Arms and the Law

Case in point, and another likely new gun owner.

accompanied by the message that the 2A guarantees against tyranny such as was exhibited at the Tienanmen Square massacre.

Or even a machete. Story doesn't say how he lost the blade, or why the employee returned it.

An article by my friend Dan Gifford. I have somewhere in my files records of Wyatt Earp and Johnny Behan being hailed into court in Prescott, Arizona Territory, for assault with a deadly weapon. They were separate incidents, not a fight between them.

Not the best marksmanship, but the best jam-clearing you're likely ever to see. 11 shots before the crazed perp goes down, with the memorable last words of "ow." Sure, no one needs large magazines....

Black Guns Matter!

For real First Amendment fun, someone should ask fora permit to paint that on a street or something like that....

Gun Control Myths: How politicians, the media, and botched "studies" have twisted the facts on gun control. Excellent concept for a book.

In June firearm background checks hit nearly four million. The true number of firearms sold probably was greater. A person can buy without a background check if he has a CCW permit.

I can remember a time (late 1970s) when total American gun production and importation was three million per year. We just exceeded that in one month.

Barak Obama and Bill Clinton have just fallen to 2nd and 3rd great gun salesmen in history. Antifa is leaving them in the dust.

"More than 6.5 million gun-sale background checks were conducted from January 1 through April 30, according to the latest NSSF research, which showed a 48% year-over-year rise from the same period in 2019. Firearms retailers surveyed by NSSF in May estimated that 40% of their sales came from first-time gun buyers."

When I started writing on the gun issue in the late 1970's, the US was producing 3 million firearms a year. In the last few years, it was six million per year. Now, its six million in four months.

Story here. It's a form of bankruptcy that lets the company stay intact and keep its assets, holding the creditors off until it can stabilize things.

In Michigan, 22 year concealed carry license holders shoots man who was firing his gun and pointing it at motorists.

The National African American Gun Association announces it has 34,000 members and 75 chapters,

Docket here. Justices Thomas and Kavavaugh dissent. I could not anything of their rescheduling these cases, some for over a year, and can make even less of then denying them all.

Just got the word. He'd been with the gun rights movement for eons. He left the only written account I know of relating to the Cincinnati Revolt of 1977, which created the modern NRA, and of which he was one of the team of good guys. Yep, he was an established activist 43 years ago. Good man.

Some thoughts. I don't have a clue, either.

June 9: Antifa takes over six blocks of Seattle calls it Free Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

June 10: They invite some homeless into their zone.... who promptly swipe all their food.

I wonder why they didn't call the police ... oh, that's right, I forgot...

My friends lost their son. I never had the honor of meeting him, but Stephen Peter Tylutki was a hell of a good fellow.

It's especially bad when the tripper breaks into an armed citizen's home and attacks his wife.

Story here.

The proposal is to do away with the police department and adopt a "transformative new model of public safety," whatever that is supposed to mean. As Herschel says, thank you, Antifa, for publicly demonstrating why the 2A is so relevant. And how the "progressive model" is insane as a model for government. Near five centuries ago, Hobbes laid out the core purpose of government: providing security. We all give up the legal right to victimize others, in return for them giving up the same, and government comes into being as a way of enforcing that. And, P.J. O'Rourke reminds us, after that comes putting out fires and fixing potholes in the road.

On May 31, 2020, the last Civil War pensioner passed away.