jwz took issue with police calling any shooting in the area of a club a “club related shooting” and trying to stick clubs with the cost of stepped-up enforcement. I meant, when I read his article, to start cataloging shootings in San Francisco and trying to find another nearby “cause”; today’s high-profile non-double shooting reminded me I needed to peek in. SFGate only gives an intersection, but Google Street View shows both of them to be next to playgrounds (the St Marys Playground and the Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center). I was hoping to find a windmill in both; no such luck.
Archive for the 'Trust the police' Category
Playground related shootings in San Francisco
20 August 2010A film I’ll catch
16 August 2010Are cameras the new guns?
3 June 2010No. You clearly have more rights with guns; cameras aren’t enumerated in the constitution.
Try pointing a camera at a cop; try pointing a gun at a cop. Judge, by inspection of the response, if they are treated the same.
What was up at Cav Arms?
22 February 2010Read it and weep. (81k PDF)
ATFE and Richmond police teamed up to do residency checks.
22 February 2010Old news, but this is the first I’d heard of it. PDF from DoJ here.
Virginia is a “point of contact” state for background checks, so when handguns are purchased, those checks are performed by the state police. Elliott asserted that when a patron filled out paperwork at the gun show, including a state handgun purchase form and a federal Form 4473, ATF agents took the buyer’s address information while state police conducted the background checks. An officer was dispatched to the buyer’s home to confirm whether the individual actually lived at the address listed on the purchase form.
“As far as we’re concerned,” Elliott said, “it was illegal.”
This looks bad
14 February 2010Canadian gun confiscation
30 January 2010Even as talk of winding down the long gun registry in Canada is widespread, police are confiscating firearms; my guess is he’ll never see it again.
AWB comes to Washington State. Again.
17 December 2009Usual suspects doing what they do.
Sprint hands over GPS data.
1 December 2009FGB
30 October 2009Makita angle grinders make short work of safe deposit boxes.
