The House Judiciary Committee passed three more gun control bills Wednesday, including one that will ban another offensive weapon- bump stock devices.

The committee passed twin bills to require Pennsylvania courts and mental health providers to send relevant mental health data to the Pennsylvania State Police within 72 hours, reducing the timeline from seven days. One amends the Mental Health Procedures Act while the other amends the Uniform Firearms Act so that the language is consistent in both documents.

Only one vote decided the fate of the other two bills, regarding the banned list of weapons and background checks for long guns or rifles.

House Bill 1872 adds to the list of prohibited offensive weapons by banning parts that will accelerate the rate of fire of a semi-automatic firearm. Termed as accelerated trigger activator or bump stock, those parts will join the current law that forbids bombs, grenades, machine guns and others.

The parts, when attached to a gun, became a machine gun, a banned offensive weapon.

Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Montgomery, recalled the October 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, where one gunman opened fire at a concert, leaving 58 dead and over 800 injured. She said these parts alter a firearm to act as a machine gun.

"Up to 800 rounds in a minute can be sprayed into an unsuspecting crowd, and we saw that in Las Vegas," she said. "And, no one needs that device."

The bill, if and when enacted, would not apply to people already in possession of those parts.

Firearms Owners Against Crime, founded by Kim Stolfer, is a registered political action committee who defends the right to bear arms and is against the bill, referred to by Stolfer as a travesty.

"Where do you stop with banning things you don't think citizens should have?" Stolfer said. "Because if being misused is the guide post with which you act in the legislature, you are dooming us to banning everything because somebody, somewhere soon will misuse every item we have in our homes."

He calls legislators ignorant of the terms in the law, which he said is further reaching and causes unintended consequences.

Stolfer referred to an inconsistent use of terms, including saying multi-burst trigger activators in the bill memo, changing it to accelerated trigger activator and interchanging it with bump stock. He calls both multi-burst and accelerated trigger activators made up terms not found in the firearms glossary of terms.

However, Dean accounts the language of the bill to data and information from a number of experts.

The bump stock, which the bill seeks to ban, is the use of a recoil to fire shots rapidly in succession in order to stimulate the rate of fire.

Massachusetts, New Jersey and Washington enacted laws to prohibit bump stock devices and more than 20 other states either have considered or are considering bump stock bans, says the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Stolfer noted other problems as ambiguity with definitions to an acceleration of the rate of fire.

Dean said the language is clear, though, which defines the acceleration of the rate of fire to that of a machine gun.

But, of all problems, Stolfer said the greatest is that there is no benefit.

"Can't I use a gallon of gas to do the same thing in Parkland and kill a lot more kids?" Stolfer said, after calling it a rhetorical debate that has no merit. "We don't look at what a person can do wrong; it's the criminal act we hold them accountable for. We have lost sight of what it means to be just in this country."

Dean says the bill would prevent events like the Las Vegas mass shooting, quoting law enforcement veteran Rep. Dom Costa, D-Allegheny, who said no police officer wants a civilian to be carrying the equivalent of a machine gun.

"Do you want civilians using bump stock in society?" Dean asked of critics who she said are deflecting the issue by stressing over semantics.

Of the series of gun safety bills discussed Tuesday and Wednesday, House Bill 1400 was the only bill that failed to come out of committee. It asked for the private sale of long guns to be subject to the same background requirements for the private sale of handguns.

Legislation on firearms also won a battle in the war on gun violence Tuesday when the House Judiciary Committee passed five gun safety bills.

In the continuing war, several groups say they aren't anti-gun, but are wounded by gun violence and call for a change.

Mothers in Charge, Inc., a non-profit organization acting as the voice for victims of violence-mostly homicide, was founded by Dorothy Johnson-Speight after losing her 24-year old son Khaaliq, who was shot repeatedly following a dispute over a parking spot.

Other grieving mothers, like Lisa Burhannan, the Harrisburg chapter coordinator, joined after the decision to turn her anger around instead of letting her son's death take her into a deep hole of depression.

Burhannan said nine years ago, on June 21, 2009, police chased her son and his friend into an alleyway after a vehicle pursuit where they considered them armed and dangerous. According to Burhannan, the police said her son committed suicide, but she thinks police murdered him.

"He hadn't even lived the best years of his life," she said. "It's heartbreaking. I deal with it every day. There's never no closure, but you learn how to deal with it."

The organization believes in the gun rights of responsible gun owners, rash, irresponsible individuals make it hard for everyone, says Burhannan.

In losing a child to gun violence, she said "it could have been avoided."