The state has been relying on “expert witnesses” who are attempting to prove that early firearms do not have the capacity of modern firearms. Why you need “expert” witnesses to prove this is hard to understand. But the notion that our constitution only protects things in existence 200 years ago is odd when the argument is taking place in a courtroom filled with computers and flat screen TV’s, fed by the internet, and protected by metal detectors. [More]
Add a Catch-22 on “ripeness” and you get a feel for what they’re up against.
Meanwhile, the Republicans continue to hold fast on denyng a quorum, so “Attaboys” to them.
If we are to be restricted to blunderbusses, the ‘media’, the ‘govt’ and all others are to be restricted to quill pens and Guttenberg presses.
Go for it.
And horse-mounted couriers.
The Republicans are invincible at this point. Measure 113 (10 “unexcused” absences == not eligible to run for re-election) has already kicked in for everyone who walked out. There is little the Senate President or Democrats can do other than acquiesce (and hand victory to the Republicans), or fail to pass a State budget (and feed opposition political ads for the rest of their careers).
All the Republicans have to do at this point is not cave. I applaud them for the spine they’ve shown thus far, though I’m cynical enough to not wager the proverbial farm on their resolve.
My P08 is just as deadly as when it was accepted by Kaiser Willhelm’s army in 1914.
A 100+ year old pistol that fires the same cartridge as today’s “wonder 9s” that Bite-me says will blow your lungs out of your body, and, at least from my hands, does it more accurately.
But they’d really wet their knickers if you showed them what an 1896 Mauser or the later Schnellfeuer could do. So, do antique weapons give up all that much compared to newer stuff? You wouldn’t want to bet your life on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW2p9gkmHxM
wish I had been in that courtroom and been allowed to take the stand. ‘Standard “rate of fire” for the old Brown Bessm the long musket that was most common during the fight to kick the Brotss off our land, was, in the hands of the British Regulars, between two and two and a half mi utes per round. Using the same firerarm, the “rate of fire” for we Yanks was about a minute per round. WHY? Because we were a nation of marksmen and hunters, fighting to protect and preserve our homeland, not dumb hirelings. Our side also had another very signficant advantage: militia. Yes. Each town or region met, once or twice weekly, to drill, train, pracitce, maintain equipment, improve skills, study and talk about tactics, train.
I would have brought up some of these differences and how they actually played out on the battlefield, starting on 19 Paril 1775, first at Lexington then on out to Concord, all day long. Our boys handed Gage’s “most feared and best trained military in the world” to General Gage on a plate.
THEN I’d tell those judges about an interesting piece of equipment that existed at that time: the Girandoni Rifle. It was semiautomatic, one ball fired for each pull of the trigger, next ball automatically put in position to fire with the next trigger pull. FORTY rounds in the magazine of that rifle. Rate of fire was about one round PER SECOND, sixty times faster than our best militiamen could do with their Brown Bess and Rifled Muskets. They were dear, because they were complicated and took a lot of tme to build. but they existed and were in common use” before that batle at Lexington and Cincord took place. Anyone with the wherewithall could and did own one.
And these panty-wetters are all knicker-be-knotted over a tiny less than quarter inch bullet too small and feeble to hunt deer in the state of Oregon, and even more so if that rifle in question has a magazine able to hold eleven or more rounds.
I would like to examine ALL the financial records relating to from whom these clowns are getting their bribes