Arms and the Law

Story here. It specifically covers disclosures about their backing Mark Kelly for the Senate here in AZ.

"It's an imperfect system. I mean, I wish we would just give up the goat and stop pretending that like we aren't connected and we have to keep this firewall or whatever but like, that's typically how it's done. It's like this kind of beat around the bush kind of thing," he said. "But if we do that is because if we didn't it would be bad for everything we believe in."

Right here. Franklin Armory got Bushmaster, Ruger got Marlin, Roundhill Group got the remaining firearms businesses, Sierra got Barnes Bullets.

Right here. Interesting that it was prepared before the nomination was announced, so it nowhere uses Barrett's name. It's a handy template to be used whoever was chosen.

"Albany man rescued from Lake George by priests on a floating tiki bar."

Story here.

They're meant for persons fleeing California.

My host suffered a cyberattack that took days to deal with.

From Everytown:

:NEW YORK - Today, Everytown for Gun Safety released the following statements in response to President Donald Trump's newly released additions to his shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees, should a vacancy arise. The additions to the shortlist notably include Judges Kyle Duncan and James Ho, both of whom espoused an extreme and dangerous interpretation of the Second Amendment in voting to reconsider the decision in Mance v. Sessions, which had upheld a federal gun safety statute, and said they would have struck the statute down; former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, the attorney of choice for the NRA and its affiliates, including in McDonald v. Chicago, NYSRPA v. City of New York, and Peruta v. County of San Diego; and Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Josh Hawley (R-MO), all of whom have opposed common-sense gun safety laws like background checks on all gun sales throughout their time in the Senate:

"This list is a gift from President Trump to the gun lobby....""

Order here, in Aposhian v. Barr.

This might be Supreme Court material, not as to 2A issues, but as to "Chevron deference," the degree to which a court should defer to an agency's interpretation of the statutes it enforces. Justice Gorsuch has taken particular difference with the idea of such deference. This might be a prime case, since ATF initially ruled that such stocks (at least those not using springs) were not NFA arms, then reversed that and ruled that they were. Why is the second position less worthy of deference than the first? Should court turn a 180 on their read of a law because an executive branch agency did the same?

Some useful thoughts, from a guy who's been there.

This takes the cake: "Weary of NRA fear-mongering as schools brace for more violence" The author's, or editor's, lack of self-awareness is staggering.

I can remember a day when "vigilantes" meant members of a mob, attacking an individual. Under the current NewSpeak, it means an individual defending himself against members of a mob.

War is peace, freedom is slavery, victims are perpetrators....

That's NSSF's estimate. Of course that doesn't mean five million new activists, but it might just mean one million, partway thru an election year.

Press release and link to complaint here. On a quick read:

1) Venue is in NY since Everytown is located there? Federal venue, proper location of a suit, generally keys upon location of the defendant, not the plaintiff.

2) They tend to confute the definition of a firearm (which includes firearms that may readily be converted to fire a cartridge) with receiver (which has no such inclusion). The readily converted language is there because in 1968, some juveniles were making guns by converting starter pistols to fire .22s.

3) They don't to be able to define, any better than ATF has, the point at which an item becomes a "receiver" on its trip between a block of metal or a piece of sheet metal and a finished receiver ready to receive all the other parts.

4) This "ghost gun" stuff is a continuation of a trend dating back to the early 1970s: invent a cute name for a type of gun, and move to ban it. First it was "Saturday Night Specials," then "Snubbies" (snub nosed revolvers), now "Ghost Guns."

In the spirit of social responsibility, I would encourage everyone to ask "will this make the world a better place" before pulling the trigger. In the case of these shootings, the answer seems to be "yes."

An armed citizen stopped the robbery of a South Carolina Waffle House by drawing his firearm. Later reports indicate the perps were caught.

It's pretty dramatic. Majority are a Bush and a Trump appointee, dissent is a district court judge sitting by designation. Look for the motion for en banc rehearing.

Zoie H. v. Nebraska poses the question of whether Second Amemdment rights can be lost/suspended due to a conviction for which there is no right to a jury trial. In this case, it was a juvenile conviction, but I can also see it arising in the context of misdemeanor domestic violence convictions.

A summary here. Present law provides that if a background check is delayed more than three days, the FFL can (but doesn't have to) make the transfer. This bill would remove that provision; no transfer until the background check comes back.

I think the present rule (1) accords with the reality that the vast majority of background checks (99+% as I recall) come back with "proceed with the sale" and most of the remainder prove to be mistakes or involving ancient offenses; (2) give the government an incentive to process them at least moderately quickly, whereas if there was no time limit there would be no agency inhibition against understaffing the project and delaying the sales.

Story here. The issue is the city's order that its police force not use tear gas or pepper spray.