Category: Guns

So this happened this weekend in Palmer v. DC;

IV. CONCLUSION

Having reviewed the parties’ submissions and the applicable law, and for the above-stated reasons, the Court hereby GRANTS Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and DENIES Defendants’ cross-motion for summary judgment; and the Court further ORDERS that Defendants, their officers, agents, servants, employees and all persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this Memorandum-

Decision and Order, are permanently enjoined from enforcing D.C. Code § 7-2502.02(a)(4) to ban registration of handguns to be carried in public for self-defense by law-abiding citizens; and 5 As stated above, with respect to Plaintiff Raymond’s Second Amendment claim, the District of Columbia may not completely bar him, or any other qualified individual, from carrying a handgun in public for self-defense simply because they are not residents of the District.

the Court further ORDERS that Defendants, their officers, agents, servants, employees, and all persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of this Memorandum-

Decision and Order are permanently enjoined from enforcing D.C. Code § 22-4504(a); and the Court further ORDERS that defendants, their officers, agents, servants, employees, and all persons in active concert or participation from them who receive actual notice of this Memorandum-

Decision and Order from enforcing D.C. Code § 7-2502.02(a)(4) and D.C. Code § 22-4504(a) against individuals based solely on the fact that they are not residents of the District of Columbia.

IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: July 24, 2014
Syracuse, New York

The States of New York and Maryland are hereby placed on notice.

From Emily Miller at Fox News;

Judge Frederick Scullin Jr. wrote in his ruling in Palmer v. District of Columbia that the right to bear arms extends outside the home, therefore gun-control laws in the nation’s capital are “unconstitutional.”

“We won,” Alan Gura, the lead attorney for the Second Amendment Foundation, told Fox News in a phone interview. “I’m very pleased with the decision that the city can’t forbid the exercise of a fundamental constitutional right.

Gura said he expects the District to appeal this decision but added, “We’ll be happy to keep the fight going.”

The decision leaves no gray area in gun-carrying rights.

And no one had to load a shotgun a block from the White House to make it happen.

Marine_7002 sends us a link to the Detroit News which reports that Detroit Police Chief James Craig credits armed citizens in that city for the drop in crime there – an unusual position for an inner-city police official lately;

“Criminals are getting the message that good Detroiters are armed and will use that weapon,” said Craig, who has repeatedly said he believes armed citizens deter crime. “I don’t want to take away from the good work our investigators are doing, but I think part of the drop in crime, and robberies in particular, is because criminals are thinking twice that citizens could be armed.

“I can’t say what specific percentage is caused by this, but there’s no question in my mind it has had an effect,” Craig said.

Of course, the gun grabbers can’t grasp the concept;

“Our position is, more guns equals more crime,” [Josh Horwitz, director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence in Washington D.C.] said “These are complicated issues, but the empirical evidence shows the states with the lowest gun ownership and the tightest restrictions have the fewest instances of gun violence.

Despite the evidence to the contrary;

Detroit resident Al Woods, a self-described former criminal who is now an anti-violence advocate and author, agreed criminals are thinking twice about attacking citizens.

“If I was out there now robbing people these days, knowing there are a lot more people with guns, I know I’d have to rethink my game plan,” said Woods, 60.

It’s funny that gun crime is dropping in Detroit, but on the rise in Chicago. Cognitive dissonance kills.

The last place I’d look for serious reportage on guns is the Rolling Stone. Reinforcing that statement is the totally vacuous article written by Kristen Gwynne entitled “The 5 Most Dangerous Guns in America; These are the firearms causing the most harm“. I was ready to open up a window in “Gun Broker” to start building a shopping list, but I made the mistake of actually clicking on the story.

It turns out that the 5 most dangerous guns in America are, in order; Pistols, Revolvers, Rifles, Shotguns and Derringers.

First of all Kristen, you airhead, it’s not the guns that are dangerous – it’s the person behind them. I have several guns, of all of the types you just listed and none of them are dangerous until someone wraps their finger round the trigger. Some of them are always loaded, and they never jumped out of storage and started killing people. One of them is loaded and on my nightstand – I sleep soundly knowing that it won’t take it upon itself to fire blindly into the night while I sleep.

Secondly, I know you think your article is clever and well researched, but you just got a paycheck for identifying all of the types of firearms that exist – something everyone on the planet already knows. I don’t know who is more brainless – you or your editor who let you publish that tripe.