Washington’s Very Dismissive Response to Your Constitutional Rights [Watch]
Arrogance can have a funny way of catching up with people.
[Via Jess]
Tag: magazine bans
One Step Forward and Three Steps Back
Is There a Hidden Meaning in DOJ’s Position on Mag Bans? [Watch]
Let me get this straight: The “pro-gun” DOJ will defend magazines (because they believe bans are unconstitutional or because they think SCOTUS will rule against them?) but still demands license/registration requirements to carry and possess firearms and ammunition…?
If there’s a hidden meaning, they’re not hiding it very well. That seems kind of in-your-face…
And yeah, I’m vulnerable to being sucked in just like most gun owners.
“Full might” my… eye.
Mag Dump
In a filing in the DC Court of Appeals last month in a criminal matter, the United States moved to vacate the appellant’s conviction under D.C. Code § 7-2506.01(b) for possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, because “[i]t is the United States’s position that § 7-2506.01(b) is unconstitutional.” The DOJ also says they would not charge a similarly situated defendant today. [More]
I’d say it’s about time, but that’s on previous administrations.
We should let this one know it’s done good.
[Via Jess]
The Servants Have Spoken
In response to a question of whether the people decide subjectively what they deem appropriate for self-defense, New Jersey argued that “the people” through their representatives decide what is unusually dangerous based on their perception of “objective characteristics.” As one judge suggested, since all firearms are dangerous under the alleged dangerous-or-unusual test, no limit would exist on what the legislature may choose to ban, despite what the people choose. [More]
Look at all the contortions these robed Democrats go through to obfuscate the unambiguous clarity of “shall not be infringed.”
How many horses and hounds may I keep, again…?
[Via Michael G]
Magazine Drive
You Can Wish in One Hand
Southwest Washington gun shop seeks US Supreme Court review of magazine ban [More]
It’d go a lot further if the DOJ were serious about this and offered its support.
[Via Jess]
Justice Filing Brief in Illinois Gun Ban Case a Long Overdue Change in Course
Still, the brief adds some important points that an ultimate Supreme Court decision will need to consider: Among recognized “uses by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes” are “self-defense, target shooting, and public defense,” that last category touching on the core purpose the Framers had in mind as articulated in the first 13 words of the Second Amendment. [More]
My latest from Firearms News looks at a long called for DOJ action in support of the Second Amendment that matches its new words.
Mark Kelly Would’a Showed ’em
Grad student shot at FSU recounts harrowing moment gunman reloaded as she played dead [More]
And nobody “intervened“…?
In fairness, they then qualify that by adding “law enforcement,” as if they’re really the first responders.
In the Kapu Tradition
That’s right. In one vote, this bill went from targeting .50 caliber rifles to banning all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines, adding new definitions like “assault shotgun” and “fixed magazine,” restricting magazine capacity, and even creating new criminal penalties. [More]
And this crap will continue to happen because SCOTUS allows it and keeps sending mixed signals.
The Intentionally Ignored Prefatory Clause
“In our brief,” Kraut noted, “we remind the court that repeating arms predate the Second Amendment by roughly three centuries, and that semiautomatic firearms were invented in 1885. Likewise, detachable box magazines came along back in 1862. Despite technological advances over the past 200 years, neither the sale nor possession of repeating arms of any capacity were ever banned in the United States.” [More]
So they’re putting all their eggs in the “common use” basket and ignoring the Militia completely…?
Mr. Trump, Tear Down These Bans
GOP Lawmakers Urge Commerce Secretary to Reverse Biden’s Gun Export Ban [More]
While they’re at it, why not end the Trump > 32-round magazine export ban?
And as long as we’re on the subject of what the president can do:
“President Trump doesn’t even need Congress to get rid of the unconstitutional 1989 “assault weapons” import ban, he just needs to order the BATFE to declare all imported semi-auto rifles as ‘sporting,’ which is what these same models are considered when domestically produced.” (True, “sporting use” is a term originated in a 1938 German gun control law, and “swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of an American,” but it will get the job done and we know why we want them.)
Keep Not Learning a Thing, Democrats
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined 21 of his Senate colleagues to introduce the Keep Americans Safe Act (KASA), legislation to reinstate a nationwide ban on the sale, transfer, possession, import, or manufacture of high-capacity gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds. [More]
For some reason I can’t find it on GovTrack, but the House version says “0% chance of being enacted.”
And here’s something interesting–I never noticed before that GovTrack makes editorial comments. I couldn’t capture this with a screenshot because it disappeared when I moved my cursor, so I got out the ol’ phonecam:
I should’a known: They’re on BlueSky, not X.
[Via Jess]
Duncan v Bonta Dissent
[Via GP]
Time to Call in the Big Guns
Although the sponsors have attempted to sell this legislation as a bill that would “close a loophole in Colorado’s magazine capacity limit laws“, it took all of 90 seconds for gun owners and activists to realize this had nothing to do with magazines at all, but was instead a sweeping gun ban cloaked in lies, and once the complex and technical language was broken down, it became apparent how severe it was: worse than anything we have ever seen before. [More]
And when they get that, they’ll go after something else, because of course they’re talking about taking your guns.
[Via cydl]
Conspicuous in Their Absence
(ORDER LIST: 604 U.S.) MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2025 [More]
So what’s the deal with Snope and Ocean State…?
He’ll Sign It If He Has to…
Gov. Jared Polis said Thursday night that a ban on the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic firearms with a removable ammunition magazine isn’t his preferred method of tackling gun violence, but he’s not fundamentally opposed to the idea. [More]
That’s a Democrat’s idea of “compromising” on guns.
When is SCOTUS gonna stop with the stalling and put an end to this clearly unconstitutional subversion?
[Via Jess]
Character Study
Gun Rights Groups Losing Their Damn Minds Over New Magazine Limit Bill [More]
Here’s a person who doesn’t have a clue as to what 2A is about resorting to Alinsky Rule 5 ridicule under cover of a pen name to shield from personal accountability for being so ignorant…
What is it we know about trolls?
WarOnGuns Correspondent Tacticool Memes tried to inject some reality into a BlueSky echo chamber denizen’s absurd self-contradictions about the bill and got promptly blocked for his effort:
So much for demanding an “actual conversation.”
There are too many useful idiots rejecting truth to spend precious time trying to deprogam them.
Unclear on the Concept
It Depends Upon What the Meaning of ‘Shall Not Be’ Is
The petition for a writ of certiorari should be denied. [More]
The state that inflicted Joe Biden onto the political scene says banning semiautomatic rifles and magazines doesn’t infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Mark W. Smith ties it in with related cases SCOTUS is considering. And I continue to be suspicious of relying on “common use.”
[Via Jess]
A Right Delayed
There comes a point where it’s simply unbelievable to say that judges actually think that way and aren’t perfectly aware of the tyranny they’re willing parts of.
[Via Jess]
