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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:40:45 -0400
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On 6/25/2024 11:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <v5fv2g$1uphg$2@dont-email.me>,
>   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/25/2024 6:51 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <v5ff1u$1ns3d$5@dont-email.me>,
>>>    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/25/2024 3:34 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <v54u4f$3bnc4$3@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>     moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/21/2024 12:59 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <v52nan$2v630$5@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> How are they substantively different, counselor?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> One's trigger is functioned only once, the other's trigger functions
>>>>>>>>> for every round fired.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nope. Same single function.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Literally not. The firing mechanism inside the gun requires the trigger
>>>>>>> go through its full cycle of function (depressed, released, and reset)
>>>>>>> for every round fired in a semi-auto rifle. It's only activated once
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> an entire burst in a machine gun.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In both machine gun and bump-stock, the trigger cycle "consults" the
>>>>>> shooter's finger during each cycle.  If there's pressure it fires, if
>>>>>> not it stops.  For the shooter the guns are *functionally* identical.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which might be relevant if the NFA regulated firearms in any way, shape,
>>>>> or form based on what it's like for the shooter. It does not therefore
>>>>> it is not.
>>>>
>>>> You think "single function of the trigger" doesn't entail the shooter's
>>>> experience of it?
>>   >
>>> No, it doesn't.
>>
>> You mean, "Yes I do."
> 
> You keep telling me what I mean, but I assure you, Kreskin, that if I
> mean something I write it. If it's not in what I've written, it's not
> what I mean.

What *is* the proper response to an opinion given as unassailable fact?