The Law that Leaked, Part 7

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Alaska

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Monday Gun Linkage

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Phil Kadath

So much stuff that I couldn’t blog them separately.

First up (because it is the most important): Jerry the Geek is sending up flares over Oregon Senate Bill 1012, and you should run, not walk to read his post on it.

Range Nazi — Oregon SB1012

The Oregon Senate is considering a new bill (SB 1012) which will regulate the way in which shooting ranges are organized, administered and regulated.

(Pay special attention to that last word — ‘regulated’. It’s not in the bill as a word, but it’s all over the intent of the bill.)

Not only does it load up all public and private ranges with huge new costs (professional Rangemasters on duty at all times) and make each range subject to the whims of the local police force, with the Rangemasters needign their approval, as well as the facility itself, but it has a firearms registration scheme built into it:

All firearms or other weapons that are brought onto the premises are recorded in a log book. The rangemaster shall cause to be recorded at least the following information:

The make and model of the weapon;

The caliber of the weapon;

The name and address of the person bringing the weapon onto the premises; and

The date and time that the weapon is brought onto the premises.

And last but not least, the proposed law contains the always disturbing “Noise Pollution” section.

If you Oregon guys don’t attend any scheduled hearings on this, then you just don’t care enough about your range time.

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Next up, and also on the legislative front, Mr.C informs us that the Anti-Gun Show bill here in Washington (SB-5197) never made it out of the Rules Committee before the cut-off deadline and has therefore qualified to be pulled off of life support.

…any bill that dies in committee can be brought to the Senate floor by a vote of the Senate. Our (not really the) Governor and her people are pushing really hard to get this bill passed. The more conservative Democrats who come from the more rural areas of the state don’t want to vote for this bill against the wishes of their constituents, but they don’t want to go against the Gov either. The best of both worlds for them would be for the bill to not get out of committee, which is how it now stands.

I’m hoping that it keels over and dies in the upcoming weeks.

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Staying at Mr. C’s place, both he and KeeWee have pictures of the first ever rimfire Falling Plate match.

As soon as work cools down (and I buy the 5-hour battery for my camera) , I’ll be heading up to the CWSA range to show you exactly why I call these competitions “The CWSA Drag Races”. Full-Auto may be faster, but not by much.

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And finally, Admiral Ahab will be taking in a boar hunt this June and was attempting to explain this to a co-worker. It went well enough, I suppose, though I sure wish he would have mentioned the “with a spear” part of it.

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The State Is Not Your Friend

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Phil Kadath

I currently have this as my background screen on my home PC. I have had it on my work PC at times.

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I snagged it from The Walls of Samizdata 

Friends and co-workers have asked what the hell it means. I do my best to try and explain to them but some of them still don’t get it, which I guess depends on your mindset on what government is supposed to do.

But I think that keeping a set of links handy will do a better job than my direct talk. Something like this:

Feds say family has no rightful claim to 1933 ‘double eagle’ coins

PHILADELPHIA — A family that asked the U.S. Mint to authenticate 10 extremely rare coins cannot prove they were obtained legally and has no right to them, government lawyers argue in court papers.

The gold coins, 1933 “double eagles” that were never circulated, could be worth millions of dollars apiece. A comparable one sold for $7.59 million in 2002 — the highest price ever paid for a coin.

Plaintiffs Joan S. Langbord and her two sons say they discovered the cache in 2003 in a safety deposit box belonging to her late father, Philadelphia jeweler Israel Switt.

They approached the Mint the next year and agreed to turn them over to be authenticated, the Langbords say. But the Mint — after vouching for them — refuses to return them on grounds they were stolen U.S. property.

“Plaintiffs fail … to plead any fact to support their implication that Switt legally obtained the 1933 Double Eagles,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel M. Sweet wrote in the brief filed Friday. “(That) supports a reasonable inference that Switt obtained the 1933 Double Eagles knowing that they were stolen property.”

Langbord, 76, still works at her father’s store on Jeweler’s Row, a few blocks from the Mint. She was out of the country Tuesday and could not be reached for comment, a business partner said.

In her December 2006 suit, she and sons Roy Langbord of New York City and David Langbord of Virginia Beach, Va., ask for the return of the coins or a settlement of up to $40 million.

