BREAKING: A jury finds Parkland officer, Scot Peterson, not guilty on all counts. He was accused of failing to confront the school shooter in 2018. pic.twitter.com/9mNzEhdnOG

— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) June 29, 2023

Unfortunately, the law was on the Coward Scott Paterson’s side.

Several courts, including the Supreme Court have affirmed the police have no duty to protect.

The Coward Peterson was not the Parkland children’s legal guardian or in any way legally responsible for them at the time he turned into a gutless chicken-shit and hid from the danger with piss running down his leg.

The jury’s decision was based on the law.

That doesn’t mean what the Coward Peterson did was right.

I hope that he never has a restful night’s sleep ever again until his cowardness overwhelms him and he sucks off a pistol.

They were getting rid of them for under $5 a pop, so I bought three.

Reader: Yay!, Miguel finally has a Glock!”
Me: <crickets>

OK, I do have an unfinished lower and all the internals but lack the full slide to complete a G19.

Democrat Chick: “Black people are too stupid to do succeed on their own.”

But we are the racists.

I saw AWA’s post on Massachusetts’ Bruen response bill, HB 4420.

I had to look at the bill itself, because one aspect of it really worries the shit out of me.

Section 122. Registration of firearms; reporting; loss or theft; punishment

(a) All firearms and feeding devices possessed in the commonwealth must be registered in accordance with this section. All firearms and feeding devices purchased, acquired, manufactured, or assembled in the commonwealth shall, at the time of purchase, acquisition, manufacture or assembly be registered unless the firearm is imported by: (i) a new resident moving into the commonwealth who causes the firearm to be serialized and registered within 60 days of arrival; (ii) an heir who is transferred the firearm through the distribution of an estate and causes said firearm to be serialized and registered within 60 days of taking possession; (iii) a licensed dealer, gunsmith, distributor or manufacturer who causes said firearm to be serialized and registered within 10 days of taking possession. Privately made firearms must be registered within 7 days of manufacture or assembly pursuant to section 122A.

(b) The registration of all firearms and feeding devices shall be via a real time electronic system developed and maintained by the department of criminal justice information services and, at a minimum, include the following information: (i) name, address and contact information of registrant; (ii) license or permit type, number, and expiration date for registrant or documentation of exemption pursuant to sections 127 or 127A; (iii) manufacturer, make, model, caliber, and serial number of each firearm or feeding device; (iv) date each firearm or feeding device was acquired; (v) name and address of source from which each firearm or feeding device was obtained, including the name and address of the prior registrant if applicable; and (vi) a statement signed by the registrant under the pains and penalties of perjury that they are properly licensed, permitted or exempted under the laws of the commonwealth and are not otherwise prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm or feeding device. If the firearm or feeding device has been assembled from separate parts, the registrant shall include such information on the registration form and include all applicable serial numbers and manufacturers. If the firearm or feeding device has been manufactured or assembled using additive manufacturing, the registrant shall include such information on the registration form.

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(e) The registration requirements of this section shall not apply to firearms or feeding devices: (i) being delivered to law enforcement for the sole purpose of its destruction; (ii) lawfully traveling through the commonwealth via common carrier; (iii) the property of the government of the United States; or (iv) produced by federally licensed manufacturers not for sale in the commonwealth.

Here is the problem:

I live in southeast New Hampshire. The nearest airport that goes anywhere is Boston Logan.

There is an airport in Manchester but the flight are seasonal and limited.

Under safe passage of the FOPA, I should be able to drive to Boston Logan, get on a plane, and fly to a safe state.

I’m not a common carrier, I’m not a new resident, I’m in a gray area that makes it unclear if I have to register my guns to transport them through the state.  It doesn’t say I have to but it doesn’t say I’m exempt, it’s a dubious oversight by the drafters if the bill.

Cynical me who doesn’t trust politicians, especially Democrats, suspects this is a feature not a bug, and will be used to prosecute people who are normally covered by safe passage, i.e., since they weren’t specifically exempted, they will be treated as not compliant with the law.

I am eventually going to get my Massachusetts non-resident LTC, but that won’t come in until will after my next flight with guns out of Logan.

I’m going to keep an eye on this bill.

Honestly, I want put next Republican President do use the DOJ to do what the DOJ is supposed to do, and fight these tyrannical bills on behalf of the people.

But I suspect that before that happens, I’ll get a pet unicorn that shits unlimited ammo and pisses vanilla milkshake.

Government over stepping its bounds has been of interest to me for many years. I take notice when something comes past that is especially egregious. We talk about how long we’ve been fighting for our rights, this is the story of a couple that has been fighting the EPA since 2004.

Some of this is from memory, some is prompted by some of the cited sources in this case.

In 2004, the Sacketts purchased a 1/2 acre of land near Priest Lake in Idaho. This was their dream property, they were going to build their dream home there. Thier property was set back from the lake, with a road between them and the lake.

They got all the required permits and started construction. Part of that was site preparation. This included flinging in some areas that got boggy when it rained. There was no running water from their property to the lake. There was no standing water on their property.

They got big puddles when it rained.

Along came the EPA, who told them that they needed to get a permit from the EPA because they were erasing a federally protected wetland—Oliver Milman, US supreme court shrinks clean water protections in ruling siding with Idaho couple, The Guardian (May 2023). Since they had not gotten a permit before starting the site preparation, the EPA found them in violation.

They were told to put the property back the way it was. If they did not, then they would be fined something like $10,000 per day. When they attempted to get a hearing to challenge the ruling, they were told “yes, but if you are found in violation, you will be held liable for the $10,000 per day fine.”

In other words, to challenge the ruling, the Sacketts would need to be prepared to pay all the outstanding fines.

They decided to fight this. The Pacific Legal Foundation took up their case.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court found in their favor.

More coming tomorrow now that I have a better idea of why my citation engine is/was failing.

Meanwhile, feel free to read the article that irritated me enough to start another of my short articles on legal stuff:

US supreme court shrinks clean water protections in ruling siding with Idaho couple

Ruling by conservative-dominated court shrinks scope of landmark law to protect America’s waterways

Expert sounds the alarm after U.S. Supreme Court sides with couple wanting to build house at protected site

The decision came at a time when the Clean Water Act was being strengthened by the EPA and the Biden administration.

If I remember rightly, I bought this watch some 45 years ago. Regular wristwatch would be destroyed by my carelessness, and I got tired of replacing the crystal and the hands every few months. I saw this watch in a jewelry store and figured that keeping it in a pocket would be a safer proposition than my wrist. I forgot home much I paid for it, but it was not a cheap investment and it has shown the investment part pretty good: still runs accurately.

Now for the funny part. The concept of pocket watches in Venezuela was at best very rare and the idea of watch chains? Nonexistent.

I wanted a watch chain so the same jeweler had to create one from a section of a silver necklace and a tie clasp.  The chain is not the usual length we are used to see because my idea was to clip it to the belt and secure the watch to the jean’s 5th pocket AKA the watch pocket! I am sure for many years I was the only young feller walking around Caracas using the watch pocket as intended and not to keep some spare change or empty altogether.

Then Casio and others came along with the inexpensive, yet hardy digital watches and I transitioned to them while my faithful pocket watch went to rest safely for many years after. I had probably not used it at all in the last 20 and I was glad I did.

It is going back to the safe, but I promise to take it out for a spin once in a while. The least I could do for faithful service.

Cam Edwards covered this Monday or Tuesday of this week. The Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts is working on an analysis of the bill. I’ve not read it, I don’t want to read it.

If you live in Massachusetts, if you travel through Massachusetts, you need to be aware of the proposed law. Once it hits the courts, I’ll look at the cases.