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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“There is no constitutional right to immediately buy or sell guns,” Brady Campaign President Kris Brown whined to NBC News, where it was dutifully picked up by other megaphone wielders like the UK’s BBC for global consumption. “And there certainly is no right to spread coronavirus while buying or selling guns.”
That last part is just a clumsy red herring coupled with a clumsier insult intended to appeal to useful idiot ignorance and gin up their contempt – hardly a feat for those whose very existence screams “mob mentality.” As for Brown’s first contention, stated properly, there’s no constitutional authority to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, and a right delayed, as Martin Luther King observed, is a right denied. Given her druthers, gun stores necessary to “the security of a free State” would remain shuttered not just indefinitely, but forever.
The entire objection is one that is possible only because of prior and current infringements. The prior infringement is one of NICS and the necessity that the FedGov stay open for business in order to purchase a firearm from an FFL.
The current infringement is the seemingly ubiquitous executive orders by governors that businesses and churches shutter their places just because the state says so.
Without those two infringements, the entire complaint never never have even been pondered. It’s all based on false premises.
As you know I’ve had some ongoing issues with my blog and I had called my hosting service to get them fixed. Obviously that didn’t happen, the entire site crashed. I’ve been on the phone for hours with tech support trying to get it figured out and I’ll probably do the same today. GoDaddy screwed it up royally when they migrated it back to linux which I had requested they do because of ongoing problems.
What I’m going to do starting tomorrow sometime is start posting on my original blog as a fill-in until they get it squared away once and for all.
The formatting and design of the fill-in blog will be a little different at first until I get some time to revise it but the content will be what you’re used to. Right now it’s mostly photos, but once I start posting on it tomorrow, you’ll find the same stuff you find on Knuckledraggin.
While the blogs have the same name, the URL is different so please bookmark it.
To my readers, happy Easter! He is Risen! The difficulties facing America today are nothing compared to the joy and significance of the resurrection of King Jesus, the living Christ, the ruler of the world and the only potentate, without who’s approval no king moves or decrees (Isaiah 46:10). It was always intended by God to be, still is today, and always will be in the future, the most significant event in history, despite the juvenile attempts to rid the study of history of the terms B.C. and A.D.
I’ve said before that the CDC had one job, to anticipate, study, prepare for and respond in the case of infectious disease. They … had … one … job. So did the FDA. They failed, and miserably so.
Unless … they don’t really consider that their job at all. Perhaps they have a different one. Via Bill Buppert.
“The CDC does not have a solution, but it also becomes the classic blocker to progress. Labs cannot act without a lengthy approval process from CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These government controls violate the principle of subsidiarity (that problems should be solved at the lowest level possible). Ultimately care is provided by local hospitals, care facilities, and labs.
South Korea’s rapid testing allowed for early treatment and containment of the virus. These test kits were created in three weeks. Many labs in the US could have solved the test kit problem but were restrained by the FDA and CDC. The South Koreans offered to help us, but was the CDC listening? Evidently not.”
And as the economy is about to collapse, most people are scared stiff to do anything but stay home and watch horrible movies on television, waiting for the vaccine to come out from the high priests of science.
As I posed at the beginning, what if it wasn’t really the job of the CDC after all to prepare America for a pandemic? What if it’s not really the job of the FDA after all to protect the safety and health of the public?
Many of today’s shooters think Colt’s adaptation in 1877 of .44-40 to their big single-action revolver made possible the first pistol/carbine combo. Not so — the first factory-made revolver compatible to Winchester’s Model 1866 carbines came in 1870, the Smith & Wesson Model #3 .44 Henry Rimfire sixgun. Furthermore, in 1875 Colt followed with a special run of 1,800 of their new single action sixguns (SAA to us) for .44 Henry. Why Colt waited so long to jump on the .44-40 bandwagon is a conundrum to me. After the .44-40, Colt waited till 1884 to chamber .38-40 and .32-20 rifles. In a time of difficult logistics, the idea of rifles/carbines and revolvers chambering the same cartridge had considerable merit.
