The US Supreme Court will soon decide whether to lift a ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that let rifles fire hundreds of bullets per minute.

The Trump administration banned the stocks by classifying them as machine guns after they were used in the deadliest mass shooting in US history.

Under the 1986 National Firearms Act, owning a machine gun is illegal.

The court will hear arguments on Wednesday in the case and is expected to issue a decision in June.

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    11 months ago

    If McConnell’s poisoned fruits somehow pull ‘full-auto is legal glhf’ out of their black-robed buttholes, we’re gonna have to repeal the second amendment.

    Y’all wanna say protecting people from gun violence is impossible, based on your interpretation of that… sentence? Okay. Bet. If playing along doesn’t work then we’ll just have to solve the problem.

    There will still be guns in that America. Most sane people will be able to get one. What we want is the bare goddamn minimum to prevent obscene proliferation that lets any maniac find a duffel bag full of murder equipment. You think that’s incompatible with a right to self-defense. We fucking don’t. And we outnumber you… by a lot.