Notes from the Resistance
Georgia jury orders Monsanto parent to pay nearly $2.1 billion in Roundup weedkiller lawsuit [More]
What you or I personally believe about glyphosate is not the issue. The issue is “What do leftists say about it?”
That being the case, why is Shannon Watts allowed a pass for her role as Monsanto’s PR flack while it was supposedly out there giving its customers cancer?
[Via Andy M]
GOA and GOF have officially submitted our petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in Antonyuk v. James! This case began as a direct challenge to New York’s unconstitutional attempt to ban concealed carry by declaring nearly every location a “sensitive place.” But now, it’s become a battle over lower courts defying SCOTUS rulings. [Watch]
Note the first name on the petition…
[Via Jess]
More law enforcement agencies reconsider use of popular Sig Sauer P320 handgun [More]
This has been going on long enough— and continuing — to raise legit doubts. Is there a design flaw or are negligent dischargers jumping on the blame Sig bandwagon?
If you’re aware of truly independent test results, please share a link with the rest of us in “Comments.”
[Via Antigone]
The Glock switch distraction [More]
As a tangentially-related aside, with the death of Gene Hackman happening while I was gone, I caught 2003’s Runaway Jury last night for the first time (co-starring the handsy Little Big Mouth). What a piece of crap primer in cartoonish anti-gun scripting and legal incompetence/ malpractice/ lawbreaking that I recommend seeing if for no other reason than to slap your forehead at the clumsiness of the attacks, and to appreciate how 2005’s Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act shields us from much such subversive nonsense, but not enough.
[Via bondmen]
If you want to fight for your rights against the unlimited power and treasure of the state, you’re on your own. That’s “the reasonableness of the government’s position.” [More]
We’re about to find out how different the new administration is from the old one when it comes to citizens being forced to fight for their rights.
PA Supreme Court to Hear GOA’s, GOF’s Challenge to Philadelphia’s Unconstitutional Private Firearm Manufacturing Ban [More]
So, the antis are saying the Founders would have been against the Pennsylvania Rifle…?
A lawsuit alleges Glock makes and sells guns that are easily turned into illegal machine guns, the state of Maryland and the city of Baltimore announced Wednesday morning. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and local law firms announced the lawsuit, alleging the handgun manufacturer facilitates the proliferation of illegal machine guns. [More]
Tell us “gun control” doesn’t work without telling us “gun control” doesn’t work.
[Via Jess]
Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), and the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners, alongside plaintiff Heidi Bergmann-Schoch, have filed a lawsuit challenging New Jersey’s unconstitutional ban on possessing hollow point ammunition for self-defense outside the home. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, argues that the state’s restrictions violate the Second and Fourteenth Amendments by preventing law-abiding citizens from possessing and carrying the most effective forms of self-defense ammunition. [More]
Where it will be tied up for years with their legal opponent having virtually unlimited tax plunder to draw from…
There is a way around that, but so far, I’m the only one talking about it.
WE CAN USE ANTI-GUN TRICKS AGAINST THE LEFT TO END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP – Anti-gunners use “standing” arguments against the 2nd Amendment. Now it’s time for us to use them against the left. [Watch]
Yeah, do it, but I’d actually be more interested in overturning precedents that ruled the people have no stake in infringements.
[Via Jess]
ATF Lied to Convict Sailor Now Serving 20 Years in Prison for Selling Legal Gun Parts [More]
If their big score was a replica M249, he’s just lucky he didn’t have Merrick Garland’s Tommy gun.
So, who’s the rat CI? Who’s the idiot judge? Who’s the AUSA?
And will Trump/Bondi clean house and knock this crap off?
All the States Trying to Help Mexico Beat Smith & Wesson [Watch]
A Justice Department interested in defending all rights could put a stop to that.
[Via Jess]
(ORDER LIST: 604 U.S.) MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2025 [More]
So what’s the deal with Snope and Ocean State…?
Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), and Gun Owners of California (GOC) joined forces with the California Rifle & Pistol Association and the Second Amendment Foundation to achieve a significant victory. Together, they secured an order implementing a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, compelling the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the La Verne Police Department, and state of California to allow their non-resident members to apply for concealed carry permits. [More]
I could have applied before. Will this require them to grant one?
