Acting AG Whitaker signed the rule today.
I will be posting more, after I’ve read the entire 157 page document.
So far, the ban appears to rest on this:
The ruling determined that the phrase “single function of the trigger” in the statutory definition of”machinegun” was best interpreted to mean a “single pull of the trigger.”
They transferred the “definition” of machinegun from the device to the user.
More later.
ADDED: 12/18/2018, 17:27ET: I am working on a detailed analysis, which I’ll publish later as a separate post (there it is). It’s bad, but there’s some mildly amusing — to me anyway — stuff in there.
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