I don’t need to have numbers. [Watch]
The in-your-face arrogance of tyrants…
[Via Jess]
Notes from the Resistance
The issuance of such permits is part of Brown’s job. And he has a reputation for being relatively stingy in issuing them, compared to most of the other 57 sheriffs in California. [More]
Tell me about it. Talk about a blast from the past!
Or better yet, tell NRA. They never did explain themselves.
[Via GP]
UPDATE
Mayor Eric Adams blamed the violence on an “over-proliferation” of guns on the streets… [More]
And morons like this running things is why they will only get worse.
Justices Send Assault Weapon, Magazine Bans Back to Lower Courts [More]
Why? So they can make them bulletproof?
Everybody who’s honest knows the damn things are unconstitutional.
So does everybody who’s dishonest.
Montana has a progressive state supreme court, but a Republican legislature and governor. The result? The state supreme court is striking down laws passed by the legislature — such as gun-rights legislation. Today’s decision of the Montana Supreme Court in Board of Regents v. State, written by Justice Laurie McKinnon, ruled that the state constitution gives the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education authority over the Montana University System, and it was thus unconstitutional for the Legislature (in a bill called HB 102) to preempt the University System’s ban on carrying guns on campus… [More]
Bruen’s “sensitive places” writ large…
And the judges are elected, so don’t look for the state that gave us “pro-gun Democrats” Jon Tester and Max Baucus to throw the bums out. Especially with all the newly arrived nest foulers from California!
[Via Michael G]
Tuesday, Sen. Anthony Portantino, a Democrat from Glendale, introduced legislation that he said would “update” the state’s concealed carry law to make it more restrictive, while also complying with the highest court’s latest dictate. [More]
Any doubts this will pass, and challenges and appeals will drag on for years?
UPDATE
And not to be outdone, New York decides to push things to the limit and beyond.
[Via Jess]
Study: Easing concealed carry laws linked to more police shootings [More]
Because nothing establishes causation like agenda-motivated correlation!
And everybody knows permitless carry gives “prohibited persons” a free pass!
Doesn’t it?
[Via Jess]
New York sues 10 gun distributors for allegedly flooding streets with ghost guns – The lawsuit seeks to ban the defendants from selling certain parts in New York. [More]
So when is NSSF going to lead the industry in telling New York to go to hell when it wants guns and servicing for its enforcers?
[Via Jess]
Apple CEO Sucks Up to China in Interview With State-Owned Media [More]
He likes their kind of citizen disarmament laws, too! Except for his protection detail.
Sucking up to tyrants for special privileges denied the unwashed proletariat is kind of his thing.
Tim in a tumbrel has a kind of alliterative ring to it…
New York City woman pushing baby in stroller on Upper East Side shot dead [More]
Probably the Supreme Court’s fault for Bruen…
At least we have a description of the suspect’s clothes…
States with higher rate of gun ownership do not correlate with more gun murders, data show [More]
So the grabbers have been lying to us?
Hey, has anybody ever done a study on states with higher rates of urban Democrats?
Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion noted “sensitive places“ like schools and government buildings could have gun bans. [More]
Jeez, and AOC and Charlie think he lied to them…
[Via Mack H]
LA Times Op-Ed: I Don’t Know About All These Blacks Owning Guns [More]
But…but…but Joy said we would be the ones to freak out…
[Via Dan Gifford]
A man who shot and killed a passenger on a San Francisco subway commuter train will be charged with gun crimes but not homicide in what was “clearly” a case of self-defense after he was attacked with a knife, his attorney said Monday. [More]
When having the means of self-defense is illegal, the law is criminal. I think that’s why they’re reducing the charges to misdemeanors because they know that under Bruen standards, felony charges would result in a high-profile challenge and community anger over racist standards.
[Via bondmen]
Ninth Circuit Panel Sends California “Assault Weapons” Ban Challenge Back to District Court, so the District Court can reconsider it in light of the Supreme Court’s new Bruen precedent. [More]
I don’t see where “self-defense” alone will cut it without a strong core purpose argument.
