Tag: Pam Bondi

A Discouraging Word

Bondi’s DOJ Defends Unconstitutional Handgun Sales Ban — Another Betrayal of Trump’s Pro-Gun Agenda [More]

An X.com thread elaborates.

Maybe they need to up the lithium…

This is where I gotta address an administration apologist, attorney, author, and YouTube “gunfluencer Mark W. Smith of Four Boxes Diner fame, who seems to always find excuses for such disappointments and who doesn’t much like those of us who dare point out disconnects. But before I elaborate, I’ll stipulate he’s got me outmatched with academic and legal credentials, and that I’ll never win a Gundie (or for that matter, a bathing suit contest). And don’t get me wrong– I really do appreciate much of what he does. Just not all.

I’ll also stipulate that Donald Trump has done more to advance 2A than any president in my lifetime. We can help him do better, but not if we ignore infringements pushed by “our side.”

Here’s a direct quote, noting commentary like this is peppered throughout this presentation and increasingly showing up in others:

And it reiterates my point on this channel that a lot of those people in the Second Amendment community, and you know exactly who you are. You anti-Trumpers in the Second Amendment community whining and complaining about nonsensical things, about Amy Coney Barrett on one day, Pam Bond on another day, Donald Trump on another day, and you know exactly who you are .

Yeah, I know exactly who I am. Does he? Because if he thinks that’s why “we” do this, it makes me wonder what else he’s not factoring in, and how much of that is deliberate. To dismiss pointing out differences between promises and actions as “whining” is obnoxious and candidly, not an honest take.

Somebody’s got to point out when the emperor has no clothes, and our ideological leaders, of which he is one, shouldn’t be discouraging that.

As for Texas Gun Rights, which brought us the above-linked story, instead of dismissing them as “anti-Trump,” maybe we should talk with Brandon Hererra and Lt. Col. Allen West first.

And as long as I’m pointing out disagreements, as essential as “in common use” has proven to be in moving the ball this far, going forward it can and will be used to deny arms that are not. He’s had the opportunity to refute me and show me where I’m wrong, and truthfully, I wish he could.

As for criticisms earned by the Trump administration, and there are many in the mix, I keep coming back to how this could be easily avoided and we could live happily ever after singing his praises.

But not presuming to be “the smartest person in the room,” what the hell do I know?

[Via WiscoDave]

The Latest Mood Swing

The Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi has continued to attack Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA), treating it much the same way the Biden administration did. That decision is striking, because it puts Bondi’s DOJ at odds with both the text of the Constitution and President Trump’s own executive order directing agencies to protect Second Amendment rights. [More]

But…but…but…

Perhaps it’s time to update the lithium dosage…

[Via bondmen]

A Good First Step

Nice to see something some of us have been calling for for almost 25 years — DOJ enforcing the Second Amendment — finally start to move forward. Be nicer to see it being about something more freedom-oriented than permits.

Considering Bruen ‘n all, who thinks those would have been a show-stopper for Tench Coxe…?

Ulterior Motives

AI Overview: Reports and analysis from legal observers and gun rights advocates indicate that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 2025 shift on firearm suppressors was a strategic legal maneuver. By conceding that suppressors are a form of “arm” under the Second Amendment, the DOJ laid the groundwork to defend the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA) tax and registration scheme against legal challenges.

Guns and Gadgets elaborates. [Watch]

The “gun groups” obviously don’t care about this, so I don’t know why I should.

[Via Jess]

Sanctuary! Sanctuary!

I like how that last link contained the words “racism” and fascism,” words appearing nowhere in the text of the “report,” showing us exactly what “real reporter” Vasili Varlamos and KATU 2 ABC are all about.

What, the willfully obtuse may ask, does any of this have to do with that “single issue”?

[Via Jess]

Just Like the Founders Intended with ‘Shall Not Be Infringed’

[T]he Department of Justice [is] fighting the so-called non-resident handgun ban that says that you cannot take a possession of a handgun in a state in which you are not a resident from an FFL. That’s right. This law is being challenged down there in Texas and the Department of Justice has just responded arguing that the law is indeed constitutional under our Second Amendment. Is it? [Watch]

Of course not.

Either the AUSA signing onto that is a still-embedded Democrat purposely undermining Pam Bondi’s memo, or it’s all smoke and mirrors and she was just telling gun owners what they wanted to hear to keep them corralled.

