By requiring all attendees to enter via a newly built enclosed exhibit hall, fair management is essentially saying, “Hold our beer. [More]
I may go just to establish standing.
Summit County Fair’s Enclosed Entrance Ratchets Up Visitor Disarmament
Category: AmmoLand
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Nichols’ argument exposes the circular nature of “common use.” Suppose the government bans a newly developed arm before millions of citizens can purchase it. Years later, the government defends the ban by arguing that the weapon is not commonly owned. Under that reasoning, the unconstitutional law creates the factual condition used to justify itself. The government bans the arm because it is uncommon, and the arm remains uncommon because the government banned it. [More]
Not just Nichols’ argument:
- Court Upholding Ban on Militia-Suitable Firearms Ignores Key Second Amendment Purpose
- Adopting Gun-grabber Arguments on ‘Common Use’ Ignores Intent of Second Amendment
- Second Amendment will be Nullified if ‘Common Use’ is Restricted to ‘Popularity’
- Chinese Coil Gun Could Prove Fatal Flaw in ‘Common Use’ Argument
- ‘In Common Use’ Can Ultimately be Used to Make the Second Amendment a Moot Point
- Next Generation Army Rifle Highlights Danger of ‘Common Use’ Argument to Defend 2nd Amendment
- ‘Common Use’ Challenge to Denver Semi-Auto Ban Misses Important Point
- And, of course, posts here, on the old blog, and my first article, “Things to Come,” written in 2002 for Guns and Ammo (not online and it’s copyrighted, so I can’t post the entire essay here).
Our State Fair
Guns allowed at Ohio State Fair but not in buildings; BFA’s Rieck calls it ‘ridiculous’ [More]
My AmmoLand piece reposted, which allows more to see it. I’m contemplating a follow-up with a county fair that says “Hold our beer.”
Kinder, Gentler Infringements
Suppressors removed from the Munitions List will instead be placed on the Commerce Control List and regulated under the Export Administration Regulations. [More]
And the delegated authority for either…?
DSA’s Citizen-Disarmament Agenda Exposes Its Tyrannical Endgame
It’s instructive as to the end goals of what the prohibitionists term “commonsense gun safety laws,” that is, a monopoly of violence held by those who would rule with an iron fist. It’s for exactly those reasons that the Second Amendment was enacted in the first place. [More]
The collectivist monsters who demand discarding the Constitution and disarming the rest of us hide songs they used to publish threatening to “kill [us] all with knives and guns” as a key objective of their “revolution.”
Get the Flock Outta Here
Ohio State Fair Building Gun Ban Fails All Tests for Constitutionality
“Fair patrons are not permitted to bring guns inside any structures, including barns, food establishments and concert venues.” [More]
What is the dominant, supposedly “pro gun” Ohio GOP afraid of?
And That No Man Might Buy or Sell…
Squire admitted that his firearm and ammunition were manufactured outside Louisiana. The question is whether that past movement permits Congress to regulate his present, entirely intrastate possession. [More]
We need a Bruen-type ruling recognizing the Constitution was ratified with the interstate powers in the Commerce Clause understood to be the way to keep states from imposing tariffs and embargoes on each other.
The metastasized monster it has become reflects when FDR’s power grab against the last vestiges of federalism. I find it intriguing that the polar flip in interpretation of the Constitution came about “because one justice, Owen Roberts, switched his vote. Ever since, historians have argued about why he did so.”
UPDATE
Mark W. Smith says there are bigger implications:
MASSIVE NEW DECISION FINALLY THREATENS NFA AND MACHINE GUN BAN!… the question presented really in the Squire case in the en banc court in front of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is whether or not Congress, created by Article One of the United States Constitution, has the legal authority to enact federal gun control law 18 USC 922G1 because the only potential connection to congressional authority found … is to this commerce clause.
[Via Jess]
We need a Bruen-type ruling on just about every federal law.
