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The Better to Eat You With, My Dear

Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a case concerning gun owner privacy in California have filed a respondent’s brief in the ongoing case of Barba v. Bonta, challenging the constitutionality of a 2021 law requiring the California Department of Justice (CAL/DOJ) to share extensive personal identifying information of gun owners in the state with a non-government research group. [More]

These guys…

In fairness, sneaking to violate privacy and rules just wasn’t cutting it.

Point/Counterpoint

Dave, like so many others you are in error concerning Heller’s statement on the M-16. Scalia wrote that anyone who say’s M-16s and the like can be banned have de facto separated and nullified the prefatory clause “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,” from the operative “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

“It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful
in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be
banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely
detached from the prefatory clause.” [More]

He’s leaving out the big “but” that immediately follows:

But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty.

Previously qualified as:

We therefore read Miller to say only that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns. That accords with the historical understanding of the scope of the right…

I’ve posted this here because if I’m to get my other work done, I don’t have time to get embroiled in comments on AmmoLand, and besides, I get my say in the article and comments are for the readers.

And point of order…

I Scream, You Scream

Nashville school shooting: Biden criticized for joking about ice cream in first statement since attack [More]

Who says the Dotard in Chief was joking?

As for Sheryl Crow (and other overprivileged leftist “celebrity” lottery winners calling for prior restraint infringements against their “fans” and against people with sense enough not to be), as usual, they’re talking sh!+.

An atrocity horrible enough to divide white traditional Christian Americans on the subject of “assault weapons” certainly seems … advantageous … to the violence monopolist’s current agenda. And they’re not beyond creating a public struggle session to shame gun ban opponents into submission.

As for why “he” did it, I defer to George Brougham:

Evil does exist. Evil IS.

The power we have is to destroy its practitioners, to contain it, or to repel it and send it howling in the darkness.

That’s what its devotees and functionaries are trying to take away from us.

UPDATES

  • What are the possibilities the monster was influenced by this call for “revolutionary” violence?

‘Trans Radicals’ Plan ‘Day Of Vengeance’ In D.C. Alongside Firearms Training [More]

They and their Democrat water carriers may have overplayed their hand.

Government Has Known from the Start There is a Right to Own Machineguns

“You see, if we made a statute absolutely forbidding any human being to have a machine gun, you might say there is some constitutional question involved.” [More]

Now, what are all those “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” in Congress going to do about it?

Half a Loaf

Florida gun owners may soon be able to carry concealed weapons without a license as the permitless carry bill moves one step closer to the governor’s desk after passing in the House on Friday. [More]

But, as we’ve been discussing of late, it won’t include open carry because “law and order” Republicans feel more beholden to the Florida Sheriff’s Association than they do gun owners.

Do what the antis do. Take the incremental win and then come back for more. Bruen‘s tradition and history are is on the side of open carry and they can’t document any credible increase in crime from lawful open carry so that prohibition will fall.

Unless gun owners are ready to take political revenge on the Vichycons — and that means having someone they’ll get behind and support to run against the squishes — there’s not much they can do but complain, which doesn’t accomplish much and is bad for the digestion…

[Via bondmen]