Notes from the Resistance
Wave of lawsuits against US gun makers raises hope of end to mass shootings [More]
Like that’s why they’re doing it…
And what a DSM “real reporter” Adam Gabbatt is, calling Philip Bangle “a lawyer representing the FedEx shooting victims” and neglecting to inform his readers the guy is also Senior Litigation Counsel for Brady.
[Via Dan Gifford]
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court in Sackett v EPA issued a major ruling cutting back on the authority of the EPA and by extension all federal executive branch agencies such as the ATF to enact laws via regulations. The Sackett opinion contains powerful language that can likely be used against the ATF in various contexts including in the ongoing legal fights over the bump stock ban and the pistol brace rules. Mark Smith breaks it down. [Watch]
If you think about it, this is also a powerful argument against the phony “single issue” deflection.
It’s all related. That’s because it’s not about guns, it’s about freedom.
[Via Jess]
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack [More]
I stand by what I said the other day. I may say more, but not today.
[Via several of you]
Giffords Courage to Fight Gun Violence and March for Our Lives, gun control groups headed by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg, respectively, are canvassing campuses to convince law students to sign a pledge they won’t represent the firearm industry or firearm owners when it comes to protecting and preserving Second Amendment rights. [More]
So much for oaths of admission requiring support for the Constitution and then turning around and declaring violations of a keystone of the Bill of Rights must be ignored.
You’d think that “engag[ing] in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice” would result in not being admitted to/being booted from the bar.
In any case, they’ll probably all be busy suing Christian bakers for refusing to provide services to people they don’t agree with.
Gun prohibitionists are traitors.
Pistol braces are popular accessories intended to increase the accuracy and stability of AR-15-style pistols. [More]
Just to be clear, the “commonsense gun safety law” prohibitionists, the violence monopoly beneficiaries, and their enforcers are all trying to gaslight voters into believing it’s in the public interest for firearms to be more inaccurate and unstable.
That’s Orwellian, fanatical, and insane, in other words, SOP for Bloomberg’s The Trace. The only people who would support such absurd, destructive diktats are stupid, evil, or both.
And from Gun Owners of America, via email alert:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 23, 2023
Washington, D.C. — Gun Owners of America (GOA) issued the following statements after the 5th Circuit Court partially enjoined the Biden Pistol Brace Ban this morning. GOA and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) had filed an amicus brief in Mock v. Garland, as well as filed their own challenge to the rule in conjunction with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a different federal court.
“This is an encouraging step from the Fifth Circuit, and we hope that the judge in our own case will see this ruling and in turn grant a more robust injunction to relief the millions of Americans nationwide who may soon be in legal jeopardy,” said Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior VP. “This is just the latest attempt by the Biden Administration to weaponize federal agencies against the American people, and we will continue to stand in the way in defense of our rights.”
“This injunction is welcome news, but due to it’s limited nature, we still need Congress to act before the June 1st deadline,” said Aidan Johnsotn, GOA’s Director of Federal Affairs. “189 Representatives and 47 Senators have already signed on, and we urge the Speaker to put this on the floor for a vote and force Democrats in both chambers to vote on whether to make their constituents felons overnight.”
GOA spokesmen are available for interviews. Gun Owners of America is a nonprofit grassroots lobbying organization dedicated to protecting the right to keep and bear arms without compromise. GOA represents over two million members and activists. For more information, visit GOA’s Press Center.
-GOA-
Columbus Files Yet Another Lawsuit Seeking to Infringe Gun Rights [More]
It’s not Zach Klein’s money being squandered and it gets his name in the papers. When you think about it, that’s a special kind of contemptible. And anyone stupid or biased enough to vote for him in the first place won’t let a little thing like repeated losses keep them from pushing a proven apparatchik for higher office.
