Recent content by TexasFats

What we, and the NRA, SAF, and other pro-gun groups can look for, post-Heller, is about 20-30 years of litigation or worse. Obama's website now says that he wants to repeal Tihart (which kept Bloomberg from getting trace data so that Hizzoner could send lawyers to sue gun shops out of...

I just copied this from Obama's website. It is under the heading of Urban Policy, subheading Crime and Violence, or something like that. Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to...

I don't know Oregon law, but, in most states, transactions between private individuals don't require a background check. Any FFL dealer with a table, however, will be required to run the background check. Where I live, in Austin, Texas, private transactions do not require a background check...

In Texas, you cannot even pull a gun unless you are justified in using lethal force. Using a gun to wound or try to intimidate will certainly get you sent to jail, if the bad guy doesn't kill you first. Secondly, the .22 is a mouse gun that will require that you fire many shots to stop an...

In Texas, my understanding is that SCCC is teaming up with some state legislators to repeal the state's prohibition of campus carry, even by those with CHL's. All of you Texans out there, let's get behind the group and try to help and support them all that we can. I would suggest that each of...

To my mind, the worst danger of using a full-auto gun in self-defense is the likelihood of hitting an innocent by-stander with a stray shot. Even if the shoot of the bad guy is a good shoot, collateral damage is another matter. Kill a by-stander by accident, and you will almost certainly go to...

We must not forget that the recent Heller decision left the door open to "reasonable" regulations of gun ownership. We should also remember that what the Brady bunch and Mayor Bloomberg consider "reasonable" would disarm the vast majority of Americans, or make the costs and red tape to own and...

"Progressives" are mostly left-wing folks with a strong bent towards a collectivist society. Also, too many of them are the sort of utopian idealists who will stop at nothing to impose their view a "the good society" on the rest of us--whether we want it or not. Utopians are more dangerous...

Mexico cannot secure its border with us. If they did, then they would have to admit that their way of dealing with poverty in that country is to send as many of their poor north to the US as possible. Then, their poor can work in this country and send money back to their families in Mexico...

First of all, let me assure you that equity shareholders ARE legal owners of the corporation. They do not just "loan" money to the company. The folks who loan money are bondholders. However, in order to to avail themselves of the limited liability protections that go with incorporation, the...

To the OP: In Texas, legalized concealed carry on campus would not authorize 18-21 year olds to pack in the classroom. Except for the instance of active duty or honorably discharged military, you have to be 21 to even get a CHL. Also, the law prevents me, a 59 year old professor, from...

It has always only taken me five minutes or less after I have filled out the 4473 form.

They want to make reloading illegal, and the gun-grabbers also want to make ammunition so expensive and difficult to obtain that our guns will be nothing more than high priced clubs. These people are evil. They want us disarmed, and, if they can't outlaw civilian gun ownership, then they will...

This is my first post, but, for what it is worth, it is likely that Heller is only the first salvo of the litigation. Even if the SC rules in favor of an individual right interpretation, it will probably take another 20 years of litigation to sort it all out.