Posted on 06/14/2024 7:25:32 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN
The US supreme court has struck down a federal ban on “bump stocks”, the devices which can vamp up semi-automatic firearms to discharge ammunition almost as rapidly as machine guns and that have been behind some of the most devastating mass shootings in recent history.
The top court’s ruling in Garland v Cargill nullifies the Trump administration’s 2018 regulation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) which ordered anyone who owned a bump stock to destroy it or hand it over to federal agents. The rule was passed in the after the devastating 2017 mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas, in which a gunman fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people and injuring almost 500.
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I think there was more than one shooter as well. The old man was a patsy. There is no way that he carried all the contents of the hotel room up by himself. An AR-15 with a bump stock doing magazine dumps is going to overheat the barrel quickly. It had to be a more substantial rifle built for sustained full-auto.
If you watch the complete video the first burst is one continuous burst of way more than 30 rounds. Later you can hear two different guns being fired at the same time.
I thought they found live rounds, shell casings, magazines - even a pistol lying on the ground around the concert venue. Some victims had bullet wounds with horizontal trajectories, suggesting they weren’t shot by someone firing downwards from the Mandalay Bay. Whatever happened, they’re lying to us about it.
Direct link to the decision itself:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-976_e29g.pdf
It is fairly short as these things go.
To the best of my knowledge, no. Not at the Supreme Court level. The only case directly challenging section 922; is US vs. Miller, a case where the U.S. government lied to the court through omission of very pertinent facts regarding the use of sawed-off shotguns during WWI.
I think it is pretty clear at this point that the government was directly involved.
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