The Butterfly Effect

Ninth Circuit to rehear Hawaii butterfly knife ban… In its en banc petition, the state only briefly touched on historical arms regulations in its pre-territorial days. However, the state Supreme Court recently harkened back to the Kingdom of Hawaii — which historically levied heavy regulations on weapons — while pushing back on the Second Amendment. [More]

We’re talking Stephen Stamboulieh and Alan Beck’s case,

Judge ReTodd Eddins thinks “the spirit of Aloha” is the supreme law of the land there? I know they had history and tradition– did they have text? And does that spirit mean they’re bringing back Kapu?

Mark W. Smith thinks this may backfire.

[Via Jess]

Matthew 18:6

Kevin Starrett sent a relevant email in re my AmmoLand piece “Potential Charges Over Child’s Toy Gun in School Zoom Class“:

In Oregon, the legislature has stripped school boards of the right to fire superintendents. Because one fired a far left Marxist.
Now they have a bill to mandate porn in school. School boards will no longer be able to remove porn from school libraries.

Anyone who has a child in public school is committing child abuse. Period.

Daily Defense

Go to the Armed American Radio website to listen/watch live or find a station near you.

Unsafe Storage

They were probably out of this guy’s price range anyway.

I hope the gunmakers defending against enemies foreign and domestic take heed and have their lawyers introduce evidence that CPSC hasn’t issued recalls against their products.

Felon Proves ‘Safe Storage’ Laws Don’t Protect Lives

A Michigan man was charged Tuesday under the state’s new law requiring safe storage of guns after his 2-year-old daughter shot herself in the head with his revolver the day after the law took effect. [More]

I’d think a responsible j0urnalist would put the part about him being a prohibted person felon right up in the headline. Of COURSE he doesn’t obey any “gun laws.”

Care to tell us more about him– and why he was out?

And why the photo of the everyman-looking professor instead of the idiot “dad”?

Safe storage practices are done by the responsible. Safe storage laws don’t change that.

[Via bondmen]

Trump Wouldn’t Be So Good at Firing People If He Was Better at Hiring Them

Trump was asked about half a dozen potential running mate choices: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a Democrat turned independent. [More]

I see two who are problematic right off the bat:

Tim Scott picked Lisa Murkowski over Kelly Tshibaka. That and he’s a lying prior restraint/no real due process gun-grabber.

And Tulsi’s a totalitarian on guns.

All it takes is a missed heartbeat.

We don’t need the crowd going wild. We need adults with his ear telling him that once more, it’s his to blow with gun owners.

You Can’t Stop the Signal

Governments are on the wrong path. The United Nation’s attempt to control weapons only incentivizes the ingenuity of those who want them. [More]

True, but never mistake their motives for wanting to protect public safety.

As always, Alan Chwick, Joanne D Eisen, and Gary Mauser are doing importan t work we ought to know about and share.

[Via DDS]

Thank You, Captain Obvious

There’s Just One Problem With Gun Buybacks – They don’t work. [More]

You don’t say.

Now what other “commonsense gun safety laws” would you like to admit the truth about?

To protect all Americans, the federal government has passed many laws to restrict and limit firearm purchases. The offenders in this research, however, stated that none of these laws or statutes deterred them.

This is one of the problems when old stuff is disappeared off the net. Even though some if it may be archived, it still requires those of us who remember it to be around to find it and reintroduce it.

[Via Jess]