Category Archives: weapons

distributed defense

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Dave Kopel wrote on April 7: The Boston Globe reports that gun sales in Israel are skyrocketing, “particularly since an Israeli shoe salesman used his own weapon to fatally shoot a 46-year-old Palestinian who had opened fire in a Tel … Continue reading →

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make a joyful noise

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Sasha Volokh says “Sunday is also Take A Friend Target-Shooting Day” (responding to his brother’s having done so on Tuesday). Hear hear. In or about 1995-6 I had this conversation: Seth: “Is Vince there?” Anton: “He’s not back from church … Continue reading →

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welcome brothers Volokh

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 28 by Anton

Hey, a blog by a law professor. I refer of course to Eugene Volokh, who last week hung up a joint shingle with his brother Sasha, a student at Harvard. (Sasha recently made the news by organizing a gun club … Continue reading →

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oh yeah, that’ll help – but help whom?

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 31 by Anton

The latest from that great hypocrite Don Perata: Calif. lawmaker wants 5-cent tax on every bullet to support trauma centers. Perata said there was plenty of precedent for taxing bullets, noting that California has been taxing smokers 50-cents for each … Continue reading →

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regulate guns like cars?

Posted on Saturday, 2002 March 09 by Anton

David Kopel in Reason: Most cities do prohibit property owners from storing their cars in an unsightly manner (say, on cinder blocks in the front yard), or from parking too many cars on the public street in front of their … Continue reading →

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Dell pardoned

Posted on Friday, 2002 March 08 by Anton

Is anyone pushing a boycott of Dell Computers over the Weigand Combat Handguns matter? Please don’t.

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√(-1) am not a number

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 03 by Anton

An example of why unnecessary proliferation of SSNs bothers me: Worker Accused of Selling Colleagues’ ID’s Online (New York Times). Incidentally: . . . investigators seized . . . a shotgun with a silencer . . . Is such a … Continue reading →

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