Vanderstok Case: SCOTUS Showdown Could Pave the Way for an ATF Ban on Semi-Autos [More]
What he said.
But what about Bruen?
Tag: ghost guns
The Truth Behind the Garland v. VanDerStok “Ghost Gun” Case
This is not the first time Justice Barrett has departed from conservative views on the Second Amendment, values she represented herself as a staunch supporter of when she was nominated to the Supreme Court by then President Donald Trump. [More]
Except she didn’t, the gun groups did.
As with all SCOTUS confirmation hearings, they don’t ask the tough questions needed to elicit unequivocal answwers.
As noted when cautioning against rubber stamping Gorsuch:
Typically in judicial confirmation hearings, nominees have been able to rely on an “out” giving them a pass on answering specific questions… Think of one job you’ve ever applied for where you’d have gotten it if you decided to play coy with the hiring managers. While it may be “inappropriate” for a judge to weigh in on a specific case before confirmation — for legitimate reasons, including not having studied and evaluated all the particulars, evidence and precedents against the “supreme Law of the Land,” — there’s no reason why general principles of understanding should be off-limits. Such hearings are supposed to be, among other things, high-level employment interviews, not pre-coronation ceremonies.
Gun owners may be paying the price for that… again.
Ian Millhiser: Real Reporter
The Supreme Court will decide whether to let criminals get guns without a background check [More]
A monopoly of violence apologist spits out a Big Lie and his followers swallow it up.
Just saying “Vox” should be enough.
They post all kinds of stupid sh!+.
Feel Safer Yet?
Daily Defense Redux
David Codrea and Mark break down today’s SCOTUS “Ghost Gun” Scotus Oral Arguments [Listen]
What’s that recurring line from Star Wars?
And from Michael G:
Most Justices Seem Inclined To Uphold the ATF’s New Restrictions on Homemade Firearms [More]
Let’s hope our feelings are misplaced.
No. She Can’t. Not in This Context. She’s Not a Gunsmith.
Based on results, ATF can’t, either.
She’s just wondering if “ghost guns” can also fire 800 rounds a second.
It’s OK to say “she,” isn’t it?
Daily Defense
I’ll be joining host Mark Walters today at 4 Eastern to talk about what’s happening at SCOTUS with frames and receivers, and whatever else the conversation leads to.
Go to the Armed American Radio website to listen/watch live/find a station near you.
VanDerStok at SCOTUS
I don’t know what’s so damn hard to understand about “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Breaking Some Eggs
Justice Alito Wrecks ATF’s ‘Ghost Gun’ Argument: Are Eggs and Peppers an Omelet?[More]
So are John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett bent on scrambling things?
Mark W. Smith has some interesting thoughts, including “if the ATF theory is allowed here, then drilling a single hole in AR-15s to convert it into a machine gun means that an AR-15 is “readily convertable” into a machine gun and thus a machine gun. SCOTUS will need to issue a ruling to avoid this result.”
Ghost of a Chance
Justices to hear challenge to regulation of unserialized ‘ghost guns’ [More]
The Founders couldn’t have imagined unserialized guns, right…?
Ken Boddie, ‘Real Reporter’
Ghost guns — that is 3D-printed guns, guns with no serial numbers, guns that can’t be detected by X-rays and guns built at home using separately purchased parts — are now banned on Oregon streets. [More]
An Emmy Award-winning one at that! And people vote based on this.
CBS KOIN 6: News You Can Wipe With!
[Via Michael G]
Just Like the Founders Intended
Today You Became A Criminal [More]
Yesterday, actually.
Democrats and Vichycon Republicans shredding the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, and ready to destroy your life if they catch you disobeying them and claiming your birthright…
Giving Up the Ghost
The Country’s Biggest Ghost Gun Manufacturer Has Shuttered [More]
C’mon, Bloomberg/Trace: Take credit for your part in it, along with the virtually unlimited special interest war chest these makers of a legal product, supposedly protected by the Second Amendment, just could not withstand.
[Via Jess]
And If You Act Now…
I’m reminded of a speculation by an old friend:
I sometimes wonder whether the socialists will issue an edict requiring all firearms to have a pink ribbon tied to the barrel, just to get a belly laugh as the panicked descendants of once-proud American patriots scurry to comply.
[Via Jess]
The Sum of Its Parts
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the ATF’s “Final Rule” equating firearms parts kits and gun components with functioning firearms. [More]
Let’s hope they’re right that “the Supreme Court will not allow that to happen.”
BATFE Slapping
Today, attorneys for Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a merits-stage Respondents’ brief with the United States Supreme Court in FPC’s Garland v. VanDerStok lawsuit challenging ATF’s “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identification of Firearms” Rule. FPC’s brief, available at FPCLaw.org, explains why the government’s Rule cannot survive scrutiny and must fail. [More]
Mark W. Smith of The Four Boxes Diner breaks it down for us.
