Forget the dog, beware of owner....
She stood her ground...
I guess he'll never make it to that anger management counseling appointment.
Yet another win for permitless carry!
The Texas Senate has passed it. Now it goes back to the House, which earlier passed a similar measure, and then to the governor, who has promised to sign it. As I recall, the ban on carry has been on the books since 1875 or so.
The abysmal ignorance of the mass media....
An MSN slideshow inform the reader that "private dealers" don't have to run background checks, in the last 30 years changes to state laws made it easier to carry guns openly, that 14 states allow open carry provided you have a permit, that firearms (as opposed to handguns) cannot be mailed.
It also tells the reader that several states are exempt from federal gun laws, the 1934 National Firearms Act "prohibited the use of any firearm with a barrel shorter than 18 inches," that "Texas leads the way in terms of the number of registered firearms, followed by Florida," plus the usual propaganda. Pitiful.
California to release 76,000 violent or repeat offenders
Story here. Strange these folks don't recognize that it's hard to sell the public on an agenda of (1) release tens of thousands of inmates before their time; (2) defund the police; and (3) disarm the public.
Blog on the dangers to NRA
Just saw NRA in Danger. It is frightening reading, by pro-gun members.
A very fine week for the Second Amendment!
The Supreme Court grants cert., and it looks like it's a go, for the first time in a decade or so. New York may wish it had let the earlier appeal go ahead instead of mooting it.
The Florida legislature passes a pre-emption enforcement bill providing for attorney's fees, with a multiplier, and that repeal of an ordinance will still leave the plaintiff able to claim fees,
An Illinois judge declares that state's FOID card requirement unconstitutional as applied to firearms in the home.
And a California federal judge rules California's weird requirements for rostering guns for sale is unconstitutional.
A fine week indeed!
Supreme Court takes a 2A case!
It's NYSRPA v. Corlett, Here's the docket.
The rule require the petition to have, right at the front, the "Question Presented," and generally when the Court grants cert, it just grants it, and the question presented is worded as the petitioner phrased it. In this case, however, the Court dictated its own version, as "Whether the State's denial of petitioners' applications for concealed-carry licenses for self-defense violated the Second Amendment."
This is a bit strange, since I'm told NY doesn't issue "concealed-carry licenses," but rather requires licenses for all handgun carry, outside of a few exceptions. And it poses it as limited to the denial of a permit, rather than the permit requirement itself. But denial of the permit as an issue will let the Court assess what permit systems are allowed and what the criteria might be, and (most importantly) how much discretion is allowed.
Here's Josh Blackman's take, check out the comments.
UPDATE: Young has been decided en banc, petition for cert not yet filed. It'll probably be held until the ruling in this case, and then remanded for reconsideration in light of this ruling.