Some funny (if repetitive) cartoons: Stayskal on Guns

It never ends. You’ve heard of Ronald Dixon, whom a New York prosecutor wants to put in jail for defending his baby with an unregistered pistol (shortly after moving to NY from Florida). According to Mike Straw,

. . . Dixon had conscientiously filed the necessary paperwork to [register his Ruger], paying a firm specializing in expediting applications for legal defensive firearm permits in New York City. The company respectfully took his money, happily cashed the check – and then went out of business.

What, by the way, does New York public opinion say?

Later: The upshot.

The National Rifle Association (which Vin Suprynowicz likes to call America’s largest gun-control organization) had a member arrested for leafletting on public property outside its convention.

David Hardy catalogs deceptions in Bowling for Columbine. (Link from Bruce Baugh)

Aubrey Turner reports that Condi Rice, for good personal reasons, is firmly for RKBA. (Link from Bitter Bitch)

Though Nordyke v King follows the Ninth Circuit’s gross misreading of US v Miller (1939) in its Hickman ruling, it’s interesting because Gould’s concurrent opinion says:

I join the court’s opinion, and write to elaborate that Hickman v. Block, 81 F.3d 98 (9th Cir. 1996), was wrongly decided, that the remarks in Silveira v. Lockyer, 312 F.3d 1052 (9th Cir. 2002), about the “collective rights” theory of the Second Amendment are not persuasive, and that we would be better advised to embrace an “individual rights” view of the Second Amendment . . . .

Our panel is bound by Hickman, and we cannot reach the merits of Nordyke’s challenge to Second Amendment. [sic] But the holding of Hickman can be discarded by our court en banc . . . .

As Comedian points out, this judge was appointed by Clinton!

This raises an interesting procedural point of which I was unaware: this panel could not challenge Hickman because it was only three judges, not the full Circuit Court of Appeal. (How often does a Circuit sit en banc?)

Sunday I went to a target range for the first time in many months. I had what I call a left-handed day, when my ‘weak’ hand was much steadier than my ‘strong’ hand. (On average I’m nearly as accurate with either hand; the eye does most of the work, and in me neither eye is clearly dominant.)

My elbows have been sore lately, particularly the right. (It’s fate. I normally carry burdens on my right, because the left shoulder has had intermittent pain since age 16.) Vince Miller, at the range as usual on Sunday, said glucosamine did wonders for his “.44 Magnum elbow”; so I bought some at Trader Joe’s afterward. (.44 Magnum was, as Inspector Callahan said, “the most powerful handgun [caliber] in the world”; it has since been surpassed, but .50AE is relatively rare.)

Vince also reported that a friend of ours has been sent up for five years for unchastity with a minor (age 16 if memory serves). We sigh heavily.