Category: Second Amendment

We’re the Only Ones Prohibitive Enough

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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed a federal lawsuit in California challenging Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office policies that prohibit permit holders from carrying handguns equipped with red dot sights or flashlights, as well as their outright ban on the carry of single action only (SAO) 1911- and 2011-style pistols. [More]

“Enforced by Sheriff David Livingston,” eh?

It’s not like he’s got better things to focus on, like his longtime deputy “arrested … on charges of burglary, receiving stolen property, embezzlement, and possession of an assault weapon.”

Killer Instinct

“Sometimes people will give him a pass because he will say the right thing and he is a Second Amendment advocate, but then, when you understand this is only because he believes the Second Amendment needs to be used for Black people to protect against White people, you realize he cannot read crime statistics,” Crowder said. “The more you listen to him, you realize he is intensely racist and effectively wrong about everything.” [More]

I have to confess being out of touch with some of the new 2A influencers, because I’ve never even heard of the guy.

Things Sure are Different Now

Southern Illinois man convicted in 3D-printing ‘ghost gun’ case: REPORTS [More]

Anybody else see founding intent problems?

Is “controlled delivery” anything like walking guns, and how does one ship silencers from China without Chi-com complicity?

[Via bondmen]

We’re the Only Ones Unreasonable Enough

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“The police must have reasonable suspicion that the person is possessing the gun illegally or otherwise engaged in criminal activity,” wrote Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff. “Because the officers here stopped appellant based solely on his possession of a gun, without reasonable suspicion that he was possessing the gun illegally or otherwise involved in criminal activity, they did not have reasonable suspicion to stop him. The stop, therefore, violated appellant’s Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizures.” [More]

Baltimore police are d_s when it comes to guns? Who knew?

Virginia Prosecutors Defy New ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban

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The ban “is striking at the core of the militia system that existed in Virginia,” Mehaffey informed Fox News, showing he is one of the few public officials who “gets it,” or is at least willing to publicly acknowledge that reality. [More]

I know of some federal prosecutors who could follow suit — and are running out of excuses not to.

A True Believer

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James Talarico: ‘Common Sense’ to Lock Up Guns in the Home, Criminalize Private Sales… Talarico said, “I am a believer in the Second Amendment. I don’t pick and choose between the Bill of Rights, I believe in the Second Amendment just as much as I believe in the first.” [More]

Anybody smell gas…?

[Via bondmen]

A Right Delayed

Why?

But the judge issued an order stopping everything. And here’s the kicker. He did it because of a move pulled by the anti-gun Attorney General Jay Jones. The state is using a rule called the Multiple Claimant Litigation Act. Because gun owners are fighting back in four different counties across Virginia, the attorney general petitioned the Virginia State Supreme Court to clump all four of those lawsuits together and move them to one single court. Most likely a court where they think a judge will side with the state. A la Richmond.

[Via Jess]

Of Course You Realize This Means War

Osborn proposed a preemptive “red flag” law targeting owners of “assault-style rifles,” which would require gun owners to undergo a mental health evaluation every five years to re-register those weapons. [More]

How many divisions does Osborn have?

What an @$$hole.

[Via Edmund M]

The NeverEnding Story

At least 16 states have now put 3D gun laws on the books, with seven states adding major legislation this year. [More]

And, of course, it’s not just 3D guns they want to ban.

So… how many lawsuits must rights advocates pay for, in how many districts and circuits, with no clear resolve on the part of the Supreme Court to order “shall not be infringed,” on Congress to pass sanctions, and on DOJ to enforce rights? Bits and pieces are offered and bits and pieces are taken back. But it will never happen unless and until there is a clear “or else” promise behind our demands.

Anybody seeing a groundswell that can’t be ignored for that?

The Out-of-Touch Untouchable

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The clock is ticking. The 2025–2026 legislative session has roughly two to three weeks remaining, and HB 674 — Rep. Jay Adams’ Firearms Liberty Act, which would establish lifetime concealed handgun permits for law-abiding North Carolinians — is sitting idle in the Senate Rules Committee. The House has already done its job. HB 674 passed the House and now waits on the Senate to act. Senate Rules Chair Bill Rabon controls whether this bill gets a committee hearing — or dies quietly without one. That choice is his. And right now, he’s making the wrong one. [More]

You can tell a lot about “Republicans” when you see how they behave when the votes tell them they are politically invulnerable. This guy thinks he doesn’t even have to try, as evidenced by his discontinued website and paying no attention to his X account for years.

I don’t suppose he’d be interested in no permits at all…?

On a Sauer Note

[T]he Supreme Court has just denied cert in a case where the solicitor general of the United States under Donald Trump actually wanted the court to take it. This is huge great news folks because it is signaling that the Supreme Court is done with criminals defending the right to keep and bear arms and much more likely to let law-abiding ordinary citizens vindicate their rights. This is a big deal, folks, because as you know, those 18 USC 922G cases are problematic because their bad facts make bad law. [Watch]

I’m more concerned with the fact that the SG knows that and proceeded anyway. After all, didn’t NSSF tell us, “USA Today and gun control groups [were] in a tizzy [because] U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer wrote, ‘The United States has a substantial interest in the preservation of the right to keep and bear arms and in the proper interpretation of the Second Amendment…'”?

And Smith himself declares “Prosecutorial discretion has always been a part of our legal system.”

So why does this seem to be a tradition with “pro-gun”Republican administrations?

Never forget:

We condemn any program that involves enforcing unconstitutional “laws”, even if such “laws” are enforced only against violent criminals. Unconstitutional “laws” are illegal, harmful to public safety, tyrannical, and are inevitably enforced against ordinary, non-criminal citizens.

[Via Jess]

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Virginia’s central argument is that Article I, Section 13 of the Virginia Constitution is not an individual Second Amendment-style right at all. According to the Commonwealth, Section 13 is a “collective, militia-tethered right,” meaning the right to keep and bear arms is tied to militia service rather than individual self-defense. [More]

There is no new thing under the sun.

And Opposite Day “progressives” keep coming back with the same tired, old, debunked revisionist lies.