Category: citizen disarmament

It’s Gowdy Doody Time

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]

The Stupidest Thing You’ll Read on the Internet All Day

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.

If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get

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]

Here’s the brief.

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]

Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Rob Sand is a gun-toting Christian from rural Iowa who goes deer hunting, drives a white Ford F-150 pickup, and opens speeches by quoting the Bible. He is also a rising Democratic star whose run for governor is spooking Republicans in the ruby red state. [More]

Here he is congratulating a doctrinaire gun-grabber on her win.

What kind of stupid Fudd would you have to be to be taken in by this fraud?

What kind of “Christian”…?

[Via bondmen]

Chamber of Horrors!

Shocking Photos Reveal Boston Firefighter’s Alleged ‘Gun Cave’ — With What Appears to Be a 200-Foot Firing Range Beneath His Home [More]

So, aside from the meth and stolen armor, who did he threaten? Who did he hurt? Who did he kill? Why the hoplophobic hysteria? (Oh, right: Boston.)

Who snitched, or did he do that to himself?

Who “leaked” the photos and why, and won’t they prejudice a jury? “Restraining order”? Ex-wife trying to “get” him?

[Via WiscoDave]

The ‘New Second Amendment’

How the NYPD, Manhattan DA are fighting radical online ghost gun manufacturers [P. 14]

I like the old one just fine, thank you.

You know, the one where the Framers envisioned guns without serial numbers for everyone…

Didn’t they even include a Preamble to the Bill of Rights to explain why, that is, “in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of … powers”?

Ol’ Deputy Chief Nilan certainly looks the part.

Greenest State in the Land of the Free

First, court held that Tennessee’s “intent to go armed” statute violates the Tennessee Constitution and the Second Amendment. Second, the ruling declared unconstitutional Tennessee’s statute which makes it a criminal offense to merely carry certain weapons in parks and recreational areas even if for self-defense. [More]

Fine. A three-judge panel. What will the full court say, and how long will this intolerable nonsense go on?

I’m imagining what David Crockett would have had to say about this.

[Via Jess]

The Shape of Things to Come

Democrats break GOP’s supermajority in Iowa after flipping state Senate seat [More]

Democrat Catelin Drey got 55% of the vote. She’s the founder of Moms for Iowa, which proclaims on its website:

We are passionate about curbing gun violence…

So Iowa gun owners should have known she’s a danger.

Republican opponent Christopher Prosch was described by Iowa Firearms Coalition as a “pro-Second Amendment candidate.” Their interview video has generated a whopping 81 views at this writing with no apparent shares. Its posting on X.com garnered one repost.

If gun owners don’t get involved — meaningfully — we can kiss the midterms goodbye. Don’t believe “the”gunfluencer” hype about Democrats being out of money, because the special interests it represents aren’t, or the party being too far left, because the dumbed-down, outraged, resentful and self-entitled constituents aren’t.

Apathy has always been a greater enemy than the antis, and if it continues, count on those who never lifted a finger to bitch and moan the loudest.

“We” sure do put a lot of deserved blame on Republicans. When a good one comes along, who helps ensure self government through representation?

Hold That Tiger

There are some behaviors so aberrant, some crimes so vicious, and some consciences so amoral that it can never be safe to allow a congenital predator unfettered access to a potential victim pool and not expect that innocents will be attacked. [More]

My latest American Handgunner “Second Amendment” column is out.

In the Spirit of Aloha

SAF, PARTNERS FILE AMICUS BRIEF CHALLENGING HAWAII’S FIREARMS PURCHASE LAWS

When the press release gets posted you’ll be able to find it here.

To cut to the chase, go to the brief.

Tangentially Related

SAF sister organization CCRKBA has an update on wins and losses in New Jersey.

Life in the Gun-Free Zone

Villanova University said a report of a possible shooter at its law school was a “cruel hoax,” after it issued an alert warning of an active shooter on its Pennsylvania campus on Thursday… The incident, which occurred as the school was celebrating its orientation mass to welcome new students, sparked a large local and federal law enforcement response, and “panic and terror ensued,”… [More]

What, nobody drew their own gun…?

[Via Michael G]