There comes a point where it’s simply unbelievable to say that judges actually think that way and aren’t perfectly aware of the tyranny they’re willing parts of.
[Via Jess]
Category: Second Amendment
And If You Act Now…
But we must receive your contribution by Dec 31st for you to take advantage of the credit for 2024. Postmarks don’t count and when you mail it does not count. We have to have received it before the end of 2024. [More]
“Who will help me plant the seed?” asked the Little Red Hen.
Funny, how everyone expects bread.
And Your Point Is…?
We’re the Only Ones Appreciative Enough
“I understand constitutional carry and why it would be okay in some parts of Louisiana, but you can’t say that is true for New Orleans,” Kirkpatrick said. I’m a person who appreciates constitutional carry but not in every location. New Orleans is unique. We have no business with guns at a parade or in our entertainment areas at all.” [More]
Bringing the same results to New Orleans she did to Oakland, I see…
Only in government is suing your previous employer not a red flag for hiring managers…
[Via Jess]
‘Deceptively Colored Firearm’ Bill Introduced by Deceptive Michigan Democrats
Where she may have gone too far without realizing it in her hatred of all things, gun is who will be most affected by her cosmetics ban. Those include a large bloc of potential Democrat constituents. [More]
They’ll never stop eating away until they’re forced to. There’s a way to do that, but it will require the new DOJ meaning what Donald Trump says.
A Plan Comes Together
ICE: Nearly 180,000 noncitizens deliberately not detained, roaming free in US cities [More]
Legal illegals is an oxymoron.
Making their Second Amendment claims a red herring.
[Via Michael G]
By All Means, Be Consistent
Overview of the Ohio case on illegal aliens and firearm possession… What I am suggesting is that we need to be philosophically consistent on these things. [Watch]
Absolutely. All people have rights endowed by their Creator that they should be free to exercise.
That’s not the issue. They don’t have a right to be where they have no right to be. The law needs to be consistent with the Preamble’s unequivocal mandates and Democrat political sabotage needs to be reversed.
Instead of chasing a red herring, ask the right question: Why is a known illegal alien allowed to remain in the United States instead of being deported?
Round 2 Redux
Today on Armed American Radio Mark continues the conversation started yesterday with David Codrea on Pam Bondi and her 2A chops or lack thereof. Is she right for gun owners as head of DOJ after her support for Florida’s post Parkland gun control bill? [Listen]
In case you missed it live and want to hear it.
And my elaborated thoughts on what Donald Trump’s election means for the Second Amendment are here.
An Uncommon Question
I. There is a long-running and intractable dispute in the lower courts over whether the Second Amendment allows the government to ban arms that are in common use by law-abiding citizens. II. Heller clearly teaches that arms in common use by law-abiding citizens cannot be banned. III. This case is an ideal vehicle to resolve this dispute. [More]
What’s to stop “common use” from allowing future developments to be banned?
[Via Jess]
Daily Defense Redux
Today on AAR Daily Defense, Mark chats with long-time AAR contributor, blogger, and citizen journalist, David Codrea. Topics include the makeup of the Trump cabinet from a gun rights perspective. Mark and David discuss bills likely to move quickly…or not…and then turn attention to Pam Bondi for AG. David is no fan and eloquently articulates the reasons why, including her past support for anti-gun measures in Florida as state AG. Mark counters with analogies and gives her the benefit of waiting out the hearings. She will no doubt be put on the spot during the confirmation process and allowed to articulate her 2A positions moving forward as AG. A lively discussion, so good in fact, that David returns on Wednesday to wrap up his legitimate concerns. [Listen]
My latest Firearms News piece, “Donald Trump and Republicans Owe Gun Owners, and It’s Time to Collect,” elaborates on my position.
Donald Trump and Republicans Owe Gun Owners, and It’s Time to Collect
There’s much Donald Trump won’t be able to do, but a lot that he can if he means to keep his pledge to the gun owners he could not have won without. Rein in ATF, Mr. President. Do what you can with your bully pulpit to influence American citizens and your unique power to influence your party and the Congress. Make informed judicial appointments. Listen to gun rights leaders. And task the Justice Department with the Constitutional imperative to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” [More]
Now is not the time to rest on laurels and trust that everything is going to start going our way. If we don’t stay on top of him — and them — Pam Bondi won’t be the only disappointment.
The Wrong Question
Judge rejects 2nd Amendment argument from illegal immigrant living in Ohio charged over possession of 170 guns [More]
Don’t be distracted by the red herring.
[Via Jess]
Range Wars Surrender
United States Supreme Court denied Certiorari in Oakland Tactical versus Howell Township out of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. [Watch]
Which means SCOTUS will accept lower courts denying rights and thumbing their noses.
[Via Jess]
It’s On
New Things Under the Sun
The Heckler’s Veto
It’s literally 99.9999 or something like that of the AR-15s in America will have no connection to a murder in any given year, in other words well over 99.9 % of the AR-15s in the United States will have no connection to criminality in the United States in any given year, so if you’re going to have the government ban the 99.99% of the AR-15s in the United States because of a few hundred bad apples misbehaving with AR-15s you have engaged in a violation of our constitutional rights known as the Heckler veto… [Watch]
Good points. It sounds like you could make a good case that of all the people who heard Donald Trump speak on Jan. 6, only a handful ignored his call to be peaceful and got rowdy to the point of striking out at others, and that shouldn’t abridge his First Amendment-protected rights.
