Let's review the SCOTUS decision on bump stocks...

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Parents: ban them.
Teachers: ban them.
Concert goers: ban them.
Gun experts: ban them - please.
Vast majority of gun owners: ban them!
General public: ban them!
Victims of gun violence: ban them!
Trump: I agree. Let's ban them!

SCOTUS: ...nah.

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(PB Deplorables: [scanning right-fringe media to learn what a bump stock is.])
 
The Trump administration got it wrong. SCOTUS explains the obvious: A bump stock doesn’t turn a semiautomatic into a machine gun. Congress can change the law if it wants to.
 
Parents: ban them.
Teachers: ban them.
Concert goers: ban them.
Gun experts: ban them - please.
Vast majority of gun owners: ban them!
General public: ban them!
Victims of gun violence: ban them!
Trump: I agree. Let's ban them!

SCOTUS: ...nah.

🙄

(PB Deplorables: [scanning right-fringe media to learn what a bump stock is.])
Only congress can legally ban them. I’m sure states that want them to disappear will craft a way to make them disappear.
 
The Trump administration got it wrong. SCOTUS explains the obvious: A bump stock doesn’t turn a semiautomatic into a machine gun. Congress can change the law if it wants to.
Exactly, the scotus has this correctly .... the "murder button" holds the sear and releases it every cycle.... the bump stock doesn't hold the sear "open" just allows the recoil and inertia to cycle the "murder button" ...... thus pissing away expensive, difficult to obtain ammunition..... imho on the same level of 800 hp engines in L.A. traffic each to his/her/they /them own.... including the glock switch ......
 
Only congress can legally ban them. I’m sure states that want them to disappear will craft a way to make them disappear.
They can try. Only congress can change the definition on the federal level.

Fully half the SFB's posting in this thread have NO clue what this is about.
 
Exactly, the scotus has this correctly .... the "murder button" holds the sear and releases it every cycle.... the bump stock doesn't hold the sear "open" just allows the recoil and inertia to cycle the "murder button" ...... thus pissing away expensive, difficult to obtain ammunition..... imho on the same level of 800 hp engines in L.A. traffic each to his/her/they /them own.... including the glock switch ......
I believe the courts were more concerned about the ATF changing the nomenclature of a bump stock as to create a false narrative, to classify a bump stock as a mechanism, as part of the physical attributes of a weapon like that of an AR-15 changing the weapon to an m-4 machine gun allowing the ATF to render bump stocks illegal on the premise it converted an AR-15 into a machine gun. A bump stock is an external device that exist outside the weapon itself. The increased cyclic rate of fire is not the issue. I agree with your narrative. imho
 
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They can try. Only congress can change the definition on the federal level.

Fully half the SFB's posting in this thread have NO clue what this is about.
I live in MA / they made AR-15s illegal just by wording the law in such a way.
 
This decision is also an indication of what you look forward to from this court. The decision is based on the fact that only congress can make law. The administrative branch is charged with enforcement only. This is a preview of what's going to happen to Chevron Deference and the other cases where the administration has tried to create law.
 
It doesn't matter what tortured logic the gun lobby went through to justify this, we all know the purpose of bump stocks.

It doesn't matter if the accuracy of the gun is destroyed, what's important is that Meal Team 6 can spray off the maximum number of rounds in the shortest possible time.
 
It doesn't matter what tortured logic the gun lobby went through to justify this, we all know the purpose of bump stocks.

It doesn't matter if the accuracy of the gun is destroyed, what's important is that Meal Team 6 can spray off the maximum number of rounds in the shortest possible time.
No 'tortured' logic at all. Straight up constitution stuff that even the village idiot can understand based on a very simple rule - The Administrative Branch cannot make law................period.
 
No 'tortured' logic at all. Straight up constitution stuff that even the village idiot can understand based on a very simple rule - The Administrative Branch cannot make law................period.
Except if your name is Von Schitzinpants and you want to ban Muslims.

Of course, the SCOTUS could have confirmed the decision and made it law. That's their job after all, the Judiciary.
 
Except if your name is Von Schitzinpants and you want to ban Muslims.

Of course, the SCOTUS could have confirmed the decision and made it law. That's their job after all, the Judiciary.
And if congress had made the law they would have upheld it.

You really are one dumb fuck. :rolleyes:
 
Exactly, the scotus has this correctly .... the "murder button" holds the sear and releases it every cycle.... the bump stock doesn't hold the sear "open" just allows the recoil and inertia to cycle the "murder button" ...... thus pissing away expensive, difficult to obtain ammunition..... imho on the same level of 800 hp engines in L.A. traffic each to his/her/they /them own.... including the glock switch ......
Interesting terminology. So you're admitting what the button, and therefore the gun, is for. It's not called the "self-defense" or "anti-tyranny" button, is it?
 
Congress had all political capital to make this into law and chose to throw it to 45. And this is the result.

Dysfunction in Congress is the issue
 

Now the Republicans are on record voting against or blocking contraceptives, IVF and outlawing bump stocks.

Hopefully the Democrats will force them to go on record on more issues before November.
 
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