Category: Second Amendment

To All Intents and Purposes

The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen found that a central part of New York’s licensing process, requiring a special need to obtain a concealed-carry permit, violated the Second Amendment. Because of this, Rivera reasoned, New York can no longer presume that everyone who possesses an unlicensed firearm intends to use it illegally. [More]

The presumption ought to be that licenses are illegal.

[Via Jess]

Without Further Comment

Once the comment period has ended, the ATF will consider the public comments before deciding whether to adopt the rule, modify it, or drop it. [More]

Y’know, I was nodding along with you right until this last line. Does anyone seriously believe the decision wasn’t made before the required rule was posted for comment?

The only reason I submitted one was to show my solidarity with those making their refusal to bow down a matter of record. That’s why I urge you to come and stand with us, regardless of the coordinated Astroturf campaign.

I just wish I could believe the poor showing from “our side” is because most consider it a useless effort and believe Bruen will save us, instead of what “experience hath shown” to generally be the case.

[Via Dan Gifford]

Ball’s in Their Court

US Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett just ordered the defendants in National Association for Gun Rights v. Naperville to explain why the court should not enjoin Illinois’s “assault weapon” ban law. [Watch]

And again with the Barden/Sandy Hook ad intro…

[Via Jess]

Flagshafted

The city of Flagstaff, Ariz., banned all commercial advertising at the local airport after a gun-range owner threatened to sue the city for prohibiting his ad specifically from appearing on government property. [More]

The rights prohibitionists have no intention of stopping at the Second Amendement.

You tell me why a city with these demographics feels compelled to virtue signal this.

And this…

If not cultual Marxism…

[Via Jess]

Gaslighting for Headlines

Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced a bill Thursday to regulate firearms by outlawing weapons with a magazine capacity over 10 rounds, among other measures aimed at increasing gun control. The Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act (GOSAFE) comes a month after a gunman killed 18 people in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, not far from where King lives. [More]

F*** these Democrat traitors.

It’s not going anywhere.

And if it did, who worth a damn would comply?

[Via Jess]

Appeals Court Rules California Can Continue Doxing Gun Owners to Agenda ‘Researchers’

That “misuse” can be deliberate by activists gone wild or due to lax/incompetent security protocols. And it’s not like sensitive and supposedly secure government systems at the highest levels can’t be breached and hacked by anyone, from cyber criminals to foreign enemies. It’s not like names, addresses, and lists don’t have real-world street value, and it would be just like the prohibitionists to have their efforts actually increase violence and its incentives. [More]

Why do you need privacy if you’re not doing anything wrong?

Judicial System Reeks with Democrat Political Bias Against Guns and More

They’re not only conflicted but hiding it. You don’t get more in-your-face corrupt than that. But don’t look for the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board to care. [More]

What good is having your day in court when the judge is in bed with the offending politicians?

The Astroturfers are Sweating, But Not Over Finances

The aftermath of Bruen has also prompted a surge in lawsuits challenging various gun laws, according to Giffords, a gun control group, with more than 450 decisions trying to interpret the case. [More]

What a stacked deck. Because it’s not Giffords, which rakes in millions, that’s defending against infringment challenges. It’s various levels of government, with virtually unlimited tax plunder-funded legal war chests.

Meanwhile, the gun groups fighting on our behalf are begging for minimal contributions from already overextended members and supporters. Just don’t let the apparent success momentum of these efforts capitalizing on Bruen suggest it’s OK to ease up.

I may just write up a more detailed elaboration on this.

[Via Jess]

Night of the Evil Butterball

The greasy-lipped masters have to be laughing like hell as they reach across their table of plunder and rip off another drumstick… [More]

That links to my traditional Thanksgiving essay, first posted in 2000. This year, WarOnGuns Correspondent Michael G provides an addendum:

LA Times Op-Ed: This Thanksgiving, Honor Turkeys By Not Eating Them [More]

While others bent on destroying our culture and imposing their rule do their utmost to contaminate everything with their filth and make the feast of freedom unpalatable.

And, of course, Moms Demand You be Miserable.

Their word “frustrated” tells you all you need to know.

Fortunately, no one in my family is a loud, obnoxious, divisive, and most of all oblivious useful idiot. I have a feeling those who don’t have a castrated milquetoast to henpeck will be enduring their eating disorders while seething with their cats.

Let them all seethe in impotent rage.

As for my brothers and sisters in freedom, may you have as much to be thankful for as I do. Have a blessed Thanksgiving. Now go enjoy the day.

UPDATE

This is the way I “honored” my turkey. And none of us were miserable because my family and circle of friends are mercifully free of crazy commie nonsense bellyachers.

The Second Shot Heard Round the World

When the Modern Gun Control Movement Started [More]

Dan Gifford resurrects a 2019 piece that recalls how recent history has led to where we are today.

I remember where I was when Kennedy was killed.

We were living in Tehran. Dad ran the brand-new B.F. Goodrich tire factory and we were getting ready to go to school when his British friend called to tell him the president had been shot and killed in Delaware. I didn’t learn “Dallas” until we got to school and newspapers were taped up on the compound wall by the entrance gate.

I was 11. It was the first time I’d considered that history was something we don’t just read about, but live through, and even make.

Kennedy, by the way, was an old-school Democrat who understood the purpose of the Second Amendment:

By CALLING ATTENTION to ‘a well regulated militia,’ the ‘security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms,’ our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.

And he was an NRA Life Member killed by an ACLU member.

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