After D-Day, a report to the German "Army High Command (OKH) and General Staff on August 22, 1944, included a comprehensive analysis of the military situation vis-à-vis Switzerland:

" `The Swiss army has sufficient modern weapons and equipment. Its armored force is weak, but armor won`t be a factor in this terrain. The air force is negligible. However, the army is well trained. Its able-bodied men have been mobilized repeatedly since the war began.

" `Given the indoctrination of the army with the imperative that the home country must be defended against any attacker, we have to expect that the Swiss soldiers will fight well. Against Allied troops, we would, however, expect them to exhibit certain sympathies for the Allies. . . .` "

From Halbrook, The Swiss and The Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich, p. 253-54.

Photo: Swiss soldiers in the Swiss Alps
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If you think you might have issues with a vampire this Halloween, you might consider picking up a special vampire hunter gun. This silver-plated Colt Detective .38 Special revolver (ca. 1975) was elaborately engraved by Leonard Francolini and the design includes bats and a cross. The coffin-shaped ebony case holds "holy water, mirror, a wooden stake and silver bullets cast in the shape of miniature vampire heads." This vampire hunter`s Colt can be seen at NRA`s National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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John Adams "recognized the individual right to use arms for personal protection, but looked askance at the kind of armed protest recently exemplified in Shays` Rebellion: `To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties, or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man -- it is a dissolution of the government.` "

From Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (vol. 3), quoted in Halbrook, The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?, p. 161 (hardback edition).

John Adams` born on this date in 1735.
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"The invention of fixed cartridges—consisting of a case filled with gunpowder, with a primer in its rear and a bullet fixed to the front—paved the way for mass production of repeating, lever-action rifles with magazines of various capacities. Designed in 1856, the Volcanic rifle had a magazine that held, depending on barrel length, twenty, twenty-five, or thirty cartridges. This developed into the Henry Repeating Rifle in 1860, which evolved into the Winchester Model 1866. The rifle version of the Winchester held seventeen rounds, and the carbine version held twelve. The Smith & Wesson Model One revolver, introduced in 1857, also used a fixed cartridge."

From Halbrook, America`s Rifle: The Case for the AR-15, pgs. 122-123.
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Well she certainly looks pleased with herself - look at all the squirrels she killed! Did you grow up hunting squirrels?
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"Tombstone, Territory of Arizona, passed Ordinance No. 9 in 1880 making it `unlawful for any person to carry deadly weapons, concealed or otherwise (except the same be carried openly in sight, and in the hand) within the limits of the City of Tombstone.` It then amended the ordinance in 1881 to make it `unlawful to carry in the hand or upon the person or otherwise any deadly weapon within the limits of said city of Tombstone, without first obtaining a permit in writing.`

"Town marshal Virgil Earp allowed his brothers and friends to violate the law but he enforced it against his enemies. The trouble started when Wyatt Earp pistol-whipped Tom McLaury for not checking in his gun, and before long the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday shot dead three cowboys who refused orders to turn in their guns. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were charged with murder, but the case was dismissed.

"The Tombstone homicides were not exactly an inspiring showcase for bans on carrying firearms. While folks evaded the ordinance by carrying concealed arms, Tombstone was not a violent town; there were only three homicides with firearms in town that year, and the decedents were the cowboys shot by the Earps and Holliday in the name of law enforcement."

From Halbrook, The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?, pgs. 256-57 (hardback edition).

Tomorrow marks the 143rd anniversary of the infamous "shootout" at the OK Corral.
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"On October 4, the Supreme Court granted cert in Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos. It involves Mexico`s suit against the American firearms industry, which alleges that the industry enables the drug cartels to empower their stranglehold over Mexican society...."

"But corruption-ridden Mexico wants to blame America`s lawful gun industry for its status as a failed state. In the cert petition, the petitioners describe the background to the question presented as follows:

" `The Mexican Government has sued leading members of the American firearms industry, seeking to hold them liable for harms inflicted by Mexican drug cartels. According to Mexico, America`s firearms companies have engaged in a series of business practices for decades—from selling semi-automatic rifles, to making magazines that hold over ten rounds, to failing to impose various sales restrictions—that have created a supply of firearms later smuggled across the border and ultimately used by the cartels to commit crimes. Mexico asks for billions of dollars in damages, plus extensive injunctive relief imposing new gun-control measures in the United States.

" `The district court dismissed the case under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which generally bars suits against firearms companies based on criminals misusing their products. But the First Circuit reversed.` "

The above excerpts are from my Second Amendment Roundup blog post, "Supreme Court Grants Cert in Mexico v. Smith & Wesson" (10/22/24).

Read the post at reason.com/volokh or copy and paste: https://reason.com/volokh/2024/10/22/second-amendment-roundup-supreme-court-grants-cert-in-mexico-v-smith-wesson/
Link can also be accessed through the home page of my website, stephenhalbrook.com
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