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Libertyman is perhaps the most prolific commenter here, rarely missing a Dad Joke (or much else, in fact).

The Queen Of The World says "Happy Birthday, Sir Libertyman".  I say "Check your email".

Oh, and many happy returns of the day. 

If you listen to music on the radio you've heard this song.  In a way its a throwback to the 1970s when radio stations would play all sorts of genres - Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, Engelbert Humperdink.

This is clearly a country song, but it has been all over pop radio - It set the record for the longest running single on the Billboard Hot 100 in history.  A song that tells a story that everyone has experienced gives it broad appeal.

And it's quite a good song.  The Queen Of The World really likes it, as do I.  People who like old school country will like it, since it really channels the Old School.  People who don't like country probably will like it (that Billboard Hot 100 thing).

The Queen and I shall watch young miss Langley's career with great interest.

Choosin' Texas (songwriters: Ella Langley, Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, Joybeth Taylor):

Just when I thought I got him to fall in love with Tennessee
I shoulda known better than to take him back to Abilene
I put him right back into her arms
I wasn't a match for that kind of spark

She's from Texas, I can tell by the way
He's two-steppin' 'round the room
And judgin' by the smile that's written on his face
There's nothin' I can do
It doesn't take a crystal ball to see
A cowboy always finds a way to leave
Drinkin' Jack all by myself
He's choosin' Texas, I can tell

Well, I guess he forgot about the Smoky Mountain rain
Them old Hank tunes, the Memphis blues we used to sing
He always loved "Amarillo by Morning"
I should've taken that as a warnin'

She's from Texas, I can tell by the way
He's two-steppin' 'round the room
And judgin' by the smile that's written on his face
There's nothin' I can do
It doesn't take a crystal ball to see
A cowboy always finds a way to leave
Drinkin' Jack all by myself
He's choosin' Texas, I can tell

When I'm eastbound and down, and I can't help but cry
'Cause I-40 gets lonelier with every mile
I'll know that his mind wasn't ever gonna change
'Cause his heart still belongs to the Lone Star State

She's from Texas, I can tell by the way
He's two-steppin' 'round the room
And judgin' by the smile that's written on his face
There's nothin' I can do, naw, yeah
It doesn't take a crystal ball to see
A cowboy always finds a way to leave
Drinkin' Jack all by myself
He's choosin' Texas, I can tell, no
Drinkin' Jack all by myself
He's choosin' Texas, I can tell

Come on, baby
Just when I thought I got him to fall in love with Tennessee

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 As usual Dr. Lott is on top of this. His discussion of this tragedy links to a 5/31/2022 Oregon Public Radio article:

Oregon lawmakers last year gave every public school district in Oregon the option to ban guns from their premises.

So far, most districts have declined to take them up on the offer.

Since a change to Oregon law in September, just 13% of the state’s public school districts have opted to close an exemption that allows holders of a concealed handgun license, or CHL, to carry weapons onto public property where possessing a gun would otherwise be a felony.

According to an OPB analysis, that list includes some districts in the Portland metro area — though not yet Portland Public Schools — along with far more rural school systems. Among the 25 that have banned guns are districts in Klamath Falls, Myrtle Point, Tillamook, Pendleton, Tigard-Tualatin, Lake Oswego and Woodburn.

The vast majority of the state’s 197 public school districts have, to date, taken no such action...

Backers of policies banning guns in schools acknowledge it’s a small step. Board members in three districts OPB spoke with said they could not point to an incident where a CHL holder or their weapon had caused an issue on school grounds.

“It just allowed us to complete the commitment that we already had in place of having gun-free schools,” said Melissa Barnes Dholakia, chair of the Bend-La Pine school board. The board passed a ban in December, receiving just two comments on the policy, both of them supportive.

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The homeowner, Cooper’s ex-girlfriend, told police she had been out with her boyfriend, one of the shooting victims. When they returned home, she went to the restroom. When she came out, she could not find her boyfriend but saw Cooper lying in the driveway.

She told police Cooper did not have permission to be in her home and that he had been stalking her for the past two weeks.

The boyfriend drove himself to the hospital for treatment. He told police he walked through the kitchen toward the bedroom and was ambushed by gunfire. He said he returned fire in self-defense but was not sure who was shooting at him. Cooper was struck several times.

