From yesterday’s Bondi hearings what became abundantly clear is Democrats don’t want DOJ looking into their shenanigans.
I wonder what political connections and communications will emerge…
[Via Michael G]
Category: Militia
An Unregulated Militia
One might reasonably ask why, with all the various shooting sports available, it is the tactical shooting sports that have grown exponentially in recent years. The answer is simple: There is a growing recognition in the United States that average citizens may, in the not-too-distant future, have to defend themselves against ungovernable crime — or tyranny. [More]
Just because Congress is deliberately indifferent to it’s mandated militia obligations under Article.1. Section. 8. doesn’t mean DIY isn’t an option… all except for the organizing part. Gun groups focused exclusively on self-defense really ought to put some energy into convincing “our beautiful Second Amendment” president-elect into promoting that and removing state “legal” barriers against…
[Via Dan Gifford]
Individual and Collective
The Second Amendment references a militia, “the security of a free State,” and two specific rights–the right to possess arms and the right to carry them–and all of this is bound together by a general, overarching right to self-defense. To put it simply, the Second Amendment is multi-faceted. [More]
True enough.
And ignoring core purpose, which so many do, is a grave mistake.
[Via bondmen]
No Constitutional Reason Justifies Not Recognizing 2A Rights of Young Adults
Anyone who tells you 18-to-20-year-olds are not fully enfranchised citizens entitled to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment is a liar and an enabler of tyranny. [More]
Sending back what should have been a no-brainer makes me wonder which SCOTUS members we’ve been told are 2A-friendly are getting ready to disappoint…
Illinois Semiauto Ban Challenge
PLAINTIFFS’ PROPOSED FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW [More]
Mark W. Smith says they’re “GREAT 2A ARGUMENTS.”
I’d feel better if they cited the word “militia” more than once, and that just to quote the amendment.
[Via Jess]
So Much for Holding These Truths to Be Self-Evident…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sent a challenge to a Pennsylvania law barring people 18- to 20-years-old from carrying guns back to the lower courts for another look in light of last term’s decision in United States v. Rahimi, in which the justices attempted to provide guidance for courts reviewing Second Amendment challenges to restrictions on gun rights. [More]
I know the wheels of justice grind slowly and we have procedures for a reason, but come on...
[Via Jess]
Spooking the Herd
If they do find any, I wonder what percent will be embedded feds…
If they can’t provoke the low-hanging fruit, they need to find some other way to conflate them with us.
[Via WiscoDave]
The Monroe (County) Doctrine
Shoemaker submitted his original response to the complaint on Sept. 18, including a defense reading: “There was and will be no Constitutional violation in enforcing the statute because the phrase ‘bear arms’ is a 1791-era idiom referring to military or militia service. Plaintiffs have failed to plead their involvement in a militia.” [More]
He “loves history“? You can’t prove it by this.
This is the quality of moron presuming to detemine your rights in New York? What repercussions will this douche suffer?
Looks like the county prosecutor is just as big of an @$$hole.
To those praising the “Only One” for “deescalation,” this was elitism writ large. He knew who she was and who she knows. Imagine what he would have done to her if she weren’t the DA, that is, to you and me, for the same behavior.
All she had to do was “apologize,” and she’s back to having the uniforms put you and me behind bars for claiming our rights.
Bleeding Edge News
The Monopolist’s Complaint
By the Rude Bridge that Arched the Flood
Five musket balls fired during the event known as “The Shot Heard Round the World” on April 19, 1775 were recently discovered by archeologists working at the Minute Man National Historic Park in Concord. [More]
Concord was over three hours later…
[Via Edmund M]
Thomas Wants to Address What ‘Arms’ are Protected by Second Amendment
The question before the courts should be simple: How did people at the time of the Constitution’s ratification define “arms”? [More]
“Weapons of war” are precisely what the Founders had in mind.
Right Next to the Peter Pull at St. Taffy’s…
Hartford Citizen Patrol Presents Dilemmas for Gun-Grabbing Democrats
The Self-Defense Brigade, organized “at the behest of Archbishop Dexter Burke of the Walk in the Light Church of God,” is reminiscent of an effort from the middle of the last century, one remembered and honored by Amendment advocates with long memories, but for the most part ignored by Democrats and self-designated “civil rights leaders,” none of whom, if they even know about him, are keeping the example set by Robert Hicks alive, to be reflected on today and passed on to the next generations. [More]
Go ahead, sic the cops on ’em, Democrats. I dare ya.
Showing the Way
A predominantly Black neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, hoping to fend off violent crime, has turned to an armed group of citizens to patrol their streets by land and by air. [More]
So they’re breaking the law?
Go on, break ’em up and arrest ’em, Connecticut Democrats.
[Via Jess]
Who Are the Militia?
Despite facing backlash from civil rights activists and Democratic lawmakers, Republicans in conservative-leaning Nassau County, New York, are moving forward with a plan to form an armed, civilian militia that the local government could operate as a de facto police force during “emergencies.” [More]
To paraphrase Slick Willie, it depends upon what the meaning of the term “civil rights activist” is.
Think of the mentality of anyone who would be against this.
