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The inspiration for a popular but controversial accessory that allows semi-automatic rifles to fire like machine guns began with an itch.

Jeremiah Cottle had just recovered from a brain injury that cut short his Air Force career and was out shooting with a friend near his hometown in central Texas.

“We weren’t able to fire as fast as we wanted,” Cottle recalled in a 2011 interview with a local newspaper, The Albany News in Texas. “We couldn’t afford what we wanted ─ a fully automatic rifle ─ so I started to think about how I could make something that would work and be affordable.”

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Image: Semiautomatic Gun A bump stock device is shown next to a disassembled .22-caliber rifle in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2013. Allen Breed / AP file

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https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/las-vegas-shooting/vet-whose-bump-stock-turns-gun-machine-gun-n807576

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