At a minimum, they say, they deserve a trial over the alleged seizure.

Prosecutors argue there was no forfeiture involved because the Langbords never had rightful ownership in the first place.

“A thief cannot convey good title to stolen property,” Sweet wrote.

Just as the 1934 FCA turned the common firearm owner into a criminal (don’t forget that they tried to include handguns at the time as well), FDR’s socialization of the US Monetary system turned anyone who owned a particular coin into, as Assistant US Attourney Joel Sweet put it, “A Thief”.

I would not be surprised if Sweet thinks the Langbord’s should feel lucky that he isn’t prosecuting them.

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Your One Stop Shop

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Phil Kadath

For all things about “The Law That Leaked”

If you didn’t stop by over the weekend to read David’s “The Law That Leaked” posts, then man, you missed out.

But, I’m here for ya, pal.

I’m putting them all into one place where you can find them for future reference (or for you “No RNS on the Weekend” types to go read them now).

Take a peek on the sidebar, right below The Rules and The E-Mail addys.

That link goes to this post so that in the future, you can easily find them and/or tell your friends about them.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Enjoy! And if you like Erle Stanley Gardner’s writing, there’s plenty more of it you can buy here.

You might want to check out Sports Afield, as well. I’m not a big-game hunter, myself, but if one recent reviewer’s complaint that Sports Afield features “continuous whining about people trying to take our guns” is true, then this is the hunting mag for me! One year’s subscription is about thirty bucks.

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Well, of course they are

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Phil Kadath

They’re money hungry pigs.

State to join drive to tax online sales

Washington will join other states pushing to have Internet and catalog companies collect and distribute sales taxes.

The state House voted 76-15 Friday to authorize the state to join the project. The bill has already passed the Senate, so it now heads to Gov. Christine Gregoire’s desk.

Gregoire, who requested the measure, said Friday that it “levels the playing field between in-state and out-of-state retailers.”

According to the state Department of Revenue, more than 1,000 companies that sell products in multiple states have voluntarily agreed to begin collecting and distributing sales tax to any state that passes legislation to become a member of the Streamlined Sales Tax Project.

The project was started in 2000 by national tax and government associations, including the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Governors Association.

So far, 21 states have passed legislation to become full members of the project, said Cindi Holmstrom, state Revenue Department director. She said the coalition was working to streamline and simplify sales-tax laws.

“We think this is the right thing for Washington state,” Holmstrom said.

There isn’t even a picture included with the article and I can still see the dollar signs in their eyes.

Are consumption taxes a good thing? Sure, they’re probably one of the better ways to gather tax money known to mankind. But if Washington State isn’t going to do things to attract more online and catalog businesses, then they should not be allowed to bind those businesses, at the point of a gun mind you, to collect their tax dollars.

If this passes, a National Sales Tax will be next. And if you think they’ll ditch the National Income tax when they bring that online, put the bong down and come join us in the real world when your buzz goes away.

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The Proper Disposal of Trolls

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Phil Kadath

Here at RNS, we are remarkably devoid of the vile beasts known as trolls. This is both good and bad for a multitude of reason I won’t bother to go into.

It is quite odd that the side of the political aisle you reside on controls your definition of a “troll”. For folks on the leftosphere, anyone who disagrees with you is a troll. No matter if they back up their statements with links to indisputable facts, just the thought that they have entered your spectrum of the web is insult enough to ban them.

I have been banned from many a web page run by members of the Global Warming Death Cult in this fashion.

Oddly enough, some of the big “L” Libertarian blogs have the same standards as dKos and will turn on you in a second if you mention anything bad about their idols; such as that Ayn Rand’s fiction is boring or Badnarik is a fucking nutcase who could benefit from some asylum time before his next political run.

But that is their choice and I’d have probably just gone away anyway.

However, most folks on the right seen Moonbats as just plain fun to poke at with a stick. We used to have a couple of them around here, but they went bye-bye after a while. Must have got one in the eye or something.

Og, the Neanderpundit, has a troll. Not some fakey version of a “troll” who just disagrees with Og. No, this is a full on abusive, SOB who just wants to share his horribleness. The guy calls himself Sir Fredrick James.

Freddy is a Canuck with a superiority complex, quite possibly stemming from, as Og has suggested, living in his mom’s basement too long.

