Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/14/supreme-court-lifts-trumps-ban-on-bump-stocks.html
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So the ban on full-automatic weapons and modifications stands, but this modification that allows full-auto fire is OK?
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Quite the commentary on the current state of our country that the murder of seven Chicago gang members by rivals in 1929 led to such shock and outrage that congress passed relatively sweeping reforms in the National Firearms act, in an attempt to ban weapons of war from our streets. But in recent decades countless massacres of children and random civilians at much larger scale in schools, concerts, etc. hasn’t led to any national action against weapons that are even more efficient at mass-murder than Tommy guns were.
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Don’t forget this, too:
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Just more “the courts can’t do anything, really. The legislature would have to address this.” Of course, when that happens, they happily strike it down because that is overreach, or something. Just right wing logic.
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Yes, it’s sometimes been said, only half-jokingly, that the most effective way to get reasonable restrictions for firearms passed through Congress would be for every young black man in the country to apply for a concealed-carry permit. 
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Except they found a solution to that – the cops just say they feel threatened and shoot them. 
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The Supreme Court has now gone to arguments that internet trollies use. “Well, it’s not REALLY, technically a machine gun or an assault rifle, it’s just a blah blah blah.”
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Mass murder’s loop hole…
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2:01 Like any other nuclear weapon, [it] gives off three basic effects: heat, blast, nuclear radiation… and a modern demonstration of “gunboat diplomacy”.
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And it’s not mentioned in the Constitution, so what’s an originalist to do? 
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That’s the thing with laws, you can’t expand it past what is in the law. There is a defined definition on what constitutes a machine gun, and bump stocks technically don’t meet that definition.
They make bump firing easier, but bump firing can be done with out the aid of a special stock. You can loop your thumb into a belt loop to bump fire - and that isn’t a machine gun.
That said, they are a crappy novelty IMO. But if you want to properly regulate/outlaw bump stocks you need to expand the NFA to include the definition of a device that emulates the fire rate of a machine gun either through mechanical means or utilizing the rocking motion of recoil. (using more precise language than that, obviously).
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There was a time when an ammosexual would arrive with an inadvertent answer to that question, probably with some technical gunwanking. These days they tend to avoid these topics.
The mystery flagger moved so quickly I didn’t catch your reply. I’ve re-phrased so as not to hurt the feelings of any gun-strokers out there.
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Now you’re talking!
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I don’t think that the people at that concert in Vegas found it a “crappy novelty”…
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