Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he will continue his controversial “crime suppression operations” despite a Department of Homeland Security decision to strip him of authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status
I can’t imagine DHS has the authority to strip an elected official of their powers. Anyone?
Summing up the media treatment of NRA:
The Intelligencer Journal /Lancaster New Era negligently published a story that questions the NRA’s solution to the problem of “illegal guns” without calling and asking us.
My understanding from NRA folks I’ve talked to is that the press rarely calls them.
Mad Duck looks at vests that ID you as a handgun carry permit holder.
I think these are a very bad idea. And those CCW badges are a bad idea too. If you have a permit to carry a firearm, it does not make you a police officer. And that’s probably what someone will presume if they see these badges and such. Or they’ll presume you think you’re one.
To get something out of the way, the dealers who broke the law, well, broke the law. And that’s damaging. I’m not defending them. And don’t care to. They do more harm than good. But they didn’t break the law because they were at a gun show. They broke the law because they broke the law. That could have been done in private or anywhere. When people break the law, that’s not a loophole. It’s like saying that on the drive in I broke the 55MPH loophole by going 56MPH. And their breaking the law is some bad PR for gun shows.
There is no definition in the law for what qualifies as an ‘unlicensed dealer’ and it basically comes down to prosecutor discretion. Looks like some of those unlicensed guys had tables with price tags and were seen on tape discussing their yearly sales. I’m no lawyer, but that seems to fit the bill for dealing firearms without a license.
My issue with it is the fact that the investigation illustrated that you can break the law by breaking the law. If a person purchases a handgun out of state, they break the law. They have a webpage set up and a report in which they state they bought guns out of state (page 17). That’s illegal. Also, they engaged in straw purchases, also illegal.
Others:
Sebastian looks at the numbers.
But what about the transactions between private individuals (including some who appear to actually be dealers) that aren’t illegal?
Well, that’s sort of what it’s all about. Gun shows would be a first step at regulating all sales. The anti gun crowd knows that. But regulating all private sales sounds more ominous than closing the ‘gun show loophole’, which sounds bad since loophole is right there in the phrase. Gun shows are subject to the same regulations as any other sale. If you pass bills mandating all sales at gun shows must go through background checks and such, then you’ll have the parking lot loophole. And on and on. There’s a reason they won’t say they want to regulate all private transfers and limit the discussion to gun shows. People tend to support one and not the other. After all, who wants to run a background check on a family member they gift a gun to?
If you’re going to get your homophobia on and go beat up transvestites, make sure their side job isn’t cage fighting first.
ACK tells us that Bloomberg sent investigators to gun shows in Nashville to illegally buy guns. The AP report is here:
Investigators hired by New York City conducted stings at gun shows in states that have not closed the “gun show loophole” and found some vendors openly selling weapons to buyers who admitted they couldn’t pass background checks.
The stings, described in a city report released Wednesday, were conducted at seven gun shows in Tennessee, Ohio and Nevada. Those states are among the many that permit private unlicensed dealers, known as “occasional sellers,” to sell weapons at gun shows without conducting background checks.
A few things. Stings are done by police under color of law, which investigators from NY are not when in Tennessee. The gun show loophole is a scary catchphrase for lawful citizen to citizen transfer of a firearm. And occasional sellers are just regular citizens selling personal firearms.
That said, last time Bloomypoo tried this, the Feds were none too happy because he compromised their investigations.
Private investigators came to Tennessee and unlawfully purchased firearms. Now, if I were Bill Haslam, I’d probably come out with a harshly worded presser right about now blasting Bloomberg’s unlawful actions.
Update: In comments:
Notice that they stayed out of Virginia this time?
Update: In comments, Sean notes that the investigators could have been local. But there was that whole section of the report where they tried to buy guns while saying they were out of state and the dealers were pretty good about asking for drivers’ licenses. That would be illegal in the case of handguns.
Reader Jack posted about his prototype shotgun at the North East Shooters Forum. Quite educational. Here’s a pic of the shotgun:
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| From Gun Porn |
And here’s a pic of the suppressor’s internals:
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| From Gun Porn |
A look at the Mossberg Maverick 88 Shotgun. When I went dove hunting, I used a Maverick. It was accurate enough and out of a case and a half shells, it failed to extract a couple of times.
Teen shot and killed in Queens, which is odd because carrying a gun there is illegal. How did this happen? They put Plaxico Burress in jail and everything.
And in Chicago where handguns are banned, a teen is shot as well.
Tam:
If you have an M4gery with a collapsible stock and an MGI QCB upper, the whole thing can be stowed disassembled in a typical laptop bag
With pics.
A look at the FTC ruling and blogs. Meanwhile, Ann Althouse notes some issues with the ruling:
The most absurd part of it is the way the FTC is trying to make it okay by assuring us that they will be selective in deciding which writers on the internet to pursue. That is, they’ve deliberately made a grotesquely overbroad rule, enough to sweep so many of us into technical violations, but we’re supposed to feel soothed by the knowledge that government agents will decide who among us gets fined.
It’s not like they’ll be selective in enforcement, now is it.
NSSF’s long form video on AR-15s can be seen here. Says NSSF:
The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s educational campaign on modern sporting rifles has added a new long-form video (long for the Web anyway, five minutes) to accompany its 30- and 60-second messages. The campaign is designed to reach a wide audience in the hunting and target shooting community, with emphasis placed on educating sportsmen whose preference for traditional-looking firearms can lead them to misunderstand AR-15-platform rifles and to even describe them as “assault weapons,” which inadvertently lends support to elected officials and organizations who want to ban these rifles.
Ministry of Defence publishes document on how to avoid leaking documents. So, guess which document was recently leaked?
Why, yes. It can. Of course, it’s not a study. It is a bought and paid for piece of junk science paid for by the Joyce Foundation.
Large bird destroys a pair of Crimson Trace Laser Grips. And the laser still works.
In the Chicago case, the justices are considering whether the 2nd Amendment should be applied to the states by either the 14th Amendment’s due process clause (which applies to “persons”) or its privileges and immunities clause (which protects only citizens). The court should say yes, even as it reaffirms its assurance in its 2008 decision that government may still impose reasonable restrictions on the right to bear arms.
This is no time for the court to start picking and choosing when it comes to the Bill of Rights.
The last sentence being reserved to editorial boards.
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