Recent content by FTA84

That is because it is not a PDF of text. It is a PDF of scanned images so search will not work. My original post in the a related thread: If they were going to put in restrictive clauses they would have already done it ala D.C. Instead, they put in no limitations on owning guns in the...

I think this will be fact. I am still waiting for the minutes to show up from the 7/28 council meeting but Evanston City Council seemed eager to dismiss the NRA lawsuit. They rewrote the offending law to allow unrestricted access to handguns inside the home. To see the amendment the voted...

Update Just an update, FYI http://www.cityofevanston.org/government/minutes/council/pdf/City-Council-Packet7-28-08.pdf Page 157 It appears that the major amendment to be voted on is that they will allow unrestricted access to personal handguns in the home for self defense. I don't...

Indeed I knew this fact already. However, it doesn't make it right and still, overall, makes the founding documents look as if the language needs to be 'interpreted' because what they so clearly said they so clearly did not follow (so how can one be so sure what they meant?). Example...

I was not implying people would not try to do it. However, it should be shocking to people when it does happen. Having documents starting out with these errors makes some simply repeating the process less than unusual.

Personally I would have made a ban on the practice of slavery (and granting woman's sufferage). The foremost reason, it is inhumane practice. As a secondary reason, I think this is where much of the attitude in our land of "meaning" comes from. Changing meaning and twisting words. Why...

I have to disagree that this is a bad thing. As Scalia pointed out in Heller, one may try to equate gun registration with voting registration. You register the voter but not the vote. The opposite, registering the vote of the voter is something that happens in corrupt regimes. That way...

Indeed, but I think you could hardly limit anything because it could be modified. Example: A ban on suitcases because suitcases could possibly be modified to house so called 'dirty' bombs. You can ban the magazines (like you can ban the bombs/nuclear material) but you cannot ban...

Oddly enough, most of the situations where this could be applied would allow time to call the police anyway.

I was once at a local gun shop where a local officer was talking about a proposed high capacity magazine ban. He was fairly upset that anyone had proposed such a ban and was complaining that he would never vote for so and so again. I thought it was very interesting because many proponents of...

1. I think the discussion of driving/CDL falls more under commerece than full faith and credit. 2. For many professions, (perhaps doctor's, nurses as mentioned), the states have set up a system something like current CCW. If I recall correctly, engineers have this dilemma. A professional...

I guess the next step is for one of these elitist type goons to openly ignore election results and simply declare himself mayor for another term. After all, it is for your own good!

Criminals may not read the black and white often but they usually are part of a large network of friends. At the very least his local community will be safer as the news of the demise of a colleague spreads.

I have an old friend living in Ohio (where I grew up). He needs to make a stop in a state park (to visit a graduation party) with a handgun (unloaded, cased, and no ammo) while on his way to a shooting range (where he will buy ammo). He doesn't have an Ohio concealed permit. It appears to be...

Wow, how ripe with hypocracy this is. So there have been a few bad police offers that have abused their power (a very serious offense, no doubt) and so you recommend that every officer, even officers without a single complaint, have a camera attached to them so you can monitor every move...