Posted on 09/24/2012 8:02:45 PM PDT by marktwain
Do you mean to tell me that Diogenes has actually finally found them both???
Well, I guess the people of Portland can use their unloaded guns as throwing weapons. If accosted by a murderer or criminal that is going to do you in.....simply pull your gun out, check to make sure it is unloaded and then take a might heave and throw it at them.
That will teach em’.
I do believe that having a full magazine but one not in the pipe would be considered a “recklessly not-unloaded weapon”.
Cocked & Locked BUMP !!
My HS classmate, Judge Rex Armstrong, was interested to see this article you posted highlighing his dissent when I cross-posted it on our class site. He did a further search and was surprised to find that well-known Professor Volokh of the Volokh Consiracy blog wrote up the case and agrees with his dissent.
http://www.volokh.com/2012/03/27/odd-interpretation-of-portland-gun-carry-ordinance/
“The dispute is about the interpretation of the word “recklessly.” The dissenters reason, in my view persuasively...”
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