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In article <v52nd9$2v630$7@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 6/20/24 9:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > In article <v52kse$2qv7o$6@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
> > wrote:

> >> Bump stocks are a newer technology than the law didn't foresee... but it
> >> doesn't take a law professor to understand the intent.
> > 
> > That's why we have a Congress that can amend statutes to take into
> > account changes in technology. They do it all the time with the things
> > like the internet. They can do it with the National Firearms Act, also.
> > 
> > Your delusions (and Hutt's) aside, courts don't decide technical matters
> > of law based on intent. Legislative history is only a tool to resolve
> > ambiguity. There's no ambiguity here. The statute's text is both
> > extremely detailed and clear. Neither the Judicial Branch nor the
> > Executive Branch have the constitutional authority to make or amend
> > statutory law. Only the Legislative Branch can do that.
> > 
> > This is something most of us learned in grade school. Apparently Effa
> > and the BATF were in a coma that day.
> > 
> Aren't you guys fond of saying "just enforce the laws as written instead 
> of making new ones"?

I'm still fond of that. I'm perfectly happy with bumpers being legal. 
I'm cool with enforcing the NFA as is; I don't want any new laws here.