Author: Anonymous Web Angel(GFZ)
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United States v. Daniels, 22-60596 (5th Cir. 2023)
Hopefully, a short one. 4473 and the Gun Control Act of 1968, as amended All of us have had the pleasure of filling out a form 4473, waiting for some bureaucrat decides that we are good enough to exercise our right to keep and bear arms, and finally give us permission. Most of form 4473…
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Dayonta McClinton v. United States
B.L.U.F. A follow on to the Hoover case regarding sentencing. Yesterday, in Policies are not laws, we discussed how sentencing guidelines work. A short recap: The courts use a rubric to decide the range of sentences that should be imposed. One axis is the “level” of the crime, the other is the category of criminal.…
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Policies are not laws
You guys don’t make it easy. The rabbit hole nearly ate me alive. At issue is how people are sentenced after they are convicted of one or more crimes. This is about U.S. v. Matthew Raymond Hoover yet touches on a cert denial at the supreme court just a few weeks ago. We read about…
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Friday Feedback
I finished moving a new client onto our servers yesterday. They had been cracked and abused. Thank you to Miguel for that client. On different fronts, I’m fighting with PyQt6. For whatever reason, the QMediaPlayer will not reliably play an MP3 or WAV. Lord help me if I want to change the start position. This…
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Andrew Teter V Anne e. Lopez (9th Cir.)
B.L.U.F.Brick by Brick, Row by Row, we build our freedoms. The 9th Circuit court of Appeals got it right. What does it mean? What did the state attempt? How did the court opine? In April 2019, another legal battle began. A long shot case that the plaintiffs knew would drag out for years if they…
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You win some, You lose some
Today we heard a great opinion out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They found that knives are arms. As arms, they are presumptively protected by the plain text of the Second Amendment. Finally, they found that the government had not met their burden of finding a law from the founding that supported their…
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Tuesday Tunes
How I’m feeling today. Of course Heavy Metal was the naught animated movie of my University days.
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In West Baltimore, Leaders hope…
There is a pseudo quote which says something like “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.” At West Baltimore gun buyback, leaders hope to lower city firearms supply: ‘Launch a place of hope’ The spokesperson for the event claimed that they purchased 356 firearms.…
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§922(g) needs to go away
It is getting bad inside my brain. A couple of articles went past my feeds talking about an arms seizure in MA and straw purchases. I started reading and immediately went to my court sources to get the actual court documents. Rather than trusting what the reporter had to say. Weapons seizure uncovered Holyoke family’s…