- The problem isn't that they realized there was no mens rea and so they let him go with a stern warning and a slap on the wrist, the problem is that they likely wouldn't do that for someone who wasn't one of The King's Men.
- Travelogue from deepest Dagestan, courtesy of the below-linked WeaponsMan.
Looks like Russia never changes.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's nice to see that the local cop is doing his damnedest to keep the FSB off his neighbor's backs.
" multiple agents were shortening the barrels on their state-issued and personal rifles without registering the modifications with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives"
ReplyDeleteAin't that what got Randy Weaver in trouble?
I had more sentence after the comma.
ReplyDeleteThanks for adding mens rea to my vocabulary. I am greatly improved for it.
ReplyDeleteThat is the only positive thing I have to say about that particular issue.
-Rob
I once had a corporal who, whenever I'd point out that what he was proposing was actually against the law, would ask me, "Matt, what's it say on our car's license plates?"
ReplyDeleteMe, sighing, rolling my eyes: "Yeah, 'Exempt.' But that applies to registration. It's not a catch-all."
He didn't last long. (I'm glad to say.)
We are lucky to live where we do. Especially the women among us.
ReplyDeleteAh, Dagestan/Kaspiysk. Home to the one and only Lun-class ekranoplan.
ReplyDeleteNow there's an interesting aviation wiki-stumble.