Here is a great post from Of Arms and the Law

Case involving GA open carry settles

Here’s the story. Fellow was openly carrying (and both has a license, and is military, either of which suffice to make open carry legal). His gun was seized and they refused to return it. Georgiacarry.org took the case, got return of the gun, damages, and attorney fees.

Here’s the settlement order.

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Here is a great post from DoubleTapper

Israeli Pistol Shooting

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Israeli Instinctive Shooting teaches how to confront a threat, pull a concealed weapon, chamber a round, and fire - all in less than a second.

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Most of the news media is buzzing about the closing of Gitmo and the progress of the court cases of the alleged hijackers from September 11, 2001.  ABC had these observations (the red quote by KSM is the most interesting):

With victims’ family members in attendance, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks asked to postpone an earlier offer to plead guilty to murder charges and voiced concern that he might not be sentenced to death if he and his co-defendants plead guilty.

A courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military,shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,center, and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash, left, attending a pre-trial session Monday,Dec. 8, 2008, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba . Mohammed is the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001,attacks. (AP Photo/ Janet Hamlin/ABC News)

“Are you saying if we plead guilty we will not be permitted under the law to be sentenced to death?” he asked Army Col. Stephen Henley, the judge presiding over the pretrial hearing in the war-crimes case at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, also known as KSM, is facing charges of murdering 2,973 people. He has admitted to developing the plot to fly airplanes into buildings and allegedly insisted the planes hit buildings, even when Osama bin Laden purportedly said hijacking them and crashing them in the ground would be enough.

Only in America do you get to plead guilty and have a lesser sentence.  I guess Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was thinking he was in his home country where you can be executed for just about anything. 

KSM will have to wait a few more years before he is martyred as he wishes. When he does eventually die he will appear before the [one and only] Almighty God (יהוה), where l am sure lesser sentences will not apply.

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Here is a great post from Snowflakes in Hell

Obnoxious Reloads

The Arizona Rifleman talks about problematic reloads, namely loads made from demiled components.   You see, the United States government is forbidden from surplussing ammunition these days, thanks to our last gun hating Commander-in-Chief, Bill Clinton.  But it’s not illegal to dismantle surplus into their components and sell those.  I’ve been using such lake city brass for a while now.  You have to be careful, because as he mentions, the components can get damaged or deformed as they are demiled.

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Here is a great post from Of Arms and the Law.  It will be intereseting to see how this plays out, in both the media and the courts.

A 6th Amendment question

It’s reported that the US will indict the Blackwater folks involved in the shooting in Iraq.

I think I see one problem. The 6th Amendment says a federal criminal jury must be by “an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law…”

I can’t determine in what State and district Iraq is located.

In cases such as that of Noriega, I believe conspiracy was alleged, and they could pin down some coconspirators somewhere in the U.S.. But here it’s a straightforward homicide charge.

UPDATE: No idea how the UCMJ deals with the issue. The 6th Amendment has no military exception. The only such is in the 5th Amendment’s grand jury requirement, which says it doesn’t apply to the military or to militia during a call-up.

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