Arms and the Law

Footage here.

Donald Trump's big sister is a senior judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Story here. Apparently the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has decided that gun owners are unfit to adopt children. I suspect the lawsuit will lead them to reconsider their bigotry.

Some sorta academic clown suggests he and some buddies might storm NRA headquarters.

It'd be like "The Keystone Cops Storm Okinawa." Amusing, but rather messy for the cleanup crews. Of course an anti gunner sees nothing wrong with homicide, that's not really the issue....

Bill Clinton for some reason was in Phoenix, and somehow heard that AG Lynch was flying in (in a private plane apparently), and they managed to have a meeting in a private plane about grandkids and golf. "He mentioned the golf he played in Phoenix..."

He must be a sturdy fellow.. it hit 113 that day in Phoenix. I've never golfed, but I'd imagine that when it hits 113, walking around in a big humid grassy field is probably not a good idea.

Here's a preview on Youtube.

Voisne v. US, handed down a few hours ago. Justice Thomas dissents, with Justice Sotomayor [correction, not Kagan, thanks for pointing it out] joining two of the three parts of his dissent. Parts one and two argue (convincingly, to my eye) the interpretation of the statute, part three argues that in light of the Second Amendment, the statute should be read narrowly to avoid creating a constitutional issue.

A thought with regards that "sit-in," led by "famed civil rights leader [Rep.] John Lewis" to seek more gun controls.....

I happened upon this study of prisoners sentenced for gun offenses, conducted by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The information given on page 6 had to be broken down and recomputed to get the data for Federal and State prisoners added together, but when that is done we find that, for total persons imprisoned on firearms charges, 57.8% are African-American. 69.7%, well over two-thirds, are either African-American or Hispanic. So Lewis and associates are essentially seeking to increase the number of minorities in prisons.

2013: Nancy Pelosi names Rep. Chaka Fattah vice chair of her gun violence (i.e., gun control) task force.

2016: Rep. Chaka Fattah is convicted of racketeering, bribery, fraud, money laundering and a few other details.

Why, you'd almost think that the gun issue is a legislative surrogate for the conflict between criminals and honest people....

Iowahawk makes a strong case.

"Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence of that America's newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters? Answers are elusive, but the ever-increasing toll of violent crimes committed by journalists has led some experts to warn that without programs for intensive mental health care, the nation faces a potential bloodbath at the hands of psychopathic media vets.

"These people could snap at any minute," says James Treacher of the Treacher Institute for Journalist Studies. "We need to get them the help and medication they need before it's too late.""

I mean, yesterday's piece by Gersh Kuntzman told me that his bruised his shoulder, rang his ears through hearing protection, and just shooting it gave him PTSD. Now this piece tells the reader that the AR-15 "can shoot about 40 rounds per second. Hunters can take out grizzly bears with two rounds." 40 rounds per second -- that's take a very quick trigger finger, and being a bit faster on the magazine change than I am. At a cyclic rate of 2,400 rounds per minute, it'd make the MG-42 look slow. And hunting grizzlies with a .223 is apt to be overly exciting.

What all this illustrates is that we should arm our troops with the mindblowingly powerful AR-15, and let civilians have the popgun M-4s and M-16s and SAWs.

He worked for a security contractor hired by the government to transport illegal aliens, and in the course of that passed two "detailed" security background checks.

Security guards at California nuclear power plants will finally be allowed to carry those nasty "assault rifles."

"Federal regulators said the Edison exemption became necessary after state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris was not willing to extend a state exemption granted by a previous attorney general in 2004.

"The lack of a written exemption from the current California Attorney General prevents the licensee's security personnel from having access to firearms and devices needed to implement the licensee's protective strategy at SONGS, since firearms dealers are not willing to honor the 2004 exemption letter," the NRC stated.

A spokesman for Harris, who is considered the front-runner for an open seat in the U.S. Senate, did not immediately respond to questions about why the Attorney General's Office was unwilling to extend the 2004 exemption."

Hat tip to Sally Sixgun....

1. He was a licensed security guard, working for a firm that provides security for nuclear facilities. So he passed (we may hope) some very tight background checks, and had a status that would have exempted him from most gun laws. (Even in DC, licensed security guards can carry. The peasants are to be trusted when they protect the nobleman's property).

2. He attacked (as seems to always be the case) in a gun-free zone. Must not have read the law. And this being Florida, home of "shall issue" concealed carry permits, gun free zones are about the only place where mass murder is feasible.

The question appears to be -- just which (and how many) gun laws did she break in making it?

18 U.S.C. §922(a)(3) makes it a Federal felony for anyone but a licensed dealer to "transport into or receive in the State where he resides" a firearm. Now, this is not violated when the transfer occurs; it is only violated when the recipient brings the firearms into their home State. So the film's producer has taken to claiming that they turned the firearms over to police and did not bring them back to Colorado. But--

18 U.S.C. §922(a)(5)makes it a felony for anyone but a licensed dealer to "transfer, sell, trade, give, transport any firearm to any person ... who the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not reside in ... the State in which the transferor resides." So a Coloradan couldn't generally convey a firearm to an Arizonan without violating this provision.

The Gun Control Act does have an exemption for law enforcement, but it doesn't seem applicable. It says that, with some exceptions the Gun Control Act does not apply to the "transportation, shipment, receipt, possession, or importation" of guns sold or shipped to a State. 18 USC §925(a)(1). This seems to insulate the State but not the seller (receipt is excepted, but not transfer).

I just received an email purporting to be from the Trump campaign and seeking donations. It was very well done, but (1) I'd never click on a link coming from a stranger and (2) it had my correct email address, but a wrong name.

I checked and found the correct web address for Trump donations is www.secure.donaldjtrump.com. The email link directed me to www.secure.trump2016.com.

The email claims to be from firedupconservative.com, which appears to be a registered url, created four months ago, that has no webpage.

It appears John Slaughter has been reincarnated... in the Philippines.

Now her director is on tape confessing to four felony violations of the Gun Control Act.

As Glenn Reynolds remarks....

Washington-area TSA airport screener turns out to be an accused war criminal. ""He oversaw some of the most incredible violence that you can imagine," Kathy Roberts, an attorney for the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), which is leading the civil lawsuit, told CNN. "He tortured people personally; he oversaw torture.""