“I know very staunch Second Amendment advocates who totally agree with Red Flag laws.” [More]
Name one and I’ll expose them as a gunkapo fraud.
Who’s that doing the talking? What a moron.
[Via WiscoDave]
Category: Second Amendment
Ulterior Motives
AI Overview: Reports and analysis from legal observers and gun rights advocates indicate that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 2025 shift on firearm suppressors was a strategic legal maneuver. By conceding that suppressors are a form of “arm” under the Second Amendment, the DOJ laid the groundwork to defend the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA) tax and registration scheme against legal challenges.
Guns and Gadgets elaborates. [Watch]
The “gun groups” obviously don’t care about this, so I don’t know why I should.
[Via Jess]
Who Couldn’t See That Coming?
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said groups challenging a 2013 law banning assault weapons and a second gun control law enacted a decade later could not show that the guns they are still able to possess, including several semi-automatic handguns, are not sufficient for self-defense purposes. [More]
And no, I don’t think they’re embarrassed at all. I think they’re in-our-face about it.
[Via Jess]
Cutting to the Chase
If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review in Viramontes v. Cook County, SAF’s challenge to the Cook County, Ill., ban on so-called “assault weapons.” [More]
I was happy to see that it did not neglect to include:
The text of the Second Amendment itself proclaims that one of its purposes was to preserve the “militia” and, to state the obvious, the militia did not exist solely to promote individual self-defense but rather was “useful in repelling invasions and suppressing insurrections,” “render[ed] large standing armies unnecessary,” and enabled the people to be “better able to resist tyranny”. Indeed, to the extent there is a historical tradition with respect to “military” arms, it is to afford them especially strong protection.
Tangentially Related Development
The U.S. Supreme Court has distributed a Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) case, Madison Lara v. Commissioner Pennsylvania State Police, for conference to be held on Monday, Sept. 29. [More]
Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Rob Sand is a gun-toting Christian from rural Iowa who goes deer hunting, drives a white Ford F-150 pickup, and opens speeches by quoting the Bible. He is also a rising Democratic star whose run for governor is spooking Republicans in the ruby red state. [More]
Here he is congratulating a doctrinaire gun-grabber on her win.
What kind of stupid Fudd would you have to be to be taken in by this fraud?
[Via bondmen]
The ‘New Second Amendment’
How the NYPD, Manhattan DA are fighting radical online ghost gun manufacturers [P. 14]
I like the old one just fine, thank you.
You know, the one where the Framers envisioned guns without serial numbers for everyone…
Didn’t they even include a Preamble to the Bill of Rights to explain why, that is, “in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of … powers”?
Ol’ Deputy Chief Nilan certainly looks the part.
The Outer Limits
None Dare Call It Treason
(4) acknowledges that States with strong gun laws are endangered by States with weak gun laws, and that the trafficking of firearms across State lines puts the safety of all Americans at risk; and (5) acknowledges that Congress has a duty to pass comprehensive Federal gun safety legislation in order to prevent future tragedies and address the epidemic of gun violence in the country. [More]
New York citizen disarmament for everybody! By bagel brains, of course.
What can I say besides Jerry Nadler, Dan Goldman, and Democrats?
They, of course, know this only has a “7% chance of being agreed to“– for now. Let the Republicans blow it and the Dems regain majorities and this will only be a “good first step.”
[Via Jess]
Greenest State in the Land of the Free
First, court held that Tennessee’s “intent to go armed” statute violates the Tennessee Constitution and the Second Amendment. Second, the ruling declared unconstitutional Tennessee’s statute which makes it a criminal offense to merely carry certain weapons in parks and recreational areas even if for self-defense. [More]
Fine. A three-judge panel. What will the full court say, and how long will this intolerable nonsense go on?
I’m imagining what David Crockett would have had to say about this.
[Via Jess]
Agenda Once More Bleeds Through in Latest National Gun Policy Survey
Johns Hopkins has once more beclowned itself as a purveyor of agenda driven “junk science” [More]
If we can’t believe prohibitionist gunquacks, who can we believe?
A Man of Letters
We can always count on your paper to print illogical rants when it comes to guns, and the Aug. 4 editorial where it lent its voice to the New York Daily News was no exception (“Gullible public laps up same toxic myth about guns”). [More]
WarOnGuns Correspondent Andy M got another letter published
Every regular reader here — especially those of you who post comments — has everything he needs to write a letter to the editor. Why not do it?
I used to get ’em published all the time — before I started blogging and doing magazine columns (nice to see SCOTUS has finally come around on history and tradition):
Great… my woke spell check is acting up again:
No One to Blame But Himself
Who’s the Boss?
Rogue DOJ Lawyers Rebel Against Trump, Still Fighting GOA in Court Over Biden’s Gun Control” [More]
No, that’s not where three buck stops. And it doesn’t excuse untreated bipolarity. I’ve been a manager before. It’s on you to direct your good people and cull the bad ones.
This is what happens when key people are purposely excluded— although the way those key people have avoided acknowledging that and demanding their seat at the table is telling. They’re all cowed and walking on eggshells hoping to be able to claim credit for scraps while not offending a mercurial Patrón from turning on them for being “disloyal.”
Hold That Tiger
There are some behaviors so aberrant, some crimes so vicious, and some consciences so amoral that it can never be safe to allow a congenital predator unfettered access to a potential victim pool and not expect that innocents will be attacked. [More]
My latest American Handgunner “Second Amendment” column is out.
Call Me Irresponsible
Somebody Finally Admits It! Licensed Citizens are “Responsible Gun Owners” [More]
“Licenses”…? Like the kind dogs wear on their collars…?
So the government permission slip is what does it…?
The Salish Epiphany
Political violence surges across America as lawmakers face growing threats at home [More]
Tell us again how an armed citizenry wouldn’t stand a chance against “F-15s and nukes” if enough conclude real tyranny has taken power, they’ve nothing left to lose, and a few outliers start setting examples.
Lest that observation be taken as a terrorist threat by those who demand we be disarmed, this is what we, mindful of history and striving to right the course of the Republic peaceably with all the remarkable tools bequeathed to us by the Founders, have been working to avoid while they, in their arrogance, continue to squeeze.
As a secondary “benefit,” it’s their lives, too, we’ll save if we’re successful.
In the Spirit of Aloha
SAF, PARTNERS FILE AMICUS BRIEF CHALLENGING HAWAII’S FIREARMS PURCHASE LAWS
When the press release gets posted you’ll be able to find it here.
To cut to the chase, go to the brief.
Tangentially Related
SAF sister organization CCRKBA has an update on wins and losses in New Jersey.
On This We Can Agree
Trump Says He Supports Expanding Concealed Carry to D.C. [More]
Great. So do I.
But there are some concerns about how he’s going about the “cleanup” that a few of us are concerned about that his apologists are dismissing as the gripes of disgruntled naysayers who only focus on the bad and ignore everything good he’s done.
I’m working on something to address all that.
[Via Jess]
Still Subversive After All These Years
ABA Recommends …MORE Gun Control! Continuing a Track Record of 24 Years of Infringing on 2A Rights [More]
I’d say bar complaints are in order, except “experience hath shewn” the lying b@$+@rd$ protect their own.
