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PDF of 9th circuit appeal, Duncan v Becerra
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From Brownells:

In the wake of a ruling by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Brownells has resumed selling its full lineup of rifle, pistol and shotgun magazines to California customers.

Known as Duncan vs Becerra, the case against California’s ban on standard-capacity magazines was brought by the California Rifle & Pistol Association.

The Ninth Circuit applied strict scrutiny in its decision and ruled firearm magazines, including those of 30-rounds capacity or more, are “protected arms under the Second Amendment.”

The entire ruling can be read at the United States Court of Appeals For the Ninth Circuit site.

Effective immediately, Brownells will once again ship magazines to California customers.

To see Brownells full lineup for popular magazines for AR-15 style, AK-47 style and other commonly-owned semi-automatic rifles and pistols, visit the magazine section of the Brownells website.

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For the second time, California's restrictive laws over firearm magazines has been shot down. It is expected that a request for an en banc hearing will be filed soon, but that won't happen before firearms companies have sold a few boatloads of magazines to Californians.

I really think the tide has turned against gun control hoplophobes.

The appointment of federal judges is the single best reason to reelect Trump, IMHO. It's time to get rid of the fascists who want to leave all Americans defenseless against criminals and government. Ooops - sorry for the redundancy there.

Gun porn warning:
https://www.brownells.com/magazines/index.htm

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-shoe-finally-drops-on-the-nra-and-the-outcome-is-far-from-certain/

So yes, the lawsuits and their timing — heading into the fall election for which the NRA had just pledged to spend “tens of millions” in the Trump reelection effort — were transparent political attacks aimed at both Trump and the nation’s most prominent supporter of gun rights.

But that doesn’t mean that what’s being alleged by James (or Racine) in her lawsuit isn’t true. She’s alleging wrongdoing by LaPierre, NRA corporate counsel and secretary John Frazer, retired CFO Wilson Phillips, and the NRA’s embattled former COO, Josh Powell. James’s suit asks for the four to be fined and reimburse millions they allegedly wrongfully received.

So for all of our readers who reacted by dismissing this as another prominent Democrat using her office to attack the NRA and, by extension, gun owners and gun rights, we would only remind you that both things can be true. The lawsuit(s) can be both a conveniently timed political hit job and justifiable on the merits based on actual, verifiable wrongdoing.

That pretty much sums everything up, I believe. Many of us have been watching the NRA trainwreck unfold. Just like watching a real life train wreck, you can see it, but you can do NOTHING to help. Here it comes, rolling along, helter skelter all over the landscape. The best you can do, is to get the hell out of the way before it rolls over you.

Jimmy Dore: Yeah, I mean, everybody's behind that goal. Like I said, if it was 75 to 74, if it was even 80 to 70, these are overwhelming... there doesn't seem to be any light at the tunnel... at the end of the tunnel and the train is going full speed. So we're heading for a crash. Right now they're getting ready to kick 27 million people out of their houses, while also not giving them healthcare, while also not giving them a UBI or extending their unemployment or anything, and that's coming from the top of the party. There's no one inside the party in congress who will even push back against this a little. Bernie Sanders will not call out Chuck Schumer. He will not call out Nanci Pelosi. In fact Bernie Sanders voted for the biggest upward transfer of wealth in the history of human kind and then he lied about what he did. So, 96 to nothing, when do you start realizing this is a failed strategy, Brent? I mean I love you and I loved your work, and I think it's great that you're exposing their corruption. But this is a fool's errand. You knew what the... result of this thing was going to be before you went there. It's NUTS what's going on. And you know the only way... there's... this doesn't make any sense. What is the success rate? Zero. We're going backwards. Hillary Clinton offered us 50 and over for medicare, Joe Biden won't even give us 55. We're going backwards. So if you hate Trump and you hate right wingers and fascism, we're going to get a worse one in four years. It's not going away. Joe Biden and Barack Obama made it possible for Donald Trump to send... goons into Portland and arrest them and throw them in rented vans. Barack Obama signed section 1021 of the NDAA. He knew what he was doing. The ACLU knew what he was doing. I knew what he was doing at the time, so did Glenn Greenwald and everybody else. Here we are and nobody's talking about it. This party is not a party. The people want it to be a party but it's not. This is an organization setup by rapacious oligarchs to screw you. So what the Democratic party is, is the car in front of the ambulance that won't get out of the fucking way. Because everybody knows we want medicare for all and a UBI and debt relief, and mortgage relief and they won't goddamn do it. They're the ones stopping it. Nanci Pelosi was the one who stopped the UBI. Nanci Pelosi was the one who wanted to means test every goddamn thing they gave to working people, as she funneled 5 trillion dollars upward to her husband. That's what's going on in this party. This is not a political party, as much as you want it to be. So what is your strategy going forward?

Brent Welder: You know, and we haven't even started talking about superdelegates...

New York Attorney General Moves To Dissolve The NRA After Fraud Investigation
August 6, 202011:35 AM ET

The attorney general of New York took action Thursday to dissolve the National Rifle Association following an 18-month investigation that found evidence the powerful gun rights group is "fraught with fraud and abuse."

Attorney General Letitia James claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she found financial misconduct in the millions of dollars and that it contributed to a loss of more than $64 million over a three-year period.

