Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson must have fallen asleep last night watching a vintage ’80s Chuck Norris movie as part of her preparation to hear oral arguments today in the Garland v. Cargill bumpstock ban lawsuit because her understanding of firearms is even less realistic than your typical Cannon Films production.
While I don’t have the transcript yet for you — arguments are going on as I write this column — the Firearms Policy Coalition has been doing the good work of posting highlights to Twitter/X.
(The audio is being live-streamed here, but I don’t know how much longer the arguments will continue or when the official transcript will be posted on this page.)
When it was time for the Biden Department of Justice to present its side to the Court, Justice Clarence Thomas asked what happens, according to the FPC, “with the trigger in a bump stocked rifle vs a full-auto rifle.”
Please don’t wet yourself laughing when you read the government’s response.
The government says that bump stocks allow you to shoot 600 times a second
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) February 28, 2024
My 14-year-old self, forever trapped in 1983, would have just one thing to say to a rifle that would let me fire 600 rounds a second: “BITCHIN’!”
Justice Jackson, with images of Chuck Norris killing an entire battalion of Vietnamese soldiers with a single magazine in “Missing in Action 2: The Beginning” still fresh in her mind must have thought, “600 rounds? I raise you 200 rounds to 800 — each and every second.”
ASIDE: Every time I read the words “Justice Jackson” I can’t help but think that’s what Action Jackson went into after he retired from the force.
Anyway, this was Jackson’s contribution to the discussion.
If you have 800 guns, sure. https://t.co/zNIsfQwtMZ
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) February 28, 2024
I dunno, maybe she wasn’t paying full attention and misheard the government’s ridiculous claim.
I’m not singling out Justice Jackson for any special mocking here — just the regular amount. Jackson was speaking off the cuff, and everybody makes mistakes doing that. While it’s extra unbecoming for a Justice of the Supreme Court to demonstrate such laughable ignorance about a case she’s supposed to be hearing with her own ears, the government took its time to prepare its case — they wrote stuff down and everything — and still managed to come up with 600 rounds per second.
Some days I wish firearms could do all the things that gun-grabbers claim they can do.
Do I really want an AR-15 that can fire 800 rounds per second? I mean, assuming I could find a magazine with that kind of capacity? No, obviously. The barrel would melt, the bullets would spray all over the place, and I’m having trouble imagining what would happen when 800 brass cartridges go flying out all over the range in a single second.
That one second would also put a serious dent in my .223 stash.
Still… what a glorious second that would be.
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It’ll piss off Justice Jackson, I swear.