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A 19-year-old said he was shot and injured during an attempted robbery in Arlington on Tuesday, according to police. The man arrived at the Medical City Arlington emergency room about 3:30 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the arm, police said. Hospital staff notified police, and officers responded to the hospital to talk with the injured person.

The 19-year-old couldn’t name the location where the attempted robbery occurred, according to police.

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Carbon Hill Police Chief Paul Anderson said the homeowner reported that Pugh and an accomplice kicked in his back door Wednesday shortly before 1 p.m. 

“He heard the commotion and grabbed his gun. The back door came open. He opened fire,” Anderson said. Several shots also struck a neighbor’s home and car.

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• An AI-powered recognition tool called Raven lets the cops pick an address from interior photos found on AirBnB and Zillow.


• AI-powered robots roam the aisles in LA grocery stores, scanning the shelves and automating inventory. Employees are worried. What do you want to bet that within a year or two the 'bots will also be loaded with facial recognition patterns of "known shoplifters"?


• AI researchers taking up smoking to virtue signal to each other their belief that AI will come up with the cure for cancer soon.

 In the post below, where I said that every school should have a dedicated Resource Officer, one commenter made a common mistake.  

 If a bank can pay one or more individuals to be present during business hours, a public school with resources vastly more precious should be under protections as well.

The public school system should not pay one red cent for Resource Officers.  The funding should come 100% from the police agency.  There are several good reasons for this.

First, school administrators have no idea what cops do for a living, and frankly, most of what a Resource Officer does is sit on his ass. The good ones are moving most of the time, learning the school and keeping watch.  Wandering through the parking lots, or judging the fencing around the perimeter.  But, there is a lot of sitting on your ass.  Administrators hate this and will try to put the Resource Officer on duties that are not related to law enforcement.

Second, administrators hate bad press.  When a cop does his job, it generates reports.  Administrators don't like it when the cop assigned to the school actually makes an arrest in the building or on the school grounds. They think it reflects poorly on the school.

The Resource Officer needs the authority to make arrests in accordance with the law.  I worked in a high school and my basic yardstick was that if any other person could be arrested for the crime at Wal Mart, they could also be arrested for the same crime at the school. I did not arrest for every school yard tussle, but I had broad discretion to do so. The students knew this, and so did the faculty.

My assignment was in a high school.  I normally wrote 110 reports each year, and made 25-30 arrests per year.  Sometimes the principal like it, sometimes he didn't.  I always worked well with my principals, but they knew that I worked WITH then, not FOR them.

Third, cops cost more than teachers, at least locally. If the administrators had the option of hiring an additional cop, or an additional teacher, what might they do? We estimated that it cost the Sheriff's Office $75K per year to put an officer in a school. At that time, they could get a new teacher, fresh out of college, for about $45K per year.

Our Sheriff was smart about funding.  He asked the people for a 1-cemt sales tax to fund the Resource Officers. The voters approved it in a parish-wide ballot.  The school administrators didn't want it.  They were aghast at the idea. But the voters approved it and the school-house folks knew better than to resist. 

 Arcadia, Fla. (1967)

Before 11/01/1967: Police charged the parents of seven children with poisoning them with parathion, an insecticide.  The father was 32. The sheriff was preparing to investigate the previous suspicious death of five other children of the father.  He had taken out life insurance policies on the children. The father was sentenced to death. Subsequently, evidence established that a babysitter admitted doing the poisoning and evidence clearing him was suppressed at trial.  He was released in 1989.

Category: family

Suicide: no

Cause: unknown

Weapon: poison[1]

 U.S. v. Bost (3rd Cir. 2026):

The right to keep and bear arms has limits, and this is one: Those who pose a risk of physical violence from misusing guns can be disarmed before that risk becomes a reality. Not every convict poses such a risk—but James Bost does. He pleaded guilty to terroristic threats and other crimes. Years later, police caught him with a pistol not once, but twice. So he was charged with having a gun despite his convictions, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it illegal for felons to have guns. He moved to dismiss the charge, arguing that this law is unconstitutional both facially and as applied to him.  But Bost’s violent conviction is prima facie enough to disarm him. We hold that some predicate crimes (like Bost’s conviction for terroristic threats) demonstrate a prima facie risk of physical violence from misusing guns and that those convicted of such crimes may presumptively be disarmed based on those convictions alone. Because the Second Amendment does not protect Bost’s access to guns, we will AFFIRM. ...

