Category: David Codrea

SCOTUS ‘Ghost Gun’ Vote Underscores Importance of Vetting Judicial Candidates on Second Amendment

Today’s SCOTUS vote putting a hold on O’Connor’s block shows a Bruen Second Amendment majority does not necessarily reflect across-the-board solidarity on the separate issue of regulatory authority. And at least one of the votes is no surprise. [More]

Think of one job you’ve applied for where you’d have gotten it if you decided to play coy with the hiring managers.

With Foreign Nationals Empowered to Disarm Americans, Who Needs Blue Helmets?

It’s tough enough with domestic “Only Ones” inclined to obey any orders without questioning their lawfulness. What kind of restraint can we expect from mercenaries who do not come from a Bill of Rights culture, but from despotic and impoverished areas of the world where a totalitarian government dictates what privileges it will recognize and what obedience it demands? [More]

Doing the jobs (most) Americans won’t do…?

Aaron Zelman Would Be Horrified by JPFO Promoting NRA-Endorsed ‘Gun Control’

JPFO publicizing Project Exile would have Zelman rolling over in his grave. [More]

It’s tough enough beating back citizen disarmament schemes without having to tell our ostensible leaders to stop advocating for them.

FOIA Request Seeks Information on ‘Consent to Permanent Entry’ into Gun Background Check System

Addressed to the Office of the Attorney General, the request notes a commitment by Biden to “consent to a permanent entry in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System such that he will be denied via NICS if he attempts to legally purchase another firearm.” [More]

Separation of powers? We ain’t got no separation of powers. We don’t need no separation of powers. I don’t have to show you any stinking separation of powers.

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Implosion Puts New FOIA on Indefinite Hold

After all, the first FOIA request was initially balked at by questioning my qualifications as a journalist, then claiming no records could be found, then saying they withdrew that, and finally declaring they shouldn’t have responded at all because Biden’s privacy interests made the requested documents none of the public’s business. Now they’re saying they can’t answer the second FOIA request because of “ongoing litigation.” [More]

ATF has more excuses than Joliet Jake.

Brazil Returns to Gun Control of Old Under Socialist Dictator Lula

How the new disarmament edicts will play with Brazil’s established “gun culture” will be instructive. Defiant Bolsonaro backers should not be surprised to find themselves smeared as extremists and conflated with criminal insurrectionists by highly-placed government officials and the media, just like here in the U.S. [More]

The parallels between there and here are numerous and disturbing. As are the tactics and goals of totalitarians demanding a monopoly of violence.

Ohio Prohibitionists Counting on Gun Owner Unawareness Over Issue 1

Issue 1 supporters can’t count on getting a fair shake in the media, which increasingly portrays them as “a basket of deplorables” (and that’s being nice). As usual, it’s up to them to educate themselves and spread the word. [More]

If you’re an Ohio gun voter, the only way this will pass is if you get involved and help make it pass.

It’s Time Hung Cao Applied Personal Courage to Political Courage on Guns

What gun laws does he consider unconstitutional? What gun laws does he consider constitutional? [More]

Don’t just tell us you believe in the Second Amendment. Tell us how you believe in it and what you’re going to do about it. Be specific. Otherwise, all that fist-pounding is just noisemaking.

Armed American Radio Host Takes on Open AI Chat Bot in Landmark Defamation Lawsuit

That “chatbots” can “hallucinate” sounds like something out of science fiction, and what that actually means and how it differs from program corruption, coding errors or simply bad source inputs is still not clear: This is all new stuff. [More]

GILO: Garbage in, libel out…

VCDL TV

I’ll be joining Virginia Citizens Defense League this evening at 8:00 Eastern for their monthly live broadcast. We’ll be talking about prior restraint infringement injustices built into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and more.

It can be viewed at VCDL.Tube and Facebook.com/VCDLorg/.

It’s either that or Shark Tank and Real Housewives of Atlanta…

Continuing Failed Policies and Blaming Guns Ensures Urban Shootings Will Continue

But no matter, because the messaging that will be the constant is that the problem is with guns (combined with systemic racism) and the solution is more prohibitions. [More]

Creating places for violence is the one thing these frauds are good at.

Elites Worried About Violent Rebellion Fear Monster They Helped Create

Ironically, the main impediment to any of this happening is what the Founders knew to be “necessary to the security of a free State,” an armed citizenry capable of organizing and repelling “enemies foreign and domestic,” the very people these myopic billionaires in their arrogance and hubris are helping to finance AstroTurf citizen disarmament edicts against. [More]

Cake isn’t what the collectivist mob intends to eat.