Category: citizen disarmament

A Symbolic Gesture

House Judiciary Committee to Vote on Overturning ATF’s Pistol Brace Rule [More]

That was yesterday. I’m not seeing anything on the committee’s news release page or Twitter feed yet.

In any case:

“The bill with the resolution will face a tough battle to get through the rest of Congress before heading to the President’s desk. Even if it does get to Biden’s desk, there is almost no chance that the President will sign it into law since he has been openly hostile to gun rights. The Republicans do not have the votes to override a veto, even if some Democrats switch sides.”

The true test will be what Republicans do if and when they have the power to see things through.

The Vichycon Difference!

A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled to keep an Illinois state-wide “assault weapons” ban in effect, denying a request from a business owner who claims the ban is unconstitutional. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided to uphold a lower ruling by U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall, who found the ban to be “constitutionally sound,” despite the request for an injunction… [More]

Kendall was nominated by George W. Bush.

The Seventh Circuit has seven Republican appointees and three Democrat appointees.

It’s All About Minimal Effort and Feelings of Unearned Significance

The media care only about mass shootings that agitate white women [More]

Useful idiot fat, obnoxious cud-chewers in red Moms Demand tees provide an immediately recognizable photo op setting with narrative-advancing sound bites for ignorant, lazy “progressive journalists” to get the assigned story done with minimal personal risk.

[Via bondmen]

‘No, No!’ Said the Queen. ‘Sentence First — Verdict Afterwards.’ 

But what are due process protections when it comes to the government’s intentional deprivation of a constitutionally protected right, or even a constitutionally protected “property” right, through ex parte proceedings? [More]

Well, we could go with the stare decisis version and defer to past acts of judicial tyranny, or we could go with a historical understanding to be guided by Amendments IV, V, and VI…

That treacherous wretch Bill Lee has established his legacy.

Does Trump Truly Support the Second Amendment?

[W]e are not doing ourselves or those depending on us to stand for freedom any favors if we deliberately ignore Trump’s willful failures on guns. Because this is going to end one of two ways – strengthening his renewed bid for a return to the White House, or ending any chances of it. If he wins, we need to be able to collectively influence his 2A decisions and judicial appointments and get him to understand what the bad ones are before he makes them. If he loses, we need to be ready to do the same with whomever the Republicans nominate to carry the standard. [More]

Gun owners need to look and assess with no illusions if they hope to have any influence on how power, once granted, is ultimately wielded.

And Now for Something Completely Different

I’ll be leaving this afternoon for the NRA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. (Those who caution me not to make public announcements of absences, don’t worry. Elder feral son Uday will be coming over and I’m neither chaining him up nor feeding him.) If you’re going I hope to meet you, assuming you don’t want to punch me out. I’ll be bringing a poll with me that I’ll be doing an article about that should take less than a minute to answer, so I hope I can count on your cooperation.

I’ve got a ton of stuff to do today to get ready, including finishing up an article and maybe drafting a new one if I can get to it. The dandelions here are in full bloom so I also need to take a couple of hours for yard work before the neighbors run me out.

As such, news tips emailed to me that I decide to present here are all going to be linked in this post with no commentary and a mass credit at the bottom. With that in mind, please don’t submit any more from this point on until Monday, and understand that I will not be moderating comments received after I leave until I return.

The following list will be added to as long as I can get to it:

[Via Steve T, WiscoDave, Sweet Babboo, bondmen, Jess, Mack H, Michael G,

Worthwhile to Whom?

Biofire: The First Worthwhile “Smart Gun”? [Watch]

It doesn’t matter that the New Jersey law is now off the books. What can be taken off can be put back on. And it can take years of courtroom wranglings to unf*** things.

I didn’t watch the rest because I don’t care. It’s a dumb idea for a lot of reasons, not the least being as a tyranny enabler.

[Via Michael G]

Unsound Thinking

Bay Area crime tech firm ShotSpotter rebrands as stock tanks with new Chicago mayor [More]

What they call it won’t mask the fact that it’s an expensive boondoggle for Democrat cities that want to look like they’re “doing something.”

Maybe along with the “rebranding” they need a new spokesman:

[Via DDS]

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