Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:17:48 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <17d91fbd5fad865f$338100$533214$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> <17d9412e82a8a311$8843$3053472$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:17:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="eb8ebb2907e68765c2302819dd66ac12"; logging-data="4072461"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mhnEsueCNpZ9efhaDmSh+9YF8dYSqh4M=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ha/+zkcCxXU9Fj+cZYHByrDzeCo= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4004 On 6/15/2024 8:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > 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. Unfortunately, your "letter of the law" is a false god, a pipe dream. Because any word's meaning invariably depends on one or more *other* words, and so on ...you eventually need someone to "know" (i.e., to *interpret*) whatever basic thing someone else has tried to say.