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Interestingly Winchester’s first three chamberings for Model 1892s were the time-tested trio of .44, .38, and .32 WCFs. Marlin used the same cartridges in their Model 1894 but labeled them .44-40, .38-40 and .32-20. As mentioned, saddle rings on carbines died out in the late 1920s but pistol cartridge carbines themselves persisted till about the World War II years. About 30 to 40 years later, they began to reappear.
About the same time, reproduction imports steadily flowing from Italy almost identically recreated those of the late 1800s. If memory serves me well I think the first were Model 1866, manufactured with a design change to accommodate .44-40. A brief time later Model 1873s began coming from Italy.
Marlin resurrected the Model 1894 and Winchester adapted the Model 1894 to pistol cartridges. In the case of American versions, chamberings were magnums; .357 and .44 with Marlin making a brief smattering of .41 Magnums. In my opinion the Italian reproductions were intended for us historically minded shooters while the new Winchester and Marlins were aimed largely at dense woods deer hunters.
Although pistol cartridge semi-auto carbines are not new, the overall trend towards self-loaders nowadays is causing more to appear. In my mind the first pistol cartridge semi-auto carbine was the famous World War II era M1 .30 Carbine. Like the .44 Henry, the .30 Carbine began as a rifle cartridge but was small enough and weak enough to enable its use in a limited number of handguns.
However, most semi-auto carbines are chambered for such rounds as 9mm Parabellum, .40 S&W and .45 ACP. Marlin actually offered a .45 ACP and 9mm “Camp Carbine” in the mid-1980s.
This is a great history of pistol cartridge carbines, and they have been around for a long time, longer than I had thought.
More than a dozen of these buyers (men and women) actually thought that since they filled out and signed everything, they could just walk out and go home with the firearm. Several actually said they saw how easy it was to buy a gun on TV and why did they have to fill out all these forms.
The majority of these first timers lost their minds when we went through the Ammo Law requirements. Most used language not normally heard, even in a gun range. We pointed out that since no one working here voted for these laws, then maybe they might know someone who did. And, maybe they should go back and talk to those people and tell them to re-think their position on firearms – we were trying to be nice.
Most were VERY vocal about why it takes 10 days minimum (sometimes longer if the DOJ is backed up) to take their property home with them. They ask why do I need to wait 10 days if I need the protection today or tomorrow? We pointed out again that no one working here voted in support of that law.
They really went crazy when we told them that for each firearm they had to do the same amount of paperwork and they could only purchase ONE handgun every 30 days. Again, we didn’t [vote] for that law.
We had people cuss at us and stomp out when we explained that secondary identification had to be part of the paperwork, as they felt insulted that what they had wasn’t good enough. We have a number of Yelp reviews calling us names and other things about how bad we are because of this whole new buyer rush.
Maybe you should stop watching television and actually learn something about how all of this works, and decide whether, just maybe, this all infringes on God-given rights.
You see, there’s a word for people who think all of these controls should inhibit my ability to purchase firearms, but not yours.
• Senate Bill 70 and House Bill 2, which establish universal background checks in Virginia
• Senate Bill 240 and House Bill 674, which establish an Extreme Risk Protective Order, allowing authorities to temporarily take guns away from people deemed to be dangerous to themselves or others
• Senate Bill 69 and House Bill 812, which reinstate Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month law
• House Bill 9, which requires gun owners to report their lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement within 48 hours or face a civil penalty.
• House Bill 1083, which toughens the penalty for leaving a loaded, unsecured firearm in a reckless manner that endangers a child
The AWB failing to pass is a small victory, as they could never have confiscated them. The UBC and red flag law are extremely damaging to God-given rights.
Mark this one as a win for the controllers in spite of the gun rights rally in Richmond. The VCDL did their best. The NRA completely failed to engage because they are a gun control organization.
