Constitutional Law

Challenge to CA ban on lead ammo in condor areas

Posted on September 06, 2010
Chuck Michel's letter is here, in pdf. I gather that an admin law challenge of this type requires filing a demand for action as a predicate. Hat tip to alert reader Jim D. ...

Shipping guns in baggage has risks

Posted on September 05, 2010
At least they caught this guy. $100,000 in items stolen from baggage in his house.

Frontier Justice

Posted on September 05, 2010
Beer thieves, horse thieves, what's the difference?

State of emergency in NC

Posted on September 03, 2010
Paul Valone makes some observations about how the governor's office, having declared an emergency, is trying to side-step on the State law that forbids carrying of a firearm after such an emergency is declared.

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Conflict over transit system firearm ads makes CBS

Posted on September 03, 2010
Story here.

Good timing....

Posted on September 02, 2010
The Bateman case is a challenge to North Carolina's statute that makes it illegal to carry a firearm off your own land during a declared emergency; defendants have moved to dismiss, as I recall. So here comes Hurricane Earl, and the governor's declaration of a state of emergency, three days before dove season starts.

Other side's assessment of things

Posted on September 02, 2010
The Legal Community Against VIolence [a handful of attorneys and a big Joyce Foundation grant] has posted its annual report in pdf. It starts with, well, that little setback in McDonald v. Chicago and Heller v. DC. (p.8 8-9), predicting it will unleash a flood of litigation from the progun side...

Good news from California

Posted on September 01, 2010
Last night the legislature voted down registration of long arms, a prohibition on open carry, and a proposal for ammunition registration -- that is, not just requiring recordkeeping, but filing of those records with the government.

Interesting story

Posted on September 01, 2010
In Alabama, a 69 year old grandmother shoots a burglar, and gets a nice writeup, complete with a picture of her holding the gun. What's astonishing is, the story is carried by the New York Daily News. Hat tip to Sixgun Sarah...

Hate speech -- does it lead to violence?

Posted on September 01, 2010
Somehow I don't think we'll see that debate in the the case of the gunman who took hostages at Discovery Channel headquarters. "Lee is believed to have distributed a manifesto outside the Discovery building several weeks ago that called on the network to "broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet...

This is so great...

Posted on August 31, 2010
SAF and CalGuns Foundation are sponsoring the annual Firearm Rights Policy Conference, in San Francisco, on Sept.24-26. (Talk about marching into the teeth of the enemy!). They know that the San Fran public transit authorities have a rule against allowing advertising on bus shelters or buses that shows an image of a firearm...

Surprise: Chicago rarely enforced it gun law

Posted on August 31, 2010
Story here, thanks to reader Joe Olson. An interesting note toward the end of the article: Joyce Foundation gave the city $20,000 for its legal defense.

Insiders' views of turmoil in BATFE

Posted on August 29, 2010
Over at Cleanup ATF. All sorts of things that outsiders would never think of. Treasury and Justice agencies have different outlooks, merging their functions results in friction. Having an acting director for years means nobody at the top who can make major organizational decisions (and everyone knows he'll be gone, soon, in agency terms)...

Turf War!

Posted on August 27, 2010
These things can get nasty! ATF vs. FBI, fighting over explosives investigations. The division had been that FBI gets it if it involves terrorism; ATF gets it if it doesn't. But drawing that line in the real world is difficult. So with any high profile case, the investigation has to be preceded by the inter-agency battle...

Swords crossed in the challenge to NY's "may issue" permit system

Posted on August 26, 2010
Only Guns and Money has the

LEO seeks to reverse "no guns in parks" conviction

Posted on August 25, 2010
Story here. The quirk about DC area roads is that many are technically elongated national parks, so before the law was changed people could wind up charged with illegally having a gun in a park when they'd just seen it as driving down a highway in Virginia or Maryland, while in full compliance with State law...

A lesson about visiting DC....

Posted on August 24, 2010
If you come to DC with handguns in the car, don't honestly answer if the hotel staff asks if you have a gun. Fortunately, charges were dropped.

Another reason to be glad I'm out here

Posted on August 23, 2010
Philadelphia is demanding that bloggers pay $300 for a business license.

A need met

Posted on August 19, 2010
For some years, Clayton Cramer had a very useful blog, The Armed Citizen. One of his contributors posted a story reported in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. And it turns out that that paper has sold the right to sue any copyright infringers to some scumbag outfit known as Righthaven...

National Matches underway!

Posted on August 18, 2010
A good report on them at SI.com.

South Korea proposes to sell US collectors M-1s, government objects

Posted on August 17, 2010
Story here. The reporter has the dates of issue wrong, and the prices are something we can only dream about, but the government position is pure nonsense.

Challenge to Chicago's shooting range ban

Posted on August 16, 2010
Motion for prelim injunction is here, in pdf. It points out that to get a handgun permit in Chicago, one must take at least an hour of range training, yet other provisions of the Chicago ordinances make this impossible -- shooting ranges are banned, possession of ammo for other than an already-registered gun is banned, etc...

Updates on Post-Chicago litigation

Posted on August 16, 2010
Only Guns and Money has the updates. Blogging has been a little slow here due to medical issues, work, and now my Comcast high speed is down after a lightning storm. Fortunately, I keep a dialup line as Plan B.

Funny animated cartoon

Posted on August 12, 2010
Brady Campaign meets President Obama. Hat tip to reader Joshua Berger....

More evidence of long term trends

Posted on August 10, 2010
I've said that we're probably seeing a long term trend relating to arms and attitudes toward them, and this seems to be the case. NSSF just released its July data on background checks. Unadjusted, the July 2010 figures were up 10% over July 2009, which itself was well into the timeframe when checks were skyrocketing...

Wilmington public housing authority bails out on gun ban

Posted on August 10, 2010
Story here. "The Wilmington Housing Authority suspended its ban on firearm ownership by tenants because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and a National Rifle Association-funded lawsuit filed in May that charges the ban is unconstitutional, according to attorneys and officials...

Antigun fanaticism in Australia

Posted on August 09, 2010
Gun Control Australia is upset that the Liberal Party (which is actually the more conservative of the major parties) isn't sufficiently antigun. Bear in mind the Liberal Party saw to the banning of semiautos and pump-action long arms....

Morale not high at Brady Center

Posted on August 05, 2010
Dennis Henigan is seems to be getting depressed, and understandably so.

Chicago

Posted on August 01, 2010
Chicago -- the city where criminals need not fear the police (and courts). And, if anyone obeyed its gun laws, they'd need not fear anyone else, either. Via Instapundit.

Chicagoans reaction to the decision

Posted on July 31, 2010
Check out the comments at a Chicago LEO's blog.

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