Notes from the Resistance
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said Monday the city will not bend the knee to a legal threat from the U.S. Department of Justice over the city’s longstanding assault weapons ban. [More]
That’s some industrial-strength gaslighting right there.
Anybody else getting an Iran vibe out of the administration offering a deal and having it rejected out of hand by people who think they can hold out until the clock runs out?
Bear attack in Yellowstone National Park leaves 2 hikers injured [More]
Yes, you can carry a gun in Yellowstone.
The bad news is:
But it’s illegal to fire it – even in self defense.
Just think, the people who enacted and enforce that edict all swore an oath to the Constitution. I wonder what the Framers would have thought about that.
The 11th Circuit joins “several sister circuits in holding that the Second Amendment does not protect the possession of machine guns.” That’s consistent with the Trump administration’s position on the matter, his campaign promises that “Your Second Amendment will always be safe with me as your president,” notwithstanding. [More]
Face it, gun owners are voting for who infringes less and accepting excuses for not demanding more.
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Today is Primary day in Ohio, and my articles include “Ramaswamy’s Ohio Governor Bid” (pg. 18) and “Casey Putsch for Ohio Governor: The Real Deal When It Comes to Guns” (pg. 104).
[T]he last thing we want, the last thing we in the Second Amendment community want, as I see it, is for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, or for any circuit for that matter, to come out right now, now at least, and say that machine guns are protected under the Second Amendment… We do not want that next case going to the Supreme Court involving machine guns. [More]
We will never get an unequivocal “shall not be infringed” unless and until there is a credible “or else” attached to the demand.
[Via Jess]
Where Are Silencers Illegal? State Suppressor Laws in 2026 [More]
Watch the whole map turn red if you add the word “uninfringed” before “silencers.”
Civil Rights Division Sues Cloudera for Excluding U.S. Workers from Applying to High-Paying Technology Jobs [More]
Meet the rope-selling capitalists.
OK, but what’s this got to do with the Second Amendment?
No worries– Vivek will save us!
[Via Michael G]
GOP frontrunner in key gubernatorial race forced to answer about hiring illegal immigrants: ‘I don’t know’ [More]
He wants to sign your checks but he doesn’t even know what the one’s he signing are paying for…?
OK, but despite that, says he’s against illegal aliens. How is he on the legal ones?
Georgia GOP Governor Hopeful Owns Company Importing Foreign Nurses Over Americans
Cultural terraforming to the advantage of Democrats, anyone…?
And note he doesn’t even think the Second Amendment is worth mentioning, let alone detailing a plan to defend and advance it.
As Billy Mays would say, “But wait! There’s more!”:
How is this Vichycon the “frontrunner”? Aside from through shady “dark money”?
And in the interests of fairness:
Anybody see 2A being an “issue”? On his campaign website, I mean, not just on social media.
Or know his position on bringing in more “legal” foreign nationals?
Hell no.
Remember when establishment gun groups were dissing “We will not comply“?
Ask ’em if they will, and that will tell you much.
[Via Jess]
Clearly, had more Republicans and gun owners been engaged and voted, the results – and the resulting dangers they pose in terms of “gun laws,” would have been very different. [More]
If Democrats have their way, “Close, but no cigar” will morph into “Close, but no guns.”
Plaintiffs have filed a motion for summary judgment in Roberts v. ATF, one of the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) three supported lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act’s (NFA) registration requirements for short-barreled firearms and silencers. [More]
I just keep coming back to “shall not be infringed” and wonder what evil madness has gripped what was supposed to be the exemplar of Liberty, and, noticing who’s fighting us on this and where the buck stops, what all those high-sounding promises really meant.
President Trump’s Second Amendment Accomplishments Second Term [More]
Acknowledged.
That doesn’t mean we can’t point out how temporary most of those measures will be if the Republicans blow their majorities again, and also try to warn about the flip side of the coin.
