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Ignoring reality in favor of weird essentialism to support your base, is like peak conservative. How dumb.
She's basically saying it's irrelevant that one trigger pull equals one bullet fired. That has nothing to do with "being a machine gun". That is just how semi auto guns work.
How would you outlaw this? You'd have to outlaw belt loops too because functionally they do the same thing.
Her argument is invalid. A goose walks like a duck and flaps like a duck and looks like a duck but it's not a fucking duck.
The idea that accessories like a pistol grip and stock choice and flash suppressor "make a gun into a machine gun" despite one bullet per trigger pull is simply not true and disingenuous.
Sotomayor should be ashamed. She's saying a dog is a duck if you glue on wings and webbed feet.
Its not one per trigger pull, since the action of the machine results in another round firing unless you move your finger off the trigger.
The bump stock itself facilitates moving your finger so the trigger can reset. Pedantic, sure, but that's literally why the bump stock was designed that way. High rate of fire while not technically being an assault weapon.