Snowflakes in Hell

If there had to be a textbook case, it would look something like this.

… is how a SWAT team is supposed to be used.

We seem to have quite a few gun bloggers who come from law enforcement families.

UPDATE: I’m updating this post for Sebastian to reflect the comments. -Bitter

There’s a Volokh thread on secession going on, to parallel the one we had yesterday.

Orange County California has a new sheriff.  What is one of her first acts?

“The good-cause threshold you have to meet has gone up,” Nighswonger said. “The prior sheriff had more of a right-to-carry philosophy. Some of the things that were considered good cause won’t be now.”

Orange County has now gone from, essentially, right to carry, to right denied, unless you can convince the Sheriff to allow you to exercise your right to self-defense.  Hopefully she’ll deem you worthy.

Oh, and it looks like she has a blog.  No comments though.

Walton Eller, a Texan, has won the gold medal in Men’s Double Trap in Beijing.  Silver was Italian Police Officer Francesco D’Aniello.  Bronze goes to China’s Hu Binyuan.  Italians seem to be pretty dominant in the shotgun sports.  But be all those fine expensive shotguns.

Evanston, IL has modified its gun ban to be in line with the Heller ruling:

The National Rifle Association sued Evanston and other Illinois communities with gun bans after the court ruled in June that a gun ban in Washington, D.C., is unconstitutional.

In response the city’s legal staff drafted a new ordinance that would let most residents keep guns in their homes, but ban possession of most guns by minors and of all guns by narcotics addicts, mental patients, the mentally retarded and persons under 21 years of age with criminal records.

That’s probably good enough to get the lawsuit dropped.  Hat tip to Carl in Chicago.

Orin Kerr points out a video by Justice Kennedy that mentions the Heller decision as a great teaching decision (38 minutes in).  Professor Kerr opines:

In particular, Justice Kennedy appears to suggest around the 40-minute mark that he will take a living constitutionalist approach to the Second Amendment that may point to more gun rights under the Second Amendment than an originalist approach would provide.

I believe I read a few weeks ago that Alan Gura was not quite so worried about Justice Kennedy as he was about others.  This would indicate that was good judgement.  I wouldn’t bet the farm on it, but it would seem that Justice Kennedy might not be the vote we have to be concerned might waver.