MORE SECOND AMENDMENT NEWS: Eugene Volokh dissects a rather dumb piece on the Second Amendment from The Guardian. Volokh deals with the doctrine. I also note that The Guardian puts a (sic) after antigun law professor Carl Bogus’s name (which really is “Bogus”) and gets his law school wrong to boot. Do these Brit journalists check anything? Virginia Postrel says no, and I’m beginning to believe her.

UPDATE: A couple of readers say I’m wrong about the “sic” — which is used in an unusual, but correct fashion — and they’re absolutely right. As one reader notes:

“Sic” only means that the passage preceding it correctly reproduces the original. Usually “sic” is used to say “That was his error, not mine.” In this
case it was used to say, “That looks funny, but it’s correct.” Ironically, the point is that the journalist claims to have checked, despite getting the law school wrong.

Yep. My bad.