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Antigun group has negligent discharge during gun "buy back." I guess neither they, nor police, nor the company scrapping the guns, knew how to check whether a muzzleloader is loaded. If the company doing the scrapping begins it by cutting down the barrel, I hope they check out the National Firearms Act, as well.
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….An application of Eddy Eagle prior to this fiasco would have prevented it.
..THEYRE ALL LOADED.
off-topic, but Cargill won 6-3 against Garland.
Thomas's opinion explores AR15 trigger geometry. Sotomayor's dissent leads with histrionics.
Since this is, at root, an APA ruling and not a 2A ruling, I think it points in the direction of 80-percent frames and receivers not being frames and receivers, thus not in ATF's ambit.
I don't see an injunction, it seems that nationwide injunctions and injunctions against non-parties is about to end. Thomas, J, argues as much in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. I think the GOP-appointed majority want lower courts to start doing the work and adhering to procedure and precedent, instead of just summarily enjoining, staying, entertaining interlocutory appeals, and cramming the emergency docket.
And Alito takes a swipe at an inert Congress in Cargill: "ATF can't rewrite laws. Congress can."
Correction: not so much an APA ruling, as a ruling on statutory interpretation. Congress didn't outlaw bump stocks, ATF did, and they may not, only Congress can.
NFA would not apply in this case, as muzzle-loaders are exempt.
Exempt from the NFA that is, not exempt from the laws of thermodynamics.
I guess they are lucky in that the ball left the barrel without hitting anyone and there was no larger ka-boom.