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"... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitu... 2nd Amendment, Firearms, Guns, Self Defense, Freedom's Defense Against Tyranny, Gun Confiscation, 3D printed Guns, Blueprint Censorship, FreeSpeech, Crypto Munitions, Natural Law Posession nor production nor transfer of any nonliving "thing" can never logically be "illegal". This is not in conflict with those voluntarily choosing to not themselves posess a "thing", nor preclude sanction for those who use a "thing" against the NAP. Per the Great Reset, all your rights are now under assault by tyrant globalist politicians... the US 2nd Amd is one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diz-8FzHOLM Meaning and Purpose of 2ndA pt1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioWTwGiELo Meaning and Purpose of 2ndA pt2 Witness the list of non-libertarian countries, ~195, literally all of them, non NAP compliant, anti-libertarian shitholes, including yours... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation History proves sequences of "democratic" and tyranny practices will stomp whatever freedom they can leading to brainwashed life lacking means or any will for freedom... During the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, in 1919, a disarmament law was decreed, ordering every weapon owner to give them away to the authorities; the only exceptions were machetes and hunting shotguns. Historian Manuel Caballero argues that while Gómez final intention was to prevent his enemies from obtaining weapons, the law contributed to avoid civil wars in Venezuela for the next century.[212] In 2012 Venezuela banned private sales of firearms and ammunition hoping to lower crime rates. The Army, police, and certain groups trusted by the government (colectivos) are exempted from the ban and can buy firearms from state-owned manufacturers.[213] In 2013 Venezuela stopped issuing new firearm licenses.[214] In 2017 government banned carrying firearms in public places.[143] Since then, the government began to seize guns from civilian hands, destroying thousands every year, including more than 15,000 in 2018. More than 483,000 private guns have been destroyed since 2003, with only 3,000 of them being surrendered voluntarily. 60 disarmament centres were created in the country and the penalty for illegal firearm possession was raised to 20 years imprisonment.[215] According to the government, the only people who should carry guns are public agents. Néstor Reverol, Minister of the People's Power for Interior Relations and Justice, claimed that strict gun control led to a reduction in crime and kidnappings in Venezuela.[216] No, the top mass shootings, and murders in general, have and are ALWAYS performed by Government and religion... in wars, and in silencing opposition and freedom, and in death sentences, specifically by those following "orders" and willfully violating the NAP. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/04/10/putting_bidens_gun_con... https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-440 https://crimeresearch.org/2018/02/op-ed-new-york-times-background-checks-not... https://crimeresearch.org/2016/01/why-the-so-called-charleston-gun-purchase-... https://crimeresearch.org/2018/02/with-39-killed-in-tunisia-attack-the-top-t... https://crimeresearch.org/2019/01/responding-voxs-popular-americas-unique-gu... https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-are-coming-for-your-guns-11601938911 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3671740 There were so many lies in Vice President Kamala Harris’ and President Joe Biden’s presentations on guns Thursday that it is hard to know where to start. One thing is certain, though: The media fact-checkers won’t question their claims. Here are just a few of the false ones: The background check system “has kept more than 3 million firearms out of the hands of dangerous people.” Since the Brady background checks began in 1994, there have been 3.5 million initial denials. However, it is one thing to stop a felon from buying a gun. It is quite another to stop a law-abiding citizen from buying a gun just because his or her name is similar to a felon’s. In 2017, for example, there were 112,000 initial denials for supposedly attempted prohibited purchases, but just 12 federal prosecutions by June 2018. The reason is that these weren’t real cases. The background check system is a mess, with the mistakes primarily born by minorities through no fault of their own. The error rate for black males is three times their share of the population. The Charleston Loophole Biden says that if there had only been more than three days to check Dylann Roof’s background, Roof would have been stopped from buying a gun, thereby preventing the horrible Charleston, S.C., church shooting. But that is a lie. You can’t buy a gun if you have a felony or certain misdemeanor convictions, or if you are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime with a possible prison sentence of at least one year. Since Roof’s arrest was for a misdemeanor drug offense, which had a maximum possible sentence of six months, a longer waiting period would not have blocked his gun purchase. If Democrats want to change the law so that any misdemeanor arrest prevents gun purchases, this would at least be related to the Charleston case. But Democrats want to impose up to a 30-day waiting period without explicitly stating that is their real aim. If they want a long waiting period, they should make a case for why this would somehow be desirable. Instead, Democrats pretend that their proposal would have stopped the Charleston shooting when their actual goal is to obtain a long waiting period. Biden said that gunmakers are “exempt from being sued. ... This is the only outfit that is exempt from being sued.” The president claims this is the top change he wants. In fact, however, if gunmakers make defective guns, you can sue them. Likewise, if they break the law (e.g., sell a firearm without a background check), you can sue them. Biden’s proposal is very different from current law. He wants gun manufacturers held civilly liable for misuse of guns they sell. This would allow lawsuits against manufacturers and sellers whenever a crime, accident, or suicide occurs with a gun. The straightforward result would be to put gunmakers out of business. Imagine what would happen to the car industry if similar rules were applied. The National Safety Council estimates that 39,404 Americans died and 4.5 million were injured from car accidents in 2018. Cars are also frequently used to commit crimes. “The vast majority of Americans believe there should be [universal] background checks.” Gun control advocates frequently claim that over 90% of Americans support background checks for private transfers of guns. Yet, the last time such laws were proposed to voters, they rejected them. When Michael Bloomberg got universal background check initiatives onto Maine and Nevada’s ballots, for example, he lost in Maine by four percentage points and won in Nevada by just 0.8 percentage points. This tough sledding wasn’t for lack of money. In Maine, Bloomberg outspent his opponents by over six times. In Nevada, he spent an incredible $35.30 per vote — three times more than his opponents. If over 90% of Americans supported these laws, this type of spending would be unnecessary. He blamed the “historic spike in homicides” on the lack of gun control laws. No sudden change in gun control laws caused last year’s spike in homicides. Instead, the real explanation is simple, and something Biden refused to consider: prisons released a large number of inmates because of COVID-19, politicians ordered police to stand down, police department budgets were cut, and prosecutors refused to prosecute criminals. In describing mass public shootings, Biden said that gun violence in this country is an “international embarrassment.” The president might not follow international news closely, but mass public shootings are much more common and deadly in the rest of the world than they are in the United States. The U.S. contains 4.6% of the world’s population, yet accounts for only 1% of the world’s shooters. Over the last decade, Europe has experienced deadlier mass public shootings than any of those in the U.S. -- ever. In November 2015, for example, 130 people were shot to death at a concert in Paris. In July 2011, 67 people were shot to death in Norway. European countries such as France, Finland, Norway, and a number of Eastern European countries have higher per capita death rates from mass public shootings than the United States does. Yet, all of these countries have stricter gun control laws than we do. These are just a few of the false claims made on Thursday. No, the rules for buying guns at gun shows are no different than buying them anywhere else. And no, when guns are unavailable neither the suicides nor the suicide attempts drop. Unfortunately, the liberal fact-checkers - as usual - are nowhere to be found. * * * Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author most recently of “Gun Control Myths.” Until last month, Lott was the senior adviser for research and statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy. Thomas Massie is a Republican member of the House who has represented Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District since 2012.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/joe-biden-americas-biggest-gun-salesmen_376794... https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=8558 Joe Biden: America's Biggest Gun Salesman Op-Ed by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times With his new - most likely unconstitutional - executive orders regarding weapons, Joe Biden is cementing his place as America’s leading gun salesman... President Joe Biden speaks during an event on gun control in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on April 8, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Gun sales have been wildly up all year. He just pushed them to a new level. It’s almost as if he were marketing director for Smith & Wesson. (As America’s president he might have made that clear to prevent people from running out to buy yet more Austrian-made Glocks when the locally-produced version is arguably as good.) The hypocrisy of this doddering man who threatened to punch out Donald Trump is nothing short of monumental. Any sentient being—not a slavish, ultra-conformist Democrat who no longer thinks for him or herself—has been alarmed at the escalating violence in our streets. Murders are way up. Assaults are way up. Police protection way down. This is all thanks to our Democrat friends many of whom seek to defund and/or handcuff the police, even, in some cases, after the latest group of self-described revolutionary maniacs has decided to torch their house. But the president wants to disarm us. Hello, Germany 1938. The measure of this hypocrisy can be seen in the treatment of those who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6—many of whom are still incarcerated without bail, including those with no criminal record whatsoever, none of whom (nota bene) had guns of any sort, not even a Derringer tucked in a boot—compared with the treatment of Antifa and Black Lives Matter demonstrators. The latter, always thugs in the Antifa case and too often thugs in the BLM case, almost always get off and got off “Scot Free” after committing true acts of violence and mayhem that dwarf anything that happened in the Capitol. We can easily mock the usual liberal virtue signaling about guns going on here, but one of Mr. Biden’s proposals is particularly alarming because superficially attractive to many. He has directed the Department of Justice to publish model “red flag” legislation for the states. Those are laws that allow family members, police, and possibly others to ask a court to bar an individual from possessing firearms if he or she seems to be dangerous to themselves or others. We might call this the “Stasi Law” because it encourages us to snitch on each other in the manner of East Germany under their Stasi, the most ruthless of all communist intelligence agencies before the fall of the Iron Curtain. If you have seen the brilliant German film “The Lives of Others,” you know how it worked. (If you haven’t, download this movie now. It’s the most relevant political film made in the last twenty-five years.) And speaking of the cinema, it used to be in the old Hollywood movies the snitch was considered an oily villain who got his just deserts. Unamerican, really. Nowadays, we’re headed in the opposite direction, not just in film, but in our society. This “snitchery” is already here. I recently heard the story of some Tennessee people who were warned by their own parents not to visit them in Pennsylvania because the parents’ neighbor would report a Tennessee license plate in their driveway—such interstate fraternization being verboten (I assume we all know that German word from World War II flicks) in Pennsylvania because of COVID. The possibilities for similar behavior with “red flag” legislation are endless—children ratting on their parents and so forth—just as are the ramifications from vaccination passports. We live in a different world. In case you want to buy Smith & Wesson stock, it trades on the NASDAQ as SWBI. It’s down today a touch. You know what they say—buy on the dip.
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2021/04/09/will-supremes-unleash-biden-red-flag-g... Will Supremes Unleash Biden Red Flag Gun Raids? A gun seizure case before the Supreme Court could open the flood-gates to warrantless searches... https://fee.org/articles/property-and-liberty/ https://reason.com/2014/10/20/if-you-want-to-keep-your-guns-in-new-yor/ https://reason.com/2019/08/07/red-flag-laws-leave-gun-owners-defenseless/ https://reason.com/2021/03/25/sonia-sotomayor-questions-warrantless-gun-seiz... https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/07/david-chipman-atf-biden-waco-branch-david... https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/03/theres-no-place-like-home/ https://www.courthousenews.com/just-shoot-me-plea-brought-the-police-and-hig... https://www.aclu.org/cases/caniglia-v-strom https://www.justice.gov/osg/brief/caniglia-v-strom https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/335/451 https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-conflict-at-home-creates-conflict-over... https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/katz-v-united-states-the-fourth-amendmen... https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/544733-supreme-court-wary-of-cu... https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2021/03/27/supreme-court-considers-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-police-warr... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-police/with-the-elderly-in-mind... https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/03/-gun-control-debate-clouds-d... https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/12/02/new-york-disarms-the-mentally-... https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/520/385/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/18/us/forced-entry-warrant-drug-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-to-nominate-official-from-gun-... https://trendingpolitics.com/breaking-biden-announces-6-gun-control-executiv... Will Supremes Unleash Biden Red Flag Gun Raids? Authored by James Bovard via JimBovard.com A gun seizure case before the Supreme Court could open the flood-gates to warrantless searches... President Joe Biden launched his first attack on the Second Amendment this week, making clear his intent to radically curtail Americans’ legal rights to own firearms. The White House boasted that Biden was nominating a “fierce” advocate of gun control, David Chipman, to be chief of the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agency. Chipman, a former ATF agent, is so dedicated to banning assault weapons that he brazenly lied last year about the 1993 federal assault at Waco, claiming that the Branch Davidians shot down two National Guard helicopters that were assaulting their home. Chipman, a Phillips Exeter Academy graduate who carries a concealed weapon himself, was an ATF case agent at the 1994 trial of the Branch Davidian survivors so he had no excuse for tossing out this anti-gun fairy tale. Perhaps the biggest peril that Biden unveiled is his push for a national “red flag” law that would entitle the police to preemptively confiscate the guns of anyone who is accused of being a threat to himself or others. Red flag laws have been notorious for trampling due process and spurring unjustified police raids that have resulted in killing innocent gun owners. It is naïve to expect fair play on gun owners’ rights when the politicians driving such policy are openly seeking pretexts to disarm as many Americans as possible. Biden’s push for a red flag law could become far more perilous to constitutional rights if the Supreme Court upholds a potentially landmark gun seizure case that could gut the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against warrantless searches. The Court heard arguments in this case last month and a decision is expected by June. In 2015, after an elderly couple had a heated argument, Edward Caniglia placed an unloaded revolver on the table and taunted his wife: “Why don’t you just shoot me and get me out of my misery?” His wife, Kim, was spooked and left to stay overnight in a hotel. When he didn’t answer a phone call the next morning, she called the police and asked them to check on him. Police arrived and browbeat Edward Caniglia into getting get a psychiatric examination at a hospital. He agreed to do so only after police promised not to seize his handguns. The shrinks certified him as sane (at least by prevailing Rhode Island standards) and he returned home to learn the police had confiscated his guns. Both he and his wife requested the guns be returned. Police refused to do so until Caniglia, who had no history of violence or abusing firearms, filed a lawsuit. Caniglia also sued the city of Cranston and police officers for violating his constitutional rights. At first glance, his case rested upon solid precedent. The Supreme Court ruled in 1980, “It is a basic principle of Fourth Amendment law that searches and seizures inside a home without a warrant are presumptively unreasonable.” In 1948, the Supreme Court declared that the sanctity of private homes is “too precious to entrust to the discretion of those whose job is the detection of crime and the arrest of criminals.” But the police and their supporters relied on a vast expansion of a 1973 Supreme Court decision that justified a warrantless “inventory search” of a rent-a-car to seek a police officer’s revolver in the trunk as part of the “community caretaking” exemption to the Fourth Amendment. A federal judge and a federal appeals court, ruling in favor of Rhode Island police, effectively concluded that a private home was “close enough for government work” to a rent-a-car to justify warrantless searches. But what about that clarion call 1967 Supreme Court decision that declared, “Wherever a man may be, he is entitled to know that he will remain free from unreasonable searches and seizures.” Not a problem, according to the first amicus brief that the Biden administration filed with the Supreme Court. According to the Biden administration, the only question in the Rhode Island case was whether the actions of police officers in the case were “objectively reasonable.” Constitutional rights were effectively moot because the Cranston cops were simply dealing with “an impending safety threat through a warrantless seizure of a potentially mentally unstable person and an entry into his residence for the limited purpose of removing firearms.” For the Biden legal team, “confiscating” became “removing” as smoothly as one of Falstaff’s minions turned “stealing” into “conveying.” On the same side of the fight, Marc DeSisto, the lawyer representing the Cranston police officers, declared, “The Fourth Amendment has only one test and that is that searches and seizures shall not be unreasonable.” DeSisto was not required to take a literacy test and perhaps was unaware of the Fourth Amendment passage about Americans’ rights to “be secure… against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” DeSisto and the Biden administration presume that warrants are unnecessary, if not irrelevant, any time government officials assert that it is “reasonable” to enter someone’s house without a warrant “to ensure public health and safety.” And who defines “reasonableness”? The same government officials who violate the Constitution. As Justice Stephen Breyer commented, “If you take a caretaker exception and read that into the word ‘reasonable,’ there’s no stopping. We don’t know how far we’ll go.” Lawyer Shay Dvoretzky, who represented Caniglia before the Court, warned, “Nearly every criminal violation has public safety implications, so dispensing with the warrant requirement whenever police can point to a health or safety motive would eviscerate the Fourth Amendment. Virtually any criminal situation can also be described in health or safety terms. For any situation involving drugs and alcohol, police could just say they were going into the home in order to make sure that the suspect was okay.” As Justice Neil Gorsuch asked, “What does the government do that doesn’t involve health or safety?” Institute for Justice attorney Joshua Windham wrote, “A rule that allows police to burst into your home without a warrant whenever they feel they are acting as ‘community caretakers’ is a threat to everyone’s security.” A brief filed jointly by the American Civil Liberties Union, Cato Institute, and American Conservative Union Foundation warned that upholding the Rhode Island search could “give police free rein to enter the home without probable cause or a warrant” and would be “unwise, unmanageable, and unnecessary, and it opens the door to abusive police conduct.” The Biden administration’s animosity to the Second Amendment has raised the stakes for the Rhode Island case. The Second Amendment Law Center, the California Rifle and Pistol Association, and Gun Owners of California warned the Supreme Court that “the Fourth Amendment has no ‘gun’ exception… Expansion of the ‘community caretaking’ exception into the home will be used by police in jurisdictions with onerous or constitutionally-questionable firearm restrictions to turn every call to a house into a search for guns under the pretext of ‘helping’ those present.” Anyone who doubts whether warrantless “community caretaking” could open an authoritarian Pandora’s box should read the transcript of the Supreme Court hearing. Lawyer DeSisto asserted that the caretaking doctrine would also authorize police raids to enforce mandatory COVID mask requirements if “they can see a lot of people gathered together that are not wearing masks.” Gov. Cuomo is again the bellwether here. In November, Cuomo denounced New York county sheriffs for acting like a “dictator” because they refused to forcibly enter private homes to enforce Cuomo’s mask mandate. Since the start of the Pandemic, Biden has whooped up masks as if they were a silver bullet to slap COVID-19 (regardless that tens of millions of Americans have been infected with the virus since mask compliance reached over 80 percent in public places). Biden has already mandated wearing masks in National Parks and on federal property. How much further could he go if there is another surge of Covid cases? Justice Sandra Sotomayor commented during the hearing, “When we permit police to search and seize without some standard, we run the risk of situations like this [Rhode Island case] repeating themselves.” But many antigun activists view the case as a model, not as a glitch in the legal system. Some court watchers expect a victory for the Biden position; Reuters headlined its report on the hearing, “With the elderly in mind, U.S. Supreme Court wary of limiting police in home entries.” Defenders of the Rhode Island gun seizure insist that government officials need discretion to forcibly protect people against themselves. But consider the experience of New Yorkers under the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo railroaded into law immediately after a 2012 school shooting in Connecticut. Cuomo declared: “People who have mental health issues should not have guns. They could hurt themselves, they could hurt other people.” But tens of millions of Americans visit therapists each year, and “mental health issues” is vague enough for endless political mischief. More than 85,000 New Yorkers lost their Second Amendment rights as a result of a “mental health” exclusion clause in the SAFE Act. As columnist Jacob Sullum observed, the “law effectively gives ‘mental health professionals’ the power to disarm people, and they do not even need a judge’s approval.” New York University law professor James Jacobs observed that, “based on as little as a single short emergency room interview,” an individual “need not even be notified that his or her name has been added to a database of persons whose firearms license must be revoked and whose firearms must be surrendered.” Medical professionals and others were already legally obliged to notify police if a patient “made a credible threat” of violence but the provision in the 2013 act was far more expansive. If the Supreme Court approves “wellness check” warrantless gun raids, the Biden administration could invoke the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic Statistic Manual (DSM) category 313.81, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, to justify targeting outspoken opponents of the government. After the clash at the Capitol, Biden wasted no time denouncing the January 6 protestors as “domestic terrorists.” Press accounts of the arrests of the protestors breathlessly recounted how many firearms were found in their homes—regardless that those individuals did not tote their AR-15s, shotguns, and Glocks with them when they “unlawfully entered” that “Temple of Democracy,” the U.S. Capitol. Any such crackdown would have legions of cheerleaders in the mainstream media. The Biden administration’s support for warrantless “community caretaking” police raids must be viewed in light of previous perverse legal innovations that unleashed tyranny. Going back to the 18th century, British and American judges recognized that “a man’s home is his castle.” But the drug war obliterated that notion with legal doctrines that should have been laughed out of court. Instead, the combined peril of narcotics and flush toilets nullified limits on police power. In a 1995 brief to the Supreme Court, Clinton’s Justice Department stressed that “various indoor plumbing facilities… did not exist” in early America when the “knock-and-announce” rule for searches of homes was adopted. In a 1997 brief to the Supreme Court, the Clinton administration declared that “it is ordinarily reasonable for police officers to dispense with a pre-entry knock and announcement.” The subsequent Supreme Court decision included a few quibbles but effectively sanctified no-knock raids whenever police claimed a “reasonable suspicion” that evidence might be destroyed. The New York Times noted in 2017 that no-knock warrants were routinely granted permitting “the most extreme force in pursuit of the smallest amounts of drugs, since a few grams are more quickly flushed than a few bales.” The Clinton “flush the Fourth” doctrine spurred an explosion of deadly no-knock raids across the nation. A New York Times investigation found that “at least 81 civilians and 13 law enforcement officers died in raids from 2010 through 2016. Scores of others were maimed or wounded.” “Government as a damn rascal” was the unwritten premise of the Bill of Rights. The Founding Fathers saw enough depredations by British agents that they recognized the folly of vesting officialdom with absolute power. The Bill of Rights is full of prohibitions (“shall make no law”) precisely because the Founders did not trust politicians to be judge, jury, and executioners on their own “reasonableness.” Nothing that Biden or his appointees have said or done so far justifies exempting them from Thomas Jefferson’s 1799 admonition to “bind those we are obliged to trust with power…from mischief by the chains of the Constitutions.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCVr2IRa4s4 NAAGA - Phil Smith https://www.reddit.com/r/NAAGA+blackgunowners/ https://naaga.co/ The mission of the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA) is to establish a fellowship by educating on the rich legacy of gun ownership by African Americans, offering training that supports safe gun use for self defense and sportsmanship, and advocating for the inalienable right to self defense for African Americans. Education. Training. Safety. Self Defense. Advocacy. For and By African Americans. https://www.reddit.com/r/Liberalgunowners+SocialistRA+LatinoRA+PinkPistols/ Fight for your rights, or lose them, all.
