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Dean Weingarten has an exposé on the status of Young v. Hawaii.  I knew this and had read the reports, but the interesting thing about this is that in the comments section, Charles Nichols drops by the make an extended comment.

I suspect that the Young v. Hawaii en banc panel would like to issue an opinion that says states can ban Open Carry in favor of concealed carry. However, there are a couple of jurisdictional problems with the en banc panel doing that.

The first is the Young v. Hawaii three-judge panel was bound by the Peruta v. San Diego en banc panel opinion and held that there is only a right to Open Carry. Neither side fled an en banc petition challenging either that holding of the three-judge panel opinion or the Peruta v. San Diego en banc panel opinion.

The State of Hawaii did file an en banc petition limited to the Open Carry holding of the three-judge panel, which was granted.

During the en banc oral argument, Mr. Young’s attorney (Alan Beck) was asked point blank if he was challenging the Peruta v. San Diego en banc opinion which held that there is no right to concealed carry. He said that he was not challenging Peruta v. San Diego, en banc.

Putting all of that together, the en banc panel does not have the jurisdiction to decide anything other than whether or not the denial of Mr. Young’s permit to openly carry a handgun violated the Second Amendment. And the en banc panel might not even decide that question because there were a couple of reasons given by the en banc panel, that were independent of the Second Amendment, for upholding the decision of the district court.

My California Open Carry lawsuit, Charles Nichols v. Gavin Newsom et al, does not challenge the Peruta v. San Diego en banc panel opinion either. My lawsuit is not limited to handguns. I challenge California’s bans on openly carrying loaded and unloaded rifles, shotguns, and handguns. I also challenge the license requirement.

My three-judge panel asked for supplemental briefing. The Young v. Hawaii en banc panel has not. Supplemental briefing was completed in my appeal on August 8th.

So if I read this right, Young was about open carry alone.  Peruta was about concealed carry alone.  The Nichols case is about open carry alone, and in California, not Hawaii (although presumably deciding for Nichols in California would be favorable to Young and vice versa).

The trouble is that Bruen didn’t decide open carry, and thus we are left with patchwork rulings and patchwork laws in states.

I continue to maintain that gentlemen, good citizens and men of fine upbringing don’t mind openly carrying their weapons in public.  It is for the good and peace of the country.

It might be more accurate to do this while the rifle is in a vise.

This is an interesting project, and it goes to show that if you’re good with the mechanics, you can shoot any firearm well and accurately, even at distance.

I don’t believe there are many bolt action 45-70 firearms out there.  There are many lever actions, but the single shot tube loading rifles tend to go at auction for high prices.  The demand is so high that even the newer lever action rifles are sometimes sold at auction.

This is likely a one-of-a-kind build.

Source.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Some of the state’s religious leaders are going beyond church policy and asking for action on gun control from lawmakers.

This resolution from the state’s largest African American denomination may seem like it blurs lines of politics and religion, but Dr. CJ Rhodes explains it this way.

“One way you can look at it is this is an act of pastoral care. We shepherd people in our pews and our communities that are impacted by this, not just in terms of their physical well-being but mental, spiritual, [and] social well-being,” described Rhodes, Third Vice President of the General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi.

The General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi wants lawmakers to repeal the state’s open carry laws.

“There are a lot of sane gun owners out there,” said Rhodes. “And of course, living in, you know, Jackson, you know, you got to make sure you got something out you sometimes. But the fact of the matter is, so many of our people are being terrorized in our communities. We’ve got to do something about that as well. So, yes, I understand the Second Amendment. I understand, you know, bearing arms, but we also need to make sure that we can ensure that folks feel safe in their communities.”

Regarding the bit in italics, what?  What did he say?  Does he even know?

However, the Mississippi Justice Institute says that’s a complicated request.

“The first problem I see is that these advocates would have in trying to do this is that the Mississippi Constitution, in fact, protects the right to openly carry a firearm,” said MJI Director Aaron Rice.

And right now, there’s not a process for a constitutional amendment to be filed. MJI Director Aaron Rice says the resolution raises a similar concern for him as the Jackson mayor’s attempted order to ban open carry during the pandemic.

