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-Land of the Free
This Week in Guns, January 21st, 2017


By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Happy Freedom Day +1!

Now that Donald Trump has been sworn in as President of the United States, chatter will likely increase along with a push for a national reciprocity law. The law has been the centerpiece of the National Rifle Association's legislative agenda, but there are problems.

One of the problems is the potential imposition of nationwide standards by Congress for carrying a concealed weapon. I have been reading arguments with supporters of the law that training should be required to concealed carry.

I think the law is a potential minefield legally. Challenges to the law would put the Heller decision in play again, wanted by the left, only this time as a cage match. Something would emerge when the smoke clears, but I am willing to bet it would not be Heller.

It would be a good thing to require all states to recognize carry permits from other states, but if Congress is going to do that, why not go all in? Require Constitutional carry, permitless carry, which should be the law of the land in any case. Such an imposition would be Constitutional and proper in a free society.

The US Army has selected the Sig Sauer P320 as its main service sidearm. One of the advantages, it is said, of the new selectee is that the weapon can be converted between 9mm, .357 Sig and .40 S&W cartridges, presumably with a change of barrels, bolts and magazines.

You can accurize the Mosin Nagant rifle to one minute of paper plate at 100 yards now. I can hardly wait.

Loads.

Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:

Prices for pistol ammunition were steady. Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly steady.

I added one new class of pistol ammunition, .38 Special, and three new rifle rounds, .30-06 Springfield, .300 Winchester Magnum and .338 Lapua Magnum

Prices for used pistols were lower across the board. Prices for used rifles were mixed.

New Lows:

None.

Pistol Ammunition

.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round (From Last week: -.01 Each)

.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary, RNRM, Brass Casing, reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)

9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TPMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .15 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))

.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel casing, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2016))

.38 Special, 158 Grain
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Own brand, LRN, Aluminum Casing, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TMJ, Brass casing, Reloads, .24 per round

Rifle Ammunition

.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)

.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .34 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)

7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: +.04 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))

.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain
Cheapest, 20 rounds: J&G Sales, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .65 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LG Outdoors, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .59 per round

.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Prvi Partizan, Brass Case, SP, .87 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Hornady Whitetail, Brass Case, SP, 1.07 per round

.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Federal American Eagle, Brass Case, JSP, 2.30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Case, FMJ, 2.40 per round

.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Natchez Shooters Suuply, Federal, RNL, .05 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds (2 Box Limit): Ammo King, Federal, RNL, .06 per round (From Last Week: +.01 )

Guns for Private Sale
Rifles


.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $510 Last Week Avg: $500(+) ($616 (2Q, 2015), $468 (7 Weeks))
Arizona (122, 121): Bear Creek Arsenal: $575 ($600 (2 Weeks), $500 (3 Weeks))
Texas (318, 338): DPMS: $500 ($700 (1Q, 2015), $350 (2Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (176, 166): Mixed Build: $425 ($700 (2Q, 2015), $300 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (206, 199): Smith & Wesson: $550 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $415 (6 Weeks))
Florida (454, 454): Anderson Arms: $500 ($650 (2Q, 2015), $380 (1Q, 2015))

.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $920 Last Week Avg: $980(-) ($1,359 (2Q, 2015), $820 (3Q, 2015))
Arizona (30, 40): DPMS LR-308: $750 ($750 (2 Weeks), $650 (3 Weeks))
Texas (92, 86): DPMS: $850 ($1,500 (4Q, 2014), $700 (25 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (38, 40): DPMS: $1,000 ($1,600 (10 Weeks), $700 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (48, 50): DPMS: $1,000 ($2,750 (1Q, 2016), $800 (4Q, 2015))
Florida (77, 80): DPMS: $1,000 ($1,950 (38 Weeks), $500 (3Q, 2015))

7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $568 Last Week Avg: $598(-) ($668 (28 Weeks)), $450 (3Q, 2015))
Arizona (30, 29): VZ 2008: $500 ($650 (3 Weeks)), $500 (2 Weeks))
Texas (67, 72): MM Industries: $600 ($800 (1Q, 2016, $350 (3Q, 2014))
Pennsylvania (44, 45): CAI: $550 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $375 (1Q, 2015))
Virginia (45, 52): CAI: $650 ($700 (33 Weeks), $350 (1Q, 2015))
Florida (116, 118): CAI: $540 ($700 (46 Weeks), $300 (4Q, 2014))

