Paul Valone makes some observations about how the governor's office, having declared an emergency, is trying to side-step on the State law that forbids carrying of a firearm after such an emergency is declared....

Story here. ...

The Legal Community Against VIolence [a handful of attorneys and a big Joyce Foundation grant] has posted its annual report in pdf. It starts with, well, that little setback in McDonald v. Chicago and Heller v. DC. (p.8 8-9), predicting it will unleash a flood of litigation from the progun side. Their explanation of legislation they'd like to s...

The Bateman case is a challenge to North Carolina's statute that makes it illegal to carry a firearm off your own land during a declared emergency; defendants have moved to dismiss, as I recall. So here comes Hurricane Earl, and the governor's declaration of a state of emergency, three days before dove season starts....

Somehow I don't think we'll see that debate in the the case of the gunman who took hostages at Discovery Channel headquarters. "Lee is believed to have distributed a manifesto outside the Discovery building several weeks ago that called on the network to "broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet." "All programs on Discovery Hea...

Last night the legislature voted down registration of long arms, a prohibition on open carry, and a proposal for ammunition registration -- that is, not just requiring recordkeeping, but filing of those records with the government....

In Alabama, a 69 year old grandmother shoots a burglar, and gets a nice writeup, complete with a picture of her holding the gun. What's astonishing is, the story is carried by the New York Daily News. Hat tip to Sixgun Sarah......

SAF and CalGuns Foundation are sponsoring the annual Firearm Rights Policy Conference, in San Francisco, on Sept.24-26. (Talk about marching into the teeth of the enemy!). They know that the San Fran public transit authorities have a rule against allowing advertising on bus shelters or buses that shows an image of a firearm. So they created one, an...

Story here, thanks to reader Joe Olson. An interesting note toward the end of the article: Joyce Foundation gave the city $20,000 for its legal defense....

Over at Cleanup ATF. All sorts of things that outsiders would never think of. Treasury and Justice agencies have different outlooks, merging their functions results in friction. Having an acting director for years means nobody at the top who can make major organizational decisions (and everyone knows he'll be gone, soon, in agency terms). Further,...

These things can get nasty! ATF vs. FBI, fighting over explosives investigations. The division had been that FBI gets it if it involves terrorism; ATF gets it if it doesn't. But drawing that line in the real world is difficult. So with any high profile case, the investigation has to be preceded by the inter-agency battle. "Glenn A. Fine, the Justi...

Only Guns and Money has the update. It's the usual beginning to a test case: defendant files an "everything but the kitchen sink" motion to dismiss. ...

Story here. The quirk about DC area roads is that many are technically elongated national parks, so before the law was changed people could wind up charged with illegally having a gun in a park when they'd just seen it as driving down a highway in Virginia or Maryland, while in full compliance with State law....

If you come to DC with handguns in the car, don't honestly answer if the hotel staff asks if you have a gun. Fortunately, charges were dropped....

Philadelphia is demanding that bloggers pay $300 for a business license....

For some years, Clayton Cramer had a very useful blog, The Armed Citizen. One of his contributors posted a story reported in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. And it turns out that that paper has sold the right to sue any copyright infringers to some scumbag outfit known as Righthaven. Here's where you can contribute to Clayton's defense. As for this...

A good report on them at SI.com....

Story here. The reporter has the dates of issue wrong, and the prices are something we can only dream about, but the government position is pure nonsense....

Motion for prelim injunction is here, in pdf. It points out that to get a handgun permit in Chicago, one must take at least an hour of range training, yet other provisions of the Chicago ordinances make this impossible -- shooting ranges are banned, possession of ammo for other than an already-registered gun is banned, etc., etc. Hat tip to Gene ...

Motion for prelim injunction is here, in pdf. It points out that to get a handgun permit in Chicago, one must take at least an hour of range training, yet other provisions of the Chicago ordinances make this impossible -- shooting ranges are banned, possession of ammo for other than an already-registered gun is banned, etc., etc. Hat tip to Gene ...

Only Guns and Money has the updates. Blogging has been a little slow here due to medical issues, work, and now my Comcast high speed is down after a lightning storm. Fortunately, I keep a dialup line as Plan B....

Brady Campaign meets President Obama. Hat tip to reader Joshua Berger.......

Story here. "The Wilmington Housing Authority suspended its ban on firearm ownership by tenants because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and a National Rifle Association-funded lawsuit filed in May that charges the ban is unconstitutional, according to attorneys and officials."...

I've said that we're probably seeing a long term trend relating to arms and attitudes toward them, and this seems to be the case. NSSF just released its July data on background checks. Unadjusted, the July 2010 figures were up 10% over July 2009, which itself was well into the timeframe when checks were skyrocketing. Adjusted to take out the checks...

Gun Control Australia is upset that the Liberal Party (which is actually the more conservative of the major parties) isn't sufficiently antigun. Bear in mind the Liberal Party saw to the banning of semiautos and pump-action long arms.......

Dennis Henigan is seems to be getting depressed, and understandably so....

Chicago -- the city where criminals need not fear the police (and courts). And, if anyone obeyed its gun laws, they'd need not fear anyone else, either. Via Instapundit....

Check out the comments at a Chicago LEO's blog....

Some thoughts, from an editorial in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. ...

The story is here. The Williams Gun was a Confederate creation. It was a rapid firing, carriage mounted, rifled gun of 1.5" bore. Its projectiles were gigantic Minie type ones, cast in lead, and explosive ones were made with a cavity for black powder and a nipple for percussion cap on the nose. (Safety was not a big concern in Civil War artillery)...

I wouldn't know anything of Washington judges, but I rec'd an email from Alan Gottlieb endorsing Richard Sanders. His webpage is here. Alan notes that Sanders voted, prior to Chicago, in favor of the 2A being incorporated. Alan writes: "Sanders wrote, "Gun ownership is an inexorable birthright of American tradition. Americans who participated in ...

Story here. Again, a careful choice of plaintiff, facts, and law. Plaintiff had a permit to carry after his house was broken into; then renewal was denied for lack of demonstrated cause, even though the perp is now out of prison and living a few miles away. And to think -- it was only a few years ago that Brady and others were suing gun manufactu...

Article here. As always he does a serious job of refutation, find their figures (tiny though they are) include a large proportion of self-defense shooting, and even suicides, which don't have a lot to do with CCW permits. Hat tip to reader Jim Kindred.......

As of today, Arizona's ban on CCW without a permit has expired. Not that it makes much difference to us 1911 lovers. Sorta hard to conceal one -- in AZ, it wasn't concealed if any part of the firearm was visible....

Complaint here, in pdf. The new California statute requires handgun ammunition to be sold face-to-face, with ID from the purchaser, and delivered at his address to himself and no one else. Plaintiffs challenge this as violating the Federal Aviation Admin. Authorization Act of 1994, which pre-empted State regulation of interstate carriers' prices,...