Berlin, at the end of the Cold War, was a den of spies, vipers, and other miscreants. It was a beautiful place. A cold martini and a cold blade were in equal abundance and the one constant in this cloudy world was a lack of constants. Light might serve as an antiseptic, but in...
Last week I received a call from a distressed client. He had just been subjected to a federal search warrant, and he was… and continues to be… terrified. Anyone would. His bucolic life was instantly turned upside down. He will never be the same. What portends of his future remains in question, and the trauma of...
“I did not pull the trigger.” That was the headline this morning when I sat down to my computer. Alec Baldwin, for reasons that are completely inexplicable to me, has been quoted as saying in an interview that he never pulled the trigger on the firearm that killed his cinematographer. There is no indication that he...
Last week I wrote a blog about the Kyle Rittenhouse testimony immediately after he finished testifying. I was nervous the jury was going to return a verdict before the blog went out the following Wednesday. As it turns out that was not something I needed to be worried about. I am writing this blog post...
Last Wednesday I had the distinct pleasure of listening to the oral arguments in NYRPA v Bruen. I use the word pleasure in a guarded context. Getting a massage can be pleasurable. Getting a deep tissue massage can hurt like hell. Somewhere on that continuum the needle moves from pleasure to pain. That point...
Alec, Alec, Alec.… Been a couple of tough weeks huh? Not as tough for you as the family of Halyna Hutchins….but hey these things happen. At least that is what you have been telling people for years. Guns are the problem, not the people holding them. They just sort of go off on their own. I respectfully...
July the Fourth, Two Thousand Twenty One Each year that I write this blog I get excited about the Fourth of July. Knowing the blog is published on a Wednesday, I typically check the calendar around the beginning of June to see what day the Fourth falls on that year. Six times a decade I...
“So ummmm… have you heard about the Supreme Court case?” “New York Rifle and Pistol v Corlett?” “Yeah… that one. Does that mean that we are all going to be able to finally get off-roster guns?” “Ummmmm… maybe a discussion is in order.” I have had numerous conversations over the last week that essentially started out like that....
On Thursday of last week, President Biden announced his “executive actions” on gun control. This is somewhat of a misnomer as he really did not issue any “executive actions”. The President… all presidents… are allowed to use executive actions when authorized by Congress during states of national emergency and when necessary to clarify executive...
The 9th Circuit issued a decision last week in the case of Young v. Hawaii. I’m not going to mince words; it is abysmally, intellectually, and philosophically devoid of any redeeming qualities. Well, that is not entirely accurate… Justice O’Scannlain’s stinging dissent makes for some interesting reading. Okay… bottom line up front: The Young case...
