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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums5th Circuit tortures statutory language to enable more mass killings
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/01/5th-circuit-tortures-statutory-language-to-enable-more-mass-killingsOpponents of all gun control measures kept shopping until they finally found judges willing to rule that an accessory that effectively turns a rifle into a machine gun cannot be regulated under a federal statute authorizing machine guns to be regulated:
A Trump administration ban on bump stocks devices that enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull was struck down Friday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.
The ban was instituted after a gunman perched in a high-rise hotel using bump stock-equipped weapons massacred dozens of people in Las Vegas in 2017. Gun rights advocates have challenged it in multiple courts. The 13-3 ruling at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals is the latest on the issue, which is likely to be decided at the Supreme Court.
The decision doesnt have an immediate effect on the ban though because the case now moves back to the lower court to decide how to proceed.
The case was somewhat unique because the issue involves not the Second Amendment but the interpretation of federal statutes. Opponents of the ban argued that bump stocks do not fall under the definition of illegal machine guns in federal law. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says they do, a position now being defended by the Biden administration.
A plain reading of the statutory language, paired with close consideration of the mechanics of a semi-automatic firearm, reveals that a bump stock is excluded from the technical definition of machinegun set forth in the Gun Control Act and National Firearms Act, Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod wrote in the lead majority opinion.
The court found that the definition of a machinegun which is set out in two different federal statutes does not apply to bump stocks.
The ban had survived challenges at the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; the Denver-based 10th Circuit; and the federal circuit court in Washington. A panel of three judges at the 5th Circuit also issued a ruling in favor of the ban, upholding a lower court decision by a Texas federal judge. But the full New Orleans-based court voted to reconsider the case. Arguments were heard Sept. 13.
Having a federal judiciary largely controlled by pro-mass-killing sickos seems bad, to me.
AP story
https://apnews.com/article/politics-new-orleans-texas-state-government-b5990ed60ebb617055cc8d5c36a84050
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5th Circuit tortures statutory language to enable more mass killings (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jan 2023
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MagickMuffin
(15,944 posts)1. Court judges beholden to the gun lobby
How else can one explain this?
keithbvadu2
(36,835 posts)2. 1+
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,374 posts)3. All civilized societies face the same problem, right?