State Rep. Anthony DeLuca, D-Chicago Heights, signed on as a co-sponsor to House Bill 1420 that would prohibit the import, sales, manufacture, transfer or possession of bump fire stocks.
The bill would make it a felony to possess such modification devices.
Police say bump stocks enabled gunman Stephen Paddock to convert his semi-automatic weapons rate of fire to a speed similar to a fully-automatic weapon.
“In the recent Las Vegas shooting, the gunman…
