They were supposed to be here between 10 and 12: nobody showed up.

So I call back in... and am told the tech called me. I ask, did he call the office number? Yes, that's the number we gave him. I responded -- I have caller ID, that shows two calls today, and I answered both. Uh... no explanation, we'll tell him to put you on the list when he's available.

Checked home phone. Yep, he called there. Called back and was told someone will be here "today."

Someone was angered enough to create Comcast Must Die.

I suppose we'll see if Hon. Jack Weinstein has problems with both amendments as well.

UPDATE: it's called "long arm jurisdiction." A very technical end of the law (took a case to the state Supreme Court on it once). Basically, you can sue a person or company where they reside, and also sue a company where it "does business," so to speak. If you go beyond that, it's a denial of due process. The question of how much contact the company has to have with a State is confused and confusing, even at the US Supreme Court level. But local courts of course want to assert jurisdiction (having locals sue out of Staters sounds like a great idea). In my case, it was product liability, a single action being dropped and firing. The mfr was in Italy. At the time the gun was sold, the mfr had no advertising in the US, no local company. Its sole contact had been to make one lot of arms, which an American importer based in Connecticut picked up in Italy and sold in the US. Twenty years later, one of them was dropped in AZ and fired, killing a local. How it got from CN to AZ was not determined; someone could have bought it back east and moved here.

AS Supremes held that the AZ courts had jurisdiction over the Italian manufacturer, and the US Supremes denied cert..

Purposeful availment--I forget how they dealt with that. Claimed to go with the Asahi plurality, using that standard, but then construed it to mean ... memory is faint, but it was something like: this was shipped to the US, a single-action is a Western looking gun and would be likely appeal to a person in a Western state such as AZ, aha, that's purposeful availment of AZ markets! The state Supremes were very pro-plaintiff then, which I didn't mind since I mostly do plaintiffs' work. The case was A. Uberti v. Leonardo, 181 Ariz. 565, 892 P.2d 1354 (1995).

Two figures -- only 13$ of shots fired him, and only 34% of the time was the person being fired on hit at all -- aren't too astonishing. One of the revolutions in training came years back, when they realized that people trained on shooting from a good position at a well-lit target in a fixed location, when in fact gunfights usually occurred under conditions too dark to see the sights, while you were trying to take cover, the other guy was doing anything but standing still facing you, and your blood was full of adrenalin, often with bullets whizzing past.

Hat tip to Joe Olson...

If any of you know anyone in that situation, they should contact attorney Joel Ostrander, voice 1-708-383-2112, fax 1-708-383-2237. I don't have an email for him.

I look out and notice everyone's gone. And the high-speed still doesn't function.

Call their number. Reach a human, who asks that I test everything here. I do. Then he puts me on hold for another department ... and the call is cut off.

Call back, run thru the entire matter. Am told, around 2:30 PM, that the earliest they can have a repair guy out here is between 10 AM and noon tommorrow. He'll call first, and it's mandatory that someone answer. If no one picks up, he will not try again, just cancel the appointment.

Fortunately, I have dialup backups on this computer, but the rest of the family has none on theirs.

UPDATE: see comments. Carl in Chicago, who oughta know, says the ID cards are updated if convictions occur, and background checks are run for each sale atop them. If that's so, then Brady is campaigning only because they don't understand the law.

Link via Xavier's Thoughts, reporting his own gun lockup.

Hat tip to reader John M. Maraldo, who adds: "puts me in mind of the differing attitudes gunnies and gunphobes have as to safety. Ask a gunny what safety is and they'll relate the rules of safe handling and safe shooting. Ask them what safe design is and they'll tell you it is a design that makes the gun shoot when the trigger is pulled, but not when the trigger is not pulled. Ask gunphobes what safe design is and they'll tell you it is a design which makes the gun unlikely or difficult."

2. Howard Nemerov will be on NRANews.com tonight, at 11:40 PM EDT. Apparently the topic will be Brady and VPC's system of ranking states.

His guess that perhaps Brady has been forced to cross off PAC fundraising in an effort to keep its regular operations bankrolled does seem a likely explanation. But $73?

Hat tip to Instapundit, whose referrals are keeping Snowflakes in Hell swamped for the moment...

Sandy Froman, the Tucson attorney who is former NRA President.

Prof. Eugene Volokh, a quite pro-2nd Amendment academic and operator of the Volokh Conspiracy;

Prof. Orin Kerr, a member of the Volokh Conspiracy.

Charles Cooper, whom I recall filing some pro-2A amici, tho the memory is faint.

Former Sen. Phil Graham, with whom I've gone shooting.

Sen. John Kyl, quite pro gun.

Former Sen. Fred Thompson.

UPDATE to comments: Nope, a different Frank Keating! Former Gov. of Oklahoma, not former convictee in AZ. I actually have a bit info regarding the other. McCain was junior Senator, and the senior one, Dennis DeConcini, talked him to going along for a meeting with the agency that was investigating Keating's savings and loan. Supposedly, it was just a meeting to encourage the regulator to act quickly and not delay a ruling any farther. At the meeting, however, DeConcini bluntly pressured the regulator to act favorably to Keating. Who, it turned out, had been ripping off the S&L blind, or equivalent conduct (I forget now).
I was told by officials at the U of Arizona that the outcome made the football games a bit difficult. Both Senators had seating in the, I forget the term, the fancy box seats up on top. McCain was so angry at DeConcini that, to avoid a conflict, they had to work things out so neither Senator entered or left at the same time, and neither passed the other during the game.

Hat tip to Joe Olson....