October 24, 2015

Question submitted by Eleanors38

October 22, 2015

Heh. Pretty good.

October 20, 2015

"Carry... in case of a conflict with another person."

Countering the pronouncements heard that "bear" arms is only used in a military context, thereby restricting that portion of the Second Amendmen, is this legal opinion:

Surely, a most familiar meaning is, as the Constitution's Second Amendment (" keep and bear arms&quot and Black's Law Dictionary indicate, "wear, bear, or carry... Upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose.. of being armed and ready for offensive and defensive action in case of a conflict with another person."
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Muscarello v U.S. 524 U.S. 125, (1998) (Ginsburg, dissenting)

This case narrowly decided that "bear" included an automobile's glovebox, and qualified thereby for mandatory sentencing. (Evidently, the plaintiff had been sentenced for illegally "bearing" an arm.) Ginsburg dissented from this broad definition, believing that "carry" was more restrictive as per Black. She did not object to the widely-held notion that such carry was for more than military purposes.

September 30, 2015

Strange, Randy, that the RKBA has been strenghtened so minorities can defend themselves...

using firearms. Surely, you would not want to go back to the Jim (large, black raucous bird) days when blacks were line-itemed out of their states' constitutional protections, including the RKBA. The Deacons for Defense would probably not want to: They had to deal with the KKK.

August 29, 2015

Noted a lot of local police blotter stuff in GD, all gun-related...

I don't know how far these OPs will go, but be aware that GD seems to be undergoing a de facto rules change, imo. The dumping of these posts (I saw 5 this a.m.) contribute to what I think is a Rolling Exception whereby gun controller/prohibitionists are skirting the intent of GD and thereby get all their posts in all the time. So, if you wish to engage these Guns Discussionists, you will have to go over to GD.

August 17, 2015

"Summer time and the ammo's expensive."

Come Labor Day, and dove season opens in the Central & North Zones of Texas.

"Prospects are good and the birds flyin' high."

Hopefully, the sun flowers are blooming in the field where last year I limited out twice. Wishing for lower temps (we are beginning to drop from 102° back to the mid-90s). I have 150 rounds of 4 different brands, an IC screwed into the 870, and a stout 5 gal bucket to stow my stuff and put my bo-hind on in the field.

If I limit out early, I'll trudge up onto the mesa and check for deer sign and acorn prospects. I'll be on 125 acres of good land for dove and deer, with a year-round spring, and a shot farm house (are there any other kinds of hunting cabins?). Looking forward to pork steaks over an open fire!

Apologies to the Gershwin Bros & Heyward.

August 12, 2015

A few days ago 8 were murdered by a criminal with a gun.

I saw one OP on this horrible act. This was a MASS MURDER. I would have supported an exception to the promiscuous GD gun ban topics for this. Even I. But where is the discussion????

As some have pointed out, people in DU seem to have more concern with a theater hatchet man and a theater shooter (2 dead), and can can readily cash in their frequent flyer miles for yet another rolling exception to the GD guns ban. More disturbing, however, is the rolling silence over this Mass Murder. It seems only some lives matter, esp. if they are more fairly complected, or there is a hush-hush of the killings because it didn't fit the proper image

Narratives® are.

Maybe this will get locked, but DU members, esp those who's bile and animos are famous, have some explaining to do. I also wonder if the hosts/mods in GD even noticed this tragedy.

August 8, 2015

The lower #s were used by known gun-control entities.

Perhaps even they knew that pushing for 18 and beyond was a little much?

August 6, 2015

When you are a 2A defender on DU, you rise to the challenge!

July 24, 2015

Hiw about working to improve the law, instead of large posting quantities?

If President Obama works for improving the NICS efficiency and response time, I'm all for it. But citing catch-phrases like "loop holes," and merely extending the time for approval to 5, 7, 10 days, or never, is a lazy approach and invites court challenges.