Arms and the Law

Not too surprising. As Don Kilmer has remarked, the 9th ought to adopt a Circuit Rule that any panel opinion striking down a law on 2A grounds will automatically be set for en banc reconsideration. It's what the court does, anyway, so why not save people the trouble of filing a motion?

It'd be interesting to do some calculations, given how rarely the 9th grants en banc, so see what percentage of en-banc cases are composed of pro-2A rulings.

Utah goes for permit-less, constitutional, concealed carry.

Montana expands gun rights.

A North Carolina court allows a suit for damages arising from refusal to issue handgun purchase permits.

The one that sparked the riots. The Seattle PD has released an officer's body cam footage, and it sure looks like a good shoot to me. See the enlarged video at about 2:40.

The host had a problem...

Caniglia v. Strom, docket here. Police, summoned after a non-violent domestic argument, searched the house without a warrant and seized two legally-owned handguns, then refused to return them. The question is whether the "community care taking" exception to the warrant and probable cause requirement extends to the home. There's a big split in the Circuits, and the Court granted cert.

It seems to be moving quickly: respondents' briefs are not due until Feb. 11, but argument is set for March 24.

Right here. I suspect most readers here already know all this, but it's a good link to explaining the case to those who haven't studied it.

in one article about guns and gun culture? I gave up counting. The illustration is appropriate.

The president of Federal speaks. They bought Remington's ammo plants through the bankruptcy sales, and are going to be bringing them back online.

Officer encounters suspected armed robber, wins ensuing gunfight. It happened in Tampa.

I've filed amicus briefs in them for Firearms Policy Foundation et al.:

Folajtar v. Rosen. Issue: 2A as applied to a person convicted of a nonviolent felony.

Holloway v. Rosen. Issue: 2A as applied to a person convicted of a state misdemeanor (DUI with a prior), which GCA treats as a felony (a state-designated misdemeanor, but carrying more than two years' potential imprisonment). Interesting aspect: under state law, his driving privileges were revoked for 18 months and firearms rights not affected at all, but under federal law he loses his firearm rights forever, for an offense that had nothing to do with firearms or violence).

GoDaddy deplatforms AR-15.com, without advance notice. (They're now back online). Mailchimp suspended Virginia Citizens Defense League's emailing account. It's done the same to the Northern VA Tea Party.

I'm increasingly reminded of this bumper sticker.

I noticed he stopped sending emails a few months ago, and did not reply when I tried to reach him. I kept searching. This is all I can find on him. The Deming, New Mexico funeral home didn't know what got him, just recalled that no one attended his services.

We'd been in communication since the days of usenet and talk.politics.guns, in the early days of the internet. He made a couple of custom knives for me, and they are beauties. He was an expert in the martial arts, had once gone up against Bruce Lee's sparring partner, who said "compared to you, Bruce was a little stiff." (He didn't like that repeated, made him sound boastful, but now I can say it).

Rev. Micheal Pfleger removed from parish after allegations of sexual misconduct surface. Hat tip to Sixgun Sally....

Story here, at Ammoland.com.

Pro-gun author Nikki Goeser had a lunatic murder her husband in front of her; while serving an all too short prison term, he has been harassing her with love letters. He's now been charged with stalking, a federal offense that carries a max of five years, which I trust he will get.

Notice here. Not that I ever gave a hoot. If ATF ever gets my sympathy, it is when they must interpret a 70+ year old statute with arbitrary provisions (who cares how long a rifle's barrel is? Did even the 1930s mobsters whack each other with rifles?) to American ingenuity.

By Prof. John McGinnis, of Northwestern Law, in Illinois Law Review.

The mall canned his ass. Good.

From the Babylon Bee, your most trusted site for fake news. I want one with the chainsaw bayonet!

Opinion here. An example of what gun owners face in California. Huge gun collection seized, government concedes it had no reason to seize, owner fights for years to get it back, and government destroys collection anyway.