A Right Delayed

Presidential pardon recipients still barred from buying guns – Neither Patrick “Tate” Adamiak nor Pastor Russell Fincher can buy firearms… “The 4473 goes to the FBI. Anyone who gets a denial on a background check gets denied by the FBI”… The FBI requires members of the media to submit their question via email. Questions were sent Friday morning, but so far, the agency has not called or sent a response. [More]

I gotta tell ya, this Patel guy certainly hasn’t been filling me with confidence that all the promises about how great he’d be will be fulfilled.

Why not speed things along?

All it would take is one phone call from him.

A Right Delayed

Justice Department Opens Investigation into Alleged Firearm Permitting Abuses in Two Connecticut Municipalities [More]

As I said when they made a similar announcement about New Jersey:

Wake me when they start frog-marching oath-breakers requiring licenses.

What the hell is a permit but a prior restraint infringement?

[Via Jess]

Breach of ‘Social Contract’

What they couldn’t do is mess with the Bill of Rights. Doing that wouldn’t modify the Constitution within its own premises, it would legally and morally blow the entire constitutional charter to smithereens. [More]

I guess we’d then find out how many of us are serious.

Maybe three percent…? (God bless ya, Mike. You left us with hope and perspective in nervous times anticipating trouble.)

Your move, traitors.

[Via Michael G]

Being Necessary to the Security of a Tyrannical State

“To the extent that AR-15-platform weapons are ‘Arms,’ it is because they are customarily used for offensive purposes…the Solicitor General maintains that AR-15 platform weapons are suitable for ‘repelling invasions, suppressing insurrections, and resisting tyranny.’ Today, of course, these responsibilities are reserved for the United States military, which maintains trained professional armies across the globe.” [More]

Anybody smell gas…?

Chink in the Armor Ban

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In a first-of-its-kind Second Amendment victory, federal judge holds defensive body armor is constitutionally protected, grants FPC summary judgment, and orders permanent injunction against New York’s unconstitutional ban. [More]

Score another one for the knights.

Birds of a Feather

He launched into a full-throated rant that America needs a civil war to clean itself up. You can guess which side needs to be disarmed, run through reeducation camps, or simply removed. It was not the Biden voters. It was not the people cheering on every new gun-control bill and every new surveillance tool. It was the rest of us—the ones who still think the Second Amendment and the Fourth Amendment are both worth defending. The ones who put America first. [More]

They’re gonna make YOU a star!

[Via Lawrence P]

More ‘Smart Politics,’ Death-Thirsting Republican Style

His Political Career Is OFFICIALLY OBLITERATED [Watch]

Completely out of touch with ” loony Heritage Americans,” Vivek Ramaswamy just blew up his campaign thinking an attack against Amy Acton by her scumbag, child-molesting, husband-enabling estranged mother was anything but a despicable idea that would backfire as soon as the history of monstrous victimization became known.

I guess JD doesn’t want to be president.

[Via Dennis F]

Tangentially Related

Casey Putsch weighs in and says he’ll vote for Amy.

I’m trying to reconcile that with this:

Casey Putsch for Ohio Governor: The Real Deal When It Comes to Guns

We know what Amy will try to do on guns: You don’t get Everytown’s “Gun Sense Voter” endorsement unless you’re a rabid prohibitionist, and that doesn’t add up to her “lead[ing] Ohio with compassion for everybody and our future as normal people together.” And “On the Issues” says she “favors a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.”

We know where that leads (unless you’re an idiot and/or embedded leftist).

I can understand sitting the race out– I’ve weighed the risks Vivek presents and frankly don’t see how I’ll feel good about my choice by either filling in the bubble or leaving it blank. In the end, th0ugh, he will have brought it all on himself.

I understand the enemy inside the gates is the more dangerous one, and nothing about the fecklessness of the Ohio Republican establishment surprises me. But I’m not seeing how endorsing an anti-gun / pro-illegal immigrant Democrat is the lesser of any evils.

‘Smart Politics,’ Death-Thirsting Republican Style

Ralph Norman: ‘My family is not going to vote for Darline Graham’ [More]

No doubt about it, Darline is not a choice many of us would have made, but at least on guns she appears reliably managed, whereas opponent Annie Andrews will be a rabid grabber of the first order.

So, if not for personal sour grapes, why would a NAGR endorsee feel it necessary to make that known in a close race?

Who Better to Heed on Founding Intent?

“When they promised the right to bear arms, they had muskets. So, yeah, everyone should have like equal rights to a musket.” [More]

Been fighting that lie for a minute.

And years.

He, of course, knows better. So do his backers.

That the antis still use it proves they can rely on low information useful idiots to swallow their lies and the truth won’t even reach them, let alone move them. And recent “arrivals” used to the state being the arbiter of what’s permitted will unquestioningly accept it.

That’s a major argument those who counsel “wait a generation or two” don’t want to address.

What We Want vs. What We’ve Got

Vivek Ramaswamy has a message for BFA supporters [Watch]

I have my reasons for being wary (and for having supported a different candidate in the primary).

That said, the ultimate issue for me is 2A. If Vivek wins, I believe he will be marginally more persuadable than Amy Acton will be on issues where we diverge.

When he does, I’ll do what I can to push back, noting my strongest opposition will be from myopic/deliberately indifferent “gun influencers.”

Justin Time

A New Jersey attorney and former municipal official who made waves during his debate with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N. J., said his unscripted style may be the secret sauce to making history and ending a Republican Senate drought in New Jersey that stretches back more than half a century. [More]

“How is he on the Second Amendment?” you ask…

Walkin’ on Gunshine

Gun rights group files lawsuit against West Orange police departments over risk protection order policies [More]

That they have to do it over technicalities like using “required” forms shows how far we have to go.

I might also ask where the hell are DeSantis and Uthmeier on this, and why the heavy lifting has to be done by the victims instead of by officials sworn to the Constitution.

We’re the Only Ones Advising Enough

The Maryland State Police (MSP) has reviewed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) open letter issued October 9, 2026, regarding updated guidance on the making and transfer of National Firearms Act (NFA) firearms. The ATF’s open letter does not change Maryland’s requirements for NFA firearms. As stated in the open letter, the federal injunction and ATF enforcement policy do not affect state or local laws governing NFA firearms. [More]

So, what other rights do they have laws against?

[Via Jess]

A Right Delayed

On October 14, 2026, the Department of Justice opened an investigation to determine whether Pennsauken, New Jersey, deprives citizens of their right to bear arms through egregious and unjust delays in issuing firearm licenses. [More]

Wake me when they start frog-marching oath-breakers requiring licenses.

On Gun Regulation America.Gov AI Stonewalls Like Bureaucrats

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Where does ATF get the statutory authority from to limit proliferation of forced reset triggers?… Where does ATF derive statutory authority to enforce its “Once a machine gun always a machine gun” rule? [More]

We know ATF has no such authority. But the system that promises “Clear answers. Official sources” resists fessing up.