Shorter Sun Times: We know Heller said there’s a right and a ban is an infringement but here’s a list of infringements we think could work.

Typical tripe: gun show loophole, background checks on gun shop employees (note: felons already can’t work there), one gun a month (why not one a lifetime?), and banning regular capacity magazines.

In Philly, an anti-gunner thinks Heller is a good thing.

The paper of making up the record says of Heller:

But his [Barack Slippery When Wet Obama’s] muted response is also the culmination of a long-developing trend in the national Democratic Party: to tiptoe away from a policy discussion that they believe has caused them great political damage.

And in Canada:

We in Canada are so accustomed to thinking of handguns as some sort of specially infectious social menace that it has become shocking, even for a gun-rights proponent, to hear their merits — merits of a specifically moral sort –enumerated by the spokesman for a branch of a neighbouring government.

Barack LIBOR Obama, like other rich people, has good credit?

Shocking!

In other news, my rate is lower than his. But I did spring for origination fees. Of course, I’m also not rich. But I did know my banker. Hmmmm. Maybe they should investigate me!

Update: Oh, that’s because I’m white. Northern Trust is clearly racist!!!

Heard in the office:

He ain’t big as a fart.

Never heard that before. Ok, then.

More on the show here.

I need to catch that episode.

Via Tam and RideFast, I learn that long time commenter Billll has a blog.

So, he gonna take his agents’ weapons: weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them

The gun case in San Francisco is based on Title 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.

Joe notes their clarification. This could cost them some of their more libertarian leaning members.

Update: Well, cost them two folks already. See here and here.

she said tool.

Barack Giggidy Obama looking at Kathleen Sebelius? Not gonna help him much with the bitter and clingy pro-gun folks since she vetoed concealed carry. Twice. Fortunately, the legislature overrode her veto the second time.

Republicans were the party of smaller government?

DC Council unanimously got rid of the gun ban. It’s like they were forced to do it or something.

Anti-gunner goes to the range: She’s still anti-gun, but she went for a lesson on the handgun range. She said she didn’t enjoy it. Yet she was laughing, proud of her target, and had a shit-eating grin.

IDF M16.

S&W 66-1.

It is apparently surprising that half of gun deaths are suicide. If you’re not paying attention. Or work for the press.

Or someone may have been killed.

Insty notes: One interesting question is what the ACLU is going to do with Heller.

Well, we already know that they chose politics over civil rights:

In Heller, the Court reinterpreted the Second Amendment as a source of individual rights. Washington D.C.’s gun control law, which bans the private possession of handguns and was widely considered the most restrictive such law in the country, became a victim of that reinterpretation.

The Court was careful to note that the right to bear arms is not absolute and can be subject to reasonable regulation. Yet, by concluding that D.C.’s gun control law was unreasonable and thus invalid, the Court placed a constitutional limit on gun control legislation that had not existed prior to its decision in Heller. It is too early to know how much of a constitutional straitjacket the new rule will create.

Remember, they keep telling us we’re nuts to think the .gov might seize weapons.

If we’re crazy, why does the city of San Francisco have New and Aggressive Gun Seizure Benchmarks?

Part of their anti-gun tactics. They actually use that phrase. The honesty is refreshing compared to the usual We’re not anti-gun but . . . we’re used to hearing.

Update: Good thing the good guys are taking the fight there.

With bonus gay joke in comments!

A little conflict between a state rep. with a CCW permit and the airport.

In other news, notice how many folks are getting their activism on after Heller?

So, we’ve had quite the victory with Heller. As noted before: The Heller decision is not the call of victory, but a call to battle.

Within minutes of Heller, a suit was filed in Illinois. Other suits have been filed/announced. In other words, it’s go-time. Go-time requires money. Several gun rights organizations are active in these lawsuits and could use the money:

The NRA Institute for Legislative Action is the group at NRA filing lawsuits. Click here to donate.

The Illinois State Rifle Association filed suit within 15 minutes of Heller. Click here to donate

The Second Amendment Foundation is also active in various lawsuits. Click here to donate.

So, give these folks a buck or two.

Update: Note that I listed several options. This is a trollphylactic for anyone who wants to show up and say No way I’m giving to X because they pissed me off that one time when they did that one thing.

Update: And Cali too!

