Category: Militia

Showdown Coming?

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral argument today in Reese v. BATFE involving whether young adults have a right to acquire firearms from federal gun dealers under the Second Amendment and, relatedly, whether 18 USC 922(b)(1) is constitutional. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner predicts that this gun control statute will be struck down and then the US DOJ will have to seek cert from the US Supreme Court. [Watch]

What was the understanding at the time of the Founding?

What is the law?

[Via Jess]

The Way Things Are

But it was not normal. It was an anomaly, a glorious one, but an anomaly nonetheless. [More]

Word:

…I must ask where in history is any civilization guaranteed stasis? Has not despotism and mass destruction plagued every civilization that preceded ours? Is it not, in fact, still commonplace throughout the globe? By what suspension of reality, by what denial of the observable and the probable, by what art, device or magic are we sheltered few immune from catastrophe? Are we certain, from our brief and privileged vantage point, that such things will ever remain headline curiosities? Is it not just plain stupid to proclaim that our familiar way of life will forever be the norm, when everything that has gone before us shows we are, instead, the extremely lucky beneficiaries of a rare and fortunate convergence of circumstances; and one, by the way, that has only been preserved under force of arms?

And I loved the bit about the cat women.

[Via bondmen]

A Feature, Not a Bug

Yet, when these dedicated analysts came to their woke bosses, saying, “We need to pay attention to this!” Their bosses contemptuously dismissed them with something like, “Don’t worry about it” When the shallow and self-centered don’t want something to be true, they “pretend” it’s not true. That’s exactly what happened at Pearl Harbor in 1941, in Vietnam just prior to the Tet Offensive in 1968 (I was there for that one!), and in NYC in September of 2001. [More]

Ephesians 6:12 comes to mind.

Parallel Worlds

David Codrea, in Firearms News reports that “While parallels to the situation in Ukraine are understandable enough to make with this new move to recruit civilians into the defense equation, the biggest similarity (and biggest mistake) is, both nations waited until the wolf was at the door to start the process. [More]

I was talking about Taiwan, but yeah, the parallels are there too.

I’ll take whatever publicity I can get as long as it doesn’t come with a mug shot.

A Good First Step

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announced Tuesday that 10,000 assault rifles are being purchased and distributed to civilian security teams in communities along the country’s borders. [More]

This isn’t a case of just handing out rifles to civilians like they did in Ukraine:

Civilian security teams provide security to small towns and communities in Israel’s periphery and in West Bank settlements, some of which helped defend residents from the Hamas invasion on Saturday before the IDF was able to arrive.

But like Ukraine, what the government giveth, the government taketh away:

Approximately three years ago, the IDF began taking away firearms from some of these security teams due to the repeated theft of such weapons … they were essentially unarmed during Hamas’s invasion.

“Gun control” kills.

Green Mountain Boys Need Not Apply

‘Calling forth the Militia’ [More]

Not if the government has anything to say about it.

A lot fewer of us would die if the damned elected traitors and their functionaries hadn’t undermined our ability to organize and approach something resembling “well regulated.” And our “gun groups” with their legal efforts focused exclusively on “self-defense” own their portion of the mass uncoordinated unpreparedness.

[Via CP]

A False Argument

Acosta repeatedly asked Norman how Republicans planned to secure the border if there is a government shutdown and said, “I guess I don’t understand that.” [More]

HOW DO YOU EXPECT THE GOVERNMENT TO WORK IF IT’S RESTRAINED BY THE CONSTITUTION…???

Disregarding for a moment that there’s such a thing as priorities and it’s not like the powers that be are just going to tell the military to go home, there’s a whole ‘nother deliberately unused resource that those same powers have a vested interest in ignoring…

Tales Out of School

Washington hijinks aside, Wyoming’s Cowboy State Daily reported on Monday that “despite the Biden administration’s efforts to defund school hunter education and archery programs as ‘dangerous weapons training’ for students, Wyoming will go ahead with expanding those programs in public schools throughout the state.” [More]

And yes, Cornyn and Tillis are tools.

That said, where in the Constitution is this even a thing?

And what’s with ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ for “sporting purposes“?

Let me know when they replace Fudd Funding with “Introduction to Your Militia Duties” classes.

[Via Michael G]

His Heart’s in the Right Place

“We’re patrolling the neighborhood. But we have guns because the Second Amendment says that if you have a license, you are allowed to carry one,” he said. [More]

That’s not what it says at all.

While it’s encouraging to see this, you can’t very well claim rights if you don’t understand them.

Still, I wouldn’t mind seeing the racist implications of Connecticut’s asinine “duty to retreat” exposed.

[Via Jess]

A Considered Opinion

“We remind the court that the Second Amendment refers to a right ‘of the people’ without mentioning age, and certainly young adults fall within the definition of ‘the people’ ever since they’ve been allowed to vote, and generations before that when they were considered part of the militia, and have been accepted into the military.” [More]

They’re not just “considered.” They’re recognized by law.

More Holes Than Swiss Cheese

Switzerland is a country that has a high rate of gun ownership but doesn’t have a high level of gun violence. It’s because they actually have a well regulated militia with high levels of mental and legal vetting AND training to own a gun. [More]

And nothing else factors in?

If so, he should have no problem showing commensurate higher rates of “gun violence” among people of Swiss ancestry here.

Except challenge him with facts and he runs away…

And we shouldn’t lose sight they have their own totalitarian wannabes trying to destroy their historic security and sovereignty by mandating global citizen disarmament edicts.

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