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When I see an animal that looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and lays eggs like a duck…

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…I see a duck-billed platypus. Cf. Garland v. Cargill (Sotomayor, J., dissenting) ("When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."). Alas, a platypus does not quack.

But it is not pleasant when a duck meets the single function of a trigger.

Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and the President of the Harlan Institute. Follow him @JoshMBlackman.