The secrecy is because the shooting suspect is a juvenile… [More]
But they’ll be happy to tell you who made the gun!
[Via bondmen]
Category: Legal
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
A federal judge for the second time in two weeks has blocked a state ban against concealed weapons in places of worship from taking effect in Erie and Niagara counties. [More]
If a “historical understanding” is the standard under Bruen…
[Via Jess]
What’s in a Word?
SAF FILES MOTION TO INTERVENE IN CHALLENGE OF NEW GOV’T. ‘FIREARM’ DEFINITION [More]
I posted the release in its entirety on my WOG Placeholder blog because I didn’t see it appearing on the SAF News page yet, and if I don’t address this now I’ll never get back to it– check there for all case announcements to see how many actions they’re involved in and what they’re doing.
Democrat Judge Supports Bringing Back Slave Codes
Last Thursday, Judge Carlton Reeves of the Southern District of Mississippi charted a different course: He proposed appointing a historian to help him “identify and sift through authoritative sources on founding-era firearms restrictions” to decide the constitutionality of a federal law barring felons from possessing firearms. [More]
And not just felons!
The perception that free blacks were sympathetic to the plight of their enslaved brothers, and the dangerous example that “a Negro could be free” also caused the slave states to pass laws designed to disarm all blacks, both slave and free.
Who does the Obama appointment have in mind? Carl Bogus and Michael Bellesiles?
Figures the anti-gun fascists at Slate are all giddy over this.
Hey, at least Reeves isn’t starting the clock at the Fourteenth Amendment.
[Via Remarks]
A Certain Appeal
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Defendants Merrick Garland, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States; Steven Dettelbach, in his official capacity as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); the United States Department of Justice; and ATF hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from the Court’s Opinion & Order on Scope of Preliminary Injunction entered on October 1, 2022… [More]
Of course they’re not giving up on unconstitutionally claiming authority to impose frame or receiver infringements. They enjoy unlimited resources.
FPC has the entire case with filings and orders indexed for us.
[Via Jess]
Releasing the Krakens
Critics of the law take issue with some of those provisions, including ending cash bail; prohibiting judges from considering a defendant’s previous behavior when determining whether he or she is a flight risk; allowing a 48-hour period between the time a defendant on electronic monitoring leaves home without permission and the time authorities can charge that person with escape; and new police training policies without additional funding for departments [More]
What needs to be said besides “Pritzker“?
It’s not like he’ll be affected.
[Via bondmen]
We’re the Only Ones ‘Losing’ Enough
ATF, Enforcer of Gun Laws, Lost ‘Thousands of Firearms, Firearm Parts’ to Thieves [More]
What would they do to an FFL who “lost” guns?
[Via Henry Bowman]
Homegrown Tyranny
U.S. Marshals in Houston, Texas, on Monday arrested True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht and board member Gregg Phillips for contempt of court in a defamation case against them after they refused a federal judge’s order to release the name of a confidential source. [More]
Before you read the whole thing, get this playing in the background.
[Via Jess]
All in the Family
Mixed Signals
Michigan man gets life in prison after kidnapping, sexually assaulting Lubbock teen … By law, 14-year-olds simply cannot consent to sexual contact with adults. [More]
Besides, I thought “Minor Attracted People” were another victim group discriminated against by hateful Christian Nationalists…
And what about Drag Queen Story Hour?
Besides, all the cool school boards say sexualizing children is “progressive.”
After all, aren’t puberty blockers a human right?…
Don’t you think it will be easier if we just surrender to the inevitable?
[Via Steve T]
UPDATE: If it’s good enough for the military…
There’s a New Kid in Town
SAF NAMES ATTORNEY AND 2A LITIGATOR ADAM KRAUT AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [More]
So Alan is stepping down?
We’ve established that Kraut’s up on “historical understanding.”
The question is, how far will he go with it?
The Court of Ruler Opinion
Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
Hoist with His Own Petard
Austin Durrer, who has worked for Crist since 2016, was arrested Tuesday in Cambridge, Maryland, on second-degree assault charges in a case classified as “domestic violence,” according to Dorchester County court records obtained by Fox News Digital. Durrer was released on $10,000 bond after his arrest, and the court ordered him to surrender firearms and vacate his home. [More]
Gee, I feel real bad for him losing his guns like that…
[Via Michael G]
There’s a Lesson in Here Somewhere
Video: Felon’s Girlfriend Takes The Gun And Kills An Off-Duty Firefighter Who Protects A Female Cashier From Getting Attacked By The Perp – No Charges Filed [More]
If the firefighter been armed things could have turned out much differently, especially if the deterrent effect resolved things without a shot being fired.
Alternatively, if he’d emerged victorious, who thinks he’d just be allowed to walk?
[Via Dan Gifford]
Moving in for the Kill
Breaking: Sandy Hook Families Now Seeking $2.75 TRILLION in Addition to Billion from Alex Jones [More]
My natural sympathy has gone right out the window. Whether they’re launching this obscene attack on freedom out of greed or out of grief ceases to matter at this point, because this group of blinded tools is allowing itself to be used to undermine both speech and RKBA. Either way, they deserve to be repelled.
We’re the Only Ones Sworn Enough
3 murder verdicts vacated in case investigated by killer cop [More]
Yet who were the juries conditioned to believe?
New Orleans, eh?
Y’know, murderers and perjurers really make the ones who only steal wages look bad.
This is the same department that used Katrina as an excuse to disarm citizens while they went AWOL and looted.
[Via Jess]
The Rest is History
That broad test gave courts, and legislators, little to work with. “What we’ve seen so far is a lot of confusion and uncertainty in how to apply Bruen’s historical test,” Willinger said. [More]
Let’s start with “shall not be infringed”and go from there.
You’re in Good Iron Fists
Gun owners in the nation’s 10th largest city who disobey a requirement to carry liability insurance and pay a yearly fee will have to fork over up to $1,000 in fines as part of San Jose’s unique and controversial push to combat gun violence — a novel legislative approach that has triggered a challenge in federal court and has 2nd Amendment supporters up in arms. [More]
It’s not so novel– as with all “progressive” ideas, we’ve seen comparable tyrannical outrages like poll taxes and gun registration abuses before.
Licky Licardo & Co. just put a new mask on it.
Do they even have who the lucre goes to worked out yet? I want to start a pool on how many years it will take for whoever runs it to be exposed for embezzlement.
Actually, it will probably never get that far because it is so clearly unconstitutional and in violation of Bruen’s “historical understanding.” This is just protracted harassment and delaying tactics by official subversives who can spend all the plunder they want on drawn-out legal challenges and appeals, knowing that to fight it, their opponents will need to dig into limited and stretched-out financial resources.
[Via Jess]
Bull Durham
“Durham should be ashamed. Whatever his reputation as a thorough prosecutor was is now gone” [More]
So my first instincts were right?
And assuming there’s a silver lining is wishful thinking?
[Via Michael G]
