I’ll be providing them here tonight, once the polls close, and results start coming in. I’ll also be doing updates via Twitter, @davekopel. Besides the candidate races, there are five important ballot issues. Kansas will be voting on whether to restore the individual right to keep and bear arms to state constitution, undoing the judicial […]
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Amicus brief in Calif. concealed carry case
Peruta v. San Diego is one of several cases challenging sheriff misapplication of California’s concealed handgun carry licensing statute. The case features Chuck Michel as lead attorney for plaintiffs. The case does not assert that California’s statute requiring a license to carry a concealed handgun for protection is unconstitutional. Rather, the argument is simply that […]
Michael Bloomberg’s astroturf group
Over at National Review Online, Ramesh Ponnuru notes a mailer from a group called “Americans United for Safe Streets.” The mailer slams Republican House candidate Keith Fimian over the so-called “gun show loophole.” Americans United for Safe Streets has a website, but other than providing an e-mail contact for a press spokeman, the site is quite opaque about […]
The Semi-Automatic Revolver
From Rodriguez v. Glock, Inc., 28 F. Supp. 2d 1064 (N.D. Ill. 1998): “According to the testimony Plaintiff submits, including Bedoya’s testimony from his criminal trial, Rodriguez grabbed Bedoya from behind, held his arm and attempted to remove Bedoya’s service revolver, a .40 caliber Glock Model 22 semi-automatic pistol, from its holster.” The Glock 22 […]
Reasons You Might Be Denied a Rifle/Shotgun Permit in New York City
Here’s what the proposed rules say, in relevant part: § 3-03 Grounds for Denial of Permit. An application for a rifle/shotgun permit may be denied [if] for lack of good moral character or other good cause, pursuant to section 10-303 of the Administrative Code, based on the following reasons: (a) The applicant has been arrested, […]
Sacramento County, in California, Apparently Shifts to Allowing Pretty Much All Law-Abiding Adults to Get Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons
So reports the CalGuns Foundation.
Colorado Supreme Court Will Consider Concealed Carry on College Campuses
In April, a Colorado Court of Appeals panel decided that Colorado’s concealed carry licensing statute preempts public university bans on firearms possession and carrying. I just saw that last week the Colorado Supreme Court agreed to review the case. Here’s the Summary of Issues, as set forth by the court: Whether the General Assembly intended […]
Puerto Rico law limiting use of shooting ranges
An official with Puerto Rico’s Justice Department has announced that the Department will propose changes in the island’s firearms laws, to bring them into line with Heller and McDonald. However, two of the proposed changes appear to be unconstitutional: Torres said the measures will include a requirement that shooting ranges keep logs of how much ammunition […]
NRA Supports Pro-Gun Democrats, and Many Democrats Support the Second Amendment
Earlier this week, I wrote that NRA would be foolish obey the wishes of Republican activists who want the NRA to endorse only Republicans, and especially to not endorse endangered House Democrats. Here are some data on NRA endorsements, and some of the actions that dozens of House Democrats have taken to merit their endorsements: NRA Senate endorsements in […]
What Burden of Proof Is Constitutionally Required for Denying Gun Rights to the Allegedly Dangerous and Mentally Infirm?
California Welfare & Institutions Code § 8103 provides that once someone has been evaluated or taken into custody as being “a danger to himself, herself, or to others,” he may be barred from possessing guns for five years if the government “show[s] by a preponderance of the evidence that the person would not be likely […]
Remember the imaginary “National Republican Association”?
No, I’m not talking about the Paraguayan political party. During much of the last two decades, various gun control advocates, Democratic partisans, and hard-rightists have claimed that the National Rifle Association of America was really just part of the Republican political machine. “NRA” really stood for “National Republican Association,” they said. Some typical examples of the claim: The 2006 book Foxes in […]
Gun Rights and the 2010 Senate Elections
That’s the topic of my article in yesterday’s edition of The New Ledger. Bottom line: in the Venn diagram, Republican gains and pro-Second Amendment gains sometimes overlap, but not always. New Hampshire, West Virginia, Indiana, North Dakota are guaranteed gains for Second Amendment supporters, regardless of which party wins. The most important races, from a right to […]
Obama import ban on rifles confirmed
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about an article in the Korea Times reporting that the Obama administration was blocking the import of American-made M1 Garands and M1 Carbines which the South Korean government wished to sell into the U.S. market. The Korea Times reported that an unnamed Korean official said that the American government […]
S.F. Municipal Transit Agency Accepts Ad for Gun Rights Conference, Depicting a Woman with a Gun
This is so despite Muni’s earlier refusal to allow a movie ad showing police officers wielding guns, apparently on the grounds that it “appear[ed] to promote the use of firearms.” The new ad, for the Gun Rights Policy Conference does promote the use of firearms. But I’m pleased to say that the Muni took it […]
Obama bans over 100,000 rifles
According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and 1941. As rifles, they are especially well-suited to community defense in an emergency, as in […]