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U.S. NEWS Thursday 19 april 2018

Largest maker of bump stocks

will stop accepting orders

This July 12, 2017, file photo shows the cover of an issue of the
National Enquirer featuring President Donald Trump at a store
in New York.
Associated Press
Ex-Playboy model

settles lawsuit over

alleged Trump affair

By MICHAEL BALSAMO filed a lawsuit in Los Ange-
Associated Press les asking to invalidate the In this Oct. 4, 2017, file photo, shooting instructor Frankie McRae demonstrates the grip on an AR-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A for- contract, which she said 15 rifle fitted with a “bump stock” at his 37 PSR Gun Club in Bunnlevel, N.C. Associated Press
mer Playboy model who she was misled into signing.
said she had a 10-month The suit alleged that the By MICHAEL BALSAMO About a dozen bump against Slide Fire after the
affair with President Don- company didn’t publish Associated Press stocks were found among Las Vegas mass shooting
ald Trump settled her law- the story because AMI’s LOS ANGELES (AP) — The the weapons used by Ste- and alleged that the com-
suit Wednesday with a su- owner, David Pecker, is largest manufacturer of phen Paddock when he pany “provided a product
permarket tabloid over an “close personal friends” bump stocks, which allow unleashed a hail of bullets that turned a semi-auto-
agreement that prohibited with Trump. It also charged semi-automatic weap- from his high-rise Las Vegas matic gun into the func-
her from discussing the re- that Trump’s attorney, Mi- ons to fire rapidly like hotel suite, killing 58 people tional equivalent of a ma-
lationship publicly. chael Cohen, had inap- automatic firearms, an- and leaving more than 800 chine gun, thereby evad-
Karen McDougal’s settle- propriately intervened and nounced Wednesday that others injured. ing longstanding federal
ment with the company was in secretly involved in it will stop taking orders and Slide Fire Solutions, which law.” The Justice Depart-
that owns the National En- discussions with AMI ex- shut down its website next is based in Moran, Texas, ment said last month that
quirer “restores to me the ecutives about the agree- month. The announcement posted a message on its it had started the process
rights to my life story and ment. comes about a month af- website saying the compa- to amend federal firearms
frees me from this contract Federal agents raided Co- ter President Donald Trump ny will stop taking orders at regulations to clarify that
that I was misled into sign- hen’s office and residence said his administration midnight on May 20. federal law defines bump
ing nearly two years ago,” last week seeking any in- would “ban” bump stocks, There was no immediate stocks as machine guns.
she said in a statement formation on payments which he said “turn legal response to a request for That would reverse a 2010
Wednesday. made in 2016 to McDougal weapons into illegal ma- comment sent through decision by the Bureau of
In August 2016, the tab- and porn actress Stormy chines.” Slide Fire’s website and the Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire-
loid’s parent company, Daniels, according to peo- The devices became a fo- company’s founder and arms and Explosives that
American Media Inc., paid ple familiar with the inves- cal point of the national CEO, Jeremiah Cottle, did found bump stocks did not
McDougal $150,000 for the tigation but not authorized gun control debate when not immediately respond amount to machine guns
rights to her story about the to discuss it publicly. Dan- they were used in October to a LinkedIn message and could not be regulat-
alleged relationship, but iels has said she had a sex- when a man carried out seeking comment. ed unless Congress amend-
the story never ran. ual encounter with Trump the deadliest mass shoot- The Brady Center for Gun ed existing firearms law or
Last month, McDougal in 2006. q ing in modern U.S. history. Violence filed a lawsuit passed a new one.q