Constitutional Law

The Todd Jarrett grip

Posted on September 05, 2008
Captain of a Crew of One has an excellent visual depiction of the hold that Todd Jarrett teaches at Blackwater. It's not Weaver, more Isoceles, and involves a more extensive weak hand grip over the strong hand. Considering that he's the world's practical pistol champion, there is much to be said for it...

What doesn't work in Chicago won't work in Cheyenne

Posted on September 05, 2008
Chicago's handgun ban seems functioning as expected: 125 homicides over the summer, more than the KIAs in Iraq. Glenn Reynolds suggests that with escalating violence and a corrupt regime, maybe we should just pull out of Chicago. One of the latest: four gang members charged in murder of 10 year old girl...

Not recommended to the prudent

Posted on September 05, 2008
Even if a perp has a shotgun, he shouldn't get between a mother and her kids. Fortunately, the perp couldn't comprehend that the safety was on, which enabled the mother to grab the barrel, and the father to get it away from him and blast him. Hat tip to Bernie Oliver...

Upcoming law review articles on Heller

Posted on September 04, 2008
Nelson Lund, Heller and Second Amendment Precedent argues that Heller erred in trying to reconcile its result with US v. Miller, when it should simply have recognized that Miller was wrongly decided. Nelson Lund, Anticipating the Second Amendment Incorporation: The Role of the Inferior Courts argues that the 2nd Amendment should be incorporated into the 14th, and applied to the States, and that lower courts should not rely upon anti-incorporation case law and upon "it's up to the Supremes to change things...

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Sandy Froman interviewed

Posted on September 04, 2008
Video here. Topic is the Palin nomination.

Another Bloomberg Mayor becomes a prohibited person

Posted on September 04, 2008
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleads to two felonies. He'll resign, turn over his pension to the city as restitution, serve 120 days. The charges are based on perjury during a civil police whistleblower trial, and in denying that he tried to fire a police official who was investigating corruption committed by his inner circle...

I regret to report

Posted on September 03, 2008
I regret to report that this is not a genuine image of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. My heart was broken by this debunking. Hat tip to Dan Gifford (sigh)...

Author arrested in MA

Posted on September 03, 2008
Story in the DC Examiner. Apparently police responded to the tripping of his burglar alarm, wound up searching his house, and now the 67 year old author faces up to ten years in the slammer because (1) his permit had expired and (2) he had an AR-15 and several magazines.

85 year old burglary victim takes novel approach

Posted on September 03, 2008
She solves the problem of how do you hold the perp at gunpoint while calling police -- by forcing the perp to call them for her.

Another interesting thought on Palin

Posted on September 03, 2008
Right here.

Interesting thought

Posted on September 02, 2008
In light of "identity politics," folks have been seeing Sarah Palin's nomination as intended to peel off women voters. But might nominating an attractive woman who loves to hunt and shoot be aimed at a different demographic?

KY Supremes to consider retroactivity of "no retreat"

Posted on August 31, 2008
Story here. Had the same issue here in AZ. It'd help if drafters of legislation remembered always to include a saving clause. I.e., this legislation applies to events occuring after the effective date, or prosecutions filed after its date, or cases pending on its date, or cases or appeals pending on its date...

10th Circuit rules against Wyoming

Posted on August 29, 2008
Story here. Reduced to a nutshell: federal law says a conviction does not count if it has been "expunged," or firearm rights have been restored. Under Wyoming law (and that of a lot of other States), a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction can be "expunged," with a ruling say that it is so, even tho the record is not physically destroyed and can be used, if the person offends again, to enhance the sentence...

McCain picks Gov. Sarah Palin for VP

Posted on August 29, 2008
She's an NRA lifer, which is good, and a hunter. Gotta say, she adds more to his ticket than Biden adds to Obama's.

Ruling on shoulder stocks

Posted on August 29, 2008
District Court ruling, in pdf, here. Defendant, a reservist, has two handguns (one a semiauto, one a registered full auto) and two shoulder stocks that would fit either. The shoulder stocks double as holsters, and he has one handgun in each when ATF raids him (on other grounds, which turn out to be a legal mistake)...

