Category: Rant
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An Apology
I’m sorry about the quality of this morning’s post. I read it this morning and was, “Did I write this piece of bleep?” When I started reading the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court, I was not expecting anything in favor of The People or the Second Amendment. I remember the oral arguments. What I…
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Seventh Circus Twister Game
B.L.U.F. A partial analysis of the Seventh Circuit Court’s recent opinion telling the Supreme Court how it should have been done. (2350 words) Drawing your attention to the center ring, we hear Judge Wood say The ink was barely dry on the pages of the Act when litigation began Wow, what sarcasm. Judge Wood, the…
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Duncan v. Bonta, stayed pending Appeal
B.L.U.F. The Ninth Circus court issues a stay pending appeal in the California magazine ban. (1200 words) I have written reams of electronic paper talking about how the court system “works”. At the top is the Supreme Court. The first level of Article III inferior courts is the Circuit Court of Appeals. The next level…
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Brumback v. Ferguson (E.D. Wash., 22-cv-03093)
B.L.U.F. A gag inducing opinion from a rogue court. (2900 words) Who is Dimke Dimke graduated from Pepperdine University in 1999 before entering Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she graduated with a J.D. in 2002. From there she went to clerk for Alan B. Johnson, a Reagan appointee. Likely because he did his undergraduate…
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The Games People Play, Duncan v. Bonta (9th Cir., 23-55805)
B.L.U.F. On September 22nd, Judge Benitez entered his decisions, finding that California’s ban on magazines was unconstitutional. Later that afternoon, the state gave notice of its appeal to the Ninth Circuit. On October 2nd, the temporary stay issued by Judge Benitez will expire. If the Ninth Circuit does not issue a stay before then, California…
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Ronald Koons v. Attorney General New Jersey, a fisk
B.L.U.F. The Attorney General of New Jersey has filed a brief (100 pages!!!!) explaining why New Jersey’s de facto carry ban is actually constitutional. (1900 words) Introduction The Second and Fourteenth Amendments have always coexisted comfortably with a wide range of firearms restrictions. As the record shows, States historically restricted firearms in particularly sensitive places—such…
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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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§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…
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O.F.F. v. Brown, Judges Opinion Pt. 2
B.L.U.F.More of analysis of the horrid opinion offered by Judge Karin Immergut out in Oregon. I’ve since learned that she spent most of her career, before becoming a district judge, working as a prosecutor for the government. She was actually a prosecutor for the ATF. OF course, she found a gun infringement constitutional. It is…
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Oregon Firearms Federation, Inc. v. Brown, Judges Opinion
B.L.U.F. An analysis of the horrible opinion out of Oregon where the district Judge decided that arms aren’t covered under the Second Amendment and that there is a history and tradition of requiring government approval before you can exercise your Second Amendment protected rights. This opinion is 122 pages long. This is not a complete…