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And So It Begins

Will the Supreme Court Use a New York City Regulation to Strike Down Gun Laws?

A Leftist response to potential changes resulting in the Supreme Court hearing New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York. Oh, and more Kavanaugh hate. It occurs to me that a right that doesn't travel as you do isn't really a right. What kind of hell would break out if a local municipality decided your right to free speech ended at your front door. It doesn't and it shouldn't for the Second Amendment either. Expect more doom saying from the Left as the court date closes in.

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York

Supreme Court's New Second Amendment Case

Detail from David Kopel.

That Hurt

"I impregnated my immigrant maid. Trust my judgment." https://t.co/6pTIVfwdYb

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 26, 2019

Current Events

Point Taken

Gee, I Guess Now I’m Going To Have To Be Happy With Only 90% Of The Stuff I Wanted Trump To Do

Take a deep breath and give the man his three weeks or more. What Trump and his allies in the Senate have accomplished with judicial nominations alone should earn him our continued support. Breathe, and let's see what happens next.

"Temporary"

Trump, Democrats reach temporary deal to end shutdown

You let Nancy Pelosi back you down.

Current Events

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.

Math Challenged

I Expect Nothing Less From the Democrats

Get Ready for a Financial Assault on the Second Amendment

The Text Of HR 8 - The "Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019"(Updated)

Key Provisions Of Feinstein's New AWB

Well Deserved

Benford Wins 2019 Heinlein Award

In Arizona ...

...four intruders broke into a house via the backdoor and got shot for their trouble - all of them. One dead.

4 Burglars Break Into Man’s Home — He Shoots Them All By Firing ‘Several’ Rounds

Because Rules are for Little People

Why Ald. Ed Burke May Have Been Allowed To Have 23 Guns In Government Building

Am I wrong to think this is really frickin' funny?

Reports: “Work Accident” blows up home of senior terrorist in southern Gaza

Four terrorist injured. No fatalities. Oh well...

[UPDATE]

At least 50 Palestinians were injured in an accidental explosion that wrecked three houses in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, medics, security officials and eyewitnesses said. The number of dead is unknown after Hamas imposed a gag order on the incident.

According to anonymous reports on social media, at least 15 people were killed in the blast, most of them members of Hamas.

Business as Usual

COMPROMISE! Do what we say. Yeah, I don't think so.

Hippies are Revolting...

...and so are the people of New York State.

Boulder Gun Owners Rebel Against City Ordinance Banning “Assault Weapons”

Erie Co. Clerk: 69 percent of pistol permit holders are not in compliance of law

Hah!

pic.twitter.com/JzfXMAPwKP

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2019

The Offical Report on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting can be Found...

...here.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission Official Report Released.

How Many Guns are There in the USA?

The writer argues that there is no correlation between our homicide rate and the number of guns in the good old USA. That argument is interesting in and of itself but it was the quote on the number of guns in the USA that struck me and how much it would cost to confiscate them all. Under the "Australian" model: trillions, and that's will Australian level compliance which was maybe 30%. Under the New York SAFE ACT compliance was around 40% in a blue state. In a red state don't hold your breath.

By his take, it’s quite possible that the total number of guns is vastly under reported, and the true number is between 329 million and 660 million, with a reasonable guess being 413 million firearms.

Here's the article he got his numbers from.

Total US Firearms: Not 300 Million, but 412-660 Million?

The Left is living in a gun control confiscation fantasy.

[UPDATE] Erie Co. Clerk: 69 percent of pistol permit holders are not in compliance of law

Happy New Year

Enjoy your day.

In [formerly] Great Britan

Your gun control isn't working.

The gun run to Britain: How illegal firearms fuelling bloodshed on UK's streets are smuggled into the country from warehouses across Eastern Europe

Your knife control isn't working.

Happy New Year, Infidel! Three People Stabbed at Manchester Train Station in Apparent Act of Terrorism

Maybe allowing your subjects the means to defend themselves might? Just saying...