Notes from the Resistance
Massachusetts House and Senate negotiators have released a compromise version of a sweeping gun bill that supporters say builds on the state’s existing gun laws, including a crackdown on difficult to trace “ghost guns,” while safeguarding the rights of gun owners. [More]
If they’re going to start out with a lie, several here that I can identify, what’s my incentive to read further and keep being lied to?
Way to continue being megaphones for tyranny, Associated Press and “real reporter” Steve LeBlanc!
[Via Steve T]
“Imagine your surprise if you are just minding your own business, wherever you are, Ohio, Alabama, Texas, and all of a sudden, your local constable is, like, “Guess what sucker, California says you’re not allowed to have any guns anymore, give them up.” [Watch]
Gun laws don’t work both ways, so your permit and lawful ownership won’t be recognized there.
Heads they win, tails you lose.
[Via Jess]
Hawaii’s Democrat Gov. Signs Bill Barring People Under the Age of 21 from Buying or Possessing Ammunition [More]
The Kapu Tradition lives on in the post-Igeocracy.
They know they’ll end up losing and the money could be spent on needed things, but they don’t care. And no one will hold them to account because stupid citizenship malpractitioners dominate the population.
[Via bondmen]
Giving Trump and the Republicans all the ammo they need to defeat gun grabber arguments is well within the skill set of the newly formed Gun Owners for Trump coalition… [More]
We’ve got to do more than hope his resolve is strengthened. There are people who can help him not just repel attacks on our rights, but promote and advance them with the independents both sides are competing for — if he will let them.
Third Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary Injunction in NRA-ILA-Supported Challenge to Delaware’s ban on “assault weapons” and “large-capacity magazines.” [More]
Here’s their weasel-wording to justify tyranny.
Mark W. Smith navigates the fabricated complexities.
[Via Jess]
A three-judge panel in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a unanimous 27-page ruling that Minnesota’s ban on concealed carry by young adults is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, giving a victory to the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners. [More]
Democrats against it want to lower the voting age.
Gun owners need to send a loud message to the RNC. [More]
I’ve talked about this shift in public priorities here, here, and tangentially here, and plan on digging into it over the weekend.
In the mean time, send that message.
2024 Republican Platform Drops Gun-Rights Promises [More]
But…but…but our beautiful Second Amendment…
Lara… you got some ‘splainin’ to do…
Why do I suddenly hear trombones…?
[Via Jess]
“California effectively seeks the power to destroy the exercise of a constitutional right by singling it out for special taxation,” the lawsuit alleges. “If this tax is permitted, there is nothing stopping California from imposing a 50% or even 100% tax on a constitutional right it disfavors whether it be the right to keep and bear arms, the right to free exercise of religion, or any other right.” [More]
Just like if one gun a month is good, one gun a year is better!
Or if a three-day waiting period…
[Via Jess]
The question before the courts should be simple: How did people at the time of the Constitution’s ratification define “arms”? [More]
“Weapons of war” are precisely what the Founders had in mind.
A former small-town Iowa police chief has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for lying to authorities to acquire machine guns that prosecutors say he sold for his own profit [More]
That’s less than Wayne Fincher got, and look at the different motivations.
[Via Jess]
The Supreme Court refused to hear any Second Amendment cases as of now. So, why did they do this and what is the future of 2A Supreme Court litigations. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner explains. [Watch]
Paint it how you like, but when policies and procedures override the reasons articulated in the Preamble for having them, something’s broken. You know it’s “shall not be infringed,” they know it’s “shall not be infringed,” and the traitors know it’s “shall not be infringed.”
We weren’t made to be ruled by hobgoblins, robed or otherwise.
[Via Jess]
Liam asserted that the school’s actions in May 2023 violated his First Amendment right to freedom of expression, particularly as a form of “viewpoint discrimination.” Although his speech was censored, the speech of those expressing a different perspective on the same issue was not. [More]
You’re gonna suck it and like it.
Funny, how many rainbows I see…
[Via Michael G]
Costner has proven to be a real life Fudd extraordinaire, winning the T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award – while calling for “stricter gun laws” [More]
Hey, he’s the one who said he doesn’t care what moviegoers think about his politics, which in this case appears to be what a lot of them think about his movies.
Influencers need to be able to prepare Trump to debate on the right to arms and to coach him on what the correct responses to questions should be. [More]
No matter who the Democrat candidate turns out to be, Trump needs to learn to talk 2A, and it’s up to “Gun Owners for Trump” to demand his ear.
(Note: This doesn’t mean I’m back.)
