Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 04:38:16 +0000 User-Agent: NewsTap/5.3.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: BTR1701 References: <17da57f2cae5dafc$3537$35484$52d51861@news.newsdemon.com> Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 04:38:16 +0000 Lines: 37 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-6I4/iDoSE/2qRm8q5sMvszvBnFuJHThD4yofKi1x08TQhFnkVCi5BX3epIgksnR5EObGX8QedfqqOxs!lxzaRSmu0w0QOlQPqguNxcxCBLS2nzlmC36v3++VBc2t4rJ73+sMU5zN7bm9X78u/Qc8mKvr9A== 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: 3138 moviePig wrote: > On 6/21/2024 1:05 AM, BTR1701 wrote: >> In article , FPP >> wrote: >> >>> On 6/20/24 9:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>> In article , FPP >>>> 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. > > You'd be perfectly happy with machine guns being legal, wouldn't you? Yes, mainly because they already are legal. I have one.