Clarence Thomas' Opinion Legalizing Bump Stocks Is Indefensible

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24. ***sigh***

This ruling can be distilled down to 2 very simple statements:

The law says what it says, not what people wish it said.

and

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

The law defines a machine gun states

The term “machinegun” means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.

or

1 pull of the trigger fires more than 1 bullet.

The ATF's attempt to change this definition exceeded their power and usurped the power of Congress.

If you give it some thought, I am pretty sure you could see how a ruling that allowed the ATF to alter a legislative definition could be equally applied to other future situations with which you might not agree.