30-30 Winchester Lever Action Average Price: $386 Last Week Avg: $386(=) ($495 (15 Weeks), $296 (3Q, 2015))
Arizona (7, 7): Winchester 94: $500 ($500 (2 Weeks), $500 (3 Weeks))
Texas (15, 17): Winchester 94: $300 ($550 (1Q, 2015), $300 (1Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (16, 14): Winchester 94: $350 ($450 (1Q, 2015), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Virginia (15, 16): Marlin 336: $400 ($670 (35 Weeks)), $250 (4Q, 2015))
Florida (19, 22): Glenfield Marlin: $380 ($500 (1Q, 2015), $250 (2Q, 2015))

Pistols

.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $479 Last Week Avg: $495(-) ($515 (24 Weeks)), $350 (4Q, 2015))
Arizona (90, 93): Para Ordnance: $550 ($550 (2 Weeks), $400 (3 Weeks))
Texas (250, 254): Colt: $550 ($600 (4Q, 2014), $300 (7 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (145, 149): Taurus 1911: $495 ($575 ($575 2 Weeks), $300 (2Q, 2015))
Virginia (150, 139): Iver Johnson: $450 ($575 (51 Weeks)), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Florida (339, 362): American Tactical Imports: $350 ($500 (50 Weeks), $250 (1Q, 2015))

9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) Average Price: $267 Last Week Avg: $278(-) ($358 (45 Weeks), $231 (3 Weeks))
Arizona (124, 122): Sccy: $300 ($300 (2 Weeks), $275 (3 Weeks))
Texas (370, 351): Smith & Wesson SW9VE: $250 ($355 (1Q, 2015), $200 (3Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (293, 309): Smith & Wesson SD9VE: $200 ($350 (4Q 2014), $200 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (253, 252): Ruger SR9C: $340 ($425 (4Q, 2016), $189 (42 Weeks))
Florida (555, 556): EAA Witness Tangfolio: $245 ($400 (44 Weeks), $190 (24 Weeks))

.40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic) Average Price: $330 Last Week Avg: $340(-) ($399 (1Q, 2016), $262 (32 Weeks))
Arizona (30, 25): Springfield XD-40: $450 ($500 (2 Weeks)), $450 (CA: $500 (1 Week)))
Texas (124, 118): Glock 23: $300 ($425 (4Q, 2014), ($210 (17 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (92, 88): Smith & Wesson SW40VE: $300 ($450 (40 Weeks), $200 (20 Weeks))
Virginia (81, 82): Smith & Wesson SD40VE: $300 ($450 (2Q, 2015), $275 (1Q, 2015))
Florida (151, 146): Smith & Wesson SW40VE: $300 ($400 (1Q, 2015), $199 (4Q, 2015))

Used Gun of the Week: (Ohio)
Ruger 10/22 Chambered in .22LR
Posted by: badanov || 01/21/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The US Army has selected the Sig Sauer P320 as its main service sidearm.

The question is whether it is more powerful than the current 9mm, otherwise why bother? (other than the usual graft aspect)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/21/2017 10:57 Comments || Top||

#2  The 320 is not a better weapon.
It is a easier/cheaper to maintain gun.

It is all about logistics, a MBA decision.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/21/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  One of the problems is the potential imposition of nationwide standards by Congress for carrying a concealed weapon.

It's not a theoretical problem. That's the practical application of all federal legislation. Remember, a law enacted can always be changed by a future Congress - often for the worse. There is no need for more federal restrictions. If your traveling to other states take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with their laws. If you don't like said laws you can choose not to go there. I think they call it Federalism?
Posted by: DepotGuy || 01/21/2017 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  .30-06 is the round that won WWII.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 01/21/2017 16:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Saw an AR chambered in 45-70 this week at Shot Show.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/21/2017 17:20 Comments || Top||

#6  But my night scope is only rated to .308 bolt.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/21/2017 17:51 Comments || Top||


Days Of Rage And What Could Happen Next
I strongly recommend that everyone read this article, as well as the book from which its title comes.

I think he's right about almost everything -- and hope he's wrong about what's coming.

