Tag: illegal

  • Photography Is Not A Crime – Cameras Are The New Guns

    When the police act as though cameras were the equivalent of guns pointed at them, there is a sense in which they are correct. Cameras have become the most effective weapon that ordinary people have to protect against and to expose police abuse. And the police want it to stop. The legal justification for arresting…

  • The Chicago Handgun Ban Challenge – What Will Today’s Outcome Be?

    James from HellInAHandBasket points out an awesome article in the Associated Press about today’s challenge to Chicago’s 28 year old handgun ban: CHICAGO – A couple worries that burglars who tried to break in when the wife was home alone will return. A retiree fears the drug dealers and junkies just outside his window will…

  • CoBIS and NY – Some questions

    CoBIS Combined Ballistic Identification System A system where the shell casing of a bullet, (or brass) from a fired round is supplied by a gun manufacturer in an approved container shipped with a new handgun that is shipped to the NY State Police when the gun is sold or if the new handgun is shipped…

  • The WAR on drugs

    Some vivid and shocking photos from around the world More HERE at The Boston Globe