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Archive for category Law
Lowest Murder Rate in Chicago Since 1953
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 9/Apr/2014 12:06
Is it just a coincidence that it comes during the first 3 months of Illinois’s concealed carry law?
From ABC in Chicago:
Chicago’s first-quarter murder total this year hit its lowest number since 1958, police say.
Defense of the Second Amendment From Canada Free Press
Full article here.
Check out Title 18, USC, Section 241- Conspiracy Against Rights. Here is the important language of this law:
“This statute makes it unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the United States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same). Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both.â€
To freely exercise and enjoy the Second Amendment requires full access to all small arms, both commercial and military, regardless of characteristics, capacity, operation or action, or country of origin, and the ability to both own and carry them. It requires that merely the act of owning and carrying firearms is not in itself a crime, nor the supposition that a crime is intended, until the normal due process, rules of evidence and probable cause are followed, and an actual crime is established through the behavior, intent or action of a person, violating a specific criminal law.
The Results of Microstamping
From the NRA
“Arms” Means More Than Just Guns
There is now an effort to loosen knife laws.
From The Atlantic:
The similarity to the gun lobby isn’t accidental. The most influential organization dedicated to knife rights is patterned after the National Rifle Association, although it doesn’t nearly have that group’s legislative firepower. But the movement is also a recognition that, as gun advocates score victory after victory at the state level (the Georgia Legislature this week passed a bill that would allow guns to be carried in bars, schools, churches, and airports), the political environment has never been better for loosening similar restrictions on knives.
Which Amendment Comes First?
The question is in regards to states disclosing information about gun licensees.
From The Volokh Conspiracy:
There is no First Amendment right to access government records. There’s a First Amendment right to speak about what you’ve found in a record that was released to you, but not a First Amendment right to access the record in the first place. (Courts have recognized one significant exception this principle — a First Amendment right of access to documents filed in criminal prosecutions or civil lawsuits. But that exception is limited, and not applicable to ordinary government records.)
The “80% Lower” Situation
From The Bang Switch:
Here’s a not so well kept secret, there’s no such thing as an 80% lower in the eyes of the BATF — it’s either a gun or it isn’t. The phrase “80% lower†was coined by a cleaver marketer of incomplete AR lowers years ago and it stuck.
The actual regulation in the Gun Control Act that all this hubbub is based on states, “(A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; (B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon.â€
LEOs Oppose Gun Control Measures
From FoxNews:
“Sheriffs have a constitutional duty to refuse to comply with such ordinances,” said Richard Mack, president of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. “We’re seeing sheriffs in New York oppose the Safe Act and Gov. Cuomo. If we have sheriffs in New York doing this, how much more should we have sheriffs doing it in Vermont?”
Dimitrios Karras Discusses Ares Armor Situation
Posted by Brian in Law, Threat Watch on 22/Mar/2014 08:15
Here is a video of the CEO of Ares Armor talking to a local news station before the raid:
Click here to watch the interview with The Blaze.
Reason.tv interview:
Second Amendment Cases To Follow
From Reason.com:
The Supreme Court hasn’t taken up any new Second Amendment cases since McDonald, but that doesn’t indicate a lack of interest. The Court receives thousands of petitions for review—or certiorari—each year, but it replies to only a few hundred. It has recently plucked a handful of Second Amendment cases from the submissions pile, asking for responses from the relevant parties.
New Yorkers Burn Gun Registration Forms
From The Times Union:
And if you were with the NY2A at their Sunday afternoon forum here at a city Elks lodge, you could have used a small charcoal grill to set ablaze a blank assault weapons registration form in protest. Wayne Denn used one to light a cigar.
“Tastes even better,” said Denn between tokes on a La Gloria Cubana, an ersatz Cuban cigar.
“Strong” Gun Laws in California Fail To Prevent Gun Trafficking
From CBS LA:
State agents have seized some 350 guns and arrested two California men on suspicion of illegal firearms trafficking.
Judge Throws Out SAFE Act Violation on 4th Amendment Grounds
From Buffalo News:
“In observing the magazine, I did notice there were at least 10 rounds in the magazine,†Barrancotta testified. He then emptied the magazine.
“I did count rounds just to confirm our reasonable suspicion that there were more than 10,†Piedmont said.
Tresmond said, “Once the magazine is removed from the firearm, the firearm cannot fire. At that point in time, the search of the firearm should have ceased. But the officers went further. … It was a search without a warrant.â€
Cop Attempts to Sell Class 3 Weapon, Not Charged
From WSBRadio.com:
When Doraville received the tip they contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
“Because the weapon had not been delivered,” Callaway says, “it didn’t meet their threshold for a crime.”
Mann was dismissed from the Doraville police department. He can appeal his firing.
Would a civilian like you or me not be charged if we tried to sell a Class 3 weapon without the proper paperwork? It is my opinion that there should be no such thing as a Class 3 weapon in the first place.
U.S. Senator Proposes Gun Law With Unproven Technology
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 6/Mar/2014 08:05
From Boston.com:
The Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts said the technology championed by Markey is often flawed and smart guns ‘‘only work correctly in the movies.’’
‘‘No technology should stand between a lawful gun owner using his/her firearm,’’ the group said in a written statement. ‘‘We also find it more than disingenuous that a senator with very little knowledge of firearms, who has worked to stifle the Second Amendment, would offer mandated technology that gun owners have not asked for, nor supported.’’