State patrol collects 1,000 banned bump stocks in buyback

OLYMPIA — Owners of 1,000 bump stocks will be getting $150 apiece from taxpayers for their outlawed firearm accessories.

Those owners turned theirs over to the Washington State Patrol during four days of buybacks that ended midday Monday.

Several dozen others probably wish they had acted earlier. They arrived in the afternoon with their bump stocks only to learn the agency had stopped issuing payment vouchers because it had committed all of the program’s $150,000 allotment.

Nonetheless, those devices were taken and will be destroyed, said agency spokesman Chris Loftis.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, a nationwide ban on the making, selling and possessing of the attachments took effect after Chief Justice John Roberts refused to put the prohibition on hold while it’s litigated.

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