Dean Weingarten has a good find at Ammoland.
Judge Eduardo Ramos, the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, has issued an Opinion & Order that a ban on stun guns is constitutional. A New York State law prohibits the private possession of stun guns and tasers; a New York City law prohibits the possession and selling of stun guns. Judge Ramos has ruled these laws do not infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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Chris Costa is doing some cool stuff and with the recent focus on 45-70, revolvers, and now the Sharps carbine, and I like the direction of his channel.
I have to tell you. I’ve never had more fun shooting than when I sighted in my muzzle loader a few months ago. You build your own cartridge. Men have done it for centuries.
But good Lord, you’d better clean (and clean, and clean) that muzzle loader, and soon after shooting it!
After they arrived the officers were approached by an off duty PFPA officer who stated that he had fired his service weapon at suspects, saying they fled after not obeying his commands when he confronted them for what he believed was an in-progress car break-in.
The two victims, Williams and Johnson, were transported to Prince George Hospital where they later died from gunshot wounds, the Takoma Park Police said.
In Tennessee versus Garner, the Supreme Court has said that people fleeing the scene (even if known that it was the scene of a crime, in the particular case, escaped inmates) cannot be subject to lethal force.
You cannot shoot people for fleeing. It couldn’t be clearer.
Not that this man cared about due process, but the point is that by taking a life, you deprive that person of their due process rights. You’ve become judge, jury and executioner.
"No amendment to the Constitution is absolute. You can't yell 'fire' in a crowded movie theater and call it freedom of speech. From the beginning, you couldn't own any weapon you wanted to own." pic.twitter.com/shOkaXmLqH
Among the actions Biden will take will be to direct the Department of Justice to begin, within 30 days, the process of requiring buyers of so-called ghost guns — homemade or makeshift firearms that lack serial numbers — to undergo background checks and, within 60 days, regulating concealed assault-style firearms, according to the White House.
Biden will announce that the Justice Department will pursue two new regulations: one to curb the proliferation of so-called ghost guns, weapons that lack serial numbers and, in some cases, can be constructed at home; and a second that would regulate stabilizing braces, accessories that can be used to make pistols more like rifles.
The Politico article is muddled, perhaps the NPR article a little clearer. I assume that the regulation will be that no lower receivers can be sold without being serialized, regardless of the stage of completeness. Nothing is stated about what they might do about upper receivers, if anything. How this might affect the sale of components and parts (trigger assemblies, springs, detents, BCGs, etc.) isn’t currently known. Clearly, this is unlawful and unconstitutional.
The presumed second component of this appears to be that they wish to regulate the full assembly of pistol stabilizing braces – when installed on guns barrels shorter than 16″ – as an SBR. Also quite clearly, this is unlawful and unconstitutional. It also affects at least hundreds of thousands, and maybe millions, of gun owners.
I don’t expect compliance with any new regulations of this sort by gun owners, but the magic sauce is in what manufacturers must do. But you already know that, and so do they.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2018 National Vital Statistics show 37,455 people died from unintentional falls throughout the year.
The same CDC data shows unintentional firearm deaths for 2018 came in at 458, which means accidental death by falling was about 82 times more likely than accidental death via any kind of firearm.
The numbers become especially pertinent to today’s political climate when FBI Unified Crime Report figures are brought into the equation. The FBI figures look at the intentional, criminal use of firearms, and show a total of 297 deaths from rifles of any kind in 2018. This means accidental death by falling occurred 126 times more often than intentional death by a rifle of any kind in 2018.
Breitbart News reported other FBI figures for 2018 showing death by hammers and clubs far exceeded death by rifles of any kind as well. Whereas there were 297 deaths by rifle, 443 people were killed with hammers, clubs, or other “blunt objects.”
I’ve discussed the dangers of assault hammers before, and as an engineer I certainly know about fall protection and the dangers of a fall, engaging in safe practices when I’m elevated, including in a tree stand.
But if I engage in more safe practices than the average person, does that mean we should outlaw falls, maybe? Or perhaps we should outlaw any activity that means placing your body more than 6′ off the ground?
For the children. I don’t hear doctors complaining about falls, and yet I know they treat falls commonly in the ER of most hospitals.
Since they’re focused on rifles instead of falls, I can only conclude they don’t care about the children.