Then again, I got by from 1981 through to 2007 (when we moved) without one, which I admit made things more dangerous since I didn’t dare file a police report…
David Snope, et al., Petitioners v. Anthony G. Brown, in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Maryland, et al… Jan 21 2025 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2025. [More]
Ditto for Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island.
Will they hear either? Can they hear one on semiautos without hearing the other on magazines?
And if we tune in tomorrow, will they again tell us to come back Monday to find out?
There is a case now being litigated in front of the United States Supreme Court brought by the same lawyers and organization that represented none other than Michael Cargill in the Cargill case dealing with the bumpstock, a big victory for the2 Second Amendment over the ATF there, but this case involves the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial but it’s just as important to win as many other cases involving the Supreme Court and the Constitution [Watch]
If we start applying the unambiguous language understood by the Founders the house of cards will collapse, and that scares the hell out of the controllers.
Also see NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case to Overturn “Petty-Offense Exception” to Jury-Trial Right.
[Via Jess]
Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) have filed an important new lawsuit challenging federal laws prohibiting licensed firearm dealers from selling handguns to out-of-state buyers. [More]
So when I read an authoritative historical article asserting “most of the early American rifles and pistols came from Eastern Pennsylvania,” why does it say nothing about out-of-colony buyers (and more)?
The Second Amendment Foundation has won a victory for young adults in Pennsylvania, where a panel of the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to remand the case back to the District Court with instructions to enter an injunction forbidding the state police from arresting law-abiding 18-20-year-olds for openly carrying firearms during a declared state of emergency. [More]
At this point, what other choice do the court and those backing disarmament have?
And will we see a simlar conflict demanding SCOTUS resolution as we’ve just seen with felons?
Widow of Little Rock airport executive Bryan Malinowski killed in ATF raid files suit for return of guns, ammo [More]
What a great indicator this will provide for what we can expect from the new director and Pam Bondi.
[Via Jess]
Based on the above four cases, the cert conflict could not be more dramatic. Range and Williams allow as-applied challenges to the felon ban. Jackson and Hunt categorically allow no challenge to the ban. Since felons are the overwhelming majority of persons prosecuted under § 922(g), resolution by the Supreme Court is direly needed. [More]
The fiction, of course, being that truly dangerous felons require any court’s sanction, and that a higher law they won’t acknowledge doesn’t nonetheless hold true…
[Via Michael G]
What Should You Say to 911? [Watch]
Assume the 3-S treatment is just too high-risk…
I’m wondering, if you had to defend yourself against “Only One” criminality, if you might want to call some additional witnesses and counsel to the scene before the “first responders”…
[Via Jess]
Should you intervene in a mass attack? Is defending a third person legally different from defending yourself? Do you have a duty to retreat in these situations? And what practical considerations should you weigh, like your physical safety and the chaos of multiple 911 calls? Armed Attorneys Emily Taylor and Richard Hayes discuss whether you should stop a mass attack, the legal and practical risks of defending others, and how to protect yourself responsibly in high-threat situations. [More]
Having time to think about it, my inner Rick Blaine wins. Responsible people make their own preparations and irresponsible ones disparage armed citizens.
Without having time to reflect, I suppose the unique situation itself would steer my decision and repercussions would be the last thing on my mind. I know from past experience where I felt the end was near my instincts have been to focus and act, not freeze, and do my shaking afterward.
[Via Jess]
Snope v Brown fka Bianchi v Frosh – MD AWB; Ocean State Tactical v Rhode Island – Magazine ban; Gray v Jennings – 2A irreparable injury; Maryland Shall Issue v Moore – Handgun Licenses
If more becomes known before then I’ll try to check in and update. And you feel free to inform the rest of us in comments.
Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to “unconditional discharge,” meaning no jail, no probation and no fine. But the sentence will still formally make Trump the first criminal convict ever to occupy the Oval Office. [More]
We’ll see what happens with an appeal.
In the meantime, is a “prohibited person” in charge of ATF?
Major 2A win in Ohio involving an individual indicted for possessing a firearm while under indictment for crime of which he was never convicted. [Watch]
If I’m reading this right, (Republican) prosecutor Melissa Powers evidently believes Ohioans elected a Republican majority so that she could deny the Second Amendment to a man whose robbery indictment was dismissed.
That’ll be useful to know if she ever seeks higher office.
[Via Jess]
