Category: citizen disarmament

We’re the Only Ones Rescinding Enough

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]

ER Doctor’s Disarmament Diagnosis a Prescription for Tyranny

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…

Today’s Low-Hanging Fruit Report

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]

Punt, Pass and Kick

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]

Democrats Ditching Biden/Harris is Politics, Not Principles

What we’re seeing is a cynical Democrat admission that their radical platform doesn’t play well in the heartland, so they need to hide who they are and put on a mask of moderation. [More]

Anyone who falls for a change in their agenda is the type of dupe the Democrats rely on.

No Constitutional Reason Justifies Not Recognizing 2A Rights of Young Adults

Anyone who tells you 18-to-20-year-olds are not fully enfranchised citizens entitled to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment is a liar and an enabler of tyranny. [More]

Sending back what should have been a no-brainer makes me wonder which SCOTUS members we’ve been told are 2A-friendly are getting ready to disappoint…

By the Numbers

There are an average of 1,820,000 defensive gun uses per year compared to 1,100,000 reported crimes. Only 2.07 million civilians regularly carry a firearm for defense. Civilians are 85% more likely to use a firearm for defense than to be murdered by one. [More]

[Insert name of gungrabber here] would rather you be murdered than armed. Preferably by someone with a gun, to bolster their numbers.

Speaking of Insatiable Lust…

If you think they are willing to stop at collecting machine guns, they will eventually go for your semi-automatic rifles. If you think they will stop at semi-automatic rifles, they’ll go for your bolt action and lever action rifles when you’re not looking. [More]

That’s why they call them “totalitarians.”

To paraphrase Martin Niemöller, “Then they came for the Fudds— and there was no one left to speak for them.

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word ‘Infringement’ Is

Two such changes would require gun owners to obtain liability insurance to cover losses and damages from accidental use of firearms, and a new annual $25 harm reduction fee would be instituted for gun owners on each gun they own. The future funds would go to a nonprofit focused on gun violence education and prevention…The city would also ban anyone 18 years or younger from entering a gun dealership and would ban the sale of firearms from home-based businesses. [More]

Tell me THAT won’t reduce the “30% increase in homicides this year.”

And now it’s up to gun owners to cough up more money to let this drag on for years in the courts.

[Via Jess]

Calling All Fudds

State attorneys: hunting rifles are not “constitutionally” protected in Connecticut… Whether or not they are constitutionally protected, they are certainly democratically protected,” Perry said. “As a rule, something that is popular doesn’t need constitutional protection, because it’s popular. [More]

And once they’re no longer popular?

Or in “common use” …?

The question nobody asks collectivist monkeys like Joshua Perry is if the Constitution doesn’t protect me, what makes you think it protects you?

Your turn in the barrel, Fudds.

Just because Polyphemus promised to eat you last didn’t mean he wasn’t going to.

[Via WiscoDave]

Speaking of ‘Single Issues’…

I recognize this is a quite sensitive topic, one that some would say is outside of the purview of Thoughtful Money. But this issue does have important economic implications, and from what I hear from viewers, many regular Americans feel they just don’t have a good sense of the facts on this situation. So I’m willing to take the risk here. [More]

I wish the damn “gun rights groups” were.

[Via bondmen]

One Hell of a Way to Run a Republic

…we’re likely going to lose it because we’re in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit but a strong showing for the Second Amendment in this case and I think it’s going to give rise to good stuff… before the United States Supreme Court in the Snope-Bianchi case hopefully coming out this spring… [Watch]

So, in order to get over the wall we need to climb over the bodies of our fallen…

[Via Jess]

Double Vision

Trump’s vision for America: Guns everywhere, for anyone, with no questions asked. [More]

As opposed to Everytown’s vision, guns nowhere, for no one but the enforcers, no questions asked.

It does nothing to legalize “prohibited persons,” and if the law is ever followed, what’s the problem?

Notice the dusting off of the old “Chicago to Cheyenne” lie?

And using the “authoritative narrator’s” example (who is that impotent fool, anyway?), how many Montana ranchers have gone on a Big Apple shooting spree?

[Via Jess]

What’s in an Aptronym?

Under the headline, “‘Brain flaws’: Understanding MAGA as an epidemic disease” and the subheadline, “Epidemiologist Dr. Gary Slutkin: MAGA is a ‘dangerous and lethal syndrome’ of ‘Authoritarian Violence Disorder,’” we are told Slutkin is “a distinguished epidemiologist, formerly with the World Health Organization.” And under the guise of stopping violence, he fires off this Nazi-style propaganda to inspire violence against Trump and his “diseased” supporters. [More]

That sounds libelous. Hey, it’s Salon…

It also sounds like a good reason for a medical board complaint to so label citizens one politically opposes.

Funny, what was once considered a psychiatric disorder and what’s considered on now. The whole thing seems pretty Soviet…

[Via bondmen]

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