US Appeals court rules bump stock devices are not ‘machine guns’

[TheTexan]

You are right. It doesn't mean that.

What it does mean (and this was my point in posting the story) is that putting faith in the courts to "do the right thing" is idiotically misguided.

It's a gamble at absolute best. Even worse, in the case of Trump's bump stock EO, it's a gamble that doesn't even have any payoff if you win - at best, you'll just get a return to the status quo ante.

Trump's executive-order bump-stock shenanigans were stupid and foolish, and even if we put the most charitable 3D-chess MAGA-fu spin on them (instead of just accepting the obvious fact that Trump was a half-assed gun grabber), they were all risk in return for no gain.

I'll say this again for the third time, because it so aptly summarizes even the best outcome that can be hoped for:

I don't think you understand the strategic complexities of the issue. It's OK - very few people have the intellectual capacity to operate at such high levels of genius. It will cause only headaches in lesser minds.

[TheTexan]

Add to that Trump shilling for red flag laws and even for a renewed assault weapons ban.

Part of the plan.

[Occam's Banana]

Add to that Trump shilling for red flag laws and even for a renewed assault weapons ban.

"I like taking guns away early. Take the guns first, go through due process second." -- Donald J. Trump

#MAGA

[Occam's Banana]

I don't think you understand the strategic complexities of the issue. It's OK - very few people have the intellectual capacity to operate at such high levels of genius. It will cause only headaches in lesser minds.

You may be right. I should probably just go lay down with a damp towel on my forehead and watch some funny cat videos, instead.

That would certainly be more edifying than trying to suss out the intricacies of MAGA-logic.

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status...88675074220052


https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status...88676881932292

[phill4paul]

Could always get one of these....

https://wideopentriggers.com/

[acptulsa]

https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status...88675074220052

Can't bother Congress with little things like legislating. They're too busy spending debt and taking kickbacks.

[Swordsmyth]

Sixth Circuit Panel Rejects Bump Stock Ban (Again)

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/04/25...ock-ban-again/

[TheTexan]

Sixth Circuit Panel Rejects Bump Stock Ban (Again)

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/04/25...ock-ban-again/

As we get into the end-game of Trump's 4d chess game, his brilliant strategy is coming to fruition

If he gets re-elected, just imagine all the things he can ban so they can get later overturned

[Swordsmyth]

As we get into the end-game of Trump's 4d chess game, his brilliant strategy is coming to fruition

If he gets re-elected, just imagine all the things he can ban so they can get later overturned

We are coming up on the endgame, you don't start new gambits in the endgame.
And when this is overturned it will take away the power of the bureaucracy to do anything like it.

[TheTexan]

We are coming up on the endgame, you don't start new gambits in the endgame.
And when this is overturned it will take away the power of the bureaucracy to do anything like it.

In hindsight, Trump's only mistake was that he didn't ban enough things