Gun Free Zone

Spring is coming. Ammo is needed.

Good bills for a change! (Don’t worry, a bunch of fresh bad ones are out there)

SB2788 by Todd (R)

As introduced, allows law enforcement officers, whether on-duty or off-duty, retired law enforcement officers, active duty and retired members of the armed forces of the United States, whether in discharge of official duties or not, and enhanced handgun carry permit holders, except in certain circumstances, to possess or carry, whether openly or concealed, with or without the intent to go armed, a handgun in any Pre-K-12 public school building or bus, school campus, grounds, recreation area, athletic field, or any other property owned, operated, or while in use by any public board of education or Pre-K-12 school.

Hello Campus Carry. And gets rid of the annoying Schrödinger GFZ of people suddenly illegally carrying in public places just because a school bus suddenly and unannounced dropped a bunch of kids for a field day.

SB2763 by Bowling (R)

 As introduced, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation; declares a federal statute, rule, executive order, or a federal judicial order that has the effect of enforcing an extreme risk protection order to be null and void; creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of attempting to enforce a federally implemented extreme risk protection order. –

In the past, State’s preemption has proven to be one of the most effective ways to eliminate the hodgepodge or multiple laws and regulations for multiple jurisdictions which leads to the self-censuring and self-restriction of Rights.  And it is easier to choke bad laws at one location that waste time and resources on multiple fronts.

This headline caught my attention. I mean, we know we cannot depend on police to keep us safe all the time, right?

But you do need to make an effort on your own safety.  The more I read, the worse it got.

MURFEESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) — Elbony Weatherspoon says she’s lucky to be alive.

Her ex-boyfriend threatened to kill her and himself with Weatherspoon’s gun, but it was only after she got proof that she said Murfreesboro Police were quick to act.

Officers responded to Weatherspoon’s home back in August to find Michael Thibodeau had barricaded himself inside, armed with the gun Weatherspoon reported missing two days earlier.

Police used tear gas and rubber bullets during a three-hour standoff before Thibodeau finally surrendered.

He was later charged with aggravated domestic assault, vandalism and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon.

Murfreesboro woman says police failed to help after ex-boyfriend threatened her (newschannel5.com)

Man, that ended up almost harsh.

Thibodeau flipped over furniture, fired several rounds in the floors and punched holes in the walls.
What made matters worse for Weatherspoon was that her renter’s insurance had just lapsed, leaving her with no way of paying for damages and no home for her three children.

Damn! That has to suck

All this from a man Weatherspoon had only dated for three weeks.

Wait, what? 3 weeks only? The guys just flipped like a switch?

Weatherspoon ran a check on everything about Thibodeau before the two began dating. She ran a credit check, reached out to friends for references, and found nothing out of the ordinary. Weatherspoon did find a criminal history but noticed most of the charges had been dismissed. What she didn’t know was why so many charges had been dismissed.

Hmmm, criminal history. Not for nothing but that tends to be a big effing clue.

Weatherspoon said she first noticed something was wrong when Thibodeau began posting strange things on social media.
Soon, Thibodeau’s own family was calling to warn Weatherspoon that he wasn’t taking his medication.

His own family is sending you warning flares, but you chose not to act upon them? Medication is another effing clue. But wait, it gets better…OK worse.

Two days before Thibodeau destroyed her home, Weatherspoon called Murfreesboro Police saying she had given Thibodeau an ultimatum.

“I told him either you’re going to go to a mental hospital, you’re going to get checked or we can no longer talk anymore,” Weatherspoon said.

Body camera footage from that day showed officers responding to Weatherspoon’s home. Officers asked if Thibodeau had been physical with her, but she said it was all verbal.

Weatherspoon then told officers that her 9mm pistol was missing. She said the gun was in plain view when Thibodeau was at the house, but now she can’t find it.

Let’s review: Woman with three kids, dates a man with a criminal history and has been warned by his own family he is not taking medication, allows him in her house where her three kids live and there is an unsecured gun in the premises, but the cops are to blame when shit goes off the rails?

No dear, you fucked up and endangered your kids for a piece of male sausage.

I’m going to end here with the following, it is important to learn the arguments of our enemies. Here the method they are using is “over-describing”.

The right is the right to keep and bear arms. Those words do not include the words “to stop bad guys when they burst into my home.” Yet the state does argue that the plain text does not cover the more descriptive words.

We must remain focused on using the right argument, the right conduct. The conduct we wish to do is to keep and bear arms. That includes the right to acquire arms. It includes the right to acquire the acquirements to outfit and use those arms.

The state can not ban magazines nor can they ban optics. Those are both arms and both are protected.

The old joke still stands:
Guns have 2 dates – Date of release and date of recall.

I got this sent by Sam Jacobs last week and me being me, forgot to post it till today.

Very eye-opening reading and a confirmation that we still have way too many people untrained or uncared on how to properly secure our firearms.

We need to do much better.

America’s Stolen Guns: A Silent Contributor to Gun Crimes in the U.S. (2024) (ammo.com)

The Casinator project is moving forward. Unfortunately, every step forward requires me to learn something new.

In the best of all worlds, I want to be able to send out the prints for this out to a shop to see what they quote me for parts.

Back in October, the exercise bike started acting out. It would work ok, and then decided that the resistance needed to be higher. It got to the point where I didn’t want to get on the bike.

My lady did a wonderful thing and found a free exercise bike. We got that replacement in Early December. This one has a different set of patterns. Which has taken me a bit of time to get used to. The biggest improvement, besides actually working, is that I can set the time for a session. I’m now back to doing my rides 5 days a week. Sometimes 16 minutes, when I have meetings, sometimes 40 or even 48. It is difficult to push to 40, much less to 48.

With the ability to set the levels a little lower and the time a little higher, I’ve found that I’m moving better, overall.

We are starting to see cases leave the interlocutory stage. This is great news. It means that the appeals court has to actually do work that the Supreme Court will be willing to slap down.

Unfortunately, my visibility into the filings in the 9th Circuit are limited by dollar bills. They are changing their ECF system, and CourtListener does not currently have a way to capture documents retrieved from the new system. It actually looks to me as if the new system is designed to stop CourtListener.

Speaking of which, the California has admitted in filings that ammunition are arms, as are magazines. Good news for us.

They have filed their appeal in the ammunition background check case. They claim that they must have an emergency stay because if they don’t, bad guys might order ammunition online. Gee, in 2020 100s of prohibited people ordered magazines. Never mind that they currently have an error rate greater than 20%. I.e. they falsely deny people more than 20% of the time.

The state claims that the Supreme Court has already said that these sorts of ammunition background checks are constitutional. Then they do the standard of flipping things upside down. Under US law, you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Under California statutes, you are presumed prohibited until proven otherwise.

Have yourself a wonderful Friday. We look forward to reading your comments