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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Izger and I'm particularly

excited about this podcast and I know I say that a lot but it's because I'm almost always

particularly, particularly excited about the podcast and this is one where I'm excited

for non-supreme court reasons. We're not going to talk about Supreme Court cases. I mean,

to potentially some sort of, but no, not a Supreme Court decision or a dissent from a denial

of cert is going to be relevant but we're really going to be diving into a Fissure K case

on bump stocks. Now, the very small fraction of our listeners who are second amendment

enthusiasts just suddenly got really excited and the majority of our listeners who are not

second amendment enthusiasts said, wait, what? You're excited about discussing bump stocks

but hold on. There's a lot more to it than that and it's a really interesting case

out of the Fitt circuit on bump. Then we have a case about a mega hat in the ninth circuit

that I'm particularly excited about talking about not just because it's a speech case,

not just because it's involving teachers, another pet issue that I've talked a lot about,

teacher-free speech. I'm like over here on teacher-free speech island and have been for a while since

a teacher-free speech case, but it's also going to bring up some good conversations about manners.

And how should we approach manners and how it went and under what circumstances should we

take offense to things? And then we've got a really interesting thing to talk about.

FTC is issuing a rulemaking banning non-competes now. That might sound like

I glazingly boring, but it is not for reasons that we will explain. But let's kick it off with

bump stocks. By the way, y'all, David's just enjoying his last few episodes of host-him

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