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Justice Sotomayor calls a duck a duck [View all]

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Christian Rincon @cr_progress 3h
Sotomayor cooking the shit out the majority 🔥

Mike Sacks @MikeSacksEsq
Sotomayor calls out *every* *single* *one* *of* *her* *Republican* *colleagues* for abandoning their textualist "principle"

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Justice Sotomayor calls a duck a duck [View all] bigtree Jun 2024 OP

She called a loon a duck Zeitghost Jun 2024 #1

both ducks and loons are waterbirds bigtree Jun 2024 #2

The law is open to interpretation in order to avoid modifications like the bump stock. cayugafalls Jun 2024 #10

The bolded part doesn't negate Zeitghost Jun 2024 #81

How many bullets can be balanced on the head of a pin? LastDemocratInSC Jun 2024 #98

I agree 100% Zeitghost Jun 2024 #99

+1 MontanaMama Jun 2024 #22

In this case, the law says Duck Zeitghost Jun 2024 #76

Good luck on the GOP controlled congress doing anything about it IronLionZion Jun 2024 #13

Wrong. yagotme Jun 2024 #3

isn't the trigger held back and the rifle onethatcares Jun 2024 #5

The receiver moves back and forth in the stock, yagotme Jun 2024 #7

Cool story.. odins folly Jun 2024 #16

Thousands of them were made. yagotme Jun 2024 #18

You didn't answer the question.. odins folly Jun 2024 #20

Like beer, it depends on the legal use. yagotme Jun 2024 #21

Still haven't answered odins folly Jun 2024 #30

Your question: yagotme Jun 2024 #32

You seem pretty informed TexasDem69 Jun 2024 #47

lets be clear, okay. Technical data about the hardware changes nothing about the....... jaxexpat Jun 2024 #23

I don't mind you speaking your mind. yagotme Jun 2024 #26

You're missing the point mountain grammy Jun 2024 #38

So, out of the thousands that were manufactured, how many were used to kill people? yagotme Jun 2024 #40

Now now... let's not jump to conclusions. You never can tell B.See Jun 2024 #57

How is it then that more Americans have died here from bullet-propelling devices than in all our wars combined? Hekate Jun 2024 #34

The discussion is about bump stocks. yagotme Jun 2024 #36

Clearly yagotme there. You're too clever by half to be taken in by a broad yet accurate definition like... Hekate Jun 2024 #39

I can propel a bullet with a slingshot, a blowgun, or my arm. yagotme Jun 2024 #42

Thoughts and prayers Hekate Jun 2024 #44

Hmm, interesting day. Twice, an inference I was going to court, yagotme Jun 2024 #45

Drunk driver vs. bumpstock-equipped gun intheflow Jun 2024 #101

Nice, France: Not drunk, but a purposeful attack. yagotme Jun 2024 #102

Again, you're apples and oranging the discussion. intheflow Jun 2024 #103

Really? That's not very nice. So much for a civil discourse. yagotme Jun 2024 #104

Where does "need" come into the equation? TexasDem69 Jun 2024 #46

26 U.S. Code § 5845 - Definitions cayugafalls Jun 2024 #31

And you ignore the "single function" part. yagotme Jun 2024 #49

Not by the letter of the law. thatdemguy Jun 2024 #51

Except the modify clause still depends on the "single function of the trigger" part DetroitLegalBeagle Jun 2024 #52

Does a trigger on a gun 'function' without a finger? cayugafalls Jun 2024 #93

You aren't just holding the trigger DetroitLegalBeagle Jun 2024 #94

I still submit that without the finger the trigger will not function. Trigger Trigger/Finger cayugafalls Jun 2024 #95

Forward pressure on the handguard is also required. yagotme Jun 2024 #96

From a legal standpoint, that doesn't matter. At all. DetroitLegalBeagle Jun 2024 #100

sick loophole bigtree Jun 2024 #6

The operator pulls 1 time, the mechanism does the rest. The effect is the same. Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2024 #9

Is there any difference between a Glock and a Smith and Wesson DA revolver? yagotme Jun 2024 #14

