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This case concerned bump-stocks on guns and their definition as “machinegun” which are regulated by ATF. Today, the majority SCOTUS threw-out the federal ban on “bump stocks,” those awesome devices that allow owners of semiautomatic rifles, which fire a single round with each pull of the trigger, to convert the rifles into real bullet hoses with a rate of fire of hundreds of rounds a minute, just like a machine gun! Justice Thomas wrote the majority opinion with Sotomayor writing the dissent. When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. A bump-stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle fires ‘automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger’ … Because I, like Congress, call that a machine gun, I respectfully dissent.
- Justice Sotomayor Defining a machine gun by emphasizing the trigger pull – one pull, one shot vs. one pull, many shots – has been outdated for decades. The bump stock intentionally exploits that. Clarence Thomas was nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court because of his political beliefs and because he was African American, not his legal acumen. This is just one more in a long line of cases where the right-wing radicals on SCOTUS strike down government efforts to protect human life, protect the planet, and protect us from corruption in government and business. These conservative SCOTUS judges don’t like government regulation - and they certainly don’t care about your life, your liberty, or your pursuit of happiness.
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This case concerned bump-stocks on guns and their definition as “machinegun” which are regulated by ATF. Today, the majority SCOTUS threw-out the federal ban on “bump stocks,” those awesome devices that allow owners of semiautomatic rifles, which fire a single round with each pull of the trigger, to convert the rifles into real bullet hoses with a rate of fire of hundreds of rounds a minute, just like a machine gun! Justice Thomas wrote the majority opinion with Sotomayor writing the dissent. When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. A bump-stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle fires ‘automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger’ … Because I, like Congress, call that a machine gun, I respectfully dissent.
- Justice Sotomayor Defining a machine gun by emphasizing the trigger pull – one pull, one shot vs. one pull, many shots – has been outdated for decades. The bump stock intentionally exploits that. Clarence Thomas was nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court because of his political beliefs and because he was African American, not his legal acumen. This is just one more in a long line of cases where the right-wing radicals on SCOTUS strike down government efforts to protect human life, protect the planet, and protect us from corruption in government and business. These conservative SCOTUS judges don’t like government regulation - and they certainly don’t care about your life, your liberty, or your pursuit of happiness. Maybe I'll buy multiple bump stocks in anticipation of Capitol Insurrection II and when the time comes, I'll give them away to anyone interested in countering the New Insurrection Attempt.
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