Robert Levy says regular capacity magazine ban probably not unconstitutional. Robb is disappointed.
I tend to think this might be a more academic response and, yes, now I think such a law might stand in court. But that will change. Glad Boehner is in charge.
Gun sales up 60% in AZ. People have asked me why gun sales are up. Simple, I think. They fear politicians overreacting and doing something stupid like banning regular capacity magazines or Glocks. Glock sales up too.
It’s kinda sad that it’s hard to tell the difference between The New York Times and The Onion.
There is disagreement as to whether the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, due to the part referring to a “well regulated Militia”, means that only in the context of being part of a militia can an American own guns or if the Amendment guarantees the unqualified right of Americans to own guns and implies that it is because they may have to be part of a state militia.
The press asks why people, good or bad, go with Glocks. They work, reasonably priced, and simple to operate.
At Salon, Why gun control is dead in America:
As the immediate shock of the mass shooting in Arizona subsides and the conversation turns to gun control, it’s becoming increasingly clear that there is little chance that new anti-gun measures will pass the Republican-dominated Congress.
But a picture is also coming into focus of a gun control movement that has been on the retreat for at least a decade, facing setbacks not only in Congress, but also in the courts and in public opinion polls, and of a Democratic Party that, from President Obama on down, has all but ceded the issue to the National Rifle Association.
Their funding is fading. Their influence is non-existent. Truly, no movement has suffered more from the popularity of political discussion on the internet. Odd what happens when both sides of the story are told for a change. It’s not so much we’re winning as they’re losing.
The new trend will be the left moving on from guns to mental health issues?
The shooter believed the government was using grammar as a form of mind control. He was bugfucknuts which, as far as I’m aware, is a bipartisan issue.
Since I’m not sure who you’re addressing, I’ll presume it’s directed at everyone, including me. But there will be no apology from me, David. Perhaps Larry has changed his mind on the issue and, if so, good for him. But Pratt is backpedaling and lying about it instead of admitting he screwed up. Because his staff was parroting the same line the day before his email went out alleging that he was misquoted.
In other news, I never thought I’d hear the term GOA Apologist, which is amusing having been called an NRA Apologist enough times.
Heh.
I can’t actually find it at Palmetto State Armory’s website though.
Gasp! That phrase offends. So we cannot use it. Or take seriously those who do.
Everyone knows that they’re not actually talking about Jews murdering children. Whenever someone prefaces anything by the offense at language, it is usually to minimize someone’s point or to avoid unpleasant confrontation. Sorry, that doesn’t fly.
Well, not really. I came in today and yesterday. And let me just say that most people on the road in snow are idiots. Snow still on a rear window acts as an idiot warning system. Like how brightly colored animals are usually poisonous and you should avoid them. I saw all manner of those in the last couple of days. But the major stupid today was the guy/gal in the Honda Hybrid thing that could only be bothered to remove snow from the driver side half of his front window. The car had a Dog is Love sticker on it. If you know that person, tell them the internet says they’re stupid.
And pro tip: if your vehicle is sliding on the snow, whichever way your wheels are facing when you come out of the slide is the direction your vehicle will travel once it stops slipping. See, in my rear wheel drive, lightweight car with a decent engine, I had no problem. Drive slow and take it easy. I apparently annoyed someone in a four wheel drive Jeep Wrangler who decided to ride my ass, flash his lights and then, ultimately, pass me. A bit up the road, I saw him on the side of it. I honked and waved. 4WD helps you go. Not that great for stopping when you’re going the wrong way.
The Sad Death Of Gun Control. It’s a good thing. Despite the whining from John at Gawker. But, you know, that’s what losers do. Whine. It’s tough being on the wrong side of history.
The undercover officer approached a suspected drug dealer in the darkness, wary that his target might be armed and prepared to strike.
So the Plano cop drew his gun from his holster. He pointed it at the shadowy figure. He tried to activate his gun-mounted flashlight.
A shot rang out. The suspect fell to the ground. The officer had made the worst possible error.
The Oct. 13 accidental fatal shooting of unarmed Michael Anthony Alcala, 25, in a Far North Dallas parking lot highlights what some experts say is the potential danger of affixing flashlights to guns – something many departments around the nation now routinely do. In this case, a light switch was directly below the gun’s trigger guard.
Sounds like an excuse for bad gun-handling to me.
Police drew down on a woman carrying in a church and arrested her. Turns out, she hadn’t broken any law and the police arrested her for, uh, something made up I guess. The police settled the federal lawsuit. I’d have added a couple of zeros to the price tag, myself.
“1911s are the perfect storm. They are expensive and need a lot of gun smithing to sort out their bugs.” He continued, “The design is a hundred years old, we learned a lot in that hundred years. The mag design alone is awful. Even Jeff Cooper would bitch about their capacity and reliability now. What the F&%k, it’s been a hundred years.”
Report here. I found this odd:
I had noticed in the classroom that each of the rifles had a big eyebolt – like you’d get from a hardware store – screwed into the front of the forestock; it looked like some kind of redneck sling swivel, but I thought it was strange; when we got to the firing line, I was amused to notice that every rifle was tied to the shooting bench with a chain padlocked to the eyebolt on the stock! Obviously they didn’t want anyone running amok in there – they locked the rifles up before passing out the ammunition, and by the time it was possible to get your hands on a loaded weapon, it was impossible to point it anywhere but downrange. You could only shoot offhand (standing up), and to aim the thing, you had to support both the rifle and the chain.
Never heard of such. Is this a NY thing?
William Saletan says the armed guy who helped subdue the Tucson shooter is a danger. Because he almost shot the guy who took the gun from the shooter. And almost, of course, means not at all:
But before we embrace Zamudio’s brave intervention as proof of the value of being armed, let’s hear the whole story. “I came out of that store, I clicked the safety off, and I was ready,” he explained on Fox and Friends. “I had my hand on my gun. I had it in my jacket pocket here. And I came around the corner like this.” Zamudio demonstrated how his shooting hand was wrapped around the weapon, poised to draw and fire. As he rounded the corner, he saw a man holding a gun. “And that’s who I at first thought was the shooter,” Zamudio recalled. “I told him to ‘Drop it, drop it!'”
But the man with the gun wasn’t the shooter. He had wrested the gun away from the shooter. “Had you shot that guy, it would have been a big, fat mess,” the interviewer pointed out.
Zamudio kept his head and made the right call. Which is what you’re supposed to do. Still not good enough for anti-rights buffoons like Saletan.
Indeed: IF YOU DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO HAVE CONTEMPT FOR GOVERNMENT, STOP ACTING CONTEMPTIBLY
Stop politicizing, and do your job:
Dupnik needs to recall that he is elected to be a lawman. With each additional comment, the Democratic sheriff of Pima County is revealing his agenda as partisan, and, as such, every bit as recklessly antagonistic as the talk-show hosts and politicians he chooses to decry.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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