stock” following the news that Stephen Paddock had converted his weapon in this way.

A bump stock increases the number of bullets a rifle can fire by adapting it so it can automatically re-fire. Until this week, Youtube users could learn how to add the modification to a gun through videos on its platform.

Such modifications are legal in the US, whereas automatic weapons are not.