BFA-PAC endorses Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio governor [More]
I guess they think the idea of Heritage Ohioans is loony.
[Via JG]
Who Didn’t See This Coming?
Category: Second Amendment
Look But Don’t Touch
Army Testing New XM8 Carbine (No, Not That XM8) [More]
So showing us something we can’t have is supposed to make us do what? Wave a flag?
Such a Deal!
NRA’s partnership with @LoxandLoadedLlc is helping expand access to training, education, and community-based self-defense. [More]
That’s terrific. I approve.
Now detail the plane and resources you and your partners are effecting and expending to out-influence the bagel brains, counter the dominant influencers, and reverse that 79% ratio.
Because we know what ADL is telling them.
Maybe in a generation or two…?
[Via Andy M]
The Gold Standard of Politicians
Trump and his trolls trying to primary this informed patriot are being destructive asses.
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
At a Senate Homeland Security hearing on the Second Amendment, Senators Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and Josh Hawley question witnesses over concerns about efforts to weaken constitutional gun rights. The exchange highlights sharp divisions over how far federal policy should go in regulating firearms. Watch the three most talked-about moments from the hearing right here. [Watch]
But we always come back to what are they gonna do about it, don’t we?
[Via 1Gat]
Dismissal of Immigration Threat is What the Gun Prohibitionists’ Want
A Rebuttal to Cam Edwards’ Article ‘Should 2A Groups Make Opposition to Legal Immigration an Issue? A Response to David Codrea’ [More]
By disparaging thoughts on what a “pathway to citizenship” means for future “gun votes,” widely followed “gun rights influencers” are discouraging even discussing the issue.
Cabal News
Sudden GOP infighting explodes over bipartisan immigration reform bill [More]
Vichycons for Haitian Hammer Killers… ?
But wait! There’s more:
While the Salazar-Lawler bill is the worst of it, there are other efforts afoot from the same cabal of anti-MAGA “Republicans.” Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) has reintroduced H.R. 5494, the Essential Workers for Economic Advancement Act. The bill expands visas for up to 500,000 alien laborers in the construction, hospitality, and other sectors and proposes a new H-2C visa program for critical jobs that do not require a college degree but are essential to business operations and U.S. economic growth.
With a name like Smucker, he has to be good (from 2016):
Change my mind on how his supporting a massive influx of foreign nationals will be good for the future of 2A.
Enforce Existing Intolerable Acts?
Bring back Project Exile (1997) since this law remains on the books. We need to enforce the laws we have, there seems to be little need for new laws , in my opinion. [More]
The problem is, louder subsidized voices with longer reach dominate the discussion, and us niche-within-a-niche guys don’t even make it to most gun owners’ radar.
Text, history, and tradition tell us the Framers and the ratifiers would have rejected infringements. And reality tells us that citizen disarmament gives both predators and tyrants the advantage they need to succeed.
The Fix is In
The Democratic governor’s changes to House Bill 217/Senate Bill 749 remove the word “fixed” from part of the bill’s definition of an assault firearm, which could sharply expand the range of semi-automatic rifles and pistols swept into the ban, Republicans say. [More]
It’s good that DOJ is going to fight this, but let’s be careful not to turn “common use” into a trap.
Ultimately, it boils down to how many Virginians are committed to the Commonwealth’s motto.
Every Terrible Implement
FAA Greenlights Laser Sentry Guns To Combat Attack Drones In U.S. Airspace [More]
As I wrote in “Things to Come” for Guns and Ammo back in 2002:
Designed for deployment on AC-X “Son of Specter” aircraft gunships, we’re told that “advances will be made and the power plant will shrink and one day it will dominate the battlefield.” Hardly a small arm suitable for individual combatants? Just remember, not so long ago your pocket calculator would have filled a room, requiring programmers, technicians and keypunch operators; and cell phones, laptops and GPS units would have been considered no more plausible than… um… paralyzer beams and death rays.
I wish I had a link to it but it’s not on the internet and they own the copyright.
And sorry, it’s not “in common use.”
[Via bondmen]
This is My Shocked Face
New York City’s Prohibition on Stun Guns, Tasers Survives Appeal [More]
And here we thought the Supreme Court was pretty clear whan it ruled:
The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.
Until such @$$hole judges face consequences, this kind of crap will continue.
Assuming you don’t want to pay Bloomberg Law to read their spin, Four Boxes Diner breaks things down for us.
[Via Jess]
And They Say There are No Stupid Questions
Does the 2A Die in Virginia Tonight? [Watch]
I’ve noted before why I think defeatist titles suck.
