John Lott's research suggests it's a lot more often than either government or the media want you to think. "The FBI dataset is missing so many defensive gun uses that it's hard to believe it i...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/09/how_often_does_.php
Story here . How his people even mounted the scope backwards, let alone giving it to their commander, let alone him shooting it and not noticing, is beyond me. The Navy has come a long ways sin...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/09/navy_relieves_s.php
I haven't made an entry in weeks due to health issues (my own and my older son), but just now feeling enough energy for a few. Here is a preliminary report by the House Bipartisan Task Force o...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/08/report_on_trump.php
Right here . They make some mistakes about the firearms, but it's otherwise good. One question I've had: what were the two Secret Service counter-snipers doing without spotters? Each should have ...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/07/good_video_on_a.php
Matt Taibi has some useful thoughts . I'll add some. Scott Adams (who in addition to being a great cartoonist, is a student of persuasion) wrote about the rhetoric (in its real term, persuasive...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/07/the_assassinati.php
At Volokh Conspiracy, discussion of a case holding unconstitutional the federal ban on private "stills." Part of the reasoning is that the taxing power is limited to, well, taxes, and a prohibit...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/07/wondering_about.php
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Prof. Volokh discusses a recent Ohio ruling. The plaintiff is the county coroner, the defendant someone who wanted some records, and got quite obsessive and obnoxious a...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/07/ruling_on_restr.php
I like the dissent by Justice Thomas (how often, in any field of law, have you seen the author of an opinion (Bruen) wind up in the very next case applying it as the dissenter in an 8-1 decision?...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/06/further_thought_3.php
Opinion here . I'm still reading. It's by Roberts and 8-1, Thomas dissenting.
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/06/rahimi_decided.php
Opinion here . You can find a very good analysis at SCOTUSBlog, here . It isn't a 2A case, but one of statutory construction. The majority holds that a bump stock equipped rifle neither fires m...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/06/bump_stock_supr.php
Antigun group has negligent discharge during gun "buy back." I guess neither they, nor police, nor the company scrapping the guns, knew how to check whether a muzzleloader is loaded. If the comp...
From PJ Media : "Just a couple hours after his son Hunter was found guilty on three federal gun charges, Joe Biden is set to speak at Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund's "Gun Sense Universit...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/06/now_thats_awkwa.php
NRA v. Vullo , handed down this morning. 9-0, no less! Not that the good guys are entirely out of the woods -- the Second Circuit had ruled that the suit must be dismissed because (1) there was...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/05/supreme_court_w_2.php
His statement right here . Well done. This sounds like an arrest that could have been handled with a phone call--we have a warrant, have your attorney call us to arrange a good time to surrender-...
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/05/rep_jim_jordan_.php
From a few years back, Dave Kopek explains the significance of the day to gun collectors.
https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2024/05/cinco_de_mayo.php