Notes from the Resistance
What happened in Venezuela was not about democracy. It was about oil chemistry, diesel scarcity, and strategic minerals. [Watch]
Here’s that 3D chess masterclass I was wondering about.
Except if the economy tanks along with the midterms, it makes me wonder about the assumptions we’ve been led to believe about the players and the pawns.
[Via bondmen]
S. 3544: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to require licenses to acquire or receive firearms, and for other purposes. [More]
The same old treasonous tyrants who want it all…
I see some hyperventilating. Keep in mind:
2% chance of being enacted
And 0% chance at least 3% of gun owners will not comply if it ever is.
It’s not the first time they’ve tried it. It won’t be the last.
[Via Jess]
Washington State AG Warns Citizen Journalists to Stop Investigating Somali Daycares or Face Potential Hate Crime Charges [More]
Only “Authorized Journalists” are allowed to do that!
Which side are the fascists, again…?
[Via Michael G]
Islamist killer wins £240k battle over his human rights… He claimed this segregation – designed to prevent him harming officers and radicalising other inmates – had breached his right to a private life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Awale claimed that he had suffered “severe depression” as a result of being denied contact with other inmates. [More]
The Lord Chancellor strikes again.
Why do we still have a mutual defense pact with these people?
[Via Steve T]
…by Jude Folly [More]
I think I’ve found a “male” counterpart to Sallie Tisdale.
Lee Williams distills things so we don’t have to immerse ourselves in muck.
Feel free to stop in and say “Hello.“
The Court selects what it will hear. It grants or denies petitions for writs of certiorari at its discretion. And although Supreme Court Rule 10 pretends to supply a neutral architecture for that discretion, the reality is that Rule 10 functions as a judicial escape hatch—a convenient justification for declining the very cases that demand intervention. In no domain is this more destructive than in Second Amendment litigation. [More]
Good article.
W appointee John Roberts is the biggest impediment, and it’s calculated.
Jeez, it’s almost like my concerns 20 years ago were legit.
As we’ve noted many times before, real recognition of the right to keep and bear arms won’t happen unless there’s a credible “or else” backing up the demand.
The Jan. 2026 issue of Firearms News is now available at diverse and inclusive newsstands throughout the Republic or via subscription (digital only or digital and print). We’ve talked about how Guns and American Handgunner have gone out of print, and how even NRA is reducing print issues to save costs, and me, I do enough online reading. I like to hold books and magazines in my hands.
It’s the 80th Anniversary of a publication that began as Shotgun News.
My Gun Politics column, “What Does Massie Challenger Gallrein’s Promised 2nd Amendment Support Really Mean?” where the candidate personally responded to my questions, starts on page 16.
Rope-selling capitalists an employee intent on career implosion…?
A Heber City officer was mistakenly written as turning into a frog after an AI report-writing program picked up a movie playing in the background [More]
And we all know how reliable AI has proven to be…
[Via Michael G]
Nick Reiner’s defense lawyer ‘ain’t cheap’ but worth every penny in murder case, legal expert says [More]
What I don’t see explained is how he can afford him.
That he evidently can still tap into resources, without any career of note or visible means of support, points to a level of enabling and denial tantamount to terminal parental malpractice.
Pretty much what socialists are trying to do to this country, with Democrats letting them…
Why Do Americans Own Guns? [More]
Not seeing “defense against tyranny” or the more generic “freedom,” I question the source selection criteria.
Fire at nursing home sparked by police chief’s cigarette, security video shows [More]
See, this is where all that professional training really shows– I’ve got a fire pit in the back yard and I not only have to position kindling and use wadded up newspaper to get a bed hot enough to burn the wood, but also squirt lighter fluid to really get a fire going with minimal smoke. Chief here can do it with just a butt.
I do wonder what the hell was in the planter, and what that entrance was made out of.
[Via Steve T]
“For centuries we really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good, in transitioning into treating it as a collective good and towards the model of shared equity … it will mean that families, especially White families … are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.” [More]
“Our friends across the aisle…”?