The suit alleges that top NRA executives misused charitable funds for personal gain, awarded contracts to friends and family members, and provided contracts to former employees to ensure loyalty.

Am I missing something? I thought that "misused charitable funds for personal gain" was now the in thing? I mean, look to the president as our fine example.

Without the NRA, who will lobby for the right to keep bare arms?

It seemed appropriate to set the Topic to Hardware. The NRA may not be soluble in water.

Some of my perfectly good jokes will have to be rewritten!

A lot of numbers get thrown around, in regards to Covid-19. This country has the most cases, that country has the most deaths, etc ad nauseum.

What is the PER CAPITA disease rate, and death rate? I found several hits on that, most of them old. RealClearPolitics has a page that appears to be updated. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/

The columns are sortable. For my immediate purposes, I'm only interested in the "Deaths/1 m pop" column.

Belgium 861.9
UK 694.9
Peru 613.1
Spain 608.8
Italy 581.7
Sweden 564.1
Chile 513.0
US 484.1

At the far end of the spectrum

Burundi 0.1
Caymans 15.2
Curacao 6.3
Benin 3.1
Congo 0.6
Taiwan 0.3

Alright - table doesn't seem to sort itself quite properly. As I work upward from the bottom, I find the Channel Islands hav 12,692.4/million? But they only have 47 deaths total, looks like bad math somewhere.

Are there better charts and graphs somewhere?

Click the column "Confirmed Cases / 1 m pop" and everthing changes.

Qatar 40,197
French Gulana 27,028
Bahrain 26,465
Chile 19,207
Kuwait 16,508
Oman 16,390
Panama 16,149
United States 14,719

Drop down to the bottom and read up,

Burundi 36.1
Cayman Islands 3,084
Liechtenstein 2,347
Curacao 182
Brit. Virgin Isle 266
Turks and Calcos 3,272

The graph is definitely not behaving properly. Maybe I should try a different browser . .. no, other browsers all seem to display the same errors.

Click the column labeled "Tests", and China tops the list with 90,410,000 tests administered. US in second, 60,000,000 and Russia in third with 29,000.000. That blows a lot of headlines away, claiming the US is far behind in testing.

Does anyone know of more useful charts and graphs? It would be really nice to get some kind of handle on all the numbers being thrown around.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
Seems to have very similar numbers to the above, but only displays 50 entries max at a time.

Actually I should have titled this “How do I school the ignorant about the laws of thermodynamics?”
        I was visiting an old friend who was talking about a mutual old friend who had moved into a camping trailer on fifteen acres of Nowhere, Missouri; or semi-moved. Anyway, he lit the place with his perpetual motion machine, and you will find it either humorous or infuriating. Maybe just sad.
        The way it supposedly worked was that “Perpetual”, as I’ll call him, had two twenty four volt truck batteries, two solar panels, a generator from a truck, and a motor to power the generator, which fed its power to the batteries that ran the motor that ran the generator.
        Yep, you read that right.
        I’m pretty sure he didn’t do the math, and probably couldn’t even understand the math, since the US public school system has been dysfunctional since at least 1958, when I started first grade. You’re not too stupid to learn, your teacher was too incompetent to teach.
        We didn’t have kindergarten, let alone preschool, since most moms stayed home. They could afford to back then. I’m told I could read before school, and remember knowing how to tell time earlier than that.
        But they really suck at math.
        What I found humorous was that it would appear to work, the batteries the panels charged running the motor that lost energy trying to get free energy. But he was wasting the free energy he got from the panels on his ignorant device!
        I tried to explain it to my friend, but his math teachers sucked, too.

I finally manage time for a fun weekend for myself for the first time in nearly a year and you pull this shit while I'm gone? You ever, and I mean fucking ever, automate your spam bullshit again and your welcome will officially and permanently be worn out here. If you want to be a shithead, go for it, but be a manual shithead.

I don't want to browse at positive but I don't want to see the Spam-y wall of garbage in the top level comments.

Shouldn't be that hard to set the checked value for the input.commentHider for the case of Spam modded top level comments, is it?

If you suffer of

• science-itis
• acute wussness
• selfish syndrome
• chronic dickishness
• pathological ignorance
• severe moron-ness

and can't wear a mask, just stay at home (1'30" in duration)

Something that picked my eye in a The Atlantic story:

Similar to other right-leaning extremist movements, they are the product of an unhappy generation of men who compare their lot in life with that of men in previous decades and see their prospects diminishing. ...
...
As alt-right protests waned, boogaloo boys began to appear on the streets. Armed men in aloha shirts and boogaloo patches made their first widely noticed appearance at a heavily attended pro–Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia, in January. And they came out again for the anti-lockdown protests in March. Later, many attended protests over the killing of George Floyd, some in solidarity, others to oppose the left.

The catalyst was similar to what mobilized so many young people on the left: the notion that the government enriched a privileged few at the expense of the people. In this, the boogaloo boys shared the anti-corporatist left’s belief that the government had betrayed public trust by maintaining a growing police force to perpetuate an unjust status quo.

Some may invoke higher level concepts (mah liberty), but it started to look to me like the Americans (no matter if left or right) are prone to react to the disproportionate distribution of "bread" by making "gladiator style circuses", especially after a longer period of time. And perhaps their "patricians class" likes it that way, at the very least it maintains the status quo and avoids the sun's reflection on the knife of the guillotines. Or even only on yellow vests