Arms and the Law

Story here. A little late. The issue was over removal of restrictions on internet availability of the code to print the receivers, and as I recall the code is now hosted at several overseas sites. So the suit is probably vulnerable to a motion to dismiss for mootness and lack of standing (inability to provide relief, hence no case and controversy).

Of course, if the only object is to garner some publicity and create appearances -- by the look of the Twitter comments, that is succeeding.

Local Dori Monson:

"The two suspects in this downtown shooting have been arrested 44 times with 20 convictions and 21 times with 15 convictions. Marquise Tolbert, the one with 20 convictions, had three felonies last year alone. You tell me how someone with three felonies in 2019 is walking around free and able to engage in a shootout that kills a woman and injures a bunch of other people, including a 9-year-old kid. Both Tolbert and William Tolliver, the other suspect, are just 24 years old. They both have previously been arrested and charged with drive-by shootings and unlawful possession of a firearm in 2018. So the courts knew full well that these were gun-toting gang members. Why did our justice system let them walk free?"

The area's Congresscritter opines:

"I pledge to continue doing everything I can to fight the gun lobby and its Congressional allies who stand in the way of commonsense gun safety and gun violence prevention measures."

Founder of GOA, NRA director, political writer.

At the Daily Beast.

"Bloomberg, who's quickly moved up in national polls on an unprecedented tsunami of spending and despite sitting out the Democratic debates, represents, in a way never seen in modern American politics, the melding of oligarchal power with political willfulness. His campaign remains a wild long shot, but ask New York City how that can play out--and how difficult it is to dislodge this oligarch once he's in office, even when the law demands that he leave."

They denied cert.

Hat tip to Alice Beard....

Story here.

"It means that the approximately 360,000 licensed gun-owners in the Czech Republic are allowed to carry their weapons in public and use them in case of a public order emergency, such as terrorism."

The proposal for a constitutional amendment was approved 139-29. But they shouldn't have modeled it on the 1780 Massachusetts right to arms, but on the 1776 version used by Pennsylvania. Still, this is Europe, and we must give them time to get up to speed, even if they are two centuries late.

Story here.

"I'm here because I've seen how all of you decent, responsible, law-abiding gun owners are relentlessly, and I believe unfairly, demonized."

"I'm here because I've seen firsthand how an ideological hatred of guns and the people who own them is more important to some people than the actual goal of saving lives."

He left Brady because "I had a lot of issues with a lot of people who thought they were on my side," who would tell him "I think we should get rid of all the guns."

something on the situation in Iran.

A modest proposal: we are prepared to pound your aircraft, and nail your anti-aircraft sites with Wild Weasels and Shrikes. At that point comes the real airstrike. Not bombers, but cargo planes carrying AK-47s with ammo and small parachutes. We will blanket you with them (or maybe just your most rebellious areas for starters). Surrender now (in which event we'll arm them anyway) or face the consequences. The Second Amendment in action!

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.