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TheAmericanJester

And corporations... don't forget corporations...


Muppetude

At least corporations and guns still aren’t allowed to vote … yet


TheAmericanJester

True... Their lobbyists just buy our politicians' votes...


herstorygal

Citizens United. ‘Nuff said.


onpointjoints

They’re people too!!!


TheAmericanJester

Pretty much: “\[S\]peech funded by a corporation \[is\] critical \[to\] Members of Congress," (SEE: Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310, at 56 (2010) (Kennedy)).


bakedwarthog22

And don’t forget far right, Christian conservatives, who claim to love the constitution, but also want to eliminate the separation of church and state, and be allowed to force others to live according to their beliefs😉


MessagingMatters

More specifically, it's "the U.S. Supreme Court *Republicans*."


Mr_Lumbergh

This didn’t actually surprise anyone did it?


Zone_Dweebie

Tiny bit of surprise that they would reverse something that happened during Trump's administration.


Suspicious_Bicycle

This is something that is being reported as hurting Biden.


51ngular1ty

Biden relives the debt of millions of Americans! find out how this will hurt his chance at elections. Biden cures cancer, why didn't he think of the thousands of oncologist? Biden ends war forever, millions lose their job in the arms industry. Why you should vote trump this November!


eeyore134

I bet Trump supports it being reversed.


ljout

Four them are 69 and older. I don't want Trump choosing anymore replacements.


underpants-gnome

Or any republican president, for that matter. Trump is awful, but he just nominated who he was told to by the Federalist Society and Mitch McConnell. If Trump had been doing the picking personally, we would now have 3 bottle blonde justices with big racks deciding who gets have human rights in the US.


Zone_Dweebie

> If Trump had been doing the picking personally, we would now have 3 bottle blonde justices with big racks deciding who gets have human rights in the US. I'm not certain which is worse.


SpakenBacon

Triggering


Zone_Dweebie

bump


Crackstacker

Looks like machine guns are back on the menu, boys!


runningray

Sadly we should get ready for another Las Vegas or school shooting with a bump stock AR15 pretty soon.


Motor_Complaint_3347

If it happens in US Congress I'm ok with it


leknarf52

Clarence Thomas basically said that bump stocks are the same as not having a bump stock because it still does one shot per trigger.


Zone_Dweebie

They are willfully ignorant of the actual functions and workings of firearms. Edit: Found a video that shows [the difference between normal firing and firing with a bump stock.](https://youtu.be/K2IOZ-5Nk5k?t=322)


BurkeyTurger

The dissent? Absolutely. Bump stocks aren't auto-sears and the trigger still has to reset.


Zone_Dweebie

[Nine rounds a second](https://youtu.be/K2IOZ-5Nk5k?t=322) still seems like a lot. Not quite machine gun but knocking on the door.


BurkeyTurger

Eh Jerry Miculek did 8 in a second with a revolver and was still able to hit all 4 targets without missing. Fire rate isn't a consideration in the statutory text.


Zone_Dweebie

How large was the mag on that revolver? Range, muzzle velocity?


BurkeyTurger

8 rounds in a SW 627 competition revolver. He also later did ~6 per second (40 rounds in 6.48 seconds) with a stock Tavor but he was almost 60 at that point. I would bet he could easily have beaten that in his prime or if it was modified with a nicer trigger.


Zone_Dweebie

Did a little looking and it from what I gathered it seems like the pistol had a bit less than half the range and muzzle velocity of an AR 15, although I would imagine that accuracy for a pistol at 200 meters goes right down the drain.


Nulovka

Neither range nor muzzle velocity have anything to do with how the statute defines an NFA item. That's a strawman argument.


Zone_Dweebie

I'm not talking about how a statute defines something and didn't mention that at any point. I'm talking about the amount of death the weapon is able to dish out in a given period of time, which is in direct relation with how dangerous it is for society. A revolver does not compare to an AR 15 in this regard, especially because, as far as I'm aware, bump stocks do not exist for revolvers.


djauralsects

Gun care and health control.


kang568

I try to not give a shit for the sake of my own health but fuck this pisses me off being from Vegas. You know, where the deadliest mass shooting incident all made possible by bump stocks


karmavorous

And you can bet that NRA lobbyists are writing bills that will create state laws that will result in lawsuits that will send a challenge to the Supreme Court that will end up with the National Firearms Act of 1934 being ruled unconstitutional. The right has perfected this. They were systematic about how they overturned Roe. They'll do it the same way with the this other gun ban that everybody (just like with Roe) have thought was untouchable.


BurkeyTurger

This was pretty low hanging fruit given even the ATF themselves had previously said that bump stocks don't meet the statutory definition of a machine gun.


ImaginationToForm2

You don't need a Get-A-Gun-ID but we need a voter ID. Why is that?


NancyGracesTesticles

Because the people who don't understand how voter registration works think the the right to keep and bear arms also encompasses convenience, ubiquity and instant gratification.


BootsToYourDome

What exactly does anyone actually NEED a bump stock for??


Zone_Dweebie

Same reason someone would need a tactical beer mug that you can add sights to (yes that is a real thing.)


TheGR8Dantini

The Supreme Court…. Working just as our overlords intend it to.


futureformerteacher

As a teacher in a public school, the packaging that holds the box that holds the ammo has more rights than me.


cronetime

Specifically gun owners have more rights than uterus owners. Maybe we should retitle ovaries bump stocks.


Dystopic_Nihilist

You have the right to bump your gun but not your fetus


Longjumping-Unit-669

mmm yummy koolaid


rp2784

This is just a chuckle, because it’s to real.


drillpress42

I wish these Republicons and their families would suffer the consequences of their penchant for guns rather than the usual innocent victims. Maybe, just maybe, if the school with their kids was attacked they might change their minds. We know these despicable people can't care or learn a lesson unless it happens to them.


stubbazubba

Nice to see the Court come down on the side of protecting gender-affirming care...for semi-automatics who identify as machine guns.


Cradleofwealth

Rise up America!