New York Daily News

Bump biz peddles Vegas slay device for Cyber Monday

- BY TERENCE CULLEN

THE COMPANY behind the bump stock is offering Cyber Monday deals — just eight weeks after the device was used in the Las Vegas massacre that killed 58 people.

The Slide Fire Solutions website began listing limited supplies of the relatively cheap addons, which make semiautoma­tic guns practicall­y automatic.

The sale, which began at midnight central time, offered “a wide variety of products” on the bargain-heavy online shopping day, according to a promotion obtained by a reporter with The Guardian.

Slide Fire was again selling $150 to $330 bump stocks for AR-15 rifles, along with $160 to $330 accessorie­s for AK-47s, on its website Monday.

The Cyber Monday blitz marks just the second time the Texas-based Slide Fire, whose founder invented the device, has sold the bump stock since the Oct. 1 shooting.

Several rifles found inside gunman Stephen Paddock’s suite at Mandalay Bay Resorts and Hotel were outfitted with the device.

The bump stocks allowed Paddock, who later killed himself, to fire so rapidly on the Route 91 Harvest festival.

Five hundred people were wounded in the shooting in what became the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Slide Fire couldn’t be reached for comment on Monday.

The company halted sales of the devices in the days after the carnage, when lawmakers agreed the bump stock should be banned under federal law.

But momentum for that legislatio­n has since stalled, as states and cities pass their own measures to outlaw the killer addon.

Massachuse­tts in early November became the first state since the Las Vegas shooting to ban it.

It was around the same time that Slide Fire briefly resumed selling the bump stocks.

The company emailed customers that two models would be sold in limited quantities on Nov. 6.

Slide Fire founder Jeremiah Cottle invented the bump stock. The Air Force veteran told the Ammoland website last year he invented the device out of his love of “shooting full auto.”

The Cyber Monday news comes after a spike on sales on Black Friday.

The FBI was hit with a record 203,000 background checks for gun sales requests the day after Thanksgivi­ng, the most it ever received in a single day.

The volume suggests even more guns were sold on the unofficial retail holiday, because background checks can cover multiple firearms sold at once.

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