Notes from the Resistance
Why should someone who desn’t respect yolur right to arms respect your right to petition for redress? Chad Clifford can afford to smirk because he knows he’s in a safe Democrat district.
Bonus points if anyone knows who my title came from.
[Via Jess]
UPDATE
Points to DDS for Kurt Hofmann. Some of you guessed Vanderboegh, and that’s who he heard it from.
Israel is using artificial intelligence to help pick bombing targets in Gaza, report says [More]
The question is “in common use” by whom?
[Via WiscoDave]
M-16 Era Ends: Army’s 101st Airborne Division Receives Next-Gen Assault Rifles [More]
You and I can’t have those either, because they’re not “in common use.”
As long as we allow that to be defined by what’s popular for “self-defense” and sport as opposed to arms that soldiers bear, we’re giving the prohibitionists an out to screw us.
[Via bondmen]
Does the DOJ have the power to create new classes of “prohibited persons” outside of what is statutorily defined? [More]
First they said they had no pages. Now they say they have 350. So what’s on those pages, and will any establish they are authorized to redefine”prohibited person” disqualifiers?
Democrat Judge Exempts NRA Members From New Gun Rule [More]
Well, I’ve got mine. The hell with the rest o’ youse.
Sorry — just practicing in case I ever become one of the elites. I keep telling the wife all she’s gotta do is pick six lousy numbers and she can’t even do that right.
Even though it’s temporary, I’ve never been a quasi-“Only One” before.
Should non-violent felons have the ability to get their Second Amendmet rights back? Is this an issue that finally needs to be decided once and for all by the Supreme Court? Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, dicusses a case, which has not garnered a lot of attention, but which may be the perfect case for SCOTUS to decide this issue once and for all. There are thousands of Americans who need this issue resolved so that they too may exercise their inalienable right of self=preservation. [More]
You know my answer.
[Via Jess]
Wisconsin voters approved two constitutional amendment proposals Tuesday that prohibit private money from being used to conduct elections and mandate only legally designated government officials may administer elections. This makes Wisconsin the 28th state to ban “Zuckbucks”-style electioneering and the second to do so by constitutional amendment. [More]
So, if they’re capable of being rational about elections, what the hell is this about?
Or am I making an assumption that ignores the same First Amendment abridgements that made McCain-Feingold so objectionable?
Feel free to edumacate me on similarities and differences.
[Via Michael G]
As Americans Flee Blue Counties, Immigrants Move In [More]
Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue.” And I have that on good authority.
[Via bondmen]
“If courts continue to operate under the misimpression that the right to keep and bear arms protects only neutered firearms like break-barrel shotguns and bolt-action hunting rifles, the Second Amendment will offer little but a parchment barrier against tyranny,” the GOA petition correctly observes. [More]
It’s a necesary legal hurdle to clear if gun owners ever hope to challenge the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act.
Essentially, the district court concluded that a significant increase in lawfully possessed guns in New York City has altered the probable cause equation in these cases. [More]
What does it tell us of people who are upset with this?
A U.S. judge on Monday ruled that the Mexican government could move forward with a lawsuit accusing five Arizona gun dealers of participating in the trafficking of weapons and ammunition to drug cartels across the U.S.-Mexico border. [More]
I see plenty of Republican “Yea” votes…
[Via bondmen]
She has described herself as a “progressive through and through” … She has donated to Democratic politicians such as Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, Pete Buttigieg in 2020, and her local Congressman Democrat Ro Khanna, along with a slew of Democratic politicians across the country. In 2020, Shanahan co-hosted a fundraiser for Buttigieg. And she also supported Marianne Williamson’s long-shot 2020 bid. She donated $25,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020. [More]
It’s tempting to think he’ll only be a spoiler hurting Biden, but some “conservatives” enamored of his Covid “vaccine” warnings, and some gun owners uninformed enough to believe his qualified 2A “assurances,” could make that sword cut both ways.
In addition to nullifying existing firearm regulations, the bill makes it even more difficult for officials to enforce gun laws. [More]
He says that like it’s a bad thing.
A loaded chamber indicator on a Beretta 92 Compact L did not stop 14-year-old Michael Soe from feloniously killing 15-year-old Kenzo Dix during a practical joke. The fact is, Soe’s father left a loaded gun where an untrained, impulsive and judgmentally-challenged adolescent could find it. In their lawsuit, backed by CPHV, Dix’s parents maintained, among other charges, that the chamber indicator was inadequate because the gun was not inscribed with a warning as well. Presumably, were Beretta to do so, they would still be deemed negligent for not including such warnings in Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese and Tagalog.
We can sympathise with his loss. That does not give him a pass to attack our rights, and when he does, his motives shouldn’t lessen our response.
[Via Michael G]
The Prevent Illegal Gun Resales Act would add common sense structural reform to the gun sale industry by boosting license application requirements for gun retailers, proportionally increasing the cost of licensing fees, and adding a new definition for “high-risk dealers” that would include sellers who:
Had a known violation or warning in the past three years; Had firearms either lost or stolen from them within the preceding year; or, Were the source of two or more guns with a time-to-crime of three years or less. [More]
In other words, close them all down.
Yes, Bob, exactly like Democrats.
Yes, this is political posturing for the media, and no, it won’t pass — yet — but it’s instructive to see what the plans are for when previous impediments are removed through “compromise.”
The only reason to let the enemy get closer to the target is to draw him into a trap.
[Via Jess]
“I Was Wrong”: Tulsi Gabbard Addresses Second Amendment Concerns [More]
I wonder if this is a first step toward grooming her for her close-up.
[Via Dan Gifford]
But again, it’s the wrong question. What should be asked is “Why is a known illegal alien allowed to remain in the United States instead of being deported?” [More]
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” (Thomas Pynchon/”Gravity’s Rainbow”)