Supreme Court Ducks the 1791 vs. 1868 Second Amendment Fight—Again
The technical holdup is essentially one of emphasizing due process and ignoring privileges and immunities, which to a layperson seems a bit like arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. [More]
There’s a more basic argument that no one is considering, where a leading authority at the time considered the Second Amendment to be a restraint on both the federal government and the states.
Cry Wolf
20 Wolves Charged Glenn Villeneuve in Arctic Alaska—His .30-06 Stopped the Pack [More]
For a guy who’s a recognized expert in that environment, I’m trying to understand why he went out the first time unarmed and the second time under-equipped.
It All Depends on Your Point of View
Maryland Defends Glock Ban by Treating Common Pistols Like Machine Guns [More]
I’m all for that, treating machine guns like common pistols, that is.
Soros Money Shows Gun Owners Must Not Dismiss Blue Threat to Texas
The bottom line is just because it’s Texas hardly means that “gun rights” can be taken for granted. [More]
The enemy is mobilized, equipped and organized, with no shortage of ground troops. Committed defenders, willing to give it their all, are few.
Remind you of anything?
Facing Legal Obstacles To Gun Bans, Prohibitionists Shift The Narrative
It’s good, a victory actually, that people who would like to ban guns – and that, of course, is their ultimate goal – have a sense that it’s not going to happen politically, at least in the near term. But just because they talk about “progress” without prohibitions doesn’t mean they’ve given up on the idea. [More]
Just because “progressive” policies have enabled a subset of violent and resentful morons with a sense of unearned entitlement, anger management issues, and poor impulse control is no reason to make demands against the rest of us being able to repel them.
DOJ Withholds Rights Restoration Records Citing Privacy Concerns
The need to apply consistent criteria is not only a matter of basic fairness, but of law. [More]
The very first comment needs to be addressed. With an initial estimate of 50 FTEs processing applications, the need to minimize subjectivity and establish consistency should be self-evident, especially noting how DOJ has shown it can still be all over the board on 2A, even under a “pro-gun administration.”
Further noting this is a rule and not a law, it’s not hard to see how lack of clear criteria could allow all kinds of negative dispositions under a new administration for those applicatons already in the pipeline before it terminates the program altogether.
Holloway v. Katz: Virginia Gun Ban Lawsuit Argues Banned Arms Are Militia Arms
Simply put, as noted in the Statement of Facts, “The weapons banned by the act are the arms of the citizen militia.” [More]
While the other challenges are on hold, this unique complaint is still scheduled to be heard.
Important record correction
The Crump case also notes:
Plaintiffs do not bring any claim or seek any relief under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Rather, they proceed only under Article I, Section 13 of the Constitution of Virginia.
SCOTUS Refusal to Address School Ban on Gun Imagery Puts Freedom 250 Art Contestants at Risk
Teachers have been known to report students over perceived off-campus gun concerns before, even when no cause for them existed. [More]
Submitting a historically accurate entry could run afoul of “zero tolerance” intolerance.
Great American State Fair to Celebrate Freedom by Suspending Second Amendment
This is citizen disarmament, just as certainly and just as seriously as if this were being imposed by extreme gun prohibitionist Democrats in New York City or Chicago. [More]
Musical B-listers shouldn’t be the only ones “getting the yips.”
Discrimination Against Black Lions on Gun Licenses a Threat to All Gun Owners
Just don’t forget that what government can do to the Black Lions it will do to whomever it can. [More]
I don’t much like ’em, either, but that’s not the point, is it?
Book on Roman Republic Has Insights for Today’s Freedom Advocates
I believe Dr. Faria’s work is essential for dedicated Second Amendment advocates, and although not specifically focused on the right to keep and bear arms, ancient Rome provided the bedrock on which the foundations for our own Republic were set. [More]
We need to understand where we came from to better determine where we are and where we could be headed.
LEGO Gun Suspension a Continuation of ‘Zero Tolerance’ Bullying of Children by ‘Adults’
The engineered results are predictable: Ignorance begets fear and fear begets hate. [More]
Instead of giving children building blocks to work with, collectivist “educators” are putting up knowledge blocks to intimidate and discourage them.