According to The Hill, “A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a Trump-era rule that banned certain types of ‘bump stocks,’ which can be added to semi-automatic weapons to increase their firing rate. The 2018 rule from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was instituted in the wake of the October 2017 shooting in Las Vegas. The gunman used weapons equipped with bump stocks to kill 58 people and injure at least 850 more. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. … At the center of the lawsuit is the specific language of a federal ban on machine guns, particularly its definition of a machine gun as a weapon that fires more than one shot ‘automatically’ with a ‘single function of the trigger.’”
Apparently, this ruling is concerned with the “technical” language of the law, and to that I call fucking bullshit! This is simply one more opportunity for an uber-conservative, nut job federal court to allow all manner of weapons of mass death and destruction, all in the name of the supreme First Amendment — oops, I mean the Second Amendment. The technicality of the language is just a ruse for these judges’ utter commitment to making sure anyone can own any type of gun without regard to the community’s safety. It is always telling that other courts seem to have no problem with the bump stock ban, yet this activist court could not wait to strike it down. So, they will rehear the case, and as usual with the 5th Circuit Court, it will reaffirm its ruling with intentionally more legally dubious reasoning, whereby the case will be appealed to SCOTUS. No shock about how that will end! Leave it to SCOTUS to strike down all restrictions on bump stocks, and then we will be right back to where we were. Of course, no one cares! This whole fucking worthless country does not care, for we keep re-electing RepubliKKKlans who want the carnage. It’s what people want. I will keep saying it until I am blue in the face: People get the government they deserve and desire. Apparently, that includes more guns and more gun deaths! Oh, well. Welcome to stupid America! I give up!