Tag: Maryland

Send in the Clowns

Accordingly, “Miller stood for the proposition ‘that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as 3 short-barreled shotguns’ [More]

That’s not what Miller said at all.

He’s not through with the clown act:

While a silencer may be a firearm accessory, it is not a “bearable arm” that is capable of casting a bullet.

Neither was my “machinegun,” or “high capacity” magazines, or braces, or 80% receivers, or…

And again, “common use” is proving to be a trap.

It’s way past time to pasture this senile old “Reagan Republican.“

Mark W. Smith analyzes.

[Via Jess]

Up for Discussion

The case of Snope v. Brown has been distributed for the Supreme Court’s conference for December 13. Previously styled Bianchi v. Brown, the cert petition challenges Maryland’s “assault weapon” prohibition which the Fourth Circuit upheld en banc earlier this year… Now for a deeper dive. [More]

Stephen Halbrook confirms, among other things, what a f-ing idiot “Reagan Republican” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III is.

[Via Jess]

Asked and Answered

But the Second Amendment isn’t an inkblot on the Constitution. It means something. Can that possibly not include a right to own the gun that claims to be America’s bestselling rifle? [More]

Is it an arm?

Then the right of the people to keep and bear it shall not be infringed.

Anyone who says otherwise is just a liar.

[Via Jess]

An Uncommon Question

I. There is a long-running and intractable dispute in the lower courts over whether the Second Amendment allows the government to ban arms that are in common use by law-abiding citizens. II. Heller clearly teaches that arms in common use by law-abiding citizens cannot be banned. III. This case is an ideal vehicle to resolve this dispute. [More]

What’s to stop “common use” from allowing future developments to be banned?

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Wormtongues Gone Wild

Should this Court decline to grant certiorari to consider the constitutionality of Maryland’s assault weapons ban where (1) that ban is consistent with this Court’s recognition in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), that jurisdictions may ban “weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like”; (2) the Fourth Circuit faithfully applied New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), to conclude that Maryland’s law is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of “regulating those weapons that were invented for offensive purposes and were ultimately proven to pose exceptional dangers to innocent civilians,” Pet. App. 69a; and (3) there is no need to resolve a conflict among the lower courts? [More]

Translation: Tyrannical Maryland Democrats want the Supreme Court to turn a blind eye to the state’s willingness to imprison and/or kill citizens for defying unconstitutional diktats and claiming their birthrights.

[Via Jess]

Rights-Free Zone Challenge

Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a federal court challenge of Maryland’s restrictive “sensitive places” gun control law have filed an appellants’ brief with the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. [More]

So the Founders intended “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed unless we tell them ‘Except here, here, and here…’?”

If Only They’d Disarm You and Me…

Second teen arrested, charged as adult in September Rodgers Forge shooting, police say- A 16-year-old is facing the same charges as a 15-year-old who was arrested in connection to the crime… During the 16-year-old’s bail review, 11 News learned he was committed as a juvenile in 2022 for robbery and has other cases pending in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County and Washington County… Additionally, 11 News previously reported police believe the 15-year-old was also “Involved in an armed robbery (Sept. 11) on an MTA bus” [More]

At least the “systemic” part is right. It’s just the next two words should be “Democrat control.”

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We’re the Only Ones Unfit Enough

Maryland Police TAXPAYERS To Fork Over More Than $2 Million Back Pay To Female, Black Applicants Who Couldn’t Pass Tests [More]

I had to fix that headline.

It makers fair the question how long a swelf-destructivel species that prioritizes advancement of the least fit over survival of the fittest can avoid extinction.

Any questions on Merrick Garland’s DOJ being enemies of free people?

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None Dare Call It Treason

Leaders in Frederick, Maryland, Approve Voting by Non-Citizens in Local Elections- “Alderman Ben MacShane said he was excited to support the change as a way to value and include everyone in the community.” [More]

Makes sense. Funny, how you never find one of these types who don’t also want your guns.

The guy just oozes, doesn’t he?

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Bizarrely Unconstitutional

Attorney General Labrador Leads 29-State Coalition Against Maryland’s Bizarrely Unconstitutional Gun Ban [More]

Changing the subject, there’s a case study to refute Vichycons for Harris here– Larry Hogan was a moderate lump. Yet Democrats paint him as ““recruited by extreme Republicans to run for the Senate.”

They’ll exploit the hell out of such useful idiots’ betrayals and then line them up by the limepit when they’re no longer useful.

