In the wake of the passage of "Shall Issue" in Minnesota and many states, and the pivotal Supreme Court decisions of Heller and McDonald , the future seemed bright for firearms freedom. But now I'm not so sure. The liberal left is never, ever going to let go of the issue, and in non-gun re...

Universal background checks and registration remind me of the vulgar old frat boy's motto: "Say anything but get her panties off".

Does anyone make a semi-automatic that microstamps casings?

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http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

An attempt to identify every firearm appearing in movies, television and video games. Searchable by title or by weapon name.

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 ...