Re: [inbox] 9th Cir./Stewart vs Silveira

- Original Message - From: "J. N. Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:54 AM Subject: [inbox] 9th Cir./Stewart vs Silveira > I think Judge Kozinski just made a contribution to the 2nd Am debate. > > The question in _Silveira_ was/is: did

Re: [inbox] Question about VPC report on women killed by men

- Original Message - From: "Volokh, Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 12:22 AM Subject: [inbox] Question about VPC report on women killed by men > A VPC report, http://www.vpc.org/studies/dv3myth.htm >

new articles up

New ArticlesI have posted a bunch of my Shotgun News articles from June, 2003 through February, 2004. "The J. Curtis Earl Arms Museum," Shotgun News, June 1, 2003, 20-21. An arms museum in Boise, Idaho, that is worth your visit. Lots of pictures! "Two Important Bills," Shotgun News, July 1,

bad link in that last item I sent

New Articles"Why This Supreme Court Can't Be Trusted," Shotgun News, February 1, 2004, 22-23. What the decision McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003) tells us about the U.S. Supreme Court's ability to read.   Thanks to those who clicked through and found the bad link.  It is fixed

correction concerning Thomas Willett's probate inventory

ng no banks, the easiest way to maintain considerable wealth was to keep it in valuables--rather like people that grew up during the Depression, and learned not to trust banks, tended to keep sizeable amounts of cash around the house.   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROT

does anyone know where the official written decision of the New Mexico Supreme Court

for New Mexico ex. rel. v. Voices for Children (N.M. 2004) can be found? ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof

Re: [inbox] School research project on firearms regulation

ho bought 12 or more handguns in 1993 were probably largely intended for buyers who would not pass a background check. [i] Associated Press, “One-a-month limit on handgun buys shot down in state Senate”, Santa Rosa (Cal.) Press-Democrat, June 14, 1994, B3.   Clayton E. Cramer - O

Re: [inbox] School research project on firearms regulation

- Original Message - From: "Robert Woolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Clayton E. Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [inbox] School research project on firearms

Re: [inbox] RE: School research project on firearms regulation

e seen nothing about such efforts before I escaped California in 2001. I have seen complaints from lawyers that the California Dept. of Justice has made NO effort to enforce the firearms transfer law--presumably they are upset because vigorous enforcement of the law would mean tens of thousands of p

Re: [inbox] RE: Fwd: Australian state to ban swords

This does smack of urban legend. I didn't even believe it when I heard it on the playground in sixth grade. - Original Message - From: "Russell, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Firearmsregprof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:07 PM Subject: [inbox] RE: Fwd: Australi

Re: [inbox] Re: Fwd: Australian state to ban swords

- Original Message - From: "Jon Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Firearmsregprof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:46 PM Subject: [inbox] Re: Fwd: Australian state to ban swords > > > Russell, Steve wrote: > >>Remember when martial artists had to > >>register their

Re: [inbox] Restrictions on non-Christians owning guns in colonial and revolutionary-era America

ere laws that applied only to Jews throughout the first few decades, such as laws disqualifying non-Christians (sometimes even non-Protestants) from holding public office, but I haven't found any laws restricting arms ownership based on religion. Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

more on Urofsky's chapter about the right to keep and bear arms

"On the one hand, local law often required males between the ages of 18 and 45 to own guns so they could participate in the militia; on the other hand regulations prohibited certain groups — such as Catholics, slaves, and indentured servants — from owning guns at all."   I am not aware of ANY

more about Urofsky's chapter about the Second Amendment

ng their duty to the general government." Does the Department of State pick their vendor by lowest bid? Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof

Re: [inbox] Restrictions on non-Christians owning guns in colonial and revolutionary-era America

- Original Message - From: "James Lindgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Clayton E. Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Volokh, Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:18 AM Subject: [inbox] Rest

10th Circuit decision on the Second Amendment

http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2004_03_21_archive.html#108028484920669481   Tenth Circuit Decision On The Second AmendmentU.S. v. Parker (10th Cir. 2004) is out. Some of this won't be surprising; some of it has some twists that I haven't seen before. Once again, we are reminded that most

question about Court of Appeals procedures

a long chain of wrong decisions.   I suppose that I will learn all this in law school, but I'm still not able to retire yet.   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change op

Re: [inbox] Re: UK refrain "Better a victim than a defender be."

