Arms and the Law

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.

In my shortwave listening days, I relied upon the BBC for impartial and intelligent American news -- especially on an election night. It seems to be the same now in the age of the internet.

Michael Bloomberg gives a great demonstration of ignorance and confusion.

He's by no means the only one. Captain's Quarters has a good collection of gun-related incoherence from pols, students, and the media.

As mayor, Bloomberg compared the NY Civil Liberties Union and a teacher's union to NRA, proclaiming all three to be "extremists."

An interesting history. I know for many years he had an A NRA rating, with good reason. He voted against the Brady Act, and for the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Firearms Act. Now, of course, he's running for the Demo nomination....

They needed 766,000 signatures, and only got 146,000. They've of course announced they will try again next election.

The legal problem is that the lower meets part of the regulatory definition -- it houses the firing mechanism and hammer -- and upper meets part of it -- it houses the bolt and is fitted with the barrel. Now it turns out that ATF has known about this problem for years, and refused to deal with it by regulation.

Story here. One of the changes is that the buyer can list their sex as male, female, or nonbinary....

It's been challenged in court, and the Florida Supreme Court seems skeptical. The challenge appears to center on the requirement that the referendum clearly state to the voters what the law would do. The explanation seems to say that already-owned guns would be grandfathered in and registered, when in fact the referendum would not let them be transferred, so they would have to be turned in upon the owner's death.

Turns out the mourning mother who stars in his ad about children' gun deaths... her son was 20 at his death and was part of a gang war.

Robbers pull toy gun intended victim shoots three out of four.

When gun sales are at record levels. Since it's not difficult to find hard data (background check numbers are reported monthly, and serve as a rough surrogate for sales, and total production is reported by ATF, albeit with a delay), it's interesting that the reporter gives no such data before proclaiming that conclusion.

Yes, Colt stopped making AR-15s -- because everyone else was making them. Yes, Ruger backed off some -- because it had been running its plants 24 hours a day, with three shifts of workers (It's always played the conservative hand in business dealings, and didn't want to expand the physical plant unless forced to do so).

What amused me was that I have been cleaning out a storage area (largely storing my papers) and had chuckling at finding a newspaper article from 1982, if I recall correctly, saying the same thing, that gun sales were falling and the industry was in trouble.

Story here.