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Archive for September 7th, 2009
Lake Travis, September 7, 2009.
Monday, September 7th, 2009Some questions on the subject of rights and the Constitution.
Monday, September 7th, 2009Late last week, Patrick over at Popehat posted an interesting entry about the North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision in Britt v. State. The short version is that Britt was convicted of quaalude possession (a felony) in the 1970s, sued to maintain his right to own firearms, and won.
The Court, in a 5-2 decision, limited its holding to Britt’s specific facts, finding that the exercise of state police power to bar firearms to a non-violent felon, who had demonstrated good character for thirty years, was an unreasonable restriction of the state right to keep and bear arms.
I strongly recommend going over to Popehat and reading all of Patrick’s excellent post. But I want to use it as a jumping-off point to discuss a question I’ve been wondering about, without hijacking Popehat.
Where does the State (I’m using “the State” to refer to both state and Federal governments) get the authority to deny Constitutional rights to felons?
Frickin’ Lasers.
Monday, September 7th, 2009By way of Say Uncle, we learn that someone has come up with a laser sight for the NAA .22LR and .22 magnum revolvers.
While we admire the cleverness of the idea, this strikes us as being a solution in search of a problem (to quote the late Col. Cooper). It doesn’t seem that this is going to increase hit probability very much on a tiny weapon, which is basically intended to be used at not much more than contact range. And the sight goes for about 50% of the price of the gun; that seems high, but perhaps not out of line compared to Crimson Trace grips.
The video on that site is worth watching, if only for the cheese factor.