Notes from the Resistance
On the very first day that suppressors and short-barreled shotguns became tax-free, the ATF’s eForms system crashed for hours under overwhelming demand. For the first time in nearly a century, Americans were able to exercise this right without paying a $200 federal tax—yet the system meant to process those applications couldn’t handle the volume. [More]
For some reason I’m recalling the old Panasonic slogan and imagining a modification:
[Via Jess]
A new generation of young political leaders is gaining power in the US by using their personal experience with gun violence to push for reforms they say the US is ready for… Pearson’s brother, Timphrance Pearson, died of a self-inflected gunshot wound. It wasn’t his first experience with violent loss; just years before, his mentor Yvonne Nelson and his former classmate Larry Thorn were shot and killed in Memphis. [More]
All these supposed “young Turks” and not an original idea among them…
I’ve been embedded in the issue for longer than some of these people have been alive and have not personally known a single person so affected, making me wonder if it’s more a culture thing than a gun thing.
Noting that Pearson is “a recent gun owner himself” and is still pushing citizen disarmament kind of emphasizes why I maintain new gun buyers is not necessarily cause for the victory celebration so many “gunfluencers” treat it like.
I also note this propaganda piece is filed under “News” and not “opinion,” something to keep in mind when The Guardian pop-up begging for donations appears.
[Via Andy M]
I typically don’t post here on weekends because I’m doing behind-the-scenes sausage-making/writing articles, plus I have a life. Also, I don’t want that seen as a call for news tip links because I just won’t be able to get to them .
That said, some stuff has come up I’d like to comment on, and this list may or may not grow over the weekend depending on what happens and what I feel like:
CA Open Carry Ban Unconstituional:
Of course it is, the majority historical rationale is 100% correct, Judge VanDyke once more shows he’s SCOTUS material, and dissenting Bush appointee Smith proves. to no one’s surprise, to be a Vichycon toad.
Don’t uncork the champagne yet, though, because a hundred bucks says the full Ninth Circuit will overturn it, offered to the first person who takes me up on it.
That’s what we all woke up to this morning, and I’ve got the same sentiments on that as I do on Iran. I see the Trump über alles crowd is all on board, with one moron on X telling critics to “kiss my ###” because he had a friend who died on fentanyl who can finally rest in peace, disregarding that his friend was FAFO exemplified and, per DEA, Venezuela isn’t a fentanyl source.
What I don’t see being discussed is Bondi’s announcement that Maduro was indicted in the Southern District of New York, and that just strikes me as an invitation to get your @$$ handed to you in a solid blue state where the overwhelming majority of the judges, including the chief, are Clinton, Obama, and Biden appointees.
Things like this make me wonder if I’m just too stupid to grok 3d chess masterclasses or if this is sabotage.
And good question:
“If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters … the United States of America will come to their rescue,” Trump said on social media, adding that the U.S. was “locked and loaded.” [More]
And Washington’s warning…?
Not at the expense of American lives, and if we do go in, as I’ve consistently maintained for like, forever, I want a declaration of war so that our representatives — and those who voted for them — can share credit for happy results and culpability for catastrophic ones.
I got the cutlass in the picture back in 1962 for around 100 rials as I recall, and wore it on my belt patrolling the walled compound around our house in June of 1963 following the 15 Khordad protests, after the arrest of Ayatollah Khomeni. As longtime regulars know, I lived there between ’60 and ’65, when Dad started up and managed the BF Goodrich tire factory there.
We went to the Community School (that’s me, last row on the left) because our parents wanted us to have exposure to international influences and higher education standards than they believed we could get at the American School. I recall seeing thousands of protesters, many carrying sticks and long tools, looking just like my Angry Mob and marching past on a street a block away. Again, as I vaguely recall, I believe the American embassy sent some Marines to guard the school to make sure U.S. citizens would not be attacked.
Anyway, back to the sword– that night I strapped it on and patrolled the yard with my Daisy BB rifle and vicious hell hound/ Alsatian mix, Pepsi (who would happily maul outsiders but tolerate my baby sister sitting on her back pulling her ears), while trying to grit my teeth the way I remembered John Wayne doing it in The Alamo (which we’d seen recently at either the American Club or Officer’s Club, I don’t remember which). We were, of course, in a residential neighborhood to the north of the trouble, but I didn’t know that, and I guess the parents didn’t want to discourage the impulse.
Interesting side note, when the “revolution” came, there was no shortage of useful idiot “Christian” enablers, just like we have today with “faith community” gun-grabbers:
Some Iranian Christians greeted Khomeini at Tehran’s airport in February 1979, and others voted in the national referendum in March in favor of establishing the Islamic Republic.
Anyway, I saw the story indicating things could be changing quickly, looked up and saw my sword, and these recollections just kind of flowed out. I hope the Iranian people can sort things out for themselves but what I fear will happen is another wave of refugees here, who like so many who came before them, will forget their own past and demand we change to accommodate them.
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickaxe and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? [More]
I feel like Horshack.
