Notes from the Resistance
Did you know that Hawaii currently lacks any state-funded shooting facilities across all counties? This means limited opportunities for safe firearm training, recreational shooting, and practice for our local law enforcement. [More]
No one really believes Marxist citizen disarmamament fanatics when they mouth the words “commonsense gun safety,” do they?
Ted Olson, 9/11, Citizens United, Bush v. Gore & The Importance of A Great Solicitor General [Watch]
That would be the same Ted Olson who argued against the Supreme Court hearing the Emerson case, asked the Supreme Court not to intervene in the Haney case, and argued against “restoring” a gun owner’s rights in the Bean case.
I don’t set out to pick arguments with influencers. It’s just that sometimes I hear things that trigger my inner Fletcher.
[Via Jess]
I’ve got to take the wife to the ophthalmologist this morning (I don’t want her driving after they dilate her eyes) and then have an article to write for Firearms News, so I probably won’t get to too many news tips today — and I generally don’t post here on weekends.
Please hold off on news tips or understand if I just can’t get to yours. I’ll try to post some stuff later today if I can.
It’s ironic that Jones has essentially been punished for “fake news,” the very thing The Onion exploits for its own profits. [More]
When it’s all said and done, my guess is these gloating (and ultimately humorless) prohibitionists are going to be anything but happy.
Hallmarks of Tyranny in an Evolving Social Democracy [More]
Dr. Miguel Faria shows us the fundamental commonalities shared by despotic regimes, all of them recognizable and in various stages of imposition in our own society.
If you read one thing today, make this it. Then do the people within your sphere of influence a great service by sharing it with them.
AZ Judge Recuses Himself From ‘Fake Electors’ Case After Emails Surface Demanding Judges Defend Kamala [More]
The real scandal here is that emails had to “surface.”
I will say that bit about Kamala being “promiscuous with generals in the Situation Room” would probably make for a pretty lucrative porno movie.
[Via Michael G]
After years of feminizing the US military through DEI initiatives, a new executive order under consideration by the Trump transition team would establish a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel which would be granted the power to review three- and four-star officers and recommend any removals of those deemed unfit for leadership. [More]
Start with these “advisors.”
[Via bondmen]
Visitors on-board with Saint Louis Zoo’s new security system… The system will detect concealed weapons at the north and south entrances. [More]
Presumably, the ones who aren’t on board aren’t visitors.
Don’t look for assaults to stop, and as for that crack team of highly trained professionals Eidman is bragging about…
[Via bondmen]
Trump Shouldn’t Hire Kristi Noem, Or Anyone Else, To Run DHS. He Should Abolish It [More]
I didn’t know she screwed us with the Somalis.
Now comes the Herculean job of trying to rein him in.
I hope some of those inclined to ignore valid critiques by angrily demanding to know if we’d rather have Kamala will take a moment to understand there’s a real difference between supporting Trump and supporting the agenda we elected him to enact.
[Via bondmen]
Pennsylvania Senate Race Headed to Mandated Recount [More]
The idiom “Who’s counting?” comes to mind.
[Via Michael G]
Another Big Win for the Second Amendment…Huge and good news out of the US Senate today and Sen. John Thune has been selected the new Senate Majority Leader. [Watch]
Because NRA ratings…
Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.
Between this and the constant defeatism, I’m just not inclined to link to this guy any more.
Related UPDATE
[Via Jess]
Should this Court decline to grant certiorari to consider the constitutionality of Maryland’s assault weapons ban where (1) that ban is consistent with this Court’s recognition in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), that jurisdictions may ban “weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like”; (2) the Fourth Circuit faithfully applied New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), to conclude that Maryland’s law is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of “regulating those weapons that were invented for offensive purposes and were ultimately proven to pose exceptional dangers to innocent civilians,” Pet. App. 69a; and (3) there is no need to resolve a conflict among the lower courts? [More]
Translation: Tyrannical Maryland Democrats want the Supreme Court to turn a blind eye to the state’s willingness to imprison and/or kill citizens for defying unconstitutional diktats and claiming their birthrights.
[Via Jess]
