New Mini CNC Mill from Defense Distributed

Cody Wilson, the guy who made the antigunners piss their pants with a 3D printed guns, is at it again. This time, it is a mini CNC mill that will retail for under $1500 and come ready to go out of the box. It's big enough to do 80% AR15 lowers and 1911 frames. Of course, it's not limited to making guns.

The hardware and software are open source. The website says that it'll be shipping for "Holiday 2014," and it's available now for pre-order.

https://ghostgunner.net

This has the potential to be more significant for the right to bear arms than 3D printed guns. This will allow you to make the receiver (i.e., the part registered and controlled in the US) out of metal, from which the majority of guns are made. With many traditional designs you cannot simply substitute synthetics, due to engineering constraints.

Making gun control moot via technology will be one of the greatest advances for personal liberty that we see in the 21st Century.

Many Updates to The Shooters' Bar

Over the past couple of days I've made many updates to The Shooters' Bar, the Internet's oldest free list of pro-gun rights attorneys. I got caught up with a backlog of new additions and updates, and this morning sent out an email blast, and received many updates in return.

If you are an attorney who is pro-gun rights but you're not listed in The Shooters' Bar, head on over, check out the site, and click the link to get listed. It's free and you don't have to be a "gun lawyer." This is a free service that I started back in 1997 as a way for Second Amendment advocates to keep their money within the pro-gun community.

Gun Control is Anti-Jewish

I didn’t want to write this in the wake of the atrocity that happened last week in Connecticut, but since the anti-gunners gleefully waded into the gore of the innocents, I’m going to exercise my First Amendment rights in defense of my Second Amendment rights, with a focus on a Jewish perspective.

Back in 2004, I wrote the following:

The Maccabees -- the Jewish rebels who tossed the Greeks out on their posteriors -- didn't win with pleas for tolerance or even harsh language. It was an armed rebellion. Too many Jewish Americans gloss over this fact during all the holiday shopping, menorah lighting, and wolfing down potato pancakes.

The point that American Jews need to take to heart from Chanukah is that sometimes the government is not here to help and the only way left to preserve our freedom is through force. That means the willingness and means to use force. In 2004, the means of force are firearms and that's why it pisses me off to no end that so many Jewish Americans support gun control, especially in light of the most blatant act of antisemitism in history -- the Shoah (Holocaust) -- being a mere 59 years ago.

When only the military and police have guns, we call that a police state. If you grant a government that much power, there is a really good chance that they will commit democide. As we know, anytime you have a runaway government, one of the favorite targets is its Jewish population. Six million Jews were murdered within living memory, by a country which was considered one of the most sophisticated in Europe.

Anti-semitism is not a relic of the past. Entering “resurgence of anti-semitism” into Google yields 901,000 results. Recently, the leader of a political party in Hungary called for Jews to be registered.

Resurgent anti-semitism isn’t an entirely European phenomenon either.

“Oh, but that can’t happen here!” you say. Really? Why? Again, within living memory, Americans of a unfavored ethnic group were singled out and forced into concentration camps. The Japanese-American Internment of World War 2 pales in comparison the atrocities committed by the Nazis, but I shudder to think of what would’ve happened to those Japanese-Americans had we not been able to turn the tide of the war within a year.

“Turn the other cheek” is a Christian concept, not a Jewish one. In fact,in the Talmud, we are instructed that, “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” (VILNA TALMUD, Tractate Sanhedrin, folio 73a). Sometimes, that someone who is coming to kill you wears a uniform.

If you advocate civilian disarmament, you are advocating making Jews defenseless. If you are serious that never again will Jews be slaughtered en masse, then you need to make sure that we have the tools to prevent it. Freedom isn’t safe. There are risks to freedom. But giving up our freedom in search of safety is a fool’s errand, as history shows.

Letter to My Senators Opposing Sotomayor

As one of your constituents, I am writing to express my TOTAL OPPOSITION to the nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

Judge Sotomayor's legal opinions are widely regarded as lacking depth.  One of the key characteristics of a Supreme Court Justice is the ability to issue well written, clearly reasoned opinions.  In this she falls short.

Additionally, in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, she has persisted in the erroneous belief that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms.  Even the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, generally perceived as the most liberal Circuit Court recognized in light of Heller that the Second Amendment indeed DOES protect an individual right, one preexisting the Constitution.

Worst of all, Judge Sotomayor seems to believe that her gender and ethnicity confer a special degree of judicial wisdom more suited to that of a Supreme Court Justice than that of white males.  In plain language, she's a racist and a sexist.  If a white male nominee had said that because of his gender and race he was more qualified than a woman of color, the nomination would be withdrawn so fast it would make your head spin.  But I suppose that's par for the course for the Obama Administration.

Thank you.


Sincerely,
David S. Markowitz, Esq.

SCOTUS: Now OK to Question Suspects Without a Lawyer

The Supreme Court has now ruled that police may interrogate suspects without the presence of a lawyer.

The Supreme Court has overturned a long-standing ruling that stops police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer is present, a move that will make it easier for prosecutors to interrogate suspects.

The high court, in a 5-4 ruling, overturned the 1986 Michigan v. Jackson ruling, which said police may not initiate questioning of a defendant who has a lawyer or has asked for one unless the attorney is present.

The Michigan ruling applied even to defendants who agree to talk to the authorities without their lawyers.

The court's conservatives overturned that opinion Tuesday, with Justice Antonin Scalia saying "it was poorly reasoned, has created no significant reliance interests and (as we have described) is ultimately unworkable."

Full story.

Although I haven't yet read the opinion, I have some concerns about this, especially given the ever-expanding number of criminal offenses.  And before law 'n order champions celebrate, they should remember that ultimately a criminal defense lawyer's job is not merely to get his client off.  Rather, it's also to ensure that the government does its job properly, IOW, that the government plays be the same set of rules to which it holds the rest of us.

AK47 Section 922(r) Compliance Worksheet

When putting together a semiauto AK47, US residents must remain compliant with 18 USC Section 922(r), which governs the maximum number of imported parts a rifle may have.  GunWiki has an interactive worksheet which helps you ascertain if your build will be legal.  Simply clear the checkmarks from the boxes on the worksheet which correspond to US made parts, and the sheet will let you know if you're rifle is legal or if you need additional US-made parts.

Update to The Shooters' Bar

This afternoon I updated The Shooter's Bar to add Keith Grube of PA, and updated Warren Redlich's (NY) listing.

Some Pitfalls of Using Form Contracts Without Review by an Attorney

I've been posting again over at Keystone State Lawyer. My most recent post is Some Pitfalls of Using Form Contracts Without Review by an Attorney.

Numerous Updates to The Shooters' Bar(SM)

Tonight I made several updates and additions to The Shooters' Bar(SM), the Internet's oldest list of pro-RKBA attorneys.

Live Coverage of Oral Arguments in DC v. Heller

Heads up...

Tomorrow, SCOTUSblog will be providing live coverage of the oral arguments in DC v. Heller.

Update to The Shooters' Bar

I added Duke Droulliard of Nebraska to TSB today.

Updates to The Shooters' Bar

I completed a cleanup of the HTML code for The Shooters' Bar and added a few more attorneys to the list. The updated page is now up.

Keystone State Lawyer Blog

Over on my new Keystone State Lawyer Blog, I have a post "Hold Off on Windows Vista."

I will be using the KSL Blog for posts related to legal topics, concentrating on Internet law and law practice management issues. I hope you'll check it out.

Update to The Shooters' Bar(SM)

This afternoon, I added Jake Whitmire of Orgeon to The Shooters' Bar(SM), the web's oldest list of pro-RKBA attorneys.