What Does Dangerous And Unusual Actually Mean? The Assault Weapon Ban Case Explained

The Supreme Court just took a case about assault weapon bans, and the whole fight turns
on four words from Heller: dangerous and unusual. Attorney Alan Beck, who won Wolford at
the Supreme Court, wrote an amicus brief arguing that courts have had those words
backwards for years. Unusual never meant rare. It meant carrying a weapon in a way meant
to terrify people, and the distinction goes back to English common law in 1328.

Also this week: a retired Navy SEAL says 18 year olds cannot be trusted with a firearm off
duty, and we take that apart. Anti gun groups demanded better data on defensive gun use
and got a number more than twice what they expected. A school board candidate in South San
Diego County gets attacked for our endorsement, and her reason for carrying is one nobody
bothered to ask about. Plus the Dixie Chicks, and a straight answer on which home defense
shotgun to buy.

Chapters:
0:00 Cold open: soldiers are not allowed in my home
0:48 Welcome, and why the voter guide matters
4:31 Michael gets Judge Benitez to sign a 60 round magazine
10:34 The Madison quote that stuck with Alisha
14:14 What is on the show today
14:47 How Good Are You: the September 23 training day with Dave Reed
15:44 Win a Springfield Echelon at SDCGO.org/sweepstakes
17:41 Attorney Alan Beck on what dangerous and unusual really means
19:31 Where the phrase comes from: English common law and the 1328 Statute of Northampton
24:42 Common use, and the forty million AR-15s in circulation
26:12 Why counting up guns is the wrong test
28:43 Unusual never meant uncommon
30:26 The dagger at the market versus the battle axe in armor
33:18 Whatever happened to the bazooka argument
35:50 Leland Yee, California's biggest anti-gun voice, and the Stinger missiles
38:11 Parity with the average foot soldier
40:44 Which of the forty five amicus briefs are worth reading
44:53 Guns for me but none for thee: Eddie Gallagher on 18 year olds
48:29 If the standard is emotional regulation, where is the line
53:28 The cases fighting for 18, 19 and 20 year olds
58:39 The Second Amendment is not a second class right
1:01:00 Anti gunners demanded better data and got it
1:04:24 1.67 million defensive gun uses, and why that was an undercount
1:04:56 The new number: 2.2 million a year
1:07:23 What the survey did to the female ownership claim
1:14:54 Dixie Chicks: anti self defense, pro revenge
1:17:38 Goodbye Earl worked through the other options first
1:24:05 Delia Dominguez Cervantes attacked over an SDCGO endorsement
1:24:51 They doctored our voter guide before sharing it
1:31:39 Why she got a CCW, in her own words
1:38:12 Stump My Nephew: Eddie from Lakeside wants a home defense shotgun
1:42:53 Mossberg 500 versus Remington 870
1:46:52 The budget answer: Mossberg Maverick 88