[Via Jess]

Less is Moore

Wes Moore says he regrets not correcting interviewers who called him a Bronze Star recipient [More]

Yeah, while getting caught in a lie of omission won’t hurt you with a home crowd dumb enough to vote for you in the first place, it can hurt broader national ambitions. Although with today’s Democrats, who knows?

Funny, the character of people who don’t trust us…

A Public/Private Partnership

This lengthy lawsuit by the Maryland and D.C. attorneys general, as well as Everytown Law, accuses Engage Armament, LLC, United Gun Shop and Atlantic Guns, Inc. of ignoring clear signs of illegal gun sales. The lawsuit claims the purchases happened in Montgomery County, but led to gun violence across the area. [More]

Of course “background checks” aren’t enough — they were never intended to be.

I’m just surprised NSSF hasn’t joined in the pile-on.

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Just Like the Founders Intended

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld Maryland’s licensing requirements for people seeking to buy handguns, saying the law remained valid even after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2022 that expanded gun rights. [More]

Anybody know which clause from Bruen Obama-appointee Barbara Milano Keenan cherry-picked to justify a clear prior restraint?

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Race to the Top

A challenge against Maryland’s gun ban is likely to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court before gun ban challenges from other states. [More]

Sadly, all the high court has to do to let it stand is nothing.

If they do hear it, it will be a game-changer, but it will still leave the more fundamentally destructive NFA and Hughes Amendment in play.

Then there are the questions of when will they hear such a case, and who will be in power and appointing justices?

[Via Jess]

A Reagan Republican

A federal appeals court upheld Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons Tuesday in an opinion that found regulating “excessively dangerous weapons” compatible with the Second Amendment. [More]

WarOnGuns has obtained an exclusive photo showing the legal contortions necessary for J. Harvie Wilkinson III to do that.

A Reagan appointee…

I wish I could say I was surprised.

[Via Jess]

A Line in the Sand

[T]he Court will permanently enjoin Maryland’s laws restricting the carrying of firearms in locations selling alcohol for onsite consumption, private buildings without the owner’s consent, and within 1,000 feet of a public demonstration. State Defendants’ Cross Motions for Summary Judgment will be granted as to the Kipke Plaintiffs’ Fourteenth Amendment claims, as well as the claims regarding: State Parks; mass transit facilities; schools and school grounds; museums; stadiums; healthcare facilities; government buildings; amusement parks; racetracks; and casinos… [More]

You can be trusted with your rights on this side of the line. On the other side, everything changes. Don’t ask us how or why, just accept that fact that if you disobey we may end up killing you.

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Hogan’s Zeroes

Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan is warning Republicans in Washington, D.C., that he won’t be a reliable vote if Maryland chooses to send him to the Capitol. In a new TV ad aired Tuesday, the former Maryland governor stressed his bipartisan bona fides. “In the Senate, Republicans can’t count on my vote. [More]

Then what the hell good is he?

Not much.

Delay of Game

Maryland’s “assault weapon” ban has been kicked back up by the panel for en banc review by the anti-gun Fourth Circuit, meaning it’s going to take the Supreme Court to sort this one out — and all they have to do to leave this gross denial of rights in place is nothing. [Watch]

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The Poll Tax Workaround

Maryland is among the states looking to follow California in taxing the gun industry to support hospitals, violence intervention programs, and services for victims of gun violence. [More]

All the best totalitarian regimes do it!

It’s not like Democrats are going to penalize the real cuprits: Their constituents and themselves.

Here’s the video of the hearing. Too bad it doesn’t have a transcript to allow homing in on specific “data” lies, and exposing those at the committee level is something funded “gun groups” ought to be putting resources into.

I did get one laugh out of this:

Chip is a reporter at The Trace…

Good one!

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His Name was Duncan Lemp

…Duncan Lemp was wrongly killed in his own bedroom thanks to the same policies that President Biden champions for the nation. [More]

I’m not often left with nothing to add, but the brilliant writer James Bovard has pretty much said it all here.

This is the evil we face at the personal level from “our own” government.

Be outraged, be horrified, and be warned. This could have been me, this could have been you. And the DSM would have parroted the state’s narrative as the prohibitionists high-fived themselves on X and made small d!ck jokes.

Today’s Five-Minute Activism project after reading this: Share the link with everyone within your sphere of influence and urge them to do the same.

Now It’s In for the Kill

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said Wednesday his office has reached a settlement with Polymer80, one of the largest makers of ghost gun kits and parts in the nation, that will prevent the company from advertising and selling its firearms in Maryland. The company will also pay $1.2 million in damages. [More]

Throw a scrap of flesh to one circling hyena and what do you think the others will do?

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