Notes from the Resistance
Last night, the House voted on the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, which passed 228-206. [More]
Guess who the lone Republican “Noe” came from.
As long as there’s a Democrat Senate and President, this bill’s going nowhere. Still, it may be useful to clue in voting veterans who aren’t kneejerk Democrats.
[Via Jess]
The senator’s statements refer to a national referendum held in 2005, during Lula’s first presidential term, in which Brazilian citizens voted overwhelmingly against banning gun and ammunition sales… Reversing Bolsonaro’s flexibilization of firearm access for Brazilian citizens was one of Lula da Silva’s sterner campaign promises. [More]
Now to remind them what they’ve been missing…
[Via bondmen]
New Jersey’s New “John Wick” Carry Permit Training Mandate [More]
How much competency must a citizen demonstrate in order to vote and be protected by any of the other Amendments?
One question I did not see addressed, so perhaps one of you who knows will educate me in “Comments”: If an “Only One” fails the test, how soon (and often) can they retake it, and does the same standard apply to “civilians”?
One more question: Who thinks Newark triggermorons give a damn?
Switzerland is a country that has a high rate of gun ownership but doesn’t have a high level of gun violence. It’s because they actually have a well regulated militia with high levels of mental and legal vetting AND training to own a gun. [More]
And nothing else factors in?
If so, he should have no problem showing commensurate higher rates of “gun violence” among people of Swiss ancestry here.
Except challenge him with facts and he runs away…
And we shouldn’t lose sight they have their own totalitarian wannabes trying to destroy their historic security and sovereignty by mandating global citizen disarmament edicts.
How the new disarmament edicts will play with Brazil’s established “gun culture” will be instructive. Defiant Bolsonaro backers should not be surprised to find themselves smeared as extremists and conflated with criminal insurrectionists by highly-placed government officials and the media, just like here in the U.S. [More]
The parallels between there and here are numerous and disturbing. As are the tactics and goals of totalitarians demanding a monopoly of violence.
With Oregon’s Legislature out of session and the first step in our Federal lawsuit to stop Ballot Measure 114 behind us, things may seem a bit “quiet” on the gun rights front. But like so much in life, things are boiling beneath the surface. [More]
Oregon gun owners need to take this time to understand their situation, recruit support, and get involved.
That the antis have glommed onto “self-defense” as an exclusionary qualifier was inevitable since that’s all the “common possessors” on our side ever talk about.
If we keep limiting ourselves that way, arms needed for the core purpose and all new technological developments restricted to military/police use will be forever denied to the people the Second Amendment was meant to apply to, and not just for “self-defense.”
I’m waiting for one of our legal influencers with a reach longer than mine to admit this and start using it.
Alternatively, I’m waiting for one of them to have the guts to challenge me on this and prove me wrong.
[Via Jess]
“They are monitoring this guy for doing what millions of other hobbyists do—selling part of their personal collection. That’s not a crime, but apparently ATF doesn’t like people turning over their guns at a high rate” … [More]
Tell that to John Shipley.
[Via bondmen]
ATF Intimidating Another Home-Based Gun Dealer to Surrender FFL [More]
Because zero tolerance!
I wonder if Special Agent Loving and DIO Carlson dreamed of growing up to become fascist punks when they were kids…
This is a look at a stunning map that shows where you can or can not carry and according to this map its nearly impossible to go about your daily life without running into a restricted zone. [Watch]
They’re in your face with it. And they don’t care.
So– which gun and ammo companies are going to continue selling to and servicing them?
[Via Jess]
Livermore’s police chief is criticizing Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s office for not pursuing tougher penalties against a suspect, who is a paroled convicted felon, accused in a violent robbery. [Watch]
It’s what Soros DAs do.
And it’s what the falsely entitled useful idiots who voted for this communist racist want.
Along with your guns, of course.
[Via 1Gat]
NYPD Granting Fewer Gun Permits After Supreme Court Ruled It Had To Grant More, Data Shows [More]
Checking the demographics of issued permits would be instructive. Are minorities “underrepresented”? Are there quotas to address that, and do they violate the Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action ruling?
Oh, and before making him the poster child for Big Apple “gun rights,” how does Dexter Taylor vote?
[Via Andy M]
Michigan Court: University Firearms Ban ‘Consistent With the Second Amendment’ [More]
Maybe not with the Second Amendment, but inconveniently, consistent with Jefferson and Madison. Evidently, they wanted to minimize dueling.
What the crowing antis don’t tell us is that the rule was not a law with criminal penalties, but instead, violations could result in “minor punishments at the discretion of the Faculty, or of the board of Censors, approved by the Faculty.”
Still, if we’re talking historical context, I’m not seeing a way around this “Gotcha!” except to make a different argument entirely.
That said, if anyone does see a way around it, that’s why we have “Comments” here.
[Via Michael G]
Now be nice. Meadow Soprano has Daddy Issues.
Shannon Watts just didn’t want people seeing any reminders of her past.
Speaking to Radio New Zealand, police commissioner Andrew Coster said police had known “for some time that New Zealand’s firearm environment was not where we need it to be.” [More]
Yeah, shoot, who ever heard of letting slaves have shotguns?
Is It Really Impossible To Get A Gun License in NYC? (Part XV — Returning to the Court of Appeals) … Total Time Spent So Far: 142 hours – Total Money Spent So Far: $4,102 [More]
I think I see what his mistake has been.
FPC AND FPCAF WIN: Fifth Circuit Denies Government Attempt to Reinstate ATF’s Redefinitions of “Frame or Receiver” and “Firearm” [More]
So what about the government’s ability to redefine bump stocks as machineguns and when will all this legal gobbledegook translate into getting my property back?
[Via Jess]
But Mexico’s lawyers argued the law only bars lawsuits over injuries that occur in the United States and does not shield the seven manufacturers and one distributor it sued from liability over the trafficking of guns to Mexican criminals. [More]
That’s right, and if they’d done what the U.S. government, in willful collusion with corrupt Mexican government, military, and law enforcement officials continues to do, they’d be liable.
It takes a special kind of traitor to argue otherwise in court.
[Via Jess]
