February 25, 2014 – LonelyMachines

Evolve Together, Slight Return

I wrote about these guys last week. At the time, I really couldn’t find much to link them directly to any of the regular gun-control groups. This isn’t too surprising. Their new generation of advocates has adapted well to social media and they’ve learned to cover their tracks.

Then Mike Weisser’s name came up. He calls himself the “gun guy” at Evolve Together, and he has a column at the Huffington Post. Apparently, he’s the “gun guy” because he runs a shop somewhere, and that qualifies him to decide what’s good for us. He’s not a fan of the NRA, and he only recently seems to have discovered the NSSF, which is odd for a guy in the gun business.

His own blog is replete with “studies” authored by David Hemenway and funded by the Brady Campaign. John Lott, who has debunked a great deal of Hemenway’s nonsense, is of course “the NRA’s favorite academic stooge.”

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Civil Rights

Chess vs. Checkers

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The big news today is that the Supreme Court declined to hear three cases involving gun rights. The first was NRA v. ATF, a challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 922(b)(1), which prohibits licensed dealers from selling handguns to individuals under 21 years of age. The second was Lane v. Holder, which challenged the requirement that handguns be purchased in one’s home state.

The third was NRA v. McCraw. At issue was Texas law, which denies a license to carry a pistol to anyone under the age of 21. To answer the central question of the case, the Court would have to rule whether the right to keep and bear arms applies outside the home.

So, does their refusal to grant cert mean the issue is dead? No. These were good cases, but none of them was the right case.

The Second Amendment Foundation and several others have been bringing another set of cases on the matter in the lower courts for three years now.

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