Years after carjacking, Bost is caught with a gun In 2002, Bost carjacked someone, threatening to kill the driver unless she gave him money. To get that money, he drove to her mother’s home, where she escaped from the car, screaming for help. Bost was then arrested and pleaded guilty to terroristic threats and criminal conspiracy (as well as false imprisonment and simple assault). Those first two Pennsylvania crimes are first-degree misdemeanors punishable by up to five years in prison. 18 Pa. Cons. Stat. §§ 2706, 905(a), 1104(1). One element of the terroristic-threats crime required “a threat to commit any crime of violence with intent to terrorize another.” Id. § 2706(a)(1) (cleaned up). Bost was sentenced to four years’ probation.  Later, while on bail for another arrest, Bost failed to appear in court. U.S. Marshals tracked him down. They found him in his girlfriend’s home, next to a couch with a stolen .38 caliber pistol on it. Bost was indicted federally for possessing a stolen gun and possessing a gun despite his convictions (based on the terroristic-threats and conspiracy convictions). 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (the so-called felon-in-possession law), (j) (possession of a stolen gun). He moved to dismiss the indictment, arguing that § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied to him and that it is facially unconstitutional....

Individualized judgment was the norm. For centuries, disarmament was tied to a judge’s finding that someone posed a risk of physical violence from misusing guns. Sometimes, that meant punishing risky behavior. Going-armed laws punished and disarmed those who used their weapons to menace others. See Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 693, 697–98 (citing Sir John Knight’s Case, 87 Eng. Rep. 75, 76 (K.B. 1686) & 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries *149). Rooted in the old bans on affrays, they targeted conduct that spread fear and threatened the peace: going armed “to the Terror of the People.” Id. at 697 (internal quotation marks omitted). These laws were often enacted with bans on fighting, together targeting conduct likely to lead to violence. Id.  

In 1791, this guy would likely have been unable to exercise his right to bear arms because his right to breathe would already have been ended. 

This has perhaps the greatest jazz violin of all time, by (sometimes trumpeter) Ray Nance.  Ozzie Bailey does a spectacular job on vocals in both French (written by poet Jacques Prévert) and English (by Johnny Mercer).  The music was composed by Joseph Kosma.

Fun fact: this was Yves Montand's signature song.  Just about everyone recorded this (Sinatra, Doris Day, Andy Williams, Miles Davis, Joan Baez, and Nat King Cole who recorded it in Japanese), but I love this version.
 

 The news is buzzing with reports of a school shooting in Band, Oregon yesterday.  Three students and a teacher are dead, along with the suspected shooter.  This is a tragedy, but one that might have been amplified if not for the courageous action of a community member.  According to CNN:

A community member who saw the teenager entering Silver Rail Elementary School at about 1 p.m. followed him in before engaging him in gunfire, killing him before responding officers arrived, Krantz said.

Well Done, community member.  What we have here is a "good guy with a gun".  My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, along with deep respect to that "community member". Without that intervention, this could hae been much worse.

I spent the last 15 years f my career as a School Resource Officer.  It is my considered opinion that every school in the nation needs at least one Resource Officer, trained in this very demanding specialty of law enforcement.

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On Monday, August 24th, 2026, an deputy of the Eagle County Sheriffs Department shot and stopped a charging cinnamon color phase black bear near the River Run Apartment Complex. The bear was an adult with two cubs. From the video, it appears the deputy drew and fired the first shot in less than a second, with three followup shots following in fractions of a second after that.  The Eagle County Sheriff's Office released the body camera video on September 8th, 2026

Link to video.

The video shows officers dealing with a difficult situation: An adult bear with two cubs and dozens of onlookers, was very close to where an adult bear with cubs had attacked and injured a man on August 17th, one week before. While not proven, it is highly likely this is the same bear with cubs. Watching the video, it is obvious these are human habituated, food conditioned bears. They have no fear of humans.  It is highly likely some person or persons had been feeding these bears. This produced an extremely dangerous situation. Tom Smith, the famous bear researcher and self-acknowledged lover of bears, in an interview on Youtube, (about minute 37) stated about problem bears:

  ... the ones that are down here causing problems in the villages. You could cull them out, and quite frankly, If I was king of the West, when they are down there eating garbage, sorry, I'd just euthanize them. 

