Tag: Second Amendment Foundation

Playing the Percentages

However, the recent investigation by the Second Amendment Foundation revealed that 97Percent supports bans on “assault weapons,” standard-capacity magazines, and bump stocks and has called for permits to carry, purchase, and even possess firearms. It supports mandatory background checks and mandatory storage laws and claims the Second Amendment is “overprotected.” [More]

Welcome to the party, pals.

One Step Forward…

The Second Amendment Foundation has been granted summary judgement in a federal challenge of California’s One-Gun-A-Month (OGM) purchase law. U.S. District Judge William Q. Hayes stayed his decision for 30 days for the defendants to facilitate an appeal. [More]

And thumbing noses at Bruen will drag on and on and on with the hopes that Republicans blow the election and Democrats can reshape SCOTUS to reverse it.

And here’s the thing:

The Supreme Court has no power to enforce its decisions. It cannot call out the troops or compel Congress or the president to obey. The Court relies on the executive and legislative branches to carry out its rulings. In some cases, the Supreme Court has been unable to enforce its rulings.

I’d need a lawyer to weigh in on whether they could charge inferior court judges with contempt for disregarding their rulings, and they’d still be dependent on the other branches. I fear the only “legal” remedy is impeachment, for which Republicans have neither the power nor the appetite.

So now we have to see what Hayes says in a month, and then see who initiates an appeal, then lather, rinse, repeat.

Paved with Good Intentions

The brief recalls how Congress enacted the Gun Control Act of 1968 pursuant to the Commerce Clause with no intention of discouraging or eliminating the private ownership or use of firearms by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes. [More]

That’s not how the bill’s author felt:

ALL “gun control” is just another incremental step to the end goal– citizen disarmament. We don’t do ourselves any favors by believing otherwise and arguing that in court.

A Word of Caution

Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a federal challenge of the Illinois ban on modern semi-auto firearms and “large-capacity magazines” have filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking certiorari in the case of Harrel v. Raoul. [More]

Be careful that you don’t turn “common use” into a precedential limitation.

Back for Another Round

The Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms have once again petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in their continuing challenge of Maryland’s ban on so-called “assault weapons.” [More]

How much longer can they avoid the inevitable?

Pot Shots

The Second Amendment Foundation and a District Attorney in Pennsylvania have filed a federal lawsuit against Attorney General Merrick Garland, the heads of the FBI and ATF, and the U.S. Government, challenging the federal prohibition on gun ownership by medical marijuana users. [More]

There’s a Eugene Stoner joke in here somewhere…

Until such time as the smoke clears, I trust no one is making purchases with a credit card…?

News in Brief

The Second Amendment Foundation has submitted an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in a federal challenge of California’s ban on so-called “large-capacity magazines” in a case known as Duncan v. Bonta. [More]

I look at the last post and then I look at this and note how the the provokers smear us as the violent ones.

Related UPDATE

Twenty-five states file brief against California’s unconstitutional firearm magazine ban [More]

Tangentially Related UPDATE

SAF FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN PA GUN RIGHTS DENIAL CASE

That’s from Alan Gottlieb’s email. The post isn’t up yet, but when it is you can get the link from SAF’s “News” page.

Abhorrent, Disgusting, Odious, Vile…

Noting that California’s “sensitive places” law severely restricting lawful concealed carry is “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court,” a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against the law’s enforcement. [More]

It’s not just the Second Amendment subversive prohibitionists are repugnant to…

Big Brother is Watching You

The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit in California challenging that state’s law requiring firearms dealers to video record all transactions, calling it a violation of First, Second, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. [More]

What’s that saying about 1984 being an instruction manual…?

Democrats are literally totalitarians.

Thinking Outside the Dox

…Indiana Superior Court Judge John M. Sedia denied an order to quash subpoenas for records maintained by several large Indiana gun dealers. [More]

Who does he think he is?

Rob Bonta?

[Via Jess]

Related UPDATE

[Via WiscoDave]

Faulty Premises

The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against the Cortland, N.Y. Housing Authority, alleging Second Amendment violations by prohibiting tenants from possessing firearms on CHA premises. [More]

A few years back I found one in Ohio that does that, but I’m not a lawyer and don’t know anyone who lives there to see if they want to be a plaintiff:

Also from SAF:

A federal appeals court has struck down a New York state law requiring private property owners to post signs allowing concealed carry on property open to the public as part of a massive decision dealing with several separate challenges of the Empire State’s post-Bruen gun control legislation. [More]

Huh. Second Circuit did something right in all its wrong…

Standing Up to Thugs

The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff and California Attorney General Rob Bonta challenging the constitutionality of carry permit issuance policies and laws that make it difficult, if not impossible, for citizens to obtain permits. Joining SAF are the California Rifle & Pistol Association, Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation, Gun Owners of California and several private citizens. [More]

Put another way, they’re taking on the kingpin who knows where they live and local armed gang members.

Back this Blue?

Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a challenge to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s effort to conduct warrantless searches and seizures from licensed firearms retailers in the county have filed a brief in response to objections by the defendants, in support of an application for summary relief. [More]

I don’t expect an answer.

Fiend Friendly

A sign at the door of the bowling alley says, “We kindly ask that you refrain from bringing firearms in this building and we would appreciate it if you left them in your vehicle. Please keep our atmosphere family friendly.” That notice did not stop the suspect from entering and opening fire. [More]

I’d go further and suggest it encouraged him that his chances of success were increased.

Also from SAF:

A federal judge in California has granted a preliminary injunction in a Second Amendment Foundation challenge of two California statutes prohibiting gun shows at the Orange County Fairgrounds and on state-owned property, while denying a requested stay to allow the state time to file an appeal.

A Temporary Respite

The Second Amendment Foundation is celebrating a victory in California as a U.S. District Court judge has declared the state’s decades-old ban on so-called “assault weapons” to be unconstitutional. [More]

Ninth Circuit to f*** it up in 3…2…1…

One Man’s ‘Enemy Combatant’…

Historically, at the time of the Founding, any laws that disarmed an entire category of people were limited to those individuals who remained loyal to the crown because they posed a threat to the success of the patriot cause in the Revolutionary War. Many of these people were literally considered to be enemy combatants and the total disarmament was viewed in the context of a war and the survival of a fledgling nation. Today’s laws that disarm private citizens subject to civil restraining orders must be considered in a peacetime context, where national security is not an issue. [More]

Maybe that’s why DOJ is using terms for rowdy protestors like “insurrectionists” and smearing patriots as domestic enemies…

A Moving Story

The Second Amendment Foundation and founder Alan Gottlieb have moved their civil rights lawsuit against Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson from federal court to Washington State court in a move the plaintiffs hope will bring a speedier resolution to their case. [More]

That a lawsuit is even needed is all the evidence of in-your-face tyranny I need.

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