WPRO News and The Associated Press
Rhode Island has joined its neighbors in banning devices that enable semi-automatic weapons to mimic a fully automatic one.
Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo signed the bump stock ban bill Friday. Raimondo also signed a “red flag” bill that will allow law enforcement to request orders to temporarily remove guns from people it deems dangerous.
“It’s a terrible thing when kindergarteners know what a lock down drill is,” said Raimondo, during a signing ceremony at the State House rotunda, moved indoors due to threatening weather.
Raimondo says the bills are common-sense measures that will make Rhode Island safer.
The proposals cleared the last hurdle in the General Assembly on Thursday. Lawmakers in Connecticut enacted a bump stock ban Thursday. Massachusetts did so last year.
Bump stocks were used in the shooting at a Las Vegas concert that left 58 people dead.
Florida, Maryland and Vermont have also passed red flag laws since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