Supreme Court To Consider Second Amendment Concealed Carry Case https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/042621zor_e18f.pdf https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1386675313560719360 Rights under Natural Law, Speech and Defense exemplar, are neither granted nor regulated by anyone, do not require permission, and cannot be taken away. The US Supreme Court, which hasn't issued a major gun-rights decision in over a decade, has agreed to review a New York case to decide whether the government must allow most residents to carry a handgun in public. The appeal is from a New York gun-rights group and two individuals who say the state is violating their 2nd Amendment rights by only issuing concealed-carry licenses to those who can show a special need for protection, according to Bloomberg. The state has restricted carry rights since the 19th century. This case is likely to pave the way to the Supreme Court declaring a constitutional right to concealed public carry, overriding many state and local restrictions on the ability to bear concealed arms in public. https://t.co/SDD4adTFhx — Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 26, 2021 The case, which the court will consider during the nine-month term beginning in October, will put the Justices in the middle of a heated debate between gun control advocates and gun rights groups who are hoping that the three justices appointed by former President Donald Trump (who have consistently ruled against conservative interests) will stand behind the Second Amendment. Concealed carry advocates believe that public gun possession is an issue of self-defense against criminals, as well as an issue of individual freedom. Opponents say that more guns equal more crime. New York is one of eight states -- along with California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Rhode Island, Delaware and Hawaii -- that the National Rifle Association says prevent most people from getting a carry license. Illinois and the District of Columbia also had sharp restrictions before their laws were invalidated in court. The restrictions have created a split among federal appeals courts, a dynamic that often prompts the Supreme Court to intervene. The high court has never said whether the Second Amendment applies outside the home. -Bloomberg In its appeal, the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association along with residents Robert Nash and Brandon Koch, have asked the high court to settle the matter. "There is no Second Amendment issue more pressing than whether the fundamental, individual right to self-defense is confined to the home," the group argued in its filing. "A minority of jurisdictions seem determined to control the very people and rights that the Second Amendment promises ‘shall not be infringed." The Supreme Court hasn't issued a gun-rights ruling since 2010, when it ruled that the Second Amendment applies to states and cities, along with the federal government and District of Columbia. In 2008, the Court ruled that people have a constitutional right to keep a handgun at home in order to defend themselves. The state of New York urged the Supreme Court to reject the appeal, arguing that the New York law "has existed in the same essential form since 1913 and descends from a long Anglo-American tradition of regulating the carrying of firearms in public," according to Attorney General Letitia James.
https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-lifts-ban-on-3d-printed-gun-blu... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcGYPeOd2b5OXz-2EIGsEcg Ninth Circuit Says "Ghost Gun" Blueprints Can Be Posted Online Without Fed Approval 3D-printed gun blueprints can be posted online without U.S. State Department approval, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled on Tuesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a Trump administration order that authorized removing ghost guns from the State Department's Munitions List. The appeals court ruling will make it easier to share untraceable 3D-printed gun blueprints online, but President Joe Biden in early April announced new measures to tackle gun violence, including a crackdown on ghost guns. "The Ninth Circuit's decision Tuesday overturned an injunction issued by a federal judge in Seattle in March 2020. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik had blocked two rules that transferred regulatory control of 3D-printed gun files from the State Department to the Commerce Department. The rules also removed ghost gun blueprints from a State Department list of munitions that require a license to export. Twenty-two states led by Washington state sued to prevent the rule changes from taking effect," Courthouse News Service said. Here's more from Courthouse News Service on the divided panel of judges. In a 25-page opinion, U.S. Circuit Judges Jay Bybee, a George W. Bush appointee, and Ryan Nelson, a Donald Trump appointee, concluded that courts lack authority to review the challenged rule changes. They found a 1976 law, the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, and its subsequent amendments forbid judicial review of State Department decisions on what is considered a "defense article" subject to regulation. "Because Congress expressly precluded review of the relevant agency actions here, we vacate the injunction and remand with instructions to dismiss," Nelson wrote for the majority. In a dissenting opinion, U.S. District Judge Robert Whaley, a Bill Clinton appointee sitting on the panel by designation from the Eastern District of Washington, argued that his colleagues misinterpreted what Congress intended when it gave the president power "to designate" what items are considered "defense articles and defense services" under the law. Whaley wrote that a 1981 amendment to the law "clarified that the president's removal power was separate from its designation power and was subject to congressional oversight." He said the majority disregarded a legal principle which presumes any words omitted from a statute should be deemed intentionally excluded from the law. "I disagree with the majority's holding which allows this new regulatory system to escape appropriate oversight," Whaley wrote. Bybee and Nelson rejected that criticism, arguing that prior to the 1981 amendment, the phrase at issue clearly encompassed the president's power to add to and remove items from the list of regulated munitions. Changes to how 3D-printed gun specs are regulated were first proposed in May 2018 about two months after the Trump administration agreed to settle a lawsuit with a private company that distributes blueprints for so-called ghost guns. Under the terms of that deal, the Trump administration agreed to remove 3D-printed gun specs from the State Department's list of regulated munitions. In his dissenting opinion, Whaley questioned why the government "suddenly and secretly changed course" by agreeing to that settlement after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor the State Department and denied Defense Distributed's request for an injunction to have its blueprints removed from the list. Prior to the settlement, the State Department had argued that Defense Distributed's files could be used to create "virtually undetectable" firearms that presented a "serious risk of acts of violence" overseas, including the use of untraceable guns in assassinations and the manufacturing of gun parts for embargoed nations and terrorist groups. "[Department of State] has never explained why, after securing several victories in the litigation with Defense Distributed, it decided to settle and agreed to permit the export of 3D gun files, even though DOS had argued that the export of these files would irreparably harm the United States' national security interests," Whaley wrote. Whaley also questioned the government's decision to keep that settlement secret until after a public comment period for the proposed rule changes ended on July 9, 2018. He noted that only a small fraction of submitted comments pertained to ghost guns, but after the settlement was made public, the government was flooded with "over 106,000 emails from concerned members of the public regarding the deregulation of 3D gun files." Bybee and Nelson acknowledged some "additional reasons" Whaley cited as to why Congress intended to let courts review decisions to deregulate munitions, but they concluded that Congress never wrote those into the law. "Congress may decide to codify these policy considerations in the future. But [the law] as currently written does not reflect them," Nelson wrote for the majority. Guns printed at home are often referred to as ghost guns because they lack serial numbers, making them untraceable. In the last several years, a decentralized network of 3D-printed gun advocates has mobilized online and revolutionized gun designs, sharing blueprints, advice and building a community. As we've noted, one online ghost gun community has developed the FGC-9, which stands for "f**k gun control 9 mm." As we've mentioned, the FGC-9 can be printed entirely at home for the cost of $350, including the printer's cost. YouTuber Sean with "The 3D Print General" recently attended "Bear Arms N' Bitcoin" on April 10-11 in Texas. He showed how 3D-printed guns have advanced over the years and can survive thousands of rounds of ammo. So, for the time being, ghost gun blueprints can be shared online, but it's only a matter of time before the Biden administration swoops in like a hawk and unleashes executive orders against these untraceable firearms.
https://alt-market.us/the-real-reasons-why-california-leftists-are-terrified... The Real Reasons Why California Leftists Are Terrified Of The AR-15 by Brandon Smith All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party. -- Mao Zedong "ALL totalitarian governments seek to first disarm the people they intend to enslave or destroy. This is a fact." This past week a US District judge in California struck down the state’s 30 year ban on high capacity semi-automatic rifles which leftists label “assault weapons”. The judge called the ban unconstitutional (which it is). In response, the progressive media has lost their collective minds, screeching in horror at the idea of AR-15 rifles being legal within the borders of their carefully manicured socialist Utopia state. Their most commonly expressed reaction seems to be fear. Fear is rarely a rational thing. When someone operates based on fear they tend to make terrible decisions and support oppressive causes and laws. Fear leads to an obsession with control. Fearful people also tend to look for large mobs of other terrified people so they can feel safe and secure and anonymous. They want to be able to act impulsively on their fears without having to face consequences for it later. Leftists are driven primarily by two factors: Narcissism, and yes, fear. I’ve discussed their narcissism at great length in past articles; now I think we should delve into their fear. The most common leftist retort to the question “Why are you so afraid of the AR-15?” will usually be a snort of indignant disbelief followed by the words: “Because it’s a military weapon designed to kill a lot of people quickly…idiot!” But this is not an argument, it is an expression of irrational fear. Why are they, as individuals, afraid of the AR-15? What are the chances that they will EVER be faced with a person intent on killing them with an AR-15? And, why do they believe that disarming innocent law abiding Americans will somehow save them from their paranoia? Let’s examine the first issue of statistical probability; how many people are actually killed by AR-15s each year? Not many according to the FBI, which does not track the stats on specific rifles, but does track the stats on all rifles together. And, as it turns out, only around 6% of all gun deaths involve rifles in the US each year. How much of that 6% involves the use of military grade rifles like the AR-15? It’s impossible to say, but even if it was half, or 3% of all gun related crimes, that would still mean you have FAR more of a chance of being murdered by a knife or blunt object than an AR. By extension, Rifles overall are dwarfed by handgun murders, so, again, why are leftists so afraid of the AR-15? What about mass shootings? It seems like the AR-15 is a favorite among mass shooters because of it’s “efficiency”, so is this reason enough to be fearful? According to the New York Times own analysis, the AR-15 was used to kill 173 people in mass shootings in the US from 2007 to 2017. Meaning around 17 homicides per year over a decade can be attributed to the rifle. Again, the AR is dwarfed by almost all other weapons in homicide including knives, even when accounting for mass shootings. With the sheer number of military grade weapons in the hands of civilians in the US there should be mass homicides everywhere you look if you take the common position of the typical progressive gun grabber. But, this is not the case. In fact, if you want to increase your chances of being killed by a gun, move to a major Democrat run city like Chicago, New York or Philadelphia. In Chicago, there were 4033 shootings and 784 homicides, predominantly in black neighborhoods and primarily with handguns. So, statistically, access to AR-15s does not increase gun homicides. But what about living in a black neighborhood in leftist run Chicago under some of the strictest gun laws in the country? Yes, your chances of being shot are MUCH higher (just not by an AR-15). Since the math does not add up in favor of the leftists, perhaps we should examine other factors that might be driving them to focus on the AR in particular. Let’s talk about “precedence”… Look at it this way – States like California are a petri dish, a testing ground for the future that leftists want for the entire country. There is an old saying that “As goes California, so goes the US”, and this is because California is often where most experimental legislation is pushed; legislation that violates the boundaries of what the constitution allows. Sometimes it’s New York or New Jersey or some other blue state, but most of the time CA is where unconstitutional precedents are set. Its massive population and large number of electoral votes make it a perfect target for conditioning the wider public to further restrictions on their freedoms. This explains some of the fear the media is showing regarding the latest federal court decision on military grade weapons like the AR. Political elites see California as their own little kingdom with their own special laws, and they plan to eventually spread those laws across America using California as the model. But, if such laws are overturned as unconstitutional, then the precedent actually works in reverse. Now, the leftists are concerned that an overturned gun ban in CA means more blue states will follow and their entire gun grabbing scheme will go out the window. The leftist mind thinks in terms of unchecked and unhinged “democracy”. Meaning, they believe that the majority is paramount; the majority is law. If a majority in a society wants to take away your freedoms, then they have the right to because they have the mob on their side. 51% rules over the lives of the other 49%. But this is not how things work in a Constitutional Republic. Under the Bill of Rights your freedoms are codified and sacrosanct. They are inherent and gifted by God (or whatever you happen to believe in); government has no domain over these rights. The right to firearms and self defense is one of these inherent qualities. It does not matter what the State of California thinks, or even what the “majority” of people in California think. If an American in California wants to own an AR-15, then he/she has the right to own an AR-15. We also cannot ignore the fact that leftists have an insatiable appetite for collectivism, usually in the name of the “greater good”. Collectivism is basically totalitarianism disguised as humanitarianism. They know what’s best for you, and they are going to make sure you follow THEIR plan for your life. The AR-15 is indeed a weapon in military use, and maybe this is what frightens leftists the most. Not because they are personally more likely to be shot by one (we’ve already proven that notion false), but because leftists desire control over all else, and with military grade weapons in the hands of the public control becomes much more difficult. ALL totalitarian governments seek to first disarm the people they intend to enslave or destroy. This is a fact. When a group of people in power are working hard to remove defensive or even offensive weapons from your hands, it’s best to assume that their intentions are malevolent. They are not trying to help you, they are trying to help themselves. They will deny this motive to the grave, but look at how the political left has been acting lately: They are the only people that have supported mass censorship of opposing viewpoints. They are the only people that are supported by international conglomerates and Big Tech companies. They are the only people that supported the pandemic lockdowns, which were completely useless in stopping the spread of covid, but they were very useful in killing hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the US. They are also the only people in favor of vaccine passports which would destroy the very fabric of our society and erase what is left of our freedoms. It’s not really surprising that they want to disarm us as well. Of course, they will claim that this argument is “silly”. After all, what can an AR-15 do against an Apache helicopter or a Abrams battle tank? Well, these rifles in the right hands can do a hell of a lot to stop a technologically advanced military, as we have seen for the past two decades in Afghanistan. Let us not play games; there is a reason why leftists and elites are obsessed with our disarmament. If military grade rifles were not a threat to them, then they would not be going after them so aggressively. Finally, the mainstream media has rolled out all the typical propaganda tools when it comes to spinning the federal decision in CA, including attacking the judge and his character. Almost every single article on this issue focuses on the fact that the judge compared the AR-15 to a “Swiss Army knife”. The left will continue to use this narrative as a means to distract from the real problem at hand because false conflations and straw man arguments have worked for them in the past. Clearly, the judge was not trying to say that an AR-15 and a Swiss Army knife are exactly the same, or that they are equally capable of killing people. The logical interpretation is that the AR-15 is a tool like any other tool, and it has multiple uses. It is a utilitarian object, not an inherently demonic death machine as leftists would have us believe. Gun grabbers love to make the argument that firearms are only designed for one purpose: “Killing”. This is a lie. They are also tools for self defense. They are a means to defuse a violent situation before it even happens. There are thousands of videos on the web showing people with criminal intent running away from a Good Samaritan with a gun. There is no way of telling how many potential victims have been saved by the mere presence of a firearm, but the accounts are documented and numerous. This is on top of all the other uses for guns, including hunting and sporting uses. So, yes, the judge is absolutely correct; an AR-15 is a multipurpose tool, just like a Swiss Army knife. In my view, the gun control lobby in America is in the midst of a considerable decline, and maybe it is even about to die. The political left has long operated on the mantra that “the squeaky wheel gets the oil”. In other words, they think if they whine long enough and loud enough about an issue someone will come along and give them what they want just to shut them up, even if what they want is illogical or morally bankrupt. This strategy has worked out for them for many decades so it’s not surprising that they keep using it, but times are changing. Now, the squeaky wheel gets no oil, at least not from gun owners. The squeaky wheel gets nothing. Gun control is the big line in the sand for most law abiding conservatives and moderates, and we have grown tired of the debate because it’s no longer a debate, it’s a imposition of ideology and cultism. All the facts are on the side of gun owners. All the legal protections are on the side of gun owners. All the moral dynamics are on the side of gun owners. As long as we stand our ground, there is nothing that leftists can do about it. They can continue to lie, they can continue to threaten and they can continue exploiting emotional arguments, but they’ll NEVER get the guns. And, as we have seen recently, we might even start returning some of those gun rights and rifles to states like California, where fear was used to cloud the public mind and people were conned into compliance. What are California leftists and their comrades in other blue states really afraid of? They are afraid that their strategies are failing, that the public is getting wise to their games, that their incrementalism only works for so long, that their true intentions have become transparent, that their narcissism has blinded them to their own frailties, that the law is not their plaything and that every piece of constitutional ground they have stolen over the decades could be taken back from them in the blink of an eye; as fast as a speeding bullet. Leftists and totalitarians fear the AR-15, but what they fear more is what it represents. And with each carefully placed practice shot at every gun range across America, they hear the crushing sound of inevitability. The real reason is that those who wish to control, subjugate, enslave, steal from, and even kill you... are deathly afraid that you will fight back. Fight back.
