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[–] Blackbeard 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)
[–] FireTower 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

~~In that scenario the button is the trigger. Trigger is being used not to describe a curved piece of metal you put your finger on but the input device. The oral arguments had a lot around that issue.~~

See the reply below

[–] Blackbeard 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] FireTower 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're correct went back and reread it:

On weapons with these standard trigger mechanisms, the phrase “function of the trigger” means the physical trigger movement required to shoot the firearm. Pg. 7

Although it sounds like there maybe be edge cases where specially designed firearms are treated differently if they lack a traditional mechanism.

[–] Blackbeard 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] ccunning 5 points 6 months ago

Extending the traditional trigger’s function by adding more and more complex Rube Goldbergian designs just moves where and how the trigger starts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I dunno about a servo/motor interface being legal, ATF went to and fro over the Akins Accelerator in the mid 2000s before they decided that it is a machine gun because it added springs to provide the reset - thus in their view it became integral to the gun like a drop in auto sear, and falls under the ‘single function’ test.

The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The 6-3 majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas found the Justice Department was wrong to declare that bump stocks transformed semiautomatic rifles into illegal machine guns because, he said, they don’t “alter the basic mechanics of firing.”

The conservative majority that spent pages using circular logic to determine what a trigger is were wrong, and this quote is a prime example.

Edit: Hot damn, the dissent is an excellent tear down of how terrible the logic used in the majority opinion is.

This Court itself has also previously read the definition of “machinegun” in this exact statute to refer to the action of the shooter rather than the firing mechanism. In Staples v. United States, 511 U. S. 600 (1994), the Court noted that “a weapon that fires repeatedly with a single pull of the trig- ger” is a machinegun, as opposed to “a weapon that fires only one shot with each pull of the trigger,” which is (at most) a semiautomatic firearm. Id., at 602, n. 1 (emphasis added). A “pull” of the trigger necessarily requires human input.