Anyway, when you get a moment, first read this take down of the guy when he tries the “I’m better than you because of my degree” speil. After that, hit this one up where he calls Og “Weak” and “Stupid”.

But be warned: Women and small children might not be able to handle the imagery of a man being broken in half via the written word.

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When I say “Chocolate Jackass”

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Phil Kadath

Who is the first person to cross your mind?

If you said New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin, you will an early chocolate Easter rabbit. To claim the prize, go to your local retailer who is selling the item and buy it your self with my blessing. There is no such thing as a free chocolate Easter rabbit.

And there is no such thing as getting your abandoned shit rebuilt for free either.

Nagin made comments at the end of last week that the “Slow recovery of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina” was a conspiracy by white folks to run the black folks out of town. Now, if that ain’t some hate speech, I guess I don’t know what is.

Let me just fill you in on something you probably already knew, but may not have known you knew.

If you don’t show up to apply to get your N.O. house rebuilt, it ain’t gonna get rebuilt. The reason why some neighborhoods are still in shambles and haven’t been touched is because no one who previously lived in that neighborhood cares enough to go back to N.O. to get the rebuilding moving.

I’ve got co-workers who have made rotational trips down there to work, picking up the debris and driving it to wherever it is going that week and other drivers who had family there telling me about how their relative would call and talk to friends who did go back. They ask if they’ve “started in on rebuilding the neighborhood yet” and when the answer was no, they’d bitch and moan about it. Otherwise they’d just go about their lives in the Seattle/Tacoma area or wherever they ended up. After a few months of waiting for someone to do something for them, they just gave up and stayed where they were at.

No attempts at contacting the fed for assistance in getting their shit put back up so they could move back, no seeking out a loan to rebuilt their shit on their own, and definitely no actual going back to see what they could do for themselves.

I use the word “shit” because they apparently don’t care enough about it to want it back. That is the definition of “shit”, right?

I could not imagine “waiting” for someone to rebuild my house for me from across the country. But then again, I couldn’t imagine living below sea level.

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Green racing?

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Phil Kadath

I was keeping an eye on the Aussie F1 Grand Prix and saw something quite odd.

At first I thought that it was a new racing team with something along the lines of a US Army sponsor or some such thing with a weird camo paint scheme. But upon further examination, it appeared that the car was being run by the factory Honda team.

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Jonathon Pearce at Samizdata, who got to watch the whole race, noticed it as well and had a few things to say about it.

It is a Honda and apparently the idea is to break with the usual sponsorship of tobacco firms etc and instead “raise awareness about ecological issues”, according to the television commentator. So let me get this right: a F1 car that does more than 200mph and uses a fair amount of petrol – that evil greenhouse effect stuff – is attempting to “raise awareness of ecologicial issues”. Think of how much Co2 is pumped out by all these F1 racing teams from Ferrari, Benetton, McLaren, etc. Think of how much of the stuff is pumped out transporting the drivers, mechanics, press flacks and of course the crowds to places like Melbourne or Monaco. The idea that motorsport has anything to do with saving the planet from doom is preposterous. Has this most red-blooded of sports, once famed for dudes like Ascari, James Hunt or Fangio, become as pussified and guilt-ridden as everything else? F1 cars are supposed to be in bright colours, with emblems of cigarettes and naked women on them, like old WW2 American military aircraft. It is all part of the essential naughtiness involved in driving a car very fast round a track, which if you think about it, is one of the more pointless ways to spend an afternoon, and all the more wonderful for it.

He closes with writing that the Honda guys must be trying to make a joke, though I don’t thenk he’s believing that for a second.

I’ve hung with more than a couple Honda guys and they are pretty much humorless sods. Especially when you’re putting their cars to shame.

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The Law That Leaked, Part 4

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Alaska

In today’s exciting episode:

“It is illegal for civilians to be armed,” the man said, and added grimly, “the penalty is death.”

Hmm, well, you would be able to see this exciting episode except that my image files seem to “exceed the max filesize directive in php.ini,” whatever that might mean. I’ll try twiddling with the files to make ’em smaller and see if that works.

UPDATE: well, the problem was the cover image, the rest seem to be okay. More below:

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The Law that Leaked, Part 5

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Alaska

The rest of today’s exciting episode is below.

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