Notes from the Resistance
We’re awaiting word on Snope/Ocean State tactical, and if SCOTUS is going to make a decisoin or once more kick the can down the road. Meanwhile, here are some sobering thoughts:
This is especially frustrating to watch after feeling like I’m the lone voice in the wilderness warning that relying solely on “self defense” while ignoring the militia aspect makes 2A more vulnerable to infringements, and how putting all faith in the “in common use at the time” argument can be a trap.
[Via Jess]
We have just been informed by the Childress Police Department that the loaded magazine found on the junior high playground this afternoon by one of our students belongs to a Childress police officer who was conducting canine training this morning at 4am before school. In that area of the practice field, the magazine accidentally fell from his service belt. The district wants to make the public aware that at no time were students or staff in danger. [More]
Well, it’s official. Unsecured loaded magazines don’t pose a danger to children– if they come from the “Only Ones.”
We still want to ban yours.
[Via bondmen]
David Snope, et al., Petitioners v. Anthony G. Brown, in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Maryland, et al… Jan 21 2025 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2025. [More]
Ditto for Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island.
Will they hear either? Can they hear one on semiautos without hearing the other on magazines?
And if we tune in tomorrow, will they again tell us to come back Monday to find out?
Check in at 9:30 a.m. Eastern to see if they picked the cases we want. [More]
UPDATES
I’m scrolling through this as we speak. Look it over yourself and tell me if my old eyes are missing anything.
CERTIORARI DENIED:
24-309 GRAY, GABRIEL, ET AL. V. JENNINGS, ATT’Y GEN. DE, ET AL.
24-373 MARYLAND SHALL ISSUE, ET AL. V. MOORE, GOV. OF MD, ET AL.
Still looking for Snope and Ocean State Tactical…did I misunderstand they would be considered in conference? Guess I’ll have to wait for lawyers to explain what’s happening.
UPDATE
[T]he most important Second Amendment cases of Snope, the AR-15 ban case out of Maryland, and Ocean State Tactical the magazine Ban case out of Rhode Island, are both alive and well before the Supreme Court… [Watch]
So again, we wait.
[Via Jess]
Snope v Brown fka Bianchi v Frosh – MD AWB; Ocean State Tactical v Rhode Island – Magazine ban; Gray v Jennings – 2A irreparable injury; Maryland Shall Issue v Moore – Handgun Licenses
If more becomes known before then I’ll try to check in and update. And you feel free to inform the rest of us in comments.
We talked a few month back about George Gramlich, Editor of the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel sending me one of the few remaining signed magazines from Mike Vanderboegh’s smuggling exploits. [More]
I wasn’t sure how I was going to preserve it and decided over the weekend to put it in a hangable shadow box along with a sample of Threeperware from years gone by.
Arts and crafts were never my strong suit, but I like what I put together just fine:
I’ll get an engraving plate to affix to the bottom to read “Defy. Resist. Evade. Smuggle.” and my project will be complete.
I think my friend would have gotten a kick out of this, and I found the perfect place to hang it.
Man burglarizes Sheriff Gregory Tony’s vehicle, steals firearm magazines, among other items [More]
Tell me this is the first time ol’ Andre’s shown he can’t be trusted without a custodian…
And we might want to ask Sheriff Tony if he agrees with his party on denying magazines for you and me to own lawfully…
[Via Steve T]
From George Gramlich, Editor of the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel, via email:
David
I don’t know if you remember but Mike’s last Smuggler’s episode was him going up to NY or Conn with a bunch of 30 rounders and give them out at a rally. Well, he got too sick to do that and he called me up (or email, I can’t remember) and asked me if I had any options.
This was before July 4 so I said mail them to me and we will give them out at our 2nd Amendment section before the parade (with a little speech about where they came from. Everybody remembered when he marched with us a few years before). That give away was Mike’s last official action.To make the mags special, I asked him to write something on each one and he did.
Each mag read, first line, “MBV III” with the 2nd line saying, “Smuggler Prod. Co.”. In white magic marker.
I grabbed three that day. I have one at the office and one in my man cave but just found the third one yesterday. I had forgotten about it.
I want it to go to somebody who would value it.
Though you might want it. If so, please send your USPS address and I will ship it out shortly.
The wife just came in with the mail. Guess what I got:
Thanks, George! You’re the best!
Kalthoff 30-Shot Flintlock: The First Repeating Firearm Used in War (1659) [Watch]
But…but…but the Founders could have never imagined…
[Via Jess]
Somebody may want to send him this.
As for “the original public meaning of ‘Arms’ excludes bullet-storage containers lke LCMs,” does anyone have a quick link to that brief? I’d like to check and see if the “expert” definition they’re relying on invalidates New Jersey’s “bump stock” ban.
[Via Jess]
