A North Carolina man whose alias is “AK Guru” has been charged with making and selling hundreds of machine guns built from existing and deconstructed weapons, federal authorities said. [More]
Who’s the snitch?
Tag: machineguns
A Key Point
Auto Key Card Case Appeal Says by ATF Standards Any AR-15 Could Be Considered a Machinegun [More]
Yeah, that’s the goal.
It’s also why some of us were arguing from the outset if anyone thought the bump stock ban was just about a stupid piece of plastic being a hill not worth dying on (meaning not even lifting a finger and disparaging those who did), they were missing the point.
The Appeal of Freedom
Appeal filed in Kansas machine gun case… In the original order the court dismissed the case after it found “the plain text of the Second Amendment does not cover the possession of machineguns.” [More]
So, “in common use at the time” can be a trap…?
Or in this case it sounds like that statement was just worded confusingly…
[Via Jess]
Every Benign Implement
Chan fails, however, to show that either a short-barreled rifle or a machinegun is an “arm” within the plain text of the Second Amendment. [More]
Let me guess: He let Google Gemini write his opinion.
[Via Jess]
Yeah, That Too
Court Rules Federal Machinegun Law Cannot Be Justified under Bruen [More]
It can’t be justified under the Second Amendment.
It can’t be justified under delegated Constitutional powers.
It can’t be justified.
It All Depends
Been There, Done That, Got the T-Shirt
I ran across this old photo of the Gunwalker t-shirt with the inscription “Am I the only person on the planet that didn’t get guns from the ATF?” and the thought struck: I’ve got two.
One they built as an illegal SBR, and the other the “machinegun” I confiscated from them.
As Easy as Starting a Civil War!
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.”
A Bearable Opinion
Let’s hope historical analogues don’t come back to bite us. Rather than digging up what some colony did to infringe in special circumstances or older English law, put the focus on arguments put forth during ratification. We know what the founders meant, and there was nothing ambuiguous about it.
Anybody else having trouble digging up info on the defendant and his Glock switches? I’m wondering if what’s gun owners may be celebrating as a victory is actually part of an effort to turn the public against Bruen.
[Via WiscoDave]
Much Ado About Nothing
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and other Senate Republicans recently introduced legislation that would abolish transfer taxes on firearms regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA). [More]
It’s the Hughes Amendment limiting the supply that makes them so expensive.
Prognosis 0% chance of being enacted
Their Fudd Guns and Every Other Popular Implement of the Sportsman are the Privilege of an American
We are losing machine guns, folks, and we’re losing them every single day, and they’re never coming back most likely. [Watch]
As long as lawyers representing us continue to treat “in common use” as what’s commercially permitted instead of what’s deployed with, he’s right.
[Via Jess]
We’re the Only Ones Full Auto Enough
One Question
Machine Gun Charges Against Sheriff Recall Earlier Incidents and ‘Only Ones’ Elitism
But whether the top cops are innocent or guilty of charges is beside the real point gun owners should be concerned with. The militarization of police is what opens the door to exclusivity and enables corruption. And you’d better believe the officials and the deputies/officers they command would arrest any of us if they found us non-compliant with a “gun law.” The “Only Ones” hypocrisy reeks. [More]
Nice work if you can get it. The problem is, without a badge, you can’t, and therein lies the crux of police as “Only Ones.”
Point/Counterpoint
Dave, like so many others you are in error concerning Heller’s statement on the M-16. Scalia wrote that anyone who say’s M-16s and the like can be banned have de facto separated and nullified the prefatory clause “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,” from the operative “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
“It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful
in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be
banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely
detached from the prefatory clause.” [More]
He’s leaving out the big “but” that immediately follows:
But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty.
Previously qualified as:
We therefore read Miller to say only that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns. That accords with the historical understanding of the scope of the right…
I’ve posted this here because if I’m to get my other work done, I don’t have time to get embroiled in comments on AmmoLand, and besides, I get my say in the article and comments are for the readers.
And point of order…
Government Has Known from the Start There is a Right to Own Machineguns
“You see, if we made a statute absolutely forbidding any human being to have a machine gun, you might say there is some constitutional question involved.” [More]
Now, what are all those “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” in Congress going to do about it?
No Surprise There
Feds Say Wyoming Man Has No Right To Make His Own Machine Gun [More]
What else would we expect oath-breaking violence monopolist totalitarians to say?
Funny, how few “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” in Congress have ever tried to do anything about that when their party held the majority…
[Via CP]
We’re the Only Ones Supported Enough
“The community is very supportive and I am grateful they took the time to educate themselves on the process of how obtaining these firearms takes place,” Wendt told The Daily Beast in a Tuesday text message, confirming the reinstatement and the stipulation. “I wish journalists would do the same and realize this is an attack on the 2nd amendment and not just about me.” [More]
I’ll bite. If it’s about the Second Amendment, could I do it?
[Via Dan Gifford]