Tuesday, July 17, 2018

0 Degrees of Separation

Accused Russian spy attended 2014 NRA meeting in Indianapolis [More]
OMG, so did I!

Busted.

[Via Mike H]

Posted by David Codrea at 7/17/2018 12:07:00 PM

3 comments:

Liston Matthews said...

I recently bought Russian ammo.

7/17/2018 1:08 PM
Ed said...

Words matter.

“In the May/June 2018 edition of Mother Jones, reporters confirmed tweets posted on Butina’s account showed her brandishing a semi-automatic rifle at the NRA convention in Indianapolis in April 2014, where both Rolling Stone and McClatchy reported she attended her first national conference of America’s foremost gun rights organization.”

Brandished?
“Federal law defines brandished as, “with reference to a dangerous weapon (including a firearm) means that all or part of the weapon was displayed, or the presence of the weapon was otherwise made known to another person, in order to intimidate that person, regardless of whether the weapon was directly visible to that person. Accordingly, although the dangerous weapon does not have to be directly visible, the weapon must be present.” (18 USCS Appx § 1B1.1)”

https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/brandished/

It does not appear that Indiana legal code has a definition of “brandish”. There does appear to be a law against unlicensed possession, but there are exceptions:

“I.C. 35-47-2-1 states that it is a Class-A Misdemeanor to possess and/or carry a handgun without a license (whether willfully or the license was revoked) on your person or in a vehicle, unless:
1. The gun is owned, leased, rented, or controlled by another person
2. The gun is on the property of another person and you possess it with their consent, the property is being used for a firearms related event, and/or the person carrying the gun is on the property to receive instruction on using the firearm.”

https://banksbrower.com/2013/12/29/a-look-at-indianas-most-commonly-charged-gun-crimes/

How about a non-legal definition of “brandish”?
“To brandish something is to wave it about aggressively, as one might brandish a sword or tennis racket (if it's a particularly intense game).
Brandish often implies that a person is wielding a physical weapon. In fact, brandish comes from the archaic French word brandir, meaning “sword.” However, it’s also possible to brandish objects that aren’t weapons. If you win a bowling tournament, for example, you might be inclined to brandish your shiny new trophy in front of the other competitors. Be careful, though; they might mistake your trophy for a "brandir" and respond accordingly.”

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/brandish

So, Butina, like thousands of other attendees, held a non-functional display model of a firearm at a NRA Annual Meeting.

Oooooh!

7/17/2018 2:02 PM
Anonymous said...

OMG! I was at the NRA convention.....and.....and.....I stock russian ammo

7/17/2018 6:52 PM

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