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Category: Second Amendment
A Right Delayed
Yesterday, New Mexico gun owners won a huge victory at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Ortega v Grisham. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of several New Mexico residents supported by the NRA, Mountain States Legal Foundation and other groups. The plaintiffs attempted to buy a gun on the first day the 7-day firearm waiting period law went into effect last year. While they passed the background check and paid for their firearms, they were not able to take their guns home with them due to the new law. [More]
We’ve already touched on this but I though it best to hear directly from the people affected.
Relaxing Commonsense Gun Safety Laws Results in More Gun Violence and Death!
They say that like it’s a bad thing. [More]
This Day in History
What’s in a Verb?
Meet the New Boss…
In Gun Owners of America’s (GOA) ongoing case challenging the Biden administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which implemented stringent standards for federal firearms dealers that enabled licenses to be revoked over paperwork errors, the government does not intend to change its position, according to GOA’s Tuesday filing exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. [More]
[Via Jess]
Here Come the Judge
We agree with the District Court that the Plaintiffs’ individual-capacity claims are barred by absolute judicial immunity. We further conclude that Article III’s case-or-controversy requirement bars official-capacity claims under § 1983 against state court judges who rule on firearms license applications under New York state law. Affirmed. [More]
[Via Jess]
The Wait is Over
We’re the Only Ones Just Kidding Enough
An Illinois State Police trooper from Deerfield has been arrested for allegedly possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material … the agents found evidence of deleted child porn on the cellphone he was holding at the time, and some of the images were reportedly of children whose ages were around four years old. [More]
Just think– when I went to Chicago for a family memorial service a month back, he could have arrested me if I had defied their citizen disarmament edicts.
[Via bondmen]
Never Mind
On Monday, the Sherburne County Attorney’s Office filed court papers to dismiss their case against Matthew Walker Anderson, a Minnesota gun owner who was facing multiple felony charges for possessing firearms that did not have serial numbers. The decision comes just days after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that state law allows Minnesotans to possess certain firearms that lack serial numbers. [More]
After putting this man through hell for years, all these persecuting bastards can do is play Emily Litella?
[Via Jess]
For the Children
Shotgun preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders [More]
Reminds me of a post from almost 20 years ago, when a 12-year-old stopped armed robbers invading his grandmother’s store.
In all cases, then or now, self-righteous gun prohibitionists would rather the targeted victims had been killed than armed– preferably with guns, so they could dance in their blood and press for more bans, although they’d settle for pitchforks.
[Via WiscoDave]
UPDATE
Looks like the main link goes to a fake story.
That’ll teach me to ignore my own advice.
Can We All Get Along?
Sanctuary! Sanctuary!
- U.S. AG Bondi threatens Washington over sanctuary policies, Gov. Ferguson fires back
- CT receives letter from AG Bondi alleging ‘sanctuary policies,’ demanding response
- Pam Bondi threatens prosecution for leaders not complying with immigration officers
- AG Pam Bondi sends letter to Oregon leaders threatening action over sanctuary policies
I like how that last link contained the words “racism” and fascism,” words appearing nowhere in the text of the “report,” showing us exactly what “real reporter” Vasili Varlamos and KATU 2 ABC are all about.
What, the willfully obtuse may ask, does any of this have to do with that “single issue”?
[Via Jess]
We’re the Only Ones Descending Enough
Dozens of ATF Agents Descend on DC Neighborhoods as Part of Trump Takeover [More]
I don’t suppose they’ll be charged with what they do with the guns so much as just having them, so before cheering this on, “send not for whom the bell tolls…”
Shall Not Be Infringed Except…
“No law-abiding citizen should have to wait months before he or she can register their firearms, or obtain a concealed carry permit”… [More]
No citizen should be required to do either.
I really get tired of being a critic. I wish our “leaders” would give me less to criticize.
If anyone wants to give a lecture on increments, you’ve got the whole rest of the internet to do it at.
The Animating Contest
Don’t be content to just bellyache, instead do something. And by “do something”, I don’t mean the half-assed leftist version of “do something”, I mean give some serious thought, and come up with something potentially meaningful you can do, to help our cause. [More]
Stumped for ideas? Pick one or more, or come up with something that suits you.
Just Like the Founders Intended with ‘Shall Not Be Infringed’
[T]he Department of Justice [is] fighting the so-called non-resident handgun ban that says that you cannot take a possession of a handgun in a state in which you are not a resident from an FFL. That’s right. This law is being challenged down there in Texas and the Department of Justice has just responded arguing that the law is indeed constitutional under our Second Amendment. Is it? [Watch]
Of course not.
Either the AUSA signing onto that is a still-embedded Democrat purposely undermining Pam Bondi’s memo, or it’s all smoke and mirrors and she was just telling gun owners what they wanted to hear to keep them corralled.
And so much for the new “Pro-gun” ATF mandarin NSSF is gushing over.
In either case, it once more illustrates that until the 2A Task Force includes actual 2A advocates instead of just government employees beholden to their masters, we can continue to expect DOJ bipolarity, with aggressive MAGA Über Alles types asking if we’d rather have Kamala.
There’s a reason the rice bowl gun groups aren’t demanding a seat at the table. They’ve been showering him with flattery and simultaneously walking on eggshells, afraid to p!$$ off a mercurial Trump, lest he condemn them and cast them out.
[Via Jess]
Beto Testing
Beto O’Rourke says he does not regret saying he will take away AK-47s and AR-15s while running for president [More]
He still hasn’t fleshed out how for us.
He was speaking as if he had presidential powers, so, say it’s through executive action or even a law he signed– presuming he’s replaced enough SCOTUS justices to reverse Bruen.
Now what?
What’s it going to take to get the guns away from the, say, Three Percent who will say “Hell no, you won’t,” despite seeing some picked off to be made examples of to spook the rest of the herd…?
How far is he willing to go, and what will that do to the smooth running of society?
Meanwhile, Over Where the Shot Heard Round the World was Fired…
SAF Challenges Non-Resident Carry Permit Process in Massachusetts [More]
Can you imagine explaining this to Samuel Adams?
[Via Jess]
ALSO from SAF:
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners secured a major victory today after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a mandate overturning California’s “one-gun-per-month” restriction, setting a historic precedent.
I don’t see a link posted yet, but when it is you should be able to read the whole release here.
