1. Source for home invasions by police to carry out gun confiscation: ABC World News tonight, Sept. 8, 2005 (Link courtesy of MusingsOftheGeekWithA.45, Sept. 9.) BTW, my Reason article, published on Saturday, has a dead link to another site with the same video; this link still works, as of early Sept. 11.
2. The statute confers the power of “regulating and controlling” the “possession, storage, display, sale, transport and use of firearms.” Orin asks how the power to of “regulating and controlling” the “possession” of firearms can exist if it does not include the power to confiscate. Here’s one example of a lawful order “regulating and controlling” without prohibiting: “For five days, starting today, no one may possess a firearm in the following public places:…within 2,000 feet of a helicopter landing pad. Persons who violate this order may be arrested.” I agree with Orin that the power of “controlling” is broader than the already-broad power of “regulating.” I just disagree that either power goes so far as to include the distinct power of completely “prohibiting.”
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