SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 9/25/23 (Duke University Center for Firearms Law)

[AndyS]

1. The minutia that the gun culture relies on and will go to court over

boggles the mind. Are magazines a "component part of a firearm"? The real world answer is simple. The gun will not function as designed without one so it IS a component of a firearm. The gun world answer is far more complicated I'm sure.

The same is "what is a machine gun"? A machine gun fires multiple shots with one pull of the trigger. Okay, a bump stock allows the shooter to put constant pressure on the trigger (one pull) and the stock forces the finger away from the trigger just long enough to reset so because the trigger reset it isn't a machine gun although functionally there is no difference in function.

Now there are "forced reset triggers", a device that mechanically forces the trigger and finger forward to reset the trigger. One pull, constant pressure, many rounds fired but because this little thingie interacts with that dodah and automatically forces the trigger to reset it's not a machine gun.

Meanwhile people die and the police are outgunned. That means the police will eventually carry Military issue M4 and M16 rifles and the gun humper will whine that if the police give up their full auto guns first they can ask for ours.