Newly proposed and enacted legislation targeting 3D printers and CNC machines would impose restrictions more severe than those the Supreme Court rejects for actual guns. In conjunction with restrictions on tools, states would create a category of computer source code illegal to possess. [More]
They literally presume the authority of God.
[Via WiscoDave]
“Because machine guns are not protected by the Second Amendment as weapons in common use for lawful purposes, we affirm,” wrote Chief U.S. Circuit Judge William Pryor, adding the 11th Circuit joins “several sister circuits in holding that the Second Amendment does not protect the possession of machine guns.” [More]
Don’t believe him? How ’bout the guy you probably voted for three times?
How many more times do I have to say this before someone with a voice in “gun leadership” busy handing out Gundies to each other listens?
Pryor, of course, is a “Republican” appointed by the “Vote Freedom First” President.
[Via Jess]
In any case, in what follows, I argue (I strongly believe, soundly) that not only (i) owning, carrying, and/or using guns, but also (ii) The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, and (iii) their necessary consequence, gun violence, are all rationally unjustified and immoral on broadly Kantian ethical grounds, and that therefore, (iv) Gun Abolitionism is rationally justified, morally right, and what we ought to do, by means of (iva) repealing The 2 nd Amendment, and then (ivb) universally banning owning, carrying, and/or using guns. [More]
Thank you! I was afraid not enough gun owners would take this seriously.
Funny, he should represent himself as an ideogical follower of Kant:
Kant called for the gradual abolition of standing armies (professional armies maintained in peacetime) and for their replacement by citizen militias.
What a hoser, eh?
Oh, and look at this:
Just send money. I have to laugh at juxtaposing these “serious” academic citations against the memory of the letter from the dean telling me to shape up or ship out.
[Via Alan Chwick]
Been saying exactly that for years– right down to repeatedly citing that New York Times paragraph, only to be ignored by the gun groups and flat out insulted or just put down by louder voices, none of whom have the integrity to take my challenge and all of whom deflect, run away, and even block when pressed on fights they started.
I extend that invitation to the leaders of all the national gun groups, NRA, SAF, GOA, FPC, NAGR, and others. Take the challenge. Otherwise, you’re playing into the hands of the Democrats, and worse, by avoiding and ignoring this, you and they know it.
I’ve been beating this drum– pretty much alone among nationally-published Second Amendment writers– since Examiner.com days, and have been unsuccessful at getting it to be heard outside of my niche within a niche. If it takes a more prominent and accepted voice to get the majors to take notice, so be it.
[Via Andy M]
Vivek: “The idea of a heritage American is about as loony as anything the woke left has actually put up”; Casey Putsch is the real deal on guns; and in re Democrat/media/Vichycon Alliance allegations of racism… [More]
The post I’m replying to merits your attention, particularly if you’re an Ohio gun owner only influenced so far by Donald Trump, NRA, and Buckeye Firearms.
April 28th is the last day to register to vote in the May primary election. [More]
I wonder how much of not having more good choices to vote for stems from not being personally involved in the fight while it’s still easy, compared to what it could be like when the choice becomes more existential.
Rep. Clyde Leads Coalition Urging Trump to Pick an A-G Who Will ‘Immediately’ Wipe Away Biden Gun Control [More]
Good ideas, especially the part saying ” The DOJ should not be in the business of defending plainly unconstitutional firearms restrictions.”
Too bad we rarely see such leadership when elections aren’t forthcoming, with sustaining momentum afterward for lasting solutions always being the problem.
[Via bondmen]
Warner and Kaine Introduce Legislation to Safeguard Americans from the Scourge of Gun Violence [More]
2% chance of being enacted — for now.
Don’t worry– Mr. Trump and the Republicans are doing everything in their power to blow their majorities. And when the Democrats finally get the power to ram these into “law,” they’ll be back for more.
No one seriously thinks any of this is about “public safety,” do they?
[Via Jess]