Mark, I find your post on DC v. Heller lacking in enthusiasm. It is not often that our Supreme Court finds a new constitutional right (except when big business wants more rights). We should celebrate this, thing--the Second Amendment. It must be important, right, since it becomes before the Third and Fourth!
We should exercise it too. I'm a fan of the old school Colt 45 Auto:
What handcannon are you going to buy?
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Bah.. I am waiting for the micro-reactor operated hand held rail gun. Why accidentally shoot yourself in the foot when you can disintegrate it instead? lol
I'll take an AMT Hardballer thank you. I wish they would come out with such fancy rail guns. You know, the kind that can see through walls in x-ray like vision and shoot your target in the heart. I KNOW for a FACT that the framers of the Constitution had precisely that in mind.
For a real handful, try a Thompson-Center Contender in, say, .45-70.
http://www.tcarms.com/firearms/g2ContenderPistolCharts.php
@Nelson, sorry it won't fit in my pants.
Obligatory boxer remark: Hey, who needs a hand cannon when your hands are cannons?
Personally, I'm opposed a right to own a gun... but I still agree with the decision. The second ammendment says that Americans have a right to own weapons, and the court agreed with that. As long as the ammendment is in place, the right persists - and no branch of government has the power to stop gun ownership. It's a constitutional right, it's the highest legal document in the country, and as long as the right is in there it exists.
I would support starting the elaborate process of repealing the second ammendment, but I would be opposed to any attempts to work-around it by legal trickery - eg, making guns legal to own only with a licence that is prohibitively expensive. It's a obsolete, pointless ammendment that should be gotten rid of - but it's still a constitutional right until the day it is finally repealed by the appropriate legal process*.
I wish this were a more common view, but in law the dirty trick preveils more often than now. Don't like a constitutional right? Most pressure groups will attempt to indirectly attack it, or to stuff the courts with judges favourable to their political views. These are effective means, but... I consider them cheating. It's subverting the proper legal and democratic process by the use of loopholes.
*An amendment can't be removed, but another ammendment can be passed to disable it. See the end of prohibition.
@Hank, and the nice thing about hands is that they fit in pants.
Chronic crazy person here. Ineligible, apathetic, would probably settle for a slingshot.
Over here in England there's a debate over how pointy knives should be. Yes, should we be allowed to own knives with points? After all, knives are for cutting things, not stabbing people. At the moment I can own a pointy knife if I want to, but 'I Can Haz Pointy Blade' doesn't have the same ring to it.
I already owns me one of those Glock 23 .40s. But I'm just a dumb southern redneck.
woow thanks
The colt 45 is a beauty and a fav of mine as well.