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Americans who still respect the Constitution—specifically the 2nd Amendment in this case—won a victory today as the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to end a Trump-era ban on bump stocks.
FACT-O-RAMA! A bump stock uses the recoil of a semi-automatic rifle to create a full-auto-type effect.
Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson were the fairly obvious holdouts who voted to keep the bump stock ban in place.
„When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck,” Justice Sotomayor opined. “A bump-stock-equipped semi-automatic rifle fires automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. I, like Congress, call that a machine gun.”
Liberals targeted bump stocks after Stephen Paddock allegedly used one or more to rain more than 1,100 rounds on concert-goers from a perch in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Casino in 2017. Roughly 60 people were killed, and more than 500 others were injured in what would turn out to be the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
FACT-O-RAMA! Paddock attacked the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, which involves country-western music artists.
The Supreme Court decided, on partisan lines, that the Department of Justice went too far in their designation of bump stocks as a „machine gun“, which Trump had asked them to do as president.