This is an unusual admission for Tom Smith, who claims hunting bears does not reduce human conflict with bears.  Valerius Geist, another highly trained and credentialed animal behavior biologist, who, unlike Smith, is a hunter, takes an opposite view. Tom Smith, when talking about problem bears which have become habituated to surviving on human provided food inside human towns and villages, is correct. These habituated and human food addicted bears cannot be rehabilitated. They need to be killed. "A fed bear is a dead bear", is the slogan which sums it up.

Analysis: The deputy who was forced to shoot and kill the bear did everything correctly. The video should be used as a training video to promote officer safety and to incentivize officers to practice the skills they are taught. Proficiency comes with practice. When an officer has practiced transitioning from a non-lethal weapon to their duty weapon hundreds or thousands of times, the action becomes automatic, in muscle memory, and very fast. This officer was very fast, transitioning from the non-lethal shotgun to drawing his handgun and firing, accurately and effectively, in less than a second. Such a transition is not magical. It is the result of training and practice. The officer is not one in a million. He is likely in the top three percent of officers who take their profession and the potential to use deadly force seriously and train accordingly.  This may be why he was called in to deal with the situation. Most people can reach this level of proficiency if they train to do so.  Sam Kezar did so, and it paid off for him. It is a high, but obtainable level of proficiency. Fortunately, extreme speed and accuracy are used in less than 10% of the documented incidents where pistols were fired in defense against bears. The bigger factor is having the mindset to use the weapon before it is needed. This officer had made the proper decisions before they were needed. He did not have to debate what was the proper thing to do. 

The officer did everything  he could to correctly give the bear opportunity to leave the area it should not have been in. This correspondent believes, with a high probability, this bear had already attacked one person and had not suffered any consequences. This should have been enough information to qualify the bear and cubs for lethal removal. The cubs had already become habituated to humans and addicted to human food. The bears were given extreme care because of public opinion. 

It is not logic which demanded treating the bear with such extreme care, putting the officer at risk. It is the false consciousness of suicidal empathy which treats bears as somehow angelic humans, and rational defense against bears as a moral sin. We did not have these problems with bears in our towns and cities when bears were recognized as dangerous animals. They were not allowed inside our residential territory. The problem was simply and effectively solved by killing bears which persisted in invading human territory.  Bears did not disappear. They survived by learning to avoid humans.

Bears are not people in furry coats. They have no sense of morals. They are opportunistic predators and cannibals. They have no rule of law. They only understand force and domination. When they are not hungry, they do not expend energy disputing over food, but when food becomes scarce, they are willing to fight and kill over it. This bear had learned that humans are weak and easily intimidated. Then she applied her learning to a human who was not weak and easily intimidated. Then she died. The people who fed this bear did not do it a favor.

©2026 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.

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The armed guard was working inside the shopping center when he saw the man breaking the kiosk’s glass, police said, according to Fox 4 KDFW. The guard then shot the man.

The man ran across the parking lot and collapsed near Seminary Drive. Responding officers began lifesaving efforts, and Fort Worth Fire personnel assisted, DFW Scanner reported. Medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

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A 63-year-old man reportedly called 911 to state that he shot at another driver who was chasing him in a white pickup truck. Shortly after the call was made, officials said another individual—identified as a 37-year-old man—called 911 from a home on Harlin Drive, claiming he sustained a wound to his face.

Detectives said the 63-year-old told them that the incident began after he turned onto Nolensville Pike from Thompson Place, which is when the driver of a pickup truck began honking, flashing his lights and told him to pull over. The 63-year-old said he didn’t know what he did to make the driver of the pickup truck upset.

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A man is facing charges after Pennsylvania State Police said he was shot after forcing his way into a Juniata County home and threatening the resident.

State Police at Lewistown said Terry Burdge, 45, of East Waterford, allegedly “made threats of physical harm” to the resident, who then shot a single round, striking Burdge in the home along Laughlin Lane in Tuscarora Township around 11:20 p.m.

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A man inside the house reportedly exchanged gunfire with the group. Two people were sent to the hospital, a GBI spokesperson said. One person was shot in the leg and was later released, while another was airlifted to a hospital and remains in critical condition.

