Notes from the Resistance
You drive past a sensor, and it doesn’t just photograph the car. Instead, it grabs the wireless signals leaking out of every device inside it: your phone, your smartwatch, your earbuds, your fitness tracker, the car’s own Bluetooth, tyre pressure sensors, the key fob, and in some cases, even your pet’s microchip. [More]
If you’re not doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?
Tell me this doesn’t set your mind at ease:
[Via Ron W]
The unconstitutional program ran in five steps: First, surveillance cameras across the state and country recorded license plates and logged when and where cars went. Second, analysts and anonymous tipsters flagged ordinary travel, like driving toward the border and back, as suspicious. Third, Bexar County sheriff’s deputies invented a traffic violation to justify pulling over the flagged driver. Fourth, deputies pulled drivers into their front seats, interrogated them and asked consent to search their car. Finally, fifth, if the driver refused to consent to a search, a K-9 alert from a manipulated dog supplied the probable cause to search anyway. This practice happened for four years to countless motorists. [More]
Who but these useful idiots would expect a Democrat sheriff who doesn’t respect the Second Amendment to respect the Fourth and Fifth?
[Via Michael G]
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a reply in support of their motion for preliminary injunction in Bathras v. Moore, SAF’s challenge to the Maryland Glock ban signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore earlier this year. [More]
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) secured a major win today in Harrington v. Crawford after school district officials admitted the search of plaintiff Jack Harrington’s vehicle violated his Fourth Amendment rights. [More]
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed an amicus brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court in Beckwith v. Frey, supporting petitioners’ request for review of a First Circuit decision upholding Maine’s firearm waiting period law. [More]
So… a spate…?
Ninth Circuit Leaves California’s 24/7 Gun-Store Surveillance Law in Place [More]
If they’re not afraid to violate the Second Amendment, why would tyrants worry about ignoring the First, Fourth, and Fifth?
There’s another lesson here for gun owners that’s every bit as important as not consenting to having your car searched (don’t physically resist, just make it clear you don’t consent and fight it later with an attorney who can argue probable cause): Don’t talk to the police. [More]
It’s hard to “back the blue” when their seemingly benign conversation in every compelled interaction is to get you to say something they can use against you.
Eagle Sports Range in Cudahy says it has removed all of its Flock Safety cameras, citing privacy concerns. [More]
Here.
Now we see if Flock sues them and if they can then countersue for fraudulent concealment/fraud in the inducement because known negative impacts on business were never disclosed.
[Via WiscoDave]
Related UPDATE
[Via Jess]
A federal judge ruled that “tower dump” warrants, which allow police to obtain records for every cellphone that connected to nearby cell towers around a crime scene, are per se unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment as general warrants. [More]
Curses! Looks like we’re limited to Flock and Ring until we can figure a workaround/get a Democrat majority to stack the courts…
[Via WiscoDave]
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed a reply brief in a case challenging the unconstitutional search of an 18-year-old high school senior’s vehicle that was based solely on the knowledge that he is a legal gun owner. [More]
Those in charge of enforcing anti-bullying rules are always the biggest bullies.
An alliance of firearms dealers and Second Amendment advocates sued Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis over a law authorizing warrantless searches of gun sales records. [More]
And if a Republican tried to do this with abortion or minor gender reassignment records…?
It really does give an insight into the totalitarian mind of Democrats in power.
[Via Jess]
“The police must have reasonable suspicion that the person is possessing the gun illegally or otherwise engaged in criminal activity,” wrote Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff. “Because the officers here stopped appellant based solely on his possession of a gun, without reasonable suspicion that he was possessing the gun illegally or otherwise involved in criminal activity, they did not have reasonable suspicion to stop him. The stop, therefore, violated appellant’s Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizures.” [More]
Baltimore police are d_s when it comes to guns? Who knew?
Although the Maryland appellate courts have, for decades, upheld police stops based on reasonable suspicion that a person is in possession of a gun, after Bruen, carrying a handgun publicly for self-defense is presumptively lawful, and therefore, mere possession of a concealed firearm, by itself, is not indicative of criminal activity. The mere possibility that a person with a gun might not have a valid license or otherwise may be restricted from possessing a gun is not enough to establish reasonable suspicion for a seizure. The police must have reasonable suspicion that the person is possessing the gun illegally or otherwise engaged in criminal activity. [More]
“Only Ones” constrained by rights? Oh, go on…
[Via Jess]
The Texas Rangers have launched a criminal investigation after two Houston police officers were accused of secretly placing a GPS tracking device on a suspect’s vehicle without a warrant… According to records, both officers initially denied involvement. [More]
And it further means they’d have had to lie about how they obtained any evidence resulting from the placement in order for it to be admissible.
Thank goodness the problem isn’t more widespread…. right?
[Via Steve T]
Hell no.
Remember when establishment gun groups were dissing “We will not comply“?
Ask ’em if they will, and that will tell you much.
[Via Jess]
“Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time,” reports the Associated Press. “All without a warrant.” The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices. [More]
No warrant needed and the only thing limiting usage is an agreement…?
Think how much the state could save on traffic stops if it let AI send out speeding tickets! Besides, if you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t need the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Autofascism: Another reason not to go to Vegas…
[Via JG]
Cops Arrest Man on His Own Property After Karen Neighbor Hears Gunshots [Watch]
I hope he gets a lawyer and that lying sow and her co-conspirators get what’s coming to them. I also suggest he file a complaint with the Tennessee Attorney General’s Civil Rights Enforcement Division and demand an investigation into falsifying a police report.
That said, he should have just said “I’ll speak to you through my attorney” and shut up.
And point of order: I don’t like using “Karen” any more than I do “Boomer” for reasons stated at each link.
The Sheriff’s Office is getting its @$$ handed to it over on Facebook.
[Via Andy M]
How They’ll Trample Your 4th Amendment Rights to Get to Your Second Amendment Rights [Watch]
The relevant case… Ah, Joshua Prince. Good man.
I see Col. Paris is taking his pension so he can go double-dip at the FBI. I wonder if Kash will keep him in line.
Replacement Commish Bivens reminds me of someone… but who?
So… defending the “single issue” includes defending against ancillary threats that affect it? Who knew?
Do these guys?
[Via Jess]