Could a Bruen challenge to the Hughes Amendment give us new machine guns for civilian ownership? [Watch]
Not if Kamala wins and stacks the Supreme Court.
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Notes from the Resistance
Court upholds gun ban for migrants in US unlawfully [More]
As noted before, this is a red herring.
[Via Jess]
You can only do that with illegal aliens and if you’re a Democrat.
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The last version made me afraid to shave my beard.
How They Can Use the Rule on Unfinished Frames and Receivers to Disarm a LOT of You [Watch]
How They Can Use the Rule on Unfinished Frames and Receivers to TRY TO Disarm a LOT of You
There, I fixed it for ya.
Now I’m waiting for some genius on “our side” to say “Only Congress has that authority.”
To prohibit the imposition of requirements that handguns have certain features generally absent from firearms in common use, and to restore the civil and natural rights of Americans in States hostile to liberty, and for other purposes. [More]
And when Republicans are in a position to actually roll back an infringement…?
Besides: What about arms NOT in common use by any except the standing army because the government won’t allow them to be?
[Via Jess]
27 states urge Supreme Court to reject Biden administration’s rule defining gun parts [More]
The court’s ability and inclination to produce favorable future rulings depends on what happens in November, for those of you who believe sitting on your hands because it doesn’t make any difference is defensible.
[Via Jess]
California Raising Background Check Fee’s 500%, Get Ready [Watch]
Hey, if $5 is “better” than $1, how much “better” would $50 be? What’s to stop it?
Guess who won’t pay a dime, chumps.
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We’re not interested in negotiating our rights that you and your fellow travelers have no claim to. Come and take them. [More]
An impotent peacenik dolt lays down the terms of surrender.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld Maryland’s licensing requirements for people seeking to buy handguns, saying the law remained valid even after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2022 that expanded gun rights. [More]
Anybody know which clause from Bruen Obama-appointee Barbara Milano Keenan cherry-picked to justify a clear prior restraint?
[Via Jess]
The promise to “listen to GOA” is what we’ll need to remind him of. And he needs to understand there are difference between them and NRA, and why.
Let’s hope historical analogues don’t come back to bite us. Rather than digging up what some colony did to infringe in special circumstances or older English law, put the focus on arguments put forth during ratification. We know what the founders meant, and there was nothing ambuiguous about it.
Anybody else having trouble digging up info on the defendant and his Glock switches? I’m wondering if what’s gun owners may be celebrating as a victory is actually part of an effort to turn the public against Bruen.
[Via WiscoDave]
Trump Issues Strongest Defense of Gun Rights Since Assassination Attempt to Gun Owners of America [More]
By now everyone who’s a regular here knows I’m never afraid to call the guy out for his failures. You also know it will be him or Kamala.
Act accordingly.
“So we have a best alternative to a negotiated agreement. Our BATNA is that we are going to stop all other gun control work and focus all our resources on a campaign to repeal the Second Amendment. We have a template for that; the amendment outlawing alcoholic beverages was passed and a decade later that Amendment was repealed. We are either going to get your commitment to allow our democratically produced local and state laws honored or we will end our negotiations and begin a massive campaign to overturn the Second Amendment.” [More]
No.
I think I may have found my next article.
[Via Jess]
The Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association have filed an amicus brief with the Massachusetts Supreme Court in support of a New Hampshire man who is challenging the Massachusetts permit law. [More]
Hey, waddyaknow? NRA shared credit!
Pursuant to Rule 29 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, the States of New York, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai‘i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia submit this brief as amici curiae in support of the appellee, the United States of America, and ask this Court to reaffirm the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3), which makes it unlawful to transfer or receive a firearm from out of state, except through a federally licensed firearms dealer, importer, or manufacturer. [More]
What “infringemwent”? This is “commnonsense safety.”
So, just the Second Amendment or does the rest of the Bill of Rights threaten “exercis[ing] their police power,” too…?
[Via Antigone]
The President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, Dr. John Lott says that Kamala Harris record shows that if elected president she will seek to end legal gun ownership in America. [Watch]
And look who’s helping!
[Via Jess]
Today, attorneys for Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a merits-stage Respondents’ brief with the United States Supreme Court in FPC’s Garland v. VanDerStok lawsuit challenging ATF’s “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identification of Firearms” Rule. FPC’s brief, available at FPCLaw.org, explains why the government’s Rule cannot survive scrutiny and must fail. [More]
Mark W. Smith of The Four Boxes Diner breaks it down for us.
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The revelation that Washington State, for the first time in history, has more than 700,000 active concealed pistol licenses is proof the public is concerned about personal and community safety, and will be an issue in this year’s statewide elections, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is predicting. [More]
Anybody expecting armed Dems to change their vote?
A challenge against Maryland’s gun ban is likely to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court before gun ban challenges from other states. [More]
Sadly, all the high court has to do to let it stand is nothing.
If they do hear it, it will be a game-changer, but it will still leave the more fundamentally destructive NFA and Hughes Amendment in play.
Then there are the questions of when will they hear such a case, and who will be in power and appointing justices?
[Via Jess]
Surprising no one, I trust…?
See, there are two different missions here that only occasionally converge when it’s convenient for them. Think Wallace on the field while the Lairds strike their own deals with Longshanks.
[Via Andy M]
The ATF Raid You Never Heard Of [Watch]
Mike had referenced this in passing, but if he ever fleshed it out I don’t remember where.
You can learn more here and here.
[Via Jess]
Gun owners have taken the first step toward putting before Massachusetts voters a proposal to repeal the firearms law signed on July 25 by Gov. Maura Healey, a statute the governor called the “most significant gun safety legislation in a decade.” [More]
Yeah, about that…
If “we” lose in November, that zone will expand.
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Also unexplored is what Walz told NRA to get their endorsement. People with sincere, core knowledge-based freedom principles don’t abandon them in favor of emotion-based demands for coercive prohibitions against allies they’d pledged allegiance to. A release of his questionnaire would be instrumental in showing just how much the guy is willing to lie for political power. [More]
It’s not the first time Walz campaigned in a camo hat. Any Fudd kapo dumb enough to vote for this fraud deserves to have his guns taken away.
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