restaurant carry passes in AZ.
Some interesting political maneuvering:
NRA informs us that Senator Jack Harper voted against his own bill in order to save it from being killed, which allowed it to be brought back up for consideration today.
Sullum: Sotomayor’s conclusion does not necessarily signal an anti-gun bias.
But I’d say it’s a pretty good guess.
Junior loves the show Fairly Odd Parents. Tonight’s episode contained this gem:
Timmy Turner: You mean, you’d let an unsupervised minor go on dangerous missions without worrying about his safety
Adult (handing him a gun): not without a really dangerous weapon.
Heh.
So, if I understand this correctly, Ahmadinejad is a right-winger because he supports right-wing ideas like wealth redistribution and class-resentment?
Folks kicked around idea of local municipalities banning weapons in restaurants. Someone asked the TN Attorney General. He says no:
No. While municipalities have broad discretion to regulate the sale of beer through the permit process as described in Tenn. Code Ann. § 57-5-106, a local ordinance banning “any person” other than on-duty law enforcement officers from possessing a firearm in an establishment with an on-premises beer permit is not the regulation of the sale of beer, but rather is a local regulation pertaining to the possession of firearms and is therefore prohibited by Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1314(a).
The piece at the NYT that I linked earlier was headlined: Tennessee Gun Bills Poke at Democrats, Washington
Now, it’s entitled: Tennessee Expands Gun Rights
I did a quick google and found out why.
Mitchell is making 20 round 9mm magazines for Berettas, Sigs, and XDs that fit flush with the weapon’s grip. Some sort of new spring design.
This year, your mom gave you $100 per year with which to rent movies. Which of the following is a budget cut?
a – Next year, you get $90.
b – You tell your mom the cost of movies went up, so you’ll need $110. She gives you $105.
If you picked a, congratulations. You understand basic math and home economics. If you answered b, you should apply for a job on the Knoxville News Sentinels’ editorial board:
We are in difficult times, but the budget cuts the Republicans made had less to do with the economy than with political power, and it showed a callous unwillingness to invest in the future of this great state.
Current budget is $27.8B. The governor proposed $30B. An increase is a bit odd given that revenues for the state are declining. No worries, says the governor, we’ll just run up the charge card. If my income is less, I spend less. Not more. The state should do the same. Those evil legislators want to cut $200M from it.
A state employee sent out a racist email. Said employee worked for a GOP senator. Many calls for firing the employee. But being a state employee, that’s probably not going to be easy. MKS runs it down.
Antiterrorism training materials used by the Department of Defense teach that public protests should be regarded as “low-level terrorism,” according to a letter of complaint sent to the department by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
I can’t do it. I can’t talk about guns or weapons without feeling sick and sad, even fearful.
A fabrication:
Using gun as defense seldom works to defend
Via Robb.
Seen at Joe’s, a police department instructs its officers correctly with respect to open carry laws.
Folks are wondering what it’s all about. It’s about setting up a potential legal challenge and, as our governor said, has little to do with guns. I am not a lawyer so take the following with a giant grain of salt. Most folks seem to think the bill won’t really accomplish much, at least in the short term. And they’re probably right. The bill is about establishing a legal challenge to the commerce clause. Currently, there may as well not even be a commerce clause because the courts have ruled that, essentially, anything that is involved in interstate commerce even incidentally can be regulated. And that includes guns. They are regulated under tax law and as part of congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce. For instance, let’s say you mined ore from the earth, on your land, with your bare hands and made a machine gun. In theory, that’s lawful because US firearm laws specify the items to be regulated had to be involved in interstate commerce. But in reality, you’re looking at ten years in club fed despite not really being involved in interstate commerce in any significant manner. The clause may as well not exist. And this doesn’t just apply to guns but other things as well. Couple that with the tenth amendment, and you have the basis for a challenge. Shane wonders why guns and not other stuff. My guess (and I’m no lawyer) is because there are enumerated constitutional protections to gun ownership.
So, what will the result be? At some point, a group of smart crackers is going to create a very narrowly defined case to challenge a federal gun control law within the parameters of the new law. In Montana, which has a similar law, a group of people are going to make a single shot, 22 rifle without a license. Then send ATF a letter asking if they can sell it. When ATF says no, they will sue.
A few interesting bits about Tennessee law is that NFA items are illegal in Tennessee but it is an affirmative defense to possession of these unlawful items that you have paid an NFA tax stamp and gone through the NFA process. So, when R. Neal says:
The gun fetishists want to legally own sawed off shotguns and silencers and armor piercing bullets and stuff without having to apply (and pay for) a federal license. Fortunately, machine guns and grenade launchers and nuclear weapons and the like are excluded.
He’s likely wrong. Tennessee law still says that possession of shotguns, suppressors, and stuff is illegal. Though I can’t find anything in TN law about armor piercing ammo.
One interesting bit is that the TFFA does define sound suppressors as accessories and therefore exempt from federal rules. But TCA says possession of silencers is illegal, with going through the federal process being an affirmative defense. So, there is a bit of inconsistency there. And I don’t know that it matters if there is ever a distinction drawn between sound suppressor and silencer. I doubt it. But I’ll let a lawyer deal with the inconsistency.
Also, Tennessee does its own background checks and does not use the federal NICS system. So, gun sales are still subject to background checks.
So, seems a lot of bluster for nothing, as of now. That could change though, with an effective legal challenge.
This did not happen because guns are banned in Chicago:
Seven of 11 pistols stolen from a police department in the Mississippi Delta have been recovered in Chicago, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in court papers.
Joe Biden on the stimulus package utter failure to stimulate anything other than the pockets of wealthy campaign contributers:
everyone guessed wrong
No. Some folks got it just right. The Geek reminds you:
Some of us were at tea parties wearing Gadsden flags like superman capes, telling y’all that you’re wrong, wrong, wrong.
Guns and teh st00pid. Go watch and be amazed. Honestly, can you not put a tripod down range? And here’s a pretty dumb bit of gun handling too.
The NRA has recently become more active on Al Gore’s internets. A few resources:
NRA Blog has been covering various events and is a great resource.
NRA Videos over at youtube has started the Grassroots Minute.
And check out American Hunter, which should be obvious.
And let’s not forget Guns and Hunting.
The NYT talks about Tennessee’s recent gun bills. Quotes the Paper of Making Up The Record:
“The Republicans are trying to embarrass the Democrats,” said John G. Geer, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
“They want to put these proposals on the table not only because they believe in guns, but they want to force the Democrats to come out as anti-gun,” Professor Geer said. “You can see the attack ads forming already. The Republicans have won this issue.”
Yes. Also, the high focus on gun rights this past session was not just to poke the Democrats with a stick. After all, more than half of these guys seem to support the gun bills. It was basically catching up after the former speaker Jimmy Naifeh (D-balled) spent years killing the bills with parliamentary techniques.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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