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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You don’t need a bump stock, you can get the same results with a rubber band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVfwFP_RwTQ
Ban rubber bands?
Looks like he wouldn’t mind having a happy hot-dog waved in his face.
Gaydar also twitching.
Agreed, I have often argued that true full automatic fire is not only generally ineffective(except from dedicated automatic weapons like m-2s or 240s), but is a massive waste of ammo.
Well placed single shot rounds are far more effective. Ripping off automatic fire from an AK or M-16 would accomplish one thing, you would be out of ammo pretty quick, and your attackers would still be coming
I have to tragically laugh every time I hear someone say automatic weapons are illegal. With that said, the fact that you have to get permission to own one smacks against “the right to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed”
A challenge to all those laws, now that would be significant
If bump stocks were effective then the military would be using them, right? /s
Yup, and if lucky could hit the broad side of a barn from the inside. Just another leftist boogie man along with the 200 rd “clip”
This decision was obviously mandated by deep staters who own stock in ammo companies. The more people who own machine guns means more demand for ammo, the higher the demand the higher the price. Simple logic.
He was found dead.
The ignorance of the left is staggering in unimaginable ways.
How tasty that Sotomayor used Trump as an example in her argument.
I didn’t agree with banning bump stocks when it happened, but considered them stupid - and being stupid isn’t a crime or most Dems would be incarcerated...
Everything about the left is ruled by fear mongering. Remove the fear and theirs is a toothless monster....with each article written, they've made themselves more of a joke and have rendered themselves as nothing more than parody that should be ridiculed.
Congress, by very explicit language, made machine guns illegal, but did not make bump stocks illegal.
Only a liberal idiot a**h*le would conflate bump stocks with machine guns.
The Supreme Court merely interpreted and applied the words Congress actually used according to their plain meaning—exactly what courts are supposed to do. It refused to act like a super-legislator to rewrite Congress’s language to what certain libtards would have preferred.
Will no one rid us of these turbulent presstitutes?
I was shopping for an Uzi full auto at Ray's guns in the mid 1980s. $1600, and that included a 22 cal conversion kit.
Then Reagan signed a bill that outlawed private ownership of any machine gun manufactured before '86. Now Uzis are ten times that price and I can't afford it.
Thanks Ronny. I always figured he had a private machine gun collection and wanted to increase his return before he shuffled out of the WH.
If I remember correctly, the machine gun ban was placed in the 1986 gun reform law by democrats in hopes of killing the entire bill.
Before that time, the 1968 gun control law was in effect basically banning all firearms sales over state lines, and banning the import of “Army surplus rifles”, a democrat desire in response to the Kennedy killing, but really to protect New England gun makers from cheap competition.
About time the un-constitutional gun laws got the old Heave ho!
Video short of Tuco The Ratt shooting a triple shot with a single action colt revolver:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Cm3Hi4rw-rk
Video short of Tuco The Ratt shooting a quadruple shot with a single action colt revolver:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2FpS2NGyNDw
Amen! Plus there are very few places that even allow "rapid" fire.
“...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.”
Have they ever told us who that guy was, or why he did it? I must’ve missed that. They sure know everything about the weaponry he used, though! Oh, wait. People don’t kill people. Only guns kill people. *Rolleyes*
Do you think SCOTUS is approving this now because they are considering arming themselves with the Socialist Democrats running amuck and threatening even THEM? ;)
Hi.
I couldn’t get past the first paragraph.
5.56mm
“Hey, can somebody please fact check this?
I think this dude may be missing some vital information about how firearms actually work.”
I think this dude (Ian) is missing some parts of his brain.
LOL!
The ignorance abounds!
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