Notes from the Resistance
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a new lawsuit challenging the Santa Clara County Sheriff Department’s exorbitant fees and mandated psychological exam associated with applying for a concealed carry permit. [More]
Santa Clara… Santa Clara…
Oh, yeah, that’s where the corrupt sheriff’s department did pay-for-play on concealed carry permits…
I guess hoping Pam Bondi and the DOJ Civil Rights Division to look into demographics was a pipe dream.
Governor Murphy’s Armed ‘Only One’—Trooper Slays Ex-Girlfriend & Her Boyfriend Before Killing Himself ~ VIDEO [More]
Lieutenant, huh? So he’d been getting away with being a headcase for some time. You’d better believe he fit in with the tone being set and his colleagues and subordinates were aware of what he was like. I wonder if an investigation will show management knew damn well from complaints and incidents that they had a ticking bomb, and if that means it will be compromised to bury their own culpability.
New Jersey… where Democrats finish off what the Hessians could not…
I love how the term “Only Ones” has been accepted and spread throughout the gun community.
[CC BY-SA 4.0/Hazzy]
Critics point to the planned election of an Iranian regime official to the U.N.’s top human rights body as proof of its moral crisis. [More]
Then again, knowing how the UN defines rights, bestowed by government and subject to approval, that’s apt. I could go on and on and on.
As long as Trump has the UN on his mind, someone with his ear should let him know that Chicago Democrats opposing the National Guard doing the job they can’t won’t do were calling for UN “peacekeepers” not that long ago.
Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department: Off-duty special deputy fired at individuals after being tipped over while inside porta-potty [More]
The kid may be doing it into a bag from now on.
Acknowledging there’s a presumption of innocence, anybody else think this story stinks? I guess the inquest should tell us more.
And likewise, I’m even more disappointed the various 2A groups haven’t pushed for one of the fixes legally available to make this 2A Task Force a great tool for our cause. This is a golden opportunity, which is being wasted… The midterms are coming fast. [More]
Concerns have been raised that a task force, by law, can’t include non-government members. Yes, and no. See the overviews I compiled.
Regular readers will recall that my initial suggestion was not for a task force, but for an Office of Second Amendment Protection to act as a counter to Biden’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention. I was disappointed that earlier Trump administration efforts, from the 2016 Second Amendment Coalition, co-chaired by Don Jr., and 2020’s Gun Owners for Trump, though promising to act as advisory panels (which can trigger Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) rules), they panned out to be voter election inducements that made no further announcements of agendas and progress made.
The Democrats did it differently. From March for Our Lives:
After four years of concerted pressure and advocacy from March For Our Lives youth activists, President Biden established the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in September 2023…Led by our friends and fellow activists Greg Jackson, formerly the Executive Director of Community Action Justice Fund, Stefanie Feldman, and Rob Wilcox, and overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris, the office has already hit the ground running.
I added the links to the quote to show who these people are. Committed anti-gunners and Democrat apparatchiks all, with ties and loyalties to prohibitionist organizations, Biden appointed them, making them, in effect, government “workers.”
There is no reason the Trump administration could not have followed precedent.
Then there is the option of creating a FACA-compliant advisory committee to include a non-government panel of experts. True, it would have had to create public records and allow comments from all sides, but so does rule making, and in the end, the administration makes the rules. And as gun owners, we should WANT to know what the committee is up to and what is being presented to it so that we could provide the arguments needed. And they could solicit input from individual consultations with non-government experts. And those individuals could get plenty of input from gun owners.
The President and AG Bondi could have also opted to simply meet with Second Amendment advocates and other special interest groups to understand their positions, gather information, and build support for their policy agendas.
There are ways to do this. Keeping things close to the vest may have the benefit of secrecy until they’re ready to make a move, but it also has produced, on more than one occasion, bipolar moves that one day make gun owners manic with enthusiasm, and on the next depressed that DOJ lawyers or ATF functionaries could do something so contrary to the promises AG Bondi made in her April 8 all-hands memorandum pledging the DOJ to “use its full might to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”
Related UPDATE
The groups could get around restrictions altogether by going private.
This is something President Trump could fix today… [More]
It’s way past time to undo an attack made by the Obama administration.
P*ssy without the courage of his convictions took his Instagram page down.
What city businesses and politicians affiliate with them, and who do they support?
I get so many news tips on Mondays that I’m letting readers know I already posted on a story they’re submitting earlier but it’s already been pushed off the front page and onto the second….
We talked about this here. Now we see:
How is this not a gun grab? [More]
Perhaps it’s a clever trap?
[Via WiscoDave]
An explosive lawsuit alleges that the children of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) tormented their mother’s personal assistant so severely that he ultimately took his own life. [More]
It appears the method has not been disclosed.
Ron is hoping it’s exploitable.
[Via Michael G]
Don’t Try to Tell Me American Leftists Are Different [More]
Never. And your instincts are good. The hate predates the French Revolution. But not by “a little.”
It goes all the way back to the fall.
They hate their Creator. They hate themselves. Naturally, delusional totalitarians hate us in their megalomaniacal quest to recreate the world and man in their image.
[Via Geordan]
Perhaps it’s the fact that Republicans would offer their own proposals to address the shooting, including this one: “Repeal or amend the Democrats’ prohibition on doctors using their best medical judgment, instead of leaving their hands tied with political decisions made by the Democrat trifecta.” [More]
Everywhere these people rule, catastrophe follows.
[Via bondmen]
Before A Left-Wing Assassin Murdered Charlie Kirk, Chris Wray’s FBI Tried To Destroy Turning Point USA [More]
I did what I could to warn Trump the guy was unsat. But since when has he ever heard my limited voice?
And we saw how that turned out for him and for us.
And me, never tired of demonstrating the definition of insanity, well, I keep trying. And trying. And trying. And trying…
Some day I may take some time to compile a complete list.
[Via bondmen]
A former St. James police officer is accused of negligent behavior in the drowning death of his two-year-old son…Investigators interviewed the female, who recounted the same story. She said she had sex with Swanson in his bedroom for approximately five to 10 minutes, and that the two-year-old was left unattended for approximately 30 minutes. [More]
I can’t tell you how many times we almost lost feral sons Uday and Qusay the exact same way, but just did not have the superior professional training to make it happen.
[Via bondmen]
“Ryan understood those risks — not out of recklessness but out of love. The animals under his care were not just animals to him, but beings he formed a connection with — one rooted in respect, daily care and love.” [More]
“I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.” — Timothy Treadwell, setting up his video camera inches from a grizzly bear.
“Grunt. Snort. Crunch. Snap. Munch. Gulp.” — Grizzly, loosely translated as, “I love you, too.” [More]
[Via DDS]
That CATO Study on Political Violence Is Hot Garbage [More]
Be honest. Who’s surprised?
[Via Michael G]
