Category: citizen disarmament

A Good First Step

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 Case Study

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]

Here’s the study.

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]

Date with Destiny

Destiny Wells announces congressional run in Indiana’s 7th district [More]

All you need to know:

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…

The THING That Would Not Engage

We already saw it wouldn’t leave.

This is telling:

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.

Recollections of Decades-Old Crime Omit Key Details about Assailant

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?

The Devil to Pay

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!

The THING That Would Not Leave

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.

Brace Yourselves

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:

@mgmplus

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[Via Jess]

In the Kapu Tradition

Requires businesses or restaurants open to the public to post a color-coded placard indicating whether the business or restaurant allows firearms or large knives to be brought onto the premises. By January 1, 2027, requires the Department of Law Enforcement to provide businesses and restaurants with free and easily downloadable placards. Effective 1/1/2027. [More]

From this un-American who presents himself as the opposite… Hey, if he can exploit copyrighted characters for political campaigning, does that constitute a reportable in-kind contribution?

Four Boxes Diner explains.

[Via Jess]

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

Babylon Bee Defeats Hawaii Law That Forbids Political Satire [More]

I guess if you can ignore the Second Amendment with no personal cost, why would you be worried about subverting the First?

To paraphrase Rhett Butler, Hawaii Democrats deserve to be ridiculed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

[Via Edmund M]

Judging Jeanine

“You bring a gun into the district, you mark my words, you’re going to jail,” Pirro said in the interview. “I don’t care if you have a license in another district, and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail and hope you get the gun back.” [More]

Don’t let her lie her way out of it:

[Via Jess]

Rocky Mountain Low

A new bill introduced in Colorado would require gun barrel purchases to be made in-person at a firearm dealer. Senate Bill 26-043, which was introduced last week, would also ban the possession of any firearm barrels “with the intent to sell or transfer” and add criminal penalties for violation… Sullivan and Froelich are also sponsoring Senate Bill 26-004, which would expand the state’s “Red Flag” law by adding a list of “institutional petitioners” that could petition a court for an Extreme Risk Protection Order. [More]

Curiously, none of these people will appear at your door.

[Via Jess]

Breaking the Bank

JPMorgan Chase recently announced the banking giant’s policy of denying services to manufacturers of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) is over. That’s a welcome reversal of policy after NSSF met with JPMorgan Chase officials to work to end the discriminatory policy. It is also the most recent of the big banks, including Bank of America and Citigroup that have shifted banking service policies that previously froze out members of the firearm industry. [More]

About damn time for all of them, and Morgan has been particularly offensive.

Now, what about “Merchant Category Codes“?

Hey, when the house of cards collapses, who’s in for more “too big to fail” bailouts?

And not to put too fine a point to it, but MSR seems counterproductive to me.