Software TNC

From a ham friend: the Dire Wolf software TNC (forum) that can run on a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black.  Sweet!

Remainder of Link Dump

It's been a link dump kind of morning.  In addition to FFL-Related, BTC Stuff, Aeropress, and Books, I have:

• Andy's Most Useful Knots, a useful reference I found
• Walker Display picture system, seen at Hope Church
• Stamping World's The Strip Joint has a section on draw dies
• Connections, what AJE thought of when I mentioned my technology bootstrap idea
• Cora Deitz images, found via the Kate Upton FB page
• How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: fodder to counter

Now I'm down to only 19 tabs in Chrome!

Books

• Harvey Silverglate, Three Felonies a Day (examples)
• Mira Locher, Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's Leading Garden Designer
• Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)
• Damon Root, Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court

Aeropress

Wifey digs the Aeropress.  The coffee can be brewed "right-side up" or "upside-down".

BTC Stuff

A couple interesting things: CoinShuffle (forum, paper) and libbitcoin (main, Perl lib).

FFL-Related

Link dump regarding FFLs.

• Minnesota Statute on firearms dealers: 624.7161
• Also relevant: legislative research on state firearms laws, circa 1999
• Minnesota Administrative Rules 7504 regarding security standards for firearms dealers
• Olmsted Planning Department; one would be wise to check
• Getting a home-based FFL, in four parts, from TFB.
• Department of State list of who must register with DDTC for manufacturing munitions list articles
• Tax and Trade Bureau's FAQ on the firearms excise tax
• ATF Ruling 2010-10 regarding what constitutes a manufacturer

There are a lot of ins and outs, but experienced legal advice is hard to get.

Joseph Olson & GOCRA

The lawyer I spoke with got her degree from Hamline University, and she mentioned that one of her professors was a Joe Olson, who she described as a big 2nd Amendment guy.  The name sounded familiar, like he was involved with the Permit to Carry law passing.  Well, I found his bio on the Hamline site, and he's got an impressive list of publications, including several with Clayton Cramer and David Kopel.

Furthermore, he founded GOCRA in 1989.  GOCRA was instrumental in passing the permit to carry law, as well as legalizing suppressors in 2015.  Prof. Olson stepped down as president of GOCRA in 2013, turning over the reigns to Andrew Rothman.

Firearms Laws

I loaned my copy of the ATF law book to my trust lawyer, and I realized I wanted to look up something.  Oops.  Well, it turns out that the guide is available in PDF, but picking out the individual constituent documents is useful too.

According to the National Archives, when a bill is signed into law, it's assigned a Public Law number, published as a Slip Law, and is included in the next Statutes at Large.

National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA34, Title II) [Wikipedia]

Public Law 73-474

Statutes at Large 48 Stat. 1236 [legislink]

26 USC 53 [GPO]

27 CFR 479 [GPO]

Destructive Devices weren't included in the text of the NFA, only MGs, SBRs, SBSes, and AOWs.  The SCOTUS case Haynes v. U.S. [Wikipedia] [Justia] essentially said that a person couldn't be compelled to register an NFA item because it could be incriminating based on the 5th Amendment, but this was remedied by the passage of GCA68.  (The case was decided Jan. 29, 1968, and GCA68 was passed Oct. 22, 1968.)  The effects of GCA68 on NFA34 are described in a document from the ATF.

Amusingly, the other legal challenge to NFA34, U.S. v. Miller [Wikipedia] [Justia] [LII] [rkba.org], was predicated on that a sawed-off shotgun isn't a militia weapon, and therefore wasn't protected under the 2nd Amendment.  This was patently false, since SBS "trench guns" were in fact used in World War I; unfortunately, the defendant didn't show up, due to being deceased, and the assertion was uncontested.  However, GCA68 reversed that line of assertion, in proclaiming that items without a sporting use are not protected.

Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA68, Title I) [Wikipedia] [GPO]

Public Law 90-618

Statutes at Large 82 Stat. 1213-2 [legislink]

18 USC 44 [GPO]

27 CFR 478 [GPO]

The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 [Wikipedia] slightly predates GCA68, and prohibited inter-state trade in handguns.

The Wikipedia list of gun laws in the U.S. shows a bunch of other legal noise, too.

ATF NFA FAQ

Bardwell's NFA FAQ

Re the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 that imposed an excise tax on firearms and ammunition: CRS 7-5700.