MA Gun License Challenged

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!

When did they start doing that?

How Much of an Issue?

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?

A Line in the Sand

[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]

Low-Hanging Fruit Gets Plucked

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]

DODGE CITY! BLOOD IN THE STREETS OVER FENDER BENDERS!!!

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…

Inconvenient Truths

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]

Mighty Careless of Her

“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]

An Age-Old Question

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’…

Paradise Reclaimed

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.

The Wrong Question

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]

Not the Only One

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]

Catch-22

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]

On Guns and Immigration, Alabama Republican Shows Himself to Be ‘Enemy in the Gates’

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?

An Age-Old Question

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.

And They Say There Are No Stupid Questions…

California law bars non-residents from carrying a gun. Does that violate the Second Amendment? [More]

No one who is not a prohibitionist would even ask.

Or as Democrat Roger Taney wrote when horrified at the prospect of Dred Scott being considered a citizen:

“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State … and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”

Wait… that last link is from Oath Keepers…? What are racist Nazi rightwing insurrectionists doing defending rights for all…?

Certain Types of Gun Owners

Many Americans who recently bought guns open to political violence, survey finds – Study of 13,000 Americans finds particular risk among certain types of gun owners, including those who carry weapons in public [More]

Yeah, you can tell by the rampant homicidal lawlesness of those millions of NRA members.

Figures The Hero of Medicine is behind it.

And that “real reporter” agenda propagandist Ed Pilkington would present a blatant publicity piece as “news.”

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Processing Enough

Sometimes shining bright lights and banging pots and pans work.

Intolerable, that it took communicated outrage. And that the “concession” still isn’t good enough. And that “permits” are a thing.

[Via Jess]

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