I particularly like the fact that this is a corrective to all the "Hurdurr, we have all the guns" nonsense that I see from too many on the right.

The left have plenty of guns -- and organization and infrastructure as well.
Posted by: charger || 01/21/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd worry about entrenched bureaucracy more - nowadays we know how to deal with terrorists: foreign or domestic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/21/2017 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  thanks for posting this

not only interesting historically and politically but also well-written

it's so readable

i enjoy it like i enjoy matt taibi or stephen king
Posted by: anon1 || 01/21/2017 7:38 Comments || Top||


Europe
French far-right leader Le Pen calls on Europeans to 'wake up'
[Reuters] French far-right leader Marine Le Pen urged European voters to follow the example of Americans and the British and "wake up" in 2017 at a meeting of far-right leaders.

Le Pen told several hundred supporters in the German city of Koblenz that Britons' vote last year to leave the European Union would set in train a "domino effect".

"2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up. I am sure 2017 will be the year the people of continental Europe wake up," she said to loud applause on Saturday.

Le Pen, head of the anti-EU, anti-immigrant National Front (FN) and seen by pollsters as highly likely to make a two-person runoff vote for the French presidency in May, has marked out Europe as a major plank in her programme.

The far-right leaders met under the slogan "Freedom for Europe" with the aim of strengthening ties between their parties, whose nationalist tendencies have hampered close collaboration in the past.

"The key factor that is going to set in course all the dominos of Europe is Brexit. A sovereign people chose ... to decide its destiny itself," Le Pen said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/21/2017 08:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up.
Once more, for emphasis
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/21/2017 10:43 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
A strong right-wing alliance on its way in Turkey
[Hurriyet Daily News] On the same day, Jan. 18, social democratic main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu visited MHP leader Devlet Bahceli to (in vain) "remind him once again" that the presidential model would lead to "one-man rule in a party-state" Bahceli had already stated before the meeting that he had said everything he needed to, and would remain in favor of the shift.

The next day, Yildirim added to his remarks on bringing MHP ministers into the cabinet, saying that in the referendum there would be the AK Parti and the MHP on one side for a "stronger The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
under the presidential system," while on the other side there would be the CHP and the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). That is a smart move to give a subliminal message to voters, since the AK Parti denounces the HDP as the legal extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a terrorist organization by law, despite the fact that the objections of the CHP and the HDP against the presidential system differ in motivation, reasoning and policy.

You can read more from Gizem Karakus’s story in today’s Hurriyet Daily News about how the AK Parti has been planning to carry out a joint referendum campaign with the MHP.

What Prime Minister Yildirim is pointing to could be the largest front in Turkey’s political system, bringing Islamist, conservative, Turkish nationalist, and center-right voters under one roof.

Turkey has experienced a number of right-wing coalitions in the past, notably the three-party "Nationalist Front" coalitions in the second half of the 1970s between center-right, Islamist and Turkish nationalist parties. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
no such coalition was seen after the 1980 military coup. There was only a brief center-right-Islamist coalition in 1996-97 called "Refah-Yol," which was brought to an end with resignations due to pressure from the military and judicial establishment of the time, labelled the "post-modern coup."

If what Yildirim is pointing to actually happens, an unnamed coalition will be formed incorporating almost all of Turkey’s right-wing tendencies, in the still heated post-July 2016 coup attempt political atmosphere.

The rise of the right in such a form paralels the rise of the right in Europe and elswhere, in line with global tendencies. It also opens up new windows for a new set of political uncertainities.
Posted by: Fred || 01/21/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: Politix
Donald Trump completes hostile takeover of Washington, puts both parties on notice
h/t Instapundit
President Trump completed his hostile takeover of the Republican Party last July, and on Friday he completed his hostile, if temporary, takeover of Washington.

In some significant ways, Trump is more like a corporate raider of the 1980s, when he came of age, than a typical politician of 2017. Thirty years ago, Gordon Gekko might have been more likely to deliver the speech that the billionaire businessman did today than Ronald Reagan.

