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.

Bad-Mouthing Youth Shooting Sports Shows Brady Interested in Prohibition, Not Gun Safety

“What about injuries in Clay Target shooting? None. Since the High School Clay Target League’s inception in 2008, there have been no recorded injuries to athletes, coaches, or spectators. Ever.” [More]

It’s demonstrably the safest high school sport in the country. So leave it to the prohibitionists to stoke hoplophobia, with safety being the last thing on their minds.

The Daily Show Attacks the 2nd Amendment Along with Firearms News’ Be Ready! Magazine

In this case, Klepper and his team set out to get gun owners with no media experience on camera responding to set-up questions and then to selectively present who would be shown and how much of their answers would be included. The intent was to present them as representative and make all of us look like ignorant rubes so that we could be laughed at, and so the entire movement of right to keep and bear arms advocacy could be dismissed as the province of morons and paranoids. [More]

Anything you say to the media can and will be held against you.

Kloepfer Lawsuit Documents ‘Attempted Murder’ of Unarmed Citizen by Police

The lawsuit follows. Readers are encouraged to set aside the time to go through it completely to understand the totality of events that happened and are still happening to a citizen attempting to comply with police orders, and to know if it can happen to Jason Kloepfer it can happen to any of us. [More]

That this story hasn’t been headline national news tells us much.

New FOIA Request Filed on Hunter Biden Gun Investigation Now That Privacy Excuse is Gone

Because the DOJ has now made charges public, and because Biden’s attorney has acknowledged those charges, attorney Stephen Stamboulieh filed a new FOIA request Tuesday afternoon. [More]

The Biden administration’s enforcers want to gloss this over and are counting on the “real reporters” to let them. My sense is there’s more here to uncover and I want to keep digging and find out what they don’t want us to know.

Mooting Cases Can Chill Incentives to Pursue Gun Denials

Who wants to spend years and substantial effort to force a correction and not even be able to recover costs? Who has those kinds of resources? [More]

Here’s another huge advantage that rights deniers with unlimited state resources have over gun owners of limited means.

Police Handwringing Over Ohio Permitless Gun Carry A Big Nothing Burger

That’s a version of the old and unfounded-in-reality “blood in the streets/Dodge City over fender benders” argument the gun prohibitionists used when railing against licensed concealed carry. And note his concern was not for “public safety” but for officer safety. [More]

Back the Blue when they don’t back you…?

Los Angeles City Council Arrests Point to ‘Criminals for Gun Control’ Mentality

“Curren Price is the latest member of the Los Angeles City Council to be arrested in recent years.” … “I am a firm believer in the control of guns, the restraint of guns, and the federal government’s proposal for the regulation of guns,” Curren told Our Weekly in 2013 in a report on the “Gun Culture on South L.A.” [More]

Projection much?

Republican Holdouts on Pistol Brace Vote Point to Larger GOP Problem

With this being SOP for the GOP, it’s no wonder lesser luminaries like Fitzpatrick and Kean feel like they can do anything they want, and “lesser of two evils” gun voters won’t have a choice but to keep rewarding them with power. [More]

If the turncoats will betray gun owners on something as clear-cut as this, what won’t they betray them on?

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