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rbreich , to Random
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The Supreme Court just overturned a federal ban on bump stocks, the device that let the Las Vegas shooter injure more than 500 people and kill 60 within minutes.

80% of Americans supported the ban — even Trump!

SCOTUS has once again defied the will of the people.

ErisCaffee ,
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@rbreich

My own personal opinion is that the problem lies in the legal definition of the term "machine gun" which is currently tied to the functioning of the trigger: does it fire more than one bullet with a single pull of the trigger. Attaching a bump stock to a rifle does not make it do this.

What we need instead is a definition of a machine gun based on the rate of fire acheivable by an average person. Over X shots per second and it is a machine gun.

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