Stanford University Confirms: Guns Don't Kill People, People You Neglect Do https://summit.news/2021/06/11/stanford-study-most-mass-shooters-have-undiag... https://journals.lww.com/psychopharmacology/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=9000&issue=00000&article=98298&type=Abstract Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have published a study that reveals most of the perpetrators of mass shootings in America are people with undiagnosed psychiatric disorders. The study focused on 115 assailants of shootings committed between 1982 and 2019, and then narrowed that number down to ones who survived. “We found that most mass shooters in our study experienced undiagnosed and unmedicated psychiatric illness,” the researchers noted. Describing the findings as “striking,” the study notes that symptoms of clinical psychiatric disorders were identified in almost all the shooters, 32 out of 35. Over half of the perpetrators, 18, were found to have schizophrenia, with psychotic symptoms including the belief they were receiving messages from demons and seeing hallucinations ordering them to “kill, burn or destroy.” A further 10 of the shooters were diagnosed as bipolar, delusional and suffering from personality disorders. The study also noted that “None were medicated or received other treatment prior to the crime.” To make the diagnoses, the study focused on the records of forensic psychiatrists and court proceedings, in addition to writings and social media posts made by the shooters. Researchers also found that in 20 mass shooting cases where the perpetrators died, at least eight had schizophrenia, seven had other diagnoses, and five had unknown mental illnesses. While concluding that diagnosis and treatment of mental illness could have “decreased violence,” the study notes that “Psychiatric research… on the nature and the incidence of mental illness among mass shooters, however, remains largely understudied.” “Most of the cases of domestic mass murders possibly might have been prevented had the assailant… been more consistently assisted to receive a correct diagnosis… followed by psychiatric medication treatment… to save lives,” the study suggests. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-enduring-false-narrative-about Greenwald: The Enduring False Narrative About The PULSE Massacre Shows The Power Of Media Propaganda
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mark-mccloskey-says-hell-go-out-and-buy-anothe... McCloskey said charged with "a new crime which basically said I purposely placed other people in the apprehension of imminent physical harm. Well, by gosh, I did. I mean, that was the whole point of the guns. You stand out there with the guns. You make people worried that they might get shot and they back up." He added that when the judge asked if he would do the same thing again, "I said sure, and I'd do it again." He told Newsmax that he and his wife indeed had "every intention" of placing the protesters in fear of physical injury "because that's what the guns were for." He plans to "go out and buy another AR-15".
He plans to "go out and buy another AR-15".
http://endoftheamericandream.com/what-is-your-plan-as-major-u-s-cities-devol... https://old.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/o0leeq/updated_cost_per_round_by_cali... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zNNk130V0 factories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMAMLGLdDXY printed China-Backed Media Highly Critical Of Texas' New Permitless Carry Law The Chinese government's propaganda machine lashing out against the permitless carry law and siding with anti-gun Democrats is worrisome. Xinhua didn't even take the time to balance the article with what pro-gun groups had to say. The Chinese government and the communist party fear armed citizens. Mainstream media fails to report the gun sanctuary movement is erupting across the country. Since... http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/on-the-mean-streets-of-america-the-gun-ba...
Two more unbelievable stories of Democrat gun grabbers gone beyond insane... nevermind that big city Democrat policies are responsible for big city violence at least in tort, WV,US fights back... Pennsylvania Democrats To Propose Bullet Tax And Encoded Rounds To Track Ammo Owners https://www.theepochtimes.com/pennsylvania-democrats-to-propose-bullet-tax-a... A 5 cent per bullet tax will be proposed in Pennsylvania as part of legislation to be brought forth by two state House Democrats, Rep. Manny Guzman and Rep. Stephen Kinsey. The tax would fund a state police database of ammunition sold in Pennsylvania. The planned legislation would require ammunition manufacturers to encode ammunition provided for retail sale in Pennsylvania, and to provide ammunition serial numbers to the Pennsylvania State Police for the ammunition database. The plan was revealed in a joint memo to the state legislature by Guzman and Kinsey. “Since 2015, only 21% of the nearly 8,500 shootings that Philadelphia has endured have resulted in an arrest or conviction,” the memo said. “Far too often, all that is left for the police to find is a victim and a bullet. By making the bullet a more useable piece of evidence, independent from the associated firearm, we can give our law enforcement officers the tools that they need to solve more of these heinous crimes.” “By maintaining a record of purchases of ammunition,” the memo continues, “our law enforcement officers will be able to easily trace the ownership of any ammunition involved in a crime. This proposal is a much more reliable method of forensic tracing than current systems like ballistic fingerprinting, since determination of a bullet’s code does not require any special skills or equipment, and it serves as an objective identifier.” “It is time for us to keep track of these lethal weapons and ensure that we have the tools necessary to convict individuals who use their firearms for unlawful purposes,” the memo said. The plan would impose a 5 cent per round tax. Ammunition owners could file for a tax credit of one-half of a percent (0.5 percent) of the gross amount of the tax paid. That is, a 50 cent tax return for every $100 spent in bullet taxes. A purchase of 2,000 rounds would cost $100 in tax. Gun Owners of America-Pennsylvania Director Val Finnell says the plan amounts to registration and taxation of a constitutional right, to own ammunition. “If you register your ammo, that’s a prelude to confiscation, just like firearms registration would be,” Finnell said, noting that if a bill to ban certain ammunition is passed, an ammunition database would show law enforcement who has ammunition to confiscate. “This is the agenda of Philadelphia Democrats: registration and confiscation,” Finnell said. “They say ‘we just want common-sense gun laws to help police’ but criminals are going to obtain guns anyway. The only ones it affects are law-abiding citizens.” Finnell predicts the bill will not move in the Republican-led General Assembly. Republican state Rep. Matthew Dowling, chair of the Pennsylvania House Second Amendment Caucus, says lawmakers shouldn’t be weighing down state police with managing an ammunition database that should not exist. “Not only is this onerous for state police who should be using resources in other ways, it’s a violation of privacy standards,” Dowling said. “This is on top of the fact that we have a massive shortage of ammo. Law-abiding citizens are having a hard time trying to get their hands on ammo. This will only make it more difficult for them.” It is unclear how such a law would address unmarked ammunition from other states or the ammunition already owned by Pennsylvanians. Neither Guzman nor Kinsey responded to calls and emails requesting comment. Although Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s mask mandate and other COVID-19-related restrictions have ended, Kinsey’s Philadelphia constituent office had a recording explaining the office is closed “out of an abundance of caution” due to the risk of COVID-19. Kinsey did have staff in his Harrisburg capitol building office. San Jose To Tax Law-Abiding Gun Owners For The Actions Of Criminals https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=48555 https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/san-jose-tax-gun-owners-city-confiscat... https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/ninth-circuit-stays-decision-that-invalid... The Democratic Party’s war against the second amendment opens a new front thanks to the San Jose City Council’s decision to tax law-abiding gun owners for the actions of criminals: Gun owners in San Jose, California, will soon face a yearly tax and be required to carry additional insurance after their city council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to impose the new measures. The forthcoming fee for gun ownership in the city has not yet been determined, but officials said that anyone found to be in noncompliance will have their weapons confiscated. The city council’s aim is to try to recoup the cost of responding to gun incidents such as shootings and deaths. According to the Pacific Council on Research and Evaluation, which studied the issue and sent a representative to testify before the panel, gun-related incidents cost the city roughly $63 million every year in the way of paying for police officers, medics and other expenses, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. Chief Justice John Marshall said that the power to tax is the power to destroy, and here the attempt is to destroy lawful gun ownership by imposing collective guilt on the law-abiding for the actions of the criminal and turning law-abiding gun owners into criminals for refusing to comply with an unconstitutional, punitive tax. The endgame, as always, complete civilian gun confiscation. Next up: A tax on sober drivers to pay for the actions of drunk ones. Meanwhile, in other California war against guns news, various challenges to various California gun law are pending an en-banc hearing on Duncan v Bonta. (Previously.) "Huge Economic Boost" - New West Virginian Law Makes Gun And Ammo Purchases Tax-Free https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/guns-and-ammo-now-tax-free-in-west... West Virginian lawmakers have eliminated the sales tax on all small firearms and ammunition and are also offering weapon manufacturers tax credits in hopes of sparking an economic boom, according to local news WOWK. "If you are going to buy that $2,000 riffle, it's going to be $120 cheaper here in West Virginia than compared to our neighboring states," said Delegate Gary Howell, (R) District 56. The law was passed in House Bill 2499, which went into effect on July 1. Customers can purchase handguns, shotguns, rifles, and whatever their heart desires (chambered up to .50 caliber) without sales tax. The state hopes to get in on the action of record gun sales and millions of first-time gun owners sparked by the virus pandemic and social unrest of 2020. With millions of new guns owners, parts and ammo will be needed, and West Virginia plans to capitalize on that. WOWK's Audra Laskey calls the new law a "huge economic boost" for the state. 🦌CALLING ALL HUNTERS AND SPORTSMEN🔫 A new law goes into effect today regarding buying small firearms and ammunition! Tune in to @WOWK13News for more on these new changes. pic.twitter.com/clriDCoQcH — Audra Laskey (@AudraLaskey) July 1, 2021 "It's definitely going to spike gun sales for the foreseeable future. Then after that, I think it will steadily increase in terms of your mid and high-range arms. So, I think over the long term that it will defiantly be a boost in business," said Taylor Collins, gun and ammo salesman for Bridgeport. The law also promotes tax credits to gun and ammo manufacturers: "If they do a $1 million piece of equipment, we will tax it as if it's a $50,000 piece of equipment. That's to encourage investment in the state," said Delegate Howell. Already, one bullet manufacturer, Ranger Scientific, recently announced it would be building an ammo plant in the state because of the new law. The new plant will provide 400 jobs to residents in Montgomery. "It makes West Virginia the single best place to locate arms or ammunition manufacturing plant," said Delegate Howell. If you build it, they will come - and it appears the tax law could spark an exodus of gun manufacturers from other states to West Virginia. According to Noah Davis of sanctuarycounties.com, West Virginia is a huge Second Amendment state sanctuary state. The Biden administration is losing the war on guns as more than 61% of American counties are now Second Amendment sanctuaries. West Virginia could see a considerable boost in ammo sales as prices have come down, and no sales tax will make the cost per round even cheaper. https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/o0leeq/updated_cost_per_round_by_cali... https://twitter.com/SanctuaryCounty/status/1406765385479774218 Insane Biden and the Democrats have no idea the huge hornet nest they're poking.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/federal-court-rules-its-unconstitutional-t... https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-ruling-4th-circuit-panel-say... https://thefreethoughtproject.com/charges-dropped-father-shooting-officer/ Federal Court Rules It Unconstitutional To Ban 18-To-20-Year-Olds From Buying Guns At the age of 18, an American citizen can join the military get issued an M-16 and have their legs blown off by an IED in Iraq - “for freedom.” However, if that 18-year-old wants to buy a handgun in the same country that sends them off to have their legs blown off, they are banned from doing so - because “freedom.” All that could soon be changing now, however, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has ruled that laws preventing 18-20-year-olds from buying guns are unconstitutional. In a split decision, the three-judge panel ruled on Tuesday that the minimum age requirement of 21 to buy a gun in the land of the free restricts the rights of law-abiding citizens by drawing an arbitrary and unjustified line. In the case, according to court documents, the plaintiffs sought an injunction and a declaratory judgment pointing out that several federal laws and regulations that prevent federally licensed gun dealers from selling handguns to any 18-, 19-, or 20-year-old violate the Second Amendment. According to the plaintiffs: We first find that 18-year-olds possess Second Amendment rights. They enjoy almost every other constitutional right, and they were required at the time of the Founding to serve in the militia and furnish their own weapons. We then ask, as our precedent requires, whether the government has met its burden to justify its infringement of those rights under the appropriate level of scrutiny. To justify this restriction, Congress used disproportionate crime rates to craft over inclusive laws that restrict the rights of overwhelmingly law-abiding citizens. And in doing so, Congress focused on purchases from licensed dealers without establishing those dealers as the source of the guns 18- to 20-year-olds use to commit crimes. The court agreed. “Despite the weighty interest in reducing crime and violence, we refuse to relegate either the Second Amendment or 18-to-20-year-olds to a second-class status,” wrote Judge Julius N. Richardson. The court found that 18-year-olds possess a Second Amendment right to gun ownership and noted that they were “required at the time of the Founding to serve in the militia and furnish their own weapons,” wrote Richardson. Indeed, they were. Not only is it unconstitutional to prevent 18-year-olds from buying a handgun to defend themselves, but it is extremely hypocritical. The idea of sending an 18-year-old off to war for a country, giving him or her a gun to defend themselves in battle but refusing to allow that same person to defend themselves at home is sheer nonsense. What’s more, that same 18-year-old can vote on laws which affect the second amendment but cannot practice that right at all. Not everyone agrees, however, and the dissenting judge thinks that the right to self defense is the sole doing of the gun lobby. “The majority’s decision to grant the gun lobby a victory in a fight it lost on Capitol Hill more than fifty years ago is not compelled by law. Nor is it consistent with the proper role of the federal judiciary in our democratic system,” Judge James A. Wynn Jr. Courts wrote. According to the Washington Post, Wynn rejected as “simply surreal” concerns about relegating the Second Amendment to second-class status. “No, the Second Amendment is exceptional not because it is uniquely oppressed or imperiled, but rather because it is singularly capable of causing harm,” wrote Wynn. Wynn is backed by gun control advocates who point out that 18-to-20-year-olds commit gun homicides at a rate four times higher than adults 21 and older do. It is rather irresponsible, however, that they would use these statistics to advocate gun control given that 18-to-20-year-olds cannot legally buy a handgun — therefore proving that the law doesn’t work. Like all gun control measures, laws that prevent 18-to-20-year-olds from buying guns only stop law abiding citizens from defending themselves and do nothing to prevent criminals from obtaining weapons. This is a fact that the court pointed out as well, noting that allowing law abiding 18-to-20-year-olds to purchase guns in a legal market will enhance public safety. Attorney Elliott Harding, who represented the plaintiffs in case pointed out that the ruling bolsters safety by allowing young people to purchase handguns in a more regulated market with background checks. While this is a win for gun rights, it is likely only temporary as the DOJ has already promised to knock it down.
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Federal Court Rules It Unconstitutional To Ban 18-To-20-Year-Olds From Buying Guns
I've long believed that the 2nd Amendment was intended to guarantee the gun-law environment that existed in 1791, when the 2nd was ratified. That's why it didn't describe in detail what that right amounted to. The Founding Fathers knew that the legal environment was well- documented, in state laws, and would remain documented. So, any new kinds of laws on guns or arms invented after 1791 were unconstitutional, literally an "infringement" on RTKBA. Jim Bell
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Biden tries to appoint apparently Racist Politcally-Biased Employment-Law-Breaking Anti-Gunner to head BATF (a job that is supposed to be neutral executive, not legislative or judicial)... Democrats also trying to serialize ammunition, and require ID to purchase ammunition. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cruz-blasts-atf-chipman-chinese-state-tv https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-atf-chipman-senate-china-propaganda https://thereload.com/atf-agents-corroborate-existence-of-racial-complaint-a... https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/22/american-accountability-foundation-david-... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawsuit-filed-employment-records-biden-aft-... http://wordpress.bidennoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/D.D.C.-21-cv-01669... https://thereload.com/republicans-fire-back-at-durbin-in-battle-over-second-... https://thereload.com/app/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-29-SJC-Rs-to-Durbin-Chipma... https://thereload.com/app/uploads/2021/08/2021-08-04-SJC-Rs-to-Durbin-Chipma... "Politics is supposed to stop at the water’s edge. It’s shocking that Mr. Chipman’s gun-control agenda not only didn’t, but it eagerly found a willing host among the Chinese communists," the senators wrote. FARA "requires certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute" to disclose... Chipman failed to disclose to the Senate a media appearance on the China Global Television Network, CGTN, to discuss the Sandy Hook Massacre, which may have been used as propaganda by the communist state to cover up a mass stabbing of children. In addition, The Tea Leaf Nation online magazine, which analyzes social media in China, found that "particularly vexing to observers was mainstream media’s following evident marching orders to downplay the Chinese tragedy in service of emphasizing the Newtown massacre, followed by local Guangshan government’s unwillingness to cooperate with an increasingly inquisitive press," according to a report by the Miami Herald. ATF Agents Corroborate Existence of Racial Complaint Against Biden Director Nominee, Fear Reprisals and Hit to Agency Effectiveness Stephen Gutowski July 28, 2021 3:08 pm Multiple ATF sources back up the existence of a complaint alleging President Biden’s nominee to lead ATF, David Chipman, made racist comments during his previous stint at the agency. The agents, who have decades of experience at the agency, told The Reload they heard the accusation that Chipman denigrated black ATF agents up for promotion. The officials said they heard about Chipman’s alleged comments before they were referenced in a recent lawsuit seeking the release of the complaint. “He made some comments that he was surprised by the number of African Americans who have made it onto a specific promotional list,” a current ATF official told The Reload. “So, his insinuation was that they had to have cheated. Which is kind of despicable.” A former ATF agent who worked directly with Chipman said he heard the same story. “That one had to do with what’s called the assessment center, which would be to get promoted,’ the former agent told The Reload. “Somebody would have had to file a complaint against him if he were a supervisor making those statements.” The current ATF official said the allegation ended his time in Detroit. “He left Detroit because of that,” he said. “He did not leave Detroit on the best of terms. His reputation was that he was not nice to people.” The details of the story told by the agents closely match those outlined in a Daily Caller News Foundation interview with Tom Jones, the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) president, on one of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaints being sought by his group. That Freedom of Information Act lawsuit alleges there were two EEOC complaints filed against Chipman. One of those complaints relates to comments Chipman made implying black agents could not have performed as well as they did on a promotions assessment. Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) asked Chipman about the complaints in written questions for the nominee. Chipman admitted the complaints existed but did not reveal their contents and said, “both complaints were resolved without any finding of discrimination, and no disciplinary action was taken against me,” according to Fox News. The details of the racist comments Chipman is accused of making had not been corroborated before now. The Reload has not been able to verify the veracity of the allegation Chipman made racist remarks, only that the allegation exists and was known to some agents before the filing of the AAF lawsuit. Jones said the Senate should force the complaints to be made public. “The Senate must refuse to move on Chipman’s nomination until these hidden files are made public,” he said in a statement. “The Senate cannot ignore possible charges of racism.” April Langwell, chief of the ATF’s Public Affairs Division, told The Reload the agency “cannot comment on nominees” and referred questions on the complaint and lawsuit to the White House and Department of Justice. The White House and DOJ did not respond to a request for comment. A third longtime agent, Rick Vasquez, said he hadn’t heard the specific allegation but confirmed Chipman was reassigned to the Detroit office after nobody else would take the job. He described it as a troubled office with a history of washing out supervisors. “He got sent to Detroit against his will,” he said. “I know that. Detroit has always been a mess.” Concerns Over Effectiveness Vasquez also worked with Chipman during his time at the agency. Like the other former agent, he said his personal interactions with Chipman had been positive. He said decisions made by President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland are more important to the overall direction the ATF takes than who the director is. Still, he said the agency needs leadership after a string of short-term acting directors—though he doesn’t believe Chipman will be confirmed due to “absolutely stupid, asinine” comments about AR-15s and his inability to define what an “assault weapon” is during his confirmation hearing, despite wanting to ban the guns. “I watched his confirmation hearing, and I just said, ‘What in the hell?’ I thought he would have prepared himself for some of these questions,” he said. “But ATF is in a mess. They need a supervisor in there. The relationship with ATF in the industry is probably the lowest it has ever been.” They said Chipman’s reputation for being an anti-gun activist, earned after years of working for some of the most prominent gun-control groups in the country, would impact how closely licensed gun dealers are willing to work with the agency. And that could hinder its ability to put away gun traffickers. “A large number of ATF cases come from legitimate gun dealers, who see what they believe to be criminal activity,” the current agent said. “They see what they believe to be a straw purchase, or we’ve had countless cases referred to us where there’ll be a gun show, they’re selling in accordance with their license, they’re following the rules, and they’ll see someone selling where it’s clearly someone who’s abusing the law. I can’t even tell you how many countless cases we’ve gotten that way. So, to have someone come in who potentially could jeopardize that relationship is really concerning to most of the folks who are actually working cases. Those relationships help us put bad people in jail, which in turn, helps us keep the public safe.” The former agent noted that ATF needs a good relationship with licensed dealers because the agency isn’t getting real-time information about gun sales. “There’s no system that alerts ATF,” he said. “The person who has to alert us is that licensed dealer. If they don’t pick up the phone and call us, we’ll never know.” The agents said an ATF director doesn’t have to be a cheerleader for the industry or treat gun dealers with a light touch to be successful, but purposely creating an adversarial relationship would make building connections with the dealers who tip them off to potential criminals much harder. “We have to have that relationship,” the former agent said. “And how could you have a director who’s clearly anti-gun? You don’t have to be pro-gun, but you can’t have an anti-gun activist going after quote ‘bad dealers’ and who’s targeting the industry. That is going to have a chilling effect.” “It’s a delicate balance, and he’s gonna come in and upset that balance,” the current agent said. “Well, it affects us greatly. It affects our abilities to go out there and do our job. And all to score political points?” Reprisal Fears The former and current ATF officials who asked to have their identities withheld said they also worried about reprisals if Chipman is confirmed. “The concern with him is he’s got a reputation for being a bully,” the current official said. “And he also has a pretty well-founded reputation for being an activist when it comes to gun control.” The agents worry Chipman will surround himself with other gun-control supporters instead of building a team with diverse viewpoints. They expressed concern he might even punish agents he doesn’t believe are on board with his vision by reassigning them to far-flung posts. “If you’re not going to march to the beat of his drum, there is a concern that you’ll wind up somewhere,” the current agent said. “It’s not like when you work for a local police department where you find yourself in a new precinct on the other side of town. Here, you can find yourself in another part of the country or, even worse, on an island in one of our territories. That means uprooting your family, taking your kids out of school, and things like that.” Concerns Over His Credibility Inside the Agency Chipman is also outside of the norm for an ATF agent, they said. ATF employees, especially field agents, tend to be gun enthusiasts themselves, and most view their job as stopping violent crime rather than instituting restrictive gun-control measures. “The reality is we have a bad reputation,’ the current agent said. “And part of it is because it helps to drum up membership in certain organizations that think the boogie man is coming to get you guys. I get it. We all get it. I’ve been doing this for over 20 years. Almost every agent I’ve ever worked with is pretty apolitical. They take great pride in not being hyper-partisan. So, he’s the exact opposite of what most of us are. And he’s one of only two ATF agents I’ve ever met in my entire life who I perceived to be anti-gun. Most of them are actually quite fond of firearms; they’re just not fond of firearms in the hands of violent criminals. But he has shown a propensity to be anti-gun.” All three agents also expressed surprise at Chipman’s turn from ATF agent to gun-control activist. The current agent described his views, which include new gun bans stricter than those supported by Senate gun-control champion Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) and removing gun-carry protections for retired police officers, as “extreme” and his demeanor “unsettling.” Those who worked with him said his views on guns appeared to change after he left the agency. “Those positions didn’t materialize when he was at ATF,” Vasquez said. “I never saw that working for him. He supported me and supported the industry. And the industry loved it.” “He was a decent guy, treated me decently,” the other former agent said. “What’s happened to him since? He’s gotten whacked. I have no idea where any of this is coming from.” Two of the agents also said Chipman had never actually worked a field case while at the ATF. And, even those who worked with him have a hard time figuring him out. “We have a few guys on my job that everybody hates,” the former agent said. “You have a few guys on my job that everybody loves. And you have guys who are in the middle. Chipman, you can’t get a read on anyway. I don’t know if he ever wrote a case. When I’m talking to my folks everyone’s scratching their head like he’s this Manchurian Candidate. No one can even nail down who knows him, who hung out with him, who he was buds with. “That’s what scares the shit out of me. There’s so much more that we don’t know.”