If it turns a semi-auto into an automatic, then it's a machine gun. Kid Berwyn Jun 2024 #4

But, it doesn't. Not by legal definition. nt yagotme Jun 2024 #17

and yet it does, for all intents and purposes. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #27

Laws need to be precise, to be fair to all. "Room for interpretation", you can pick and choose your "criminal". yagotme Jun 2024 #29

Weapons of war belong to the Pentagon. Kid Berwyn Jun 2024 #33

What country issues bump stocks to their troops? nt yagotme Jun 2024 #35

Why post in favor of machine gun conversions? Kid Berwyn Jun 2024 #41

It's not a conversion to a machine gun. yagotme Jun 2024 #43

It IS conversion to a machine gun, as the intended effect is the same. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #50

It is NOT a conversion. Per the USSC. nt yagotme Jun 2024 #54

It is, despite your excuses. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #64

Per written law, and the USSC, it's not, despite your opinions. yagotme Jun 2024 #66

but you're just making things up as you go along canuckledragger Jun 2024 #68

The law in question defines a machine gun as a weapon that fires with a single pull of the trigger. yagotme Jun 2024 #74

you know what you've made up. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #78

Please be so kind as to cite reliable statistics for legal machine gun niyad Jun 2024 #59

Here you go: yagotme Jun 2024 #61

You will be good enough to notice that I have not called for a ban on niyad Jun 2024 #62

Reading your post, the phrasing you use, yagotme Jun 2024 #63

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You didn't NOT say it, so there. yagotme Jun 2024 #72

youv'e already been informed of the misinformation you're willingly pushing here. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #77

You're calling fairy tales. I called for a cite, from you. yagotme Jun 2024 #79

Yes I'm calling fairy tales. Still am. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #80

Give it up, dear heart, as your, rather lurid, demagogic, posts and projections niyad Jun 2024 #84

I'm called out for posting fairy tales, when you, yourself, have asked me for cites, and I did, yagotme Jun 2024 #85

so when pressed, you STILL stick to the lies and hyperbole canuckledragger Jun 2024 #65

I guess analogies are above your pay grade. yagotme Jun 2024 #69

I don't acknowledge fairy tales as fact. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #71

Please cite these "fairy tales". yagotme Jun 2024 #73

I already have. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #75

The effect is the same, no matter how often you spin fairy tales or push hyperbole. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #48

I can take a semi auto rifle, pull the trigger REALLY fast, and have the same effect. yagotme Jun 2024 #53

No you can't. canuckledragger Jun 2024 #67

How do YOU know how fast I can pull a trigger? yagotme Jun 2024 #86

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So, a world record holder is just fooling himself? yagotme Jun 2024 #92

Justice Sotomayor calls out every conservative in gun case dissent Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2024 #8

Good logic and good advice. SarahD Jun 2024 #11

All for it says the convicted felon who cannot possess a firearm. StarryNite Jun 2024 #12

No the irony is thatdemguy Jun 2024 #58

Pissing match about bump stock vs. machinegun is pointless and unhelpful duckworth969 Jun 2024 #15

it graduated from a pissing match to a constitutional argument bigtree Jun 2024 #19

They didn't "legislate from the bench"! TexasDem69 Jun 2024 #55

you'd need to read the dissenting opinion bigtree Jun 2024 #82

Ironically they did the exact opposite sarisataka Jun 2024 #56

Thomas substituted his own interpretation of the law for Congress's bigtree Jun 2024 #83

A bump stock is not "a" gun. yagotme Jun 2024 #87

Congress passed the law in question prior to bump stops being invented Zeitghost Jun 2024 #88

True it doesn't matter a whit to the Court what I think sarisataka Jun 2024 #89

Gun nuts tickle me so... LowerManhattanite Jun 2024 #24

x1000. Evolve Dammit Jun 2024 #25

But it doesn't. Igel Jun 2024 #28

K & R malaise Jun 2024 #37

Owned lock, stock, and barrel, so to speak Hekate Jun 2024 #60

K&R spanone Jun 2024 #90

Nobody in their right mind needs a rifle with a bump stock. Paladin Jun 2024 #97