17 Year-old is one of the country’s best trap shooters.
Aunt B.: And I felt like, with enough practice, I could have gotten good at that and enjoyed it.
And that, folks, is what the anti-gunners fear most: people enjoying the shooting sports.
Good:
A Judge in South Carolina yesterday rejected arguments by NYC lawyers and said that a civil suit against Mayor Michael Blowhard can move forward.
And I love this:
Defendants cite no statutes or case law giving a mayor from the state of New York the power or authority to administer, regulate, or enforce federal law with respect to federal firearms licensees located in South Carolina or to investigate compliance with those laws outside of his own borders
And, of course, Bloomberg’s antics jeopardized other investigations and his investigators broke the law.
Oh, Canada. Looks like Mugwug needs a wheelbarrow just to carry the government forms he’s required to have on him just to transport his firearms to the range.
Greg:
Tell me that legislation can stop this kind of crime, and you’ll be lying. Well placed 00 buckshot, however, will stop this kind of crime.
Legal issues with the Akins can be seen at past posts here. Now, one of the directors of the company has resigned and cited that the case cannot be won as a reason why.
I suppose all the folks who bought one now have a really overpriced stock on their 10/22.
Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children’s bedrooms.
The program, which is already raising questions about civil liberties, is based on the premise that parents are so fearful of gun violence and the possibility that their own teenagers will be caught up in it that they will turn to police for help, even in their own households.
In the next two weeks, Boston police officers who are assigned to schools will begin going to homes where they believe teenagers might have guns. The officers will travel in groups of three, dress in plainclothes to avoid attracting negative attention, and ask the teenager’s parent or legal guardian for permission to search. If the parents say no, police said, the officers will leave.
If officers find a gun, police said, they will not charge the teenager with unlawful gun possession, unless the firearm is linked to a shooting or homicide.
Discretion would be used if they found other items or illegal activity.
It made the news. No credit to Kim, though.
Update: Oh, and I scored for ammo day:
1 brick of Federal 22lr
200 rounds of Remington 223
Couple of boxes of WWB 45ACP
Andrew Pridgen of the Nevada Appeal:
With more guns sold and registered per capita than anywhere in the U.S., Nevada is a gun state – always has been.
It also is the gun-death state. According to the Center for Disease Control, since 2000, Nevada has led the nation with an average of 26 gun-related deaths per 100,000 people.
However, no one can seem to get data from the CDC that agrees to those numbers.
Boortz read Marko’s Why The Gun Is Civilization on the air. Unfortunately, he gave credit to someone else.
Joe has a look at their objectives:
Practical or Combat shooting or any other shooting practice which involves the simulation of real life situations and/or the use of human shaped targets to be banned.
Difficult to do if you’re not aware of the laws but one way to alleviate the hassle is to buy weapons in state. Now, there’s a website for in state sales of firearms.
Well, SC sums it up:
Red’s Trading Post and various and sundry gun bloggers and activists are urging everyone to contact the Senate to insist upon a “NO” vote on Micheal Sullivan confirmation as director of BATFE.
Just a reminder, we gun bloggers are meeting up at the NRA convention this year. List of attendees so far:
Who else is going? And, no, you don’t have to be a blogger to attend.
The Honolulu Star Bulletin thinks that the supreme court should uphold gun laws. Let’s look at why they think that and why they’re igorant:
Courts have ruled for more than a century that the Second Amendment allows reasonable restrictions on possession of firearms, but the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia has ruled that such measures are unconstitutional.
In DC, handgun ownership is outlawed. Possession of rifles and shotguns is heavily regulated to the point that you cannot have a loaded or assembled one in your home unless it is locked up and rendered useless. That is not a reasonable restriction.
Hawaii Attorney General Mark Bennett has properly joined three other state attorneys general in asking that the Supreme Court overturn the ruling to maintain public safety.
And the gun ban has done nothing for public safety.
In 1939, the Supreme Court agreed with decades of decisions by state courts that a sawed-off shotgun was not among the “arms” the Founding Fathers had in mind. The constitutional right to possession of a gun, that court ruled, should have “some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia.”
Err, first of all that decades of decisions line is made up. Second, in the Miller case, the supreme court ruled no such thing. The case was not decided and the court asked for clarification about a short barreled shotgun. But making stuff up is easier than thinking. And here comes the PSH:
The dangerous ruling does not directly affect Hawaii and other states but, if it stands, will “cast a cloud over all federal and state laws restricting access to firearms,” Bennett and attorneys general from Maryland, Illinois and New York contend in a brief submitted to the high court.
Bingo. Hawaii’s strict gun laws are in danger.
Parade (yes, that little rag that gets tucked into the comics section of the Sunday paper) addresses crime guns:
Even though crime is on the decline across the U.S., gun violence is actually on the rise. How do guns continue to end up in the hands of criminals? A small group of sellers is responsible: 57% of the guns used in crimes come from 1% of all dealers. Too often, they fail to run background checks or sell large numbers of weapons to traffickers who then resell them on the street. Due to weak laws and lack of enforcement, it can take an average of 11 years for authorities to order one shop to quit selling firearms. From 2003 to 2005, law-enforcement agencies reportedly traced an astonishing 1,424 guns used in crimes back to Trader Sports of California. The store had been investigated since the 1970s, but only last year was it forced to leave the firearms business. Progress is occurring, however. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the City of New York has sued 27 dealers in five states for engaging in illegal sales; so far, 14 of them have settled and agreed to stricter monitoring of gun sales and to tough penalties.
If a dealer fails to run a background check that dealer has broken the law. If a dealer sells a large number of handguns to one person (3 in a week) that info is reported to ATF. So, two strikes.
Also, if ATF wasn’t busy shutting down shops for failing to dot i’s and cross t’s, they might be able to go after bad dealers.
The ATF and others have noted that guns traced do not necessarily indicate the gun was used in a crime.
You can send the editor a letter at editor@parade.com.
Update: More at Ahab’s.
Only three prominent candidates answered Project Vote Smart’s questions about their positions.
Remember that guy that said we had to change the definition of privacy because, err, not sure why? Well, turns out the reporter got it wrong:
The reporter got it wrong. And we believed it because it was what we wanted to hear. We want to hear how dangerous the government is. We latched on to that sloppy (I’m giving her, Pamela Hess, the benefit of the doubt) reporting and ran with it. Shame on us.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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