[Via Jess]
The Militia Difference
The American Founders, having studied Rome’s failure in detail, deliberately designed a better system. They created three formal branches with stricter separation of powers — but they did not stop there. They explicitly empowered a Fourth Branch: the sovereign, educated, and armed citizenry itself. [More]
Some might even call it a core purpose.
FYI, I’m almost done with Miguel Faria’s latest that includes extensive analysis of Rome during this period and will be posting a “thumbs up” review when I am. I feel bad because I’ve had it for months but it’s long and very detailed, and circumstances have forced me to just read a little at a time.
[Via Michael G]
Biden… Excuse Me, I Mean Trump Administration Coming After Pistol Braces… Again
He not only made numerous promises to Americans regarding the Second Amendment, but he also specifically referenced the pistol brace rule, going so far as to say he would tear it up immediately upon moving back into the White House. How then have we arrived at the current impasse? [More]
This is a brave article when you realize the epic fury of the MINOs (MAGA in Name Only) will be vented not at the serial breaker of campaign promises, but at the writer and the magazine. I say this as someone who has prompted more than one demand for a publisher to choose between firing me or having their subscription cancelled.
Here’s the thing before dismissing this as “blackpilling”: Find one charge made that’s not documented. Pointing out his betrayals is not a betrayal of him. To not point them out would be a betrayal of ourselves.
Those of us calling Trump and his administration to task have offered course correction after course correction to steer things right again, only to see him ignore us and order full ramming speed. And it could have all been avoided with some simple inclusion.
If the Dems take it all it won’t be because of Cassandras’ urgent warnings. It will be because those warnings were unheeded, suppressed, ignored, disparaged, denounced, and ridiculed.
Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
IL Supreme Court Defends Removal of Traffic Court Judge for Past Conservative Comments – The Illinois Supreme Court would rather keep a heavy backlog of Cook County cases than allow a pro-Trump judge to sit on the traffic court. [More]
So the only judges will be collectivists? If a man knows a show trial gulty verdict is a predetermined outcome, why would he surrender to “have his day in court”? Because otherwise they’ll kill him?
If only the Framers had foreseen a remedy for such tyranny…
It’s pretty obvious the rulers know about it.
[Via Michael G]
A New York State of Mind
As the Democrats grow bolder and seize more power at the state and federal level, they are repealing ‘Grandfather Clauses’ or passing laws that go straight to gun seizures. It seems increasingly clear that today’s Democrats are determined to literally disarm all of us — not 50 years from now, but soon. [More]
All they’ll need is our compliance.
[Via PAG]
The ActBluegrass State
Beshear vetoes bills lowering concealed carry age, protecting gun sellers from liability [More]
Andy has other priorities, like protecting criminal illegal aliens.
Gun control and cultural terraforming go together like peas and carrots.
Besides, Kentucky Fudds are happy.
Related UPDATE
Andy needs to get to church more often.
[Via Michael G]
The Way Things Oughta Be
What have we been saying all along…?
Now… what do they have to do to get that right recognized?
[Via Jess]
Gone But Not Forgotten
It’s been four long years since ATF arrested Patrick ‘Tate’ Adamiak [More]
So, what’s it take to get the “pro-gun” administration’s attention?
Maybe if Thomas Massie or Rand Paul set the wheels and political pressure in motion to apply for a furlough so he could be their guest at the next State of the Union speech…? Even having it denied, which it probably would be, would attract wider media attention outside of the contained 2A echo chamber, making his plight a lot more difficult to just ignore.
We’re the Only Ones Tyrannizing Enough
Cops Arrest Man on His Own Property After Karen Neighbor Hears Gunshots [Watch]
I hope he gets a lawyer and that lying sow and her co-conspirators get what’s coming to them. I also suggest he file a complaint with the Tennessee Attorney General’s Civil Rights Enforcement Division and demand an investigation into falsifying a police report.
That said, he should have just said “I’ll speak to you through my attorney” and shut up.
And point of order: I don’t like using “Karen” any more than I do “Boomer” for reasons stated at each link.
The Sheriff’s Office is getting its @$$ handed to it over on Facebook.
[Via Andy M]
Department of War Memorandum on Private Guns on Military Bases a Step in Right Direction
While this is a welcome and much needed announcement, and while Hegseth’s acknowledgement that the Second Amendment is a “God-given right” is consistent with the clear intent of the Framers of the Constitution, it needs to be recognized for what it is—a good first step but not the journey’s end. [More]
Appreciate the progress. Take it, but then demand more. After all, we’re not asking for anything that isn’t ours and owed to us.
