Rob Rogers for June 18, 2024

They are adroit at finding a narrow way to rule how the heck they wanna. I was actually quite surprised that they didn’t allow outlawing the abortifacient drug. But they did rule so narrowly that if someone who DOES have skin in the game sues, they can do it. Or, of course, maybe they’re just on the take from the makers of Mifepristone?

If it functions like a machine gun — able to get off a hundred rounds in under a minute — it shouldn’t matter if it’s assembled from Y-shaped sticks and rubber bands.

They are getting worse.

Hey Hey, NRA, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?

Jackpot? No, Crackpot!

“I warned the entire country…but nooooooooo…you wouldn’t believe me!”

~Anita Hill

The most moronic comment I heard about this from some Reich winger was “It’s no different than if you have a really fast trigger finger!”

Firearms fetishists can make unrestricted modifications to semi-auto arms now. But they still have to feed the arms. Bullets ain’t gettin’ any cheaper, are they?

Maybe it’s time to consider restricting ammo sales, and the materials for reloading, too. And get about the business of outlawing those “mags on steroids.”

As pointed out in another strip, guns with bump stocks should be known as Thomas guns.

Where was the NRA when Hunter needed them?

I agree with Direwolf. The whole point of a bump stock is to be able to fire FASTER than a human can keep pulling the trigger. One pulls the trigger once and the recoil of the gun keeps it firing. One trigger pull, multiple shots fired, machine gun. Thomas’s “distinction” is shallow and spurious. Nothing more than a weak attempt at justifying a forgone, political/ideological ruling. Right up there with a “well-regulated militia” being the same as an individual gun owner and that being sufficient to overturn 200 odd years of precedent.

if it’s not a law it doesn’t count opinions are like butts everybody has one and they all stink including the supreme Court

the Democrats never finished the job they get a favorable ruling and don’t make it a law before they change their mind

The first paragraph of the Court’s opinion:

Congress has long restricted access to “‘machinegun[s],’” a category of firearms defined by the ability to “shoot, automatically more than one shot . . . by a single function of the trigger.” 26 U. S. C. §5845(b); see also 18 U. S. C. §922(o). Semiautomatic firearms, which require shooters to reengage the trigger for every shot, are not machineguns. This case asks whether a bump stock—an accessory for a semiautomatic rifle that allows the shooter to rapidly reengage the trigger (and therefore achieve a high rate of fire)—converts the rifle into a “machinegun.” We hold that it does not and therefore affirm.

“What happened in Vegas, should be spread to all points of the compass.” — Uncle Clarence

As I’ve said before, I’m not sure it’ll make much difference. I saw a video of someone doing rapid fire by way of their belt loop. (I can’t verify it wasn’t faked, but it didn’t look like it).

I’m not psychotic enough to want a bump stock, but someone vicious enough to seek mass slaughter will probably find a way.

And the judge goes too ….$$$$$

Just waiting for a bump stock to be used in another mass killing. 10, 9, 8 . . .

Anybody who wants to take my flamethrower away from me will have to pry it from my hot dead fingers…..

No one is above the law except for members of Congress, 45, and Supreme Court justices. Just ask them.

Now lets fire up the RV and get outta here!

How much did they pay soulless Thomas to ignore 60 murders?

And wouldn’t it be ironic if one of his many admirers showed up at the court with a bumpstock. He could take out all of them in a matter of seconds. Some things just don’t make sense.

Clarence Thomas is so vile that he wants to eliminate Brown v Board of E#d and bring back “separate but equal”.

Repubs and their Supreme court lackeys will have more blood on their hands. Unfortunately, they seem to like that.

What part of “make no law” is unclear?

What part of “make no law” is unclear?