Category: General Blog

A Case for Clemency?

He may have been doing business with a cartel front in Tucson, but all Reynolds’ own businesses appear to have been legitimate. And, as Reynolds said, when he declined to become an informant, the feds turned on him. [More]

Or as an earlier report speculates:

“A black NRA member sitting in a prison for terrorists may be the missing link in Fast and Furious”

Beats me. First I’m hearing of it. Nothing about the guy on SSI, either. Which just means there’s plenty not known and very little incentive for most to pursue things.

Regardless, there appear to be many loose ends and questions that cry for reopening this case. I wonder if those calling for that have made a serious effort to get a dialog going with Harmeet Dhillon?

As the Amendments Fall

“The right to counsel is not a luxury,” said MACDL President Shira Diner. “It is a bedrock principle of our justice system, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and by Article 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. When people are jailed without lawyers, the system ceases to be just—or constitutional.” [More]

Let’s try this again with a few word substitutions:

“The right to arms is not a luxury. It is a bedrock principle of our system, guaranteed by the Second Amendment and by Article 17 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. When people are disarmed without being adjudicated with full due process and incarcerated, the system ceases to be just—or constitutional.”

[Via Edmund M]

FAFO

This mob of protesters tried to win a wrestling match with a Kia Forte [More]

Hilarity ensues.

Coincidentally, my kid sister texted me this the other day.

Defensive driving ought to be immune from criminal and civil charges, and any determination that it was not defensive demands full due process. Because a lot of us remember the alternative:

So… how will the prosecutors and drivers’ insurance companies handle this?

[Via Michael G]

We’re the Only Ones Inaccessible Enough

It is clear the FBI does not want anyone outside the FBI to analyze the NICS data, or to have access to the data showing the statistics of errors in the NICS data. [More]

That’s their call…why?

And why aren’t gun owners flooding Kash Patel and Dan Bongino’s X feeds demanding compliance?

DIY?

If it’s legal to “homebrew” so to speak in the vernacular, a home-made 3D Printed or complete an 80% handgun and or rifle, WITHOUT DOTGOV PERMISSION OR PAPERWORK then, by extent, wouldn’t the same exact legality apply to “homebrewed” hushpuppies and all the rest of the happy-time fun toys??? [More]

And props for remembering R.A. Bear.

Some, if you read the comments here, don’t want us to.

Suppressor and Short Barrel Firearm Fight Shows Many U.S. States More Prohibitive Than Some Foreign Countries

…Republicans are looking to Parliamentarian of the Senate Elizabeth MacDonough to make her determination on if such measures will survive the “Byrd bath” or become “Byrd droppings.” [More]

Politicians sure do come up with all kinds of convoluted complications over something as simple as “shall not be infringed.”

RELATED UPDATE

I ended the piece with GOA’s latest announcement that “the Senate’s version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” now includes full repeal of the $200 NFA tax on: Suppressors Short-barreled rifles (SBRs) Short-barreled shotguns (SBSs) “Any Other Weapons” (AOWs).”

Here’s the rev. of the bill. Start on pg. 261.

Friends of the Court

The Department of Justice has filed a brief with the Seventh Circuit in support of our win against the Illinois “assault weapon” and standard capacity magazine bans in our Harrel v. Raoul lawsuit. [More]

I got the brief over the weekend and am working a write-up.

Also on the same case, 35 AG’s have signed onto supporting the lawsuit.

[Via Jess]

Playing the Trump Card

The release also said the Trump Organization would be introducing a new “TI Phone” in August, which was described as a “sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States for customers who expect the best from their mobile carrier.” [More]

So, unlike with Teslas, where enraged psychopaths will vandalize them when nobody’s around, when will we see readily identifiable Trump gold phone users confronted in person, and attacked?

Related story: Elder feral son Uday with his wife and daughter joined her parents for a west coast vacation recently, and the father-in-law rented a Tesla truck– I think they’re ugly but it was pretty cool seeing videos of the dang thing driving itself, which he says takes some getting used to.

I asked him if anybody did anything to intimidate them and he said a few people gave them the finger. That alone is something I just can’t wrap my head around, but I suppose asking “What the hell is wrong with leftists?” is one of those questions we could spend a lifetime on and still not have an answer.

[Via Sweet Babboo]

And tangentially related:

Then again, explain this:

Trump, in reversal, may exempt farms and hotels from immigration raids [More]

More bipolarity from the Professor Harold Hill of politics…

And no, of course I wouldn’t rather have a Democrat. What a stupid rejoinder.

Just as stupid as giving the president unquestioning full-throated support, because he’s perfectly happy to fill those throats whenever it suits him.

Gosh Darn It

Fiddlesticks! Science Proves Americans Really Do Have The Filthiest Mouths In The Online World [More]

I try not to cuss online, substituting characters for letters when I spell out certain words and trying to include NSFW warnings when I link to something more explicit. But in real life, especially when playing Scrabble with my wife and she gets seven letter words and triple word scores with “Z’s” and “Q’s” while I have four “o’s” on my tray, or no damn vowels for three turns in a row… yeah, I’ve been known to utter an explosive expression or two…

Which makes it real interesting when my soon-to-be- three-year-old granddaughter is around, in which case my wife’s niece taught me the trick of yelling “Peanut butter!”

Or expanded to “Peanut butter and jelly!” if I feel like the universe is really picking on me and siding with her…

Except now, when we’re alone, I’ve caught myself more than once on “Peanut butter and f_ing jelly!”

[Via bondmen]

No New Thing Under the Sun

Twenty-five year old Deja Foxx is vying for more than a seat in Congress. She’s looking to be part of a root-and-branch overhaul of the Democratic Party. [More]

If she’s the next “It Girl” for fresh new ideas, how come she’s pushing the same old ones on guns?

“We see gun violence as an intersectional issue,” Foxx said. “We want to see common-sense regulation that will keep us safe in school.” She says that means banning military-grade weaponry and not arming teachers. “The Second Amendment was written in a time when those guns weren’t even conceived,” Foxx said.

And her economic platform is even older school.

[Via bondmen]

We’re the Only Ones in the Kapu Tradition Enough

“It is deeply troubling that the State of Hawaiʻi has not been transitioned into a military government as mandated by international law. This failure of transition places current police officers on duty that they may be held accountable for unlawfully enforcing American laws. [More]

And in the Spirit of Aloha:

Lawsuit: Hawaii AG Accuses Trump of ‘Distributing Machine Guns’

It only looks like Paradise.

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