Notes From HPS
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 12 months ago
Read David Codrea’s piece on dismissal of the post-1986 machine gun ban challenge appealed. A good candidate for comment of the week comes from Woody Woodward, who says:
Had the ATF been around in the early 1900’s Browning, Garand, and Williams would have been sitting in a federal prison and we would be speaking either Japanese or German today. ATF apparently adheres to the premise that, “The law is what we say it is, at any given time, and there’s nothing you can do about because we are a governmental agency.”
Bravo, Woody. Bravo. I’ve noted before that one side effect (unintended or otherwise?) of gun control laws is to weaken the ability of the U.S. to design, fabricate and service guns. For example, when is the last time a U.S. manufacturer fielded an open bolt design for a light machine gun? Who has the contract for SAWs for the USMC?
Via Mike Vanderboegh, Dave Workman:
Today is the one-year anniversary of the implementation of Washington state’s Initiative 594, a gun control and registration measure disguised as a “universal background check” that has – as demonstrated by headline after headline – been an absolute failure in crime prevention, according to the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
In a blistering news release late yesterday, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, who helped spearhead the opposition to I-594 last year, noted, “Despite public records requests to agencies around the state, we can find no record of any enforcement of this new law in the year since it took effect. The only discernible impact of the law has been to inconvenience honest gun owners and add more red tape to gun shows.”
Oh go cry me a river, Dave. I don’t remember all of that “opposition” Alan spearheaded. In fact, I recall just the opposite. In what world do you live?
Via Uncle, cops are just like you and me, only better. Retired cops exempted from magazine ban.
From reader Mack, this:
The theodicy of federal government seeks to defend the goodness of government in the face of tragedy.Progressives tend to believe that government — if made to have sufficient size, scope, and proper management over the affairs of man — will fix or at least seriously mitigate the problem of evil in the world. Conservatives tend to believe that human nature is flawed and inclined toward bad things.
Mack comments that Molly sounds a lot like me. Yup.
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