Even if he is that most loathsome of creatures along the lines of Bill Kristol, Joe Scarborough, and Joe Walsh:
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request to block state and local laws barring the sale of assault-style weapons in Illinois while a group of challenges to those laws continues in the lower courts. There were no dissents publicly recorded from the unsigned order, nor did the justices provide any explanation for their decision. [More]
I’m going to resist reading more into this for now.
[Via Jess]
Maryland governor signs gun-control bills tightening requirements, NRA sues [More]
The bastards have virtually unlimited tax plunder to test defiant weasel-wording against Bruen diktats for as long as it takes.
[Via Jess]
Related UPDATE
NRA gets the major media attention, but they’re not the only group taking action:
SAF SUES MARYLAND OVER RESTRICTIVE NEW CARRY LAW
I’ll do another update today if GOA gets involved.
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against numerous parts of New Jersey’s Bruen response bill. Read the 235-page opinion in our lawsuit… [More]
I’ll have to get to it later. If you’ve got time to read it today, feel free to give the Cliff’s Notes version in comments.
Gillum’s defense attorneys said now their client can “resume his life and public service.” [More]
So that’s what you call being found passed out in a hotel with stained sheets, a gay escort, meth and other controlled substances…
They gave him a pass on that, too.
Illegal immigrants get court dates scheduled for years in the future, allowed to stay in US in the meantime – Many migrants don’t have to appear in court for up to five years [More]
Give it another year and the wait time will double. Not that people whose first act in this country was to break its laws plan on showing up.
The politicians, officials, business interests, and string-pullers behind this state of affairs seem pretty unconcerned about personal repercussions, don’t they?
So do our “gun rights leaders”…
The grabbers fight like cowardly children, which I suppose is a good thing.
After 18 years in prison, he took over his old L.A. gang. A string of murders followed [More]
So “years” is not the essential component here?
It’s getting tiresome repeating a simple truth everyone “in power” is vested in ignoring.
In particular, the court explained, “the text of the Second Amendment is limited to only certain arms, and history and tradition demonstrate that particularly ‘dangerous’ weapons are unprotected.” Id. at 18. “Because assault weapons are particularly dangerous weapons and high-capacity magazines are particularly dangerous weapon accessories, their regulation accords with history and tradition.” [More]
So it was the Founders’ contention that only “safe” arms were “necessary to the security of a free State”?
[Via Jess]
CALIFORNIA CAUGHT! 700,000 Machine Guns Claim Exposed in Duncan v. Bonta Case… [Watch]
Sorry, Mr. Smith, what you, and evidently every prominent voice on “our side” continually miss is that if “in common use at the time” does not cover what is in common use by the infantry, then the Second Amendment is meaningless and all future technological developments will be denied to We the People under the false doctrine of it being “dangerous and unusual.”
And yes, machineguns ARE supposed to be protected, and the tax is a fraudulent infringement imposed by usurping rights swindlers.
It’s “every terrible implement of the soldier.”
I’m probably going to have to write (another) article to elaborate.
” I know, and I think many of the people on your panel know, that prosecutors do not have evidence in hand linking the effort of Enrique Tarrio, Stewart Rhodes, and other lieutenants of theirs, to Donald Trump. They do not have the smoking-gun evidence that shows that Donald Trump was directing an effort to violently overthrow the government. ” [More]
Considering the charges and the punishment, it doesn’t even look like they “have the smoking-gun evidence that shows that[Stewart Rhodes] was directing an effort to violently overthrow the government.”
[Via bondmen]
The recommendation for Rhodes is the longest thus far for any person charged in connection with the Capitol attack, reflecting what prosecutors see as his role in a key organizing figure for members of the far-right militia — even as Rhodes was never alleged to have entered the Capitol building itself on Jan. 6. [More]
So he not only never went in, they have no direct orders he issued to any specific person. The seditious conspiracy here is by the persecutors.
This is an act of judicial terrorism with a chilling, wider goal in mind. What else would you call “the deliberate creation of a sense of fear, usually by the use or threat of use of symbolic acts of physical violence, to influence the political behavior of a given target group”?
