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GARLAND v. CARGILL 

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 

can shoot “automatically more than one shot” with an M16 
through  a  “single  function  of  the  trigger”  if  he  maintains 
continuous backward pressure on the trigger, he can do the 
same with a bump-stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle if he 
maintains forward pressure on the gun.  §5845(b).  Today’s 
decision  to  reject  that  ordinary  understanding  will  have 
deadly  consequences.    The  majority’s  artificially  narrow 
definition hamstrings the Government’s efforts to keep ma-
chineguns from gunmen like the Las Vegas shooter.  I re-
spectfully dissent.