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Subject: Re: Giffords Flak Claims SCOTUS 'Essentially Legalized Machine Guns' With Bump Stock Decision
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:47:06 -0400
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"max headroom" <maximusheadroom@gmx.com> wrote in message 
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> Giffords Flak Claims SCOTUS 'Essentially Legalized Machine Guns' With Bump 
> Stock
> Decision
>
> Cam Edwards
>
> While the Supreme Court has struck down the ATF's ban on bump stocks, it 
> didn't
> implicate the Second Amendment in its decision. Instead, the Court ruled 
> that
> the ATF impermissibly banned the non-mechanical devices through a gross
> misreading of the federal statute that defines machine guns as firearms 
> that
> discharge multiple rounds through a single function of the trigger. 
> Today's
> decision does not change the fact that full-auto firearms are restricted 
> under
> the National Firearms Act, nor does it repeal the Hughes Amendment 
> prohibiting
> the purchase of any machine gun manufactured after 1987.
>
> Justice Samuel Alito went so far as to explicitly state in his concurrence 
> that
> if Congress wants to ban bump stocks it can do so. All the Supreme Court 
> said is
> that the ATF alone can't ban the devices, at least not by claiming that 
> they
> turn semi-automatic firearms into machine guns.

Technically they aren't machine guns by definition. They are a rapid firing 
semi-automatic.

Yes, it's a minor difference, but that can be all it takes between being 
legal and illegal.