Notes from the Resistance
Take that to mean you can’t have a permitted gun with you in a private automobile, either. The entire city is being turned into a “patchwork quilt” designed to make it impossible to travel within its limits without violating the law. [More]
By ignoring the Supreme Court’s decision with impunity, this has effectively become not just a real insurrection, but a sanctioned secession.
In a letter today to FTC Chair Khan, the senators highlighted the firearms industry’s efforts to mislead consumers about the safety of guns and the employment of advertising tactics that target children and teenagers – including using video games, popular musicians and television shows, and even Santa Claus to market its deadly products. [More]
There is no level of obsession too ludicrous for these power freaks to demand control over. None.
[Via Jess]
To promote the education, protection and exertion of students’ inalienable right to keep and bear Arms. [More]
Is it just me or does this feel like your grandma gave you a book?
The idea is needed, I don’t mean to be negative, and Lord knows I’m the last one to consider myself competent in graphic design or young adult outreach, but I’m trying to imagine how what I’m seeing here will excite and inspire anyone under 40. Or over, for that matter.
I hope some young people with expert communication and technical execution skills help them across the street with this.
Is a U.S. Civil War on the Horizon? [More]
That’s pretty much on those doing the squeezing.
[Via bondmen]
I swore an oath to the Constitution to put country first, before party… [More]
That’s why I’m doing everything I can to undermine the security of a free State!
[Via Mack H]
The second amendment is a collective, not an individual right. Hamilton knew this (see Federalist paper 29) as did the courts for several hundred years. The modern version of the second amendment only exists because of decades of work by the gun lobby to change what 2A meant. [More]
Sure, Hamilton knew people had trades to ply, farms to tend, shops to keep, and to earn the status of “well regulated” and be able to compete with a professional army “would be injurious” due to the time commitment required. Here’s what he thought we should do about that:
“Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped.”
Then they’d bring their weapons of war and muster once or twice a year to practice drill.
“You can disagree with this all you want. I’m entitled to my own opinion as are you,” he asserts in a later tweet.
“You are entitled to your opinion,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan (and no friend of 2A) famously said. “But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
Being ignorant is bad enough. Being arrogant about it is a real stool sample move.
[Via Jess]
On September 7, 2022, the National Foundation for Gun Rights filed five new lawsuits in four federal court circuits to eliminate unconstitutional magazine and gun bans everywhere! Combined with our lawsuits in Colorado these represent nearly half of the country. This nationwide legal blitz aims to take out every single ban on semi-automatic weapons and standard capacity magazines for good. [More]
I’d feel better about these if the lawsuits included acknowledgment of core purpose and that the function of the Militia, defined as “all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense [and] bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time,” was — and still is — to field citizen soldiers. These citizens bore arms that were suitable for that purpose, “ordinary military equipment” intended to be taken into “common defense” battles.
That said, isn’t it time for SAF to make peace with Dudley?
[Via Jess]
He was able to pull out his firearm and shoot the suspect four times in the chest… Mendez is now speaking out about the importance of the Second Amendment and how law-abiding, armed Americans can help end shootings before they claim more lives. [More]
I’d argue with limiting positive outcomes exclusively to the “law-abiding,” but otherwise, yeah.
[Via Robert J]
New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen: Originalism and the Relevance of Common Law and Reconstruction-Era Restrictions on Exercise of a Right [More]
David T. Hardy’s new law review manuscript is online. He concludes the majority made some shaky assumptions, too.
I’ve got some reading to do. Looks like no “Dancing with the Stars” for me tonight…
In this video I discuss two important Second Amendment case that are up for Supreme Court consideration next term which could help stop the ATF’s current actions. [Watch]
All SCOTUS needs to do to allow ATF to continue usurping legislative authority is…nothing.
Then, of course, the case could be made that any legislative authority contradicting “shall not be infringed” is a usurpation in itself.
[Via Jess]
More than 15K “red flag” gun seizures since 2020, but AP claims the law is “barely used” [More]
Speaking of “barely used,” how about the presumption of innocence until proven guilty?
And as long as we’re talking “woefully low” and “too small a pebble to make a ripple,” I wonder if anyone has compiled verifiable figures proving a documented number of saved lives attributable to “red flag” confiscations.
[Via Jess]
F-15 vs. AR-15? Bet on the Guys With the Guns [More]
Which, of course, is why they want to take them.
Tangentially related, I wonder if this is really true.
… Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough issued a preliminary injunction against the Pennsylvania State Police in Firearm Owners Against Crime – Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action, et al. v. PSP Commissioner Evanchick, in relation to its non-compliance with 18 Pa.C.S. 6111.1, by failing to provide instantaneous or otherwise immediate responses to firearm background checks. [More]
Guy looks like more than his hat is too tight…
You gotta wonder what kind of monkey wrenches the state will try to throw into the works before September 12 and what kind of surprises they have planned for after…
Baltimore police arrest ‘good guy with the gun’ who stopped armed attacker [More]
[Via Dan Gifford]
FPC Secures Partial Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Challenging ATF “Frame or Receiver” Rule [More]
About time we had something heard by a “‘go-to’ favorite.”
[Via Jess]
When Is an “Unlawful User” of Controlled Substance Prohibited from Having a Gun? [More]
Right now I’m preoccupied with “When is he not?“
Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in the case of Jones v. Bonta, challenging a California law restricting the rights of young adults to purchase long guns, are asking the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an “All Writ” enjoining the state from enforcing a new state law that penalizes plaintiffs in cases contesting state gun laws. [More]
Why should arrogant tyrants who ignore the Second Amendment with impunity have any respect for the First?
It’s past time gun manufacturers stopped acting like neutral parties, willing to reap the benefits of RKBA activism as long as they don’t have to take a stand. It’s not inappropriate to publicly ask those companies what their position is, and to favor and patronize those that stand with American gun owners (and publicize those who won’t). [More]
Or our “gun rights leaders” could just do nothing and continue turning a blind eye…
