So something like Iceland then? Where the police is the army and navy as well?, and as NATO members they know they will have a friendly invasion if they are ever threatened because of their strategic location? Could work ,or is there something in the constitution that separates civil and military power?

Another version would be a Swiss system that includes guerrilla warfare and civilian resistance into their defence plans.We might be invaded,but we make it unliveable and ungovernable for any occupying force. We were,and are pretty good at it considering what happened in N Ireland for 30 odd years.

Neither will happen of course...Too many careers and vested interests and "national prestige" are involved for thinking like that.

Annnddd another article in this Sundays Indo from Mrs Sheehan about the horror of innocent children owning guns in Ireland.

Is anyone or any of our orgs going to bother to respond to this?

LATER

paywalled of course with the scariest paragraph first, which is what most will read and belive. I've seen the article, she went off and bothered the NARGC and got nothing exciting from them or the AGS.So it isn't that bad compared to the last one of Deasy's rants last week.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/firearms-certificates-issued-to-300-minors-every-year-gardai-reveal-41767160.html

outcome.Were they really that good at it up the road? Usual suspects drinking in the same "Ra" pubs going to the same gatherings. Hardly much point in cells when they were coming back from ops and palling about together after. If the English had treated it as a war would they have been as effective? No different than our little skirmish of Independence, the weight of international opinion had a lot to do with the

Not condoning for one minute what was done in the name of "Irish freedom" here for 35 plus years. But from a perspective of a successful guerrilla war,they were rated as the most successful urban guerrilla movement in the mid to late 20th century. Considering they almost wiped out the British cabinet,twice. Killed a prominent royal, and a few MPs, generals and politicians,and virtually turned a British army base into a supply-by-air only situation and kept an entire unit of combat-hardened British soldiers in base undercover with a Barrett 50 cal for a month in the same area. Only other crowd that stood as long have been the Basque Separatists,but they never managed as many spectaculars.

If you bring in an army to do civilian policing, you end up with things like bloody Sunday, and its a sign you as a govt are losing control,so it is a very fine balancing act and usually not advisable. But that was the strange thing about NI because it was such a microcosm and utter tribalism of a society.It was no problem for lads to go to the pub and home to dinner after a hard day sniping or whatever.It was hard if not impossible to penetrate that sort of a society, where everyone is more or less related or knows each other like Ireland.

Not surprised R v W was overturned.

I agree with the liberty it was trying to grant. But I dint think the constitutional amendment its hinged on actually backs it up.

plus it was essentially redundant law since Texas managed a workaround

Not quite. It may have been a poor interpretation of the constitutional. But that’s not why they were reviewing it. Afaik the SC doesn’t actively review past decisions on their own accord.

W v R restricted state abortion laws to viability (21-24 weeks). In 2018 Mississippi signed a law in effect than banned abortion from 15 weeks. It was suspended by the court as obviously it was not in compliance with federal law. And it made its way to the SC. Which is what they were actually ruling on here in the first instance. But that decision impacts and supersedes W v R.

Basically it will be up to the states. Many states won’t change. But some will restrict it to fewer weeks, or even ban it.

As I said, it was the Miss. law in front of the SC. They were not reviewing a previous bad judgement (which it was).

Same scenario in 1992. That was a separate case that affected the WvR regulations.

The point being WvR was not under review because it was a bad judgement. It was under review because the Miss. law was in front of the SC. It was reversed because it was a bad judgement.

The “won’t change much” claim from Sky is pretty clueless. Many states drafted trigger laws that came into effect as soon as WvR was repealed. It won’t change things in the states that don’t want it to change. Mainly blue states.

yup. 1 person in it.

it was the Chief Justice who went against his supposed leaning

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Think we’re saying the same think so.

Sky news we’re never accused of through reporting. Trigger laws have been enacted in 15 states already. Some ban immediately, others in 30 days. More will review it in time. The option exists to reduce the time rather than ban. All in all, the situation will change in about half the states. It will be interesting to see how the it affects the swing states

I wonder how he got it into the country even.

Diplomatic immunity?

The only LEGAL way for him to get it into Ireland from US, was by way of using the Firearms Certificate pertaining to this firearm, but seeing as no certificate could have been issued post 2009, then he just smuggled it in, just like all the rest of the criminals and drug dealers do.

Even if it was deactivated to EU standards in 2015, when he got it, it is still not up to 2019 standard, which makes it illegal, and no proof house in Ireland to deactivate it to new standards. Every which way AND lose. Rules for thee but not for me.

But it should be a question that should be asked in case anyone else might ever fancy gifting family heirlooms to an uncaring state?

The thing will be butchered into an unusable lump of metal.

It really is a shame that such historical pieces are being ruined and destroyed in the name of "safety".

Couldn't hurt. just to show that we are keeping a "Skibberrean Eagle eye* on the great and good.🙂

Might also be handy to know in case some mortal discovers great-granddad's Civil war keepsake and wishes to donate or keep it to get it "deactivated to EU standards" here🙄, but is done for "possession of an unlicensed firearm".

*Skibbereen Eagle eye. A body of insignificance proclaiming to pay great attention or influence the policies of a far superior power or body. https://medium.com/@allgoodtales/how-the-skibbereen-eagle-kept-a-watchful-eye-on-the-czar-of-russia-5d64d4b75fed

Goes to show that if someone wants a gun bad enough they'll get one.Even in an ultra-regulated country like Japan.

They might as well make the pinfire revolvers a pre-unitary/antique firearm free to own as well.

Seeing that the ammo was probably last made commercially about 140 years ago at the latest, it's not like it's easy to get any type of reloading equipment for this ammo either let alone shell casings for the obscure calibres they used. The O Cuiv one is however a CF that looks like a 32 cal,so still a live firearm under the law these days.