Bump-stocks are not the only rifle modification that can simulate automatic fire

Following Sunday’s shooting in Las Vegas, many have been talking about banning the bump-stock.

The BATF taking heat for approving the bump-stock seven years ago in 2010. The approval letter from the BATF said: “The bump-stock is a firearm part, and is not regulated as a firearm.”

The device was never a secret. It’s been available and easily found online since it was approved.

The ATF said Tuesday the Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock, had modified 12 guns with bump-stocks.

This week, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet co-sponsored the Automatic Gun Fire Protection Act.

“it’s about stopping more people like the Las Vegas killer from modifying his rifles to become almost fully automatic,” Bennet said.

But the bump-stock isn’t the only device that can make a rifle simulate automatic fire.

Both the Franklin Armory Binary Trigger and the Fostech Echo Trigger can simulate automatic fire with a bullet shot by both pulling and releasing the trigger.

KRDO NewsChannel 13 found the ATF’s approval letter for the Echo Trigger. It says the device was approved because the device wasn’t “designed and intended for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun.”

Right now, these trigger devices aren’t listed in the “Automatic Gun Fire Prevention Act” the proposed ban on bump-stocks, slide fire devices and “other similar accessories.”

These trigger devices that haven’t been talked about yet likely will be, as the debate heats up over what to do with these gun modifications.