A 2A Case goes before SCOTUS!

The Supreme Court has finally accepted another Second Amendment case. The case is NY State Rifle & Pistol Club v. City of New York. The case involves the effective ban by NY City on transporting a licensed firearm registered in the city out of the city. Therefore, if you wanted to transport your pistol to a range outside the city or to a vacation house upstate you are forbidden from doing so.

In an update to John's post he notes that what we may get out of this is a set level of review. The lower courts have tended to give the Second short shrift. That would be a hell of a win. We can but hope.

Surprising No One...

...the Left will continue to claim the gun show loophole regardless of evidense to the contrary.

The Department of Justice just updated its decades-old study asking criminals where they got the guns they used in committing the crime for which they were currently incarcerated. After asking 287,000 prisoners in 2016 where they got the gun they used, 90 percent of them “did not obtain it from a retail source” and less than one percent obtained it from a gun show.

Were it that Simple

H/T to Borepatch

Just Saying...

If you are going to restore a felon's rights, restore them all, not just the one that benefits Democrats. If a felon can't be trusted with his Second Amendment rights, he damn sure can't be trusted with the franchise.

H/T to GFZ

Can't Wait

Playing the Long Game

President Trump’s ‘Xanatos Gambit’ Government Shutdown

Tit for Tat

Hardball: Trump Pulled the Plug on Pelosi Trip as Members Were Sitting on Bus

...and I'm okay with that.

Shut-Down

David Kopel on HR-8

Textual analysis of HR8, bill to "To require a background check for every firearm sale" Bill about gun "sale" turns ordinary gun loans into felonies, bans handguns for young adults, and authorizes unlimited fees.

Common Sense

Recently Read

Dipped, Stripped, and Dead, French Polished Murder, Draw One in the Dark, and Gentleman Takes a Chance are all by Sarah Hoyt. They take place in the same world but the first two are mysteries while the last two are urban fantasy. All are good. The bad guys in the Dyce Dare mysteries aren't hard figure out but as I've said before it's not where you end up but how you get there that makes it fun. They made me laugh. That alone is worth the price of the books. The dialogue had a Rolling Stones feel to it. I still have a third in the series to go.

The others noted above are part of Hoyt's Shifter Trilogy. They are very well written and the world building works. The third in the series is already in the queue awaiting it's turn. Again, highly recommended.

Right Out of the Golden-Age of Science Fiction

From rendering to reality, SpaceX reveals Starship test rocket

It Makes Me Smile

We're Living in Heinlien's Crazy Years

Beto tries to outdo Elizabeth Warren by livestreaming his dentist appointment

...and they say Trump isn't "Presidential".

Counting Your Chickens

JACOB WOHL CLAIMS ON TWITTER THAT HE HAS sources saying Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will resign tomorrow.

If she does though, the resulting shit show will make the Kavanaugh confirmation look tame.