Category: Arguments

B.L.U.F. A long look at what the state is arguing. It has become repetitive. We continue to examine each filing made by the state, looking for some new argument. The best I’ve found is “oh, look at what all the district courts in infringing states have said!” (3000 words) Four-hundred ninety-four days ago, the Supreme…

The Rahimi case has brought out all the normal infringers, along with a number of lesser known groups and people. They filed numerous amicus curiae briefs. I had intended to do a brief look through them all. Nope, no, forget it. Too much pain. What follows is a sampling of the first few, along with…

Corpus linguistics is the study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus (plural corpora), its body of “real world” text. Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feasible with corpora collected in the field—the natural context (“realia”) of that language—with minimal experimental interference. The text-corpus…

B.L.U.F. The “new” argument from the state. In June 2008, the Supreme Court issued their first Second Amendment ruling in nearly 80 years. They were asked …whether a District of Columbia prohibition on the possession of usable handguns in the home violates the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The District of Columbia generally prohibited the…

B.L.U.F. The last article was suppose to include this but turned into taxes aren’t infringements. I’m going to try and stay on topic with the state’s arguments about why certain things are not arms. Bullets are not arms This has been debunked so many times it isn’t even worth addressing. The Supreme Court has ruled…

B.L.U.F. In the last post I described the leftist argument that Nuclear Weapons are outside of the scope of the Second Amendment. I submit that they are within the scope of the Second Amendment but that the Supreme Court’s current opinions put them outside the Scope. This article covers the state attempting to claim that…

B.L.U.F. An analysis/opinion of the State’s attempt to move certain arms out from the protection of the Second Amendment. This is a long running argument from the anti-gun rights people. The gist is always of the “this modern thing didn’t exist in 1791 so it isn’t covered by the second amendment.” These same people are…

B.L.U.F. A thought exercise in why the state is producing so many opinions that don’t seem to matter within the bounds of the Bruen opinion. Maybe it is because they are attacking a particular clause in Bruen There is a classic scene in most cowboy and Indian movies where the new person is with the…

B.L.U.F. Overview of the types of arguments being made by the state to justify infringements. Start of a series. There are three identified arguments that are currently being presented by the state to justify their infringements. It isn’t within the scope of the Second Amendment It is just a fee/cost/expense, not a ban. There is…