Category: Legal
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Gray v. Jennings, No. 24-309
The trifecta of pro-Second Amendment cases In the 60s, I can remember wrapping Christmas presents and then going to the Greyhound bus terminal with my mother. There, she would pay to have a box shipped to the Midwest. This had to be done weeks in advance. My relatives would go down to the bus station…
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Small Wins
Defamation: A statement that injures a third party’s reputation. It is a type of tort. Slander: A false statement, usually made orally, which defames another person. The damages from slander must be proved by the party suing. Libel: A method of defamation expressed by print, writing, pictures, signs, effigies, or any communication embodied in physical…
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Reading the Tea Leaves
Divination is the art of predicting the future or reading a person using some type of indicator. Most people can do a cold read of a person and get it mostly right. Others do a much better job. My personal example was being on a date with a young lady while at university. We had…
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Snope v. Brown
This might be the most important case regarding the Second Amendment since Heller. Kolbe v. Hogan This case started when the Fourth Circuit Court issued their opinion in Kolbe v. Hogan. Fourteen judges sat, en banc to hear a challenge to Maryland’s “assault weapon ban”. Only four of the judges found that the Second Amendment…
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Christopher L. Wilson v. Hawaii
In 2017, Mr. Wilson was arrested for trespass. When searched, it was discovered he had a firearm on him. He did not have a license to carry. His case was heard in the lower courts of Hawaii, later it was appealed to the Supreme Court of Hawaii. There, the court found that because he had…
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Daniel Penny Is Abused By NYC, Again
In general, people are idiots. In groups, they have a combined IQ of less than 70 and the common sense of a three year old. Daniel Penny is a US Marine who stepped up and protected the people on the subway. He held a homeless, violent, man until the man could be arrested. He was…
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Convicted Felon
I wish this were easy. It isn’t. At issue is the number of people claiming that Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Like most things legal, the answer is never simple. The reason is that many laws have internal definitions that do not match the definitions in other parts of the law. And there is…
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Are you Standing?
During the dark days before Heller, the rogue inferior courts, like the Ninth Circuit, came to the consensus that the phrase “a well regulated militia” was more indicative of who had the right to keep and bear arms than “the right of the people”. The result of this piece of stupidity was that we, The…
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Hunter v. Cortland Housing Authority, 2A win
If you want to see a case take years and years, it goes something like this: The plaintiffs file a suit and request a Temporary Restraining Order to enjoin the defendants while the court hears briefings and arguments for a Preliminary Injunction. If the losing party wishes, they can appeal to the circuit court. This…
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Is that a machine gun you have there?
(b) Machinegun The term “machinegun” means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended…