Not Here for the Ratio

So that’s how they get away with it!

And their “solution”?

Then again, even blind pigs can find the occasional acorn:

[Via Jess]

Cabal News

Sudden GOP infighting explodes over bipartisan immigration reform bill [More]

How undignified!

Vichycons for Haitian Hammer Killers… ?

But wait! There’s more:

While the Salazar-Lawler bill is the worst of it, there are other efforts afoot from the same cabal of anti-MAGA “Republicans.” Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) has reintroduced H.R. 5494, the Essential Workers for Economic Advancement Act. The bill expands visas for up to 500,000 alien laborers in the construction, hospitality, and other sectors and proposes a new H-2C visa program for critical jobs that do not require a college degree but are essential to business operations and U.S. economic growth.

With a name like Smucker, he has to be good (from 2016):

Change my mind on how his supporting a massive influx of foreign nationals will be good for the future of 2A.

Enforce Existing Intolerable Acts?

Bring back Project Exile (1997) since this law remains on the books. We need to enforce the laws we have, there seems to be little need for new laws , in my opinion. [More]

No and no.

The problem is, louder subsidized voices with longer reach dominate the discussion, and us niche-within-a-niche guys don’t even make it to most gun owners’ radar.

Case in point

Text, history, and tradition tell us the Framers and the ratifiers would have rejected infringements. And reality tells us that citizen disarmament gives both predators and tyrants the advantage they need to succeed.

You’re a Daisy if You Do

New York Lawmakers Move to Restrict BB and Pellet Guns – Proposed legislation would redefine air guns as ‘imitation weapons’ and impose new regulations. [More]

In other words, I had more freedom as a boy in the Shah’s Iran than Americans do in the Land of the Second Amendment.

[Via Jess]

The Fix is In

The Democratic governor’s changes to House Bill 217/Senate Bill 749 remove the word “fixed” from part of the bill’s definition of an assault firearm, which could sharply expand the range of semi-automatic rifles and pistols swept into the ban, Republicans say. [More]

It’s good that DOJ is going to fight this, but let’s be careful not to turn “common use” into a trap.

Ultimately, it boils down to how many Virginians are committed to the Commonwealth’s motto.

Once More Unto the Breach

Trump has just announced thanks to Gun Owners America that they are going to reconsider the Biden era frame and receiver rule. Is this a shock? Should we have freaked out last week? Well, we’re going to talk about it because as I said last week in another video, I told you so. [Watch]

If so, great, but where I come from, “going to reconsider” doesn’t mean “will,” “may” can also mean “may not,” and we should all be hearing this in an unequivocal announcement from the administration, not parceled out to a select few supportive influencers.

Sorry if my first impression is that this sounds like an electioneering tactic from someone skilled at telling gun owners what they want to hear, but he’s been playing this game on us for years, so everyone will have to forgive me if I suspect this is more of the same — and if he does do it, it will be more out of manipulation than sincere conviction.

Change my mind.

[Via Jess]

Attack of the Vichycons

Dem-led push to extend protections for Haitians faces outrage after brutal hammer killing – Four Republicans crossed party lines to join Rep Ayanna Pressley in forcing a vote to extend TPS for three years – – Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., crossed party lines in support of forcing a chamber-wide vote on Pressley’s bill. [More]

Or linked a different way:

Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., crossed party lines in support of forcing a chamber-wide vote on Pressley’s bill.

UPDATE

A correspondent just forwarded me this email from NumbersUSA:

‘A Lifelong Republican’

Told ya. May she be as successful with this as she was at accomplishing nothing over at 97percent.

And here she is praising a ‘No Kings’ rally. Her journey to the dark side is complete.

Be interesting to see her gun platform when she gets a campaign website up.

[Via Michael G]

That’s Why It’s Called ‘Fraud’

Decades of national and state-level data on violent crime, homicide, and mass shooting show no consistent evidence that stricter gun laws reduce overall crime rates. [More]

Right, but as anyone with a brain knows, that’s just an excuse to give the suckers while they’re swindling them out of their rights, and never was what they’re intended to do.

Every Terrible Implement

FAA Greenlights Laser Sentry Guns To Combat Attack Drones In U.S. Airspace [More]

As I wrote in “Things to Come” for Guns and Ammo back in 2002:

Designed for deployment on AC-X “Son of Specter” aircraft gunships, we’re told that “advances will be made and the power plant will shrink and one day it will dominate the battlefield.” Hardly a small arm suitable for individual combatants? Just remember, not so long ago your pocket calculator would have filled a room, requiring programmers, technicians and keypunch operators; and cell phones, laptops and GPS units would have been considered no more plausible than… um… paralyzer beams and death rays.

I wish I had a link to it but it’s not on the internet and they own the copyright.

And sorry, it’s not “in common use.”

[Via bondmen]

And the Hits Just Keep on Coming

Billionaire Boots Eric Swalwell From His Mansion, Wants $1M Returned [More]

How the mighty have fallen.

And what’s this “plans to resign“? Just do it.

I wonder when his wife is going to leave him — and take the kids and any property her lawyers can wrest from him, which his own antics will only ensure?

Maybe somebody ought to be making sure he doesn’t have access to guns by invoking one of those Red Flag Laws he’s been so keen on:

‘Please tell me this lunatic does not own a gun’

[Via Jess]

This is My Shocked Face

New York City’s Prohibition on Stun Guns, Tasers Survives Appeal [More]

And here we thought the Supreme Court was pretty clear whan it ruled:

The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.

Until such @$$hole judges face consequences, this kind of crap will continue.

Assuming you don’t want to pay Bloomberg Law to read their spin, Four Boxes Diner breaks things down for us.

[Via Jess]

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