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Posted on 06/16/2024 6:59:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob
The six Republican justices handed down a decision on Friday that effectively legalizes civilian ownership of automatic weapons. All three of the Court’s Democrats dissented.
The Court’s decision in Garland v. Cargill involves bump stocks, devices that allow ordinary semiautomatic weapons that can legally be owned by civilians to automatically fire, much like a machine gun designed for that purpose. Bump stocks cause a semiautomatic gun’s trigger to buck against the shooter’s finger, repeatedly “bumping” the trigger and making the gun rapidly fire.
A semiautomatic weapon refers to a gun that loads a bullet into the chamber or otherwise prepares itself to fire again after discharging a bullet, but that will not fire a second bullet until the shooter pulls the trigger a second time. An automatic weapon, by contrast, will fire a continuous stream of bullets.
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor notes in her dissent, the Trump administration decided to ban bump stocks after a shooter opened fire on a music festival in Las Vegas in 2017, killing 58 people and wounding over 500 in a matter of minutes. The shooter used bump stocks to kill so many people so quickly.
A 1986 law makes it a crime to own a “machinegun,” and the Trump administration determined that this law is broad enough to encompass bump stocks. That law defines a “machinegun” to include “any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.”
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I know this sounds like a big deal, but people who know what they are doing can make bumps stocks using rubber bands.
Get a grip, Ian. And a clue.
Hogwash!
You can tell the author of this article would most likely be terrified of a Red Ryder BB Gun.
The shooter used bump stocks to kill so many people so quickly.
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We have not seen the truth on that incident yet.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4240672/posts
covered it.
I downloaded it. It is still up on rumble.
Lots of coverup.
I would much prefer someone trying to shoot me with a 2-3 second burst of automatic fire, then to hunt me down and fire off 30 precise shots as I try to escape or hide.
Lies. The trigger is pulled for each round
First off, machine guns are not illegal. Second, a butt stock that can be put on a pistol or rifle is not a machine gun, it’s a butt stock.
Which weapons are automatic?
I’ll wait.
Wow, so many factual errors in one brief bit of writing. Intended as fear-mongering, I suppose.
“Lies. The trigger is pulled for each round”
Yes, and it’s even harder, the entire gun and both hands are used to pull the trigger!
Absolute BS. Also...doesn’t shall not infringe mean what it says?
The article is rubbish. The court decision changes nothing about the rules or laws pertaining to owning machine guns. And it is legal to own machine guns after obtaining the specified permits.
I cannot really afford the expense of ammunition for a full-automatic weapon or a bump stock. And I don't like the loss of accuracy in either configuration.
But people who want those toys should be allowed to have them.
The ATF should be abolished. Enough already!
Sounds like Ian Millhiser just soiled himself...
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Let the pearl-clutching commence.
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Bump stocks are inherently inaccurate. Fun for a plinking at the range but I wouldn’t have one. I’ve no use for it. With that said, they should be legal.
The ATF should be sued into oblivion by all of the bump stock manufacturer companies who have lost revenue and businesses, and by every employee who lost their jobs because of this.
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