The Heckler’s Veto

It’s literally 99.9999 or something like that of the AR-15s in America will have no connection to a murder in any given year, in other words well over 99.9 % of the AR-15s in the United States will have no connection to criminality in the United States in any given year, so if you’re going to have the government ban the 99.99% of the AR-15s in the United States because of a few hundred bad apples misbehaving with AR-15s you have engaged in a violation of our constitutional rights known as the Heckler veto… [Watch]

Good points. It sounds like you could make a good case that of all the people who heard Donald Trump speak on Jan. 6, only a handful ignored his call to be peaceful and got rowdy to the point of striking out at others, and that shouldn’t abridge his First Amendment-protected rights.

As an aside, I know speaking is different thatn writing in terms of not being able to go back and edit remarks before they’re released, but I hope in the future he’s mindful to say “killed with” more and “killed by” less.

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Educating Enough

Lambert told reporters the department is pushing for state legislation that would make possession of three or more gun parts a misdemeanor, which would allow law enforcement to educate legal firearm owners who may not be aware of the ghost gun issue. [More]

That’s one way to characterize dynamic entries with guns drawn…

[Via Jess]

Speaking of Deserving Easy Contempt…

Spoken like a true superhighway to citizenship apparatchik.

At least we don’t throw phones at them.

We’re the Only Ones Reasonable Enough

“Any reasonable officer arriving at the scene would have simply confirmed Agent Burk’s credentials, then offered him assistance or cleared from the scene,” attorneys from the firm Cooper Elliot wrote. “Instead, the officers who did arrive immediately drew their weapons on Agent Burk, berated him, manhandled him, repeatedly tased him, cuffed him and locked him in the back of a police cruiser.” [More]

So she was trusted without a custodian and they stopped him from infringing on her RKBA?

Unless the “illegal” shotgun was stolen, what’s unreasonable about that?

[Via Andy M]

Well, They Asked

https://twitter.com/dcodrea/status/1861067417557856500

Momentum is building.

Where are our “leaders”?

Related UPDATE

At the White House on Thursday, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi described to President Donald Trump similar efforts underway in her state to allow law enforcement to seize firearms from someone who is deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.

“Good,” Trump responded. [More]

With Republicans Like These

Albritton, R-Wauchula, told reporters that as a life-long and consistent supporter of law enforcement, he will oppose any open carry legislation in 2025: “I trust my law enforcement officials. They oppose it … and I stand with them today in opposition.” [More]

Because after all, who works for whom?

He’s in a solidly Republican district, the primary was canceled, and he’s got his seat ’til ’28, so what’s he care what you think?

[Via Jess]

Gun Group Watch

Will we see leadership on this?

I just checked the Twitter/X feeds for them and nada

I wonder what they have to say about Bondi’s role in railroading George Zimmerman

Doing the Burglaries Americans Won’t Do

Sources say that it’s part of a larger, more sophisticated organization, and many in law enforcement believe a “South American crime ring” could be behind it. And it’s not just limited to the Kansas City area; it’s happening in wealthy neighborhoods around the country. [More]

Oh, no! Not Taylor Swift’s PR boyfriend!

I hope it’s the lawn and pool boys, and servants, except those people work…

[Via Michael G]

Spoiling for It

A prominent Democratic strategist left a CNN panel speechless after wildly suggesting the US military could open fire on Americans who try to prevent President-elect Donald Trump’s deportation of illegal migrants. [More]

And that’s how narrative talking points start and spread.

[Via bondmen]

Country Over Party?

Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting background checks for high-level nominees away from the FBI and give it to private investigators. [More]

I mean, it’s not like FBI has an agenda or anything…

Cramer…?

Collins…?

Murkowski…?

Deep State Über Alles.

[Via bondmen]

The Childrens’ Crusade

The Democrat Mayor of Denver, Colorado Mike Johnston has challenged Trump to try to deport any illegal migrants from his city, saying he would deploy the Denver City Police and volunteers from the local community to use force against federal forces trying to deport illegals. “More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there. It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun… You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. You don’t want to mess with them.” [More]

Nothing seditiously cospiratorial about that…

And armed with what?

What’s the beef against Trump and the J6ers about again…?

[Via Michael G]

Primaries – Open, Closed, or None at All?

Political Parties are private clubs. Primaries are taxpayer-funded elections where private clubs choose their representation in General Elections. So, members of Party A pay for Party B to choose their candidate and those not affiliated with any Party pay for them all. Instead of passing a taxpayer-funded Constitutional Amendment to force private clubs to allow non-members to vote in their internal selection process, why not adopt a system where the private clubs pay for their own processes? [More]

WarOnGuns Correspondent Scott Jensen offer an idea I’ve never considered before, and while addressed to Oklahoma legislators in response to SQ 835 seems universally applicable.

I’ve pointed out a failing of open primaries before and don’t see either party getting their snouts out of the public trough without powerful carrot/stick incentives, but Scott’s ideas are unique and deserves wider consideration.

I’m intrigued. What about you?

The Devils We Know

“The devil you know,” he remarked, may be preferable to sprawling bureaucracies with even more power to interfere with lawful gun ownership. [More]

Couldn’t have said it better myself

As for “ATF, when properly managed, serves a legitimate purpose—targeting violent offenders and assisting the firearms industry in compliance,” first, compliance with what that doesn’t run afoul of “shall not be infringed”?

As for “violent offenders,” there are three crimes the feds are Constitutionally delegated power to combat, and unless the baddies are committing treason, counterfeiting, or engaged in piracy, stopping them is a power ceded to the states by the Tenth Amendment.

Everything else is usurpation compounded with corrupt stare decisis.

File Under ‘WTF?’

President-elect Trump announces Pam Bondi as his new pick for US attorney general [More]

That would be the same Pam Bondi NRA sued over denial of rights for 18-20-year-olds where the 11th Circuit, contrary to Bruen, “decided that historical sources from Reconstruction are more probative of the Second Amendment’s scope than those from the Founding.”

I can sense the apologists preparing arguments that her job is to defend state law.

I don’t hold any politician to standards I don’t hold myself to. I’d quit a job that required me to do that.

Wouldn’t you?

More words, President Trump?

This is exactly why “Gun Owners for Trump” needs to be more than names to help him get elected but actually be a presence and have his ear when he’s in power.

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Will the “gun rights groups” try to rein this in?

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