Investors Business Daily is looking at Ruger, who, like other gun manufacturers, are doing very well. But they are reluctant to expand their production capacity in anticipation of the buying frenzy coming to an end at some point.
Month: May 2009
June E-Postal Match
Oh my! I just realized I need to get the E-Postal match for June up. I am hosting, but I thought I had one last Monday in May, but June 1st starts on Monday. I’ll get that up as soon as I can.
Sestak May Be In the Race
It’s looking pretty likely Joe Sestak will challenge Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary. I know NRA doesn’t typically get involved in primary fights, but if Sestak remains the only challenger, this is one to get involved in. The general election would present a bit of a dilemma for me, but I have no problem working for Specter to help defeat Sestak. In fact, I wish we could get Sestak out of Congress entirely.
SCCC Speech Banned at Allegheny Community College
Eugene Volokh discusses a case where Students for Concealed Carry on Campus was hushed by campus officials of Allegheny County Community College (the county in Pennsylvania which contains Pittsburgh), which is dubiously constitutional.
UPDATE: SayUncle also has it.
Another Reason The City Won’t Change
Wyatt encounters a person who wants to drop charges because they feel sorry for the criminal. These are the same people to vote for judges who turn criminals back out on the streets to pillage. These are also the same people are are OK with cutting cops on the street first, rather than last. I expect Philadelphia will follow Toledo in this regard.
Acquitted
It appears a judge aquitted the Colosimo Five of all tresspassing charges. To the credit of the District Attorney:
In his closing statement, Assistant District Attorney Guy D’Andrea said the case was “about individuals going to a private person’s business to disrupt that business.”
This is why Philadelphia is a lawless city. But I suppose it’s fitting. In a city who refuses to prosecute and lock up people who do all manner of serious crimes, it would have been kind of odd to prosecute someone for trespassing, would it?
I would invite Mr. Colosimo to come out to the suburbs, where we still believe that disrupting someone’s business and tresspassing on their property unlawfully is a crime, but then the other side would win, wouldn’t they? In that instance, I’m sorry Mr. Colosimo can’t find justice, but that’s Philadelphia for you.
A Thank You to President Obama
From Evan Nappen. As much as I find humor in trying to tie Obama to putting his signature on a pro-gun bill, I have little doubt what the result would have been if the bill had passed on its own, separately. He signed it because it was tacked on to a must pass bill for the Democrats.
Oral Arguments in Incorporation Case
Randy Barnett has a link to the arguments, along with some commentary, in the appeal of the Chicago case to incorporate the Second Amendment.  Doesn’t sound like it went all that well.
Careful Out There
In normal weather, you’re going to shoot clays with a shotgun. In bad weather, you’re shooting clays with a lightning rod.
Sotomayor Confirmation
This might give some indication of where people will fall in the Sotomayor confirmation vote for the Supreme Court. In looking at the chances of defeating Sotomayer, you’d basically have to assess the committee. If she hits the floor, she’s confirmed. Of the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hatch was the only yes vote, but the Democrats only need one vote from the minority party to get her out of committee. Sessions, who is now the ranking member of the committee voted no on her way back in 1998. Grassley and Kyl both voted against her. The rest were not in the Senate when she was voted on back in 1998. It might be possible for the GOP to mount a protest.
But there are other factors that will be considered, as to whether the GOP will put up more than token resistance against Sotomayor, and that’s whether or not what could come in her wake might be worse. You’re not going to get a conservative pick out of this administration, or even a moderate pick. Sotomayor will no doubt be a reliable left vote on The Court, but there are other people in the realm of possible choices who would also be reliably left, but who have the intellectual background to be leaders on The Court. The question will be, as bad as Sotomayor might be, could what follows behind her be worse? The answer might very well be yes, and the GOP might decide to give in on this one. The real danger for conservatives, and for Second Amendment activists, is that Obama gets to replace one of the Heller five with a reliably left-voting justice. Let’s hope, no pray, that Justice Kennedy and Justice Scalia can hold on until this long national nightmare is over.