Category: Justice Department

Going for Broker

The Department of Justice is continuing the prosecution of Tim Durkin of Durkin Tactical. Durkin was charged with “engaging in the business” of selling firearms, without making a single gun sale. [Watch]

Are they trying to alienate gun owners before the midterms?

Leaving gun owners wondering if the Trump administration is bipolar or just frauds is not a winning formula for inspiring voters, donors, and volunteers.

Gee, I really hope no angry MAGA fashionista demands to know if I’d rather have Kamala Harris.

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

But wait! There’s more!

[Via Jess]

Meanwhile, Over at ‘the Most Pro-Gun Administration in History’…

Bodell’s lengthy report details how he took parts off of a live RPG in order to make Adamiak’s inert RPGs, which he labeled as Exhibit 30, fire an AK round. [More]

All that’s missing were chains, zip ties and duct tape!

Where the hell is Harmeet Dhillon?

One Step Forward and Three Steps Back

Is There a Hidden Meaning in DOJ’s Position on Mag Bans? [Watch]

Let me get this straight: The “pro-gun” DOJ will defend magazines (because they believe bans are unconstitutional or because they think SCOTUS will rule against them?) but still demands license/registration requirements to carry and possess firearms and ammunition…?

If there’s a hidden meaning, they’re not hiding it very well. That seems kind of in-your-face…

And yeah, I’m vulnerable to being sucked in just like most gun owners.

“Full might” my… eye.

How Can We Be Expected to Know Who NOT to Persecute?

This Court enjoined Defendant from enforcing the challenged federal criminal and regulatory provisions as to the organizational Plaintiffs, but Defendant does not know to whom the injunction applies because membership information is exclusively within the possession and control of the organizational Plaintiffs, who do not want to share it with the federal government. [More]

Mean old gun rights groups!

What part of “the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” does AG Bondi not understand?

[Via Jess]

Speaking of Using Full Might

But…but…but the memorandum…

It’ll be interesting to see how this gets spun as a good thing…

Mag Dump

In a filing in the DC Court of Appeals last month in a criminal matter, the United States moved to vacate the appellant’s conviction under D.C. Code § 7-2506.01(b) for possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, because “[i]t is the United States’s position that § 7-2506.01(b) is unconstitutional.” The DOJ also says they would not charge a similarly situated defendant today. [More]

I’d say it’s about time, but that’s on previous administrations.

We should let this one know it’s done good.

[Via Jess]

More 2A ‘Task Force’ Treason

But as shown, the Government’s efforts to defend the panel’s decision are all unpersuasive. And the starkness of the Seventh Circuit’s departure from this Court’s precedent— combined with the peculiar and anomalous nature of the restrictions on short-barreled rifles at issue—in fact make this case a particularly suitable vehicle for resolving one or more of these fundamental methodological questions. [More]

So, why is “pro-gun” Pam Bondi’s Justice Department arguing otherwise?

Not that I expect any of the gun groups to resolve these things at a round table that doesn’t exist and they won’t ask for…

[Via Jess]

A Forward Progression

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in support of a proposed rights restoration rule. [More]

They raise a good point:

However, there are some aspects of the Proposed Rule which do not go far enough. As courts have confirmed, the main requirement for disarming Americans—what must be present before they may be disenfranchised from their Second Amendment rights—is ongoing dangerousness.

You know how I feel about ongoing dangerousness.

Sounds Like a Predetermined Outcome to Me

Justices agree to review federal law banning drug users from possessing guns [More]

I see the Trump/Bondi DOJ is selectively defending infringements again.

Could there be a less sympathetic defendant than “a dual citizen of the United States and Pakistan, who was indicted in 2023 on a single count of violating the guns-and-drugs law after the FBI found a 9mm pistol, 60 grams of marijuana, and 4.7 grams of cocaine at his family home” ?

Am I wrong to suspect a way to erode the text, history, and tradition standard and guarantee bad precedent with a case centered on what would have been pretty much an anachronism at the time of the founding?

[Via Jess]

Holding GOA Accountable

President Trump is standing up for our rights. But the Department of Justice and Pam Bondi are BLOCKING his pro-2A agenda and ignoring orders from the top. This is an outright betrayal. Congress MUST hold accountability hearings NOW. Gun owners deserve answers. The DOJ and ATF cannot be allowed to defy the president and attack your freedoms. Tell your members of Congress: Investigate the DOJ’s betrayal of President Trump, gun owners, and the Constitution. Only you can force Congress to act. SIGN THE PRE-WRITTEN LETTER NOW [More]

One question: What has GOA done to promote and demand a Task Force seat to keep these kinds of abuses from happening before they do?

There’s all kinds of ways to make it happen and they could head off any need to have to run to Congress — which is prepared to do what, exactly?

It’s always better to keep the mess from happening in the first place instead of having to clean it up after it’s done untold damage. If they haven’t even tried, and this is their “solution”, I’m not sure I want to help.

You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!

GOA says “Yikes!”

It’s all part of that bipolarity we’ve been talking about.

Fortunately, there’s a cure. We’ve even got the legal wrangles and alternatives figured out.

Except none of the rice bowl groups want to play. They say they have their own contacts, and apparently perceived exclusivity if their priority. Except that means things get done in secret with our rights that we may not agree with– as has happened before and will happen again — and the bipolar disappointments and flat-out reneging and betrayals will continue, the groups will continue to walk on eggshells so no administration feathers are ruffled, and popular 2A cheerleaders will convince a critical mass that it’s not only a good thing, but masterful 3D chess.

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