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To: fireman15

You are missing the point. Are you comfortable with the fact that a regulatory agency has arbitrarily made a change in federal law, i.e. the definition of a machine gun? Machine guns are prcisely defined by law, and changes to that law MUST be made by congress. Another equally egregious issue here is the fact that owners of bump fire stocks are faced with the choice of either destroying or turning in their stocks to the feral government or become a felon. Notice that they will receive no compensation for having their personal property confiscated.

You may not be losing sleep over these issues because you don’t like these stocks, but you sure as hell should be losing sleep over the fact that what we have here is a wholesale violation of the Constitution, and it is depressingly likely that the feral government will get away with it, as the courts have so far simply ignored the issues raised in the lawsuits.

As a side note I do not and have never owned a bumpfire stock, even though I own enough AR15s that I could not give you an exact count without consulting my inventory sheets or searching my safe(s). I have no personal animus against them, I simply have no place where they could be conveniently used, and other than using one on a .22 AR or possibly a 9mm, ammo is too expensive to waste.


68 posted on 03/29/2019 12:50:53 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: allblues

At this time the justices on the Supreme Court do not seem to feel that this issue is the “wholesale violation” of the constitution that you believe that it is. If President Trump gets a second term and is able to appoint a couple more actual conservatives to the court, maybe the majority would find this regulatory action “unconstitutional”. Currently, there is not much of a chance that they would.

All the exaggeration and hand wringing is not going to convince any of the current justices to change their mind. That is just not how it works. You can choose to live in some type of fantasy world and continue to believe that the current Supreme Court is going to hear someone’s lawsuit on this and reverse the action. I am just telling you that it is not likely until after Ginsburg drops over dead and Sotomayor goes into a diabetic coma and has permanent brain damage.


70 posted on 03/29/2019 10:01:27 PM PDT by fireman15
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