Trump’s DC Takeover Won’t Be a Success if Constitution is Ignored

Crime is down and the enemy is furious. What’s not to like? At the risk of infuriating MAGA loyalists, in a word, infringements. [More]

Which plan will you go with? Help the administration see where it’s going off the rails and needs a course correction, or kill the messenger?

Ulterior Motives

AI Overview: Reports and analysis from legal observers and gun rights advocates indicate that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 2025 shift on firearm suppressors was a strategic legal maneuver. By conceding that suppressors are a form of “arm” under the Second Amendment, the DOJ laid the groundwork to defend the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA) tax and registration scheme against legal challenges.

Guns and Gadgets elaborates. [Watch]

The “gun groups” obviously don’t care about this, so I don’t know why I should.

[Via Jess]

Who Couldn’t See That Coming?

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said groups challenging a 2013 law banning assault weapons and a second gun control law enacted a decade later could not show that the guns they are still able to possess, including several semi-automatic handguns, are not sufficient for self-defense purposes. [More]

I hate to say I told you so…

And no, I don’t think they’re embarrassed at all. I think they’re in-our-face about it.

[Via Jess]

Put to the Test

When the staff went through Cassandra’s bag, they found a boxcutter. The weapon was confiscated and the staff told her that she wasn’t allowed to have it on campus. Lydia then told the security team she was recording the interaction and was testing the weapons detection systems. [More]

The weapon ostensibly used in the greatest mass murder in U.S. history…?

“Testing…” Sounds more like “lying.”

Convenient excuse though. What would happen to citizens who aren’t connected entitled Democrats is we used it?

[Via Matthew L]

Who Will Help Them Bake the Bread?

The effect isn’t abstract. Traffic drives revenue, and revenue keeps independent media alive, paying your favorite writers, editors, and keeping the “lights on”. Without it, the field is left to large, anti-gun news organizations funded by their mega-millionaire owners [can you say Bloomberg] that already dominate the conversation. [More]

I’ve told you about this before.

Who gets value from it?

It’s Gowdy Doody Time

Fox host Trey Gowdy: “We’re going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. How many school shootings does it take before we’re going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out of — it’s always a young white male, almost always.” [More]

Yeah, except see the comments that follow.

Just in case anybody thought this fraud was a “conservative”…

Oh, look: Here he is “proving” he’s “one of us.”

And here he is weasel-wording for infringements.

So, naturally, Donald Trump has nothing but effusive praise for the guy. (But let Gowdy publicly criticize him and look how quickly he’ll be called a “loser.”)

[Via several of you]

The Stupidest Thing You’ll Read on the Internet All Day

you use meme magic or whatever to get people to throw them out. we both know the proliferation of AI, FYPs, etc are extremely powerful. people were memed into buying the guns, they can be memed out of it. [More]

Thing is, it’ll work as well as all the other plans.

And Here We Go

Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. The gunman, who fired from outside through the church windows as children worshiped, killed himself in the rear of the church. [More]

Dressed in black and had a rifle we’re being told, although no ID has been released yet.

Here’s the news feed for updates.

The Moms are already lacing up their blood dancing shoes

[Via Michael G]

UPDATES

The ghouls at Everytown can’t even wait till the scene is clear. [More]

Weaponized “virtue.” It’s what they do.

From the main link:

Police said the suspect was in his 20s and did not have an extensive criminal history

So they know who he is but aren’t ready to tell us.

Tangentially Related?

Mass shooting near Minneapolis school leaves 1 dead, 6 others wounded [More]

Whoever it was got away– I wonder if it could be the same guy doing a practice run or just some gang mutt…

[Via Steve T]

Wind-Up Toy Attack [Via WiscoDave]

…Robin, formerly Robert, Westman.

If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review in Viramontes v. Cook County, SAF’s challenge to the Cook County, Ill., ban on so-called “assault weapons.” [More]

Here’s the brief.

I was happy to see that it did not neglect to include:

The text of the Second Amendment itself proclaims that one of its purposes was to preserve the “militia” and, to state the obvious, the militia did not exist solely to promote individual self-defense but rather was “useful in repelling invasions and suppressing insurrections,” “render[ed] large standing armies unnecessary,” and enabled the people to be “better able to resist tyranny”. Indeed, to the extent there is a historical tradition with respect to “military” arms, it is to afford them especially strong protection.

Tangentially Related Development

The U.S. Supreme Court has distributed a Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) case, Madison Lara v. Commissioner Pennsylvania State Police, for conference to be held on Monday, Sept. 29. [More]

Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

The number of firearms is significant, but more important are the many lives saved as a result of Operation Tidal Wave now that these guns cannot be used to kill and maim people. Albany and Troy are much safer today than they were last week… These guns will never make it into the hands of dangerous criminals looking to wreak havoc in our communities. [More]

Just to be clear, if there’s evidence they intended to “kill…maim [and] wreak havoc,” it’s not presented here. They went after these guys for something else, stumbled on the find, and are capitalizing the hell out of it.

[Via Jess]

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