No president has ever before referred to "the establishment" in his inaugural address nor declared that every country in the world ought to pursue its own self-interest. But the guy who ended the Bush dynasty and then vanquished the Clinton machine, in a period of 17 months, put "the establishment" of both parties on notice once more.
I get this picture of somebody who was quietly seething for decades and came to boil during Obama years. And found out that a lot of other people came to boil as well.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/21/2017 02:50 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Western Civilisation is all boiling now

we want our countries back!
Posted by: anon1 || 01/21/2017 3:48 Comments || Top||

#2  No president has ever before referred to "the establishment" in his inaugural address nor declared that every country in the world ought to pursue its own self-interest.
Emphasis added


The underlined should be making the shi* disturbing 'regime change' crowd at Foggy Bottom and McLean, VA apoplectic. A pox on both their spurious, crisis making houses.

Perhaps DJT took at look at tiny Switzerland (in the middle of turbulent and war torn Europe) and began wondering just how they've stayed out of foreign entanglements and senseless confilcts for nearly 700 years.

Anyone besides me fail to hear anything about DJT's ambassadorial appointments? I suspect it's because they are extremely low on his priority (things needing done) list, where they rightfully belong. He owes no favours to anyone, so he can act on these at his leisure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/21/2017 4:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Anyone besides me fail to hear anything about DJT's ambassadorial appointments?

Well, I do think Hillary should be offered a choice between investigation (and consequently jail) and ambassadorial appointment to Libya.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/21/2017 4:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing yet on Whitehouse.gov, B.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/21/2017 4:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Whoops!
I was wrong.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/21/2017 4:12 Comments || Top||

#6  g(r)omski - Senator Jeff Session as Attorney General will act as a Clinton deterrent. Something akin to a Zostavax vaccination for the shingles. If you enjoyed the 'shingles - Clinton' metaphor, grinning is permitted.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/21/2017 4:16 Comments || Top||

#7  He nominated SC Gov. Nikki Halley to the UN, other than that, I've seen nothing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/21/2017 4:20 Comments || Top||

#8  But what about poetic justice?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/21/2017 4:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Wapo inspired. Let's nothing to see.
Posted by: Glusonter Jaimp1712 || 01/21/2017 6:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Nominate David Frum for Assholia. He's fluent
Posted by: Frank G || 01/21/2017 9:08 Comments || Top||

#11  He announced the ambassador to Israel ages ago -- a settlements supporter keen to move the embassy to Jerusalem as I recall.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/21/2017 18:32 Comments || Top||

#12  #8 But what about poetic justice?

For poetic justice, I nominate ZenFlo for Poet Laureate.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/21/2017 19:36 Comments || Top||

#13  Dred Scott
Not too hot

Meh....
All opinions rendered in rhyme.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/21/2017 22:35 Comments || Top||

#14  @#7: My take is that President Trump is using ambassadorial appointments or lack thereof as an exercise in determining plumbing problems.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 01/21/2017 22:41 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Dissent is being suppressed at the cost of human lives
[NATION.PK] A peaceful demonstration was organized by the civil society earlier this Thursday near Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
’s Arts Council to protest against enforced disappearances and censorship of social media activists who were campaigning against the rise in human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
violations and extremism in the country. It was met with a fierce clash at the hands of the local police and hardline murderous Moslems.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 01/21/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Hate On Campus
[NATION.PK] If the kidnapping of civil rights activists was an act hearkening to the darker ages of Pakistain’s past, the abduction, torture and humiliation meted out to a Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

University student by members of the Islami Jamaat-e-Talaba
...The Islamic Students' Organization: the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, where young Moslems are trained into the arts of street fighting...
(IJT) ‐ the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
(JI) ‐ for voicing his support for their safe recovery must definitely bring back memories of a more repressed time.

Perhaps sensing that the state itself was cracking down on the opinions of the left like the old days, the IJT, student wing of the JI, and a notoriously thuggish band, felt comfortable in flexing its muscles too. Perhaps it is beyond individuals to protect free speech and open debate against a predatory state, but we are definitely able to keep our educational institutes ‐ designed to inculcate these very traits ‐ free from repression.

According to the Chairman Hall Council Dr Abid Hussain, the suspects did not take the victim to any room but beat him up in the open, with a large crowd of witnesses present. This is an open and shut case. The students who carried out this assault must be expelled immediately and the criminal cases against them pursued till the end, while the IJT’s student leadership in the university must be severely punished to deter them from future misadventures.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
there are already signs that the IJT could get off scot-free. It has been reported that the Vice Chancellor of the university has directed authorities to start "reconciliation" with the IJT and its parent body the JI, which might see the criminal charges dropped; seemingly seeking to reverse the policy that has keep student bodies such as the IJT in check.