Kassidy Allen, 19, Ziquel Easton, 24, Jordan Franklin, 17, Brianna Scott, 18 and Caleb Thomas, 18, were all arrested Monday. Their charges are listed below:

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 Belle clued me in to a rumor today that Ruger is going to discontinue a big part of their product line.

Guns.com has the skinny ,but if true, then the revolvers are gone, the 77 series rifles, the Ruger No 1, many of their carbines, and some others.  They list the Ruger Vaquero as gone, and those of us who play Cowboy games are wondering if the New Model Vaquero is also on the chopping block?

Wow.  It looks as if Ruger's catalog can now be printed on a leaflet.  What's left?  A few pistols and ARs? I guess we will have to wait and see.

UPDATE:  The American Rifleman says this about that.

Effective immediately, Ruger is ceasing production of its LCR, SP101, GP100 and Bearcat revolvers. The company plans to complete its final production runs of the following models for 2026: SR1911, LC Carbine, PC Charger, PC Carbine, LC Charger, Redhawk, Super Redhawk, Blackhawk, Super Blackhawk, Single-Series revolvers, Vaquero, No. 1, 77-Series rifles, Hawkeye and Ruger Precision Rifle.

That is two sources.

Ahem:

A person claiming responsibility for the breach of Denmark's Central Register of Persons (CPR) says they gained access through an IT company's account protected by the password "123456." 

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I mean, don't these people go to movies? 

So let me bottomline this for the Tech Nerds.  Hollywood has known since 1987 that this is a bad password.

Hollywood.

1987.

So since the script was probably written in 1986, this has been the subject of silver screen mockery for forty years. 

Sorry to the good folks of Denmark.  It could be worse, though - Sweden has had people laughing at it for a good decade longer. 

 I was ordering some cleaning brushes and decided to go see what was available in .22LR.  I found some Eley Target at a pretty fair price. It's about a third the price of Tenex.  What the hell, I dropped a brick in the cart and checked out.

When it came in yesterday, I was a bit surprised at the packaging.  I've bought a lot of .22 ammo over the years and bicks o .22 generally come in cardboard boxes.  Not this stuff.

Police said 26-year-old Steven Ott opened fire on another person, prompting a bystander to pull out a gun and shoot Ott.

Both Ott and the other individual sustained gunshot wounds and were transported to the hospital in critical condition.

Ott was arrested Monday evening around 8 p.m.

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On October 12, 2026, at approximately 2:20 p.m., Dallas Police responded to a Shooting call in the 9700 block of Whitehurst Drive. The preliminary investigation determined that the complainant was shot by an known individual at the location. The victim was transported by Dallas Fire-Rescue to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased a short time later.

This case will be classified as a justifiable homicide and referred to a Dallas County Grand Jury.

The facts and circumstances surrounding this incident are currently being investigated and will be documented on case #150588-2026.

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According to court documents, a separate altercation was occurring between 40-year-old Kejuana Bonner and the victim’s girlfriend. Officials said Bonner allegedly grabbed a stick from her vehicle and struck the victim’s nephew with it. Investigators said she then got into her vehicle and struck the victim’s girlfriend and her brother Stewart, who was standing nearby.

 I remember reading about this in an early history of Pennsylvania prison reform but I could never find it again. SuperGrok thought long and hard and found it.

[ Section XIII.] Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon the application of any of the said malefactors or any other in their behalf it shall and may be lawful for the court in which they were convicted at and before the expiration of their servitude to make inquiry as well of the sheriff, gaoler or keeper of the work-house or house of correction as of the keeper and keepers and others concerning the conduct and behaviour of such applicant during his or her servitude, and, if it shall appear thereupon to them that such person hath labored faithfully without attempting an escape and evidenced by a patient submission to the justice of their punishment a sincere reformation, then and in such case the said court shall grant to every such person a certificate thereof which shall also be recorded without fee in the proceedings of such court, and shall thereupon operate as a discharge from all claims and demands of the party injured and also as a pardon of the guilt and infamy of the offence, and give him or her a new capacity and credit.[12 Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania  ch. 241 at 288 (1786)] 

Clearly, the idea of lifelong disability is not as as straightforward as some imagine.

