SCOTUS Justice Jackson Just Said the Dumbest Thing About Guns and I Can't Stop Laughing

PJ Media ^ | 28 Feb 2024 | Stephen Green

[Rummyfan]

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson must have fallen asleep last night watching a vintage '80s Chuck Norris movie as part of her preparation to hear oral arguments today in the Garland v. Cargill bumpstock ban lawsuit because her understanding of firearms is even less realistic than your typical Cannon Films production.

While I don't have the transcript yet for you — arguments are going on as I write this column — the Firearms Policy Coalition has been doing the good work of posting highlights to Twitter/X.

(Don't miss the update below from the official transcript.)

When it was time for the Biden Department of Justice to present its side to the Court, Justice Clarence Thomas asked what happens, according to the FPC, "with the trigger in a bump stocked rifle vs a full-auto rifle."

Please don't wet yourself laughing when you read the government's response.

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The government says that bump stocks allow you to shoot 600 times a second

[supremedoctrine]

I was expecting to see 30 copies of the New Yorker magazine.

[DouglasKC]

that bump stock allow you to shoot 800 rounds a second.

[ViLaLuz]

Yup, that’s the one. Imagine the $$$ per second to fire that beast.

[Vigilanteman]

Brains are not as requirement for a Democrat to become a high level appointee or even elected official. In fact, they are more of a handicap.

[noiseman]

I still think the dumbest anti-gun comment of all time was what Diana DeGette said when debating the then-proposed ban on 30 round magazines here in occupied Colorado. During a discussion of the grandfathering of existing magazines a comment was made that the ban would have no effect on those mags. Her response was that those mags would go away over time because once the “bullets” in them were used up, they would be rendered useless.

“Democracy” in action.

[21twelve]

“That’s the equivalent of 2266 MPH or almost Mach 3, nearly three times the speed of sound.”

That’s fast.
Scary fast.
So scary I can see their next bill. “Today there are bullets on the market - you can just walk into the store and buy them - and these bullets are designed to go FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF SOUND!! Now, I don’t know about you - but NOBODY needs a bullet that can go faster than the speed of sound...”

[Big Red Badger]

What Makes a Man?
The Big Labowski to The Dude.

[Gay State Conservative]

Did she remind us that she’s not a biologist?

[frank ballenger]

At an air show one was on stationary display and I put my finger into the place where the rounds would come out, feeling the sharp ridges of the rifling. Amazing to think of that thing in action.

[Paladin2]

Traitor Roberts is their enabler.

Over and over.

[Drew68]

What’s dumb is keeping our fingers crossed hoping that SCOTUS overturns Trump’s gun ban.

[Fury]

Re: 31 - I think it will be a 5-4 decision. Unsure which way.

[Verginius Rufus]

Biden promised to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court, which meant that 98% of lawyers were excluded and he had to pick from the remaining 2%—and of course it had to be a leftist pro-abortion Democrat and young enough to stay on the court many years (she was born in 1970 and is the second-youngest Justice, older only than Coney Barrett who was born in 1972).

[Organic Panic]

Can’t tell us what a woman is but can sure tell us what an “assault rifle” is.

[marktwain]

Yes, I listened to the argument, and Brian Fletcher, the government lawyer misspoke.

It was even funnier, because he had previously said "Rate of fire" does not matter in the legal arguments.

[Drew68]

Re: 31 - I think it will be a 5-4 decision. Unsure which way.

And if the ban is upheld, Trump will brag about it on the campaign trail.

[Qwapisking]

is this available in a purse size? wifey wants one.

[bankwalker]

look around ... it’s everywhere ...

[Nuc 1.1]

but NOBODY needs a bullet that can go faster than the speed of sound...

In the future that may very well be true.

[Robert357]

Wow, I want me one of those 600 times a second fully automatic rifles. Oh, wait that is not a reasonable number, because the putting in new magazines would slow down the firing rate substantially. There are no 600 round magazines and besides lots of parts on the AR-style rifle would get supper hot, maybe even cook off some rounds.