I guess the jurors were impressionable and manipulable enough to embrace the hysteria. It also raises a question I’ve had for some time for those whose liberty advocacy efforts center on Fully Informed Juries: Even though “text, history, and tradition” known to the Founders is on your side, your message is limited by those who control the media, and by prevailing legal establishment interests, to the echo chambers of the political fringes.
The arrogant f*** (from Portland, OR) who wrote that actually cites a law review article that compares telling free citizens about their nullification rights to telling children not to stick beans up their noses (“most of them would not have thought about it had it not been suggested”) and wrings his hands over how difficult the First Amendment makes full suppression.
And potentially sympathetic politicians, mindful of what the Swamp and the media would do to them, have little incentive to touch it.
So why not force wider discussion and open the eyes of more by creating ballot measures in states that allow it? Just the act of collecting signatures will raise awareness “outside the choir” (and I qualify the use of that term), and the fact that something is gaining steam, and maybe even getting on the ballot, will call attention to a freedom safeguard the would-be rulers desperately want to keep citizens from learning about.
We might stick beans up our noses.
Court upholds California’s assault weapons bans [Watch]
Of course, it did.
Not that the reptiles causing the problems will be slowed down one beat.
[Via Jess]
SAF SEEKS PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION IN WASHINGTON GUN BAN LAWSUIT [More]
Just one more reason for the attack…
The Truth About The USCCA Self-Defense Liability Policy (2023) [Watch]
Interesting breakdown, although I do note this guy has his own financial interest in doing this.
I’d be interested in seeing USCCA and some of the gun video personalities endorsing/sponsored by the company do their own videos that address the points raised.
[Via Jim S]
UPDATE
WarOnGuns Correspondent Ron M emails:
Here’s a USCCA response to that year old YouTube that you posted.
Yes, I have USCCA.
I read the contract.
I sent the contract to my legal provider for review (Legal Shield [formerly PrePaid Legal] which is also a monthly membership service).
Based on that discussion, I asked pertinent questions of USCCA.
I still have my membership with USCCA.
Gun Group’s Financial Dealings With Founder Spark State Investigation [More]
And now, the rest of the story… and I include this link because I want you to read it.
This “investigation” is a pretty naked lawfare/smear attempt to go ad hominem on someone at the forefront of effective Second Amendment legal defense cases to try and derail and harm them. It’s also meant to cause divisions and suspicions within the “gun community” over finances and relationships with other Gottlieb holdings for marketing, rent, and other services, which have never been a secret. SAF/CCRKBA tax filings are available to anyone on Guidestar, and before calling shenanigans, document what those would cost the SAF/CCRKBA nonprofits if they were provided by someone else.
For an impartial third-party opinion, Charity Navigator doesn’t have a dog in this fight. Let’s see what they have to say:
“Good – This charity’s score is 77%, earning it a Three-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence.”
I wonder if it will come out if anyone from out of state, including groups, politicians, and federal agencies, is a silent partner in this.
This isn’t just a knee-jerk reaction on my part. I’ve had some differences with Alan over the years, including some ongoing ones, and am on good terms with people who admire him and with people who can’t stand him, but what’s happening to him here is pure filth by evil interests that want you and me disarmed.
UPDATE
I hope my speculation on silent partners is followed up on because this revelation shows the relationships are baked in.
Delaware County judge blocks Columbus gun ordinance enforcement [More]
But there are still miles to go, this is not the only road to travel, and municipal governments have virtually unlimited tax plunder to throw at this, while rights defenders need to scrape for nickels.
If you’re an Ohio gun owner, are you helping with the load, either financially or through activism?
Divided D.C. Circuit Refuses to Rehear Bump Stock Ban Challenge [More]
And that is how judicial tyranny makes peaceful revolution impossible.
[Via Jess]
