Year: 2008

Last Day for E-Postal

Tonight is the last night to shoot the e-postal match.   I’m going to have to ask everyone who has results to e-mail them to me, if possible with a picture of your target.  I shot the match last night and scored a 10 out of 20 with my Ruger Mk.III with a Millett SP-1 red dot sight riding on top.  That’s about what I typically score outside, so this shoot is a pretty good approximation of the difficulty of the sport of silhouette.  I meant to shoot rifle silhouette, but when I pulled my .22LR rifle out of the case, I realized the bolt was missing, so I had to go home and search frantically for it.  I have found it, so I may go back tonight and shoot rifle.  You have until midnight to get your targets into me, but if you get them to me the next day, I don’t complain too much.  It’ll take me a few days to compile the score.

I did not manage to shoot air gun, as I had wanted to.  Just not enough time.

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Mumbles & Bloomy Post-Heller

Looks pretty much like the same agenda they had pre-Heller.  Just as a warning to gun owners, everything except the terrorist watch list that they propose probably would be upheld by the courts.  And even the terrorist watch list issue I’m not sure about.  There’s still a fight to be had.

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New York Gun Laws and Heller

Dave Kopel has an excellent article in the New York Sun.  Interesting factoid I didn’t know:

As a Monroe County court accurately observed in the 1994 case Citizens for a Safer Community v. City of Rochester, “The Courts of this State have concluded that the language of federal law interpreting the Second Amendment (which is identical in its language to Article 2, section 4 of the Civil Rights Law) should be used in interpreting the provisions of this state law.”

Some New York courts have interpreted the New York right to arms restrictively, but these decisions were explicitly based on misunderstanding of the same language in the Second Amendment. The cases treating the Civil Rights Law as almost meaningless are of dubious validity now that Heller has made is clear that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” is a broad and important individual right.

So basically, the ruling in Heller reinterprets, under New York State case law, the meaning of their state right to keep and bear arms provision.  That doesn’t speak well for the future of the Sullivan Act.

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Support Gun Rights? You’re a Gangbanger!

At least you are if you’re Oak Park, IL village manager, you think so.  Here’s an unintended consequence of Heller that’s going to be good for us.  You see, currently Chicago has no shooting culture.  It’s been, pretty much, completely eliminated because of the Chicago and surrounds’ gun bans.  Heller offers an opportunity for those cities to rebuild a healthy shooting culture.  I can’t think of a better use for an old warehouse than a nice, indoor, 50 yard indoor shooting range.  Can you?

Even Philadelphia hasn’t managed to eliminate its shooting culture, and we even have a few pro-gun state reps that represent constituents in the city.  There are constituents for the right to keep and bear arms within the City of Brotherly Love, and definitely within its suburbs (I’m living proof).  Suburban reps tend to either support guns rights, or are moderate on it.  Only in a few near-city suburbs do you get radical anti-gun representatives.  Even as bad as Nutter is on guns, his rhetoric is nothing like Mayor Daleys.  Nutter has to decieve to do what he wants.  Daley has no such restriction.

That may likely change.  Given the calls the Oak City, IL manager has gotten from people wanting to own handguns, it seems that it might change rather quickly.  If the anti-gun folks lose Chicago and New York as solid anti-gun enclaves, it’ll be over for them.  Once people have friends who are shooters, or relative, or neighbors, it gets a lot harder to maintain the level of ignorance needed to get them to sign onto the gun control agenda with any enthusiasm.

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Range Etiquette

I don’t generally think too poorly of people using old clothes as rags.  I even do this myself.  But if you’re going to use a nasty old pair of Hanes whitey tighties, please don’t leave it at the range on the bench for other people to have to avoid it like the nasty, skid stained, plague infested monstrosity it is.  That is all.

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More On Morton Grove

This from an NPR article from today:

Village Manager Joe Wade says Morton Grove isn’t going to wait for a court battle. It’s going to act.

“The village of Morton Grove has every intention to comply with [the Supreme Court ruling],” Wade says. “We’re going to propose an ordinance that would eliminate the possession-of-handgun ban within the village.”

So that pretty much confirms it.  I did send an e-mail to them earlier, but have yet to hear back.  We shall see what happens here.

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