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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Women did their part to help the militiamen fight the British at Lexington and Concord. Tory Peter Oliver wrote: "There was a remarkable Heroine, who stood at an House Door firing at the Kings Troops; there being Men within who loaded Guns for her to fire. She was desired to withdraw, but she answered, only by Insults from her own Mouth, & by Balls from the Mouths of her Muskets. This brought her own Death, & the Deaths of those who were within Doors."

"Another contemporary verified that `even women had firelocks. One was seen to fire a blunderbuss between her father and husband from their windows.`

"As the militiamen marched off, some women armed themselves with guns, axes, and pitchforks. Some patrolled the roads. Prudence Cummings Wright organized a women`s guard and captured a Tory with incriminating papers."

From Halbrook, The Founders` Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, p. 79.
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The 5th Annual Firearms Law in Virginia Seminar is scheduled for Friday, October 25, 2024 from 8:25 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. You can attend by live webcast, live telephone, or in person at the Bobzien-Gaither Education Center in the Innsbrook area of suburban Richmond, Virginia. I will be one of the speakers. CLE credit is available.

Informational summary: "This seminar is a must-attend CLE for attorneys whose practice includes criminal and civil cases involving firearms, as well as for attorneys who own firearms. It is designed to provide attorneys with important state and federal case law and legislative updates to stay current in this area of the law."

For more information and to register, go to: https://www.vacle.org/ (scroll down, seminar is on bottom right of home page). Or copy and paste the direct link:
https://www.vacle.org/product/5th-annual-firearms-law-in-virginia-seminar-2024-10-25-2024/

Course schedule:
The Right to Bear Arms Under Virginia Const. Art. I, § 13 and the United States Constitution, Second Amendment - Justice Steve R. McCullough, Supreme Court of Virginia / Richmond

Overview of Existing and New Virginia Firearms Laws - Hon. Richard E. Gardiner, Fairfax County Circuit Court / Fairfax

Litigating the Second Amendment - John D. Ohlendorf, Attorney, Cooper & Kirk / Washington, DC

Self-Defense Law - T. Markus Funk, Ph.D., Perkins Coie LLP / Denver, CO

Federal Firearms Laws - James P. Vann, Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives / Martinsburg, WV

Ethics: Probable Cause and Prosecution of Defendants Claiming Self-Defense - Stephen Halbrook, Attorney, Private Practice / Fairfax
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Henri Guisan, Switzerland’s highest general in World War II, explained Switzerland`s unique marksmanship culture: "While traversing Switzerland on Sundays, everywhere one hears gunfire, but a peaceful gunfire: this is the Swiss practicing their favorite sport, their national sport. They are doing their obligatory shooting, or practicing for regional, cantonal or federal shooting festivals, as their ancestors did it with the musket, the arquebus, or the crossbow. Everywhere, one meets urbanites and country people, rifle to the shoulder, causing foreigners to exclaim: `You are having a revolution!`"

From Halbrook, Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II, p. 61.

General Guisan was born on this day in 1874 and became one of Switzerland`s greatest heroes.

Photo: General Guisan at a Schützenfest in Switzerland (between 1940-45).
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Sometimes even a bear must bear arms. Vintage Remington magazine advertisement from about 1915.
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I will be one of the speakers at the 2024 Firearms Research Center`s Fall Conference, this Friday, at the University of Wyoming College of Law. From @firearmsresearch : "This one-day in-person and online conference will bring together industry experts, scholars, and historians to discuss the National Firearms Act and its relationship with the Second Amendment. Follow the link in our bio [ @firearmsresearch ] to sign up and learn about the available CLE credits."

Again, you can attend in person or online. Friday, October 18 · 8:30am - 3:30pm MDT.
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