eg. 'Congress defined a machinegun by what happens “automatically” by a single function of the trigger. Simply pressing and holding the trigger down on a fully automatic rifle is not manual input in addition to

a trigger’s function. By contrast, pushing forward on the front grip of

a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not part of functioning the trigger.'

It's quite mealy-mouthed...

Congress introduced the act with the aim of banning dangerous weapons that could fire automatically. The Supreme Court doesn't care that the bump stocks allow the effect to be the same, they are entirely interested, apparently, with the trigger mechanism and how much manual input goes into firing.

As Sottomayer says in her dissent: the 'reading fixates on a firearm’s internal mechanics while ignoring the human act on the trigger referenced by the statute.'

The Supreme Court's ruling seems to achieve a kind of double-think which says the bump stock, an accessory that is sold on its ability to automate the firing process to be indistinguishable in effect from a machine gun, does not technically automate the firing process and is therefore OK by us, even though indistinguishable in effect from a machine gun. 

I don't know what the fuck is up with this court - yes, Alito and Thomas are distinctly corrupt and operate from a world view based in ultra-paleo conservatism, but this is such a willful misreading of the Constitution that I have to think they actually like the bloodshed.

Also notable that the two Justices whose spouses supported the January 6th Insurrection are the two who are voting to make it easier to put battlefield weapons in the hands of civilians.  Wishing like hell that's just a coincidence.

After all, it doesn't state who should do the regulating.

Fuck these fuckers.

Part of this is ensuring that women and minorities have no agency nor control over their bodies, lives, education, or futures, and that the rest of us can struggle as much as we want but we serve (and survive) at the whim of our plutocratic overlords.

Side note: more likely, the first of these challenges will be "we'll take it under review" and fail to change their policy "while the review of the Court's ruling is completed." But the message to the Court will be clear: we're ignoring your decision.

This court is the most out of step with the vast majority we've seen in my lifetime (maybe ever?) and something besides handwringing needs to be done about it. They are effectively employing minority rule over the majority which is certainly not the intent of the founders the Repubs claim to revere so much.