Notes from the Resistance
Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a federal court challenge of Maryland’s restrictive “sensitive places” gun control law have filed an appellants’ brief with the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. [More]
So the Founders intended “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed unless we tell them ‘Except here, here, and here…’?”
Extreme-Risk Protection Orders Fail To Deliver: Analysis of Red Flag Laws & Their Consequences [More]
More Rand Corporation inconclusiveness…
You know, the same studies Democrat Dr. Quacky McQuackquack cites to demand eviscerating the Second Amendment.
[H/T Wirecutter]
Instead of American history, the Hawaii court looked at the island’s pre-American history for guidance on the protections provided by its state constitution. [More]
Does this mean they’re going to start throwing gun owners into volcanoes?
NEW DECISION ON FIREARMS SERIAL NUMBERS: EXTREMELY SLOPPY…We have to talk about a decision by United States District Court Judge Miranda Du an appointee to the federal bench by President Barack Obama… [Watch]
Another reason why we should stay out of the affairs of foreign countries…
[Via Jess]
First Presbyterian Church in Iowa City hosted Iowa’s first Guns to Gardens event. The drive thru event was supported by volunteers from FPC and Johnson County Moms Demand Action. [More]
How many laws were they allowed to break?
I’m going to ask Len Savage what we need to do to host a Gardens to Guns event. Bring in your unwanted tools…
[Via Michael G]
UPDATE
Ha! Len sent me this:
Old but Gold: Build your own AK-47 from a shovel!
And Democrats want to put you in jail for this.
The chief executive of Evolv, the firm behind the Adams administration’s controversial subway gun scanner program, has been fired in the wake of revelations that employees of the tech company engaged in misconduct during business deals, Evolv’s board announced Thursday. In a statement, Evolv’s board said the termination of CEO Peter George is effective immediately and part of an effort to clean house as the company’s stock value has plunged amid the misconduct revelations and several active investigations scrutinizing the firm’s operations. [More]
That you can’t trust a rope-selling capitalist is news?
[Via Jess]
Yes, They Will Disarm You Solely for Political Reasons [Watch]
I’m gettin’ tired of this guy’s defeatist titles.
[Via Jess]
New York’s former Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo has officially been referred for criminal prosecution after a lengthy congressional investigation into his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and his decision to force nursing homes to take in sick patients — resulting in thousands of deaths. [More]
Yeah, but he did it for the greater good.
So… will he be ordered to surrender his guns…?
To stop a Hitler, who wouldn’t need not just the semiautomatics Democrats are trying to ban, but real “weapons of war”? Just like the Founders intended…? [More]
If you truly believed Trump was a Nazi dictator bent on setting up camps, who in their right mind wouldn’t want to be armed?
A North Carolina man whose alias is “AK Guru” has been charged with making and selling hundreds of machine guns built from existing and deconstructed weapons, federal authorities said. [More]
Who’s the snitch?
Through the case, Plaintiffs seek to end enforcement of Texas laws that restrict firearm carry in three locations: (1) in any business where alcohol comprises 51% or more of sales (even if the individual is not consuming alcohol), (2) racetracks, and (3) sporting events. [More]
Despite its reputation, Texas has been late coming to the party on a lot of things.
[Via Jess]
The appeal challenging the district court’s order denying Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction is therefore DISMISSED. [More]
There was a mootness factor because of a state court injunction. Mark W. Smith explains what it all means.
[Via Jess]
No Place to Hide. No Place to Run. The USA is the Last Best Hope [More]
This is another reason why a substantial “conservative” following of the late “Coach Red Pill” YouTuber Gonzalo Lira baffled me:
This is a guy many claiming to be “on the right” listen to and ardently defend, which is curious when you consider five months ago he advised “If you live in any of the democracies of the West, you should leave now while you still can.” … Leftist totalitarians will “take over and crush all opposition.” Forget the Second Amendment, he asserts. “The American military will crush any…kind of armed resistance in the United States.”
Joe Biden couldn’t have said that last bit any better.
“Cedric Dark is … the cousin of a man who was shot to death.” [More]
And now, the rest of the story on the life-changing personal trauma that forged his conviction to crusade:
I wasn’t particularly close to Robbie — he lived two states away … I didn’t attend the funeral. I hate funerals.
And how did it happen?
He was in a bar when he got a call that prompted him to rush over to his girlfriend’s apartment:
I’m having a tough time envisioning how any of the disarmament edicts Cedric demands mandated for you and me would have affected the outcome.
The US ‘Gun Culture’ That Saved Europe Does Not Occur In A Vacuum [More]
Reminds me of an old GunTruths.com poster… and an old TTAG article.
