Today, the Court puts bump stocks back in civilian hands. To do so, it casts aside Congresss definition of machinegun and seizes upon one that is inconsistent with the ordinary meaning of the statutory text and unsupported by context or purpose.
Justice Sotomayor calls Bullshit in her dissent.
Wrong.
Guns that fire multiple rounds with one pull of the trigger are automatic weapons and not sold to the public
Bump stocks require multiple pulls of the trigger making it a semiautomatic weapon as defined multiple times by the ATF.
Now SCOTUS has weighed in with the same opinion.
The ball is now in Congress hands where it should be.
FTR. Over a half million Americans own bump stocks per the ATF.
Nope. A standard AR-15 semiautomatic rifle loaded with .223/5.56mm can fire up to 45 rounds per minute.
Bump stocks are conversion devices for semi-automatic AR type weapons that effectively harness the guns recoil to increase its rate of fire to up to 800 rounds per minute. Bump stocks were designed to
mimic automatic gunfire while evading the laws that ban machine guns.It only requires one trigger pull and sustained pressure on the trigger.
If a rifle firs rounds at the equivalent rate of fire as an automatic weapon, IT IS A FUCKING MACH8NE GUN.
And Clarence Thomas and the concurring justices are assholes.
Justifying them is an exercise of the same logic once argued in here to claim Mitch McConnell was following the
Biden Rule to justify blocking the Obama SCOTUS.nomination yet then trashing that rationale for the ACN seat.