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The Supreme Court just effectively legalized machine guns
MSN ^ | June 14, 2024 | Ian Millhiser

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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1 posted on 06/16/2024 6:59:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

I know this sounds like a big deal, but people who know what they are doing can make bumps stocks using rubber bands.


3 posted on 06/16/2024 7:02:10 PM PDT by Mustangman
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To: DoodleBob

Get a grip, Ian. And a clue.


4 posted on 06/16/2024 7:03:33 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: DoodleBob

Hogwash!


5 posted on 06/16/2024 7:06:24 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: DoodleBob

You can tell the author of this article would most likely be terrified of a Red Ryder BB Gun.


6 posted on 06/16/2024 7:06:33 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two wen't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: DoodleBob

The shooter used bump stocks to kill so many people so quickly.

= = =

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.


7 posted on 06/16/2024 7:07:39 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: DoodleBob

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.


8 posted on 06/16/2024 7:08:12 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: DCBryan1

Lies. The trigger is pulled for each round


9 posted on 06/16/2024 7:08:52 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: DoodleBob

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.


10 posted on 06/16/2024 7:09:37 PM PDT by Flint
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To: DoodleBob

Which weapons are automatic?

I’ll wait.


11 posted on 06/16/2024 7:14:38 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: DoodleBob

Wow, so many factual errors in one brief bit of writing. Intended as fear-mongering, I suppose.


12 posted on 06/16/2024 7:15:24 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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“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!


13 posted on 06/16/2024 7:18:40 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: DoodleBob

Absolute BS. Also...doesn’t shall not infringe mean what it says?


14 posted on 06/16/2024 7:20:58 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: DoodleBob
The ATF rule on bump stocks was absolute rubbish, in no way based on laws. The court decision slaps them down appropriately.

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!

15 posted on 06/16/2024 7:21:27 PM PDT by flamberge (It turns out that you can fool most of the people, most of the time.)
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To: DoodleBob

Sounds like Ian Millhiser just soiled himself...


16 posted on 06/16/2024 7:23:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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17 posted on 06/16/2024 7:26:53 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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Let the pearl-clutching commence.

CC


18 posted on 06/16/2024 7:27:16 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: LukeL

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.


19 posted on 06/16/2024 7:27:22 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was drowning in self pity until I bathed in the refreshing Lake of Respect.)
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To: flamberge

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.


20 posted on 06/16/2024 7:27:39 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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