More from the convention. I forgot I had more. 10/22s:

Click to ginormisize.

Way back when, anti-gunners realized that they couldn’t repeal the second amendment. So, they decided to change what it meant. They formulated the end result from there and then worked back to achieve. Trouble is that the collective rights mythology was so twisted that if everyone bought it then its unintended consequences would have been quit amusing.

Heller pretty much ended this Creation Science. Says Scott Bach:

That such a question was even the subject of controversy, or that there were dissenting Justices, is a sad testimony to the state of our nation. It is also a testimony to one of the worst hoaxes and frauds ever perpetrated by gun ban extremists: the phony claim that the phrase “right of the people” really means “right of only those people in state militia service” when firearms are involved.

There is no basis for such an assertion. Yet for years, those unable to legislate the Second Amendment away have shamelessly pursued a scheme to interpret it out of existence by convoluting its words and rewriting its history. They have actually argued, with a straight face, that one provision of the Bill of Rights doesn’t really apply to all Americans – just to some Americans.

In fact, the collective rights mythology is even going down the memory hole at The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership’s website.

Christian Science Monitor gets its shilling on.

See, if my synapses fired like anti-gunners, I’d think there were loopholes in Heller.

Gun Law News looks at some quotes.

Kellerman’s numbers change more often than Barack ooh eee ooo aaa aaa ting tang walla walla bing bang Obama’s position on whatever is in the news this week.

That’s just those self-defense whackos talking.

We talked yesterday about how people will call you crazy for thinking someone from the .gov would come take your guns. Up next is American Hunters and Shooters Association endorsed (and only winner, just ask them, they’re very proud) Claire McCaskill:

“When’s the last time a Democrat knocked on anybody’s door to take away their guns?” Ms. McCaskill said. “It’s hogwash, and you have to start speaking up about it.”

Obviously, McCaskill needs to revisit New Orleans where Mayor Nagin (a Democrat) ordered taking away guns. Or that time in California when their DOJ went door-to-door confiscating weapons (again, Democrats). And, again in Cali, when Democrat controlled governments confiscated weapons? Yup, sure is hogwash!

I mean this distrust of Democrats by gun owners is unnerving. I mean, if only someone could go set up a group with a pro-gun sounding name like, say, American Hunters and Shooters Association that endorsed Democrats only. No matter what kinda gun banners they are. That would solve the problem.

Some alt weekly I’ve never heard of says of me:

SayUncle was outraged by the ACLU’s insufficient enthusiasm for the decision, and suggested that commenters “play spot the hysteria,” though a few apparently thought “spot” meant “create” (“The American Communist Litigation Unit,” “Is this any different than the rest of the Marxists,” etc).

This popular column (they tell me it’s popular in the article anyway, though it has thus far yielded zero hits) rounds up right wing blogs.

Now, I’ve read my post and, well, quite frankly can’t find the outrage. I mean, after all, I expected the ACLU to be shills. It’s what they do. In the past, the ACLU has largely been indifferent on the second amendment. This bit shows them as, well, openly hostile. And, of course, they get the facts wrong when they note things like:

the Court has described the Second Amendment as designed to protect the ability of the states to preserve their own sovereignty against a new and potentially overreaching national government.

A lie. Name one case.

the Court has historically construed the Second Amendment as a collective right

Ditto.

the Court reinterpreted the Second Amendment as a source of individual rights

Err, no.

It is too early to know how much of a constitutional straitjacket the new rule will create.

And some hysteria to boot.

If you’re going to criticize me, do so. If you’re going to criticize me then quote some of my commenters, that’s just stupid. And I still haven’t found my alleged outrage.

Palm Beach post:

Last week, the Supreme Court gave the National Rifle Association a split decision

Might wanna check your list of plaintiffs there, sparky.

By a vote of 5-4, the court ruled that firearm ownership is an individual right, even though the Second Amendment links that right to service in a militia.

May wanna check the rules of English there, sparky.

I didn’t see a need to read more.

In DC, after Heller, residents are trying to get guns:

Gun shops in suburban Maryland and Virginia felt an immediate impact from the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday that the District’s handgun ban is unconstitutional. City leaders said it would take about three weeks to iron out the details: Which kinds of guns will be legal, and how will the registration process work?

Someone will have to do something about that whole handgun sales to out of state people law, though.