Category: Gun Rights

It’s looking like it very well may become reality.  It needs to, because we can’t end up in an endless back and forth with DC city government before challenging Chicago.

This blogger seems to have bought the line that the laws passed recently in Georgia and Florida were intended to target airports and Disney, when they are not.  Disney is not exempt from Florida’s law which allows holders of a Florida Concealed Weapons License to leave their guns in their car while at work, but it is not specifically targeted by it.

Nor did the Georgia law in question specifically target airports.  It removed restrictions creating gun free zones out of public transportation vehicles and infrastructure.  Atlanta’s airport has decided the law need not apply to them.  Law or no law, they are determined to arrest people.  That a legal authority is determined to arrest people who have broken no law should scare the hell out of any American.  I should also note that this does not apply to the sterile area of the airport past the security perimeters.  Airline security is a matter of federal law and regulations, and remains in place.

I may not agree with the Florida law mandating that people be permitted to have guns in privately owned parking lots, but nor do I agree with the hysterics from Disney, the media, and a lot of other people, that somehow allowing this is going to lead to bloodbaths.  Despite the Brady Campaign’s machinations, they’ve never been right once.  Not once, about the issue of concealed carry laws leading to more violence.

Hat Tip: Another Gun Blog

That’s what the New England Journal of Medicine is predicting in the wake of Heller.  Yeah, because prior to Heller, criminals were too busy thinking “Sorry guys, it’s a collective right.  We’ll have to wait until it’s individual before we go commit armed robberies.”  But the study does conflate the suicide and homicide numbers.  It also depends on the Loftin study, which has been thoroughly debunked.

The hysterics post Heller have been absolutely unbelievable.  It’s full tilt in the media for the meme that guns do nothing but kill; they aren’t used for sport, and they aren’t used for self-defense.  No.  They cause crime and suicide.  The suicide angle seems something particularly hounded on for some reason, I’m guessing because they know crime rates won’t go up, so they are banking on suicide rates inching up, so they might have a leg to stand on.

Department of Interior is stalling in hopes that an Obama administration won’t force them to change their rules on National Park Carry.  The deadline for comment has been extended to August 8th, so be sure to get your comments in!

Uncle asks about whether ATF would argue a bipod grip attached to a handgun would make it an AOW.  I have to admit… the the bipod grip almost looks useless enough to be designed specifically to piss off the ATF.

At least Olympics shooters will be able to practice in their own country in the run up to the games.  At least one of the people in this video will get some measure of relief:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkS2BRoCd2I[/youtube]

Never here.

Looks like a guy in New York is using Heller to challenge being prohibited to possess a firearm because of a restraining order.  I’m going to agree that this guy probably isn’t the best plantiff, but using Heller like this was probably inevitable.  It’s worthwhile to consider that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Emerson ruled that there was sufficient due process in the restraining order hearing, but probably barely so.  This is an area the courts are going to be very reluctant to overrule the legislature on, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the door gets left open for misdemeanors and restraining orders to be disabling offenses if the legislature chooses to do it.

Janet Napolitano has vetoed two more pro-gun bills, after saying she would sign one of them and then changing her mind.  My fear is that with 2008 looking increasingly like a blow out for Democrats, many anti-gun Democrats will begin showing their true colors, knowing that the gun vote won’t necessarily overcome the tidal wave of pro-Democrat sentiment.

This blogger takes issue with GOA’s handling of the Olofson machine gun case:

I’ve never posted about the Olofson case here, because, in addition to the fact that it was put out by GOA, it never passed the smell test. To believe the story–that an innocent man was charged with and convicted of a felony simply due to a mechanical malfunction occurring with one of his rifles–one would have to ignore the very real fact that intent is a required element of the crime charged, and that an actual malfunction in an otherwise legal and unmodified firearm would totally negate that element. Hell, AR-15 rifles will sometimes trip off multiple shots when the disconnector breaks or wears. Every AR-15 shooter knows this. I just had one that was doing it and I casually mentioned it a few posts ago. Does that make me a felon? No. Because I didn’t deliberately cause it and I remedied it by replacing the disconnector.

I’ve posted similar thoughts here, but I won’t stand by the notion that David Olofson got what’s coming to him, because I just don’t believe what he did should be a crime, nor do I think the public is served in any way, shape or form by him being in prison.  The real injustice is the laws that make using certain naughty gun parts a multi-year felony.