The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
A couple of New Jersey cargo handlers, working for FedEX, were busted by the feds for stealing guns being shipped to a New Jersey based importer. The guns were sold on the streets of Newark, East Orange, and Jersey City.
Surely Bryan Miller will find some way to pin this on Pennsylvania’s lax gun laws.
This time in the Hartford Courant. Let me ask you folks this: Do you think Barack Obama’s EPA is going to work cooperatively with shooting ranges to help ranges minimize their environmental impact? Or do you think Obama’s EPA will use lead contamination as an excuse to shut ranges down? Think about that come November.
According to Little Green Footballs, he might not be the Stalin they are looking for, but he’s close enough!
Blue Trail is the last public outdoor range in Connecticuit. It would be a horrible loss to the shooting community to lose it. After bringing in experts to verify that the houses that claimed to be hit could not have been, it would seem that developer Pat DiNatale is taking up a new approach: lead.
What’s most curious to me is that the picture presented here looks nothing at all like lead corrosion. In fact, elemental lead is highly corrosion resistant. Even strong acids don’t have a large effect on lead. In addition, oxides of lead are usually white, bright yellow or bright red/orange. The picture above looks more like corrosion of iron or steel than lead. Lead is not very soluble in water. Most of the environmental concerns for lead contamination revolve around the use of lead oxides in things like paints, and lead salts. Elemental lead is not really very hazardous, and lead contamination from shooting ranges has never been shown to pose a serious hazard.
If there had to be a textbook case, it would look something like this.
There’s a Volokh thread on secession going on, to parallel the one we had yesterday.
Orange County California has a new sheriff. What is one of her first acts?
“The good-cause threshold you have to meet has gone up,” Nighswonger said. “The prior sheriff had more of a right-to-carry philosophy. Some of the things that were considered good cause won’t be now.”
Orange County has now gone from, essentially, right to carry, to right denied, unless you can convince the Sheriff to allow you to exercise your right to self-defense. Hopefully she’ll deem you worthy.
Oh, and it looks like she has a blog. No comments though.
Walton Eller, a Texan, has won the gold medal in Men’s Double Trap in Beijing. Silver was Italian Police Officer Francesco D’Aniello. Bronze goes to China’s Hu Binyuan. Italians seem to be pretty dominant in the shotgun sports. But be all those fine expensive shotguns.