Notes from the Resistance
What’s clear from both the Illinois and the California cases, is prohibitionist Democrats, thwarted by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, will leave no right unabridged in their totalitarian obsession with controlling everything. [More]
If freedom prohibitionists can take the guns, what’s to stop them from taking everything else?
Reparations are favored by 70% of White respondents in Illinois survey [More]
Evanston, eh? They must have been apologizing for doing this.
Can there be people more stupidly sanctimonious and suicidal?
As predicted by the Four Boxes Diner, in a 2-1 decision the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit— via a opinion by judges Wood and Easterbrook— have upheld Illinois’s “assault weapon” ban. However there is a strong dissent here. This decision is no shock to Four Boxes Diner viewers because as I explained before, in my view, Judge Wood and Judge Easterbrook are unserious jurists on 2A issues and this was a given outcome (unfortunate and frustrating, yes, but entirely predictable). [More]
Meanwhile, over in Fantasy Land…
Fraction of 1% of Illinois FOID card holders register banned guns in first week [More]
Glad to see the SNBIers finally outnumbering the prags. Somewhere Vanderboegh is smiling.
I remember not all that long ago when “I will not comply” was disparaged by some.
[Via Jess]
‘Armed and Dangerous’ man wanted by Illinois police [More]
It would seem not everyone agrees.
[Via bondmen]
Under the Firearm Industry Responsibility Act (HB 218), gun manufacturers that engage in unsafe and unlawful marketing and sale will be held accountable for actions contributing to gun violence in Illinois communities. [More]
These alien freaks literally consider themselves the Keepers.
Next step: We force you to issue warnings.
And the effects on national publications will be nationwide, and not just the advertisements.
So: When does the “firearms industry” cut them off from sales and service?
[Via Jess]
Elizabeth Rochford, the judge who pushed Illinois’ “assault weapon” ban over the top, is a demonstrably allied with and beholden to the gun-grabbers and did not recuse herself. [More]
This is the real story, about in-your-face corrupt tyranny, deserving of screaming headlines.
Instead, not a single “#real reporter” working for the DSM (Duranty/Streicher Media) is reporting on this, and like so many stories of import to freedom, we have to learn about it from rights advocates followed by limited niche interests. Meanwhile, as planned and controlled, the general voting public remains blissfully ignorant of what’s being done to them by apparatchiks, deceivers, and those who pull their strings.
An honest “progressive” would object to this. Guess what it means that none has.
Free people cannot coexist with this.
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
Darren Bailey—a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022 and who is now running for Congress—threatened to end his own life if cops come to seize his assault rifles after the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the state’s assault weapons ban on Friday. [More]
That’s not what he said, Caitlan Cruz of Jezebel and Yahoo! News, you liars.
That said, the guy needs to channel him some Patton.
ILLINOIS 5TH CIRCUIT COURT REVERSES,REMANDS FOID CARD CHALLENGE CASE [More]
That citizens have to go to court to get an opinion on whether prior restraints and permits imposed on fundamental rights are constitutional illustrates how in-your-face evil disarmament scams and those behind them are. An how cud-chewingly stupid those who support them are…
Tangentially Related UPDATE
It’s tough enough with domestic “Only Ones” inclined to obey any orders without questioning their lawfulness. What kind of restraint can we expect from mercenaries who do not come from a Bill of Rights culture, but from despotic and impoverished areas of the world where a totalitarian government dictates what privileges it will recognize and what obedience it demands? [More]
Doing the jobs (most) Americans won’t do…?
A Shiloh, Illinois, man was shot to death early Tuesday morning at a MetroLink station in the Metro East. [More]
That’s another $52M we can flush down the hole…
UPDATES
[Via bondmen]
Illinois’ plan to eliminate cash bail statewide just cleared a major hurdle [More]
This should end well.
On the plus side, the chances of any of this impacting Judge Mary Jane up close and personal are probably very small.
[Via Steve T]
Illinois’s legal brief seeks to defend their recently-enacted “assault weapons” ban by arguing that the lethality of these semi-automatic firearms means that they may be banned consistent with the 2nd Amendment. Mark Smith discusses this lethality argument here. [Watch]
Because the last thing you want to do when fighting armed attackers is kill them!
Be sure to also open up Illinois’ brief and Smith’s review on Beccaria, linked under the video.
[Via Jess]
School safety summit taking place today in Edwardsville, Illinois [More]
Will you have to get past police guards to attend?
Let me guess: Arming school staff won’t be on the agenda.
[Via bondmen]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request to block state and local laws barring the sale of assault-style weapons in Illinois while a group of challenges to those laws continues in the lower courts. There were no dissents publicly recorded from the unsigned order, nor did the justices provide any explanation for their decision. [More]
I’m going to resist reading more into this for now.
[Via Jess]
In particular, the court explained, “the text of the Second Amendment is limited to only certain arms, and history and tradition demonstrate that particularly ‘dangerous’ weapons are unprotected.” Id. at 18. “Because assault weapons are particularly dangerous weapons and high-capacity magazines are particularly dangerous weapon accessories, their regulation accords with history and tradition.” [More]
So it was the Founders’ contention that only “safe” arms were “necessary to the security of a free State”?
[Via Jess]
