Legislature watering down gun control bill
(WorldNews Politics)

CARSON CITY — A Democrat-sponsored omnibus gun control bill, this session’s main legislative response to the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting that killed 58 people, is getting reworked to eliminate provisions deemed too divisive and politically risky for some lawmakers. In exchange for removing the bill’s controversial provision — ending the state’s ban on localities enacting their own gun laws, known as pre-emption — the bill would add so-called “red-flag” proscriptions, allowing authorities to seize weapons from people deemed a threat to commit violence. It would retain key language that bans bump stocks — add-ons to semiautomatic weapons...