As an aside, I know speaking is different thatn writing in terms of not being able to go back and edit remarks before they’re released, but I hope in the future he’s mindful to say “killed with” more and “killed by” less.
[Via Jess]
With Republicans Like These
Albritton, R-Wauchula, told reporters that as a life-long and consistent supporter of law enforcement, he will oppose any open carry legislation in 2025: “I trust my law enforcement officials. They oppose it … and I stand with them today in opposition.” [More]
Because after all, who works for whom?
He’s in a solidly Republican district, the primary was canceled, and he’s got his seat ’til ’28, so what’s he care what you think?
[Via Jess]
File Under ‘WTF?’
President-elect Trump announces Pam Bondi as his new pick for US attorney general [More]
That would be the same Pam Bondi NRA sued over denial of rights for 18-20-year-olds where the 11th Circuit, contrary to Bruen, “decided that historical sources from Reconstruction are more probative of the Second Amendment’s scope than those from the Founding.”
I can sense the apologists preparing arguments that her job is to defend state law.
I don’t hold any politician to standards I don’t hold myself to. I’d quit a job that required me to do that.
Wouldn’t you?
More words, President Trump?
This is exactly why “Gun Owners for Trump” needs to be more than names to help him get elected but actually be a presence and have his ear when he’s in power.
Related UPDATES:
- Pam Bondi? – The Last Refuge
- Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi fights against gun rights
- FL Attorney General Bondi Wastes Tax Payer Dollars Fighting Against Gun Rights
Will the “gun rights groups” try to rein this in?
In the Kapu Tradition
The Wrong Lane
PA Supreme Court Guts Philadelphia Gun Control, Upholds State Preemption Law [More]
Now watch the Democrats blame that when “prohibited persons” don’t stop shooting people.
A Clinton, an Obama, and a Biden Judge Walk into a Bar
They can because they’re over 21.
And they’ve just decided those from 18 to 21 who can’t won’t be allowed to claim the Second Amendment, too.
And Four Boxes Diner advises this will go back down to the lower courts, not SCOTUS.
[Via Jess]
What You Need to Be is Controlled
Michigan Senate Democrats are trying to ban making a ‘false statement or misrepresentation’ about elections. [More]
They hate the First Amendment as much as they do the Second, with every one of the sponsors also signing on to this.
Who are the idiot “third way” Republicans acting like what’s needed here is clarification instead of repudiation?
[Via Michael G]
What Government Giveth…
This is the same smug @$$hole who deleted his X account after he called Trump a devil following the assassination attempt.
[Via cydl]
The Other Side in a Nutshell
This is why it’s fruitless to “debate” with with obnoxious, self-entitled fanatics who are too stupid to realize how wrong they are, and who presume to teach but don’t even belong in the class without passing the prerequisites.
Has the loudmouthed clownette “proudly” ID’d herself on social media yet?
[Via Jess]
Of Everything That Stands, the End
Because he spoke before he was inaugurated, giving him the power to act, Trump alerted the Deep State that he represented an existential threat to its survival. The bottom line is that the Deep State cannot afford for Trump to become president on January 20, 2025. [More]
You might want to play this in the background, just to set the mood for how insane it all is.
All that talk from Democrats about the peaceful transition of power and Joe Biden greeting him cordially is more than them just poking him for Jan. 6, it’s for plausible deniability. Add in domestic enemies embedded in the Secret Service, an assasination attempt where they left vulnerabilities anyone could exploit, and leaking his golf schedule for a second attempt, and there is nothing they won’t stop at.
Then follow that up with their manufactured external existential threat.
These are the most dangerous times we’ve ever lived through — so far.
Maybe we’ll get a chance to see just how smart the Founders were with the Second Amendment.
[Via bondmen]
In the Spirit of Aloha
Two Sets of Gun Rules
It Beats Actually Doing Something That Works
Democratic Georgia lawmaker sets goals for 2025 intended to reduce children’s gun injuries [More]
What’s the Road to Hell paved with again?
I guess that serves some purposes better then “Moron tries to punish everyone else for his own cConstituency’s bad behaviors.”
Or “Lickspittle media helps politican mask his own incompetence at finding real solutions in order to convince anyone dumb enough to vote for him that he’s got a viable plan”…
[Via Jess]
The Impossible Dream
How is it possible to do any part of the job without infringing on someone’s rights?
There’s no such thing as a good overseer. Some are just less cruel with their illegitimate power than others.
I Come to Bury Caesar, Not to Praise Him
Ted Olson, 9/11, Citizens United, Bush v. Gore & The Importance of A Great Solicitor General [Watch]
That would be the same Ted Olson who argued against the Supreme Court hearing the Emerson case, asked the Supreme Court not to intervene in the Haney case, and argued against “restoring” a gun owner’s rights in the Bean case.
I don’t set out to pick arguments with influencers. It’s just that sometimes I hear things that trigger my inner Fletcher.
[Via Jess]