Doesn’t this woman have a Democrat husband to cheat on?
In what world does the Trump administration elevate a state police commissioner appointed by Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, to the FBI? [More]
Was a deal made to spill the beans or is Patel just being Patel?
[Via bondmen]
What Do The Top Search Trends Of 2025 Say About The Current State Of Our Society? [More]
That John Adams was right.
[Via bondmen]
Monday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Princeton University professor and network contributor Eddie Glaude, Jr. said President Donald Trump’s MAGA base was willing to “participate in the ugliness” of a white nationalist agenda as long as the economy is strong. [More]
The criterion being anyone who doesn’t embrace white inferiority in the way black supremacists demand is a Klansman…
There certainly are a lot of subversive racist morons in academia and the DSM.
[Via bondmen]
YouTuber Nick Shirley Receives ‘Serious’ Death Threats After $100m Daycare Exposé [More]
What were they and have they been reported?
There’s a difference between “I hope you die” and “I’m going to kill you.” For instance, if I’d thought this stupid b!+ch posed an actual danger, I’d have responded very differently.
[Via bondmen]
The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Texas man accused of attempting to support ISIS by providing bomb-making materials and funding to individuals he believed were affiliated with the terrorist organization. [More]
I do sometimes wonder what the retard-to-real threat ratio of people they take down like this is…
[Via bondmen]
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
Prosecutors said the alleged plot was foiled after Sturdivant recently began communicating online with an individual he “believed to be affiliated with ISIS but in reality was a government online covert employee,” who is referred to in a criminal complaint as “OC.” In one of the communications on Dec. 14, Sturdivant allegedly sent the OC an image of two hammers and a knife. [More]
No actual sleeper calls that came across the border or were allowed in as refugees or visa holders…?
Remember the mindset we’re dealing with.
Funny, how the stage props who played Rebel Alliance leaders all support the Empire in real life.
[Via bondmen]
New Jersey Senators Push Nationwide Licensing System for Firearm Ownership [More]
Right now there’s no chance this will pass.
Blow the midterms and it could.
But Trump won’t sign it.
But blow the midterms and who knows who the next president will be?
We know what the real goal is, and Democrats will not stop with this infringement. Which means the only thing left could be “I will not comply.”
Remember when “gun rights leaders” used to disparage that? Anybody know if they’ve changed their minds?
Addendum: I don’t know how this happened, but the article IDs Schiff, Padilla and Hirono as Republicans. José Niño typically does excellent work, so perhaps a correction and explanation will be forthcoming.
Dem Rep. Jim Himes tells “MAGA” they better think twice about supporting strikes on drug traffickers because they “need to imagine who gets killed” when AOC is president. “You know, there will be a Democratic president someday…” [More]
More and more Democrats are ginning up the mob. And every one of them want your guns.
What did they go after Trump for, again…?
[Via Michael G]
A Roxbury teen is facing charges after prosecutors say he filmed a group robbery on the Orange Line earlier this month, eventually joining in and kicking the alleged victim in the head. [More]
His “Authorized Journalist” instincts are good: Joining in with rights muggers.
According to the DA’s office, he already has pending cases out of West Roxbury, Fall River, Roxbury, and Dorchester for charges of breaking and entering, malicious destruction of property, attempted larceny, and knowingly receiving stolen property.
CaseS, plural. And bailed out each time.
[Via Edmund M]
Apparently the defender has a past that disqualifies him from being allowed to defend himself by those absolving themselves of custodial responsibilities. The state’s answer is clear and brief.
Be nice if there were some way citizens under similar forced disability knew what the rules were to get recognition of their rights back…
The request was pretty straightforward. Rather than provide the information, however, the government chose to stonewall on the request. [More]
TTAG notices my latest about trying to get DOJ to define criteria for rights restoration And that’s a good observation they made, because in my first report about my FOIA request last April, I asked:
Under a Bondi DOJ that says it’s committed to “protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens,” will we see dutiful compliance and production of requested documents, or more of the trademark stonewalling the department has become notorious for in prior administrations?
One point of clarification that people who haven’t read the complaint seem to be getting stuck on: There’s no intrusiveness or 4A/privacy conflicts. The complaint, specifically asks the court to “Order Defendant to produce… non-exempt records responsive to Plaintiff’s FOIA request.”
As a quick aside, if I were a gun-grabber, I’d be heartened by the juvenile, ugly squabbling in comments over at AmmoLand and similar forums.
500,000 Ohioans brace for health insurance spikes… 140,000 Ohioans are predicted to go uninsured… eligibility was expanded, allowing more Americans to qualify… about 600,000 Ohioans got health insurance through the ACA marketplace… about 600,000 Ohioans got health insurance through the ACA marketplace… [More]
You gotta look a bit harder to find:
Under current law … lawfully present noncitizens are eligible for subsidies.
Another piece of the Marxist takeover puzzle, where solidifying the “entitlements” of foreign nationals and smearing anyone questioning that as a racist will be a deciding factor in the midterms — not that you’ll hear such direct language from feckless Republicans.
