Arms and the Law

From the Babylon Bee, your most trusted fake news source: "Poll: Majority Want Impeachment Hearings To Continue As Long As Possible So Congress Will Be Too Busy To Meddle With Our Lives."

Just discovered it here.

No surprises here. Just list every form of gun control proposed in the last twenty years, and you'll have it.

Gun turned in and supposedly destroyed in a Chicago "gun buy back" mysteriously appears next to a gang member shot by police.

Hat tip to Instapundit....

Re: the school shooting in California (yes, the state Brady Campaign rates highest for gun restrictions):

"However, it's a fact that you can have universal background checks, a ten day waiting period on firearms purchases, background checks on ammunition purchases, an "assault weapons" ban, microstamping, a "high capacity" magazine ban, red flag laws, "safe storage" laws, age restrictions on purchasing firearms, and dozens of other gun control laws and still have an attack like this happen."

Victim uses battle axe to stop home intruder. I'd have expected much better results against an unarmored intruder.

Police Arrest AR-15, let mass shooter go free.

"It's 3 pm. Do you know where your assault rifle is?" [a CDC official] cautioned.

The assault rifle has been charged with several counts of murder, assault, and domestic terrorism, and will be tried as an adult, sources confirmed.

At publishing time, the shooter had decided not to use a gun for his next mass attack so that he will get full credit for it."

and again--

"CNN Criticizes Pregnant Woman For Shooting Poor, Defenseless Man Who Was Simply Seeking Asylum In Her Home"

Story here. I'd raise a further question. Since the robber had recently worked there, he'd be recognized by the employees, and all his personal data is in the files. They had a robbery here (may have been a Pizza Hut, too) where the robbers tried to solve the problem by murdering all the employees.

In New Hampshire. It's at about the 30 second mark of that video.

""I believe in the second amendment but nobody says you can have a rounds -- a magazine with a hundred clips in it -- a hundred [fumbling for words] bullets in it. We protect geese more that we protect, no joke, you can only have three shotgun shells when you go shoot for geese."

Amusing that he begins by asking "We don't have the courage to take on the NRA?" and ends with "We stand for unity, not division."

Earlier, in Iowa: ""The idea that we don't have elimination of assault-type weapons, magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them. It's absolute mindless."

Interesting to compare him speaking six years ago: he's quite coherent. Wrong, but coherently wrong.

This letter from ATF.

A relative of the folks massacred in Mexico speaks out:

"These things are happening here in Mexico because people can't protect themselves because by law they're not allowed to own these guns.

So since the government isn't doing their job of protection in the way that they should, these cartels can just wreak havoc and the people are left defenseless."

In Florida, US Rep. Darren Soto is stumping for gun control, speaking alongside a state legislative candidate, Elizabeth McCarthy, who describes herself as a doctor who on the night of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting "'removed 77 bullets from 32 people," McCarthy said as she showed to the public bullets extracted from bodies.

It turns out she isn't a doctor, and her RN certification expired ten years ago. Oh, and her claimed education doesn't check out either, nor does her claimed sports career.

David Codrea has created one, which is explained at the link. The point is that the White House website describes the Second Amendment as "giving" a right to arms, when it guarantees a right, rather than creates one.

Looks like he's already got nearly a thousand signatures, but it takes a hundred thousand to earn a response. After you sign, you get an email asking you to confirm.

If you simply must wave a gun while smoking pot, don't post a rap video of it to Facebook.

Story here. That's strange. I thought their "stringent gun laws" prevented bad guys from getting guns. If those laws are failing, I'm sure this new one will be equally effective.

Today's ruling in Rehaif v. United States. Defendant was a person who overstayed a visa and thus became an illegal alien, and a prohibited person under the GCA. He visited a gun range and shot at it. The GCA provides for the punishment of anyone who "knowingly" possesses a gun while he is prohibited person. Question: does that mean the person must 1. know that he possess a gun and know that he is a prohibited person, or just that he knows he possessed a gun whether or not he knew he was prohibited? The Supreme Court, 7-2, says he must know both things. Good language about how courts should assume that legislatures wanted intent to be something close to he knew he was breaking the law, and rejecting the theory that "regulatory" offenses don't require intent (which the Court correctly notes must be limited to regulatory offenses that carry minor punishments. The government doesn't have to show a driver knew he was breaking the speed limit, but here the offense carries ten years in prison).

Joe Biden proposes to require guns to read fingerprints and DNA, because he saw that in a James Bond movie. I think Judge Dredd shoots down that idea....

Story here, in Reason Online. Congrats to Don Kilmer and Chuck Michel on the win!

A couple of weeks ago I reported the case of a New York resident who shot two home invaders, and then was arrested on felony charges because the gun he used, which he'd inherited from his father, was not registered. He now has a Gofundme page, which has already exceeded its total requested.

Hat tip to David Codrea for the story.

With twenty entrants.... so far in the lead are:

Eric Swalwell, who proposes national gun registration, background checks for ammo purchases, a suppressor ban, and in a bid to pull ahead of the pack, a federal ban on states allowing teachers to be armed. Plus confiscation of "assault weapons."

Cory Booker, who is trying to win by sheer mass, wants 14 different forms of gun control, including license to own guns, micro stamping, ban "assault weapons" and "high capacity magazines," outlaw private sales (although why that would be necessary if all owners had to be licensed) and "one gun a month."

Kamala Harris is actually trailing in the competition, only proposing a few bans, plus "executive action" that violates the law, and repeal of the Lawful Commerce in Firearms Act.