Notes from the Resistance
Pentagon announces largest-ever defense budget request [More]
Funny– Congress never spends even one penny on “organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States.” And none of those “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” are demanding it.
Seeing as how the authors of the Constitution they all swore an oath to uphold viewed it as “being necessary to the security of a free State,” Why do you suppose that is?
The Idaho Senate on Monday cleared a bill that would repeal a longstanding state law prohibiting private militias and paramilitary organizations. [More]
The Framers were well aware of the contribution Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys made to Liberty, which means laws against them would not pass … uh … muster.
[Via bondmen]
“We are working with the Ukrainian soldiers… [More]
What about with Ukrainian citizens?
[Via bondmen]
“After reading about the history of the second amend and talking with a lot of hist & law professors- I believe the second amendment has been intentionally misinterpreted. It was never meant as an individual right it was created to protect state militias like the national guard.” [More]
What did he read and who did he talk to?
Is there anything more endearing than ignorance presented with arrogance? Now that he’s achieved Constitutional godhead, maybe he can produce the evidence ACLU failed to back before he was born…?
[Via Michael G]
“This Is Not A Gun Bill.” [More]
You just can’t have guns while practicing defensive tactics with your friends.
I wonder what the Green Mountain Boys would have said about that.
Gigantic New FBI Headquarters Twice Size of Pentagon [More]
Compared to how many million “unorganized militia” members…?
[Via Michael G]
Why are Democrats Protecting Antifa? [More]
Reminds me of another question…
Besides, domestic enemies can’t allow anything necessary to the security of a free State…
Common use and dangerous and unusual are mutually exclusive. Something can’t be dangerous and unusual if it’s in common use. [More]
And if we were doing things according to founding intent, they’d be in common use.
Two More Years of Biden. What Can Be Done About the Border? [More]
Do I dare go into what should be done?
While I am a believer in our Constitution and our 2nd Amendment, I firmly support the ban on assault-style rifles and I truly hope our federal government follows to ban them nationwide. Since our Constitution and the 2nd Amendment were formed, firearms have become much more sophisticated and much more deadly. Our Founding Fathers were not loading .223 rounds into their muskets. They were not using firearms designed to disintegrate human bodies. As I said following the Highland Park mass shooting, these weapons of war do not belong on our streets. They’re used to kill our police, used to kill innocent people, and used to inflict maximum carnage on their victims. [More]
The hand on the Bible is always a good clue.
Some of the cud-chewers in “Comments” certainly have the government they deserve.
UPDATE:
Never mind that this is illegal under current federal law. But who cares, right? [More]
[Via President Non_Fudd]
Governor DeWine Signs BFA-Backed SB 185 to Protect Second Amendment Rights During Emergencies [More]
First, do no harm. Excellent.
Now, assuming we’re talking about a widespread disaster where limited civil authority resources are triaged and whole areas will be left for an indeterminate time to fend for themselves, dare we hope we’ll ever see a bill that provides for activating the militia of the whole people after training and equipping them first?
A federal lawsuit supported by the Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition has been filed in New York, challenging that state’s ban on so-called “assault weapons.” [More]
I’ve been arguing not to forget “core purpose” in 2A actions, so I find this a good add:
The firearms at issue in this case are the sorts of bearable arms in common use for lawful purposes that law-abiding people possess at home by the millions. And they are, moreover, exactly what they would bring to service in militia duty, should such be necessary.
Who Wants to Tell California AG Bonta that Access to ‘Weapons of War’ as a Check Against Tyranny is a Core Tenet of the Second Amendment? [More]
Why do you think he and his masters are so bent on destroying it?
I just wish more 2A lawsuits would focus more on the Militia, and how ignoring that facilitates more infringements.
The US Military’s New Smart Optic that Aims For You. The XM-157 [Watch]
Will those whose “birthright” is “every terrible implement of the soldier” be able to aim back should the legitimate need arise?
[Via Jess]
Large-capacity magazines are not “arms” protected by the Second Amendment because they are not essential to the use of firearms… Additionally, large-capacity magazines are not protected “arms” because they are not commonly used for self-defense. [More]
Since that directly follows an “Overview of Bruen’s text-and-history standard for analyzing Second Amendment claims,” I wonder what Tench would say to that…?
Legal weasel Rob Bonta proves the point that if you limit arguments to “self-defense” and ignore core purpose, you’re not using every means at your disposal.
[Via Jess]
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Kentucky, and Illinois are deploying several national guard units to the U.S.- Mexico border. [More]
Better than nothing, I guess, but this wouldn’t be needed if the affected states had citizen militias in accordance with the Constitution like they’re supposed to…
[Via bondmen]
