Notes from the Resistance
“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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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?
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.
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.
It’s almost like all freedoms are interconnected or something, and that an unrestrained government powerful enough to control guns is powerful enough to do whatever it wants. [More]
They’ve fouled their nests. Now they’ve come to foul yours.
Disarming anyone disfavored by the state is one of the oldest power guarantors devised by governments, and this happening in Germany recalls another set of laws imposed within the lifetimes of people still living. [More]
It’s déjà vu all over again.
It’s the right of the people, not the right of special operators. [More]
What may at first sound like a good idea is not one the Framers would have approved.
It wasn’t “gun violence” that killed Fairfax and his wife, it was him. [More]
Why is it those who demand to control us can’t — or won’t — control themselves?
Kentucky Lawmakers Override Beshear’s Vetoes, Delivering Two Major Pro-2A Wins [More]
Great. Now impeach the oath-breaking traitor.
Their “Diverse Coalition of Gun Rights and Gun Violence Prevention Advocates” includes rabid prohibitionist zealots who have made careers out of trying to eviscerate the Second Amendment through lawfare and gun bans, with not one recognized “no compromise” member. [More]
Oh, look, another covertly-funded AstroTurf group comprised of useful idiots and rabid prohibitionists trying to lure in low information gun owners who haven’t seen this game before. By “compromise,” they mean you do it.