Tag: NRA

And Then There Were Two

The Four Resolutions Raised at the 2025 NRA Annual Meeting [More]

Y’ever try to steer an oil tanker?

John Petrolino brings us the latest “reform” updates.

About the two that got shot down, my guess is condemning collusion would open the door to libel lawsuits, and I don’t know what Mr. Coy did to merit “no confidence” (aside from being an Old Guard apparatchik).

As for conflicts of interest, I never expect anything of anyone I’m not prepared to uphold myself, and I spell out my own self-controls over in the sidebar under my “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Advertising Disclosure” policies. So yeah, I expect these guys to be clean.

I have been saying for years we need the current Bylaws online. In addition to info on the board, how about somebody listen to Nicholas and give members an effective way to contact them individually?

The Long and Short of It

NRA-ILA Petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to NFA Restrictions on Short-Barreled Rifles [More]

Pretty long on “common use” popularity and pretty short on core purpose except to address militia controls, as opposed to militia necessity.

Now all SCOTUS has to do is… nothing.

[Via Jess]

If I Had a Hammer

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling for an IRS investigation into a startling allegation made by former NRA President and Second Amendment champion Marion Hammer in a federal lawsuit in which she says an attorney representing the Brady gun control group allegedly offered her $5 million to “retire and cease advancing the interests of the NRA and defending the Second Amendment”… “This is not the kind of offer a tax exempt organization should be making under any circumstances” … [More]

Hopefully there’s documentation. What a hoot it would be to see them have their 501(c)(4) classification revoked, and one of their mouthpieces get disbarred over ethics.

Gun Owners Could Publicly Put ‘Former Republican’ Jolly on Spot for Betraying Them

So, why not ask him what he told NRA to get them to mobilize their members on his behalf? [More]

Or to paraphrase Sir Wilfrid in Witness for the Prosecution, “The question is, Mr. Jolly, were you lying then, are you lying now, or are you not in fact a chronic and habitual LIAR?”

An Age-Old Question

The text of the Second Amendment encompasses the purchase of firearms by 18-to20-year-olds, as the en banc majority below did not dispute, Pet.App.43a–44a, and as the majority was also forced to acknowledge, “the Founding era lacked express prohibitions on the purchase of firearms” by 18-to-20-year-olds. Id. at 30a. Indeed, the eighteenth century laws that come closest to reflecting a “Founding-era policy on age and firearms”—militia laws throughout the Nation obliging eighteen-year-olds to muster for militia service bearing firearms they were legally obligated to acquire for themselves—in fact “reflect the policy that eighteen- to twenty-one-year-olds should be armed.” Id. at 159a (Brasher, J., dissenting). That should have been the beginning and the end of any suggestion that Florida’s age ban “is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 17 (2022). [More]

Story here.

Bingo. And about time.

With DeSantis backing NRA, what leg is Mark Glass still standing on?

[Via Jess]

Devil’s Advocate

Yep, pathetic betrayal of truth is right.

[Via Dan Gifford]

‘Insanely Offensive’ is Right– So How Come NRA/GOA/SAF Aren’t Saying It?

“This insanely offensive brief should never have been filed in any court, let alone at the Fifth Circuit. It should be immediately withdrawn and thrown into the trash, along with Mr. Lemon’s ability to make these filings in the future. This is a prime example of why President Trump should appoint a competent Second Amendment czar to coordinate the administration’s agenda across the government and with stakeholders in Second Amendment litigation. Our rights must be protected at all costs and the American people are counting on President Trump and Attorney General Bondi to fulfill their promise to do just that.” [More]

This came out before my piece on gun group silence. I missed noting it in my AmmoLand piece because I was looking for reactions from national groups to include a more recent case where DOJ argued “Machine guns are atypical weapons not protected by the Second Amendment because a reasonable person would not expect them to be used in militia service,” and was specifically looking at the Big Three 501(c)(3)s that have political clout.

My major beef with FPC’s plan: I’ve explained it before: I don’t like “czar,” and anyone in that position would be feeding from the same hand. Gun owner advocates are owed a place at the table as members– we’re not dogs who should be grateful for scraps thrown down to us. It’s our table.

Trump to NRA

As much as I criticize the guy and believe he specializes in self-aggrandizement over sincerity, I can’t argue that he has initiated unprecedented actions and more are on the way. All those actions will ultimately prove temporary and reversible if the Republicans can’t get their act together, and part of that problem is on us as gun owners, and how involved we’re willing to get pressing them to do the right thing.

And I gotta ask: Bob Barr?

Poison Ivey

After a violent year marked by multiple mass shootings in Alabama, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey and many lawmakers from both parties are backing a proposed ban on so-called Glock switches and other conversion devices that make semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns. [More]

Are she and the Vichycons really that stupid? Let’s ask.

Good thing her “commitment to the Second Amendment has never been in question.”

[Via Steve T]

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