Taliban Immediately Moves To Confiscate Firearms From Civilians https://summit.news/2021/08/17/taliban-immediately-moves-to-confiscate-firea... https://twitter.com/RealSpikeCohen/status/1427329127514845190 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-afghan-capital-kabul-star... In what has now become a familiar historical trend, one of the Taliban’s first acts after the militant group took Afghanistan was to confiscate firearms owned by civilians. Reuters reports that Taliban fighters in Kabul quickly set about collecting weapons from civilians because “people no longer need them for personal protection.” “We understand people kept weapons for personal safety. They can now feel safe. We are not here to harm innocent civilians,” said a Taliban official. “Give us your guns. We will protect you.” – Every government that is about to commit mass murder ever,” remarked Spike Cohen. "Give us your guns. We will protect you." - Every government that is about to commit mass murder ever pic.twitter.com/GyqUAnDgvX — Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) August 16, 2021 According to Saad Mohseni, director of the MOBY group media company, Taliban militants visited his compound in Kabul to ask about weapons owned by his security team. As we highlighted earlier, the Pentagon appears clueless as to how to keep advanced weaponry the U.S. sent to Afghanistan out of Taliban hands. The common historical theme of militant or dictatorial regimes seizing guns to ensure a monopoly on force is one reason why Americans are so protective of the Second Amendment. Joe Biden has predictably tried to dilute the right to bear arms during his early months in office, asserting that “no amendment to the Constitution is absolute” while calling gun control a “public health issue” as he attempts to ban “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines.
Taliban Immediately Moves To Confiscate Firearms From Civilians
Democrats Immediately Move To Ban Sharing 3D-Printed Gun Blueprints Online Massive Onslaught against Freedom Of Speech, Computer Code, Crypto[currency], 2ndA, Distributed Networks and Filesharing, etc. Just the way these retards want to have it. Remember kids, Freedom comes for free with Menendez Mags! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7gvBtpg1tg Democrat Bill Would Ban 3D Printing Firearm Schematics https://www.theepochtimes.com/democratic-bill-would-ban-3d-printing-firearm-... https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3DGuns-PInj.pdf https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GhostGuns-9CA.pdf https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-markey-and-menend... Sen. Ed Markey’s (D-Mass.) little-known 3D Printed Gun Safety Act (S. 2319) would criminalize sharing firearm schematics for 3D printers online. 3D printing describes a process that allows people to “print” 3D models for various items. These models range from small tools, art projects, and shapes up to functional firearms. Critics of the practice have called these 3D-printed firearms “ghost guns” because they lack serial numbers and are difficult for law enforcement to trace. Despite their relative novelty, 3D-printed firearms have a rich legal history. In 2018, Congress passed the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA), a foreign policy bill designed to restrict enemies’ access to U.S.-made munitions. In March 2020, 22 states argued that 3D firearm schematics violated ECRA because they were accessible to foreign enemies. They brought suit against Defense Distributed (D.D.), a firm that provided schematics for 3D firearms. The plaintiffs argued that these schematics would cause them “irreparable injury.” Seattle District Judge Robert Lasnik agreed and issued an injunction against D.D. (pdf). The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case again this year on Apr. 27. The panel concluded in a split decision that courts had no say in the matter, asserting that “Congress expressly precluded judicial review … here,” and overturned the injunction against D.D. (pdf). After this decision, the Justice Department proposed new regulations on 3D-printed guns. First, retailers would be required to run a background check on customers before selling kits containing necessary materials to print a firearm. Second, kits would be required to include a serial number on the frame or the receiver to make them more traceable. Finally, firearms dealers would be mandated to add a serial number to any guns they bought that did not have one. Markey’s S.2319 would concretize federal rules against the distribution of 3D gun files. The bill alleges that these schematics “increase the risk that … felons, domestic abusers, and other people prohibited from possessing firearms under Federal law, will obtain a firearm through 3D printing.” Because these 3D guns are not traceable, S.2319 says, they are appealing to criminals. S.2319 goes on to warn that such schematics “threaten to undermine the entire Federal firearms regulatory scheme and to endanger public safety and national security.” To address this alleged risk, the bill would make it “unlawful for any person to intentionally distribute … code that can automatically program a 3-dimensional printer or similar device to produce a firearm or complete a firearm from an unfinished frame or receiver.” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) joined Markey in introducing the bill in the Senate. In a press release, Markey said of the bill: “With no background check required, untraceable and undetectable 3D printed guns serve as the ultimate gun-acquisition loophole. With the click of a mouse, anyone can download a computer file and use a 3D printer to manufacture a semi-automatic weapon. We cannot allow the online availability of downloadable firearms to add fuel to the fire that already is a massive gun violence public safety crisis.” Menendez expressed the same concerns, saying: “With the click of a mouse, anyone with an internet connection and a 3D printer essentially has a license to print, shoot and kill. Undetectable and untraceable 3D-printed guns allow criminals to circumvent law enforcement and commit crimes. That’s why we must close the ‘3D Gun Loophole’ that allows dangerous individuals to exploit gaps in existing law to manufacture firearms at home they cannot otherwise legally obtain.” s.2319 currently has 27 Democrat co-sponsors in the Senate. As of Monday, it remains in the Judiciary Committee. Still, with so many sponsors in the Senate, it is possible that Democrats may try to move the little-known bill out of committee for floor debate at some point. Even with the numerical Democratic majority, it would face a tough battle. Earlier this year, moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) said that he opposed Democratic gun control legislation in the House. If Manchin were to defect and join Republicans, then the bill would not pass without a Republican taking Manchin’s place and joining Democrats. However, passing Congress would only be the first step for S.2319. Afterward, it would doubtless face legal challenges from D.D. and gun rights advocacy groups like Gun Owners of America. In an interview with The Epoch Times, a spokesman for the Libertarian Party criticized the bill as impractical. He asked, “How would [the government] even enforce this law?” Later, he answered his own question, saying that “It would require Soviet- and CCP- levels of control [over citizens’ lives].” He also referenced litigation revolving around the issue of 3D schematics and doubted in the wake of this litigation that the bill could survive the courts. He referenced several cases and government settlements revolving around the issue. In August 2017, D.D. sued the State Department and asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case against it. D.D. claimed that the State Department barring their right to distribute 3D schematics online constituted a violation of the First Amendment. Though the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, the State Department eventually reached a settlement with D.D. that gave the firm a license to publish the schematics and a cash payment of $40,000. Heather Nauert, a spokesman for the State Department, said in a press conference that the agency agreed to this decision because “We were informed that we … have likely lost this case in court … on First Amendment grounds.” In 1996, the Ninth Circuit Appellate Court ruled that source code was protected under the First Amendment (Bernstein v. U.S.). Because schematics like those provided by D.D. are a type of source code, standing U.S. law would prohibit restrictions like those found in S.2319. Thus, the law would raise criticisms as a violation of the First Amendment. And indeed, the law’s authors had a preconception of this risk. The final clause in Sec. 3 of the bill says that “by making illegal the distribution of certain computer code that can be used … [to] create firearms … Congress seeks not to regulate the rights of computer programmers under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, but rather to curb the pernicious effects of untraceable … firearms.” Though the Supreme Court has refused to take the case in the past, it’s almost inevitable that S.2319 would go before the highest court if this legislation were passed. The result would be a huge landmark for gun control advocates if the Supreme Court upheld the law and a huge landmark for gun rights groups if the law were struck down. Either way, the legislation will have long-lasting national consequences if it is passed by Congress and signed into law.
https://themachinegunnest.com/whats-going-on-with-gun-control-right-now-in-2... What is Going on With Gun Control Right Now in 2021? "Puzzle Pieces All Laid Out" - How ATF Has Plan To Classify Semi-Automatic Rifles As "Machine Guns" Op-Ed via The Machine Gun Nest (TMGN). Just a general warning. The statements presented may start to sound like a conspiracy theory, but I promise you, dear reader, it is not. There's been much talk at the range recently about the new proposed gun control by the Biden Administration. Many people are perplexed. We get a ton of questions, emails, and phone calls asking, "Will this affect me?", "What can I do?", "Why are they doing this?" among others. I want to answer these questions as best as I can. We've been in the firearms industry here at TMGN since 2013 and have had a shop & range since 2015, so we've seen tons of changes from different administrations. There is a clear agenda here, and I'm reasonably sure most gun owners are going to be a little unhappy with the information I'm about to deliver. So, I guess the main question to answer first would be, how did we get here? Right now, we're looking at two (maybe more, who knows what the future holds) rule changes coming from the Biden DOJ and the ATF. These rule changes are an example of the Biden Admin governing by executive fiat, as they know they don't have the votes in the Senate to pass any of their gun control agenda. But let's unpack this. This situation is a culmination of events starting way back. Also, before we start, for the sake of those new to firearms (statistics show 9 million people bought their first gun in 2020 alone), many more in 2021. To those of you, we say welcome!) Let me do some quick-term definitions and give some critical context. NFA (National Firearms Act): The National Firearms Act of 1936. The NFA was the first major federal gun control act in American history. The NFA created a tax and registry for Suppressors (sometimes called silencers), Short Barrel Rifles & Shotguns (referred to as SBRs / SBSs respectively), and Machine Guns. If you wanted to own any of these items, you'd have to submit to a lengthy background check and pay a $200 tax. (Equivalent to $4400 in 1934) In return, you'd receive what's known as a "tax stamp" showing that you were approved to own any of these "NFA items". FFL: Federal Firearms License, shortened to FFL is used interchangeably to refer to a Firearms licensee aka a Dealer, or the physical License that is given by the federal government for the ability to manufacture firearms and/or to sell them. FFLs are overseen by the ATF. ATF Form 4473: The main form that people are required to fill out when purchasing a firearm. FFLs are required to hold this form on site for 20 years. The forms are used in the event a firearm is used in a crime, the ATF can "run a trace" on that firearm and figure out who it was last transferred to. NICS: The National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The NICS conducts background checks on people who want to own a firearm or explosive, as required by law. When a person tries to buy a firearm, the seller, known as a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL), contacts NICS electronically or by phone. The prospective buyer fills out the ATF form 4473, and the FFL relays that information to the NICS. The NICS staff performs a background check on the buyer. That background check verifies the buyer does not have a criminal record or isn't otherwise ineligible to purchase or own a firearm. 1968 Gun Control Act: The creation of the system that we all know today. The GCA created the FFL system, banned mail-order guns, and more. This law has been updated a few times, most notably in 1993 with the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which created the NICS system we use today. The GCA replaced and updated the Federal Firearms Act, an older provision enacted in 1938. 2008 Heller Decision: In DC V Heller, the supreme court ruled that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, unconnected with service in a militia, and use that firearm for traditionally lawful purposes. Before this, gun control advocates argued that the 2nd Amendment had more to do with state militias than individual firearm ownership. With this decision, the Supreme court said that view was incorrect. Stabilizing Brace: Sometimes called a pistol brace. A Device designed to help shooters with limited mobility stabilize their firearm more easily. Attached to the rear of a gun, usually equipped with straps or some way to allow the shooter to use their forearm to help stabilize the firearm while shooting. Bump Stock: Bump fire stocks are gun stocks that are specially designed to make bump firing easier, which assist semi-automatic firearms with somewhat mimicking the firing motion of fully automatic weapons but does not make the firearm automatic. Essentially, bump stocks assist rapid fire by "bumping" the trigger against one's finger (as opposed to one's finger pulling on the trigger) thus allowing the firearm's recoil, plus constant forward pressure by the non-shooting arm, to actuate the trigger. Ghost Gun: Made up term to make "homemade firearm." It's made to sound scary to those with little firearms knowledge. It has been common practice for people to build their guns. It's also perfectly legal to do and has been for years, contrary to what corporate media outlets would like you to believe. If you make a firearm in your house for personal use, it's legal and does not have to be serialized or registered. Although it still must conform to Federal firearms law and not violate the NFA. So, where do we start? The United States has a long history of gun control. But let's not be complete pessimists here. On the bright side, the ability to carry a pistol concealed for self-defense has been significantly expanded in recent years and has been trending towards fewer restrictions nationwide since 1976 when Georgia established the "Shall issue" process we have today. (Shall issue is when you are guaranteed a permit should you complete the state's process for acquiring said permit. whether that means taking a class or paying a fee. Inversely, States like Maryland and California use a process called "May Issue" where even if you complete the requirements for obtaining a permit, the state must still deem your "reason" for having said permit to be permissible. This has been declared unconstitutional in D.C. but that's a story for a different time.) What is ironic here is that if you were to look at crime statistics, most crimes committed with a firearm, said firearm is a handgun. Why? It's simple. Criminals prefer smaller, more concealable firearms. It's hard to conceal an AR15, regardless of barrel length. Ironically when anti pistol legislation is proposed, it's much harder for the government to pass. So, the anti-gun lobby has (for now) given up on the issue. Instead, they've targeted the scary-looking modern sporting rifles of today. Most notably, the AR15. However, their aim does extend to most semi-automatic rifles that accept a detachable box magazine. Now that we've established what they're after, let's talk about the events leading up to today. On the evening of October 1st, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire upon the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. He killed 60 people and wounded 411. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States. Paddock was able to achieve high rates of fire with a device known as a bump stock. President Donald Trump ordered his Justice Department to find a way to ban the bump stock. The DOJ decided to classify the bump stock device as a machine gun in December of 2018, going into effect in March 2019. Since the only legal way to own a machine gun is to have a registered one on the NFA before 1986, bump stocks were effectively made illegal, and anyone in possession of one would be subject to 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. The problem here is that a bump stock isn't a machine gun. It's not even a firearm at all. It's a piece of molded plastic that uses the gun's recoil, discharging a round to "bump" the trigger. It does not guarantee automatic fire, nor does it modify a semi-automatic rifle and "convert" it to full auto. The firearm itself would remain semi-automatic, and the bump stock would allow the user to fire faster, using the force of the recoil. Most gun owners weren't up in arms over the bump stock ban. Public opinion of the ban was positive. More comments supported the proposed rule change on the federal register than opposed it—a rare thing for gun control. Many gun owners viewed bump stocks as a novelty and wrote it off entirely. The issue, though, was much more complex. It had little to do with the bump stock itself and much more to do with reclassifying an item that was not a firearm itself under the NFA and effectively banning it with no recourse for gun owners. Fast forward to 2020. In May, the ATF announced it was changing its 4473 form. The form change would go into effect in November of 2020. Most gun owners are familiar with this form, even if they don't know it by name. It's the form that is filled out anytime that you purchase a firearm from a firearms dealer. It holds all the information of the individual looking to buy a gun before the FFL performs a background check through the federal NICS system. "Why is a simple form change relevant?" you might ask. Well, the ATF did update the form itself. But the ATF also changed the layout of the form dramatically. Before the change, the ATF had all the personal information for the individual filling out the form on the first page. The firearm information was located on a separate page. The change moved the buyer's information and the firearm information (serial number, make, model, and more) to the first page. Here's where we get into speculation a bit, but I promise, there's a reason for it. I believe that the ATF is setting up for eventually keeping a digital database of 4473s. They are currently forbidden to do this by law. The only way that they're legally allowed to keep physical 4473 forms is at one of their facilities in Martinsburg, WV. That facility is so full of paperwork that recently, the floor just caved in. What's also important to know is that 4473 forms can (and should) be destroyed by dealers after 20 years. That means that the ATF will never keep those forms on file. Good FFLs do this. The only way for the ATF to acquire 4473 documents is if an FFL goes out of business, closes, or loses their license, they will need to turn over the forms that have not yet hit the 20 year mark. The ATF doesn't like this. So eventually, I'm sure we'll see a push for the ATF to digitize their data collection (hence the change to the 4473 form, as digitizing forms becomes much easier with all critical data on the first page). A quick side note here is that the government should never know what firearms you own. It's your constitutional right to own firearms. The same way it's your constitutional right to speak your mind. You wouldn't want the FBI to keep a database of your text messages, would you? Same concept. We also know from history that keeping a database of firearms owner information eventually leads to a registry. Gun registries ALWAYS precede confiscation. If you look at history, this is always the case. It's better to not allow for a registry so that confiscation cannot occur because doing even light research on what happens to disarmed populations is a scary thing. So let's continue with what's going on currently. In Nov. of 2020, Joe Biden won the Presidential election. During his campaign, he had been known for extra inflammatory statements on gun control. Saying, "Yes, I'm coming for your assault weapon" and associating himself with Robert-Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, promising to nominate him as Gun Czar. Robert-Francis had famously said during a debate, "Hell yes, we're coming for your AR15." When speaking to union workers at a campaign stop, he told a worker who asked him about his gun control plans: "we'll take your AR14s away". On December 18th, 2020, the ATF announced that it was planning to treat pistol braces as stocks and felt that they were being used to skirt the NFA and create unregistered Short Barrel Rifles. Gun owners came out in droves to comment on the Federal Register. A mere five days later, the ATF withdrew the pending rule change. In 2021 things were quiet for the start of the year, President Biden primarily focusing on infrastructure, coronavirus, and taxes. That is until April 7th, 2021, when he held a press conference, announcing six actions that Biden is taking on gun control. The Justice Dept. will make a rule to "help stop the proliferation of ghost guns." The DOJ will, after that, issue a rule about stabilizing braces. The DOJ will publish model "Red Flag" legislation for states. Biden will nominate David Chipman to serve as the Director of the ATF. The DOJ will issue an annual report on firearms trafficking. The Biden admin is investing in "evidence-based" community violence interventions. At that moment, there was little information about any of the incoming rules. The only clear thing was that Biden's nominee for the ATF would be David Chipman. David Chipman is a current gun-control activist and ex-ATF agent for those of you who don't know. For all the Biden campaign sloganeering on "Healing a Divided Nation," David Chipman has turned out to be one of the most divisive nominees yet, and one who has a clear ideological bias. We know that David Chipman has a bias because during his confirmation hearings in May of 2021, He stated that he "supports a ban on AR15 style rifles." He also has written numerous articles and made many public statements