Notes from the Resistance
DOJ Tells Court NJ’s AR-15 and Magazine Bans Violates Second Amendment [More]
As much as I point out administration failings, and I do because we have to know how to steer them to do better, I also have to applaud when they do good, and acknowledge no other president and DOJ in my lifetime have even come close to defending 2A like this.
That said, I fear “common use” can turn into a trap so I’m glad to see they also didn’t ignore the Militia aspect in their brief.
Congressman Massie Introduces Bill to Repeal Federal Gun-Free School Zones Act [More]
Sixth time since 2015’s a charm?
Unfortunately, out of all those “pro-gun” Republicans there are only 13 co-sponsors and the prognosis says there’s a “1% chance of being enacted.”
Funny, how our best-Second-Amendment-president-ever’s primary concern is getting rid of Massie...
Even funnier that the NRA tried to torpedo him.
Taylor Swift Concerts Align Courts on Crowded Space Gun Bans [More]
Four Boxes Diner breaks down the desperation.
[Via Jess]
“We are hearing rumblings already that some allegedly pro-gun Republicans are already cooking up ideas to roll back the impact of the ruling,” he said. “We’re hearing things like what kind of retention-level holster the sheriffs will demand people use. If anything like that comes out, the Florida Sheriffs Association is behind it and we will fight it.” [More]
They probably want to make them easier for their DEI hires to remove.
Hey, backi the khaki, right?
[Via Edmund M]
UPDATE
California Glock Ban Heads to Governor’s Desk [More]
So much for being “a trusted partner of law enforcement“…
’cause it sure looks like we can’t trust them.
Hey, but don’t worry: Newsom promised Shawn Ryan he’s “not anti-gun at all.”
[Via Jess]
1 In 9 Americans Still Believe Political Violence Is Sometimes Justified [More]
Really? What the hell kind of sanctimonious virtue signaling is this? Zero Hedge thinks a violence monopoly is preferable?
Maybe if we could beef those numbers up it would discourage more of it happening. As I wrote 25 years ago in my GUNS and AMMO piece “You Say You Want a Revolution”:
But that’s ok. As long as such uncertainty exists, the Second Amendment is doing its job. As long as government fears an armed populace, and based on all the idiot laws they’re trying to pass, they sure must, a powerful check on tyranny remains in place. After all, it is an evident truth that the strength of our nation can be measured by its freedom, and the Second Amendment is the key bellwether for this freedom. We can see in its erosion the breakdown of trust between government and the governed, and the attendant instability and conflict that is inevitable when this happens.
The seemingly paradoxical truth is, if you want to create a stable, peaceful and free society, where a Chechnya-style conflict becomes the unlikeliest of possibilities, you must guarantee that the whole people can arm themselves to the teeth. For only by making the cost of infringing our rights too high can we make those who would abridge them afraid to act. Just as, at the individual level, a criminal avoids a potential victim who may be armed, so too does this work on a societal scale.
[Via bondmen]
The Actual Charlie Kirk 2nd Amendment Quote Lefties Lie About [More]
Of course it’s been taken out of context so that collectivist sadists can gloat.
The truth won’t change their diseased minds, but sharing it with those who may honestly just not know any better could help limit the damage and wake some people up.
[Via Michael G]
The effort calls into question whether or not Massachusetts’ firearm regulations for out-of-state visitors are unconstitutional. [More]
Let’s see what the Supreme Court already had to say about that:
It would give to persons of the negro race, …the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, …to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased …the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.
And everybody noticed they didn’t say a word about “permits.”
Funny, how even back then “give” was a thing…
[Via Edmund M]
Assistant A.G.: Everyone Working on Behalf of U.S. to Improve It ‘Has a Target on Their Back’, I’ve Urged Them to Carry [More]
As the “pro-Second Amendment” administration’s top civil rights lawyer, I’m wondering how she justifies requiring government permission — with the power to say “No”– for a non-incarcerated citizen to exercise a fundamental right.
[Via Edmund M]
FPC LEGAL ALERT: The Third Circuit has ruled that New Jersey’s bans on carrying in private vehicles and on private property by default, along with the state’s liability insurance requirement for carry permits and $50 carry permit fee for “the Victims of Crime Compensation Office account” likely violate the Second Amendment [More]
What was their first clue…?
[Via Jess]
Boston firefighter faces over 40 charges after failing to turn over firearms following a restraining order [More]
Of interest from the video:
He initially lied about having weapons, but his defense attorney explains those firearms weren’t registered. He hadn’t done them on time.
So if he’d complied with the order and produced the guns, that would have been self-incriminating.
Didn’t the Supreme Court already weigh in on that?
Anybody know who is his attorney is, and if he knows about this?
Ah, here we go.
All we can do is offer:
[Via Jess]
The governor’s special secession starts Oct. 1 and they’re awaiting the decision if the full Tenth Circuit will take up waiting periods. [More]
Democrat Walkinshaw wins special congressional election where Trump loomed large – Democrat wins Virginia special election seat after voters ‘send a statement’ on Trump policies [More]
Ready to see that happen again and again?
Yeah, but it was a Democrat district.
Making excuses and doing nothing else will ensure more Democrat districts.
Fusaro has offered a detailed plan, and good one. It’s up to NRA and VCDL to share what plans they have developed to see how their detailed strategies compare… [More]
What happens here will be a bellwether for the midterms. We’re either serious about this — and willing to do all the necessary things — or we’re not and we won’t.
Good, but will the state appeal? And when when are they going to suffer punitive damages?
Not that any of it comes out of the pockets of those responsible…
[Via Jess]
That’s how long it took me to take the White House up on it’s invitation and send it Executive Order idea requests to include gun owner representatives on the Second Amendment Task Force, end the ban on private arms at military bases, and order the Army Corps of Engineers to finalize and implement the rule to allow guns on lands it controls.
Literally less than a minute for each of these. Of course, the various options for communicating I’ve already included in my articles are also easily doable.
Funny thing is, all three articles have generated plenty of comments, mostly petty squabbling, but I’m having a hard time finding more than a handful saying “Yes, I have done this and urged my friends to do it, too.”
[Via Henry Bowman]
The DC Court of Appeals today upheld the district’s under-21 gun ban, saying that “assum[ing] without deciding that eighteen-to-twenty-one-year-olds with no criminal history are part of ‘the people’ that the Second Amendment protects,” they do not have the right to purchase, possess, or carry guns [More]
At least we know where they think rights come from.
[Via Jess]
