Emotion over logic, the hallmark of a modern day lib.

I asked him whether Justices who own homes should recuse themselves from real estate related cases. He said “No, because houses aren’t dangerous and everyone needs a place to live”.

So, there you have it.

BTW, I call him ‘Bluster’ because he likes to yell about Trump. We actually get along very well. I clear the snow from his walks and driveway because he cannot.

Now that would make for some interesting reading….. especially when we have a NYC case regarding 80% (as well as our nonsense permit to touch let alone own a pistol).

“I think that any attempts to formally open up the definitions within the NFA would argumentatively expose other items to re-definition as well by pro-2A groups,…”

Suppressors are little regulated in Europe, often simply cash-and-carry, exploit that to get cans off the NFA entirely. They say they want European gun laws here, lets make ’em choke on that… 🙂

” But I also suspect that the Dems will similarly try to add the arm brace and “frame or receiver” rules to the statute. This could get messy.”

If I’m not mistaken, ‘Bruen’ held that the only constitutional gun laws were those in effect in the late 1700s.

Factory-built guns were eye-watering expensive back then, so the colonists often imported the critical lockworks from Europe and forged their barrels here. That seems to me to be a perfectly analogous fit with today’s 80-percent ‘frame and receiver kits being sold today, no? Home-building was going on from nearly day one, it seems to me., but I’m no lawyer…

I think that any attempts to formally open up the definitions within the NFA would argumentatively expose other items to re-definition as well by pro-2A groups, and the Congress critters know that (well, maybe not AOC and her lower IQ ilk). So this may go in that direction, or it may not.

WRT reopening the registry, I’d hope that if it looks like the votes are there in both houses to add bump stocks to the NFA (and thanks to a lot of GOP squishes, there likely are), the GOP leadership would at least try and horse trade something for it — getting rid of the Hughes Amendment, fully reopening the MG registry, etc. But I also suspect that the Dems will similarly try to add the arm brace and “frame or receiver” rules to the statute. This could get messy.

But other than blocking Garland from a confirmation vote, the current GOP caucus leadership has never demonstrated are sort of backbone or strategy.

All it takes is for them to hold all three, House, Senate, and White House, and they can add them to the NFA.

Would that also mean that re-opens the select fire registry?

On an unrelated note, did your eyebrows rise when Kagan and the ‘Wise Latina’ (*gag*) voted with the majority on the Starbucks case? Only Jackson dissented. I found that… Interesting… 😉