Ruling. The oral argument is an hour and 30 minutes. We will hear arguments first in case garland v. Cargo. To fire a rifle fitted with a bump stock, the shooter faces his trigger finger on the builtin finger ledge and uses his other hand to press the rifle forward. As long as they maintain steady forward pressure, the rifle will fire continuously until it runs out of bullets and will empty a 100 round magazine in about 10 seconds. Those weapons do exactly what congress meant to prohibit when it enacted the prohibition on machine guns, and those weapons are machine guns because they satisfy both parts of the definition. First, a rifle with a bump stock fire is more than one shot with a single usage of the trigger. A function of the trigger happens when some act by the shooter starts a firing sequence. With a semi automatic rifle, it fires one shot for each action of the trigger because the shooter has to pull and release the trigger for every shot. A bump stock eliminates those movemen
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In some instances during the war in gaza. The document says however that the Us Government does not have complete information to verify its assessment. It also finds that, despite israel not fully cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. Its been a difficult week for Us Israel Relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion in to rafah a densely populated area where over one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our correspondent tom bateman has been at the Us State Department and sent this update. This report has been three months in the making with President Biden under growing pressure from human rights organisations, from the partys Democratic Base over the way that the weapons were being used by the israelis in gaza. Wha
Thanks for watching. Claire, can you please explain how the remote Public Comment will be handled today . Thank you, madam chairman. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Each member of the public will be allowed three minutes to speak for those attending in person. Opportunity to speak during the Public Comment period will be made available here in room 400 city hall. For those attending remotely, Public Comment period can also be provided via phone call by calling. 14156550001. Again, the phone number. Is 14156550001 access code. Is. 2663 095878. For again access code. Is 266 a3095878. For followed by the pound sign then press pound again to join as an attendee when your item of interest comes up, press star three to raise your hand to be added to the Public Comment line. Public comment is also available via the webex client application. Use the webex link on the agenda to connect and press the raised hand button to be added to the Public Comment line for deta
Thanks for watching. Claire, can you please explain how the remote Public Comment will be handled today . Thank you, madam chairman. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Each member of the public will be allowed three minutes to speak for those attending in person. Opportunity to speak during the Public Comment period will be made available here in room 400 city hall. For those attending remotely, Public Comment period can also be provided via phone call by calling. 14156550001. Again, the phone number. Is 14156550001 access code. Is. 2663 095878. For again access code. Is 266 a3095878. For followed by the pound sign then press pound again to join as an attendee when your item of interest comes up, press star three to raise your hand to be added to the Public Comment line. Public comment is also available via the webex client application. Use the webex link on the agenda to connect and press the raised hand button to be added to the Public Comment line for deta