Notes from the Resistance
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]
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:
Will the “gun rights groups” try to rein this in?
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.
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]
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]
This is the same smug @$$hole who deleted his X account after he called Trump a devil following the assassination attempt.
[Via cydl]
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]
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]
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]
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.
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]
Another Big Win for the Second Amendment…Huge and good news out of the US Senate today and Sen. John Thune has been selected the new Senate Majority Leader. [Watch]
Because NRA ratings…
Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.
Between this and the constant defeatism, I’m just not inclined to link to this guy any more.
Related UPDATE
[Via Jess]
Should this Court decline to grant certiorari to consider the constitutionality of Maryland’s assault weapons ban where (1) that ban is consistent with this Court’s recognition in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), that jurisdictions may ban “weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like”; (2) the Fourth Circuit faithfully applied New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), to conclude that Maryland’s law is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of “regulating those weapons that were invented for offensive purposes and were ultimately proven to pose exceptional dangers to innocent civilians,” Pet. App. 69a; and (3) there is no need to resolve a conflict among the lower courts? [More]
Translation: Tyrannical Maryland Democrats want the Supreme Court to turn a blind eye to the state’s willingness to imprison and/or kill citizens for defying unconstitutional diktats and claiming their birthrights.
[Via Jess]
A federal judge has ruled that a constitutional challenge to New York state’s ban on selling bulletproof vests to civilians can move forward. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge John Sinatra Jr. rejected a motion from state Attorney General Letitia James and other New York officials to dismiss a challenge, ruling the plaintiffs have standing to sue the state over the restrictions. [More]
“Commonsense gun safety law advocate” Letitia not only wants to disarm you, she wants her shock troops to be able to more easily kill you with their “weapons of war.”
[Via Jess]
As the saying goes, ‘A right delayed is a right denied,’ and the state has denied untold numbers of citizens their right to obtain firearms for almost two weeks. This amounts to a mass deprivation of civil rights under color of law. [More]
Let’s hope one of the functions of the Trump Justice Department will be to go after such violations– like we tried to get phony John Ashcroft to do many years ago.
I’ll have to include that thought in a Firearms News piece I’m working on about a Trump to-do list.
Poisoning the Second Amendment Court Record [More]
Herschel observers that “arguing for semi-automatic firearms because they aren’t fully automatic firearms and thus not in military use is the wrong tactic.”
“But we have to do things in increments,” some will argue back.
He realizes that. It’s for when we get to the make-or-break increment we should be worried about.
It’s similar to fears I’ve expressed about how relying on “in common use at the time” is a trap.
