The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
I’m in my hotel suite in Norfolk. I figured a suite would be good if other bloggity types wanted to come over. It was also all they had left. I’ll be having dinner with an old friend, then hitting the hotel bar if anyone wants to join. At least I hope this hotel has a bar. Not to worry, though. I do have a backup plan.
Tomorrow the trek to Blackwater begins!
Sebastian and I spoke while he was headed down to the tip of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. He promised me that he would take photos of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel system since I have never seen it, and I was looking forward to it.
He also mentioned that it was apparent he crossed some kind of weather system line since it very suddenly got hot and humid in southern Delaware. I suspect the haze in the photos is evidence of the humidity and not camera quality.
It focuses on Heller as a debate of source materials.
Dellinger considers Heller as a win for Gura and Scalia. Gura for his abilities and arguments, and Scalia for the opportunity to write such a big and important opinion on a subject that hadn’t really been addressed.
Found via Orin Kerr.
Greetings from Bridgeville, Delaware. Home of Ralph and Paul Adams Scrapple company, and a former employer of mine (long story). Just making my way down the Delmarva. Should arrive in Norfolk in a few hours.
A developer in Connecticut is not stopping at anything to try and shut down Blue Trail Gun Range. First, they were sued over bullets supposedly hitting houses. Only they weren’t. But, the range went ahead and addressed some safety concerns and made changes.
Then the complaining party brought in family to use the strong arm of government and force a change.
Democratic Councilor Vincenzo DiNatale has asked local officials to consider whether Blue Trail, a North Branford Road range which abuts part of the reservoir, is posing a lead hazard to the water supply. …
DiNatale is the nephew of Pat DiNatale, a Durham resident who sued the range over alleged safety problems after bullets hit his home earlier this year.
What did they find? Nothing. Not a single bit of lead.
The legal lead limit for raw water is 50 parts per billion, while testing could not find even one part per billion in the water flowing from the Ulbrich, Adair said.
It doesn’t matter that they can’t even find one part per billion, as the headline states:
No lead, but issue isn’t dead
I’ve now got all of the feeds set up and running at the Blog Bash website for those looking for more robust blog coverage of the Para USA blogger training.
Since the site still primarily serves as an event planning site not meant to show a ton of posts, I have set up a category page which will feature all of the posts with excerpts so you can easily peruse the many posts going up any time.
I should add that I’ve included a new poll about whether Joe Huffman will beat Caleb in their shoot-out bet. So go vote!
Featured bloggers include:
SayUncle
A Keyboard and a .45
Of Arms & the Law
GunTruth
The View from North Central Idaho
Call me Ahab
Sharp as a Marble
Smallest Minority
Snowflakes in Hell
View from the Porch
If this could be produced in 6.8 SPC, I’d totally shoot IHMSA big bore with this.
It’s time for me to depart. Next stop, Norfolk, Virginia. Home to a healthy portion of the United States Navy, among other things. I’ll be traveling down the Delmarva, crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. I’ll be seeing more of Delaware than most people should ever really see, but hey, at least I can carry in Delaware, and lower Delaware is home to Dogfish Head Brewery. After Norfolk, we’re in the hands of Para, and will be on our way to a formerly secret location in North Carolina, that’s home to Blackwater.
I will be blogging while I am down there, but I’m going to ask Bitter to add a bit of filler for times when I’m offline.
Some folks have asked Eugene Volokh how he picked the name of his blog, and whether he’d choose it again if he could have a do-over. So the same question, I would most decidedly answer I would choose a different name. I gave very little thought to the name of my blog when I got started. Lately I made a change that tried to tie the name of the blog together with the blog’s tagline, but I’m not sure I’m liking it.
If you had to come up with a tagline for Snowflakes in Hell, what would it be? Preferably, it would tie the name of the blog in with the topic, but I have to admit I’ve been thinking about going to a slight variation of what it used to be which is “Gun Politics in Pennsylvania and the Nation.” with no attempt to tie the name into anything.
You know, if government officials and agents can claim qualified immunity, under the notion that the government can’t be sued for exercising its powers and duties, then, if popular sovereignty is truly the basis of our government’s legitimately, shouldn’t we have some kind of immunity for government agents suing citizens?