Miguel A. Faria, M.D. relates the story of Sgt. York and notes what has happened before could very well repeat itself.
Everyone here has read his America, Guns, and Freedom, right?
No? Why? And why not fix that?
Tony Aiello, the lawyer who argued on behalf of gun owners, once again, did a spectacular job. [More]
Will it matter?
ATF Raid 3-D Printed Firearms Maker on Machinegun Charges [More]
Not to blame the victim, but if you’re going to engage in high law enforcement interdiction incentive activities, being judicious about who you share such knowledge with and circumspect in public commentary may lessen your risks of being caught.
Just sayin’.
None of which takes away his absolute right to have and say those things.
[Via Jess]
These types of anti-government beliefs, according to the New Zealand newspaper Waikato Times, violate the “fit and proper person” clause as defined by New Zealand law, which is a requirement for anyone who applies for or possesses a firearm license. The New Zealanders who allegedly harbored anti-government views were discovered though a national intelligence operation known as “Operation Belfast,” which targeted ordinary citizens and was orchestrated by New Zealand police. [More]
Hey, they’re “just following orders.”
The fact that you want a gun to protect your sovereignty is all the proof we bneed to keep you from having one.
Besides, what sovereignty?
[Via Jess]
Arnold Schwarzenegger Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump As ‘Un-American’ [More]
Doesn’t this narcissist have a nanny to knock up?
Nothing like being lectured on what it means to be an American by a “dual citizen” whose father was a Nazi,
I’ve been warning against the Austrian Oaf for like, forever, including telling the “gun groups” who wouldn’t listen that they were being duped.
Gun Owners Call For Common-Sense Democrat Control [More]
There is text, history, and tradition precedent.
What percentage do you figure violent crime would drop?
[Via bondmen]
This paper positions public mass gun violence (PMGV) as an intergenerational consequence of the violence of colonization, coloniality, and slavery in the United States. I map how the shooter’s white privilege, alongside his white/male fragility, combined with a national consciousness built on an ethos of colonization and coloniality, leads him to believe he has unearned “rights” to the social riches of the center. I proffer that most of us who benefit from capitalist, neo-liberal, patriarchal state and social institutions are complicit in co-creating the conditions that produce PMGV’s gunboys and gunmen because in order to benefit from these institutions, we perpetuate a system of insiders and outsiders. As illustrated, some possibilities for allaying violence are grounded in practicing critical self-reflection and capacities for discomfort. [More]
Angry and militant feminist collectivists get to using Marxist buzzwords and I be like…
Especially when my name pops up for no apparent reason:
It’s just not worth it to me to pay to see what I supposedly have to do with any of this, aside from not being too fragile to identify as a male and a father, and not overly worried if some bitter frostback believes using loaded terms like “gunboys” enhances her academic gravitas…
Dennis has been one of the most stalwart defenders of gun rights and liberty in general… So it would seem like a no brainer that Republican legislators would be all in for Dennis. Not so fast. House Rep Kim Wallan, Republican of Jackson County has now endorsed…Tobias Read. [More]
Letting Republicans continually get away with betrayals results in no incentive for them to stop. And you end up with this.
ATF Revoked More Licenses in Fiscal Year 2024 Than in Any of the Past 20 Years [More]
The “independent journalists” at The Trace can’t help but gloat. Good thing they promise Bloomberg “seed money” has no influence on their “reporting.”
While reviewing this for history, text, and tradition, the most relevant Founding era viewpoint I could find says “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”
And here’s the most relevant contemporary article I could find about the character of such officers, in all their “glory.”
[Via Jess]
These infringements, as they always do, will only burden “law-abiding” people. Criminals will still get all the guns they want the old-fashioned way as they keep sending doctors more patients. [More]
If it walks like a gunquack and quacks like a gunquack…
The TSA officer detected the fully disassembled 9mm firearm in a carry-on bag at a checkpoint in Terminal A as the man’s duffle bag entered the checkpoint X-ray machine. The gun frame was jammed in the bottom of a boot below a sock that had been stuffed behind it to help conceal it. The gun’s slide, spring and gun magazine loaded with 12 bullets were detected mixed among the plastic pieces of a Black Panther LEGO set. [More]
Maybe he just forgot they were there…?
[Via Jess]
Instead of taking on the next frontier of firearms regulations, the justices tossed a highly anticipated review of prohibitions on gun ownership for felons. [More]
The distancing from Bruen continues.
As noted before, the only thing the Supreme Court has to do to let infringements stand is… nothing.
[Via Antigone]
