I understand principals' need to change into Depends at the very thought of anything more weapon-like than a blunt Crayola. If "something happens" they're going to get sued, maybe fired and faced with the need to find real jobs.
So I suppose the lockdown at a nearby junior high is just one of the sillinesses of the times, odiously called the "new normal."
I preferred the old normal. A Terry Stop of any 10 guys in my 7th grade room at Pleasant Valley probably would have turned up at least a dozen loose rounds of .22, fuzzy from riding in denim pockets. But the school rulers never bothered to look. Only if you took them out for inspection could you get in trouble.
The saintly Mrs.Minor: "James, put that back in your pocket and open your Warriner's. Don't make me tell you again." Yeah, I was a repeat offender.
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Aside to our crack KUOO. You probably meant "cartridge" rather than "bullet." But what the Hell. It's only radio, and theyr'e both icky and fearsome, huh?
Feb 13, 2014
California handgun carry: My lawyer can kick the s..t out of your lawyer
It's a little early to plan the party welcoming California back into the federal union, but a happy sign appeared today.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit has ruled that California de facto handgun carry bans are unconstitutuonal.
The link takes you to the full text of the 2-1 decision. I've read only a few pages so far. Media commentary suggests the case will go before the full Ninth and to the Supreme Court. Because other federal courts have ruled otherwise, SCOTUS will probably agree to hear the case.
In the early pages I've read, the Ninth panel buys the notion that the Second Amendment creates no right. Rather, it guarantees a pre-existing (or "natural?") right. I think I remember some of us making that point a time or two.
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EDIT TO ADD: Recommended: David Kopel's Washington Post explanation of the decision and its limits. This guy thinks like a lawyer but writes like a writer. Nice combination.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit has ruled that California de facto handgun carry bans are unconstitutuonal.
The link takes you to the full text of the 2-1 decision. I've read only a few pages so far. Media commentary suggests the case will go before the full Ninth and to the Supreme Court. Because other federal courts have ruled otherwise, SCOTUS will probably agree to hear the case.
In the early pages I've read, the Ninth panel buys the notion that the Second Amendment creates no right. Rather, it guarantees a pre-existing (or "natural?") right. I think I remember some of us making that point a time or two.
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EDIT TO ADD: Recommended: David Kopel's Washington Post explanation of the decision and its limits. This guy thinks like a lawyer but writes like a writer. Nice combination.
The gun salesman of the decade is getting tired
Things are rough at the Cabela's gun counter. About everyone who wanted a Glokkenpopper 'cuz he was afraid of Obama has bought one, and the gun clerks are finding time to wander over to chat up the pretty girls hustling overpriced Chinese shirts with Cabelas's patches on them.
I doubt you need to disturb your long-term Cabela's (or Ruger or S/W) position. About the time HIllary starts looking like a shoo-in, the market will recover.
Besides, Cabela's makes most of its money from those Chinese shirts. New Jersey file clerks like to wear them to TGIF's. Impresses the girls there, they tell me.
I doubt you need to disturb your long-term Cabela's (or Ruger or S/W) position. About the time HIllary starts looking like a shoo-in, the market will recover.
Besides, Cabela's makes most of its money from those Chinese shirts. New Jersey file clerks like to wear them to TGIF's. Impresses the girls there, they tell me.
Feb 12, 2014
The media grinds it out
We need to make allowances for English commentary on firearms. After all, they are well into the third generation of their official eeeekagun stance. Would you ask your great grandpa to analyze this week's Billboard Hot Rock Top 40?
Nevertheless. Reuters is competing for a most-errors-per-line award in story on slow sales of modified AR15-types in New York.
--The two main modifications to the AR 15 rifles are the lack of a muzzle brake, which controls the rapid fire of bullets, Full fail, there, Fleet Street, and a silly one at that. It tends to help control felt recoil and muzzle jump. And you probably don't really mean "rapid fire of bullets" anyway. You're groping for the term "rate of fire," I suppose.
--and a flash hider, or suppressor, which limits the flash of light coming out of the barrel, Kielbasa said. The suppressor allowed night-time shooters to obscure their location by masking the "flash" of light.
A couple of problems there, Cyril. You get a little slack on the use of "suppressor" because in comman usage it is sometimes used to designate the flash hider. Just as often it is a synonym for "silencer." The greater sin is reporting its purpose to be obscuring the location of the rifle. It hangs out there mostly to shield the shooter's eye from a bright flash which might, at night, disrupt his subsequent-shot aim.
By the way, the Mr. Kielbasa quoted is the gun shop owner in New York. He said new state laws regulating rifle cosmetics might force him to quit selling them altogether, That would a vurst-case scenario.
Nevertheless. Reuters is competing for a most-errors-per-line award in story on slow sales of modified AR15-types in New York.
--The two main modifications to the AR 15 rifles are the lack of a muzzle brake, which controls the rapid fire of bullets, Full fail, there, Fleet Street, and a silly one at that. It tends to help control felt recoil and muzzle jump. And you probably don't really mean "rapid fire of bullets" anyway. You're groping for the term "rate of fire," I suppose.
--and a flash hider, or suppressor, which limits the flash of light coming out of the barrel, Kielbasa said. The suppressor allowed night-time shooters to obscure their location by masking the "flash" of light.
A couple of problems there, Cyril. You get a little slack on the use of "suppressor" because in comman usage it is sometimes used to designate the flash hider. Just as often it is a synonym for "silencer." The greater sin is reporting its purpose to be obscuring the location of the rifle. It hangs out there mostly to shield the shooter's eye from a bright flash which might, at night, disrupt his subsequent-shot aim.
By the way, the Mr. Kielbasa quoted is the gun shop owner in New York. He said new state laws regulating rifle cosmetics might force him to quit selling them altogether, That would a vurst-case scenario.
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