9th circuit rules against gun rights
A 3 judge panel has ruled that it’s OK to violate your constitutional rights as long as it’s just for a little while. The rule they upheld is the 10 day waiting period, you know so you can cool off.
Here’s hoping Trump actually makes good on his promise to appoint pro gun judges, especially to the supreme court since cases like this may go there.
December 15th, 2016 at 11:30 pm
And if it’s 12 days? 14 days? 20 days? Month?
Were do they draw the line?
December 15th, 2016 at 11:35 pm
Background check when you bought the first firearm.
Background check when you got your carry permit.
(Soon to be) Background check when you went to buy ammo.
Background check when you bought your second and subsequent firearm.
How many background checks does it take for one person before you prove yourself to the state?
December 16th, 2016 at 12:26 am
The precedents aren’t turning out the way we’d like, and unless and until the Supreme Court gets stacked in a pro-civil-rights direction and we get some ‘a right delayed is a right denied’ action going on, we’re going to be behind the power curve.
I’ve got an idea for a revamp of the NICS system where, after the FBI passes you the first time, you get a card mailed to your home address with the details of the home state picture ID it is valid with, and otherwise has a serial number that is linked to the original background check. It’s basically like the Certificate Revocation List check that is used to verify the SSL certificates that secure all the HTTPS on the web. The important part is that you don’t check to see if a particular serial number is valid, but you get the whole revocation list and then you check to see if the serial number is on it. Nobody can tell what number you’re looking for. Nobody can even tell you checked. If you personally want proof of some kind you checked, you could write down the serial number and the issue code on the revocation list of the day as proof that you checked on a bill of sale. You could check it with a smartphone app, either the one written by the NRA or the one written by the ACLU (don’t use one written by the government).
Then Congress would just have to do some “regulation of interstate commerce” action and declare that this background check system is the only one valid for any form of verifying eligibility to possess firearms or components/accessories/ammunition thereof (and lacking one is not proof that you can’t, just positive proof that you’re not prohibited), specify felony level penalties for any other keeping records of gun owners, firearm serial numbers, etc, at public expense, and ‘regulate’ i.e. make regular, the standards of what arms are protected under the Second Amendment (‘all the terrible weapons of a soldier’ as the Federalist papers say) with criminal and civil penalties for violation…
And I’d say gun controllers would have a hard time keeping their organizations afloat, what with all their elected allies being in prison and their coffers empty due to charges of conspiracy to infringe upon rights.
Generally, I’m hoping for the day when I can experience what Conan said was best in life.
December 16th, 2016 at 2:08 am
@Timo – blockchain that list and you’re onto something.
Only other change I’d suggest is a completely independent “certificate authority” that has no ties to NRA (they know how and could do it well but everyone on the left has been trained to not trust them), ACLU (lefty and therefore thoroughly untrustworthy) and especially no ties at all to any government function at any level (more untrustworthy and corrupt than the ACLU). Reduce Pittman-Robertson a couple percent and put the difference into supporting the independent authority.
December 16th, 2016 at 11:53 am
“A right delayed is a right denied.” –Dr. Martin Luthe King, Jr.
December 16th, 2016 at 12:06 pm
“How many background checks does it take for one person before you prove yourself to the state?” –rickn8or
It should be reversed. State officials and agents work UNDER our delegated powers and they are our EMPLOYEES, so the onus is on them to prove themselves to us. The exercise of rights by a free people requires NOTHING to their underlings!