Not mentioned in the link: be aware that in many MN counties the district court judges have passed court orders banning firearms from their courts. Violating these court orders will result in a contempt of court citation- a misdemeanor for a first offense. Furthermore, these orders often cover adjac...

RobD wrote:Note they want to kill preemption.

AND Shall-Issue.

I don't know if one's cause and the other's effect (or maybe they feedback to each other), but have you noticed that the localities that most restrict guns tend to have the most autocratic officials? Someone on another board was asking why in a representative democracy the people would ever need an ...

I would love to see laws that would allow for stripping abusive police of the aegis of their badge, and trying them for assault as common criminals.

Here are links to some essays online that I have found informative and which offer support to the pro-gun position: http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/89vand.pdf THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT by DAVID E. VANDERCOY An excellent summation of antecedents in English law for g...

Oddly enough, several state constitutions with right to bear arms provisions and proposed drafts of the Second Amendment specifically mentioned hunting- probably because at times in England the right to bear arms had been restricted by anti-poaching laws.

Is this the one featuring a fictional NRA president based on Charlton Heston, or was that a different one?

ETA: Different one; Sundance channel movie "Cold Dead Hands"

Oh, and if there was any problem with it being a "military" import, they do make a "civilian" version- the TOZ-123, which is smoothbore and legal for hunting in Russia with shot cartridges. There's 'yer "suitable for sporting purposes". :P Added to my wish-list of impra...

I don't see much chance of the court orders being overturned unless the district judges want to change them (fat chance). The judges have very broad power to oversee their courts; in theory they can prohibit guns, cell phones, jelly doughnuts, or anything whatsoever they feel "disrupts" th...

My research into large shotguns has been hampered somewhat by inconsistent standards: in the USA a strict mathematical definition is used (gauge = number of balls of lead of bore size that weigh one pound), whereas in Britain apparently they use a nominal standard based on metric CIP tables. So the ...

Generally, anything with a bore diameter of greater than 0.5" is an NFA item, the exception being shotguns. Although a.f.a.i.k. most jurisdictions in the USA prohibit hunting with anything larger than a 10-gauge, they don't explicitly ban anything larger. However I'm not sure if shells larger t...

About suicide: the claim is that guns make impulse suicides more convenient and more successful. The example of gas ovens in Britain is sometimes cited: Britain relied on coal gas, which contained large amounts of carbon monoxide. Reportedly, in the early 1950s half of all suicides in Britain were b...

Whatta maroon...

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