Yet three years, 400 legal challenges, and "millions of dollars in [NRA] legal bills" later, all the gun lobby has had to show for its efforts is affirming the right of the people to have strong gun laws short of a total handgun ban.So they falsely and dishonestly imply that the NRA was behind all '400 legal challenges when the link to the NRA they provide says this:
Not all of those cases are ours, of course. Many have been brought by other organizations or individuals, or raised by defendants in criminal cases.The majority of those cases are 'felon in possession' and are going to lose. They're just using the modern Twinkie defense.
The NRA's dreams that District of Columbia v. Heller would result in a free-for-all of gun-toting teens and AK-47 arsenals has so far been soundly rejected.Seriously. All that remains is their base of ignorant fanatics. The VPC can tell you how successful maintaining that strategy is.
To control gun violence in our nation: Registration and reporting of private sales is the only way the illegal traffic can be controlled. All other efforts are counterproductive.Well most of us know about the case US v Haynes which states:
We hold that a proper claim of the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination provides a full defense to prosecutions either for failure to register a firearm under sec.5841 or for possession of an unregistered firearm under sec.5851.Huh? What's that? A felon can't be prosecuted for not registering but your average citizen can?
(a) General rule No information or evidence obtained from an application, registration, or records required to be submitted or retained by a natural person in order to comply with any provision of this chapter or regulations issued thereunder, shall, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, be used, directly or indirectly, as evidence against that person in a criminal proceeding with respect to a violation of law occurring prior to or concurrently with the filing of the application or registration, or the compiling of the records containing the information or evidence.LA showed this in State v Hamlin:
The 1976 amendment to La.R.S. 40:1784 was obviously enactedNow registration information can't be used to prosecute someone who is a prohibited person. So what is the point of registration? The same as it's always been:
for the same reason as 26 U.S.C. section 5848, namely, to
constitutionalize the firearms registration requirement of La.R.S.
40:1785 against claims that that statute violated the
constitutional privilege against self-incrimination. Thus, for the
reasons articulated by the United States Supreme Court in United
States v. Freed, supra, we hold that La.R.S. 40:1785 does not
violate the privilege against selfincrimination as guaranteed by
either the fifth amendment of the federal constitution or art. 1,
section 16 of the Louisiana constitution.
The City of New York's Gun Control Law is not aimed atCitizen control. Not crime control. That is the point of registration.
persons inherently suspect of criminal activities. It is regulatory
in nature.
Actress Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic, an Iranian opposition website reported Sunday.*crickets*
The detention of more than 100 officers comes after a rise in kidnapping and extortion in the area. A series of investigations in other towns already has put hundreds of officers in custody.All taken over by the mind control chips installed in all firearms turning your average law abiding citizen into a raving mass murder and criminal.
faith communities in particular should have the right to say no weapons in this place.”I totally agree. They should have the right to make their place of worship a 'gun free zone'.
