Alan Gura updated the Chicago Gun Case site with the following “What to expect” following SCOTUS decision to hear the case . . .
Here is what we can look forward to in the coming months…
Our opening brief is due November 16.
The city’s brief is then due December 16.
Our reply brief is due January 15.
The case is expected to be argued in February, with a decision expected by the end of June, 2010.
View Gura’s Press release here.
UPDATE: Gura on Glenn Beck’s Show.
Well, the day is here. My hitch with the aerospace mill is finally over and I am officially retired. I played the “Get out of Jail Free” card today and it feels great.
The pre-retirement kabuki took some figuring and planning, but it’s all done and now we can relax and enjoy. We’ve already applied for the Better Half’s NRA Life Membership (mine has been effect for a couple of years already). We’re not going to significantly add to the arsenal until such time as we’re relocated to outside of California, obviously because of the bullshit gun and ammunition restrictions in La La Land.
Maybe the ultimate “Get out of Jail Free” is to put the formerly Golden State, and the shithole it has become, behind us once and for all.
This could be me in a few months. Living in a temporary home, like this RV ranch (somewhere in Arizona) while shopping for our new home.
Yep, yep, yep . . . Big hat, tank top, lightweight cargo shorts, flip-flops and a dog. No hurry to change anything. Taking our time to secure a permanent home while enjoying an idyllic life style.
Note to self - shave the dog before summer gets here.
By Peter Robinson via NRO:
Image: Judge Laurence Silberman
This week on Uncommon Knowledge, the man who saved the Second Amendment.
In 2007, Judge Laurence Silberman, senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, wrote a decision overturning the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns. The following year, the Supreme Court agreed with him.
The Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Judge Silberman:
The [long-accepted] notion was that the prefatory clause [of the Second Amendment] modified the right to keep and bear arms. That is to say, the prefatory clause indicated to some people and to a number of courts that there was no individual right [to bear arms]; the right was only to act in the militia. It is only because I had never looked at the issue in any legal proceeding that I had this background view that it [the right to bear arms] was a collective right. When I started reading the briefs in the case and looking carefully at the language of the Second Amendment, I concluded otherwise.
To watch Judge Silberman explain his reasoning in the most important Second Amendment decision in at least seven decades, click here.
Heller and the Nation owe thanks to Judge Silberman.
The middle of the torso on this silhouette target was pretty well perforated, so I decided to take some shots at the head area. “Jerry Lee,” my snub nose S&W 686 revolver has a cylinder capacity of seven rounds of .357 magnum or .38 special. I had some .38s available, so I loaded them up and aimed at the head of the silhouette target for the next two loads.
The target was out at about seven yards. I like to shoot this gun single action style by pulling back the hammer before pulling the trigger. That lets me aim and then pull while avoiding the extra trigger pressure required to rotate a round into position. It works most of the time at that range, with twelve out of fourteen rounds hitting the silhouette. The two “to whom it may concern” rounds missed, one narrowly and the other in the WTF category.
I posted a picture of a Remington military modular combat gun a couple of days ago. In the discussion, I posted a link to an old article I wrote in December 2006, on the topic of military shotgun use. I liked the photo in that old article, so I’m posting it again here.
Shotguns are just better for some jobs, like blowing the lock out of a door in Baghdad to gain entry to a suspected terrorist hideout and weapons cache. This soldier stows his tactical weapon and uses an XM26 12-Gauge Modular Accessory Shotgun System (MASS) to gain entry to a building; when the door is “unlocked,” this “locksmith” falls to the rear of the column of soldiers behind him, retrieves the assault gun, stows the MASS and falls in with the search and confront tactical formation.
Photo credit: army.mil.
The true context of firearms ownership is in the defense of liberty, defense of country, defense of family and the traditional provisioning of game for the table. There is so much at stake in this country for these constitutionally-guaranteed rights. Keep this in mind as you look at this nice portrait of my favorite pistol, “Miss Piggy.” Support your pro-Second Amendment politicians, businesses and charities.
I knew that Remington made militarized products, but today, I finally looked them up on the web. My eye was drawn to the Remington MCS product line . . .
The asymmetrical nature of the modern battlefield has redefined the role of the shotgun for today’s soldier. The greater need for versatility, durability and reliability has made current military shotgun offerings obsolete. Remington has responded to these changing needs with a Combat Shotgun System that provides unmatched operator-level modularity in the Model 870 Modular Combat Shotgun (MCS). [More]
Please do not drool on your keyboards like I did.
