Just a few quick links here.
Bob Owens fills us in on his six-month journey being a private citizen who CCW’s daily.
On May 13, I was awarded my concealed carry permit and decided to carry a handgun as often as I was legally allowed, where I was legally allowed, for as long as I felt like doing it. I was interested in finding out what it felt like to carry a gun, what was the best way to carry, and if the various legal hurdles would make it so impractical that I’d simply give up.
I was also curious about how carrying a gun might change the way I looked at the world. Did the mere act of carrying a gun mean I was paranoid? Would carrying a gun make me paranoid?
I was about to find out the answers to all these questions, but first I needed equipment in the form of guns, holsters, and ammunition. I contacted Smith & Wesson and told them of my plans, and they generously arranged to ship me a pair of handguns for a lengthy testing and evaluation period.
Damn! I wish I’d have thought of that. I’d start talks with STI.
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For you Californian gunnies, finally a plus!
Professor Eugene Volokh will be taking part in a gun policy debate opposite Charles Blek of The Brady Bunch this Friday at the Spark Wood Fire Grill on Peco Blvd. in L.A.
It is at noon, but I think it’d be well worth burning a day of sick leave for.
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And lastly, it appears that the Lakota People have gone and opened their own bank and are issuing metals backed currency.
If I hadn’t just bought a house I’d be snatching up as much of their very well priced silver coinage as I could possibly afford.
On a side note, is there anyone who can riddle me this:
Why haven’t the tribes opened up sporting goods stores? I’m of the idea that they could do without an FFL so long as the shop was on Nation property and that any BATFE bozos who wanted to write down the license plates for future harassment of the palefaces avoiding the federal registration process could be arrested.
At least, that is the way the tribes around here work their liquor and smokes business.
I’m pretty sure that, unless you were a tribee member living on the rez, the BATFE would consider that purchase equivalent to purchasing a firearm out of state without transferring it through an FFL.
That is, of course, assuming they knew about the purchase.
Which would, of course, mean they would need to stop every car driving onto and off of tribal land and search it.
I can’t imagine the BATFE has those kinds of resources.
Or would you have to fill out a Form 6 to ‘import’ the guns into the states?
In which case, the tribe would have to get ‘export’ permits to get the guns out of the US (and onto Indian Nation land). Permits which most likely would not be granted.
I like the little slogan in their banner, “Money is made possible only by those that produce”… catchy.
Isn’t reservation land sovereign? So a purchase, if reported, would have to be like importing a firearm from a different country and carry all of those restrictions, would it not?