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Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:22:53 -0400
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On 6/20/24 12:29 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <v51ik8$2kkd7$2@dont-email.me>,
>   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/19/2024 11:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <s6077jpsl679hmse4jdbsf9eg38a9pf6qt@4ax.com>,
>>>    shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:28:26 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <v4vh5f$258cf$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/19/2024 3:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <v4v8jq$23o16$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>     moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 6/18/2024 10:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article <v4tfnl$1ons5$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>>>      moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And how does using a bump stock differ from a fully automatic
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> machine gun?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> With a bump stock, for every round fired, a separate trigger pull
>>>>>>>>>>>>> occurs.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> With a machine gun, one one trigger pull is required to fire
>>>>>>>>>>>>> multiple rounds.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Also, the rate of fire of a bump stock-equipped rifle is
>>>>>>>>>>>>> significantly slower than a rifle firing on full-auto.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> So, this 15-sec. video is a lie?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brrecvXhRVc
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I don't know what you're talking about. You can clearly see the
>>>>>>>>>>> bump device using the recoil (and Newton's Third Law) to reset the
>>>>>>>>>>> trigger after every round.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What I'm seeing is a NOT "significantly slower" rate of fire.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The bump device I used produce a fast rate of fire but not as fast as
>>>>>>>>> full-auto rifle. Perhaps this is a different model that works more
>>>>>>>>> efficiently.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regardless, the law passed by Congress did not differentiate "machine
>>>>>>>>> gun" from other guns by how fast it shoots, so the rate of fire is
>>>>>>>>> actually irrelevant to the issue.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes, we've already established that a determined judiciary can do an
>>>>>>>> end-run around even the clearest legislative intent.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They didn't end-run anything. They only reiterated-- since our
>>>>>>> government seems to have lost its way and needs a reminder-- that
>>>>>>> Congress is the only body granted the authority by the Constitution
>>>>>>> to legislate in this country, not administrative agencies like
>>>>>>> BATF, and if Congress wants to change the definition of "machine
>>>>>>> gun" to incorporate bump stocks into it, it can do so at any time.
>>>>>>> However, BATF has no authority to do it for them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Machine gun:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "...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."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now, tell me again how either gun in my video doesn't qualify...
>>>>>
>>>>> Because with the bump stock, it's only firing one shot per pull of the
>>>>> trigger. The trigger is just being pulled repeatedly really fast as a
>>>>> result of rebounding recoil caused by the bump stock. The bumper rocks
>>>>> the rifle back and forth against the shooter's trigger finger, causing a
>>>>> separate trigger pull each time. The statute you quoted above clearly
>>>>> says "by a SINGLE function of the trigger". If you shoot 100 rounds with
>>>>> a bump stock, you've got 100 functions of the trigger, not a single
>>>>> function of the trigger.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
> 

And that's what makes the law apply to bump stocks.

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