Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1.  @Ali-e5h1b  But it doesn't operate anything like a machine gun. To extend the analogy it's a duck-like creature that flies by magnetic levitation. Is that still a duck?
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  2.  @russheins6458  It doesn't move your finger, it moves the receiver relative to your finger while another part of the stock holds your finger in place. The forward pressure by your off-hand is what pulls the trigger. But it is still the case that the gun fires once and only once every time the trigger is pulled. Since a machine gun is defined by the NFA as a gun that fires multiple times with one pull of the trigger, ATF is essentially arguing about what the definition of "is" is to make their case.
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  3. It doesn't mean anything other than that the POTUS is as usual talking out his a**.
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  4.  @brucew7062  yes, I can predict the future of this idiotic proposal very easily: it will come to nothing but talk - like all the nonsense Trump spouts. We're still waiting for Mexico to pay for that wall.
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  5. Mexico's going to pay for that wall any day now, you'll see! (j/k)
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  6.  @martinedeards5424  Nah, I'm too honest to actually practice, I earn my living in other ways.
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  7. The world court is a joke - and a very unfunny one at that.
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  8.  @brucew7062  No, you can't. Everything in the US is guarded by the US military, so there is effectively a military presence across the entire US. Because the US is a comparatively stable country, for most of it that presence can be at a distance, but don't think for a moment you could get anything done in the US without the constant efforts of millions of service members, National Guard members, and of course police officers to keep the peace. And Gaza is about the least stable place on the planet, so there's no way that military presence can be 1,000 or even 20 miles away. "This could be a great financial opportunity for the Palestinians if they can just behave, maintain peace" If they could behave and maintain peace this whole problem would have been solved very easily 50 years ago.
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  9.  @jefflovinfishin621  Mexico. Greenland/Denmark. Canada. How many more do you need?
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  10.  @brucew7062  I agree, but it will fail. They refuse to be the least bit rational. They're already talking about what a big victory this war was for Hamas - there was a story about it in the NY Times today. And there's nothing Trump or anyone else from the outside world can do to change that.
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  11. Same here. I've hated them ever since law school.
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  12. Pretty sure Bibi has promised him they'll take care of it, only when the dust settles it will be Israeli settlers and not American investors who hold Gaza.
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  13.  @stringedaz  Sure. But the statute does not say "acts like a machine gun" or "fires more rapidly than it could be without the device," it says "fires more than one round for each operation of the trigger," and a gun with a bump stock does not do that. It's all about the text of the statute. Congress can expand the statutory definition if it chooses to, administrative agencies like ATF cannot.
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  14. Other Arab countries don't give a s**t about the Palestinians. They like for the Palestinians to be miserable because it gives them something to use to distract their own people from their governments' incompetence and corruption.
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  15.  @evanr7782  Most of our military budget goes to pay and benefits for service members since we can't just conscript people like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea do.
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  16. The wealthy Arab governments don't give a s**t about the citizens of the Gaza Strip, they never have and never will.
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