Notes from the Resistance
HB 4145, the Democrat’s latest attack on gun rights, is scheduled for a “work session” on Monday. Feb. 16th at 3pm. Rumors that the bill is dead are… premature. [More]
The monster will just keep coming back.
* And yeah, I know it’s a misquote.
BREAKING NEWS! DOJ FILES AWFUL NFA BRIEF FULL OF FLAWS [More]
I’m not buying the qualified “criticism” that gives excuses to the attorneys and to DOJ for “miscommunication.” Coming up with a unified position on 2A ain’t rocket surgery, and if they don’t have they brainpower to do it, that makes deliberately excluding subject matter expert advisors all the more inexcusable.
I’m waiting for a hear-no-evil Trump apologist to claim it’s brilliant 3D chess to advance arguments you know you’re going to lose.
[Via Jess]
CTRL+PEW Sues California in Federal Court Over 3D-Printed Gun Files [More]
Who else aims to misbehave?
[Via WiscoDave]
Maybe it’s time to stop dousing the fire in gun owner bellies, especially with top administration officials making inane comments that spit in the faces of Second Amendment activists — the very people Republicans need to win. [More]
In what reality is making core constituents feel like they’re being used smart politics?
Only one House Dem voted in favor of voter ID, proof of citizenship in US elections [More]
Gee, it’s almost like they have an ulterior motive…
Funny, how the number 213 keeps coming up with Democrats.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue”!
Under the settlement, the company must cease all sales of the MA Lock in New York, “remove any statements that claim the MA Lock is legal in New York, state on all packaging that the MA Lock cannot be sold or resold in New York, and notify all businesses currently selling the MA Lock that the product is not to be sold or resold to individuals and/or businesses in New York.” [More]
Did they also give up their customers?
For the first time in California history, this proposal would require mandatory state-approved training, including live-fire shooting and at least eight hours of instruction, just to BUY a firearm — not carry it, not use it, but to own it. [Watch]
And challenges by gun owners who must scrape together legal costs will go on for years and years and years, which is part of the plan.
[Via Jess]
Pretty good summation.
I could offer some “Yeah, buts…” to some of the “pro-gun” points, but overall fall back on two contentions I constantly make:
The administration, left on its own, is bipolar, and the Task Force and gun voters would benefit greatly from independent subject matter expert advisors.
Three contentions, actually: Those of us pointing out the disconnects are motivated by not wanting to see Trump blow it, which will allow the communi… Democrats to take over, and anyone calling for our heads for that is wearing their red MAGA cap too tight.
ATF Reverses Course After Denying NFA Applications for Wanting to “Exercise God-Given Rights” [More]
I’ll just leave that there for people to think about.
A bill working its way through the Ohio legislature would allow residents to sue cities for punitive and/or monetary damages if they try to ignore the state’s preemption laws on guns. [More]
OK, but it’ll be the productive segment paying for the sins of the Democrats. Once that passes, do another making violators personally liable.
Speech and debate clauses weren’t intended to be a license for treason.
I remember getting derailed the last time I made that argument…
A major new study supporting the 2nd Amendment has been released on the eve of Oral Argument in the Seigel/Koons case out of NJ. [Watch]
Now we get to see how that 8 to 6 Republican ratio matters.
There’s still one real vulnerability I don’t see addressed by on-premises armed guards and metal detectors:
You gotta make it from the parking lot to the building first.
[Via Jess]
Destiny Wells announces congressional run in Indiana’s 7th district [More]
That and the Indiana State Rifle and Pistol Association has fewer Facebook followers than I do (and my limited social media presence is tepid at best), and nothing about her on its website.
I trust no Hoosier gun owners will be surprised when she carries out her threat...
Maybe they think the Republicans will keep them safe…
Hey, I remember this story…
We already saw it wouldn’t leave.
In addition to their website’s “contact us” and “media inquiries” buttons being disconnected, replies their X posts are disabled. Like all gun control groups, they like preaching to the choir.
I’d argue “mob,” not “choir,” but it’s a valid observation. Check it out:
Their whole purpose, at least their stated one, is to “foster a collaborative community to ensure our policies are shaped by comprehensive input,” yet they shut off inputs from the very community they purport to speak for. At least we see what they mean when they say they’re “taking back the conversation.”
Tell us they’re AstroTurf phonies without telling us they’re AstroTurf phonies. Of course, the fact that they’ve been around for years now, gotten all kinds of free publicity, and have only amassed 11K X followers in all that time, an unknown percentage being the people whose comments they muzzle, is our first clue.
The reason for the censorship, of course, is clear– every time they post something they get their @$$e$ handed to them in the ratioing, but that just goes to confirm they’re false fronts. The gun groups don’t have to do that and have more than enough supporters to drown out trolls or take them on on their own turf.
That pretty much proves out one other comment: Yes, in addition to being frauds, they’re cowards.
With that as a backdrop, in between capitalizing on her notoriety through selling her story and her sex tapes, Fisher served a brief stint as an opinion columnist, where she advocated for the government disarming those of us who haven’t shot innocent people in the face.[More]
Y’ever notice how those who can’t — or won’t — control themselves are so obsessed with controlling the rest of us?
In Washington, Democrats in Olympia are looking at adding $100 to the nonrefundable fee for a concealed pistol license, jacking the cost up from $36 to $136… In neighboring Oregon, there’s a move on via House Bill 4145 which would raise the cost of a permit-to-purchase from the $65 maximum to $150. [More]
What are these carry fees everyone is so upset about?
Don’t tell Judge Jeanine!
Anti-gun group 97Percent is back, now led by anti-gun ex-cop [More]
I’ve been warning against these Astro-Turfers since they first came on the scene and pretty consistently thereafter. I see “lifelong Republican” Olivia Troye needs a new gig, but before worrying she’ll suffer the same fate as Ladd, take heart: I just saw her in the news the other day where she predicted another six weeks of winter.
They say that the court cannot enjoin the ATF from enforcing legal theories, only final agency rules. They argue that because the pistol brace rule no longer exists, the court has no authority to block the ATF’s interpretation that brace pistols are in fact SBRs. In other words, they are not denying that they hold that legal view at all. They are only saying that the court cannot stop them from using it. And that is a huge red flag. And so in this case, they’re saying, you know, the rule is dead. Throw this case out, but you cannot touch any underlying legal theories that we have because that’s not an at issue in this case. [Watch]
In other words:
[Via Jess]