on his opposition to Americans owning firearms. One of the most important things to know about David Chipman is that in 2017 he wrote an article for Giffords called "Legal and Lethal – 9 Products That Could Be the Next Bump Stock". In the article, he speaks about how Congress must take action and ban things like High-Capacity Shotguns, AK & AR Style pistols, AR Pistol Arm Braces, 50 Caliber Rifles, Muzzleloaders, and more. Shortly after David Chipman's hearing, the DOJ announced its rule on "Ghost Guns." Of course, It covers more than just people making firearms in their homes. The ATF decided firearm parts now need to be classified as firearms. Therefore, those parts need to have their background check done at the time of purchase. Their reason is that the gun control act of 1968 hasn't been updated. At the time of writing, the GCA didn't account for all the different parts that citizens could purchase separately. It's estimated that if you took the average AR15 and applied this rule, the AR15 would have 12 or more regulated parts that would require a background check. Meaning that if you buy an AR15, under this new rule, you'd be buying 12 different legal firearms built into one legal firearm. Make sense? I don't think so. If you know anything about the history of the 1968 GCA, you know this is a total fabrication. A law prior called the Federal Firearms Act, which DID regulate parts, was replaced by the 1968 GCA. Congress found regulating firearm parts to be an "unworkable solution" and decided to regulate firearms by "frame or receiver," not multiple parts. The ATF is also looking to classify items that they feel are "readily assembled" into firearms themselves. The definition of this is extremely unclear. My guess is that they are targeting 80% kits. 80% Kits are uncompleted firearm receivers in an 80% done state, meaning that legally they aren't considered firearms. The purchaser can complete these firearms themselves at home with some significant work, depending upon the kit and type of receiver. These kits are typically popular with hobbyists, not so much with criminals. Lastly, this little lost detail that may be the most important of all: 4473 forms must be held INDEFINITELY by FFL holders, which means that FFLs can no longer destroy 4473 forms after 20 years. Now here we are at the latest announcement, the ATF's proposed rule on stabilizing braces. On June 7th, 2021, the ATF announced its proposed rule change for "factoring criteria for firearms with attached stabilizing braces." What they've done is create an overly complicated worksheet to ban all firearms with braces attached to them. The proposed rule change goes like this: If your handgun has a brace on it, the ATF has a worksheet that determines if that brace, in its configuration on your pistol, creates a "short barrel rifle." (Defined as a firearm with a stock and a barrel length of under 16 inches.) Essentially, the ATF thinks that people are using braces to skirt the NFA and create short barrel rifles without paying the tax and registering their guns on the NFA registry. So, they've made the most complicated worksheet imaginable, named Worksheet 4999, to figure this out. The worksheet takes things into account like weight, length of pull, optic or scope on your pistol, and use two hands to fire the gun (which all people do even when shooting non-braced firearms) many more criteria if you score too high, oops! You have an illegal firearm. Probably the most egregious thing about Worksheet 4999 and the proposed rule change is that at the top of the sheet, there's a disclaimer that essentially allows the ATF agent to deem your firearm as an illegal SBR regardless of if you pass the worksheet criteria and they feel that you are trying to circumvent the NFA. So even if you pass the worksheet, your agent may decide they feel like you've violated the law, and unfortunately, this rule change gives them the power to do so. So, where does this all come together? It's obvious when you look at what's happened and what's been proposed where the Biden admin is headed for gun control. They are testing the waters right now with these two proposed rule changes, but I guarantee this is not the end. These current ideas have been taken right from the David Chipman "Legal and Lethal" playbook. There's a part where Chipman writes this about semi-automatic rifles: "The danger posed by firearms that enable shooters to continue firing in this manner is the same reason Congress chose to include machine guns in the NFA when it was originally enacted: these weapons enable a shooter to fire many bullets very quickly. Semi-automatic firearms equipped with large-capacity magazines do not, however, fall under the NFA. The NFA refers to machine guns as those firearms that discharge more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. Firearms developed since the NFA and equipped with large capacity magazines rarely require manual reloading, but they can expel a lot of ammunition in a brief period. They do so by allowing a trigger to be pulled many times very easy and ensuring that there is almost always another bullet ready to go. Despite this, large-capacity magazines and semi-automatic firearms equipped with them (sometimes called "assault weapons") are not regulated under the NFA, even though they pose an incredible danger to our communities." Take note here of Chipman's idea that any semi-automatic rifle that can accept a "high-capacity magazine," which I would assume is a magazine above ten rounds, is essentially a machine gun because they don't need to be reloaded as often. We should look to this article as essentially the playbook that the ATF will take in the future. They are words right from the potential Director's own thoughts. What potentially makes this situation more sinister is that they have the legal precedence to do so because of the bump stock ban. On top of that, the ATF's next move of indefinite holds on 4473s, and the eventual argument for moving to a digital system means that you can bet that there will at some point be a push for a registry of who owns what. As I said, it sounds like a conspiracy. The puzzle pieces are all laid out in front of you. It's our duty as gun owners to fight back and secure our rights. We all need to leave comments on both proposed rule changes. Even if you're a defeatist that doesn't think that the comments will dissuade the ATF from stomping on your rights, keep in mind that groups will use your comments like Firearms Policy Coalition and Gun Owners of America to sue the ATF immediately should these changes take place. This article has been a longer piece than usual, but I hope it's helped you understand where we are today with gun rights. In the time it took you to read this article, you could have commented on both proposed rule changes, so please make your way to regulations.gov and make your voice heard!
David Hogg's Anti-Gun Campaign 'Fades Into Darkness' As Millennials Embrace Second Amendment https://themachinegunnest.com/blog/ https://twitter.com/SanctuaryCounty/status/1406765385479774218 https://www.newsweek.com/americans-under-30-have-rapidly-turned-against-gun-... https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/trend-has-flipped-millennials-are-act... https://sanctuarycounties.com/2021/06/20/more-than-61-of-american-counties-a... I don't have Twitter. If I did have Twitter, I'd only be following Bitcoin and meme stocks. I feel sorry for those constantly exposed to the political opinions of 14-year-old children amplified by their usefulness to "the narrative." The Argentinian Philosopher Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche surmised that the world is in turmoil because people don't know where their thoughts originate. The opinions of others enter their heads, and those people feel like the thoughts are their own. Not realizing that they've been programmed. David Hogg is one of those people on Twitter who I'm glad is slowly fading into irrelevancy. He's a professional anti-gun activist (with armed bodyguards, of course.) He's one of the founding members of the March for Our Lives organization, a non-profit almost entirely propped up by donations from the top 1% of the country and billionaires like Michael Bloomberg. Recently, Hogg has been on a tweetstorm, and it's caught headlines in the firearms media world. Here's what he had to say: Ask yourselves in the history books we will write about you how do you want to be remembered? Weak and corrupt people that worked to protect people like the 19 year old that killed my classmates and teachers OR as people that protect our kids and teachers right to not be shot? — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) September 24, 2021 You can practically see the mental pat on the back that he's giving himself while writing the tweet. But immaturity isn't necessarily the point here. Although Hogg himself is insufferable, this is also how he makes his living. Saying ridiculous things on the internet as bait for others to react keeps him from fading into irrelevancy. I want to take a second to address David Hogg and respond to this tweet. I'm assuming that he thinks that he's speaking for young people in general, or maybe young liberals. Either way, I believe that he's first wrong (read: "The Trend Has Flipped: Millennials Are Actually Buying Guns") to assume he's in the majority and second, naive to think that people don't have differing political views from himself—especially young people. I'm 28 years old. I grew up with Liberal baby-boomer parents and am a product of the early 2000s. I had school shooter drills in high school, bomb threats, and more. I am staunchly pro-gun. Many more people my age are as well. Interestingly, younger people are increasingly opposed to gun control, with the percentage of people under 30 that support stricter gun laws dropping from 65% to 45% since 2018. Gun owners are incredibly diverse. Young and old, people of all cultures, races, and political opinions own firearms. I'm not sure if there's anything that supersedes cultural and political divides, like the right to own a gun. And if the recent surge in gun buying (read: here & here) has shown us anything, when the chips are down, and it's time to take self-defense seriously- people who were once opposed to guns buy guns. We experienced a ton of that firsthand here at TMGN. Nationwide more than 9 million people became first-time gun owners in 2020 and 2021, which continues to rise. Now, you probably already know this but March for Our Lives is not a grassroots organization. Major million-dollar donations almost entirely fund it. Only 0.5% of their entire revenue is from donations totaling less than $5,000. Some real journalists looked at the group's 990 tax form showing that out of the $18.6M that March for Our Lives collected in donations during 2018, $17.8M came from about 74 people donating between $5000.00 and $3,504,717.00. So, David Hogg would like us to believe that there's some army of young progressive anti-gun voters out there looking to wipe away these evil old boomers (who are some of the most prominent supporters of gun control, ironically). Yet, his entire organization is mainly supported by 78 wealthy donors. (If you dive into the data, 36 donors made donations between $100,000 and $3.5M, so maybe it's just 36 people who support Hogg). Here's the thing, since the Heller decision in 2008, gun rights have been rapidly expanding. The landscape isn't what it was in the 1990s. AR15s are no longer weird, quirky firearms that a few hobbyists own; they're recognized as modern-day muskets. The right to carry a concealed firearm has been significantly expanded since the 1980s, and every day more and more young people get into the sport of shooting and exercise their 2nd Amendment right. David Hogg should come to try firearms for himself; he might just change his mind. The recent gun-buying craze sparked by the pandemic and social unrest has begun to truly express younger Americans and minorities and women's Second Amendment rights like never before. These new gun owners are also across all political spectrums and suggest Hogg's movement is fading into the darkness. * * * One thing that David Hogg and liberal media don't want you to see is the massive surge in Second Amendment sanctuaries at the state, county, and local levels. More than 61% of American Counties are Now Second Amendment Sanctuaries https://t.co/vm5gkNmBqg — Sanctuary Counties (@SanctuaryCounty) June 21, 2021
JPMorgan Blocked From Texas Muni-Bond Market Over Anti-Gun Virtue-Signaling https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=SB19 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-30/jpmorgan-says-texas-gun-l... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/texas-advances-bill-targe... Following Texas lawmakers' decision to ban local government from working with Wall Street banks whose policies restrict the firearms industry, it appears JPMorgan is the first of the virtue-signaling banks to feel the pinch from the new law. Earlier this year, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told a Congressional committee that his bank won’t finance gun companies that make military-style weapons for consumers. In May, the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill that would block the state and local governments from contracting with banks and other financial-services companies that have policies that limit their work for the firearms or ammunition industries. The legislation reflected 2nd Amendment rights supporters' furore over corporations pushing themselves into the increasingly divisive policies of America’s identity-politics wars. And now, as Bloomberg reports, the first impact of the law is hitting Wall Street. This week, JPMorgan was replaced by UBS as the underwriter of a bond issue for the Decatur authority, an arm of a 7,000-person Texas city that operates Wise Health System. In July, the agency had disclosed that it was planning to have JPMorgan serve as senior managing underwriter on a financing that could include the sale of up to $150 million of bonds. The authority cited “uncertainty related to the implementation of new legislation passed by the State of Texas,” though it didn’t specify which law. Texas’ fast-growing population has made it one of the biggest markets for the muni-bond business and more troubling for the banks in general is the fact that Texas-based issuers accounted for $58 billion of debt sales in 2020, the second-most of any state behind California, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. JPMorgan was credited with working on $3.6 billion of long-term municipal-bond deals in Texas in 2020, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Now that's a lot of fees that JPMorgan, BofA, and Citi will be missing out on from here: “While our business practices should permit us to certify, the legal risk associated with this ambiguous law prevents us from bidding on most business right now with Texas public entities,” Patricia Wexler, a spokesperson for the bank, said in an emailed statement. Three words summed it all up to us - broke banks mounting!
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Unusual that Govts would both deny themselves any chance at extorting a tax, and allow guns... Illinois Supreme Court Rules Tax On Guns & Ammo Unconstitutional https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/illinois-supreme-court-rules-... https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/09/94/11626108/cookcounty_gun_tax... The Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Oct. 21 that two taxes on guns and ammunition in Cook County violate the state’s constitution because they affect law-abiding citizens’ Second Amendment right to acquire firearms for self-defense. TINLEY PARK, IL - OCTOBER 18: Pistols are offered for sale at Freddie Bear Sports on October 18, 2012 in Tinley Park, Illinois. Facing a $267.5 million fiscal 2013 budget gap Supreme Court Justice Mary Jane Theis wrote in a 6–0 decision that the taxes violate the constitution’s uniformity clause, while also pointing out that the revenue from the generated tax isn’t directed toward funds or programs that reduce gun violence. “While the taxes do not directly burden a law-abiding citizen’s right to use a firearm for self-defense, they do directly burden a law-abiding citizen’s right to acquire a firearm and the necessary ammunition for self-defense,” Theis wrote in a 14-page opinion (pdf) filed on Thursday. “Under the plain language of the ordinances, the revenue generated from the firearm tax is not directed to any fund or program specifically related to curbing the cost of gun violence,” she noted. “Additionally, nothing in the ordinance indicates that the proceeds generated from the ammunition tax must be specifically directed to initiatives aimed at reducing gun violence.” The justice concluded that the case will be remanded to the circuit court “for entry of summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs.” In 2012, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved a $25 tax on the retail purchase of a firearm within the county. The county’s Firearm Tax Ordinance was enacted in April 2013. A separate county tax was enacted in 2015, which added $0.05 per cartridge for centerfire ammunition and $0.01 per cartridge for rimfire ammunition. Americans who fail to pay those taxes are subject to a $1,000 fine for the first offense and a $2,000 fine for subsequent offenses. The trade group and gun-rights organization, Guns Save Life, challenged both taxes in a lawsuit against the county, saying they violate the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. A spokesman for Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said on Thursday they are disappointed in the ruling and will work to determine the next steps.
The Supreme Showdown: Bruen Has This Makings Of A Major Second Amendment Victory https://jonathanturley.org/2021/11/02/the-supreme-showdown-bruen-has-this-ma... https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gun-rights-case-supreme-court-barrett-jonath... https://www.oyez.org/cases/2007/07-290 https://www.oyez.org/cases/2009/08-1521 https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZS.html https://casetext.com/statute/consolidated-laws-of-new-york/chapter-penal/par... On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will take up arguably the oldest and most controversial right in our history. New York State Rifle Association v. Bruen is the first major gun rights case in over ten years to come before the Supreme Court and it has the makings of a major gun rights victory in the making. The case concerns concealed-carry restrictions under N.Y. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) that require a showing of “proper cause.” Lower courts have upheld the New York law, but there are ample constitutional concerns over its vague standard, such as showing that you are “of good moral character.” New York wants to exercise discretion in deciding who needs to carry guns in public while gun owners believe that the law flips the constitutional presumption in favor of such a right. There are few constitutional rights that have been debated so long in this country as gun rights. Indeed, before other Englishmen were given a written guarantee of the right to bear arms, colonists in Virginia in 1607 were given such a written guarantee by the Crown. Since that time, the right to bear arms has been an engrained part of our culture and ultimately our Constitution. Despite that history, the meaning of the right has remained the subject of heated debate. That is evident from the fact that it was not until 2008 that the Supreme Court finally recognized the right to bear arms as an individual right in District of Columbia v. Heller. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the court ruled that this right applied against the states. This is actually the second time in two years that the New York State Rifle Association has come knocking on the door of the Supreme Court. The Association previously challenged a New York law that imposed stringent conditions on the ability of gun owners to even transport their guns outside of their homes. The law was viewed by some of us as unconstitutional under existing case law, but New York politicians insisted that it would be defended all the way up to the Supreme Court. However, when the Court called their bluff and accepted the case, those politicians quickly changed the law and pulled the case before the Court could rule. The bait-and-switch incensed members of the Court who delayed in the dismissal of the case. Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas specifically called out New York for “manipulating” the docket by withdrawing an unconstitutional law just before a final opinion. Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined in the condemnation and added menacingly that “some federal and state courts may not be properly applying Heller and McDonald. The Court should address that issue soon, perhaps in one of the several Second Amendment cases with petitions for certiorari now pending before the Court.” They ultimately did precisely that and took another case by the very same plaintiffs: the New York State Rifle Association. The current court membership is arguably the strongest Second Amendment bench in decades. That includes Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote a strong defense of the Second Amendment defense as an appellate judge. While it is always dangerous to predict outcomes before the Court, this case was accepted with a likely intent to reverse the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (which also upheld the earlier restrictive law). With lower courts chipping away at its prior precedent, the Court seems poised to push back with a case that brings greater clarity and support for the right to bear guns in public. Many Second Amendment advocates are encouraging the Court to pull back on language from Heller that has been cited mantra-like by lower courts limiting the scope of this right. Many point to the court’s statement in Heller, which acknowledged that “like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.” It then listed possible “sensitive places” for denying permits to former felons. The Court is likely to continue to recognize reasonable limitations, including possibly some location-based limits. However, it may create a clear presumption in favor of law-bidding citizens to bear arms outside of the home. The natural default under the Second Amendment in favor of gun owners is likely to be strengthened. The showdown with New York and the Second Circuit in that sense was merely delayed, but not forgotten by the Court. Ironically, the earlier law would have presented a narrower platform for reconsidering the Second Amendment. By gaming the system a year ago, New York may have delivered a far greater opportunity for Second Amendment advocates in the case. Of course, the Court could have accepted the case to simply amplify its agreement with the Second Circuit, but I would not count on it. It is like the scene in Braveheart when William Wallace said that he was going to “pick a fight” with the British when others were looking for a compromise. That came as little surprise to his main lieutenant Hamish who shrugged and added “Well, we didn’t get dressed up for nothing.”
