Notes from the Resistance
The Austin, Texas-based Liberty Justice Center on Jan. 7 filed a lawsuit on behalf of two truck drivers against the state of Minnesota, arguing that the state’s failure to recognize other states’ firearm permits violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit aims to defend the two truckers’ constitutional right to bear arms in public and carry them in their trucks across state borders. [More]
And not just truckers from the looks of things…
[Via Jess]
GOP Lawmakers Might Be Poised to Score a Major Second Amendment Victory [More]
If you call further codifying permits for rights as the national standard, continued state infringements, and salvaging deservedly tarnished reputations a “major victory”…
Not that it will pass. Or not be tied up in courts until the pendulum swings back to Democrats.
[Via bondmen]
I hate to be Eeyore, but with all the hyperbole and excitement I’m seeing about national Constitutional Carry reciprocity, it doesn’t seem out of line to ask the gushers and the click baiters to provide a realistic estimate of whose votes we can count on, and which “Republicans” will join with the slim Democrat minority to keep the bill from getting to the president’s desk.
No one would like my caution to be proven unfounded more than me. The last thing I want to see with such great expectations is the wind taken out of everyone’s sails.
Anyone care to help me jump on the bandwagon?
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act’’. [More]
Well, it beats Cornyn’s.
When I posted on this the other day, the linked bill text talked permits. What am I reading wrong?
Now that he’s apparently changed that, I’m not sure why he didn’t just support Massie’s. Is the GOP squeezing him out in revenge for opposing Mike Johnson on principle?
And still no prognosis.
Who wants to bet against me and how much?
H.R. 38 (118th): Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act [More]
With permits, of course, which leaves me out.
I don’t see a prognosis yet so I’ll give mine: Good luck getting “Republicans” like Brian Fitzpatrick and Susan Collins not to join with the Democrats to keep this from ever getting to the president’s desk.
Change my mind.
Oh, and about that line… (NSFW!)
[Via Jess]
California Must Issue Concealed Carry Permits To Out-of-State Residents [More]
And you don’t even have to donate to Laurie Smith’s campaign!
Will they require you to register your gun and what if its not on the roster?
You could just do what I did from 1980 to 2007…
Disarming fair patrons is longstanding and throughout the Republic. [More]
Do you know the rules in your state, and when fair promoters are playing fast and loose with them?
The Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association have filed an amicus brief with the Massachusetts Supreme Court in support of a New Hampshire man who is challenging the Massachusetts permit law. [More]
Hey, waddyaknow? NRA shared credit!
The revelation that Washington State, for the first time in history, has more than 700,000 active concealed pistol licenses is proof the public is concerned about personal and community safety, and will be an issue in this year’s statewide elections, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is predicting. [More]
Anybody expecting armed Dems to change their vote?
GOA Lawsuit Forces NYC To Allow Non-Residents to Apply for Carry Permits [More]
Thanks, but speaking for myself, I’ll just keep doing what I’ve been doing all these years.
[T]he Court will permanently enjoin Maryland’s laws restricting the carrying of firearms in locations selling alcohol for onsite consumption, private buildings without the owner’s consent, and within 1,000 feet of a public demonstration. State Defendants’ Cross Motions for Summary Judgment will be granted as to the Kipke Plaintiffs’ Fourteenth Amendment claims, as well as the claims regarding: State Parks; mass transit facilities; schools and school grounds; museums; stadiums; healthcare facilities; government buildings; amusement parks; racetracks; and casinos… [More]
You can be trusted with your rights on this side of the line. On the other side, everything changes. Don’t ask us how or why, just accept that fact that if you disobey we may end up killing you.
[Via Antigone]
Former sheriff’s captain guilty in gun permit bribery scheme [More]
So when can we expect a racism analysis?
[Via Jess]
A man armed with an AK-47 pistol and wearing a ski mask was arrested on Monday just blocks from Fiserv Forum, where the Republican National Convention (RNC) is being held in Milwaukee, a federal law enforcement source confirmed to Fox News. [More]
See, he could get a lot closer to them.
As for the charge of carrying concealed without a license, I gotta confess being guilty of the same thing, for years. It’s just I never made myself stand out.
[Via bondmen]
A three-judge panel in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a unanimous 27-page ruling that Minnesota’s ban on concealed carry by young adults is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, giving a victory to the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners. [More]
Democrats against it want to lower the voting age.
States with concealed carry laws have not seen an increase in crime rates; many have seen declines in violent crime and homicide rates. [More]
And ditto fot “pemitless carry.”
