Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 11:07:43 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: <1oucnSmdyL0VBun7nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 17:07:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="072282864a3da7810fb240dbac999e40"; logging-data="4009006"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ZBt4zMOoAAsiatRdWxXFK" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wVbEhnfTH9EmeZZoCJJNMQRXALg= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4223 On 6/20/24 10:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , FPP > wrote: > >> On 6/20/24 5:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> On Jun 20, 2024 at 12:32:11 PM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: >>> >>>> On 6/20/2024 12:29 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> In article , >>>>> moviePig wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 6/19/2024 11:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>> In article , >>>>>>> shawn wrote: > >>>>>>>> Yes, you are definitely technically correct. (The best kind.) That >>>>>>>> said you can see why people consider the bump stock to be the >>>>>>>> equivalent of turning a weapon into an equal to a machine gun. It >>>>>>>> isn't a machine gun but it ends throwing lead down field much like >>>>>>>> one. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've seen people who can pull a trigger all on their own pretty damn >>>>>>> fast-- certainly at a speed that most hoplophobes would consider >>>>>>> "machine gun adjacent". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Should we make it illegal for a human to pull a trigger faster than a >>>>>>> certain rate? Or force anyone who can do it accurately faster than a >>>>>>> certain rate to register their finger with the BATF as a "machine >>>>>>> gun"? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I think eventually the law will be updated to include bump stocks >>>>>>>> but who knows how long that will take. As no one who was involved in >>>>>>>> writing the original act likely foresaw the possibility of a bump >>>>>>>> stock. >>>>>> >>>>>> Did you look at the 15-sec. video I posted? I submit that what you're >>>>>> seeing for *both* guns is a single function of the trigger *finger* -- >>>>> >>>>> Even if true, the statute is silent on what the finger is doing, so >>>>> it's irrelevant. > >>>> A human finger is implied by "a single function of the trigger". >>> >>> No, it's the functioning of the trigger that's at issue, not what causes it >>> to function. (Other things can cause a trigger pull besides a finger.) > >> So describe the intent of the law. Go ahead... what was the law >> designed to do? To regulate and prevent. >> >> Have at it. > > I don't care what a bunch of politicians (all with their own agendas) > intended. Then you don't understand the law, or lawmaking. Not my problem. -- On May 30, 2024 Donald J. Trump was unanimously convicted on 34 felony counts in New York City... so I took this picture in my side yard. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0 "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0