“Which is to point out that there’s high violent crime, and then to kind of make a boogeyman of open carry laws and making no attempt to actually link that high rate of violence to the open carry laws,” noted Rice.

They’re fake pastors.  They should be teaching theology to their congregants.  Instead, rather than connecting even a single crime to open carry, they’re out in public making things up, which of course is called lying in the Holy Writ.

Rice is right.  Open carry is protected by the Mississippi constitution according to OpenCarry.org.  Specifically, the constitution says as follows.

The right of every citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, or property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but the Legislature may regulate or forbid carrying concealed weapons.

Of course I don’t agree with regulating any carry at all, but if we’ve got to throw them a bone until passing constitutional carry, I’d actually prefer this scheme over regulating open carry.

As the saying goes, fine and well-ordered gentlemen openly display their weapons, while criminals hide them.

First, how not to do it.

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— Víctor (@raqrockyjones) August 10, 2022

Now for how to do it the right way.

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— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 7, 2022

I wish I was that good.

At Outdoor Life.

Some ARs, some bolt action rifles.  Mostly .350 Legend and 45-70.  The Franchi Momentum in .360 Legend is a nice looking rifle in Optifade Cerakote finish.

The new Marlin 45-70 is still unobtanium unless you’re willing to spend $1800.  Lever actions guns are priced very high right now.

This is yet another informative podcast by Hornady.

I don’t think they do a very good job with this video on the Langdon Tactical Beretta 92.  They make no distinction between the factory slide and the Langdon Tactical custom pistol job where they modify the internals of the gun to make it accept a lower profile slide without interfering with the action.  With the former, they simply mill a slide cut.  With the later, they allow optics to co-witness with the sights because of modifications to the gun.  This video does a decent job of explaining it.  This is something Shooting Illustrated could have done as well.  Begin at about the 11:00 mark.

So this is a good segue to a question that would undoubtedly have some interest for readers.  I know it would for me.

If you had a chance to list any three firearms, your “dream guns,” what would they be?  Here are the rules: [1] Be specific, and [2] they must be firearms you don’t currently have.  List what you would like to have.  If your dream gun is a .50 caliber M2, say so.

I’ll begin.  I don’t own any of these firearms.

I’d like this Langdon Tactical custom job on the Beretta 92.  It’s more expensive than the optics cut on the factory Beretta 92, and by the time an RMR is put on top, including transfer fee, taxes and shipping, the total would approach $3000.  I want the FDE Cerekote.

Next, I’ve been quite disappointed in how quickly Marlin (Ruger) has made new lever action rifles available to the community, especially at reasonable prices.  Currently, the 45-70 is the only model in production.  I was told by an FFL just yesterday that two other models will come out before they even think about making the 30-30.

I’d like a Henry 30-30, but I confess I don’t like the synthetic furniture.  But I also don’t like the straight stock typical of so many of their guns – I’d rather have a pistol stock.  The 45-70 currently comes that way, both Henry and Marlin.

I’d like to send that Henry 30-30 to a fine furniture maker to replace the stock and forend with fancy walnut.  Then I’d like a custom gunsmith to work on the action to smooth it out and lighten the trigger.  I’m assuming that this would total the package out to $3000 – $4000 by the time a fine furniture maker gave me a fancy walnut stock and ensured that the fit was right.

Finally, I’d like to have a Bighorn Armory 454 Casull rifle with fancy walnut.  By the time this got finished, between the price of the gun and transfer fee, taxes, and shipping, the total would be about $4500.

Enough with the plastic and tactical guns.  I’d really like some heirloom firearms.  We’ve discussed that at length before.

Okay.  I lied.  I’ll give the fourth.  I’d like a Thompson submachine gun.  Readers know that I’m a .45 ACP devotee.  This would be the really expensive one.

Share your list.  Who knows.  Maybe dreams come true.

This is a very good and informative interview.  By the way, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard this about the 300 Win Mag, freebore and “jump” with factory ammunition.