Remember how furious we all were at 9/11? If it happens again, how many will still consider it an attack on the homeland requiring solidarity from us all?
See? The destruction of the UNITED States of America is well underway and proceeding according to plan.
[Via WiscoDave]
Hawaii’s Officials Explain Why They Think They Can Overrule the Second Amendment [More]
Because they haven’t been arrested…?
Don’t look for Hawaii Republicans to be anything but useless.
The Avalanche of Gun Control About to Crush Virginia [Watch]
Yeah, well, some of us tried to stop it, but the warnings went unheeded and ignored.
[Via Jess]
According to the NEA Report (no relation to the National Education Association), via a “sustained campaign” on the internet and initiation of “formal complaints,” defendant Sean Allen had “publicly portray[ed]” Nancy Best and Cindi Talbot as “criminals and extremists” for attending the rally. [More]
What a punk. I’d like to see this follow him around for the rest of his days to let everybody know what an impotent little Nazi he is.
[Via Michael G]
Anatomy of Terrible Anti-Gun Op-Ed: A Dissection [More]
Another anti-gun male has a case of the vapors, and we know what cures that.
[Via Antigone]
On the very first day that suppressors and short-barreled shotguns became tax-free, the ATF’s eForms system crashed for hours under overwhelming demand. For the first time in nearly a century, Americans were able to exercise this right without paying a $200 federal tax—yet the system meant to process those applications couldn’t handle the volume. [More]
For some reason I’m recalling the old Panasonic slogan and imagining a modification:
[Via Jess]
A new generation of young political leaders is gaining power in the US by using their personal experience with gun violence to push for reforms they say the US is ready for… Pearson’s brother, Timphrance Pearson, died of a self-inflected gunshot wound. It wasn’t his first experience with violent loss; just years before, his mentor Yvonne Nelson and his former classmate Larry Thorn were shot and killed in Memphis. [More]
All these supposed “young Turks” and not an original idea among them…
I’ve been embedded in the issue for longer than some of these people have been alive and have not personally known a single person so affected, making me wonder if it’s more a culture thing than a gun thing.
Noting that Pearson is “a recent gun owner himself” and is still pushing citizen disarmament kind of emphasizes why I maintain new gun buyers is not necessarily cause for the victory celebration so many “gunfluencers” treat it like.
I also note this propaganda piece is filed under “News” and not “opinion,” something to keep in mind when The Guardian pop-up begging for donations appears.
[Via Andy M]
I typically don’t post here on weekends because I’m doing behind-the-scenes sausage-making/writing articles, plus I have a life. Also, I don’t want that seen as a call for news tip links because I just won’t be able to get to them .
That said, some stuff has come up I’d like to comment on, and this list may or may not grow over the weekend depending on what happens and what I feel like:
CA Open Carry Ban Unconstituional:
Of course it is, the majority historical rationale is 100% correct, Judge VanDyke once more shows he’s SCOTUS material, and dissenting Bush appointee Smith proves. to no one’s surprise, to be a Vichycon toad.
Don’t uncork the champagne yet, though, because a hundred bucks says the full Ninth Circuit will overturn it, offered to the first person who takes me up on it.
That’s what we all woke up to this morning, and I’ve got the same sentiments on that as I do on Iran. I see the Trump über alles crowd is all on board, with one moron on X telling critics to “kiss my ###” because he had a friend who died on fentanyl who can finally rest in peace, disregarding that his friend was FAFO exemplified and, per DEA, Venezuela isn’t a fentanyl source.
What I don’t see being discussed is Bondi’s announcement that Maduro was indicted in the Southern District of New York, and that just strikes me as an invitation to get your @$$ handed to you in a solid blue state where the overwhelming majority of the judges, including the chief, are Clinton, Obama, and Biden appointees.
Things like this make me wonder if I’m just too stupid to grok 3d chess masterclasses or if this is sabotage.
And good question: