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But gosh, Masterson has written that this is just a colorful old man who is protecting his Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. I'm sure if he's convicted, constitutional scholar Masterson will encourage an appeal, critique the lawyering in the case and will offer to argue the appeal himself even though he's not a lawyer.

Oscar Silly still has a license to practice law?

From a (slightly) different POV, I know of one police officer around here who got a personal machine gun for Christmas, and through him, of several others who have them. Presumably the guns were legally obtained.
Only an extraordinary (for me) politeness has kept me from asking the question: "Why?"

Well, it's not the first time I've hijacked a thread, so here goes...

I just got around to reading Letters in last week's Times and went immediately, of course, to the shortest, quickest to read letter, the one titled Foreign Policy by Justice Jim.

Johnson says, simply:
If we have the courage to
maintain our friendships and
get the hell out of the way,
the Jews will tend to Iran and
the Japs will tend to North
Korea.

Setting aside his generation's ugly, though understandable, use of the word "Japs", I'm wondering if there's not some wisdom in what the old man has to say.

Tis good to see Oscar back in the saddle again. He might check out Tommy Robinson for future client work.

Who makes you fell safer? Oscar Stilley or J. Timothy Griffin?

sorry fell= feel

Lordy mercy, forget the story, go on and read the comments!

Actually I think most illegal gun owners think about as far as their own property lines (or walls) and couldn't assemble in a formidable group any more than they can parse the law. Let them have (and hide) their big-ass automatic weapons and seethe in their ignorance, waiting for the feds or the commies or whoever it is they fear. I wouldn't want to go searching for them house-by-house.

These comments after the story, however, do give me pause.

How right you are, mag, about the comments. They drip with the drool of idiots.

The real problem in this doesn't end with cranks with machine guns, but with NRA political arm whipping its membership into a frenzy. A sensible guy in a sensible world would have less need to create machine guns than someone who's come to understand that Hllary wants to kick down his door and take all his guns.

Scratch the surface of a gun nut and you'll find Wayne LaPiere, or really LaPiere's poisonous rhetoric.

Gun Nut = Tree Hugger = Broad Brush
Although the hate & illiteratacy do drip, they are not entirely wrong, just mostly. Applies equally to inJustice Jim as it does to citizens that think only their favored Rights can save the Republic. Never be indiferent to injustice.

"INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary