Magnum PC

Anybody know about this? I guess it's been out for a year now and renewed for Season 2. [Watch]

What can you say about Higgins being gender-reassigned as a chick but "Oh my God"? And how do they get around Hawaii's ban on non-LEO carry?

To his credit, I understand Tom Selleck turned down a cameo.

If this doesn't prove Hollywood Opposite Day "progressives" aren't "forward-thinking," nothing will.

I wonder how the "stars" think I should vote...?

The Useful Igeocracy

July 7, 1935: Moscow orders first Communists to Hawaii [More]

Where they have thrived ever since...

DOJ Sides with 2A in NY Brief

ARGUMENT I. THE TRANSPORT BAN INFRINGES THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS [More]

DOJ does something right in the New York case.

Which could ultimately have a major impact on this Hawaii case...

We're the Only Ones Violating Enough

Law enforcement officers across Hawaii have been issued guns and ammunition that violate state policy. [More]

And what happens to an "ordinary citizen" who has a gun that "violates state policy"?

Life in the Igeocracy...

[Via Eric SN]

A Method to Their Madness

The Supreme Court announced it was taking up the case in January. The city proposed the new policy change because it didn’t want the issue to come up in the Supreme Court case, officials said. [More]

Everybody sees what they're trying to do here, right?

[Via Alan Chwick]

UPDATE: The Ninth Circuit is reminded of the Young v Hawaii stay.

Whereas We are Aspiring Totalitarians

URGING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO PROPOSE AND ADOPT A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE V OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO CLARIFY THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. [More]

The Statists of Hawaii say 2A is not an individual right.

But no one wants to take your guns.

[Via Bear who has lots more to say]

About Last Night

The Armed American Radio archive of last night's broadcast is now archived to play at your leisure. [Listen]

Stephen Stamboulieh and I discussed the latest happenings in the "Trumpstock" case and also in Young v. Hawaii.

Stay in Gun Case against Hawaii Reminiscent of King Quote on Justice Delayed

“This is the second stay of proceedings in this case since Mr. Young’s case was first docketed in this Court on December 24, 2012,” Thursday’s motion observes. “Mr. Young has now been in the appeals process for approximately six years, two months and nine days.” [More]

Kicking the can down the road again is enough to make one think they're intentionally making -- how did Mr. Kennedy phrase it? -- "peaceful revolution impossible."

Young v. Hawaii Ordered to Go En Banc

Click to enlarge:

UPDATE: Just messaged the censors at Facebook who blocked this post and called it spam.

Hawaii Continues Treating Right to Bear Arms as Occupational Privilege

“They don't know. They don't want to know, because the facts are that it makes no difference at all in crime rates,” Pace concludes. “All it does is intimidate and make more costly and time-consuming the process to acquire a firearm for law-abiding citizens.” [More]

Leave it to "progressives" to trash Paradise.

Money is No Object

The State of Hawaii is paying this guy $185K to act as outside counsel to keep its "law-abiding" citizens disarmed outside their homes. [More]

I hear he just came on after the en banc hearing for Young and at this price it's "a steal considering it includes potentially going to SCOTUS, which could mean any number of outcomes...

Usual Suspects File Briefs Supporting Hawaii Open Carry Ban

Basically, none of these people — or those whose interests they serve —  want your right to keep and bear arms to be recognized by the courts and they are using every legal trick and original intent-conflicting precedent to get the Ninth Circuit to side with them. [More]

And they'll destroy anyone who is not on Team Totalitarian to keep them off the courts.

A Chronic and Habitual LIAR

Hawaii AG Russell A. Suzuki tries to undermine the Young case by claiming unconcealed carry permits aren't "limited to private security officers," and then proceeds to define "standards" that no one will be able to meet. [More]

Any HI gun owners out there that want to test that assertion?

Igeocracy

Gov. David Ige, a Democrat, approved a pair of measures on Monday to make Hawaii’s already tough gun laws even tougher. The bills, SB 2046 and SB 2436, outlaw a host of bump stocks and similar accessories while cutting the time allowed for mandatory firearm surrenders down from 30 days to a week. Both proposals passed the state legislature with broad support. [More]

That says plenty about the majority of the people there, does it not?

[Via George Pace]

Rest Assured

Workers of Hawaii agency that sent false alert seen sleeping [More]

Life in the Igeocracy...

[Via Steve T] 

Hawaii "Multiburst Trigger Activator" Ban Bill Passes House and Senate Unanimously

Per George Pace:

They (both houses) passed it unanimously. Even the 5 "Republicans" (46 Demorats) in the House (Senate is 100% Demorats) voted for it. (The House "Republican" "minority leader" who is running for governor has voted with Demorats 85% of the time in her legislative history.)

Here's the bill.

The Missing Link

Received via email:

Hi David,

I noticed this article yesterday morning.

When I clicked the link for the abstract at SSRN in the story - it was available. I made a mental note to come back asap and download the article. Yesterday evening, the link was dead and the SSRN site indicated that the requested abstract was not found. I then did a search on the site and it listed 16 papers from Kleck, the first of which was the article in the story above entitled - What Do CDC's Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses?. Clicking on that link led to the same unfound abstract message as before.

I checked again this morning and received the same message from SSRN. However, after searching using Kleck's name, only 15 articles appear and the CDC article does not show anymore.

This seems like it's a little more than a glitch with SSRN's system. Although there may be other, simpler explanations.

Thanks,
MM

I got the same results and just don't have time to dig deeper. Perhaps one of you  has the site navigation expereince to guide us?  Otherwise, I'd suggest notifying AWR Hawkins, whose story led us there, and see if he and the Breitbart machine have the clout to find out why the "unpublished study" has apparently been buried deeper.

UPDATE:

David,
Looks like there was an appropriate reason for the article being pulled. It's good to see that the process of actual scientific inquiry still matters to some. 

From the Reason article on the subject: "UPDATE: You will note the original link doesn't work right now. It was pointed out to me by Robert VerBruggen of National Review that Kleck treats the CDC's surveys discussed in this paper as if they were national in scope, as Kleck's original survey was, but they apparently were not. From VerBruggen's own looks at CDC's raw data, it seems that over the course of the three years, the following 15 states were surveyed: Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (Those states, from 2000 census data, contained around 27 percent of the U.S. population.) Informed of this, Kleck says he will recalculate the degree to which CDC's survey work indeed matches or corroborates his, and we will publish a discussion of those fresh results when they come in. But for now Kleck has pulled the original paper from the web pending his rethinking the data and his conclusions.

Link here.

Thanks,
MM

What If Most Ige Voters are Too Stupid to Realize They're Being Insulted?

Ward called that "an insult to the intelligence of the people of Hawaii." [More]

Either that or it's a reflection of the majority...

Who Didn't See This Coming?

Hawaii News - State declines requests for records on false missile alert [More]

Bart explains the strategy:

And a critical mass of useful idiots will keep putting them back in power and ceding more rights.

[Via George Pace]

Young v. Hawaii

The infringers certainly do contort.

[Via George Pace]