Notes from the Resistance
The governor’s acknowledgment that the law covers common hunting models will likely be cited in Second Amendment challenges. If the law is not amended, she could prove the main witness against her own signed legislation. [More]
Yeah, I know… any chair in a bar fight.
Thing is, 2A isn’t about hunting and “common use” will come back to bite us.
So will special exemptions for Fudds.
[Via Michael G]
“The City has banned an arm in common use for lawful purposes by law-abiding citizens. Therefore, the Ordinance violates the Second Amendment.”
That’s not why the ban violates it. [More]
If something needs to be officially designated “popular” by government in order to be “legal,” we may as well start calling each other “Comrade.”
The Trump Administration Is a Powerful but Unreliable Ally of Second Amendment Advocates – Even as the Justice Department files lawsuits aimed at vindicating gun rights, it undermines them in other cases. [More]
I’d use a different word than “unreliable”…
I wonder what it would take to fix that…
[Via Michael G]
A Florida gun owner says he spent two weeks in jail because the government’s background-check machinery treated an old Kentucky misdemeanor as if it were a felony. [More]
NICS… isn’t that the prior restraint infringement hailed by NSSF as a “real solution,” and “applauded” by NRA…?
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed… And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
See, that’s why tyrants used to do it.
The Founders’ Republic added representation.
So I just got an order from the Census Bureau with the unequivocal mandate:
YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW
It does quite a bit more than count us, and for purposes those who conceived it would never have approved.
That said, I see the same executive action that will change the 4473 is across the board. I wonder if the No Kings crowd will decide to mass defy compliance.
Aside from the general intrusiveness and tedium of completing the rest of the online form, two questions make me wonder about a Fifth Amendment conflict:
Seeing how a Democrat-ruled VA tried to disarm veterans who needed help managing their finances, I’m wondering if this information on file about “difficulties” from “mental and emotional conditions “could be abused by a later administration to try and disqualify a citizen from gun ownership. Could completing this section be considered self-incrimination?
“Real loser $#!+,” right, Stephen?
Don’t tell me. Tell him:
I still have my differences with Smith, particularly over his unwavering defense of Trump/DOJ bipolarities and his not acknowledging that “in common use” is a two-edged sword, but his voice here, because it is louder and more far-reaching than mine, is essential and should be encouraged.
[Via Allan Wall]
EXCLUSIVE — ATF Director Robert Cekada: Hunter, AR-15 Owner, and Fan of an Armed Citizenry [More]
New pro-gun group challenging extreme gun control of U.S. Virgin Islands [More]
Jeez, Giffords was already freaking out, and now this…
Top DOJ official predicts Supreme Court will declare AR-15 rifles legal everywhere in America [More]
Great, as it should be.
I don’t mean to be the party pooper, but heeding Mr. Wolf (NSFW) for a second, two concerns remain:
Assuming we can get it to stick, how does the administration sound on ending NFA and GCA mg registration and the post-’86 ban? ?
Yeah, I know, there I go blackpilling again. Just ignore me and have some rainbow stew.
Tate Adamiak to receive 50 days of ‘Diesel Therapy’ punishment – He will be kept completely out of touch in the back of a DOC van. [More]
As long as we’re in a new paradigm of text, history, and tradition, what’s the Founding Era parallel where they would have kept an inmate captive in a wagon for a month-and-a-half because he claimed a right the government was mandated not to infringe?
Harmeet knows the Constitution– maybe she can tell us:
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said Monday the city will not bend the knee to a legal threat from the U.S. Department of Justice over the city’s longstanding assault weapons ban. [More]
That’s some industrial-strength gaslighting right there.
Anybody else getting an Iran vibe out of the administration offering a deal and having it rejected out of hand by people who think they can hold out until the clock runs out?
Bear attack in Yellowstone National Park leaves 2 hikers injured [More]
Yes, you can carry a gun in Yellowstone.
The bad news is:
But it’s illegal to fire it – even in self defense.
Just think, the people who enacted and enforce that edict all swore an oath to the Constitution. I wonder what the Framers would have thought about that.
The 11th Circuit joins “several sister circuits in holding that the Second Amendment does not protect the possession of machine guns.” That’s consistent with the Trump administration’s position on the matter, his campaign promises that “Your Second Amendment will always be safe with me as your president,” notwithstanding. [More]
Face it, gun owners are voting for who infringes less and accepting excuses for not demanding more.
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Today is Primary day in Ohio, and my articles include “Ramaswamy’s Ohio Governor Bid” (pg. 18) and “Casey Putsch for Ohio Governor: The Real Deal When It Comes to Guns” (pg. 104).
[T]he last thing we want, the last thing we in the Second Amendment community want, as I see it, is for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, or for any circuit for that matter, to come out right now, now at least, and say that machine guns are protected under the Second Amendment… We do not want that next case going to the Supreme Court involving machine guns. [More]
We will never get an unequivocal “shall not be infringed” unless and until there is a credible “or else” attached to the demand.
[Via Jess]
Where Are Silencers Illegal? State Suppressor Laws in 2026 [More]
Watch the whole map turn red if you add the word “uninfringed” before “silencers.”
Civil Rights Division Sues Cloudera for Excluding U.S. Workers from Applying to High-Paying Technology Jobs [More]
Meet the rope-selling capitalists.
OK, but what’s this got to do with the Second Amendment?
No worries– Vivek will save us!
[Via Michael G]
GOP frontrunner in key gubernatorial race forced to answer about hiring illegal immigrants: ‘I don’t know’ [More]
He wants to sign your checks but he doesn’t even know what the one’s he signing are paying for…?
OK, but despite that, says he’s against illegal aliens. How is he on the legal ones?
Georgia GOP Governor Hopeful Owns Company Importing Foreign Nurses Over Americans
Cultural terraforming to the advantage of Democrats, anyone…?
And note he doesn’t even think the Second Amendment is worth mentioning, let alone detailing a plan to defend and advance it.
As Billy Mays would say, “But wait! There’s more!”:
How is this Vichycon the “frontrunner”? Aside from through shady “dark money”?
And in the interests of fairness:
Anybody see 2A being an “issue”? On his campaign website, I mean, not just on social media.
Or know his position on bringing in more “legal” foreign nationals?
Hell no.
Remember when establishment gun groups were dissing “We will not comply“?
Ask ’em if they will, and that will tell you much.
[Via Jess]