Path: ...!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:34:05 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban References: <17d91fbd5fad865f$338100$533214$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> <17d9412e82a8a311$8843$3053472$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:30:51 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 50 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-b7Rd4XBfASVOANx6JAkz9atzIhxENYW+M0McuP8rJMXr8Pll7WPsGp3RT5S3zqxUgcEc53piu+wuCXQ!r2kdGwLPi619XZyrl6ZJnz3Ws8nUt8MwdhTfjedHNkIEPQ0Nnw4qVQBnVH9IdVaWCcgjD92tQq1S!j9c= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3483 In article <17d9412e82a8a311$8843$3053472$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com>, trotsky wrote: > On 6/15/24 11:46 AM, moviePig wrote: > > On 6/15/2024 4:20 AM, trotsky wrote: > >> On 6/14/24 5:47 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > >>> The Federal Firearms Act of 1934 > >> > >> > >>  From wiki: > >> > >> The current National Firearms Act (NFA) defines a number of categories > >> of regulated firearms. These weapons are collectively known as NFA > >> firearms and include the following: > >> > >> Machine guns > >>      "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. The term shall also > >> include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed > >> and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed > >> and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun, and > >> any combination of parts from which a machinegun can be assembled if > >> such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person."[10] > > > > So, bump-stocks are patently a "workaround" for a law whose intent is > > patently obvious.  Not exactly a triumph of sanity. > > > "A work around" is accurate. And the spirit of the law is far more > important, obviously, than the letter of the law Oh, cool! I see Hutt the Fuck-Up Fairy has visited us again! No, Hutt, you're unsurprisingly about as absolutely wrong as you can be yet again. The letter of the law is obviously paramount in the context of jurisprudential determination as evidenced by the 1000-page statutes we have coming out of Congress, millions of pages of administrative regulations, and the multi-page click-thrus of tiny and near-hieroglyphic legalese that you have to agree to just to use a piece of software. If all we needed to concern ourselves with was a law's "spirit", then none of that would be necessary. I'd elaborate further but I don't have the time or the crayons to explain it to you. Jeezus, Hutt, if I wanted to kill myself, I'd climb your ego and jump to your IQ.