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Battle cry to save history from ban on replica guns
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FUTURE re-enactments of the English Civil War could have Roundheads and Cavaliers doing battle with broom handles instead of muskets under proposed laws banning the sale and manufacture of replica guns.
The legislation would leave re-enactment societies unable to buy or repair imitation pistols and rifles. The National Association of Re-enactment Societies (Nares), is lobbying the Government to exempt its
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When it is ok to be against private property rights?
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By now, everyone is aware of the National Rifle Association’s call to boycott ConocoPhillips. This has, unfortunately, caused a crisis of conscience among gun owners, who tend to zealously support private property rights. Do we muster to the boycott banner, or do we sit this one out? What is a libertarian (I use the word “libertarian” in this article as shorthand for someone who zealously supports private property rights, not to frame this as an argument of a political party or ideology) to do?
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| As an individual, I believe, very strongly, that handguns should be banned and that there should be stringent, effective control of other firearms. However, as a judge, I know full well that the question of whether handguns can be sold is a political one, not an issue of products liability law, and that this is a matter for the legislatures, not the courts. The unconventional theories advanced in this case (and others) are totally without merit, a misuse of products liability laws. — Judge Buchmeyer, Patterson v. Gesellschaft, 1206 F.Supp. 1206, 1216 (N.D. Tex. 1985) |
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