Category: Second Amendment

Fine Words

Let’s hope we see fine actions.

I’d feel better if the “Task Force” wasn’t all being fed by the same hand.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find Out What It Means to Me

I want you out there in the Second Amendment movement to hear what I’m saying, observe what the Trump administration is doing in terms of enforcing Title 9 against universities and governmental agencies that are thumbing their noses at civil rights, because we can derive lessons from what the Trump administration is doing, lessons from the remedies being sought, lessons from the remedies being imposed upon, in this case, the University of Pennsylvania, and we can draw analogies and come up with new ways for we in the Second Amendment community to basically try to get the Trump administration to do to, for example, those law enforcement agencies that refuse to respect our Second Amendment rights. So, for the purpose of this discussion, remove the words ‘University of Pennsylvania’ in your mind and insert, for example, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department or some other local law enforcement agency, maybe the New York Police Department that issues licenses, insert them in there and then let’s talk about the remedies. [Watch]

Validating precedent for the licensing of a right that “shall not be infringed” is a remedy? This will make those agencies “respect our Second Amendment rights”?

Yeah, trust me, I understand “incrementalism.”

I also carried for 30 years in L.A. without any damn “permit,” so, as always, I never expect personal considered choices from anyone I’m not willing to expect of myself.

[Via Jess]

FOIA Request Seeks to Determine DOJ Decision-Making for Firearms Disability Relief Actions

It’s with an eye toward determining how these 10 choices were selected for DOJ’s initial offering that prompted this FOIA request. [More]

Let’s see if the new, improved “Second Amendment Task Force” DOJ will be any better at responding to these things than it was under the Biden regime.

About ‘Our Beautiful Second Amendment’…

Trump administration says machine guns aren’t protected by Second Amendment [More]

Juxtapose that against this.

Either Jennifer Case didn’t get the memo or we have another inevitable embarassment that comes from leaving gun owners out of the “Task Force.”

Then again, if the position is not retracted, there’s a third possibility:

Spanberger’s Attacks on 2nd Amendment Should Galvanize Gun Owners to Unite Against Her

If elected governor, Spanberger threatens to enact every infringement that comes across her desk, whereas Earle-Sears will serve as a veto bulwark against Democrat excesses. [More]

Virginia gun owners have a clear choice. Less clear is how much they’re willing to do about it.

TheTask at Hand

We recognize the success of this Task Force will be vital. To that end, we promise to use our own resources to support the Task Force and collaborate with this administration in whatever way possible. We will stand beside you in Second Amendment litigation. We will provide administrative expertise as you decide how best to reform federal regulations in this area. [More]

That’s great, but aren’t some key people not being included?

Trump to NRA

As much as I criticize the guy and believe he specializes in self-aggrandizement over sincerity, I can’t argue that he has initiated unprecedented actions and more are on the way. All those actions will ultimately prove temporary and reversible if the Republicans can’t get their act together, and part of that problem is on us as gun owners, and how involved we’re willing to get pressing them to do the right thing.

And I gotta ask: Bob Barr?

The Status Quo

“Effective immediately, Special Agents in Charge (SACs) approval and Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) concurrence is now mandatory for all NICS alerts. NICS alerts may only be utilized in cases involving suspected violations of federal firearm statutes…” [More]

You know, the ones the F0unders would have approved of.

Michigan Says ‘Hold Our Beer’ on Red Flag Due Process Concerns

But it’s also that part of the law that worries Second Amendment advocates who have long voiced opposition to the law on several fronts, including the statute’s effect on gun owners who are not the subject of the actual order — such as the parents of a 6-year-old named in an extreme risk protection order. [More]

By hook or by crook…

[Via Jess]

What’s To Decide?

The matter began when Philpotts, while facing rape charges, was convicted of a weapons charge in 2018. The charge, possessing weapons under disability, often means a person convicted of a violent crime cannot have a firearm. In Philpotts’ case, he was merely accused of a violent crime. The rape charges against him were later dropped, but his firearm conviction remained. [More]

That would appear to be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, we’re dealing with no gunsers.

[Via JG]

Sorry, Neighbors, They Wanted My Guns That Badly

Genocide-minded maniacs never seem to flesh that out.

The vacuous smirker’s somehow got a million followers, but from the ratioing this latest bit of idiocy received, I suspect they’re mostly people hes trolling. As for the post he started with, imagining mass gun confiscation, as noted before, the truth is they wouldn’t dare. Which means the Second Amendment is working (right you are, Nicholas).

There’s one other thing he’s forgetting, besides the obvious (NSFW): Bill Clinton’s Rules of Engagement. If we can’t turn to the Constitution for protection, what makes cheerleaders for tyranny think they can?

But I Have Promises to Keep, and Miles to Go Before I Sleep

“I will get rid of gun-free zones on schools, and — you have to — and on military bases,” Trump said, to scattered cheers during a campaign rally on Thursday night. “My first day, it gets signed, okay? My first day. There’s no more gun-free zones.” [More]

Don’t get too excited. He said that nine years ago.

[Via Henry]

In Common Use

So, although I agree unequivocally with you that this is going to be and is being twisted to hurt us, so is every aspect of everything (SCOTUS Bruen footnote on permitting schemes, anyone?, and endless other dicta). I don’t see the point of eliminating this very good test because they will twist it like everything else they twist. My main reason for writing this is to hopefully get a reply back on your thoughts on what I am saying. [More]

See, I never said eliminate the test. I even agreed with showing how it can be a very effective tactic to use for now.

What I’m saying is don’t get so wrapped up in the “common use” argument that it restricts the introduction of other truths, and there are better arguments for challenging the restrictions on the full autos we’re entitled to that our legal “leaders” have not been inclined to use.

That and future devel0pments in weapons technology can be withheld from us because they’re not in common use.

Change the concept to “in common use by police and soldiers” and I’ll stop screaming at passing cars about it.

Speaking of Using Full Might…

Adamiak is about to start the third year of his 20-year federal prison sentence because the ATF reworked his legal inert RPGs until they were capable of firing a single 7.62x39mm round. [More]

Hey, go with what works, right?

You can learn more about that and how they exploited a malfunction to put another vet away in a recent Firearms News piece.

What did Pam Bondi say?

‘”It is the policy of this Department of Justice to use its full might to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”