Recent content by Gildas

Thank you Thanks for all the responses. That has given me a whole lot of leads to follow up. I really appreciate it.

I'm in the process of planning a novel - not sure what will ever come of it - and needing to find some information out about the sort of hunting rifle someone in the 1930s British Far East would be likely to use. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

Nope. Cert was denied. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/court-grants-2-more-cases/ I.e. even if the court took the case and overruled the Circuit Court on Standing, the law they are challenging is no more, so there could be no remedy.

I think that if a bunch of people request an initial comment period be extended it gets extended. Often these things get proposed and no one notices until towards the end of the first comment period. Think back to the proposed OSHA regs last year. NRA and NSSF asked that the comments be extended...

Standard Procedure Nothing ominous or out of the ordinary about it at all. Every June is like this. Right now they have 22 opinions to hand down from the undecided cases this term.

Since you say you're a tourist you will be a non-immigrant alien for the purposes of Federal law, which does mean possession of a firearm is out of the question. There are a couple of exceptions to that, for diplomats and cops (while on police business) and those the AG gives permission to...

Marie Claire is not the sort of magazine I'd normally read (we have it as my wife won a free subscription to it) but flipping though this month's issue we came across an article which covered guns and campus CCW in a positive light!:) Its just a short piece, but no PSH in sight - not even the...

I have a TSA certified ("Travel Sentry") luggage lock that basically is a combination lock with a slot for a skeleton key which supposedly only the TSA has. It is designed so that you can lock your luggage but allow the TSA to getin if they need to. Leaving aside questions about the efficacy...

Something we can do In amongst all this stuff there is an argument on originalist lines trying to make the point that the RKBA is solely in the context of the Militia, and they support it with quotes from sources at the time. I think it would be an interesting excercise to go through those...

Actually what happened was the Tory government, which was on its knees in 1996 with an election having to be held by May 1997, went ahead and banned most handguns, but tried to leave something for Britain's tiny handgun shooting community (most of whom were ostensibly Tory voters). [A great...

Case decided Aug 7th 1998 Omnibus Appropriations Act for 1999 signed into law October 21st 1998 That was pretty fast work!

My apologies. In my haste to reply I completely missed that post. By way of making amends, let me post something of substance that is relevant to the topic... I've seen a lot of analysis and speculation on whether the SCOTUS will grant Heller, that is based on two assumptions: 1. That...

Not any more it won't. In Small v. US which Kharn cited for you and which post dates US v. Bean the Court held that that very phrase 'in any court' did not cover foreign courts. Small was convicted of smuggling guns in Japan, by the way.

What I found striking about it was that Arizona's argument would get attacked on here as being too weak and compromising etc. Yet to Blackmun it was utterly astonishing.

Hmm - maybe the screen grab isn't high enough resolution On the left hand side, all Blackmun has written is an exclamation mark.