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« Starbucks and the Supreme Court | Main | Bonus for registering for National Firearms Law Seminar »

Mayor Daley doubles down

Posted by David Hardy · 8 March 2010 06:29 PM

While awaiting the result in McDonald, Mayor Daley is lobbying for additional gun laws. ""The aggressiveness of the gun advocates is just one reason it's more important than ever that we work for common-sense gun laws..." He demands "changes to state law that would require background checks for those buying a gun in a private sale, ban assault weapons, require that gun dealers be licensed and limit the number of handgun purchases to one per person per month, plus micro-stamping and making it a felony to sell a gun to a known gang member (the last has major void for vagueness problems).

· Chicago gun case

4 Comments | Leave a comment

Parrothead Jeff | March 8, 2010 9:14 PM | Reply

I've got issues with all of the above, but the micro-stamping is a biggie. Not that I'd have to worry now as I live in Nevada, but I don't like any precedents.
One other thing - am I missing something? I thought all firearms dealers were required to be licensed under the GCA of 1968.

Anonymous | March 8, 2010 11:35 PM | Reply

Mayor Daley is not the sharpest tool in the shed. I'd swear that Mayor Quimby is based on Mayor Daley.
Thankfully, I was also able to escape from that place.

fwb | March 9, 2010 10:10 AM | Reply

And the entire problem with folks like Mayor Daly rests on the stupidity of the supreme Court in its Barron decision. If Marshall could read he surely did not demonstrate that capacity in his decision. Absent a clause such as that in the First Amendment, no other amendment can be even remotely determined to be binding solely on the fed. The supremacy clause brings all nonspecific clauses to bear on every government within the Union. The guarantee of a republican form of government supports the inclusion of such protections as would guarantee republican forms of government in the supreme law of the land. The major law text prior to Barron explicitly stated that the BoR bound the States.

And what we have today can only be laid at the feet of the Courts who, acting outside their lawful authority, have utterly destroyed the government of our founding.

The government of the US was a tabula rasa, a completely empty vessel, having no authority of any kind until such authority was/is specifically allowed in the People's rules, the Constitution for the United States. Contrary to the thinking of many, there are no "natural government authorities" in our system of government. That WAS the way the older government operated but a valid knowledge of the Constitution for the United States proves that the Founding Fathers tossed every one of those precepts and formed a new system based on the sovereignty, the supremacy of the individual.

We would not be having these discussions if it were not FOR the courts. The courts do not reflect the people in general. The courts are politicial, and the judges respond politically out of fear of reprisal.

geekWitha.45 | March 9, 2010 1:08 PM | Reply

Re: "known gang members", and void for vagueness...


How about "facially void", so as to avoid yanking RKBA from guys with clean records without due process according to their Associations?

I mean, let's just go ahead and say the guy has an official MS-13 card...this makes it OK?

The proposal is only incrementally different from the Evil Mummy Lautenberg's proposal that RKBA be yanked out from under people on the terror watch list which is an arbitrary, secret list of people someone thinks are bad guys.

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