This must not be allowed to happen. It is the responsibility of the university to protect its students and punish criminal offenders, especially if their offence is against the spirit of education itself.
Posted by: Fred || 01/21/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami

#1  Oh, Pakistani campus.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/21/2017 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  This must not be allowed to happen. It is the responsibility of the university to protect its students and punish criminal offenders, especially if their offence is against the spirit of education itself.

Right. We don't need any of this in our (US) campuses! So says the lying MSM.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/21/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||


Corrupt Courtrooms
[NATION.PK] Taiba’s case finally seems to be garnering the right sort of legal attention, but it took intervention from the highest legal arbiter in the land to make it so. The Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Justice Mian Saqib Nisar said in the latest hearing that the compromise deed between the parents of the housemaid and a serving Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) is "unacceptable" due to the statement recorded by Taiba’s father before the bench.

The statement, where he testified that he did not want a compromise, was ignored by the lower court, and his thumbprint was sought on a paper he could not read by the accused’s consul. As the CJP observed, the breaches of law piled up. Pre-arrest bail was granted to Maheen Zafar ‐ wife of the ADSJ Khurram Ali Khan and the main accused ‐ in a non-bailable offence concerning violence against a child and child labour. Custody of the minor was handed over to her purported parents in rushed proceedings. Most worryingly, the accused was set free despite a police report stating that "investigation was carried out from all angles and it revealed that young Taiba was brutally tortured by the lady accused, Maheen Bibi".

This is clearly a travesty of the law that seems to be on the path of correction now that the case has made it to the apex court, but not all cases like Taiba’s will generate such media scrutiny, not all will reach the Supreme Court, and not all will invite attention from the Chief Justice. While we must commend the actors in this saga who got this individual case the attention it deserved, our focus must be on fixing the glaring systematic problems that exist in our justice system, which have allowed the supposed guardians of the law to so brazenly break it in the confines of the courtroom itself.

We saw how easy it was for a few compromised judges ‐ ADSJ Raja Asif Mehmood and ADSJ Atta Rabbani, colleagues of the accused ‐ to manipulate the law to their advantage, a fact made easier by an illiterate opposing party. How is it possible that judges with clear conflicts of interest adjudicated the case in the first place? Do we need additional independent observers in courtrooms to insure that the judges do not break the law?

These are questions that the judicial fraternity as a whole needs to answer, especially the CJP. Righting one wrong at a time will never be enough. A strong deterring precedent is needed, and the three ADSJs who abused their power and responsibility to manipulate the law need to be made an example of.
Posted by: Fred || 01/21/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Ominous signs
[NATION.PK] Dissent, criticism, difference of opinion, and activism are critical for a living society, and central to a robust democracy. It appears, however, that some state organs or some actors in the country wish to stem these in their myopic drive to steer Pakistain into ruin.

The sudden spurt of blasphemy allegations and accusations of being "anti-Islam" directed at some of the missing activists also poses a perilous situation for them even if they are recovered, since the mere suspicion of blasphemy is enough to continually and permanently endanger an individual’s life in Pakistain.

It is still hoped that the activists will be recovered safe and sound, however, even if they return, the climate of fear and intimidation engendered by their disappearances will remain. The message of these disappearances is hard to miss: quieten or be silenced.

A strongly-worded editorial in Dawn brought to light an important assumption and accusation operating in this entire issue: "The sanitised language -- ’missing persons’, ’the disappeared’, etc -- cannot hide an ugly truth: the state of Pakistain continues to be suspected of involvement in the disappearance and illegal detentions of a range of private citizens."

The matter of "disappeared" and "missing" persons began in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, and today it has reached the capital. There is no escape for the state from this, for it is either complicit or it is incompetent. And for the rest of the country, these are ominous signs.
Posted by: Fred || 01/21/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Of Allah's enlightening fountain,
Each atom requires an accountin'!
In Pakistan, mucky
Mohammedans' lucky
Korans can all go to the mountain.
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#2  :-)
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#1  Well it ain't wrong...
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