I don't get the Alito concurrence - "Congress clearly understood that a bump-stock gun is a kind of machine gun" because plain meaning at the time of enactment comprised such a gun...but plain meaning doesn't embrace it...?
I don't get it - I understand Thomas' basic point : a bump stock requires more than one function because you need to…
I don't get the Alito concurrence - "Congress clearly understood that a bump-stock gun is a kind of machine gun" because plain meaning at the time of enactment comprised such a gun...but plain meaning doesn't embrace it...?
I don't get it - I understand Thomas' basic point : a bump stock requires more than one function because you need to release your finger. That definition seems to make basic sense, although not being a gun expert I know nothing about about the factual question of whether it does or doesn't. But what's Alito's?
I don't get the Alito concurrence - "Congress clearly understood that a bump-stock gun is a kind of machine gun" because plain meaning at the time of enactment comprised such a gun...but plain meaning doesn't embrace it...?
I don't get it - I understand Thomas' basic point : a bump stock requires more than one function because you need to release your finger. That definition seems to make basic sense, although not being a gun expert I know nothing about about the factual question of whether it does or doesn't. But what's Alito's?