In October 2017 , after the Las Vegas mass shooting , Nelson and Dianne Feinstein sponsored a bill to ban bump stocks for assault weapons . " I 'm a hunter and have owned guns my whole life , " he said . " But these automatic weapons are not for hunting , they are for killing . " Nelson spread misinformation via Twitter after the Parkland shooting , falsely claiming that shooter Nikolas Cruz wore a gas mask and tossed smoke grenades as he shot people . After an April 2018 shooting in Liberty City , Nelson claimed that assault weapons had been used in the shooting , when in fact handguns were used
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