Notes from the Resistance
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However, there is no reason to necessarily conclude the supreme court will decide this issue in the affirmative, especially with Barrett and Roberts having to be persuaded. [More]
They have shown a proclivity for leaving things to the states.
That would result in the greatest Constitutional crisis of our time, and set the trigger for the avalanche.
The Westcliffe Independence Day Parade/Second Amendment March had to be canceled. Received via email:
Good afternoon David, We greatly appreciate you letting your readers know about our 2A March that was planned for Saturday. However, the 4th of July Parade has been canceled because of the Aspen Acres Fire that is burning in Custer and Pueblo Counties and has grown to more than 50,000 acres. Several towns (Beulah, Rye, Wetmore) have been evacuated along with dozens of neighborhoods, with many homes and other structures already lost. I would ask for prayers for all of the first responders and everyone being affected by this and all the fires in the region, as well as our great country during these times when so many things are just upside down. Thank you and God bless you.
That’s the spirit that would have marched. That’s the spirit that confirms who is on the right side of things.
George Gramlich was known by the company he kept, and he was a pretty good judge of character.
[Via KB]
Have a contemplative Semiquincentennial Independence Day. If you’re not armed, you’ll be doing it wrong. [More]
I turned this one in in May and forgot it was due out, so I guess I lied when I said I’d be back Monday. And as long as I have your attention, check out another day-relevant piece from Firearms News: “It’s not just ‘The Fourth’ or ‘The Fourth of July,’ it’s Independence Day!”
It’s good, a victory actually, that people who would like to ban guns – and that, of course, is their ultimate goal – have a sense that it’s not going to happen politically, at least in the near term. But just because they talk about “progress” without prohibitions doesn’t mean they’ve given up on the idea. [More]
Just because “progressive” policies have enabled a subset of violent and resentful morons with a sense of unearned entitlement, anger management issues, and poor impulse control is no reason to make demands against the rest of us being able to repel them.
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted two of the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) petitions for a writ certiorari in both Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins, the organization’s challenges to the bans on so-called “assault weapons” in Illinois and Connecticut. [More]
Now git -r-done before power shifts.
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SUPREME COURT DENIES CERT IN 18-20 CARRY CASE, SAF WIN STANDS [More]
You cannot import third world people with no connection to the West, no connection to American values, no connection to right to free speech, no connection to the private right to keep in arms in a self-defense focused culture and expect our country to remain the same. You’re moron if you think anything other than what I just said…The most important issue in America when it comes to the right to keep arms and preserving our Constitution is immigration. [Watch]
Gee, I wonder who fits that description. I wonder if Ranjit is going to lecture him on being ignorant if Stephen is going to call him a Unite the Right loser, and if Kostas and Hannah are going to tell him to wait a generation or two.
And as long as I’m on the subject, I wonder why Cam Edwards thinks it’s OK to issue a challenge in front of all his followers and then not inform them of my response.
Or rather, Ed Markey does.
Funny, how all those who disagree still refuse take the challenge…
[Via Jess]
NRA Secures Statewide Preliminary Injunction Against Virginia “Assault Firearm” and Magazine Bans [More]
One more and we’ll have us a spate.
I wish their were a way to send this message [NSFW] to Bill “Oathbreaker” Glover.
Armed Americans: New Public Polling Reveals What the Firearm Industry Has Seen for Years [More]
Now do a poll on how many noobs will still vote Democrat.
I guess we’ll find out in a few months…
When Reality Bites: Gavin Newsom Has No Clue on Concealed Carry [More]
Sorry, PJ Media, but if you don’t think he knows exactly what he’s doing and why, you have no clue.
“Not evil just wrong” is both wishful thinking and self-destructive denial.
Reality bites.
[Via Dan Gifford]
The need to apply consistent criteria is not only a matter of basic fairness, but of law. [More]
The very first comment needs to be addressed. With an initial estimate of 50 FTEs processing applications, the need to minimize subjectivity and establish consistency should be self-evident, especially noting how DOJ has shown it can still be all over the board on 2A, even under a “pro-gun administration.”
Further noting this is a rule and not a law, it’s not hard to see how lack of clear criteria could allow all kinds of negative dispositions under a new administration for those applicatons already in the pipeline before it terminates the program altogether.
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law that makes it a crime for gun owners to bring their guns onto private property that is open to the public unless they have the property owner’s specific consent. In Wolford v. Lopez, by a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with a group of Maui residents with concealed-carry permits that the law violates the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right to bear arms. Thursday’s decision will have an impact not only in Hawaii, but also in four other states – California, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey – with similar laws. [More]
They got another one right!
Maybe I should ease up on John Roberts…? Until next time…?
“The Trump Administration is fighting as hard as it can to continue violating the Second Amendment rights of millions of Americans. Even though the Fifth Circuit already held that these bans are unconstitutional, the government is trying to limit the decision’s reach so it can keep disarming peaceable adults across the country. This is how the United States government celebrates 250 years of American independence—by acting like the tyrants we defeated. [More]
Just after getting an “attagirl.”
I’m telling ya: Bipolar.
Cait Conley Cruises to Victory in Suburbs as Socialism Sweeps the City [More]
And as a veteran, we should believe in the rightness of her citizen disarmament agenda, that is if we want to ignore the false authority logical fallacy and forget that one of our greatest “war heroes” was also the man who’s name became synonymous with being a traitor…
So we need to get behind Mike Lawler, right, the guy “the gun lobby thanks with campaign cash“?
You know, the guy who wants to ban “undetectable firearms,” joined other Vichycons in funding Biden’s Office of Anti-Gun Strategy who went on national TV and bragged about expanding “red flag laws”, and has proven himself to be an embedded enemy on numerous occasions…?
But…but…but politics is the art of the possible and the perfect is the enemy of the good, those who have been leading us down the path of “compromise” (aka preemptive surrender) will object. If he doesn’t win, a really, really anti-gun Democratic Socialist will!
So what’s she going to do? Ban your guns? And you’d obey?
See? The Second Amendment is still working.
How pathetic of a guncuck would you have to be to vote for this serial political adulterer?
[Via Andy M]
After Hemani, Bruen’s History and Tradition Test Has a New Target [More]
Several, actually.
And we ought to be pressing for more than 2A.
* Founders
DOJ enforcing the Second Amendment…
Imagine that. Now imagine NRA “loyalists” — in California of all places — being so against it they resort to spreading insults and lies and blocking the truth.
CALL HOUSE SPEAKER DESTIN HALL AND RULES CHAIR BELL
TELL HIM WE DEMAND A VOTE ON SB50 VETO OVERRIDE IN THE HOUSE A RECORDED VOTE IMMEDIATELY [More]
If they were doing their jobs, you’d have received a message urging your support from them.
Poll: Most Democrats Say Illegal Aliens Should Remain in U.S. and Eventually Apply for Citizenship [More]
What we don’t know is why the gun groups are deliberately ignoring the threat, and why prominent gun influencers are equating concern over that with white supremacy and/or minimizing it all by saying just wait a generation or two, as if the culture those generations will grow up in won’t have changed, and as if we have a generation or two for them to come around once a prohibitionist supermajority controls things.
Why I’m the only 0ne taking them on is also, frankly, a disappointment.
[Via Andy M]