Federal firearm buyback program has cost $67M since 2020, still hasn’t collected guns [More]
And yet no one is in prison…
They’re saving that for noncompliant gun owners.
[Via WiscoDave]
Notes from the Resistance
GOA Files Amicus Brief in Challenge to Maryland AWB @ SCOTUS [More]
How much longer is SCOTUS going to allow inferior courts like the Fourth Circuit to snub thier noses at Bruen?
Gun Conrollers Knew the Assault Weapons Ban Failed in 2004 and They Know It Now [More]
Failed at what? If the answer is “at stopping crime,” that was never the intent.
Have gun bans been taken off the table?
Of course they’re talking about taking your guns.
The psy ops is in full force, with “conservative” Frank Luntz telling lefty media that Trump’s toast. Admittedly, the guy let himself get rattled and, as in 2020, the election is his to blow, but the real focus on behavior ought to be on someone who can lie so seamlessly and with a smile, using a mask of compassion and concern to hide malevolent intent.
There’s something deeply wrong with a person who can do that.
[Via Jess]
So a mouthy Pakistani frostback who should have never been allowed onto this continent and doesn’t even have the gear is all the “Boogedy-Boogedy” needed to spook the herbivores into demanding an AR ban.
And yes, millions of Democrats are stupid enough to fall for this.
Tell us more about “the greatest threat,” AG Garland…
I’d comment to Shannon but she blocked me because I was asking embarrassing questions.
[Via Jess]
She’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require universal background checks, and support red flag laws that keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. [More]
Well, she can try.
Conflicted on voting? I get it.
Think of it as any chair in a bar fight.
[Via Jess]
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.”
McKee says he will include an ‘assault weapon’ ban in next year’s budget. [More]
Well, he beat the Republican 58% to 39%, so Rhode Islanders evidently have the overseer they want. And it’s not like “gun laws are strong enough” would put fire in my belly…
[Via Jess]
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]
A federal appeals court upheld Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons Tuesday in an opinion that found regulating “excessively dangerous weapons” compatible with the Second Amendment. [More]
WarOnGuns has obtained an exclusive photo showing the legal contortions necessary for J. Harvie Wilkinson III to do that.
I wish I could say I was surprised.
[Via Jess]
Third Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary Injunction in NRA-ILA-Supported Challenge to Delaware’s ban on “assault weapons” and “large-capacity magazines.” [More]
Here’s their weasel-wording to justify tyranny.
Mark W. Smith navigates the fabricated complexities.
[Via Jess]
Somebody may want to send him this.
As for “the original public meaning of ‘Arms’ excludes bullet-storage containers lke LCMs,” does anyone have a quick link to that brief? I’d like to check and see if the “expert” definition they’re relying on invalidates New Jersey’s “bump stock” ban.
[Via Jess]
[Via bondmen]
Fortunately (and predictably, at least for the present):
Prognosis 1% chance of being enacted
It’s another try at this piece of treasonous Democrat subversion:
This Act may be cited as the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act or the GOSAFE Act.
In other words, Democrat gasbags are doing what they always do on guns: Gaslighting.
As an aside, McBath was a panelist for the Astroturf 97percent phonies who pretend to represent “reasonable” gun owners, and she let slip she was appealing to Fudds because “Bringing them into these discussions really helps us understand better ways to infiltrate…”
[Via Jess]
Thursday, 5/23/24 Connecticut Citizens Defense League filed a Response Brief in the Grant v. Lamont case. This brief is asking the court to reconsider our preliminary injunction that was denied by Judge Arterton prior to her retirement. If successful, injunctive relief could halt the CT Assault Weapons Ban while the case is in court. The Connecticut Assault Weapons Ban is an unjust restriction of our 2A rights under the scrutiny of the Bruen decision, we will keep on fighting until we reclaim what is ours. [More]
In the meantime, don’t stop doing what it takes…
Six petitions have been filed seeking review of that determination: Harrel v. Raoul, Herrera v. Raoul, Barnett v. Raoul, National Association for Gun Rights v. City of Naperville, Illinois, Langley v. Kelly, and Gun Owners of America, Inc. v. Raoul. Given the ubiquity of AR- and AK-type firearms, this case will likely be a blockbuster if granted. [More]
And what will it likely be if it’s not?
[Via Jess]
The Supreme Court on Monday declined three Marylanders’ request to review the constitutionality of a state law banning AR-15-style rifles that was passed in the wake of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. [More]
Why? Wasn’t it infringy enough?
Scottsdale police release body-cam video of deadly shootout involving police during rush hour [More]
Oh, look: A patrol rifle!
[Via Matt L]
The grabbers will include semi-auto rifles in the mix, and as long as they’re on a roll, why limit the qualifiers to internal devices like switches and sears? As long as they’re being redundantly obsessive, why not ban firearms that external devices like “bump stocks” can be attached to? [More]
But no one’s talking about taking your guns, right?
ANTI-GUN WASHINGTON POST MAKES HUGE PRO-2A ADMISSION [Watch]
Perhaps. But tying “in common use at the time” to commercial popularity can be a trap.
[Via Jess]
“He had a high-powered, automatic rifle that, he was able to start open fire on our officers. And then, as others responded, to try to save the officers that were down. They were also hit with gunfire as well,” said Jennings. [More]
But mission accomplished:
The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.
[Via Jess]
Two Second Amendment Foundation cases challenging bans on so-called “assault weapons” and magazine capacity—one in Illinois and the other in Maryland—are among five cases distributed Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court for conference May 16. [More]
2A defenders are doing a full court press on behalf of all of us.
SAF files brief with Supreme Court in challenge to Illinois semi-auto ban… “Given the ongoing resistance to the core reasoning of Heller and Bruen, (we) respectfully submit that the existence of so many other similar cases cuts in favor of granting certiorari now,” the brief states. [More]
If not now, when?
What’s that saying about a right delayed…?
FBI director issues chilling warning about possible terror attack on U.S. soil similar to Russian concert hall massacre which left 144 people dead: ‘We are increasingly concerned’ [More]
Brought to you by rigorous admissions and open borders.
And these guys, through commission or omission…
So DEI Greg has his crack BDTs (Blood Dance Teams) ready to deploy and set more disarmament steps in motion. That’s a plan Chris will fully embrace and enforce, especially since his guys will have had the perps on their radar, if not with embedded assets on the payroll.
After such an invited event here, who can doubt establishment Republicans will fold like a cheap suit on “assault weapons”?