Category: Guns

It would be nearly impossible for us at TAH to ignore this news.  For the sake of clarity, you can read the actual Opinion Here.   The interwebnet thingy has been abuzz with opinion on what all this actually means.  Far be it from me to deny the Gun Nutz around here the opportunity to opine.  I spent some time on the usual “Gun Channels” trying to sort through it all.  Reuters is as good as any on the announcement:

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantees a right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense, finding that Hawaii overstepped its authority to regulate firearms possession outside the home.

The ruling by a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, makes the San Francisco-based court the sixth U.S. circuit court to interpret the Second Amendment that way and could set the issue on a path toward the U.S. Supreme Court, which has not taken up a major gun rights case since 2010.

I wouldn’t rush into the streets covered in Glocks just yet.  The 9th has been known to lean just a wee bit left of center…seems to me they are forcing the issue to the Supreme Court.  Me thinks there be sound far left reasons some gun grabbers in robes ruled this way.  If not, I enjoyed my time on the beaches in Israel…maybe I can enjoy the same kind of beaches here in the good ole U S of A.

Stars & Stripes recounts the story of 24-year-old Navy corpsman Devon Rideout who was ambushed and shot to death last Friday in Oceanside, California by a former Marine, Eduardo Arriola, who was her neighbor.

Arriola went AWOL to Mexico during his time in the Marine Corps and was discharged as a result. The aircraft technician had never been deployed.

[Deputy District Attorney Keith] Watanabe said Tuesday that Arriola had deserted the military in 2016, fleeing to Mexico. In 2017, he returned to the United States, turned himself in and was arrested by the military, the prosecutor said.

He also said Arriola’s diagnosis of schizophrenia was made after his return from Mexico.

It was not immediately clear how he was able to purchase a gun legally in California in May. Watanabe said the gun dealer did not have access to military records.

He said it appeared that Arriola lied on the application, which asks if the buyer has been diagnosed with a mental illness. “We don’t believe he would have been allowed to purchase a firearm had those questions been answered truthfully,” the prosecutor said.

Oh, goodness, a crackpot was able to lie on his ATF Form 4473? Who knew that could happen? In California?

On the afternoon of the shooting, Rideout had just arrived home from work at the hospital at Camp Pendleton. Still wearing her uniform, she started to take her puppy for a walk when she was ambushed steps from her front door, Watanabe said.

The assailant emptied a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson five-shot revolver, shooting Rideout three times in the chest and twice in the head. As she struggled through her last breaths, the gunman prevented bystanders from helping her, the prosecutor said.

Arriola claimed that Rideout was trespassing.

Toronto police are trying to ascertain why 29-year-old Faisal Hussain opened fire on folks at cafes in the Canadian city, according to Yahoo News;

Investigators are digging into the life of a 29-year-old man trying to explain what prompted him to fire a handgun into restaurants and cafes in a lively Toronto neighborhood, killing a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman and wounding 13 others.

The family of Faisal Hussain, who died during an exchange of gunfire with police, said Monday that he had long suffered from psychosis and depression but they never imagined this would be his fate. It was not immediately clear whether he took his own life or was killed by police during the rampage Sunday night.

CBC reports that a series of tragedies in his family might be responsible for his horrid attack;

“Our hearts are in pieces for the victims and for our city as we all come to grips with this terrible tragedy,” the family said in a statement, citing their son’s “horrific actions.”

Where or how Hussain could have obtained a gun remains a mystery to the family friends and neighbours who spoke with CBC News.

For his part, [family friend, Aamir] Sukhera said he’s struggling to reconcile the memory of the smiling, polite, quiet young man he mentored with the image of a gunman, clad in black garb, shooting coldly through windows where innocent people were enjoying a warm summer evening.

“I want to believe it wasn’t him.”

Just because you outlaw guns, that doesn’t mean that people with evil intent can’t get their hands on one.

The Associated Press reports that a gunman shot 14 people, killing one, on the streets of Toronto, Canada before cops put the mad man down.

Police Chief Mark Saunders said the shooting in the city’s Greektown neighborhood was not random and he did not rule out terrorism as a motive.

“Other than the shooter we have a young lady that is deceased,” the police chief said.

Saunders also said a 9-year-old was in critical condition.

He said the suspect used a handgun.

ABC News reports that two have died, excluding the gun man himself.

Police responded quickly and engaged in a shootout with the suspect, who used a handgun, authorities said of the incident that began at about 10 p.m.

“I’m not calling it random,” Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters overnight. “I don’t know why he did what he did. He won’t be able to tell us because he is deceased.”

Apparently, even though Canada has strict gun laws, Toronto is having problems with illegal guns;

This past weekend Toronto police deployed dozens of additional officers to deal with a recent spike in gun violence in the city. Tory said the city has a gun problem.

“Guns are too readily available to too many people,” Tory said.

Odd. I thought that Canada was peaceful country free of gun violence because of the laws which make gun owners register with the government and all firearms must be registered with the federal government – you know, like the gun grabbers want to do in the US.

KOMO News reports that a crazed gunman in a Walmart parking lot in Tumwater, Washington was stopped by a good guy with a gun;

The bizarre drama actually began earlier, around 5:30 p.m., with a report of a drunk driver going down the road the wrong way near Crosby Road.

As officers arrived on the scene, they received another call reporting a carjacking and shots fired near Israel Road and Tyee Drive. There, officers found an injured 16-year-old girl but no suspect. Her injuries were not life threatening and she is expected to be OK.

Shortly afterward, a man believed to be the carjacker showed up at the Tumwater Walmart store in the 5900 block of Littlerock Road SW and opened fire at a display case, police say. The gunman then went outside into the parking lot and fired more shots.

Megan Chadwick was there, huddled with her four kids as the shooting started.

“I thought we were in the clear as soon as we got out, and then I just heard four gunshots in a row, the cars crashing and the carts flying at us,” she says.

The gunman tried to hijack a car – but when the driver refused to give it up, the gunman shot him. It was then that Adams saw another Walmart customer jump into action and shoot the gunman dead. Two other customers also reportedly pulled their weapons in case they were needed.

“Those men who stood up, they are heroes to me,” says Chadwick.

The identity of that hero customer who shot the gunman has not been released.

The carjacking victim who was shot by the gunman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he is listed in critical condition.

I should remind you all that this is probably fake news, because we’re constantly reminded by the media that no lives are ever saved by good guys with guns, you know, despite this story and the story last week from Georgia where a good guy with a gun shot three armed thieves in a Kroger parking lot.