[Via Jess]
Stand…uh… Flying Army
Calling it a “power grab,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) has expressed his opposition to the Biden administration’s proposal to transfer members of the Air National Guard to the Space Force without the permission of state or territorial governors. [More]
That must be why the ACLU tried to evade my challenge by claiming the Militia evolved into the National Guard…
And there are still egotistical useful idiots mistaking themselves for informed trying to keep the lie proppped up.
It’s funny– I go back to some of my old stuff, and while I can see things I said then that I might challenge today, I’m not unhappy that my influencers then were those arguing text, history, and tradition…
[Via Michael G]
Tangentially Related UPDATE
And Nadler’s still beating that horse…
[Via Jess]
The Dogs of War
Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine Special Operators [More]
So once they’re “in common use,” can the rest of us get them?
[Via bondmen]
Next Generation Army Rifle Highlights Danger of ‘Common Use’ Argument to Defend 2nd Amendment
And the prohibitionists are aided in citizen disarmament when “gun rights leaders” not only accept – but argue for an invented “in common use at the time” qualifier that limits permitted firearms to what is commercially popular, as opposed to what soldiers and police carry… [More]
Hitler envisioned a Thousand Year Reich. The goal in the evil minds of fascist gun banners is a totalitarian monopoly of violence—forever.
Marxine Wants You Dead
Maxine Waters Calls on DOJ to Investigate Trump Supporters ‘Training Up in the Hills’ for Civil War [More]
As opposed to Maxine Waters supporters training for another “defining moment in the way that black people resisted“…?
And funny, how “insurrectionists of color” are social justice champions in this racist b!+ch’s world…
[Via bondmen]
We’re the Only Ones Inspecting Enough
NYC buildings commissioner wants inspectors to make arrests, carry guns [More]
What was it Mr. Mason had to say…?
I ask, Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.
Everything these statist bastards do repudiates the intent of the Framers.
[Via Jess]
Finland’s Government Support for Civilian Shooting: A Step in the Right Direction the U.S. Should Take
“Well, the reservists are ready and willing, if Russkies are coming. They will be a big help for the regular army,” Saro declared. “If there will be new shooting ranges opened, the main reason is just to be ready and practice. It is pretty similar to our Civil Guard that was active before the wars. Then, besides reservist and military, there are hunters.” [More]
Yes, there’s plenty wrong with their “gun control” laws. That doesn’t mean we can’t learn from what they do right.
Their Fudd Guns and Every Other Popular Implement of the Sportsman are the Privilege of an American
We are losing machine guns, folks, and we’re losing them every single day, and they’re never coming back most likely. [Watch]
As long as lawyers representing us continue to treat “in common use” as what’s commercially permitted instead of what’s deployed with, he’s right.
[Via Jess]
Every Terrible Implement
M-16 Era Ends: Army’s 101st Airborne Division Receives Next-Gen Assault Rifles [More]
You and I can’t have those either, because they’re not “in common use.”
As long as we allow that to be defined by what’s popular for “self-defense” and sport as opposed to arms that soldiers bear, we’re giving the prohibitionists an out to screw us.
[Via bondmen]
Challenge to Illinois Assault Weapon Ban Includes Militia Considerations in Right to Arms
“If courts continue to operate under the misimpression that the right to keep and bear arms protects only neutered firearms like break-barrel shotguns and bolt-action hunting rifles, the Second Amendment will offer little but a parchment barrier against tyranny,” the GOA petition correctly observes. [More]
It’s a necesary legal hurdle to clear if gun owners ever hope to challenge the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act.
Not the Only Ones
News in Brief
GOA Petition to SCOTUS for Writ of Certiorari Against Illinois Categorical Ban on AR-15s… Friends of The Captain’s Journal Stephen Stamboulieh and Oliver Krawczyk wrote this brief, along with Rob Olson. A better constructed and more direct and honest one you will never find. [More]
This covers some essential points that can’t be raised enough. I intend to write an article soon explaining why.
Swiss Shooting Culture ‘Documentary’ Reinforces False Narrative to Justify ‘Gun Control’
It would help if he didn’t automatically buy into prohibitionist propaganda, but by doing so he relieves us of the obligation to take him as an impartial and objective observer. [More]
Why is there such a difference in the numbers and rates of violent crimes betweeen two armed cultures? Hint: It ain’t because of “gun control” laws.
The Enemies Within
“Understand that if active duty military actually get deployed within the United States, that weapon is not just going to be pointed at other people, other countries, it’s pointed at you.” [More]
And those will be real “weapons of war.”
Noting the differences in sheer numbers and the impossibility of containing them, I’d say there’s a meme in there somewhere, but I’m actually more concerned with how China and Russia would be taking advantage of Democrat-initiated hostilities, with no small amount of reliance on another group that outnumbers the military.
[Via Michael G]
‘Paramilitary Ban’ Just Another Democrat Plot to Secure Monopoly of Violence
The issue as far as Raskin and Markey’s latest affront to liberty goes, is that nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government delegated authority to ban paramilitary activities. They are usurping power – or trying to. And though Raskin cites authority including the Supreme Court’s admission in Heller “that the Second Amendment ‘does not prevent the prohibition of private paramilitary organizations,’” it would be interesting to see how that would hold up against the more recent Bruen standard of the understanding at the time of the Founding. Especially noting historical examples like Allen, or more to the point, Capt. John Parker at Lexington Green… [More]
“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials,” George Mason asked and answered. Curious, how public officials are bent on destroying that…
