• derf82@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    That wasn’t remotely the basis of the ruling. It was essentially ruled that they don’t meet the definition of a machine gun in the law, which limits what the ATF can do. It was mentioned that congress can amend the law and ban them. They just haven’t.

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      5 months ago

      Right. And because Congress hasn’t prohibited them, they’re fair game.

      I was talking more about the general principle of what is allowed versus prohibited than this specific case, though.

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        5 months ago

        My point is, they did not rule a ban unconstitutional, since they asked where it was in the constitution.

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          5 months ago

          I read it as asking where in the Constitution there is a right to bump stocks. Did you read as asking where the ban is?

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            5 months ago

            And there is no constitutional right to bump stocks. They just ruled there is no current law against it. If there was a constitutional right to them, you couldn’t ban them even with a law.

            I didn’t say he was asking where the ban is.