I do see this:
The firearms that the law in question prohibits are, in virtually every state of the Union, exactly the sorts of lawful weapons in common use that law abiding people possess at home for lawful purposes; and exactly what they would bring to service in militia duty should such cause be necessary.
Here’s the case history thus far.
If this goes to SCOTUS, and it probably will, we’ll see if any briefs expand on that, and then if the high court will hear it.
Scappoose Backs Down [More]
I didn’t figure they had much stomach for conflict the way they make it so hard to find out who they are. You’d think you wouldn’t have to scroll down for the slideshow.
Rand Paul Says Gun Control Bill Was Kept ‘Secret’ And Senators Not Allowed Time To Read It [More]
Where have we heard that before?
With the “red flag” provisions, that makes perverse sense.
UPDATE
And who’d have guessed the bill contains surprises that don’t appear to have anything to do with guns but plenty to do with pharmacy benefit manager lobbyists.
[Via Mack H]
The California Department of Justice’s 2022 Firearms Dashboard Portal went live on Monday with publicly-accessible files that include identifying information for those who have concealed carry permits. The leaked information includes the person’s full name, home address, date of birth, and date their permit was issued. The data also shows the type of permit issued, indicating if the permit holder is a member of law enforcement or a judge. [More]
Aside from showing what total dolts these parasites are, and that any registration scheme makes listees exposed and vulnerable, the data could be useful in a civil rights action to show minority underrepresentation. After all, who’s more racist than anti-armed citizen “progressives”?
[Via WiscoDave]
Brown demands mandatory ID requirement at gun shows to curb unregulated ghost gun sales [More]
Why would someone who routinely tramples the Second Amendment care about the First?
This is what happens when uneducated morons get power.
So can we count on you to champion Voter ID, Rep. Brown?
Rep. Brown…?
[Via Jess]
Repeal the Second Amendment: ‘No one has the absolute right to own any weapon they want’ [More]
No. Your move.
The shorter answer is two words and starts with “F.”
Some morons aren’t worth trying to educate on Cruikshank and Heller’s recognition of a preexisting right because you know they’ll just move on to the next idiot objection.
[Via Mike F]
Gun shop, firearms owners challenge RI’s new high-capacity magazine ban in court [More]
Let’s hope they add plenty of “core purpose” to the standard “self-defense” and “takings” arguments.
[Via Jess]
Although the majority’s ruling impacts our century-old justifiable need requirement for carrying firearms, it does not change any other aspect of New Jersey’s public carry law. To be clear: Carrying a handgun without a permit is still illegal in this state, and all other requirements for obtaining a carry permit still apply. [More]
And like our totalitarian counterparts in California, we will continue to throw every obstacle that will take years to clear that we can think of in the way.
It’s called being a Faubus.
Such discretionary and capricious gun laws would allow corrupt cops to disarm rival gangs that threatened Tammany Hall’s authority or undermined its political interests. Big Tim’s cronies could use the law to punish business owners who didn’t pay protection money or deny entire neighborhoods the ability of self-defense. [More]
Gun laws: Those with the guns make the laws.
[H/T JPFO]
States brace for fight over gun laws after high court ruling [More]
“We” have to finance both sides.
And they’ll throw up obstacle after obstacle, each taking years to resolve.
By then, the plan is to have a new majority.
[Via Jess]
The Supreme Court’s gun ruling is a serious misfire [More]
This from a Vichycon stooge who advocates:
Gun control advocates who want to square their policy preferences with the Constitution should squarely face the need to deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrassing amendment.
and:
Republicans Better Off Losing by Landslide
Funny he should mention “The Second Amendment is the only one in the Bill of Rights with a preamble” without acknowledging the Bill of Rights itself has a Preamble that makes clear what Founding intent was:
“THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
It has “restrictive clauses” against the government.
[Via Mack H]