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I said that my brain was mostly dead. I couldn’t even copy and paste correctly. The brain is mostly dead. I marked this article back in December 2023 for reading and writing about. When it comes to the Second Amendment, there are at least four primary ancillary rights that arise from the plain text: the…

Ten years ago, I purchased a chuck of cast iron 2.25 by about 12 inches. This was to make a spindle thread protector. Yesterday I completed that thread protector. This was required to finish the alignment spigot, which is required to mount the backplate to the rotary table, which is required to mount the chuck…

When we are dealing with political “stuff”, there are three different things at play. Rights. A right pre-exists us. Everybody has the right to be armed. Everybody has the right to speak freely. Everybody has the right to seek happiness. These rights are endowed by their Creator Authority. Authority is permission to exercise some power.…

The weekend is nearly here! I’m actually looking forward to it. We’ve had a win out in the Ninth Circuit. Stand-bye to have the merits panel’s opinion stayed and the en banc panel decided for the state. We are expecting to hear from the Supreme Court on Rahimi in June. The Supreme Court had conference…

The rotary table arrived the other day. Monday the dividing plates arrived. The plates look great. The package was not so great. Amazon slapped a mailing label on the box and dropped it in the mail. It arrived with pieces missing. There are supposed to be three screws and a handle/indexing plunger. These were missing.…

Bruen slapped down the inferior courts that were using interest balancing to deny The People their rights. As Judge VanDyke pointed out, from the time of the Heller opinion, the Ninth Circus court has not found a single regulation to be unconstitutional. Interest balancing takes place at the time a regulation is passed or ratified.…

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The following is the dissent of Judge VanDyke in <i>Duncan v. Bonta.  It is not a legal argument.  He leaves that for his fellow judge, Judge Bumatay. Judge VanDyke and Judge Bumatay are two of the voices of sanity coming out of the Ninth Circuit court. This dissent is a justifiable take-down of the actions…

I added some nasty pictures of my very messy and dirty shop after the MORE Yesterday was another cleaning day. I tore the rotary table apart to inspect and clean it. As expected, there were several areas that were out of sight that needed to be deburred. Taking it apart was straightforward. All but one…

Take the time to read some quotes from Judge VanDyke. It is worth the time. The panel first held that the Orders’ 48-day closure of gun shops, ammunition shops, and firing ranges burdened conduct protected by the Second Amendment, based on a historical understanding of the scope of the Second Amendment right. In assessing the…