I think it’s going to be a national revolution when we get to the point, and I think we’re close to it now… [More]
I wonder how many men like me he wants to see killed, and what he thinks we’ll be doing while it happens.
[Via Mack H]
Category: Second Amendment
We’re the Only Ones Fine Enough
Police took semiautomatic rifles, a shotgun and handguns from the Rangers and said they arrested two gang members on previous warrants. None of the Rangers were arrested, though police were frustrated residents hadn’t called them sooner. ″There is a fine line between self-defense and vigilantism,” a police spokesman said, according to the AP. [More]
If the Rangers had been aiming to misbehave, they’d have been the ones disarming the police.
[Via Andy M]
What About Them?
If the mentally ill ’mustn’t own guns,’ what about ‘trans’ people? [More]
Without exceptions, it all boils down to one simple law that demands full due process.
The alternative is this.
[Via bondmen]
The Better to Eat You With, My Dear
Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a case concerning gun owner privacy in California have filed a respondent’s brief in the ongoing case of Barba v. Bonta, challenging the constitutionality of a 2021 law requiring the California Department of Justice (CAL/DOJ) to share extensive personal identifying information of gun owners in the state with a non-government research group. [More]
In fairness, sneaking to violate privacy and rules just wasn’t cutting it.
Point/Counterpoint
Dave, like so many others you are in error concerning Heller’s statement on the M-16. Scalia wrote that anyone who say’s M-16s and the like can be banned have de facto separated and nullified the prefatory clause “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,” from the operative “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
“It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful
in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be
banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely
detached from the prefatory clause.” [More]
He’s leaving out the big “but” that immediately follows:
But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty.
Previously qualified as:
We therefore read Miller to say only that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns. That accords with the historical understanding of the scope of the right…
I’ve posted this here because if I’m to get my other work done, I don’t have time to get embroiled in comments on AmmoLand, and besides, I get my say in the article and comments are for the readers.
And point of order…
Government Has Known from the Start There is a Right to Own Machineguns
“You see, if we made a statute absolutely forbidding any human being to have a machine gun, you might say there is some constitutional question involved.” [More]
Now, what are all those “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” in Congress going to do about it?
Yours If You Want Him
Second Amendment Champion Mark Robinson Expected to Announce Run for Governor of North Carolina [More]
It’d be nice not to have to do this.
[Via bondmen]
UPDATE
Grassroots North Carolina announces a rally they’re supporting.
Making the Rounds
97percent Deception
It also adopted a new test for Second Amendment cases. Gun laws today must be consistent with the laws that existed when the Second Amendment was adopted in the late 17 hundreds. This means that gun regulations will be assessed according to their conformity with laws that were in place during the 18th and 19th centuries. [More]
The 19th Century is not ” the late 17 hundreds.” I’ve been telling you these people were liars. These “kinder, gentler” citizen disarmament Astroturfers want us to believe “equal protection” means we’re now all subject to post-Civil War Black Codes introduced by Democrats a century after the Founders ratified the Bill of Rights.
“Our side” participating lends them underserved “credibility.”
Tangentially related, WarOnGuns Correspondent Jess shares a video on a First Amendment case raising similar points.
Rounds’ ‘Bipartisan’ Betrayals Undermine His Second Amendment Actions
It’s going to take more than pheasant hunting and a travelers’ bill that’s going nowhere to offset helping Chuck Schumer create a “pathway to citizenship” for illegal aliens. [More]
If wearing orange was all it took, we’d have no better pals than the Demanding Moms on “National Gun Violence Awareness Day.”
Design by Committee
Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance: ATF’s Assault on the Second Amendment: When is Enough Enough? [Watch]
For those of you who have five hours…
UPDATE
In a vacuum, ATF is neither inherently good or inherently bad… like all branches or forms of government, ATF is imbued with certain coercive powers that can be wielded either properly or improperly. [Watch}
I’ve heard enough.
Who picked her to speak for gun owners? 97percent?
[Via Mack H]
An Exclusive Revelation
On the Horns of a Dilemma
Barriers to Native American gun purchases lowered in bipartisan House bill [More]
This oughta give anti-gun Democrats posing as champions of minorities a Norman moment…
[Via Jess]
A Valid Question
Patrol rifle stolen from trooper’s cruiser overnight in Malden, Massachusetts State Police say [More]
Why is it when in the hands of the “Only Ones,” DSM propagandists acting as state enforcer cheerleaders rather than government watchdogs call them “patrol rifles, but when owned by citizens, as is their right recognized by the Second Amendment, they disparage them as “assault rifles,” and “weapons of war suitable only for killing as many people as quickly as possible”?
[Via Steve T]
The Right Stuff
Easy Enough to Fix
McCaul: We Can’t Make Weapons Fast Enough ‘to Protect the United States or our Allies’ and Don’t Have Deterrence in Taiwan [More]
Well, with Democrats doing their best to disarm those recognized by the Founders as “being necessary to the security of a free State,” you gotta wonder how much of the treason is intentional as opposed to just ignorant.
As for Taiwan, let ’em arm and train their own citizens. I’m not willing to go die for suicidal tyranny lite and can’t very well expect any other American to.
[Via bondmen]
Immediate Action Required
STOP ANTI-GUN TAKEOVER OF FORSYTH GOP [More]
If this applies to you they need you. No one else will take your place.
Explain the consequences of not being needed, and worse, being perceived as a partner with the Democrats in oppression.
Double-Plus-Ungood
The devices, commonly called Glock switches or auto sears, are already illegal under the federal National Firearms Act. [More]
And now they’ll be even more illegal!
What anyone who’s proven he can’t be trusted with these is doing without a custodian is left unsaid.
[Via Steve T]
NOW They’re Against It
Thanks to the 2022 federal gun control omnibus bill, titled the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), taxpayers in pro-gun jurisdictions are now financing anti-gun jurisdictions’ efforts to strip Second Amendment rights without due process. [More]
And while all those “A-raters” were busy selling us out, NRA was weasel wording about “frameworks.”
All an Act
AN ACT Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous articles, providing for encoded ammunition, imposing duties on manufacturers, sellers and owners of ammunition, providing for the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police and the Secretary of Revenue, establishing the encoded ammunition database and the Encoded Ammunition Database Fund, imposing an encoded ammunition database tax and imposing penalties. [More]
And subversive Democrats pull this sh!+ with straight faces and absolutely no repercussions — aside from being further rewarded with power over the lives of people who are not stupid enough to vote for them.
[Via Jess]
