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Delaware Takes in 31 Bump Stocks in Buyback Program

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As the deadline approaches for a ban on bump stocks in Delaware a state buyback program has received nearly three dozen of the devices.

Thirty-one of them and a trigger crank turned into official this month at a cost of just over $31-hundred dollars.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst called the haul “a success”.

The Delaware Democrat was the prime mover behind getting the devices off the street.

They are used to convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automatic weapons.

They were used to kill 58 people at a concert in Las Vegas.

Each of the state’s three counties held buyback events with the state paying $100 for each bump stock and $15 for each trigger crank.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.