Notes from the Resistance
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine says in a new court filing that Metro is too sensitive a place to allow regular commuters to carry handguns, because trains and buses carry large numbers of federal workers and also D.C. school children on a daily basis. [More]
What’s “a historical understanding” say about this?
[Via Jess]
Democrat Congresswoman Angie Craig receives endorsement from Minnesota law enforcement organization [More]
And that’s after:
Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig Took Part in Fundraiser with Group That Supports ‘Defunding the Police’
I’m a gun owner and supporter of the Second Amendment, but…
That’s why Gungrabby Gabby’s group says:
We are proud to endorse Angie Craig for the US House of Representatives.
“Back the blue,” right, Minnesota “Only Ones”?
The only question left: Who’s the bigger liar, Angie or these oath-breaking thugs?
Yesterday, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) re-filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of New York over the poorly named Concealed Carry Improvement Act, which took effect September 1st. Several additional plaintiffs who are willing to break the law or are currently in violation have joined the lawsuit, which was originally filed on behalf of a GOA member from Schenectady County. [More]
I posted this to my WoG Placeholder site because all that’s up on the GOA site at this writing is their July announcement.
The previous record of 4 miles set in 2020 was defeated by a 4.4-mile target hit in the high desert of western Wyoming. The bullet took 24 seconds to hit the 8-inch bullseye… [More]
Why does anyone need a dangerous “weapon of war” like that? And shouldn’t such mad skill be restricted?
And “a team of extreme long-range enthusiasts”? Like a right-wing conspiracy?
[Via bondmen]
They’re forbidden to have the means of defense. Instead, those who demand they stay this way offer useless advice guaranteed to leave them at the mercy of those who have none: “Give them what they want.” [More]
The question must be asked: “What if what they want is your life?”
“…to these should be added the personal rights guarantied and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as the freedom of speech and the press; the right of the people to peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances, a right appertaining to each and all the people; the right to keep and bear arms;…”[More]
But wait a minute — that would mean Michael Waldman, The Brennan Center, and everybody else who parrots similar bulls*** are f***ing liars…
No longer science & technology projects, high-energy laser weapons are now operational [More]
So when power packs shrink and individual infantry weapons become a reality…?
This is why, understanding core purpose, “in common use at the time” has to be applied not to what is “popular” with sportsmen, but to what is available on conventional battlefields and to enforcement authorities.
Remember when it took a roomful of computers to attain a fraction of the calculating power of your cell phone? I remember when a prominent mathematician precited a limit to computational capacity based on a point where tubes burn out and need to be replaced.
What I’m using now would have been considered the stuff of mad scientist fiction.
[Via Jess]
Ownership of Arms Protected under Takings, Second Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment [More]
Ultimately, it’s protected by individual will, regardless of what any branch of government dictates…
A group of Senate conservatives is calling on President Joe Biden to fight the nation’s violent crime wave by deploying all available resources to American cities across the United States. [More]
If they were true conservatives they’d understand principles of federalism and what the Founders knew to be “necessary to the security of a free State.”
[Via bondmen]
* Jefferson
A witty and informative email reply by attorney Donald Kilmer to a discussion on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors banning .50-caliber handguns:
As long the ban doesn’t exceed the .64 caliber U.S. issued smoothbore flintlock boarding pistol, we have nothing to worry about. Maybe the Board of Sups should read a little history.
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]
