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Posts Tagged War on Guns
Corps of Engineers Gun Ban Overturned in Idaho
From Mountain States Legal Foundation:
An Idaho woman who is barred from carrying a functional firearm for self-defense when she visits federal recreational facilities prevailed today with the ruling of an Idaho federal district court that the federal government ban on firearms violates the Second Amendment. Elizabeth E. Morris of Nez Perce County is licensed to carry a concealed weapon, regularly carries a concealed weapon, and often seeks to recreate on lands managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Because Corps of Engineers regulations ban functional firearms, even while camped in tents, Ms. Morris is subject to criminal prosecution if she attempts to exercise her Second Amendment rights. Alan C. Baker, a firearms instructor and a resident of Idaho’s Latah County, is a co-plaintiff in the suit, which was filed in August 2013 in Idaho federal district court. The Corps of Engineers did not respond to requests from attorneys for Ms. Morris and Mr. Baker, Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF), seeking an exemption from its firearm ban, a ban that has not changed since the landmarkHeller ruling.
Washington Sheriff Says I-594 Is Unenforceable
From San Juan Islander:
As a law enforcement officer, I know this is completely un-enforceable. Unless a cop is hiding in your living room when you make the sale, gift or loan, no one will ever know it happened and it won’t help solve the problem. Sadly, both sides have wasted multi-millions of dollars on this un-workable Initiative.
Competing Gun Initiatives In Washington State
From ABC:
Two competing measures on the Washington state ballot this fall ask voters to take a stance on expanded background checks for gun sales. One is seeking universal checks for all sales and transfers, including private transactions. The other would prevent any such expansion.
Bill To Require Background Checks on Homemade Guns
From Guns.com:
“The laws should be the same for the gun you buy and the gun you make,†said Honda. “Our system of background checks and registrations are in place to ensure public safety. There’s absolutely no reason these checks and registrations should apply to guns made by a licensed manufacturer, but not apply to other, equally dangerous, weapons.â€
How exactly is this going to be enforced? Unless you get rid of the Fourth Amendment to check everyone’s home for guns, this law cannot work.
Anti-gun Zealots File Lawsuit Against Online Ammo Seller
From Washington Times:
“The lawsuit alleges that the websites negligently supplied Holmes with the arsenal he used to kill 12 people and wound at least 58 others by failing to use any screening mechanism to determine his identity or intent for the products,†the Brady Center said in a media release, Fox-affiliated KDVR reported.
Single Mom and PA CHL Holder Avoids Prison Time in NJ
From The Gun Writer:
mother facing prison time for bringing her legally registered gun into New Jersey will be allowed into a diversion program, after the attorney general clarified a directive that had expanded New Jersey’s gun law.
Shaneen Allen was arrested last year after a motor vehicle stop on the Atlantic City Expressway in Hamilton Township. She told the state trooper that she had her loaded gun and a concealed carry permit with her.
Opinion Polls Show Support For Guns at Kroger, Panera
From Examiner.com:
The MSNBC poll asking whether Kroger shoppers should be allowed to carry handguns was coming in with 85 percent in favor and only 15 percent opposed. A CNBC poll on the Panera Bread decision was running at 84 percent support forgun rights and 11 percent against. An MSNBC poll on the Panera Bread request was also coming in at 75 percent in favor of armed customers, and 25 percent against guns.
NY Gun Store Forced To Give Sales Records To Police Under S.A.F.E. Act
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 20/Sep/2014 07:39
From Townhall:
A SWAT team raided co-owner Joe Palumbo’s Albion Gun Shop without a warrant. They were acting on orders from the Narcotics Enforcement Unit, who asked the shop to hand over a customer list so they could determine how many people had purchased New York SAFE Act compliant rifles. The gun owner was forced to present approximately 170 sales records. Under the state’s anti-gun law, this intrusion was completely legal.
Critics claim that exchanges such as these prove that the SAFE Act is arbitrary and confusing:
“The New York S.A.F.E. Act is being enforced arbitrarily on a case by case basis,†Tresmond said. “That amounts to unconstitutional vagueness under the Supreme Court’s Morales standard, and the law should be enjoined for that reason alone.â€
New York Times: Assault Weapon Myth
The New York Times concedes that the term “assault weapon” was made up and that the ban in the ’90s didn’t work.
But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference.
It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.
It was much the same in the early 1990s when Democrats created and then banned a category of guns they called “assault weapons.†America was then suffering from a spike in gun crime and it seemed like a problem threatening everyone. Gun murders each year had been climbing: 11,000, then 13,000, then 17,000.
Defending the Second Amendment
From Forbes:
A flurry of such challenges began right after Heller, led to McDonald v. Chicago(2010) and are still ongoing. In an important example, in February 2014 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to carry firearms for self-defense in public. The decision came in Peruta v. San Diego County. The majority opinion in Peruta said, “We are called upon to decide whether a responsible, law-abiding citizen has a right under the Second Amendment to carry a firearm in public for self-defense.â€
Single Mom Arrested For Being Honest and Law Abiding
From WND:
Pennsylvanian Shaneen Allen’s honesty already has led to 46 days of jail, and she could face a minimum of three years in prison.
As a single mother of two young children, she obtained a concealed-carry permit to protect her family after she had been robbed twice in the past year, according to a National Rifle Association report. A social outing took her across the border to New Jersey, where she was stopped by a state trooper for an alleged lane violation.
CNN’s Don Lemon: “Semi-automatic and automatic are semantics”
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 29/Aug/2014 07:47
Ladies and Gentlemen the willfully ignorant Don Lemon:
http://youtu.be/uIKfoO-JTcc
I thought reporters are supposed to get the facts and report them.
MN Democrat Proposes Eliminating ATF
From The Gun Mag:
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel first reported the congressman’s proposal which came months after that newspaper did a scathing expose of an ATF storefront sting operation in three states, including Wisconsin that used at least one developmentally disabled person.
Sensenbrenner’s office said the bill is still being crafted. He also suggested that ATF functions could be absorbed by other agencies such as the FBI and US Marshals or DEA.
Court Finds 10-Day Waiting Period Unconstitutional
From CalGuns Foundation:
BREAKING: CGF wins fed #2A 10-day waiting period lawsuit! Support at http://t.co/svn6YFIOCQ. Statement to follow. pic.twitter.com/FKYscNS1Uy
— Calguns Foundation (@CalgunsFdn) August 25, 2014