Eotech
LaRue just came out with a new LT670 mount, but it’s designed for the older 512 Eotech, (and now getting obsolete fast) The LaRue 670 mount will not work with the newer and higher 517 Eotechs. (How’s that product release for timing!)
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Some more on NRA and the Chicago Gun Case
Brian Doherty has a look at the issue: All those nervous about the radical and expansive arguments to incorporate the Second Amendment on states and localities through the long-moribund Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment that Alan Gura will be making before the Supreme Court in the upcoming McDonald v. Chicago case can relax […]
Brian Doherty has a look at the issue:
All those nervous about the radical and expansive arguments to incorporate the Second Amendment on states and localities through the long-moribund Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment that Alan Gura will be making before the Supreme Court in the upcoming McDonald v. Chicago case can relax a little.
Ilya Shapiro:
NRA Cares More about NRA Than Gun Rights, Liberty, Professional Courtesy
NRA Motion for time in the Chicago Gun Case
Short version: People say Hey, Uncle, what the Hell is all that about? And I say Well, NRA feeling a bit left behind after Heller, is trying to get a little credit here. Folks are wondering what this is all about. And, no, it’s not about any sort of conspiratorial enemy action. It’s about credit. And […]
Short version: People say Hey, Uncle, what the Hell is all that about? And I say Well, NRA feeling a bit left behind after Heller, is trying to get a little credit here.
Folks are wondering what this is all about. And, no, it’s not about any sort of conspiratorial enemy action. It’s about credit. And NRA wants some since gun rights are their issue. The tried to stop Heller (back when it was Parker) with their own case for, what I thought, were valid reasons (i.e., they didn’t have the votes on the court). But this looks like showboating and trying ride Alan Gura’s coattails.
The NRA is using Paul Clement to argue the case. He’s the former Solicitor General who argued for the United States that the D.C. handgun ban was not necessarily unconstitutional. To which Alan Gura brings the snark:
I hope that this time Paul understands that handgun bans are unconstitutional.
Well played.
Update: Another view from Anon Reader Dude in comments:
The thing is, Gura is more of a libertarian crusader than a gun guy, and his brief did, in fact, devote only a few pages to the Due Process Clause argument for incorporating the Second Amendment against the states even though that is the easiest, most straightforward path to victory for gun rights. There are some Justices whose votes we need in McDonald that are unlikely to go along with Guras Privileges or Immunities argument, but who may be very interested in a Due Process-based argument.
NRA intervened in order to make sure the Due Process argument is fully and sympathetically presented at oral argument. Perfectly legitimate and appropriate move.
I have heard this paraphrased before as: NRA wants to save gun rights. Gura wants to save the republic.
The Color of Money is…Changeable
One of the funniest aspects of alleged naming & branding firm Landor, is the ridiculous rationale they cite for the work they produce. Oftentimes they will, with capricious authority, justify a design based on what certain colors “mean” or “communicate”. These “reasons” become all the more comical when parroted by the officers of their […]
One of the funniest aspects of alleged naming & branding firm Landor, is the ridiculous rationale they cite for the work they produce. Oftentimes they will, with capricious authority, justify a design based on what certain colors “mean” or “communicate”. These “reasons” become all the more comical when parroted by the officers of their most recent victim.
Landor’s latest for a financial company is a re-worked logo. Fiserve’s Chief Executive Jeffery Yabuki, performs the squawk of shame for the Journal Sentinel:
The new logo, which is the word fiserv. – with a period – is orange because it’s different from the common industry logo color of blue and “has a certain heat and energy to it, but not the kind of danger you perceive when you see red,” Yabuki said.
No red menace here.
Red bad. Red is color of Danger. Danger bad for financial company image.
Unless of course you can sell it to another financial client. From the bowels of the Landor site:
Landor created an identity and retail space for HSBC Direct. The use of white communicates the simplicity of the brand, while red projects a contemporary attitude.
Don't be alarmed, it's just HSBC Direct's Landorian luminosity.
Full Case study
Landor founder, Walter Landor gazing inappropriately at his half-son, Blandor.
More on the misspent journey of Blandor’s life.
Brandishing Law
In Utah, lawmakers debate legislation that says gun owners can’t be prosecuted for displaying a firearm as a warning.
In Utah, lawmakers debate legislation that says gun owners can’t be prosecuted for displaying a firearm as a warning.
Dude, campaign is over
So, last night, Barack Obama hit the campaign trail and told everyone how if he was elected we’d withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan; fix the economy; shut down gitmo; create jobs; give everyone health care; and how it was all Bush’s fault. Wait, that was the state of the union? He’s already president. Oh. […]
So, last night, Barack Obama hit the campaign trail and told everyone how if he was elected we’d withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan; fix the economy; shut down gitmo; create jobs; give everyone health care; and how it was all Bush’s fault.
Wait, that was the state of the union? He’s already president. Oh. Err. Well.
And Bush is a free market type? Laughable on its face.
Anyway, I found it amusing that a lot of it was campaign promises that he has yet to deliver and campaign promises he’s broken. Since they all have expiration dates.
Then the rhetoric about bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle and the the politics of destruction. As he blamed everything on Bush.
Cognitive dissonance, only without the feeling.
ETA: Oh yeah, and props for drilling and nuclear power were quickly retracted when he proposed cap and trade and climate legislation.
Guess they’re tired
Kinda quiet in the gun world. At least, politically. Too quiet. I guess with SHOT, most folks are focusing on actual guns and not politics.
Kinda quiet in the gun world. At least, politically. Too quiet.
I guess with SHOT, most folks are focusing on actual guns and not politics.
Rule 3
Keep your booger hook off the bangswitch. Also, a cop under investigation for domestic violence gets his gun back?
Keep your booger hook off the bangswitch. Also, a cop under investigation for domestic violence gets his gun back?