A Distributed Capacity for Violence: A Brief History of Weapons Technology and Political Power https://ammo.com/articles/distributed-capacity-for-violence https://ammo.com/articles/us-constitution-interactive https://ammo.com/articles/founding-fathers-quotes-second-amendment-guns-keep... https://ammo.com/articles/founding-fathers-quotes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id261654474 https://ammo.com/articles/parents-guide-to-us-constitution https://ammo.com/articles/atomic-bomb-history-how-america-came-to-possess-us... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory https://ammo.com/articles/police-militarization-weapons-of-war-darpa-surveil... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_Sherman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Model_1861 https://www.army-technology.com/projects/raytheon-xos-2-exoskeleton-us/ https://ammo.com/articles/asymmetrical-warfare-4gw-americas-domestic-viet-co... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_first_use https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/cramer-the-pandemic-led-to-a-great-wealth-tr... https://ammo.com/articles/war-on-suburbs-how-hud-housing-policies-became-wea... The Constitution contains a powerful set of ideals and a wise system of governance, based on a deep reading of classical and medieval history as well as Renaissance philosophy. However, none of this matters if no system of force is in place to keep and defend the Constitution. Ultimately, this what the 2nd Amendment is about: A distributed capacity for violence guaranteed to private citizens so that they may serve as a check and balance on the power of the state. America’s Founding Fathers understood an uncomfortable truth: Behind every law is the implicit threat of force, and behind every vote is the implicit threat of rebellion. Such a bargain is what holds a free society together. And no society with a wide power imbalance remains free for very long. This truth was predicated upon the Founders classical education and their deep understanding of the power dynamics underpinning the systems of governance during the Roman Republic and Ancient Athens. The Roman Republic in particular influenced their views. Why? Because it provided not simply a template for government, but a historical warning about what can happen to a republic if precautions are not taken to ensure its survival. Thus the Constitution intentionally contained concepts like separation of powers and a system of checks and balances. These concepts were predicated upon a core truth, as eloquently stated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence: ‘Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.’” If you picture political power as a pyramid, the intention of the Founders was clear: The individual was paramount, having natural rights, and the individual would then delegate a portion of his or her political power to the state - hence, the state governed with the individual’s consent. This delegation took place in stages in order to maintain as much decentralization as possible: First, the individual would delegate a portion of their political power to the municipality level. Then the municipal government would delegate a portion of its power to the county level. Then the counties would delegate a portion of their power to the state level. And ultimately the states would delegate a portion of their power to the federal level. This delegation is best reflected in the Bill of Rights’ 10th Amendment to the Constitution: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Underpinning all of this tiered, sequential delegation was an uncomfortable, yet necessary, truth: That the individual must retain an implied threat of force against the state, and that this threat must be credible, in order to stop the state from deviating beyond the consent given to it or otherwise overrun the individual’s natural rights - what we’d refer to nowadays as a “power grab.” But what happens when the state’s power grows so vast that individuals cannot resist it whatsoever? That they cannot provide a credible, implied threat of force to counterbalance state power because the state’s weapons have become so devastating? When the state no longer has the consent of the governed, and instead has intimidated the governed into submission? This is a look at political power and how it has changed as weapons technology has advanced, from Ancient Athens and their virtuous citizen-hopline-freeholder, through the Middle Ages and armored knights, up to our modern weapons of war such as drones and atomic weapons. The concurrent centralization of power, finance, and the capacity to commit meaningful violence is no accident. But how and why did this happen? And is there any way that we can play the tape backward to regain what we have lost? A Centralized Capacity for Violence A Distributed Capacity for Violence 1When people talk about the atom bomb as a trump card for home-grown revolution, they're really talking about the centralized capacity for violence. The bomb could be anything as it is simply a stand-in for the average man's recognition of the American military's phenomenally powerful weapons; weapons in a totally different class than even a fully automatic battle rifle or rudimentary ballistics like TNT. Atomic weapons are measured in kilotons of TNT – the best our brains can capture the awe and might of the bomb. It's a small example, but cuts to the heart of centralized capacity for violence: The increased ability of smaller and smaller groups of men to do greater and greater amounts of damage. In the case of the atomic bomb, the ability of a single man to wipe out millions with the push of a button. This capacity is not limited to just the bomb. The military is smaller and thus relies on a lighter, more agile, and efficient infantry than it once did. Only one or two men are needed to wipe a city from a map. Compare with an infantry platoon of 27 men. As bombs became bigger, military technology became much more accurate and capable of hitting one specific thing (say, a Sudanese aspirin factory versus a small, neutral village). America's nuclear arsenal is the apotheosis of centralized force, giving a single man the ability to kill everyone on earth many times over. But it is not hyperbole to say our current military technologies are Godlike, even disregarding the bomb. Entire regions can be wiped from the map at the push of a button, and it only takes one man to push that button. Compare with the mounted cavalry of old. Not to belabor the point, but the term "bomb" fails to capture the magnitude of what a bomb can do. The atomic bomb is like dropping a small sun onto a city. It is ghastly and terrifying, and may mark man's first true foray into "secrets man was not meant to know." In addition to being more precise, violence is much easier to distribute from afar. For context, during the Second World War, carpet bombing was developed because it was so hard to get a single bomb to hit anything, even when you were just a few thousand feet from the target. Now someone on the other side of the planet can send a missile into a cave and navigate the tunnels inside. This happens at the micro-level as well. Think about the small-town sheriff who, for some reason, has a battle-ready tank. On one level, it's laughable, the militarization of the police reduced to its most ridiculous cliche. But on another, perhaps more important level, it's a demonstration of the centralization of capacity to commit force at the local level. The average police department is equipped like a small infantry squad with light tank support. A well-armed home has a handful of long arms and pistols, with precious little training in things like small squad tactics. Our personal fortresses are anything but secure against the state. Distributed Violence and Power in Ancient Greece A Distributed Capacity for Violence 2We think of Ancient Greece as a democracy, and indeed, it was, but its democratic polities were far from egalitarian. Its democratic society was made possible by the hoplite system. The hoplite was the basic infantry soldier of ancient Athens and other Greek city states. To be a hoplite meant to supply one's own arms. To supply one's own arms was only possible for free landholders. Full citizenship was accorded only to men with a full set of gear. Men with only partially complete sets held lower rank, in the military and in society in general. Hoplites made ancient Greek democracy possible. Indeed, there is great wisdom to how the Greeks granted citizenship: the benefits of citizenry imply a responsibility to defend the polity. Those incapable of putting up a meaningful fight against invaders (or in the case of Sparta, constant helot rebellions) did not enjoy the full fruits of Greek citizenship. Ancient Greece was a far more equitable society than its contemporaries because the citizenry were landed men with skin in the game. They couldn't simply take off for the nearest convenient city. They defended their democratic society -- and their land -- with their lives. Decision-making included everyone who was going to fight. No one man held much power relative to others except for his ability to command larger groups of men through legitimately earned leadership and authority. This isn't an endorsement of turning America into Starship Troopers, but we should contrast the capacity of the Greek hoplites to commit meaningful violence against the rulers and their neighbors against the feudal system of serfs, lords and mounted cavalry emerged in the fallout after the collapse of the Roman Empire. We tend to think of medieval lords as holding power due to accidents of birth, but they held civilization together while Rome fell. Their titles, such as duke and marquis, were military titles, implying a duty of military service to their lord and the king. The difference between these medieval lords and the free hoplites of classical antiquity is that the medieval world allowed much smaller groups of men to commit far greater levels of violence. This centralized capacity for violence. Serfs were drafted, oftentimes reluctantly, when additional forces were needed, mostly for the pure weight of the meat. The medieval world had many peasant rebellions but peasants were, to put it bluntly, useless against men in armor on horseback with crossbows, lances, and strong martial culture. The average Athenian didn't have the means for a full hoplite spread, and thus full military service and citizenship. Still, men with only partial kit could do quite a lot, militarily. Thus their input was needed for democratic consensus. But the middle ages saw a greater contraction of the martial caste, due to revolutionary developments in weapons technology. It took only the humble stirrup to radically alter the distribution of military power in Europe. Previously, men on horseback were simply mounted infantry, not true cavalry. They dismounted to fight. Now they no longer had to. They could attack at speed on horseback, allowing for heavier armor to be worn and heavier weapons to be used. Fewer men could do more with less. A partial suit of armor and a short sword was worthless against true cavalry armed with broadswords, lances, and crossbows – the Sherman tanks of their day. This revolution in military technology meant that the more democratic society of ancient Greece and the Roman Republic were now impossible. Far more wealth was needed to obtain a meaningful capacity to commit violence. The smaller group of men with the means to purchase such were also able to commit far greater levels of violence with far fewer numbers. You are here. Modern Revolutions in Distributed Violence A Distributed Capacity for Violence 3It's important to note that the centralization of capacity for violence is predicated on the accuracy of weapons. Old school ballistics weren't the most accurate thing in the world. Two armies could stand on either side of a field, shooting all day. Any kill shots they got were entirely coincidental because muskets weren't that accurate, hence the need for large formations of men. Then something changed: Rifling. Gunsmiths learned that by putting grooves inside of a barrel, the accuracy of a weapon dramatically increased. The American Civil War was a bloodbath in part due to the development of the Springfield Model 1861. While wildly inaccurate by modern standards, it was revolutionary at the time in terms of converting the implied threat of violence into a very real promise of death. The nobility hated firearms because one didn't need to learn how to use a broadsword to knock off a king. All one had to do was get close enough, point, and shoot. The ability to commit meaningful violence moved from the exclusive province of the military caste to anyone who could get their hands on a gun. When bombs were developed, they followed a similar trajectory in terms of destructive power. Even as late as World War II, bombs were so inaccurate that German intelligence couldn't figure out what the British were trying to blow up. Carpet bombing was developed as a way to offset this inaccuracy, an aerial counterpart to the mass formations of pre-rifling musketeer troop formations. The Springfield 1861 wasn't the end of firearms development. Nor were the first rudimentary aerial bombs the end of heavy ballistic development. Everyone knows about the arms race with regard to atomic weaponry. Less known is the development of conventional bombs that can actually hit their targets with reliable accuracy. Guided-missile systems were to heavy ballistics what rifling was to long arms. Between 1967 and 1973, guided-missile systems were developed and proved to be orders of magnitude more accurate in hitting their targets. The clunky, inaccurate bombs requiring a score of men to deploy were replaced with precise systems requiring only one or two men. It's often said that during the Great War it took 10,000 rounds to kill a single man. Now one or two missiles could obliterate entire sections of a city. Ten thousand to one are some pretty long odds, but two to one or one to one odds are a virtual certainty. Guided-missile systems don't kill a single man like the apocryphal 10,000 rounds, they can flatten a military compound, city block, or an entire city. While significantly more expensive, their efficacy makes them a cost-effective investment for the military-industrial complex. One simple example demonstrates the dramatic increase in the ability of the state to commit violence. Remember how we said British bombs were so useless that the Germans couldn't even identify the intended target? 50 years later during Desert Storm in 1991, a cruise missile fired from a ship could enter a building through a specific window on a specific floor and hit a specific target inside that building, changing direction at the will of the operator. This is important because the state is violence. A Distributed Capacity for Violence 4At the end of the day, the state is a means of coercion. Coercion relies upon the meaningful threat of violence. With the advent of advanced weapons systems, this threat of violence has been transformed from a mostly idle threat requiring a massive investment of human capital to a near certainty of death. Conversely, the democratic process provides a means for the populace to express their dissatisfaction with the state. This is an implied threat of revolution, however, now the state has weaponry that can hit you where you live in a single shot while leaving every last building around you standing. The masses have, at best, only long arms at their disposal. This is a power imbalance that cannot be ignored. The promise of real violence trumps the empty threat of revolution. It's certainly true that the United States military has been defeated by much smaller and more poorly equipped forces. However, none of these small, primarily guerrilla forces – the Vietcong, the Taliban, or similar – presented the threat to American hegemony that a restive domestic population would if roused to rebellion. This massive power imbalance is not the end of the story, as such situations have arisen in the past. Consider the citizen-soldier of ancient Greece, whose broad forms endured until the end of Rome. This gave way to the aforementioned mounted knight, who had armor, lances, crossbows, and longswords – the advanced weapons systems of the time. They could run roughshod over peasant populations armed with little more than farm tools. In turn, the mounted knight was dethroned by the development of gunpowder, which dramatically leveled the playing field. It is no coincidence that the development of gunpowder and effective firearms coincided, roughly speaking, with the rise of the democratic republic. No longer could the nobility simply say "let them eat cake." Ignoring popular sentiment came with serious consequences. What technology will mankind develop that will level the playing field today? It's hard to say, but futuristic developments like powered armor, cyberwarfare, and fourth generational warfare provide a glimpse as to how technology can be leveraged to put a thumb on the scale and bring the capacity to commit meaningful violence back into balance. Until the pendulum swings back, however, the disparity in the ability to commit meaningful violence is a problem for human freedom that cannot be ignored. Guerrilla insurrections against the American empire in far-flung Third World provinces simply are not comparable to an uprising in the imperial core -- the American homeland. Will America Strike Its Own Citizens? A Distributed Capacity for Violence 5America has a long history of not using the atomic bomb so we often forget that America is the only country to have actually used them. So why hasn't America used them in so long and would they use them again? America has never had a "no first strike" policy and remains ambiguous about what situations would cause it to use nuclear weapons. It's difficult, but not impossible, to imagine an American first strike during the Cold War, but it is far more difficult to imagine today. Who would America nuke? How about Des Moines? Or Morgantown? Or Dallas? Americans are in a precarious position with regard to their own government. America has an empire, but the empire hates the Americans – largely using them as tax serfs to fund failed social programs at home and failed wars of choice overseas. If anything, the American people are an obstacle to the aims of the American Empire. The American citizenry is one thing most of the rest of the world isn't: A threat to the American empire. The massive reaction by globalist elites to Donald Trump shows just how particularly thin-skinned they are about peasant rebellions at home. And constant attacks on Second Amendment have failed to disarm the American middle class. It is instructive to compare the United States to Australia and Canada in the time of COVID: The latter two are among the most repressive medical regimes in the world. America remains relatively free. The capacity for meaningful force, ownership of the reigns of power, and ownership of capital remains more distributed here – and our rulers know it. They know there is only so far they can go. But maybe the global elites don't need such stern measures against American citizens. The story of 2020 was largely that of concentrated attacks on the American middle class in the form of COVID lockdowns and riots aimed at immiserating and terrorizing them. COVID lockdowns attacked small businesses and "non-essential" workers in one of the biggest wealth transfers in human history. The riots likewise terrorized average Americans into a state of shock and silence. The foot soldiers of the elites can do anything they want to you. Raising your hand against them, however, comes with extreme consequences. This is another example of the centralization of force, not using the military or armaments, but economic leverage and an asymmetrical application of the courts -- anarchy for them, tyranny for you. And who needs nukes when you're ruling over a nation of renter-class serfs? The elites wouldn't need anything approaching nuclear weapons to keep in line a population who own nothing and are totally reliant upon government handouts. This is the aim of the attacks on small businesses and the War on the Suburbs. Perhaps the model for the future is not the totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century, but the feudal estates of the middle ages – now armed with intrusive surveillance technologies and Godlike military hardware. Remember: The Constitution means nothing without the means to protect and defend it. Regardless, until the scales are rebalanced, America will look less and less like the democratic republic we were all raised in over the years. The Founders simply did not design their system for a mass of effectively unarmed debt peons. The system is ripe for the taking by anyone with enough political will. The problem of a highly centralized capacity to commit meaningful violence is structural. There are no clear solutions. A revolution in military technology is needed to rebalance the scales. In the meantime, however, each man can do his part to carve out a small fortress in defense of liberty, keeping the flame of liberty alive in our homes and our communities. There are alternatives to this kind of serfdom, however, that don't require waiting for the development of power armor or another leveling development in military technology. Above all, it is important to make oneself as antifragile as possible which means accumulating valuable skills, having multiple revenue streams, and, above all, hoping for the best while preparing for the worst. Such moves towards greater resiliency in the face of overwhelming state military power and centralized force do not just protect you and yours. They provide a small, but important bulwark against tyranny, reasserting the implied threat of rebellion. Unfortunately, an American Renaissance is reliant upon a dramatic shift in military technology rendering all current advanced weapons technology moot. No single man or even group of men can simply will such a situation into being. The price of liberty, as is often said, is eternal vigilance. We need this kind of vigilance more than ever. Objective forces of economic reality and military innovation mean freedom in America and the West is hanging off the precipice. While we can never simply "play the tape backward," we can move through our current state of centralization to a new decentralization, appropriate for our own time and place.
