Notes from the Resistance
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is kicking off the new school year with safety as its top priority and a new layer of security. The school district announced that it will begin implementing its weapon detection screening program at school board regular business meetings. [More]
Because nothing says “safe spaces” like a “gun-free zone”!
And if an armed maniac decides to go through the detectors guns blazing…?
No comment from the Lairds…?
[Via Michael G]
The gun lobby claims it is “winning” the fight against Australia’s longstanding crackdown on firearms, pointing to a sharp increase in licensed gun owners and weapons since laws were introduced in the aftermath of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre as a sign of its strength. [More]
I wish them luck.
They gotta work on that “licensing” thing.
[Via Jess]
Chicago shootings: At least 43 shot, 7 fatally, in Labor Day weekend gun violence, police say [More]
Note the url says “32 shot,” and we still have today to get through.
Forget it, Jake, it’s Chi-Town.
Pritzker and Johnson, of course, say they got this.
If Trump does deploy the National Guard, I hope “law and order ” Republicans don’t sacrifice liberty for the illusion of safety.
In this bizarre and deeply flawed decision, the Court effectively said governments could ban every handgun make and model but one. [More]
And the cowards in the Senate approved Obama appointee Denise Jefferson Casper of Massachusetts by a voice vote.
[Via Jess]
Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office drew attention to St. Louis over the weekend in a series of social media posts comparing murder rates in California cities to cities in states led by Republican governors. [More]
Last I checked, St. Louis was blue…
[Via bondmen]
Another Mass Shooting in a ‘Gun-Free Zone’ – The Minneapolis killer made the point in his manifesto. The media insist on ignoring it. [More]
Dr. John Lott and Rep. Thomas Massie acknowledge a reality that blood-dancing Democrats don’t want Americans to be exposed to.
Man dies after being shot during confrontation at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, pond [More]
Wait… I thought “A-rated” Massachusetts had “some of the strongest gun laws in the country and leads the nation in investing in community violence intervention strategies…”
[Via Steve T]
What’s the big deal? He’s only saying what the prohibitionists used to say before they started masking their intent behind bromides like “commonsense gun safety.”
It’s always been about taking the guns.
[Via WiscoDave]
Glock Supporting Gun-Control in Oklahoma – Glock Sides With Gun Control: A Betrayal of the Second Amendment [More]
Because the Second Amendment obviously wasn’t meant to protect “weapons of war,” right?
What self-serving weasels. Who do they think they are? Bill Ruger?
First they came for the MCDs… Do these quislings really think Polyphemus will eat them last?
As for David Hardin, on the plus side he co-sponsored an NRA/ORA Day resolution.
You know about ORA, right? The grassroots “gun rights leaders” who opposed permitless carry without background checks and training…?
With friends like these…
“The shooter was obsessed with the idea of killing children,” Thompson said. “The shooter saw the attack as a way to target our most vulnerable among us. While they were at their most vulnerable at school and at church. I won’t dignify the shooter’s words by repeating them. They are horrific and vile. But, in short, the shooter wanted to watch children suffer.” [More]
The most vulnerable and precious among us, the future, and Democrats don’t want to let us protect them from monsters of their creation…
AI Overview: Reports and analysis from legal observers and gun rights advocates indicate that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 2025 shift on firearm suppressors was a strategic legal maneuver. By conceding that suppressors are a form of “arm” under the Second Amendment, the DOJ laid the groundwork to defend the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA) tax and registration scheme against legal challenges.
Guns and Gadgets elaborates. [Watch]
The “gun groups” obviously don’t care about this, so I don’t know why I should.
[Via Jess]
Sen. Chuck Schumer Pushes Gun Control Before Facts in Minneapolis Church Shooting Known [More]
All the Democrats are. They’re ecstatic.
Hey, Stupid was right: Memes are cool!
[Via bondmen]
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said groups challenging a 2013 law banning assault weapons and a second gun control law enacted a decade later could not show that the guns they are still able to possess, including several semi-automatic handguns, are not sufficient for self-defense purposes. [More]
And no, I don’t think they’re embarrassed at all. I think they’re in-our-face about it.
[Via Jess]
Fox host Trey Gowdy: “We’re going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. How many school shootings does it take before we’re going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out of — it’s always a young white male, almost always.” [More]
Yeah, except see the comments that follow.
Just in case anybody thought this fraud was a “conservative”…
Oh, look: Here he is “proving” he’s “one of us.”
And here he is weasel-wording for infringements.
So, naturally, Donald Trump has nothing but effusive praise for the guy. (But let Gowdy publicly criticize him and look how quickly he’ll be called a “loser.”)
[Via several of you]
you use meme magic or whatever to get people to throw them out. we both know the proliferation of AI, FYPs, etc are extremely powerful. people were memed into buying the guns, they can be memed out of it. [More]
Thing is, it’ll work as well as all the other plans.
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review in Viramontes v. Cook County, SAF’s challenge to the Cook County, Ill., ban on so-called “assault weapons.” [More]
I was happy to see that it did not neglect to include:
The text of the Second Amendment itself proclaims that one of its purposes was to preserve the “militia” and, to state the obvious, the militia did not exist solely to promote individual self-defense but rather was “useful in repelling invasions and suppressing insurrections,” “render[ed] large standing armies unnecessary,” and enabled the people to be “better able to resist tyranny”. Indeed, to the extent there is a historical tradition with respect to “military” arms, it is to afford them especially strong protection.
Tangentially Related Development
The U.S. Supreme Court has distributed a Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) case, Madison Lara v. Commissioner Pennsylvania State Police, for conference to be held on Monday, Sept. 29. [More]
Considering Brazil at that time, plain clothes “Only Ones” doesn’t exactly scream “Freedom!” to me… And learning nothing from history, they’re bent on repeating it.
