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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:17:48 -0400
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On 6/15/2024 8:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <17d9412e82a8a311$8843$3053472$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com>,
>   trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> 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.