Thursday tidbits

First up, the 4th Circuit Court upheld Maryland’s assault weapon ban

“The assault weapons at issue fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense,” the opinion stated.   The Center Square

Someone please name a major (or minor) national military using AR-15s? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

There have been varying decisions at different circuit courts on different appeals – this should hit the Supreme Court, hopefully in the upcoming session. It needs a Supreme decision.

 

Also in court – remember the round red buoys Gov. Abbott had strung up in the Rio Grande?

“This case will end up in the Supreme Court,” Senior U.S. District Judge David Allan Ezra told the lawyers during a pretrial conference at the federal courthouse in Austin.

The conference to bring the parties up to date in the lawsuit brought by the federal government that names Gov. Greg Abbott as the defendant was scheduled after the trial that had been scheduled to start Tuesday was postponed at least until November. The delay was made necessary after last week’s split ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said the 1,000-foot chain of buoys floating for the past year near Eagle Pass may remain in place while the legal wrangling continues.

The judge and the lawyers for both sides in the case must now comb through the several written opinions from the appeals court judges and decide how they will affect the way they plan to try the case.Austin American Statesman

They’re legal, they’re not…there’s the other factor – don’t try to swim through them, and you don’t have to worry about not making it through, right?

Hopefully you are familiar with Boeing’s Starliner, the spacecraft so successful that its crew has been stranded on the International Space Station for over a month, while the craft itself is blocking one of the two ISS docking ports. Seems it can’t be deorbited without a crew, and it can’t safely carry a crew to land successfully. So the crew AND the craft are both counting their toes in space. It’s even messing with a scheduled SpaceX mission:

According to Ars Technica‘s insider sources, NASA is now planning to push back its upcoming Crew-9 mission from August 18 to September 24, a considerable delay.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon mission is currently scheduled to carry a crew of three NASA astronauts and one Rocosmos astronaut to the space station. But if Starliner ends up returning to Earth without any crew on board, NASA may send up the SpaceX spacecraft with just two astronauts to make space for Williams and Wilmore’s return flight.Futurism.com

We screamed for years that private industry can make space craft cheaper and faster than NASA – now we have a prime NASA contractor demo-ing that in at least some cases, it ain’t NASA that has the problem. Maybe they should call it the Boeing Dildo – certainly looks the part.  Whatever happened to the invincible Boeing of my youth?

Seems the B-1 bomber is testing a new external hard point called a Load Adaptable Module, with the Pentagon thinking up to six of these LAMs could be mounted to make a B-1 carry a substantially higher payload.

Boeing has said in the past that the B-1 will eventually be fitted with six LAMs, each of which can carry two missiles, and the company has said these will include two distinct types: boost-glide vehicles and air-breathing missiles.   The Warzone

Each hard point could carry a number of weapons, up to 12 pound additional hypersonic missiles to supplement its internally carried complement of 24. Think of that…one plane, up to 36 missiles?

Getting some SERIOUS wood reading the article… oh, baby…

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