[Via Jess]
Setting Precedent
Specifically, I’m going to explain how the legal theories they are advancing before the United States Supreme Court in the VanDerStok case dealing with quote unquote ghost guns, which are unserialized firearms and gun gun parts. how theATF’s position with the Biden/Harris Administrations arguments are exactly that they’re setting the precedent for declaring that AR-15s are machine guns and can be banned because they cannot be added to the NFA register… [Watch]
Exactly what some of us have been arguing the bump stock ban opened the door for, which makes it curious that he’s one of the ones arguing — without contemporaneous documentation — that Trump’s ban was a brilliant 3D chess move.
[Via Jess]
We Believe in the Second Amendment BUT…
Massachusetts House and Senate negotiators have released a compromise version of a sweeping gun bill that supporters say builds on the state’s existing gun laws, including a crackdown on difficult to trace “ghost guns,” while safeguarding the rights of gun owners. [More]
If they’re going to start out with a lie, several here that I can identify, what’s my incentive to read further and keep being lied to?
Way to continue being megaphones for tyranny, Associated Press and “real reporter” Steve LeBlanc!
[Via Steve T]
The Man Who Would Be King
How instructive to see “New York’s very own” PIX 11 pay so much attention to noted subject matter expert East Harlem resident Arlene on this.
“I think they shouldn’t be learning that on no video,” indeed.
So Fat Alvin presumes the power to coerce rules affecting the entire world… Hey, if you believe you don’t have to respect the Second Amendment, why should the First give you any problems?
Not that Google respects either.
[Via Jess]
Ghost of a Chance
Supreme Court to decide if Biden administration can regulate ‘ghost guns’ [More]
Now we get to see how all those “pro-gun” Trump justices pan out on “shall not be infringed.”
Mark W. Smith sounds optimistic.
[Via Jess]
The Spirit of the Law
Let the Feeding Frenzy Begin
Philadelphia reaches settlement in case against 2 large suppliers of ghost guns [More]
You know what they say about once you start paying blackmailers…
Life imitates art:
[Via Jess]
Off-Target
Grieving mother sues ghost gun kit maker Polymer80 for fatal shooting of daughter in the Bronx [More]
Now give us background on the killer, on all those “existing gun laws” that didn’t stop him, and on the data that concludes any new one would have.
He didn’t hit the right targets either.
[Via Jess]
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
D.A. Bragg Announces Indictments In Sprawling Investigation That Charges City Employees In Ghost Gun And Fraud Conspiracies [More]
I see they’re all small fry, so the top men under whose watches Big Apple trademark corruption occurs can carry on per SOP.
Looking at some of the arrestees, I’ll bet if a smart, loudmouthed Democrat race-hustler wanted to make a name for himself, he could make a pretty good case for “overrepresentation.”
[Via Jess]
California to Outlaw Chairs?
California argues that, under the Gun Control Act, a receiver or frame can be considered a firearm because such pieces are “designed to or may readily be converted” into functional weapons. [More]
Shoot, I can instantly convert all kinds of things into a functional weapon.
The state calls ghost guns the “weapon of choice” for gun traffickers, gangs and political extremists, and says the Golden State has had to incur significant costs to regulate the guns because ATF is not doing so.
Talk about a term of convenience!
[Via Jess]
Ghost Story
Are we talking about criminals that are obliterating serial numbers which has always happened in American history, um, or something else…? [Watch]
Are we talking about violence monopolist propagandists using deception to advance a citizen disarmament agenda…?
“Real reporter” Matthew Sedacca certainly is a tool.
[Via Jess]
Meanwhile, Over in the Heart of the Bloomberg Empire…
Ghost guns, 3D printer found in unlocked room during bust at East Harlem day care [More]
Tell me again how black teens are disproportionately affected by “gun violence”…
[Via Steve T]
A Setback for Now Thanks to Two ‘Conservatives’
Supreme Court temporarily reinstates ban on “ghost guns” [More]
I submitted an AmmoLand article centered on the Roberts/Barrett punt.
Flaunting Her Serial Betrayals
Getting a gun in New York City is easier with a router than through Ruger, so Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y., hopes the 3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2023, which bans internet distribution of blueprints for 3D-printed firearms, will suppress the burgeoning illegal pipeline of homemade, untraceable “ghost guns,” both locally and nationwide. [More]
Aside from misspelling her name, great job with this press release masked as news for the biggest political whore on the hill, “real reporter” Tandy Lau!
I don’t suppose his understanding of the First Amendment is any better than his grasp of the Second…
It’s a DSM/Gillibrand thing…
[Via Jess]
Unlawful Infringement
Biden loses ‘ghost gun’ case, ATF ban ‘unlawful’ [More]
This is by no means a done deal, but it does raise hopes for bump stocks and stabilizing braces, and for checks and balances.
[Via Jess]
