Welcome to Saturday Shootaround, your spot for all 2A and firearms related news. Instead of a verse this week, here’s a selection of 2A quotes:
“The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world… The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
Colonel Jeff Cooper
We’re starting this weeks news with a bit on the shooting that happened at the KC Chiefs victory Parade in Kansas City this week. Despite all that you may have heard, there was only one death, 43 year old Lisa Lopez-Galvan, and 22 others were injured.
We know that two ‘juveniles’ have been arrested for the shootings. The entire incident looks to be gang related, but you won’t hear that from the MSM.
Speer just announced that USSOCOM just issued a contract for 8.5 million rounds of their Gold Dot G2 9mm ammo. The G2 version of the venerable Gold Dot (full disclosure, this editor runs Gold Dot ammo in his carry guns) is consistently at the top of the FBI ammo testing.
The Hawaii state supreme court ruled last week that there is no Second Amendment in that state.
In Wilson v the State of Hawaii, a case I was not all that familiar with until recently, the appellee, Christopher Wilson was initially charged with posession of a firearm without a licence and a couple of other charges including criminal trespass.
He was convicted and appealed. The appeals court vacated that conviction in light of both Bruen and Heller. The State appealed the ruling to the state Supreme court and won and this is where it gets weird. The ruling starts this way:
Article I, section 17 of the Hawaiʻi Constitution mirrors the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. We read those words differently than the current United States Supreme Court. We hold that in Hawaiʻi there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public.
In other, plainer words, the Hawaii supreme court just said FU to SCOTUS. It only gets worse from there. Opinion author, Justice Todd Eddins takes several pages to parse both the 2nd Amendment and the Hawaiian version of the same. He also takes several shots at SCOTUS. At one point he invokes the spirit of Aloha to justify the ruling.
In Hawaiʻi, the Aloha Spirit inspires constitutional interpretation. When this court exercises “power on behalf of the people and in fulfillment of [our] responsibilities, obligations, and service to the people” we
“may contemplate and reside with the life force and give consideration to the ‘Aloha Spirit.’”
The spirit of Aloha clashes with a federally-mandated lifestyle that lets citizens walk around with deadly weapons during day-to-day activities. (citations omitted)
I highly doubt that SCOTUS will take this lying down. I fully expect this particular case to wind up there before too long.
CCI has a new .22LR load out now. The Uppercut is optimized for 2.5-4″ barrels. It launches a 32 grain jacketed bullet at 950fps from pistol length barrels. Jacketed bullets are a bit unusual in .22LR, as that caliber uses a heeled bullet. The jacket helps keep fouling to a minimum and provides uniform expansion. MSRP for a box of 50 is $12.99
