Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
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There are many cases that seem to be in limbo, waiting for something to come out of the Supreme Court.
I expect something in Rahimi soon. I’m hoping Thomas writes the opinion.
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Today, the Supreme Court issued their opinion regarding New York’s lawfare attack on the NRA.
The judgment of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is vacated, and the case remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
—National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo, No. 22-842, slip op. at 20 (May 30, 2024) Justice Sotomayer
This is a 9-0 opinion. Justice Jackson wrote a concurrence, as did Justice Gorsuch.
Unfortunately, and expected, Justice Jackson tries to lessen the power of this opinion.
This is likely the entire reason for her writing a separate concurrence. Having quoted the majority opinion, [the state] cannot do indirectly what [it] is barred from doing directly.
, she goes on to say how critical it is that the government has the power and authority to do what it wants.
Indeed, she again forgets that we are a republic, not a democracy.
This is a good opinion.
Of course, it was the Second Circuit court that found that the NRA was wrong. They seem to have made that decision when they read the parties names.
At this point, I have more tools than I have toolholders. This can be frustrating as I like to have “standard” tools ready to go.
Just as an example:
These are tools that live in toolholders ready to be used. I would have more in toolholders if I had more toolholders.
Aloris BXA#1 can be had for the low, low price of $83. The #2, which has a grove for boring bars, is only $82+shipping.
Then there is the shop made version:
I have two more that are ready to finish to this stage. Once those two are completed, all three are going into the mill for some aggressive chamfering.
When that is completed, they three of them will be hot blued, oiled, hardware installed, and then they will be ready to go into production.
I have the raw materials for another 6 toolholders. I have some smaller tools, 1/4″ I think. I plan to make a couple of 1/4″ toolholders. Three more will be 5/8 and one will be 3/4.
The nice thing, is that having done this once, the next time becomes much easier.
This consolidated case is still live before the Supreme Court.
It was heard on the May 16th conference. It was put on the agenda for May 23rd. Yesterday, we learned that it is on the Agenda for the 30th of May.
It takes 4 Justices to agree to grant certiorari. It takes 5 to deny. This means that there are currently Justices that are still undecided and who are doing research.
For comparison, Duncan was distributed for conference one before Bruen and then again after Bruen where it was GVR.
Bruen was distributed for Conference (put on the agenda) On 2021-4-1, 2021-4-16, and then again on 2021-4-23.
Three days later, certiorari was granted.
Monday will be interesting.
A small boy and his friend run through the yards, they are 5 or 6 years old. They slide partially down a hillside and slowly peek over the top, looking for “Charlie”.
The one boy turns to the other and asks, “What are you going to do when you are drafted?”
War comes to them on the TV every night. They know about those that ran to Canada. They know those that stayed. They know of the bodies of what were once vibrant young men arrive day after day from that horrible place, Vietnam.
They talk of their grandfathers. Of those that served in WWII. They speak of the silence of those veterans who returned.
Today, I remember my Great Uncle Joe talking about all the heroes he knew. Some of whom died in the skies over Germany. He was never a hero. He flew in the same plane, he put his pants on the same, he ate with those heroes. According to him, every man aboard his plane was a hero, except him.
He was a hero. He was a bombardier of a B17 Flying Fortress.
Today, Vietnam is ancient history. Desert Storm, V1 in 1991 is ancient history. The war on terror is what is remembered by men older than their years.
“All gave some, some gave all.”
Thank you, I remember you. We remember you.
After more than a week, success was had.
The number of subprojects that went into this one simple little gear boggles my mind.
In addition to that, I have 3 toolholders almost finished, I’m still waiting for the dovetail cutter to arrive and then to drill and tap the adjustment screw plus the retaining screws.
For those that might wonder why 14.5° PA, 16 DP instead of a more modern 20° PA, it is because this is what my lathe uses. With a single purchase of the 8 involute cutters, I can make any gear my lathe might need.
Some compelling prose from Judge McGlynn, District Court Judge, S.D. Ill. He gets it.
He does the right thing and grants the preliminary injunction. The state runs to mommy, the Seventh Circuit court.
There, Woods and Easterbrook make a mockery of judicial decorum, judicial precedents, and show their utter disrespect for the Supreme Court. They decided that icky guns aren’t arms under the Second Amendment, so there was no infringement.
As the Amici said in United States v. Kittson
By its plain language, Bruen eschews a two-step test and calls for a one-step test: “Despite the popularity of th[e] two-step approach, it is one step too many.” Bruen, 597 U.S. at 19. It would make little sense for the Court to expressly abrogate a step as unnecessary only to then reinsert a substitute.
Because the district court fundamentally misunderstood the approach Bruen requires, this case provides an excellent opportunity for this Court to clarify that the simple requirement that a Second Amendment case implicate the right to keep or bear arms is not a significant analytical “step,” and thus, as the district courts and other courts have transmuted it, an imposing hurdle. Rather, it is a simple qualifier. This is critical because courts have cynically transformed this manufactured first step into a barrier relieving the government of its burden of the historical analysis altogether, unfairly shifting burdens from the government to civil plaintiffs (or criminal defendants), and reinserting the interest balancing derided and forbade by Bruen under the guise of a purported “plain text” analysis that allows lower courts like this one to treat obvious arms-related questions as though they are not.