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Deceiving opportunist politicians with zero history of supporting RKBA, are now so afraid of losing votes that they are forming faux policy-flip plots with other lying opportunist pols to steal votes from people who aren't wise to their games... " Democrats have to show “a record of accomplishment” to rural U.S. voters — and “bridge the divide” on hot button issues, particularly gun laws, before next year’s midterm elections, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Sunday. In an interview on on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Tester warned Democrats better “go to work” in rural areas where they’ve “haven’t shown up.” “I think if Democrats got out and spoke about things, enabling law-abiding citizens to protect their gun rights, I think it would help us win in rural America,” he said. "
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Is This The Beginning Of The End For Gun Control? https://themachinegunnest.com/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-gun-contr... https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/firearmspolicycoalition/pages/5854/att... https://www.ruger.com/products/mini14RanchRifle/specSheets/5816.html https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/new-york-state-rifle-pistol-asso... https://themachinegunnest.com/whats-going-on-with-gun-control-right-now-in-2... If you haven't heard yet, Firearms Policy Coalition has filed what may be one of the most critical petitions for writ of certiorari for Marylanders and possibly gun owners in general in the case Bianchi v. Frosh. The case itself centers around the Maryland "Assault Weapons Ban" (AWB), also known as SB281 or the Firearms Safety Act of 2013. But before we dive into the law itself, let's look at the question being proposed to the Supreme Court in this writ of certiorari. The question presented is: "Whether the Constitution allows the government to prohibit law-abiding, responsible citizens from protecting themselves, their families, and their homes with a type of "Arms" that are in common use for lawful purposes?" The way this question is asked, we can see that if decided in favor of gun owners, the overturning of the Maryland AWB would be an unprecedented victory for gun owners nationwide. A Repudiation of assault weapon bans would free states like California, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey from their tyrannical state governments who've imposed their versions of this "Assault Weapon Ban." FPC's Adam Kraut affirmed that position saying, "This case presents the Court with an ideal vehicle to both address the scope of protected arms and constitutionally infirm analysis applied by these recalcitrant lower courts." The petition correctly describes the term "Assault Weapons" as a "pejorative and inaccurate label for a category of common semi-automatic firearms." Then quoting directly from Heller goes on to describe those same firearms as "in common use" and "typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes." Maryland's AWB is an assortment of inconsistent rules and regulations thought up by bureaucrats in Annapolis who have little understanding of firearms they seek to regulate. A few examples of inconsistencies: AK pattern rifle chambered in 7.62x39? Banned. AK pattern rifle chambered in 5.45x39? Good to go. AK Pistol in 7.62x39? Good to go. The only difference between the banned rifle and pistol? The stock. It also bans the AR15 and other "Scary" looking rifles but allows AR15s that conform to a Heavy Barrel Profile, or HBAR. It also allows for rifles that are functionally identical to the AR15, like the Ruger Mini 14. Ultimately, we won't know if the Supreme Court will hear the case until sometime in 2022, as The Supreme Court will hear it in their 2022 session. But the chances are good for the Court to take this case up. Many of the Justices have signaled that they're ready to hear 2nd Amendment cases. If the recent NYSRPA v. Bruen is any indication, we will likely see them tackle more gun rights issues that have far-reaching implications. Also, the makeup of the Court has changed in recent years. With the addition of Amy Comey Barrett replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court has a solid conservative majority. As lower court judges, Justice Barrett and Justice Kavanaugh signaled they think courts need to rethink the framework used to often measure how gun regulations are evaluated. This framework is known as "Intermediate Scrutiny." When intermediate scrutiny is applied, a law has more of a chance to survive legal challenges because the government must prove only that it is "substantially related to an important government interest." This intermediate scrutiny clause is what has kept not only the Maryland Assault Weapon ban in place but many other AWBs nationwide. If the Justices are looking for a case that has far-reaching consequences for the 2nd Amendment and the process by which states uphold these unconstitutional laws, they need look no further than Bianchi v. Frost. This is why I posed the question: "Is this the beginning of the end for gun control?" In our coverage of gun control issues over the past year, we've seen a clear pathway that the anti-gun lobby is taking. Using the NFA, 1968 GCA, FOPA, and other gun control laws on the books, they've managed to ban Bump Stocks and inch closer and closer to regulating semi-automatic firearms under the NFA or outright ban them. This Case, Bianchi v. Frost, would put a significant roadblock in front of that.
Cryptomunitions cannot be censored... People have been making untraceable 0% arms for millennia, a veritable rite of passage, through to the present day. Yet only since freedom was put under assault by global powers, has that rite ever gotten people's panties all up in a bunch. It's your rite, #fuckingmakeit, become CREAMPIE certified. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_vaX13iQKc RIP_JStark, LFoD "That which makes you free, shall be banned. -- Politicians" https://twitter.com/BaconPuppets/status/1482629952725864452 @CtrlPew @printingguns @opensrcdefense @OpenSCADGuns #ctrlpew #printguns #fgc9 #canttstopthesignal #individualrights #codeisspeech #shirtgang #deterrencedispensed #ghostgun #gatalog @3DPrintGeneral #printordie "Impossible To Regulate" - Ghost Gunner Introduces New "0% Receiver" https://themachinegunnest.com/blog/ https://ghostgunner.net/ https://ghostgunner.net/product/ghost-gunner-3-deposit/ https://themachinegunnest.com/expect-a-blue-wave-of-gun-control-in-2022/ https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/05/21/2021-10058/definition-o... If you're familiar with 3D printed firearms or 80% receivers, a company that may sound very familiar to you is Defense Distributed. The Austin, Texas-based company was the first to distribute 3D files for their Liberator handgun, empowering anyone with a 3D printer to assemble a firearm privately in their home. With the ATF's pending rule change (which can be read here), previously classified items as not firearms will become firearms, and ATF will start requiring firearms parts to be serialized and tracked like guns. This means that under this rule change if you want to purchase a barrel for a rifle, you would have to undergo a background check like that barrel was a completed gun, even though it isn't. The ATF, DOJ, the anti-gun politicians, and the lobby that supports them seem to think that this will stop people from manufacturing firearms for personal use inside their homes. This couldn't be further from the truth, even without Defense Distributed's newest product. Enter the Ghost Gunner 3 The Ghost Gunner 3 is a 3 Axis CNC machine that can take a metal block and create a lower receiver in a relatively short period. You can then assemble that lower into a completed firearm without it being registered. Since the only part needed to create these homemade firearms is a block of metal (pictured below), it would be entirely impossible for the ATF to regulate these without an act of congress. While the anti-gun politicians pat themselves on the back for "stopping the proliferation of privately made firearms," Defense Distributed was hard at work crafting a tool that empowers citizens to expand their 2nd amendment rights and makes regulation irrelevant. I was ecstatic to see the Ghost Gunner 3 here at SHOT Show in Las Vegas this week, and I'm excited to see what Defense Distributed does next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J469-vOqoZY 3D-Printed FreeSpeech w Cody Wilson “What’s a desperate decision that can actually start a symbolic chain reaction? And then how do I pursue that? How do I do something like an artistic act or a creative object that could be received by an audience as this kind of provocation to initiate some type of chain reaction?” — Cody Wilson Cody Wilson is the founder and director of Defence Distributed and the face of 3D guns, and Jessica Solce is an acclaimed film-maker currently documenting his story. In this interview, we discuss the intersection of the right to bear arms and the right to freedom of speech. The first and second amendments are as symbolic of American identity as the stars and stripes. Yet, despite being bedrocks of the constitution for over 230 years, they are arguably now as fiercely contested as they have ever been. Many republicans believe that the right to bear arms is a vital check on state control, and ensures the protection of the first amendment. A strong progressive counter argument contends that gun violence in the US is at epidemic proportions, and controls are required. This debate is becoming more profound due to the effect of technology, particularly the internet. Julian Assange laid the foundation for using the decentralized and distributed nature of the internet to bypass the established gatekeepers of information with the aim of democratising its availability. Others quickly followed, including Cody Wilson, who saw the opportunity to provide open access to the digital tools needed to make guns - ‘Wiki weapons’ was born. Despite the backlash by government agencies, it is becoming increasingly apparent that governance is unable to keep up with both technology and Cody’s responses to legal constraints. This is not a new or isolated phenomenon. But as technology continues to push the boundaries of what power a single person is able to wield, it is stretching the limits of the social contract between the state and individuals. As a result, the forces pushing for individual autonomy and centralized control are becoming harder and harder to reconcile. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:32 Gun culture and the history of militias 00:15:44 The constitution and the right to bear arms 00:25:35 Censorship, Bitcoin, and 3D printed guns 00:34:31 Defence distributed, DEF CAD, performance art 00:45:51 Access to guns beyond US borders 01:00:27 Ghost Gunner, and next steps 01:15:21 Threats to democracy 01:24:21 Free speech versus vulnerable world hypothesis
ProgDems Biden are ignorant of plain statistical facts. - "Ghost guns" are tiny negligble fractional percents of even the Democrats Big City Gangland Street Murders and Violence. - Serial numbers do absolutely nothing. - Gun grabbing escalates political and other tensions, creates risky situations and breakdowns, removes ability to self defend, nears revolutions, puts "steal and rape me" on your house, etc. - People who can 3D-Print can already make everything on their own from scratch... frames, components, barrels, mags, rounds... plans and instructions all over the internet, simplified designs, dual use. Meth labs beget gun labs and shared distribution channels. Game over. - Gun Free Zones and Countries... didn't work either. - Criminals don't give a fuck, they just steal and buy guns as always. - Islam and thugs are getting really good with vehicles and blades lately, they don't give a fuck either. - Got a federal background check and purchase form for that Baseball Bat, Kitchen Knife, Car, Drone, Fists of Fury? Doesn't matter, most murders are committed by legal gun owners and clean backgrounds anyways. - 3D-Printed biologicals and more coming soon... - Government politicians have outright murdered more than all other murders in history combined. FAR MORE. So where are the laws banning and imprisoning politicians? Any "gun problem" in USA is largely the result of politicians intentional, shit, and failed social, economic, and other policies, causing breakdown in social strength, bankruptcy, etc. And since Democrats have run 70% of the top 50 US cities, the murder capitals of the world, continuously for the last 50 years... the US Democrats bear at least 70% of the blame for blood in the streets. Not to mention leading US Democrats going on TV and social media inciting and condoning BLM Antifa other violence, manufacturing and inflating racial tensions, and their Leftist owned Social and other Media doing the same... thereby launching and underlying another decade of violence. Gun laws will solve nothing, because gun laws are *not* the source of the problem... politicians are. You want to see gangland violence and street thuggery drop to near zero tomorrow? End the war on drugs, make all drugs legal for anyone to make, buy, or sell without license or tax, plow those violent war program funds into peaceful help centers, job skills, social charities, etc. And for the love of deity, take care of your children. Public schools are politicians wet dream, joke, and crime against humanity, grooming camps for raising yet more politicians like them. And that's only part of what the Internet, that great diviner of all truth, says. Lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J469-vOqoZY 3D-Printed FreeSpeech
"... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Biden launches his unconstitutional assault on yet more of American's rights... Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY.) tweeted Sunday night: "The Constitution does not authorize the federal government to prevent you from making your own firearm. This a fact that has been recognized for 200+ years. Also, Article 1, Section 1 (literally the first operative sentence in the Constitution) says Congress makes law, not POTUS!" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC193r5YXcpQJV34N99ZbhzQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FFc3i56GNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWObNOU3i0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qSqtKcUtQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=347-c9gI8Vk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X65gX2SPPI0 https://www.gunowners.org/ https://www.nationalgunrights.org/ https://www.saf.org/ https://jpfo.org/ https://drgo.us/ https://www.ccrkba.org/ https://constitutionalrightspac.com/ https://www.americanfirearmsassociation.org https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/ https://www.rkba.org/ https://www.lp.org/ FOIA Bait... On May 7, 2021, the Department of Justice issued a notice of proposed rulemaking, and during the 90-day open comment period, the ATF received more than 290,000 comments, the highest number of comments submitted to a proposed rule in ATF's history. https://www.ammoland.com/2022/03/nbc-news-pennsylvania-ags-office-commit-mul... https://www.gunowners.org/goa-fights-new-biden-atf-rule/ https://www.gunowners.org/new-rule-to-expand-atf-gun-registry/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 April 2022 ATF is at it again—rewriting federal law to create new gun control laws. What is About to Happen? Tomorrow, the Biden Administration is expected to publish its final rule to combat “ghost guns”—or privately made firearms which are currently legal right now. The new rule will be entitled “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identification of Firearms,” but it will do far more than the White House is pretending. GOA will analyze the differences between this final rule and the previously published proposed rule, but here is what we know already. The rule will: Allow ATF to end the online sale of gun parts at will (as Biden promised on the campaign trail). Mandate the serialization of many gun parts, forcing Americans to undergo a background check for a new legal “firearm” in order to repair or buy replacement parts for their guns. Require that 100% of Firearm Transaction Records from gun stores dating back to 2002 end up in ATF’s billion record gun registry. You heard that right. Not only will this mean you have to do multiple background checks to build or repair a gun… And not only can Biden’s ATF ban the online sale of gun parts without a new law… This new rule is about expanding an already billion-record gun registry to eventually include EVERY SINGLE SALE at EVERY SINGLE GUN STORE since 2002. This is pure gun control—ultimately people control. GOA is Fighting Back! Thankfully, GOA’s team of attorneys and lobbyists has been preparing for this fight. We’ve known this was coming, since they announced this rule as a proposed rule back in May of 2021. We plan on fighting this tooth and nail in the courts, as well as, in the halls of Congress. A lawsuit is in the works, but we need your help. image But GOA doesn’t only rely on the court system to defend the Second Amendment, as its reactionary by nature. That’s why GOA is working to force a vote in the Senate to strike down this rule using a procedure known as the Congressional Review Act. Using the Congressional Review Act, 30 Senators can submit a petition that will force the Senate to vote on rejecting this rule, bypassing the powerful filibuster. That’s where you come in. How You Can Help: We need you to fill out a message to your senators and representatives at the top of this page demanding they sign-on to this petition in both legislative chambers. We want Congress on the record demonstrating their support or rejection of this abusive demonstration of gun control. Will Congress strike down Biden’s attempt to expand and solidify ATF’s national gun registry? Will the Courts enforce the Firearm Owners Protection Act against any new rules or regulations that create gun or gun owner registries? These are dangerous times for the Second Amendment, but Gun Owners of America is standing up to the gun grabbers. We’re here to defend your constitutional rights. Stand with us. Together, let’s put vulnerable senators who are up for reelection in the hot seat and make them show their true colors. Together, let’s take this fight to the courts and uphold the Firearm Owners Protection Act! April 10, 2022 Washington, D.C. – The Biden administration plans to issue a final rule based on proposed rule ATF 2021R-05 as soon as Monday, which would allow the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to expand its nearly billion-record gun registry and regulate gun parts as firearms, allowing ATF to end the online sale of gun parts at-will. While the text of the final rule has yet to be published, Gun Owners of America (GOA) announced its plans to fight back immediately. Aidan Johnston, GOA’s Director of Federal Affairs, commented, “Biden’s proposal to create a comprehensive national gun registry and end the online sale of gun parts without the passage of a new law exemplifies his disregard for the Second Amendment. “Congress must provide oversight by striking down ATF’s illegal gun registration rule using the Congressional Review Act and passing Rep. Michael Cloud’s No REGISTRY Rights Act to eliminate ATF’s billion-record gun registry. “Just as we opposed the Trump Administration’s arbitrary ban on bump stocks, GOA will also sue Biden’s ATF to halt the implementation of this rule, whose promulgation violates the Second Amendment, Firearm Owners Protection Act, Gun Control Act of 1968, and Administrative Procedures Act.” GOA commented against the proposed rule on June 7, 2021. GOA spokesmen are available for interviews. Gun Owners of America, and its sister organization Gun Owners Foundation, are nonprofits dedicated to protecting the right to keep and bear arms without compromise. For more information, visit GOA’s Press Center. -GOA-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J469-vOqoZY 3D-Printed FreeSpeech
"... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Biden launches his unconstitutional assault on yet more of American's rights...
Too late, the global Internet has already routed around you and your authoritarian friends ridiculous restrictions and enslavement dreams years ago. Their fitting response, 0% FTW... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zabSOHd0Ag Come And Take It !!! 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The FGC-9 MKII uses no original-purpose firearms components and can be manufactured from components produced using a commercial 3D printer (costing approximately $170 USD or less), combined with commercially available metal components such as steel tubing for the barrel and round bar for the bolt and firing pin. Fuck Gun Control, Build Your Own Arms, Behold Freedom https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-fgc-9-emergency-civilian-armament-in-c... Yesterday, President Biden, the Department of Justice, and the ATF announced the details of their new 364-page rule for the redefinition of "frame or receiver." In doing so, they have decided to attempt an illegal rewrite of the 1968 Gun Control Act. If you've been paying close attention to headlines the past few weeks, you may have noticed a surge in articles pertaining to "ghost guns." The corporate media has been setting up Biden for an easy "win" on guns with this new rule. Likely because of Biden's low poll numbers headed into the midterms. Initially announced in April of 2021, almost a full year later, we're finally able to see what sort of egregious gun control has been put together for the law-abiding gun owner. The rule stems from the gun control lobby's obsession with home-built firearms. The problem here, though, is that to regulate privately made firearms, or "PMFs" as they're defined in the new rule, the ATF had to cast an extremely wide legal net. In the 364-page rule, we can see that the Biden admin intends to ban "ghost guns" by creating a new class of highly regulated items by redefining the term "firearm" to include parts and collections of parts that the ATF now considers to be "readily" convertible into functional firearms. The example used in the press conference was a Polymer80 kit, which quickly sold out of all available models after the announcement of the rule change. It's important to note that from what we can tell from the rule change and the opinion of others in the know, this rule does not ban possession of firearms made from 80% kits. It also does not mandate the serialization of those already made firearms or 3D printed items for personal use. What it does do is require the serialization of 80% kits that are in possession of Federal Firearms Licensees (also known as FFLs) and manufacturers. It's interesting because the expected outcome of this rule, as Biden pitched, was the complete and absolute ban of "ghost guns" altogether. The rule also changes and complicates the definition of "frame or receiver." What was once a simple short definition has changed to include multiple pages of diagrams, new terms and more. In addition, the ATF has added new definitions for "unfinished frame or receiver," which ATF now considers to be firearms themselves, but only under certain, unclear conditions. In addition, ATF has commanded Federal Firearms Licensees to hold 4473 records on-site indefinitely. This small change may go unnoticed by many, but this is a significant step towards a legitimate registry. This action shouldn't surprise many gun owners, who already know that these rule changes are not about saving lives; they're only about the consolidation of power. Many in the anti-gun lobby and corporate media class say that these actions are justified because privately made firearms are "untraceable." This idea that a trace is some magical crime-solving tool is a misconception dreamed up by those who have little understanding of the difference between how legal and illegal firearms sales occur. It's not to find the gun when an agent "runs a trace," despite what images the misleading name might conjure up. Instead, it's to find who originally bought the firearm and from what dealer. This gun trace often leads to the fact that many guns are stolen or reported stolen and then used in crimes. Because of this, the trace ends with the original buyer who had their firearm stolen. Criminals aren't filling out 4473 forms and submitting to NICS checks. It's important to note here that many stolen firearms used in crimes may have their serial number removed completely, resulting in an "untraceable" gun, even though those guns wouldn't fall into the "ghost gun" category. Firearms Policy Coalition had this to say: "Far from "clarifying" anything, the rulemaking tortures simple terms from law into multi-part definitions, with newly injected sub-terms like "readily" having their own lengthy definitions. This is clearly an attempt to sidestep Congress, as Biden even indicated in his remarks today." Here's the irony of the situation, though. Regardless of how overly complex it is or how wide a legal net the ATF decides to cast, this rule change will have little to no effect. That's because of the 0% Receiver. In response to the announcement of the Biden Admin's proposed rule change, Defense Distributed decided to shift its focus to the creation of 0% receivers. Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed had this to say about the new rule: "The receiver rule is an illegal attempt to rewrite the GCA outside of Congress. Nevertheless, Ghost Gunner anticipated this maneuver and is now shipping Zero Percent receivers which perfectly defeat the rule from day one. Americans will always be able to build firearms in the privacy of their homes." This rule change has caused a surge in demand for Defense Distributed's Ghost Gunner 3. The Ghost Gunner is a small CNC Machine that users can insert a bar of aluminum, press a button, and after the machine mills out the metal, have a completely legal, privately made, non-serialized firearm frame ready to go. Because all the Ghost Gunner 3 needs is a block of aluminum to produce the firearm frame, the Biden Admin & ATF would need to regulate blocks of aluminum to stop people from producing privately made firearms. While the DOJ may be able to convince a judge that an 80% lower is likely to be made into a gun, a block of aluminum is a much harder sell. The same can be said for 3D printing. Are we to assume that PLA plastic is to be regulated as a firearm? Because gun control has a hard time passing in the legislative branch (even with all three branches of government controlled by democrats currently), the Biden admin has resorted to governing by executive fiat, using the executive branch to pass new "regulations" using existing law. As of right now, the rule change has 120 days to take effect after it hits the federal register. Many groups such as Gun Owners of America & Firearms Policy Coalition have already announced their intent to sue the Federal Government over these new rule changes. TMGN's Steph and her team analyzed hundreds of pages of the new ghost gun rule and determined uppers won't be serialized and more...
