Category: Second Amendment

Fighting Back

FloridaCarry

A prominent statewide gun-rights organization has sued the City of St. Augustine and several officials personally, alleging signs prohibiting firearms at public facilities violate Florida law. Florida Carry Inc. filed the case in St. Johns County Circuit Court against the city, Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline, City Manager David Birchim and commissioners Jim Springfield, Jon DePreter and Cynthia Garris. [More]

This follows on the heels of a $5M suit against Jacksonville over “an illegal log of firearms brought into city buildings.”

Gimme That Old Time Religion

That’s also in keeping with text and tradition:

“He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one who has no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God has enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend [it]self.” (1747 Philadelphia sermon)

Switch Positions

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division on Tuesday asked a federal court to grant an injunction blocking California’s ban on Glock pistols. [More]

Imagine that– DOJ enforcing the Second Amendment.

It seems like only yesterday I had to write a letter to NRA-ILA telling them to call off their rep who was discouraging gun owners from supporting the effort by dismissing us as, quote, “wild-eyed extremists.”

[Via Jess]

Look At All Those Chickens We Can Count On After the Eggs Hatch!

BREAKING NEWS! ANTI-GUNNERS FINALLY START TO REALIZE THEY ARE TOAST! [Watch]

Mr. Wolf cautions don’t forget we have the midterms and then ’28 to get through, because any gains now will be reversible later. [NSFW!]

[Via Jess]

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Nichols’ argument exposes the circular nature of “common use.” Suppose the government bans a newly developed arm before millions of citizens can purchase it. Years later, the government defends the ban by arguing that the weapon is not commonly owned. Under that reasoning, the unconstitutional law creates the factual condition used to justify itself. The government bans the arm because it is uncommon, and the arm remains uncommon because the government banned it. [More]

Not just Nichols’ argument:

Who Couldn’t See That Coming?

I do not understand why these lawyers are not being babysat by the Second Amendment unit of the Department of Justice because I cannot believe that people like Harmeet Dhillon would have signed off on the brief that was just filed by the Department of Justice in the Chris Brown versus BATF case… [Watch]

I understand why. I can believe it.

I don’t blame embedded subversives any more than the frog should blame the scorpion. I blame those they report to who have let them stay on and get away with it.

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[Via Jess]

Who’s Minding the Store?

While Mayor Romero postures for cameras, NSSF is working for Real Solutions. Safer Communities. That includes FixNICS, a campaign to ensure the background check system works as intended by submitting all disqualifying records. [More]

Time was, JPFO’s position was “‘Don’t Fix NICS Background Check System!’ Background system cannot be fixed–go to Plan B.”

Aaron Zelman considered gun rights proponents who supported it and other limitations to be examples of “individual rights hypocrisy.”

The official position was “NICS NEEDS TO BE FIXED. The same way you fix a dog.”

Now, here it is featuring NSSF essays that promote it.

What’s changed?

That’s a rhetorical question.

And a regrettable one.

DSA’s Citizen-Disarmament Agenda Exposes Its Tyrannical Endgame

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It’s instructive as to the end goals of what the prohibitionists term “commonsense gun safety laws,” that is, a monopoly of violence held by those who would rule with an iron fist. It’s for exactly those reasons that the Second Amendment was enacted in the first place. [More]

The collectivist monsters who demand discarding the Constitution and disarming the rest of us hide songs they used to publish threatening to “kill [us] all with knives and guns” as a key objective of their “revolution.”

Nothing Unusual About Government Cruelty

[T]he United States Supreme Court has just granted cert in a case involving the Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual and excessive fines clause and yes, this will matter to the Second Amendment. [Watch]

It’s too late for Wayne Fincher…

“Secur[ing] the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” my… eye.

[Via Jess]

To Be or Not to Be

Republicans see ‘scary’ lack of enthusiasm among core voters ahead of midterms [More]

OK, yeah, it’s WaPo, so there’s definitely some PSYOPS going on, but still: If we get our @$$es handed to us in November and also lose in ’28, look for all the advances in 2A to be reversed/overturned– and if Dems can then pack SCOTUS, that includes Heller, McDonald, Bruen, meaning instead of voting, which could not be easier, those still determined are gonna have to do it the hard way.

Ohio State Fair Building Gun Ban Fails All Tests for Constitutionality

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“Fair patrons are not permitted to bring guns inside any structures, including barns, food establishments and concert venues.” [More]

What is the dominant, supposedly “pro gun” Ohio GOP afraid of?

Things That Make You Go ‘Hmm’…

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Darline Graham Nordone has not yet released an official platform or detailed legislative record regarding gun control or the Second Amendment.

Too soon? The danger is now. Let’s hope those in a position to ask her get answers.

[Via Alan Chwick]

I Hate to Say I Told You So

Massachusetts AR-15 Ban Unanimously Upheld by First Circuit… The opinion by Judge Seth Aframe pointed to the court’s prior ruling that found the restriction didn’t heavily burden residents’ self-defense rights. [More]

Told ya limiting 2A to self defense was gonna be a problem.

The decision also quoted former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R) comments supporting a similar ban on the weapons, which he called “instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”

Told ya about this @$$hole, too, although most of us knew.

[Via Jess]