This is one hell of an obit!
The obit includes:
"He survived a terrorist attack in Sri Lanka; dodged anti-American demonstrations in Beijing, China, when the U. S. bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade; witnessed the beheading of eight drug smugglers in Saudi Arabia, went behind the Iron Curtain into Communist East Germany years before the Berlin Wall fell; and lived in the Philippines while President Marcos seized power and became a dictator.
Allan falsified his birth certificate, forged permission papers, and enlisted in the U. S. Coast Guard at age 14 for four years during the Korean War. He served on a ship in the Pacific, on isolated duty on an island in Palau, and on a gunboat in Florida. After his discharge at age 18, he served as an Able Seaman (Unlimited, Any Waters) in the Merchant Marine for a season on a Great Lakes ore carrier.
Allan was founder and Past National Commander of Veterans of Underage Military Service...."
Colt suspends civilian AR-15 manufacture
Story here. No way to know if it's due to pressure, or just market forces (a LOT of competition in the AR field these days).
A really good response to San Francisco
Right here, on Youtube. My suggested response was to declare the San Francisco Board of Supervisors a domestic nitwit organization that has turned a perfectly nice city into an overpriced human dungheap.
Three Georgia robbers get into a gunfight with intended victims
The score ends as 3-0, a shutout by one of the good guys. Very good shooting under stress.
Hat tip to Landis Aden....
Search warrant served on Santa Clara Sheriff, over gun permits
Story here.
"Prosecutors in Santa Clara County have served at least three search warrants while investigating whether Sheriff Laurie Smith's office gave out coveted concealed-gun permits in exchange for campaign money, sources familiar with the investigation told The Chronicle.
The Santa Clara County district attorney's office raided the sheriff's San Jose headquarters Aug. 2, seizing evidence through a search warrant that remains sealed. About a week before that, sources said, prosecutors served search warrants on two of the sheriff's higher-ranking supervisors.
Among those who have been contacted by investigators is AS Solution, a security company whose bodyguards protect Silicon Valley tech executives. Public records show one of the company's managers gave a large contribution last year to an independent expenditure committee supporting Smith's re-election."
Hat tip to Prof. Joe Olson....
Good!
Mike Flynn has retained the formidable Sydney Powell, who is already hitting hard. She's first-rate when it comes to prying out hidden evidence, as she proved in the Ted Steven case, in Enron, and others. In Enron, the client had been convicted of amending a contract so as to take it from a legal to an illegal arrangement. Her client had been sentenced to, and was serving, prison time. She discovered the government had held back a document that showed to a certainty that someone else (who the government never charged) had made the change to the contract.
For details, get her book! Licensed to Lie.
Amusing....
It was a a good obituary.
Attorneys for Florida school mass killer argue for removal of prosecutor
They want him removed because he won't listen to their arguments as why he shouldn't seek the death penalty. The prosecutor even said the killer was worse than Ted Bundy. There may be something to that position.
Speaking of polarization....
Poll finds that poll finds that 28% of Demos and 14% of Repubs believe it should be illegal to belong to the NRA or to any gun rights organization. At least they are consistent: they want to scrap the First Amendment as well as the Second.
My latest law review manuscript is up
On SSRN: The Janus-faced Second Amendment: Looking Backward to the Renaissance, Forward to the Enlightenment. I've just started circulating it to law reviews. It has two themes:
1. The 2A has two clauses because it had two independent purposes, each with a different constituency. Classical Republicans wanted a guarantee against the militia, as a system, being neglected. Jeffersonians want a guarantee of an individual right to arms. For most of the Framing period, a person, group, or State chose one of the other. With the Virginia ratifying convention of 1788, someone finally realized they could do both and please both groups. To construe the right to arms as limited to militia service (as the Heller dissenters did) is to misconstrue the history. They were separate ideas, and to the extent we can assign importance, the right to arms was universally seen as more important.
2. In any event, the modern National Guard is emphatically not the militia of the Constitution. The militia were a local body, the citizenry, under command of the governor, and only able to be called into Federal service for three reasons, all designed to involve service within the U.S. (repel invasion, suppress insurrection, enforce the laws of the Union). Under the Constitution, they were to be trained by the States, and led by officers appointed by the States. As the Heller dissent (this time correctly) notes, the militia was meant to be a counterpoise to Congress's power to create an army. Madison in Federal No. 46 points this out clearly.
The modern NG was created by 20th century statutes as a Federal force, a reserve component of the Army, with Federal training and Federally-approved officers, able to be called into Federal service for any reason, including foreign service. It was specifically created pursuant to the Congressional power to create armies.
UPDATE: "WWII" was a typo, should have been WWI. Thanks!
But, surely, criminals can't get guns in Britain
London: Three men sentenced for conspiracy to sell silenced, full-auto, Uzi to a violent criminal. There's always someone who doesn't get the message....