Comments on: More on Machine Gun Sammy

By: damnum absque injuria » Sammy “The Bull” Alito, Lone Dissenter

damnum absque injuria » Sammy “The Bull” Alito, Lone Dissenter — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:42:00 +0000

[...] Via Uncle, the Brady Campaign to Prevent [Lawful] Gun Violence [in Self-Defense] rails against Samuel “Ilito” for “favor[ing] legal machine guns.” They also quote, without noting the irony, “Jim Brady, chair of the Brady Campaign,” while declining to offer any dissenting views from Xrlq, chair of the Xrlq Campaign, or anyone else pretentious enough to name a campaign after himself. Regarding Alito’s dissent in U.S. v. Rybar, 103 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 1996) they also offer this gem: In 1996, Judge Samuel Alito was the sole judge who dissented from his Third Circuit Court of Appeals colleagues when they upheld the authority of Congress to ban fully automatic machine guns. [...]

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:43:36 +0000

I love how Alito did not merely dissent in that case, he was the sole judge who dissented. As if there were some way two or more judges could have dissented on a three-judge panel.

By: Heartless Libertarian

Heartless Libertarian — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:31:55 +0000

Oh, and while, according to the law, the AK-47 and the Uzi are legally machineguns, they do not meet the technical definition of such.

The AK-47 is an assault rifle. The Uzi is a submachinegun.

By: Heartless Libertarian

Heartless Libertarian — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:30:06 +0000

Actually, there is no general federal prohibition on possession of machineguns. Only a prohibition on possessing unregistered machineguns, or machineguns made after 1986. IIRC, the case they’re referencing concerned a machinegun (I think actually another home-built, just like in Stewart) made after 1986.

Once again, the Bradys are either ignorant of the law, or deliberately lying and distorting for to scare the sheeple as much as possible.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:33:43 +0000

With enemies like this, who needs friends?

By: bill

bill — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:19:01 +0000

The lies finally caught up with CBS, they are closing in on the brady bunch.

By: countertop

countertop — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:10:05 +0000

Looks like just one more reason to support the guy