It’s almost like every meltdown the prohibitonists have is based on a lie…
Martin Luther King Jr. was denied a concealed-carry gun permit in 1956. [More]
True enough. But, even if we don’t want to hear it, he ultimately rejected guns for himself. Then again, if we’re to accept narratives from others as being accurate representations of the content of his character, what do we say about secret FBI tapes ostensibly recording him “watching and laughing as a pastor raped a woman” ?
Care to take a crack at that, Snopes?
[Via Jess]
Tangentially Related UPDATE
Speaking of Snopes:
Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’ [More]
CNN and MSNBC will get right on the retractions…
[Via bondmen]
“Ms. Miller told me she had not registered the firearm at this time,” the report said. “Ms. Miller told me her brother lived and purchased the firearm in (a redacted location). [More]
So between that, trying to get it through TSA, and what sounds like an illegal transfer, it looks like this “Mighty Democrat” is hoist on her own petard.
So, does she have a concealed carry permit?
They should have let her land in New York, where they have even more “Mighty Democrat” laws…
Who’s betting on a wrist slap?
[Via Jess]
The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s prohibition against allowing young adults aged 18 to 20 from acquiring a license to carry a firearm (LTCF) for personal protection. The case is known as Brown v. Paris. [More]
If nothing else, it’s a mockery of U.S. Code:
The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age…
Drilling down further, anyone see anything in here about a license? Yeah, I know, increments. Just sayin’…
The Second Amendment Foundation has filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Hawaii resident Christopher L. Wilson’s petition for a writ of certiorari in his challenge of the Hawaii state Supreme Court’s decree that individual citizens in the Aloha State do not have the right to carry firearms for self-defense outside of their homes. [More]
If government can say you don’t have it there, it can say you don’t have it anywhere.
Will US Supreme Court Hear ‘Spirit of Aloha’ Gun Rights Case? [More]
Or will barbaric primitives continue to impose Kapu traditions?
The state’s license-to-carry statute violates the Second Amendment by not providing objective standards for local police chiefs to exercise their authority to deny a gun owner’s application for a permit based on a finding of “dangerousness,” a Holyoke District Court judge has held. [More]
Yeah, OK, fine.
Now tell us where that “authority” for “permits” comes from.
Mr. Pynchon, you’re up.
[Via Jess]
In a recent incident, a woman reported a domestic dispute involving her armed husband. With no deputies nearby, Warnke, identifiable by his cowboy hat and badge, intervened and successfully defused the situation. [More]
And he did it all without a masked SWAT team killing everybody and their dog.
Seems like one of the few good apples…
[Via bondmen]
Under its new policy, the LA County Sheriff’s Department says people like Turner must apply through their local police chiefs and receive a letter denying them before asking for permission from the sheriff’s department. [More]
Who then comes up with excuses why he can’t do it.
After a death threat and on the advice of an investigating cop who told me they could not do anything unless it was acted on, I carried illegally in California from @ 1981 to 2007 (when I moved back to Ohio), because I literally could not get a permit to save my life (which I did on one occasion simply by presenting).
Start @ 3:27 for my recollection.
The criminals who deserve to be imprisoned and have their lives destroyed are the goddam bastards who forced me to risk my family, freedom, and career.
[Via Dan Gifford]
Republican Rep. Reed Ingram “feels” the state’s 2022 permitless carry law, where “anyone over 19 years old can carry a concealed handgun without a permit, background check or training,” is a “bad bill.” Now “he intends to file a bill that would instead require someone to be 21 to conceal carry. They would also have to pass a hunter safety course or get a permit from the sheriff’s office.” [More]
With Republicans like this jackass, who needs Democrats?
Notice how there’s an exemption for politicians with a concealed carry permit. [More]
What was it Mr. Mason had to say?
[Via CP]
Indiana Prosecutor Laments That Self-Defense Laws Exist, Protect Defensive Gun Users [More]
A quote from L. Neil Smith comes to mind.
[Via Michael G]
Arkansas Supreme Court rules lawyers can bring guns into courthouses but not courtrooms [More]
How about jurors? Because I remember when I had to run the gauntlet.
[Via Jess]
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has handed a significant victory to the Second Amendment Foundation and young adults in the 18-20-year age group, allowing them to apply for concealed carry licenses in the state, while enjoining the state from arresting any law-abiding citizens in that age group for openly carrying firearms during a state of emergency. [More]
If we’re going to go with text, history, and tradition, Pennsylvanian Tench Coxe would have gone down to 16… and no permit needed.
Guns kept in your car can be considered as carrying in public, MN court rules [More]
Because the Founders couldn’t have imagined private conveyances…
Minnesota gun owners: don’t count on “pro-gun” Democrats to save you.
[Via Jess]