And so much for the new “Pro-gun” ATF mandarin NSSF is gushing over.

In either case, it once more illustrates that until the 2A Task Force includes actual 2A advocates instead of just government employees beholden to their masters, we can continue to expect DOJ bipolarity, with aggressive MAGA Über Alles types asking if we’d rather have Kamala.

There’s a reason the rice bowl gun groups aren’t demanding a seat at the table. They’ve been showering him with flattery and simultaneously walking on eggshells, afraid to p!$$ off a mercurial Trump, lest he condemn them and cast them out.

[Via Jess]

Speaking of Deeply Personal Betrayals

Exclusive: The ‘Unique and Deeply Personal Betrayal’ of Pam Bondi, According to a Parkland Shooting Survivor [More]

Yeah, how dare she not betray her oath instead and make us all as utterly helpless as  Jaclyn Corin, who helpfully lets us know that even Rick Scott’s concessions were not enough?

Victims of citizen disarmament diktats take it personally, too, stupid little girl.

Time really is lapdog journalism at its most obsequious. Belinda Luscombe no doubt considers herself a “real journalist.”

Stupid Questioner

“You mentioned regulatory functions, that’s—We will not be having ATF agents go to the doors of gun owners, in the middle of the night, asking them about their guns, period. They will be out on the streets with DEA guns and drugs gun.” [More]

I have my concerns about that plan, and may not have survived the Byrd bath.

Still, if I were being grilled like that by a purple-haired shriveled corpse, two rejoinder questions immediately come to mind:

  • If we dunked you in water, would you sink or float?
  • Why’s that douche behind you wearing a face diaper?

How can you NOT have contempt of Congress with shrieking freaks like this demanding fealty?

[Via Jess]

Hold the Gratitude Until There’s an Answer

I would appreciate your help resolving this situation promptly on a statewide basis without the need for litigation. [More]

Yeah, well, what you’d appreciate and what connected Democrat power player Sheriff Sean Kilkenny will do could be two very different things.

Say he says “No,” and then ties things up in court for years and at the end of the trail the Supreme Court pulls another Snope. Why shouldn’t he take his chances and tell her to go for it? Especially since it’s not his money, the Democrats could very well be back in the national saddle by then, and he could emerge as the scrappy warrior who took on the feds and beat ’em…

The Line Gets Longer

For far too long, New York Democrats have weaponized state power to systematically dismantle the rights of law-abiding gun owners. That’s why I sent a letter to AG Bondi to investigate New York State’s persistent and unconstitutional assault on the Second Amendment rights of its citizens. [More]

Welcome to the party, pal.

[Via Jess]

A Little Help Here?

Think they’ll tell her to write her Democrat state reps?

[Via Jess]

DOJ to Illinois Gun Owners: Write Your Democrat Legislators to Repeal Infringements

If you want relief, contact your state representatives, the Democrat ones who are passing citizen disarmament edicts, and ask them not to. [More]

The bipolarity will continue until such time as gun owner advocates have a seat at the decision-making table.

Paging Bondi’s 2A Task Force…

Feds insist Second Amendment doesn’t protect machine guns [More]

Again?

And try figuring this argument out:

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, the federal government argued Wednesday before an appeals panel.

Right. The Founders obviously intended the citizenry to resist tyranny with inferior arms.

I assume these government lawyer aren’t retarded, so that makes them goddamn liars.

If machine guns aren’t protected, the Second Amendment is a dead letter and anyone who maintains otherwise is a fraud.

[Via Andy M]

Bondi Steps Up

Stephen Stamboulieh brings us some good news about Pam Bondi and DOJ doing something necessary and good by filing a brief in support of the Second Amendment, noting Hawaii trying to ban guns on private property without specific owner permnission effectively equates to a gun ban practically everywhere. This is a hopeful sign and we need to see more like this.

The challenge is another example of great legal navigation and piloting by Alan Beck.

As an aside, this is how “guntubing” ought to be, a subject matter authority articuately sharing knowledge and guidance, as opposed to mansplaining the work of others for clicks.

And pay attention to this, @ 7:15 in:

The Ninth Circuit needs to be broken up as a court. It’s too big, it’s way too powerful, and it does some really stupid things that we’re going to talk about in my 7 o’clock live tonight where I just lost $400,000 in that case.

That’s something we’ve talked about before.

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