- Original Message - From: "David T. Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:13 AM Subject: [inbox] Re: UK refrain "Better a victim than a defender be." > At 8:59 PM +1000 3/28/04, Tim Lambert wrote: > > >Here we go again. Just like in the Tony

Re: [inbox] Re: UK refrain "Better a victim than a defender be."

- Original Message - From: "Tim Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [inbox] Re: UK refrain "Better a victim than a defender be." > "Clayton E. Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Concerning the Michigan Court of Appeals decision

ntained no clause that clearly struck down this abhorrent practice, they decided that they would just make this stuff up as they went along. And that's exactly what the courts have been doing for decades: striking down laws that they don't like

Re: [inbox] Re: Difference Between Liberals, Conservatives, and Texans (have we had enough laughs on this?)

rison for manslaughter. There may have been some circumstances that no one remembers that explains this, but I for one find the apparent deterrent effect of gun ownership on crime far more comforting and helpful than the idea of plugging criminals. Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROT

Organization of American Historians conference

University. Now, obviously, I wasn't going to be invited to any such event as a presenter, since I haven't done any significant research into this topic. Did anyone attend it? Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.claytoncramer.com Being a citizen of the Republic is not a

legal obstacles to the President calling up the unorganized militia

of the disputes concerning authority to send militias overseas that came up in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War.)   Yes, I'm thinking big thoughts at the moment.   Clayton E. Cramer   ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To su

question: who is Richard Bartlett?

lett on the topic of violence and guns in early America?   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof

Re: [inbox] RE: Ninth Circuit allows "too many guns" case to proceed

- Original Message - From: "Phil Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joseph E. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 6:34 AM Subject: [inbox] RE: Ninth Circuit allows "too many guns" case to proceed > > The person who killed Mr. Ileto is Buford O. Furrow

question about University of Utah v. Shurtleff

f relevance to this list.  I'll be giving you a summary of interesting articles about colonial and Revolutionary militias in the next few days.  (I'm on deadline for the U. of Utah article; stuff that pays obviously comes first!)   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

interesting article about democracy and militias

an institution.   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof

Re: [inbox] Re: Making an arrest (was: Wounding Shots)

e colonies from the beginning. In Massachusetts, militia members rotated night watch duties. Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof

Re: [inbox] Rhode Island RKBA decision.

ot;bear" a collective right: Thus, deciding constitutional cases is not an exercise in mediation or alternative dispute resolution. Attempts to "split the baby in half" when resolving constitutional questions are more apt to result in a doctrinal bloody mess than a correct resolution of the issues to be decided. While my book For the Defense of Themselves and the State gets cited a number of times, even better is how many obscure cases from my book get cited in the dissent as well--and using the points that I made from those cases. Clayton E. Cramer ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof

new articles put up on my web site under http://www.claytoncramer.com/popularmagazines.htm

"All For the Want of a Nail," Shotgun News, April 20, 2004, 69. How the Bellesiles lies about the history of guns in America were spread around the world by the Department of State.  "Nuisance Lawsuits and Assault Weapons," Shotgun News, May 1, 2004, 22-23. Why the NRA had to kill the nui

more additions to my primary sources page

http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2004_07_04_archive.html#108948333270357952   New Additions to My Primary Sources PageThese are all here.1777: >From James T. Mitchell and Henry Flanders, ed., Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 (Harrisburg, Penn.: William Stanley Ray, 1898

Re: [inbox] Self-defence in Britain

stified that he was held by the neck and was being dragged down and "kneed." He lashed out with a pair of scissors and inflicted a fatal blow. The jury heard a great deal of questioning about how Shannon happened to be carrying scissors, an issue irrelevant to the charge. In

