Senate approves panel approves the idea of a kill switch for the internet. This is a colossally bad idea.

I’m a fan of those rack-grade Garands.

LSAT light machine gun and rifle

5-4 is too damn close.

Volokh: Standard of Review for Gun Control Laws

NYT has some McDonald stuff, including a piece by Glenn Reynolds.

Libertarians respond

Thomas’ Privileges or Immunities Opinion

McDonald Comments and Quotes

Ilya Somin: Predicting the Impact of McDonald

WSJ predicts a flood of gun rights suits. And there will also be floods of frivolous suits as well.

Seen at TP’s:

The Chicago crime buffet is over, we are not prey…

–Colleen Lawson. Litigant. McDonald v Chicago

JJ, Denny and Blake can shoot. That is all.

Speculated yesterday what the SAF folks and Gura would tackle next. NYC, CA, NJ, MA and other communist regimes? No. North Carolina’s emergency powers law.

SAF press release here.

There’s a convention there too.

McDonald boosts gun companies’ share prices.

facebook integration. Take 3,728.

Illustrated by McDonald, Chicago was still arguing Heller. The court, in case they hadn’t heard, settled that matter already.

Also, apparently, a sitting Supreme Court justice does the same.

Here:

it shows how little influence legal academics have. Virtually all of us have been saying that Slaughter House is lousy and that privileges and immunities should be far more significant, but only Justice Thomas was willing to go that far.

I dunno, academics seemed to have an effect.

Paul Helmke declares victory. Wait, what?

Within 15 minutes of the Heller decision coming down, Alan Gura filed McDonald. I’m scanning for his name in the news and not seeing any new cases. Dude, you have a standard to live up to.

Kidding aside, I do wonder what is next?

Short version: Waaaaahhh.

Kinda ironic though. This past weekend, 26 shot in gun-free Chicago. Down from 52 the previous weekend. Yet, Violence Policy Center stooge Kristen Rand’s remaining brain cells squeeze out the following:

People will die because of this decision. It is a victory only for the gun lobby and America’s fading firearms industry. The inevitable tide of frivolous pro-gun litigation destined to follow will force cities, counties, and states to expend scarce resources to defend longstanding, effective public safety laws. The gun lobby and gunmakers are seeking nothing less than the complete dismantling of our nation’s gun laws in a cynical effort to try and stem the long-term drop in gun ownership and save the dwindling gun industry. The 30,000 lives claimed annually by gun violence and the families destroyed in the wake of mass shootings and murder-suicides mean little to the gun lobby and the firearm manufacturers it protects.

That’s a whole lot of stupid, right there. From the near complete divorce from reality to the hysteria.

But those on the wrong side of history usually are prone to hysteria.

Live blog and analysis at SIH.

Breda:

Today’s freedom brought to you by The Second Amendment Foundation* and this guy…

So, send a few bucks their way if so inclined.

Lots of stuff about disarming blacks mentioned. Someone brought that up before.

NSSF has a presser

Jacob Sullum at Reason has some more.

Heh:

JUSTICE BREYER’s dissent makes several points to which we briefly respond. To begin, while there is certainly room for disagreement about Heller’s analysis of the history of the right to keep and bear arms, nothing written since Heller persuades us to reopen the question there decided. Few other questions of original meaning have been as thoroughly explored.

From the McDonald opinion:

Municipal respondents’ main argument is nothing less than a plea to disregard 50 years of incorporation precedent and return (presumably for this case only) to a bygone era.

From Wayne LaPierre.

I have the 214 page opinion. You can get it here. Will commence reading soon.

So says SCOTUS Blog. Chicago loses.

5-4

Due process

Majority divided on standard.

Thomas for P&I

Chicago, welcome to America.

Tom at SCOTUS Blog:

When Heller was decided, we had our biggest day ever, by far — 300,000 hits. Americans care about gun rights.

To lighten the mood, list your favorite McDonald pun. Heller had so many good ones.

Busy watching SCOTUS blog for McDonald.

Not content trampling the second amendment, Daley tramples the first amendment. Pulls permit for pro-gun group’s meeting in a park.

Joe looks at gun cartoons.

Those that commit mortgage fraud charged with hate crimes for targeting minorities and the elderly.

Not enough performance advantage to justify the cost.