Arms and the Law

(Title corrected, thanks) A two part article I wrote seven years ago on the topic. It was based on original research of the presidential papers in the Clinton Presidential Library. The plan behind the ruinous lawsuits against the gun makers wasn't just about putting them out of business. It was far more elaborate than that. It involved achieving most of Brady Campaign's goals through forced "voluntary" measures adopted by the gun makers and imposed upon any dealer that bought their products -- an "assault weapon" ban, limits on magazine size, reduction in numbers and harassment of FFLs, etc. All without legislation.

Even a drugged mental case understands the meaning of the muzzle of a gun. It's the universal language!

He wants them outlawed, but cannot say what they are.

Reminds me of a saying about the 18th century English: most were violently against Papism, without being sure whether it was a doctrine, a man, or a horse.

This is what comes of it. A gang-shooting followed by police having to mob the hospital to protect against an attack on the wounded.

I once heard of an author who had suggested that society survives because only a few percent of humans are psychopathic. If the percent rises above a certain small number, they take over and all hell breaks loose.

Story here. The Texas law has been around, if I recall, since 1871.

For decades the Supreme Court has a had a single "swing vote," and for years, Chief Justice Roberts was the "swing vote." The simplest way to determine who is the swing vote is to ask how often they are in the majority of decisions. If they are the swing vote, they will generally be in the majority because their vote makes the difference.

Looking at the current figures, however, it looks like there are three swing votes. Kavanaugh is in the majority 97% of the time, Barrett 95%, and Gorsuch 94%. Roberts is down at 87%. Given the position of the top three on the Second Amendment, it's going to be very good for the near future!

The Reload has a very good piece on the subject. Not much good news, sorry to say.

A 9-0, four-page reversal of the First Circuit, which had held that the "community care taking exception" allowed warrantless search of a home and seizure of a firearm.

At the Wall Street Journal. There is but one God, and John M. Browning is his prophet.

It sounds like everyone involved did just the right thing.

Not always true.

I guess he'll never make it to that anger management counseling appointment.

The Texas Senate has passed it. Now it goes back to the House, which earlier passed a similar measure, and then to the governor, who has promised to sign it. As I recall, the ban on carry has been on the books since 1875 or so.

An MSN slideshow inform the reader that "private dealers" don't have to run background checks, in the last 30 years changes to state laws made it easier to carry guns openly, that 14 states allow open carry provided you have a permit, that firearms (as opposed to handguns) cannot be mailed.

It also tells the reader that several states are exempt from federal gun laws, the 1934 National Firearms Act "prohibited the use of any firearm with a barrel shorter than 18 inches," that "Texas leads the way in terms of the number of registered firearms, followed by Florida," plus the usual propaganda. Pitiful.

Story here. Strange these folks don't recognize that it's hard to sell the public on an agenda of (1) release tens of thousands of inmates before their time; (2) defund the police; and (3) disarm the public.

Just saw NRA in Danger. It is frightening reading, by pro-gun members.

The Supreme Court grants cert., and it looks like it's a go, for the first time in a decade or so. New York may wish it had let the earlier appeal go ahead instead of mooting it.

The Florida legislature passes a pre-emption enforcement bill providing for attorney's fees, with a multiplier, and that repeal of an ordinance will still leave the plaintiff able to claim fees,

An Illinois judge declares that state's FOID card requirement unconstitutional as applied to firearms in the home.

And a California federal judge rules California's weird requirements for rostering guns for sale is unconstitutional.

A fine week indeed!

Eighty pounds of Tannerite makes a very big boom.

North Dakota joins the fold.

from Ev Nappen, who handles a LOT of cases of gun owners who run afoul of NJ laws.