Re: [inbox] RE: UK Guardian: Row over figures as crime drops 5%

recent year, a major part of the apparent decline came from > 172 murders (by serial killer Dr. Shipman) which were booked in 2002/03 > and did not recur in 2003/04. Removing those murders from And many of these murders took place in previous years, skewing the previous data as well. Cl

Re: [inbox] "Laws Limiting Gun Access Cut Teen Suicides"

ate that has made rope, automobile exhaust, or bodies of water hard to find. These have fatality rates of 80.0%, 77.0%, and 75.0%-- just a bit lower than shooting, which is 84.7% fatal. (Gary Kleck, _Point Blank_, Table 6.2.) Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [inbox] Re: "Laws Limiting Gun Access Cut Teen Suicides"

every gun, but part of > that is the diversity of configurations and mechanisms. I'm thinking of > improvements as diverse as the "firing pin block" in revolvers, to > improved "safeties" in semi-autos. And the firing pin block and magazine safety common in many

Re: Self-defence in Britain

I asked Professor Malcolm to respond to Tim Lambert's remarks.  I am forwarding her comments below.   - Original Message - From: JMALCOLM To: Clayton E. Cramer Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 8:07 AM Subject: Re: Fw: [inbox] Self-defence in Britain Dear Clayton,            T

Re: [inbox] Brady org: Armalite ready to serve America's extreme psychotics

will ArmaLite be able to do after the law expires?  Put bayonet lugs and flash hiders on rifles that they CURRENTLY sell.    Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 3:52

gunsmiths to the Indians

., 2nd sess., ch. 106.  There are many others.   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Prudent Storage of Gunpowder statute

hurry and come away with the impression that no one was allowed to keep gunpowder at home. If you have access to the 1786 Massachusetts statute to which Cornell refers at your library, I would be very pleased if you could get me a copy of it.   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ___

that 1786 law about loaded guns in Boston

that this was a regulation that was narrowly written for a particular hazard.   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]     ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/

Garry Wills and "anticitizen"

y of that article?  I think it might have been in the New York Review of Books in the mid-1990s.   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password,

Re: [inbox] Re: To restore second amendment rights in District of Columbia

alifornia that until the 1950s, he could not purchase 15 round magazines for M1 carbines in California because it was considered a machine gun. I don't know if he was confused, or if California had originally used this definition above. It might be worth investigating. Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PR

Re: [spam] Re: Guns in Home Increase Danger to Occupants, Survey Finds

actor than say, the presence of alcohol, or the presence of methamphetamines.   Clayton E. cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   - Original Message - From: Joseph E. Olson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 10:29 PM Subject: [spam] Re: Gu

right to self defense campaign by London Telegraph

person under the impression that self-defense has been rendered sufficiently risky from a legal standpoint as to be effectively illegal.   Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change

Re: Iraq Militia

of religiously-based arms laws that touch on this slightly at http://www.claytoncramer.com/primary.html#RaceGunControlStatutes. Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, c

Re: Lopez referred to in Raich dissent by O'Connor?

ch became a bigger problem than the NFA violation.) Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/li

recent articles

I have just added the following articles to my web page. Some of them are primarily political; some are historical. I suspect that there will be something to amaze and irritate almost everyone on the list. Remember that the irritation of a grain of sand often brings a pearl into existence.

Re: Don't depend on the Supreme Court to save the Second Amendment

e bans; discriminatory licensing; whatever. Now this has turned around to bite them, as legislatures have written non-discretionary concealed weapon permit laws--and gun control advocates have argued in places like Ohio, New Mexico, and Missouri that the state legislature has NO authority to write

gun safety regulation in early America

06/25/2005: Added "Gun Safety Regulation in Early America," to the popular magazine articles page . ___ To post, send mes

Re: guns in cars

lders, or a statutory prohibition. Neither California nor Idaho has any such requirement, to my knowledge. Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, o

Re: fair summary?

there wasn't much of a basis for arguing the legislatures could not regulate it less restrictively. Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get pa

Re: 57% of crime guns traced by the BATF sold through 1% of gun dealers

ume that every handgun resold under such circumstances was going to a lawful possessor. Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see ht