Category: Legal
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Another One Bites the Dust — USA v. Connelly
B.L.U.F. Another case where a Judge used Bruen to come to the correct decision. This This one is §922(g)3 and §922(d)2. This is a criminal case in front of a US Federal Judge for the Western District of Texas. It highlights how case law works. History On December 28, 2021 the El Paso Police Department…
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Things that go Bump in the dark, Cargill v. Burr
B.L.U.F. Those scary ammosexuals want to go bang fast but that’s scary because going bang fast is scary. So let’s ban scary bump stocks and get taken to the Supreme Court for infringing on the core civil rights of The People The question This case is not a second amendment case though it is a…
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If your cause is just, why do you cheat? Oregon
Last year the people of Oregon, by a bare majority, voted in a truck load of infringements. These included permit to purchase, gun registries, magazine bans, and many other Bruen FU’s. This was Measure 114. The measure was so bad that even the political class didn’t want it to go into effect immediately. It did.…
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Why are there no juries in these 2A cases?
We were asked “Why don’t we see juries involved in all of these Second Amendment cases? The simple answer is “they are not needed”. Read on for why. Court cases are decided in two different ways, on the merits of the case, and procedurally. Consider the question “Does the District of Columbia’s restriction on having…
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Is Barrel Proofing an Analogous Regulation?
It was suggested by it’s just Boris that a founding era firearm safety requirement could be used to support the California Roster system. In particular, they suggested that proof testing would be a close enough match. It isn’t. Proofing a firearm is entirely different from the idea of requiring or forbidding features. The original proofing…
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Boland v. Bonta Update.
B.L.U.F. In a strategic move the State of California is appealing to the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals in the “Unsafe Handgun Act” case. The district judge found the UHA unconstitutional by requiring Chamber Load Indicator(CLI), Magazine Disconnect Mechanism (MDM), and microstamping. The state is appealing the CLI and MDM but NOT microstamping. US District…
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DSSA v. Del. Dept. of Safety and Homeland Security
B.L.U.F. District Court of Delaware Judge Richard Gibson Andrews decided on 2023-03-27 that a ban on some firearms and some magazines was constitutional in denying a preliminary injunction. Slight updates to correct spelling and Judge’s name. Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association, Inc v. Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security (1:22-cv-00951) Prior to Bruen the courts…
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Measure 114 gets “Fixed”
B.L.U.F. An example of winning in court. Oregon’s legislature rushes to moot cases and to fix parts of Measure 114. H/T Bh.Z and OFF On January 9th, 2023 Senate Bill 348 was introduced. The bill was short. It was a bill giving the Oregon Department of Justice a requirement to …study ways to address the…
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Did the court get it right in Boland v. Bonta?
When looking at Boland v. Bonta, the “Unsafe Handgun Act” out of California, it was nice that the judge “got it right”. Unfortunately the reasoning that he had in his opinion niggled at me. There was something wrong. It should have been this hard. Then Mark Smith applied the clue-by-four and it made things obvious.…
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Words are hard
Everything in this article that is not a quote is my understanding. I AM NOT A LAWYER so the odds of me getting something wrong is non-zero. In Boland v. Bonta: Another District Court Win “UHA” I quoted and wrote. I have no idea what all of this means. IANAL. FOURTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE The Complaint,…