 Williams v. Attorney-General of the U.S. (3rd Cir. 2026) decided that a second offense DUI conviction (which had a potential sentence of five years) is not a valid basis for disarmament:

The Second Amendment is a primary protection against tyranny, a strong bulwark securing American liberty, and an indispensable means of defending the public good. So courts testing restrictions on these “most sacred” and “necessary” rights must consider the history and tradition of firearm regulations with care and rigor.1 Edward Williams had two convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol in the early 2000s, the second of which (unbeknownst to him) triggered 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which purports to make it “unlawful” for persons convicted of “a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” to possess firearms. Seeking to restore his rights, Williams filed for a declaratory judgment to confirm that § 922(g)(1), as applied to him, runs afoul of the Second Amendment. The District Court agreed with Williams, and we will affirm that judgment. 

This is a very detailed examination of the constitutional basis for disarmament.  It examines how even the definition of felony is full of ambiguity:

But the Justice Department’s apparent attempt to broaden discrete crimes justly punished by death to include all felonies, much less all crimes punishable by more than one year imprisonment, misses the point. The word “felony” has roots in mortal sin. But as time passed, felony’s substance was lost, as it came not to be defined by the character of the wrongdoer, but by the potential punishment. By Blackstone’s age, it was a crime punishable by death, encompassing “no less than a hundred and sixty [offenses].” 4 Blackstone *18. More recently, commentators have given up trying to apply any independent, substantive meaning to “felony,” admitting that it means whatever the legislature says it means. “[F]elony . . . has derived so many meanings from so many parts of the common law, and so many statutes in England, and has got to be used in such a vast number of different senses, that it is now impossible to know precisely in what sense we are to understand this word.” 6 Nathan Dane, General Abridgment and Digest of American Law 715 (1823).  

These sources reveal that the modern regulatory label of felony—a crime punishable by more than one year of imprisonment—is not even close to the proper “level of generality at which to define [the] historical practice.” Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 724 n.4 (Kavanaugh, J., concurring). It captures conduct that would have commonly justified exclusion, and a host of less significant acts. So simply pointing to Williams’s felony because it is labeled “felony” does not do. We must move to a more granular comparison, assessing Williams’s conduct against the Justice Department’s proffered analogy.  

It points to habitual drunkard laws and how irrelevant they are to this case:

Nor does the Justice Department explain “how” the habitual drunkard laws ameliorated the threat of firearm misuse in a way relevant to the operation of § 922(g)(1). As Bruen clarifies, “if earlier generations addressed the societal problem, but did so through materially different means, that . . . could be evidence that a modern regulation is unconstitutional.” 597 U.S. at 26–27. That is the case here, and why the analogy to the permanent bar in § 922(g)(1) breaks down. Most statutes capped the commitment of habitual drunkards to the state inebriate asylum, prison, or hard labor to a few months or years. Others provided for an indefinite period of incarceration, but had no indication that upon release individuals continued to forfeit their arms. Rather, once someone was “safe” to “go at large,” Act of Mar. 27, 1876, ch. 208, § 7, 1876 Va. Acts 249, they were restored to the status of a full rights-bearing citizen. See Range, 124 F.4th at 231 (“[I]n the Founding era, a felon could acquire arms after completing his sentence and reintegrating into society.”). 

I am not keen on DUI convicts possessing guns. The risk that someone so irresponsible as to drive drunk has access to guns, cars, or sharp objects, seems high. I also read that Williams' last conviction was in 2005. It appears that he has learned his lesson and reintegrated into society.

 I get packages, just like everyone else.  Sometimes UPS, sometimes FedEx, sometimes Amazon.

UPS is problematic.  Their drivers are lazy, ignorant, or both.

Today, for example.  I ordered some ammo and some cleaning brushes from MidwayUSA.  UPS sent me a delivery notice. "ON THE PORCH".  I have two porches, so I went out to the front porch.  The one by the front door.  No package.  I went out to the back porch. No package.  Honestly, I doubted that the driver would have left it on the back porch, because that requires opening a gate. Still, no luck.

Belle and I started looking, and she found it leaning against the garage door. Which is not a porch, nor is it near a porch, nor is it where they said they left it. So, the driver is either lazy, ignorant, or both.

When I picked up the package, I found a hole in the box.  Luckily, nothing had spilled out, but I doubt that Midway shipped it with a hole in the box.