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I believe the first 13 words in the second amendment are a preambular statement of purpose, which explains why the right exist. In Eldred v. Ashcroft, authored by SCOTUS Justice Ruth Ginsberg, the court stated that (among other things) they do not agree with the idea that a statement of purpose...

I don't know what everyone is so fired-up about on this thread. Quite a lot of the major oil producers are now warning about peak oil. In a few decades (maybe sooner) it's going to be too expensive to heat those McMansions, never mind commuting into town from them. Plus the cost of food is going...

If the founding fathers came back to see the country as it is today, my guess is they would spend time studying in-depth how we came to be in this position, then they would call for a constitutional convention and proceed to write a new constitution that avoided all the problems we've had...

If Heller goes our way, they'll have an awfully hard time of banning handguns unless they either repeal the constitution or, at a minimum, repeal the second amendment. Could it happen? Sure. If you don't teach your children the importance of RKBA. The other side is never going to give up, so...

Is there going to be an ebook version of this?

I'm in CA too, but I'm not in the pessimist's camp. Oh, for sure CA gun owners are disorganized and seemingly incapable of becoming a serious political force in this state. For sure the interest is there, but for some unfathomable reason CA gun owners are, well, lame where politics are...

LEOs can have banned AWs so long as their captains sign off on it. I have a friend who is a cop, and he would love to own an SKS, but he can't because his Captain will only sign off on an AR-15, which is what the department uses. I *think* (but am not sure) that similar rules apply for owning...

I think the poll is more reflective of what age groups have time to hang out on internet message boards than anything else.

They can't implement this law because there's no patent-free technology available to manufacture these guns. Methinks this whole bill is beyond stupid. This is how the first bit of the law reads: ID Dynamics holds patents 7111423 and 6886284, which means they occupy the patent space for this...

I'll be buying a few semi-auto handguns before 2010 and then calling it done for semi-autos until I can get out of California. However, I wonder if that law will really go into effect. As it turns out, the law is written such that the microstamping technology can be used only if it is available...

I'm 44 too, but I keep telling my kids that I'm 10. Not sure which age group to check in the poll. :D simmonguns -- You gotta fight that pear shaped thing! I find that if I ride a bicycle 100 miles a week, the gut will stay away. That said, I made the disastrous decision to remodel my house...

Yes, I think NBC is jumping the gun on that one a bit. As far as I know, we expect to hear whether SCOTUS will take up Heller by mid November. Watching SCOTUS legal proceedings is like watching glacier movements before global warming. :D

Necro, Just a comment. All the parenthetical text bothers me and tends to kick me out of the story. You might want to work on blending that information into the protagonist's commentary so that it doesn't stand out so much. The main premise of the story seems real solid. I'd definitely keep...

The last time I did this, I waited until my wife (at the time, my girlfriend) wasn't home. Then I cut small squares out of the carpeting, drilled into the concrete (we're on a slab), bolted the safe down, and she never knew what I did to her carpeting. That was 12 years ago. I'm about to...

"Does anyone know if the police will have to purchase stamped pistols, or is this only for the can't-be-trusted citizens." Nope. LEO is exempt, as always, being a specially privileged class of citizen and all. One hopes that Heller will at least put an end to that nonsense.

Word has it that you need more than a steel file to get rid of microstamping. A few minutes with a dremel will supposedly do the trick, though. But you've also got to know about all the places in the firearm that actually stamp the casing -- it isn't just on the firing pin, but it's also on the...

We're still trying to get the Supreme Court to actually stand up and tell us what that means. Hopefully by this time next year a whole lot of firearm laws are going to come under legal scrutiny, as the entire country stops arguing about whether we even have an individual right to RKBA and...

What is the case about CCW that you expect to hit the supreme court (I assume you mean the Wisconsin supreme court)? I ask because I've been assuming that CCW is not a protected activity under RKBA provisions. What argument are they making to claim that it is? BTW, WI just had a case where a...

Parker makes it clear that the 2A is supposed to allow US citizens to keep and bear arms equivalent to the military arms of the day. So if Parker is upheld, then yes, I think we'll be allowed to own beam/energy weapons once they become available. But by then we'll also have force fields capable...

I have the press and dies and all the parts that I need (my dad gave me his old reloading press). But I just don't have the time to get into it right now. Maybe this winter....