Justice doesn’t like to lose . . . Federal Government Files for Certiorari to Supreme Court Over Its Loss in Second Amendment Case Binderup – “Federal law states, at 18 USC 922(g)(1), that anyone convicted of most crimes with punishment of more than one year imprisonment (or, if a misdemeanor, more than two years) can’t legally own a gun. The Justice Department last week filed for certiorari to the Supreme Court in an attempt to overturn a loss they suffered in September 2016 in the 3rd District Court of Appeals in a case that is now known as Lynch v. Binderup. Binderup consolidated two cases, in each of which a plaintiff who felt his Second Amendment rights had been violated by the specific application of 922(g)(1) won in both district court and in an en banc opinion of the 3rd District Court of Appeals.”
Low-hanging fruit? . . . Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus Leadership Introduces Hearing Protection Act – “Congressman Jeff Duncan (SC), Co-Chair of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC), along with CSC Member Congressman John “Judge” Carter (TX) introduced H.R. 367, the Hearing Protection Act (HPA). Joining the primary sponsors on this bill are 43 original cosponsors including CSC Co-Chair Congressman Gene Green (TX), CSC Vice-Chair Congressman Austin Scott (GA) and many other members of the bipartisan CSC.”
National reciprocity, it’s a thing . . . Have gun, will travel: Groups push for states to honor concealed-carry laws – “’Your driver’s license works in every state, so why doesn’t your concealed-carry permit?’ (Rep. Richard) Hudson’s office said in an accompanying fact sheet. The perils that concealed-carry permit holders can face recently were brought to national attention in 2014 when Shaneen Allen, a Philadelphia mother of two, was arrested and faced three years in prison after mistakenly entering New Jersey in possession of a loaded handgun.”
Is it really necessary to point out the folly of basing any kind of analysis of “gun violence” on the petri dish that is Chicago? . . . The Virality Of Gun Violence – “The predictive model created by (Andrew) Papachristos combines demographic data with what is called a ‘social contagion’ model in which it is assumed that individuals who are socially connected a victim of gun violence will themselves run a higher risk of becoming victims of gun violence. Identifying these social connections or networks was done by looking at all 16,399 gunshot injuries in Chicago from 2006 to 2014 within the 1,189,225 arrests made during the same period, then looking at the identity of individuals who were arrested at the same time for the same offense and then connecting this data to everyone who was shot.”
This shall not stand . . . Gun group seeks more records from attorney general – “The gun rights group that has spent months fighting Attorney General Maura Healey’s enforcement actions around the state’s assault weapons ban is now appealing her refusal to release certain public records. The Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts announced Monday that it had filed an appeal with Secretary of State William Galvin’s office over its request for records connected to Healey’s July 2016 announcement that she would step up enforcement of the 1998 ban to crack down on copies or duplicates of prohibited guns.”
The media other-ing vets . . . NBC New York Has Identified The Real Mass Shooting Threat in America: Veterans – “Let’s get the obvious point out of the way: no, NBC New York has never made a timeline listing every mass shooting carried out by those who follow a certain ideology. When people of those ideology commit those shootings, we are buffeted with assurances that is is wrong and immoral to stigmatize millions based on the actions of a few. That courtesy evidently does not extend to our men in uniform.”
