Notes from the Resistance
‘Congress needs to act’: Gun reform advocate urges officials to regulate ghost guns [Watch]
Right, “74% of Trump’s voters” want more infringments.
Brady’s Kris Brown shows it will never be enough and helps MSNBC keep its ratings in the tank.
[Via Jess]
Legislation approved in the Michigan Senate would ban the manufacturing, assembling, selling, purchasing, importing and possessing of firearms or firearm parts that don’t have a valid serial number. [More]
So you not only can’t make them, you can’t keep what you already have.
That goes for you, too, illegals…
Maybe this’ll get Detroit’s number up to “2”…
Related UPDATE
Reminding the servants of their place would be so much more satisfying if we could order them to clear out.
[Via WiscoDave]
‘Gun control is dead, and we killed it’: the growing threat of firearms that can be made at home [More]
SOMEONE WHO IS BAD COULD GET GUNS!!!!
Now show what it’s like when good people can’t get one.
What a useless piece of hysterical fear porn.
[Via DDS]
And if you have 44 minutes to waste (I didn’t and the first five were enough for me), here’s:
Mariana is on a mission to expose how ghost guns — untraceable firearms built from kits bought online — are fueling violence across the country. [Watch]
Do they still make Midol?
[Via 1Gat]
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]
Vanderstok Case: SCOTUS Showdown Could Pave the Way for an ATF Ban on Semi-Autos [More]
What he said.
But what about Bruen?
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 answers.
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.
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!+.
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.
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?
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.
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.”
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.”
Justices to hear challenge to regulation of unserialized ‘ghost guns’ [More]
The Founders couldn’t have imagined unserialized guns, right…?
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]
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…
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]
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 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.”
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
