Arms and the Law

Story and opinion here. Initiatives require a description of the measure being voted on (and for which petition signatures were sought), and the court found, 4-1, that the description was inaccurate. It said that existing firearms would be registered and "grandfathered in" without disclosing that they could never be transferred, by transaction or will or otherwise.

Captain's Quarters nails it. They've brought the Second Amendment home for many uncommitted people, put paid to the argument that since police are there to protection you you don't need self-defense capabilities, why would you need a large capacity magazine, etc.

For former Dean Dan Polsby and prof. Joyce Malcolm, who have taken emeritus status at the Antonin Scalia School of Law, at George Mason University. Here's a slideshow to celebrate the occasion.

From Radio New Zealand: "Rates of gun crimes and killings using guns at highest levels in a decade."

Of course, that just means they should want more.

For pointing a Nerf gun. It wasn't even loaded.

A dissenting statement by Commissioner Gail Herriot, of the Commission on Civil Rights.

"This report should not have been published in this form. When the results of an empirical study don't come out the way Commission members hoped and expected that they would, the right thing to do is usually to publish those results anyway. Why hide useful information?

Instead, the Commission sat on the report for years. Then it decided to discard the draft written by our staff and publish instead a transcript of the witness testimony received at our briefing that took place on October 17, 2014 in Orlando, Florida (along with Commissioner Statements like this one). In that way, the staff's empirical findings could be buried forever."

And, for good measure, announces he is ordered some from China. I hope somebody points out to Remington that there are lots of places (such as rural Michigan) that are in dire need. Charity doesn't begin at home when you have a governor like that.

Tulsa: Potential mass killer stopped by gun owner with a concealed carry permit.

The move comes in the wake of litigation filed by Firearms Policy Coalition. Good.

When you check out at the supermarket, drug store, etc. you must punch in numbers on a keypad. Even if you pay cash, you must punch in your phone number. On the same keypad that hundreds of people have used before you.

My idea: I had some nitrile gloves. I took scissors and cut the finger and thumb parts from each. Now when I check out I just slide one over my right index finger and discard it as I leave the store. This way I get five uses for each glove.

I was just down at Ace Hardware, which here sells ammo. The cashier said there was a big run on ammo. An FFL just told me that the wholesale price of a new AR went up 25-30%, meaning that dealer wholesale is now where the retail price was a few weeks ago. That is also true of much ammo.

Captain's Quarters has the report, together with some interesting analysis of the computational issues.

Story here. I've confirmed it with a director. Sounds like at least parts of it will be rescheduled.

Pretty much inevitable, you don't want 80,000 people assembling in a crowd, with perhaps half of them flying in.

I was just down to a grocery store here, it was pretty insane. Quite a few shelves empty, only a few packs of toilet paper left. One woman wearing a mask, one guy pushing a shopping cart full of bottled water. (Why? I can only guess he read somewhere that in event of natural disaster you want it). And this county has had exactly one case of coronavirus, on the edge of town, and the guy self-isolated with no problem.

Not a typo. Palmetto State Armory has it.

Joe Biden tells pro-gun auto worker "You're full of Sh_t,, gets into shouting match, poking finger at him, asks if he wants to take this outside.

GoA comes up with one nice idea. He did make a threatening statement in public, after all, and to a mob right outside their place of employment. But we all know that laws are for the little people...

On Ammo.com, a long and detailed history of the agency, and where it went wrong. Time after time after time....

It was filed against Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams, who spoke out against the law.

The law's defenders are quoted as saying the fact that the judge didn't sign an order is proof the law has solid safeguards. Since the inmate made very clear against whom he wanted the order, and why, the only thing established is that the judge actually read the petition.

Story here. Of course I live in a state where "get off my land" is accepted as an implicit threat of use of deadly force, whereas in California if you drew under these circumstances it'd be treated as a horrific offense. On the other hand, the DA may learn....

"150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability...." As one commentator there notes, he's only off by a bit over 149.9 million.