Obama actually supported a gun owner, once

Posted on August 28, 2008
Story here. OK, maybe it wasn't the type of gun owner most of us would care to be around, but it must count for something. Hat tip to reader Jim Kindred...

And on the return from Blackwater

Posted on August 28, 2008
Before returning, I head to DC for a business matter, and stay in a three story motel in Arlington VA. Tuesday morning I'm awakened by a lot of engines running outside, sound of people walking around and talking. At first I thought it was construction ...

Blackhawk Co. van

Posted on August 27, 2008
This was our transport down to Blackwater (click on thumbnail for bigger image). Pretty nice! It picked us up at the hotel and then stopped at Blackhawk's headquarters for a tour and presentations. We were issued a pair of their holsters, which were VERY nice...

Driving to Blackwater

Posted on August 27, 2008
Here's the inside of the Blackhawk bus that took us to the shoot. It was quite a comfortable ride, altho not so classy as the Suburbans we later drove. Click on image to enlarge.

Vehicles at Blackwater

Posted on August 27, 2008
They loaned us a couple of Suburbans that had been lightly used in the "ram your way out of an ambush" exercise. The insides were full of spent and live ammo, one had two bullet holes, both had windows gone. It was unspeakably cool transportation. This was the one in better condition...

Video from Blackwater

Posted on August 27, 2008
Right here.

The ammo we used at Blackwater

Posted on August 25, 2008
It was some astonishing stuff. Made by International Cartridge Corp., of Reynoldsville PA. It's made of sintered copper and tin. The 9mms weighed in at 100 grains, the ,45s at 155. We shot steel plates at 3 yards and no splash back, no jacket fragments, a couple of times I felt something touch my leg, that was it...

Sunday at Blackwater

Posted on August 25, 2008
Didn't have time to post before this, but it was wild! Todd Jarret took us thru the shoot house, twice! Imagine a steel building (it looked like 3/8" plate, covered in plywood) divided into rooms, all doors shut, you open the door and there might be anything inside...

second day at Blackwater

Posted on August 23, 2008
I ache all over. Eight hours of shooting. Shooting while moving toward, away from, or parallel to the target, shooting at moving targets, shooting while moving at moving targets. I don't know how many hundred rounds. My right hand feels as if it were sandpapered...

Sportmen for McCain adds Sandy Froman

Posted on August 22, 2008
Story here.

ATF's expansive definition of "manufacturer"

Posted on August 22, 2008
pdf here. How they reconcile with the GCA 68 definition of firearm as the receiver (so that manufacture = making the receiver) is beyond me. By their definition, a person who assembles receivers to other components is also a manufacturer, as is a gunsmith who regularly sporterizes military guns into hunting rifles.

First day at Blackwater.

Posted on August 22, 2008
Pretty tired. Sitting here with six gun bloggers (now that Sebatian/Snowflakes in Hell came upstairs). They're probably concentrating on the shooting so I'll cover what led up to it. First a trip to sponsor Blackhawk, which made the holster and other equipment we're using...

Off to Blackwater!

Posted on August 21, 2008
In a short time I'll be on the plane for the Blackwater shooting facility, to meet with the other gun bloggers who won the Para Ordinance competition and will also be training there. Blogging will be light for a few days, tho I may be able to post some pics and relate the experience...

What doesn't work in Chicago may also not work in Cheyenne

Posted on August 19, 2008
With regard the Demo platform acknowledgment that "What works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne," it's worth noting that: "This election season, for instance, the residents of Obama's hometown are being murdered at a clip not seen in five years. Murders have risen 18 percent over a year ago...

Brady Campaign on TX school district allowing armed teachers

Posted on August 19, 2008
Press release here. Of course, they're opposed. I wonder if they see the incongruity of one section of their press release, considering that they pushed "gun free school zones" on the claim they were needed to protect children: "?It is a myth that ?gun-free schools? somehow make our children more vulnerable,? said Brady Center President Paul Helmke...

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