Recent content by tyme

The original "tax collection" mandate of the ATF was a scam -- a selective firearms ban under cover of tax collection. The government knew it couldn't forbid ownership or sales of firearms outright, so they resorted to a punitive tax. The only reason the "taxes" seem marginally tolerable...

Try this... it's one PDF per state, and a few years old, and isn't specific to "assault weapon" regulations, but at least the municipal codes for each state are in alphabetical order: http://www.atf.gov/firearms/statelaws/26thedition/ (there's a page for the 27th edition but it doesn't have...

I agree, vegasHeat. Civil liberties are decidedly anti-American. :rolleyes:

So if a bunch of people call police and report illegal undocumented immigrants, will a state do something about that?

The rationale for special regulation or banning of handguns is that they're concealable. That's the rationale for even bothering to identify them legally as a distinct class of firearms. That is not a valid rationale. How can something be bad when hidden but not bad when displayed openly...

Anyone who feels truly threatened at work should do more than simply carry a gun... quitting and/or initiating some internal or legal complaint would be reasonable, depending on the seriousness of the threat. I don't think CCW is about feeling threatened. I think it's an intersection of being...

By "iffy" you mean that they don't support pseudo-"net neutrality" bills? Google owns Youtube. They are heavily invested in making sure the internet remains content-neutral, i.e. that ISPs don't rate limit e.g. youtube traffic. In that particular case, market forces may be effective at...

There's a continuum of felony-murder situations, and I'm not sure where the line should be drawn. Thug robs a bank, bystander shoots thug's accomplice or innocent bystander... fine, apply felony-murder to shift responsibility to the thug... but ideally the first bystander won't miss, and the...

I don't think "crime" is a valid concept under anarchism. There is only what your subscription to a law enforcement/insurance collective offers, vs what someone else's offers, in the way of protection and insurance against things you or they don't want to happen. You can consider something an...

Sure... I'm not saying discussion of various ideologies is bad. My problem is when those discussions are cloaked in the label of anarchism and seem to be preaching the truth of how anarchism will operate, when it seems clear that nobody really knows. I have a feeling many "anarchists" would...

I think this suffers from the same false dichotomy as the folks who claim, "but doing things the way Libertarian supporter X suggests wouldn't be good." My problem with anarcho-capitalists and anarcho-socialists and various other flavors is that I don't understand what they're suggesting. I...

Prof. Wickwire, Go to the THR Library (link at top right of any THR page). Look under the heading "Positions on the RKBA" (right column, middle-ish). Warbow, it sounds like the appeal will be submitted around September, Parker has a while to respond to the appeal, and then I think D.C. can...

Only in fascist states. I've twice been briefly detained and then let go (in TX) after repeatedly refusing to disclose my identity to a LEO. (Obviously I only do that when not carrying or driving.) I'd like to reiterate what Green Lantern already pointed out. If you have your a ccw license...

We have representation, but it's institutionalized, corrupt representation.

The world is a cold, hard place, and doesn't care one bit what you find offensive. If you go to a war zone, you'll see people die. If you watch the nature channel, you'll occasionally see animals having sex. If you hang out on (hopefully) open-minded forums like this, you should expect to see...