Supreme Court Justice Makes Insanely False Gun Claim

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson seems to think bump stocks turn rifles into the fastest firing weapons ever designed.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case to determine whether the federal ban on bump stocks issues by the ATF will stand or be struck down. The core of the issue is the ATF - not Congress - issued a ruling to ban them. Congress is supposed to make the laws. The ATF enforces them.

Now, the Supreme Court will decide if the ATF's ruling following the Las Vegas shooting has any merit. Unfortunately, the case resulted in some incredibly cringe moments and misinformation being spread.

Supreme Court hears case on bump stocks. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes an absurd gun claim.

A bump stock is a piece of cheap plastic that replaces a rifle's regular stock, and uses a weapon's natural recoil to increase the rate of fire by driving the trigger back to the shooter's finger. The weapon still needs the trigger pulled for every shot, but it does allow an increase in how that can happen. The newest Supreme Court Justice is under the impression it can fire at a rate no human has ever seen before.

"The function of this trigger is to cause this kind of damage, 800 rounds a second or whatever," Justice Jackson incorrectly claimed during the Wednesday oral arguments.

She then did it again seconds later when she stated, "It can function in the same way insofar as it automatically allows for 800 rounds to be released."

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes false claim on bump stocks during Supreme Court hearing. (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

That's right, folks. Ketanji Brown Jackson thinks a bump stock is capable of a gun being able to fire "800 rounds a second or whatever," which translates to 48,000 rounds a minute. It's such a comically false and absurd claim that I had to triple check to make sure it was real.

For comparison, the M134 minigun - a brutal and ruthless weapon on the battlefield - has a known rate of fire at 100 rounds a second. KBJ thinks bump stocks can 8x that rate of fire. In reality, the rate of fire is somewhere around 600 rounds a minute on average for a weapon with a bump stock.

To make matters even more embarrassing for the Justices on the court, Justice Sotomayor felt the need to ask why anyone with arthritis should even be allowed to possess weapons with high rates of fire.

"Why would even a person with arthritis, why would Congress think they needed to shoot 400 to 7 or 800 rounds of ammunition under any circumstance," Sotomayor asked. Apparently, you lose your Second Amendment rights if you have arthritis in her mind.

Ladies and gentlemen, these two women are capable of upholding or striking down gun laws that impact your lives. One thinks rights can be stripped because of arthritis, and the other thinks bump stocks create the fastest rate of fire in human history.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson falsely claimed bump stocks allow guns to fire 800 rounds a second. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images)

It's also worth noting these rates of fire also don't mean anything when it comes to total firepower, because the standard AR-15 and AK-47 magazine holds 30 rounds. You can't fire ammo you don't have. Having a rate of fire of 600 rounds a minute is awesome. It also means you'll have to reload 20 times before hitting your 600th shot. Of course, everyone who has any experience with guns knows this. Clearly, KBJ doesn't, and I'm not even sure what Sotomayor is talking about when it comes to arthritis. Just complete nonsense. Let me know if you agree at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.