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"... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Biden launches his unconstitutional assault on yet more of American's rights...
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"... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Biden launches his unconstitutional assault on yet more of American's rights...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4dBuPJ9p7A Democrats come have fun Funny they might learn something, instead of obviously trying to legislate from position of embarassingly total ignorance and self-feedback hatred of everything, including history and freedom.
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Trump Jr. Launches Gun-Rights Group To Ensure Left "Never Disarms Americans" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-jr-launches-gun-rights-group-v... Donald Trump Jr. told Fox News he is launching a new gun-rights group to combat the Biden administration and Democratic gun control groups. Called the "Second Amendment Task Force," Trump Jr. will serve as the group chairman. The mission is clear: Protect Americans' right to bear arms. "The Second Amendment is the whole ballgame; it's the freedom that protects all of our other freedoms. Unfortunately, the Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress are hellbent on eroding our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, whether it's nominating radical gun-grabbers to senior positions in the executive branch or pushing anti-gun legislation," Trump Jr. said. He explained more about his new gun-rights group: "The Second Amendment Task Force is entirely devoted to ensuring the Left is never successful in disarming American citizens." The group will also fight against Biden administration nominees for the ATF and Democrat legislative initiatives that could jeopardize Americans' Second Amendment rights. Trump Jr. tweeted up a storm in the summer of 2021 against the Biden administration's ATF nominee David Chipman. The nomination was eventually withdrawn because of Chipman's radical views. Biden's attempt to get gun-grabbing Chipman as ATF head inspired him to launch the group. "The idea for the group came from our successful effort to stop a radical anti-gun lobbyist from becoming the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). "We had to make sure that the American people knew what was going on, especially with Red State Democrats. If they're considering casting an anti-Second Amendment vote, we're going to make sure they feel the pain. This new group will help us put more structure and resources around those efforts to make sure we're as successful as we can be.," Trump Jr. said. What remains a question is why Trump Jr. is starting his own gun-rights group when there's the NRA, Gun Owners of America, Firearm Policy Coalition, and the Second Amendment Foundation. A new gun-rights organization with Trump Jr. at the helm could undoubtedly increase in popularity among law-abiding, gun-loving citizens and become a powerful voice that gun-grabbing Democrats fear.
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Democrats resort to shifty slimy parliament games when they can't win straight up, they are so pathetic, and this is at least the third time they try to enact and steal more people's money calling it "profits" and "windfalls"... CA Lawmakers Use 'Gut-And-Amend' To Resurrect Failed Gun Tax https://themachinegunnest.com/its-simple-gun-taxes-are-gun-control/ https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=2021202... https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=2021202... https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1522603415423102978 California lawmakers have used a legislative technique known as "gut-and-amend" to revive and fast-track a tax on firearms and ammunition. On May 5th, the California State Assembly 'gutted' the contents of an unrelated bill (AB-1227) aimed at building energy efficiency, and amended it with language reviving a long-failed firearm and ammunition excise tax which, if passed, would be effective immediately as an "urgency statute." According to the new language, "The year 2020 saw an unprecedented surge in firearm and ammunition sales across the nation, and this trend has continued into 2021." They say that the tax is needed because "This surge in firearm and ammunition sales and profits has occurred alongside an unprecedented nationwide spike in shootings and gun homicides." Seemingly conflating legal gun sales with crime and violence. A California bill regarding roof replacement building standards was just amended to completely change it into a gun and ammo tax that would take effect immediately. https://t.co/hOewLdlZ8S pic.twitter.com/jItKC9Cl63 — Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) May 6, 2022 The bill itself calls for an excise tax of 10% on handguns and 11% on long guns, ammunition, or precursor parts. California would then deposit the tax collected from the bill into a so-called Gun Violence Prevention, Healing, and Recovery Fund. We've stated that these funds are cover for liberal states to tax gun owners and fund their opposition research, which in turn supports more gun control laws. It's like an authoritarian Uroboros. Interestingly, a similar bill, AB-1223, was introduced by the same author, California state legislator Marc Levine, but failed to pass in February. This is another attempt to pass a failed gun tax by gutting and amending a solar roofing bill. What's even more telling of the lawmakers' attitudes in California is this excerpt from the proposed legislation: "Existing law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities." It's obvious here that California intends to treat the 2nd Amendment like a privilege, to be taxed and taken away from those that are unworthy, or cannot afford it, instead of a constitutional right. As expected, the reaction on Twitter from gun owners has been explosive. @AsmRodriguez52 @SenatorLeyva As my representatives in the CA legislature, I am requesting you oppose AB1227 (Levine) as it is yet another racist, classist attack on CA citizens’ access to our #2A Rights. I expect you to find ways to remove barriers to RIGHTS, not place them. pic.twitter.com/YC2BIGh56c — Triggerology (@Triggerology_FT) May 7, 2022 How is that even legal?? — Legal Backchanneler "Spooky" (@not_spookyguns) May 6, 2022 Just California doing California things — Gilbert Quintanilla (@GilbertQuinta16) May 6, 2022 this would be shocking if it was happening anywhere else but California. — The Machine Gun Nest (@TMGNMD) May 6, 2022 Can we tax voting at the same rate? Maybe $200 voting tax? Wait... Taxation of a constitutional right... We already dealt with that. — Nicholas Pettinato (@NPettinato14) May 6, 2022 While the insanity of the situation can almost be humorous, gun owners should look at California not as a bubble but as an example of what can happen when one party controls a state. Don't forget, California was a Republican stronghold state until the 90s but now serves as a template and testing ground for gun control policy nationwide.
Illegal Biden-Dems turn BATF into Hypocrites of their own determination and approval letters, will be shot down as unconstitutional. Until then, Expect plan is buying and selling springs and bits of metal and tools are all now lifetime forever ID databased datamined and imprisonable felonious offenses... Freedom, Everywhere, Come And Take It, If You Dare... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zabSOHd0Ag Feds Halt Sales Of Homemade Guns Before August Rule Is Implemented https://www.theepochtimes.com/feds-halt-sales-of-homemade-guns-before-august... https://jsdsupply.com/ The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has told one of the nation’s largest homemade firearms parts retailers, JSD Supply, to stop selling its products. President Joe Biden holds up a ghost gun kit during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 11, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) The move comes more than three months before President Joe Biden’s controversial “ghost gun” regulation goes into effect on Aug. 24, 2022. The new rule, which is expected to be challenged in court, bans the business of manufacturing unserialized “buy-build-shoot” kits that can be purchased without a background check. The so-called ghost guns contain parts that can be assembled into a gun. These kits will now be considered firearms under the Gun Control Act. Pennsylvania-based JSD Supply received a letter from ATF dated May 9, 2022, ordering the company to immediately cease and desist the sale of full sets and parts that could be converted into a functioning firearm. The letter has caused the company to shut down its operation. “ATF has held that kits which include all components necessary to produce a functional firearm, including the jig or template used to finish the unfinished frame or receiver, the slide assembly, and the necessary components to complete the frame or receiver are themselves properly classified as firearms under the Gun Control Act,” the letter says. “Specifically, these kits are a weapon that may be readily converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive. These kits are firearms under the gun Control Act and have always been firearms pursuant to statute.” For years, the ATF has provided guidance on the definition of a gun. Those who sell parts such as 80 percent receivers do not need a Federal Firearms License. But the letter shows the ATF has changed its mind and is following the new regulation before it has gone into effect. “Those engaged in the business of selling these complete kits, as your company does, are in fact engaged in the business of dealing firearms,” the letter says. “Further, selling the necessary components to produce a functional firearm to the same person through multiple purchases or structure to transactions at different times instead of a single sale is equivalent to selling the complete kit to the customer. That is, the complete set of component parts necessary to create a firearm need not be packaged or sold in a single container or a single transaction in order to be considered a firearm. These piecemeal sales circumvent requirements of the Gun Control Act and are unlawful.” Part for a homemade gun as pictured in the 2013 ATF Technical Bulletin, in which it was defined as “not a firearm.” A new rule will require a background check to buy a part like this, and special licensing to sell it. (ATF) JSD Supply has filed a case in the U.S. District Court against ATF and the U.S. Department of Justice, seeking an injunction to remain open. The court filing says the ATF has recognized and expressly sanctioned, the unregulated sale of every single product that JSD Supply offers for sale. “ATF has specifically and repeatedly explained that firearm parts such as barrels, triggers and springs are not firearms under federal statutory law including the Gun Control Act,” the company’s complaint says. The ATF also has specifically and repeatedly determined that the 80 percent frames and receivers which the company sells are not firearms under the act and are entirely unregulated by the ATF. “This court’s intervention to protect the firearms industry and gun owners is necessary to reign in a branch of the federal government that is acting without any legal authority, and return the constitutional lawmaking power to the Congress, the only branch of government to which it was entrusted by Article I of the U.S. Constitution,” the complaint says. This appears to be the first U.S. case of a company receiving such a letter, but another company in Missouri has now been told by the ATF to stop selling their products, according to Gun Owners of America. “JSD Supply was just the first domino to fall in the ATF’s latest unwarranted action. Frustratingly, we have confirmed at least one additional company forced to halt sales and we expect more to follow,” Erich Pratt, senior vice president of Gun Owners of America (GOA) said in a statement. “Make no mistake, this is the beginning of a political crusade against homemade firearms. Forcing small businesses across the country to close their doors with no legal authority to do so, is wrong and a blatant abuse of power,” Pratt said. GOA is preparing a lawsuit challenging the new regulation. “With a gun there’s only one regulated part, the frame or the receiver, and you do a background check on the frame or the receiver,” Aidan Johnston, GOA director of federal affairs told The Epoch Times. JSD Supply sells, not the regulated frame, but unfinished frames that are 80 percent complete. The company also sells all the other parts for a gun. “JSD Supply asked the ATF if they could just stop selling the 80 percent frame and continue to sell all the other gun parts, and ATF won’t let them,” Johnston said. “But what’s really important is not just the other companies that are selling 80 percent receivers and gun parts, but there are hundreds of websites that sell only gun parts. No regulated part from before or after this final rule. And the question is, if I 3D print the frame and then I order a barrel and a trigger from one of those websites that only sells gun parts, is ATF trying to say that that company illegally helped me complete a firearm?” The answer is unclear. ATF was unavailable for comment. “In order to engage in the constitutionally protected activities of keeping and bearing firearms, weapons first must be acquired,” the JSD Supply court complaint says. “It is thus beyond serious debate that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to make their own privately made firearms, and thus to acquire the parts and materials with which to do so. The Constitution protects the corresponding right to sell firearm components, magazines, ammunition, and accessories, just as the freedoms of speech and press protect the right to buy and sell newspapers, books, paper, and ink. Indeed, it would not mean much if there was a right to make a firearm, but no ability to purchase the materials necessary to do so.” History Lesson: Support, Join, and Defend your rights and the rights of others, all rights, at all costs, or lose them all, forever... https://yaliberty.org/ https://www.reddit.com/r/2ALiberals+2ndamendment+AR80Percents+CCW+Constituti... https://www.gunowners.org/ https://www.nationalgunrights.org/ https://www.saf.org/ https://jpfo.org/ https://drgo.us/ https://www.ccrkba.org/ https://constitutionalrightspac.com/ https://www.americanfirearmsassociation.org https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/ https://www.rkba.org/ https://www.lp.org/ https://www.youtube.com/user/mrcolionnoir https://www.youtube.com/user/hickok45 https://www.youtube.com/user/theakguy1974
Avowed gun grabber and ignorant liberal rager who is also Biden's agreed personal anti-gun agent Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, both are huge slimy political opportunists crisis whores and raging power grabbers, goes on another retarded liberal rage and gets ejected from conference... Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke crashed a press conference by Texas Governor Greg Abbott What_kind_of_political_cretin_interrupts_a_press_conference_to_campaign_BetoORourke_showed_no_leadership_is_only_interested_in_power._Sickening_political_theater... https://twitter.com/i/status/1529520598061309957 https://twitter.com/i/status/1529521614219517953 "Ever notice how many Democrat politicians have raging anger and social problems... it's actually scary, and a risk to the stability of America."
Gun Rights Are More Important Than False Security And Appeasing Leftists https://alt-market.us/gun-rights-are-more-important-than-false-security-and-... http://jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/NaziLawEnglish.htm https://www.foxnews.com/us/darrell-brooks-facebook-white-people-violence If there is one Holy Grail target that the political left obsesses over more that anything else, it is getting their hands on the 2nd Amendment and molding it to their will or erasing it forever. The pursuit of American gun rights is paramount to them, beyond critical race theory, beyond gender politics, even beyond the abortion debate. The problem for them is that ever since the Obama era they have consistently hit a brick wall in terms of convincing the general public to give another inch of ground when it comes to gun control. To be sure, there are many reasons for this that coincide. First, the credit crash of 2008 opened many people’s eyes to the possibility that the economic systems we take for granted today could disappear tomorrow. Gun rights were no longer a matter of “tradition,” but a matter of necessity. If the system breaks down and emergency services are overwhelmed or disappear then the only person you can rely on to protect your family is you. Mortal realities always win over emotional and reactionary demands. In other words, the benefits of individual self protection greatly outweigh any potential risks of criminality or abuse. Second, the advent of the covid mandates, lockdowns and the blatant attempts to implement vaccine passport tyranny upon half the population of this country yet again reinforced the idea that gun rights are more important than ever. Without the unified refusal to comply by conservatives and some moderate Americans, it is highly likely that our nation would be in the same situation as China is right now – A pointless cycle of lockdowns, authoritarian denial of basic services for people that refuse to submit to a highly experimental mRNA vaccine, and even worse supply chain disruptions and financial instability than we already have. Make no mistake, the reason the US is mostly free from these draconian conditions today is because of the continued existence of the 2nd Amendment and an armed citizenry. Without these things, there is no longer any obstacle to enforcing whatever unconstitutional provisions the establishment wants. Third, with the advent of the BLM riots, inflationary pressures and rising crime rates, there has been a renewed interest in gun ownership in the US among normies. It’s not just a conservative trend, many democrats have suddenly taken an interest also. There is very little chance that increased gun restrictions are going to happen with the approval of the public. The only way it could even be attempted is through executive order, and many millions of Americans will simply say ‘no’, just as they did with the vaccine passports. And, let’s be clear about what is really going on: The intention of political elites and the left is not “reasonable gun control.” Their purpose is indeed confiscation. Incrementalism is the name of the game. Lets not forget what we saw with the covid passports – At first they claimed that there were no plans to institute anything like a vaccine passport system. They said this was “conspiracy theory.” Then, not more than a year later Biden tried to enforce proof of vaccination through executive order. Suddenly, it wasn’t conspiracy theory anymore. The same strategy has been attempted with gun rights in the past, and they will try to do it again. As with every other Western nation that has restricted gun ownership down to almost nothing, they start with the “scary” semi-auto weapons and work their way down until you have nothing left. Or, until only people with considerable money have the ability to purchase a firearm (which is the case through most of Europe). I suspect that leftists are not fully opposed to the idea of gun ownership as they often pretend to be. I think they would actually like to retain their own guns if possible, they just don’t want people like you and I to have them. Selective gun confiscation would be their ideal, which is the same exact strategy used by the Nazis, who selectively outlawed gun ownership for Jewish citizens and anyone politically opposed to the Third Reich but let all other Germans keep their weapons. I would note that whenever gun crimes and mass murders are committed by people that are ideologically opposed to conservatives, the media and leftists often conveniently stop caring about taking action. They only seem to care when the crime can be associated with their political enemies. We all know that leftists constantly argue that conservatives are inherently dangerous. It only takes one more step for them to claim that conservative thought is in itself a “mental illness” and that our guns should be taken by default. But let’s talk about REAL mental illness for a moment, shall we? Let’s talk about recent active shooters like Payton Gendron with bizarre political and ideological beliefs that have nothing to do with conservative principles. Democrats like AOC and Chuck Schumer immediately tried to link Gendron, the Buffalo grocery store shooter, to conservatives and the Republican party. Yet, in only a few days time they were suddenly silent about the whole event and the media was oddly quiet. But why? As it turns out, Gendron’s philosophies were entirely socialist, with tinges of fascism and communism within the same framework. In fact, Gendron stated on multiple occasions that he hated conservatives and identified himself as an “eco-fascist.” He also had a history of reports concerning his mental health and safety. The media’s focus on “replacement theory” was a clear distraction from the real issue at hand. Their assertion was that if you are critical of illegal immigration, then you are automatically a racist and share an ideological boat with people like Payton Gendron. But then, their narrative fell apart when it became obvious that Gendron was actually anti-conservative. In the case of Salvador Ramos, details are still emerging about the Texas school shooter and his affiliations, but some information has been leaked despite the media’s quick move to control the narrative. For example, Ramos is not the white conservative monster the leftists need to fulfill their narrative requirements. Photos are also in circulation allegedly taken from his social media accounts which suggest he was transgendered and identified as “they/them.” I’ll stress here though that his social media accounts have been completely scrubbed and right now there is no way to confirm that this claim is true. Why his accounts were removed so quickly is not clear, but surely we will know more in the next couple of days. Leftists are swiftly moving to refute any possibility that Ramos was transgendered; maybe they are right, maybe not. They were also very quick to deny that Darrell Brooks Jr., the mass killer that ran down a parade of people with his car in Waukesha, WI, was a supporter of BLM. But, as it turned out initial reports by internet sleuths were correct. Suddenly, leftists were fielding arguments that he was “pushed” to commit the crime by “institutional racism.” If it turns out that Ramos did in fact identify as trans, then the media message will surely change once again. I have no doubt there will be a move to defend Ramos as a tragic figure, rather than a monster, and the blame will be placed on the state of Texas and their legislative actions to stop transgender policies from invading their public school system. The point is, there is no connection between gun rights supporters or conservatives and gun crime as leftists often claim. I can find just as many if not more incidences of mass murder perpetrated by leftists. The common thread between all of these killers and events is not guns or gun rights. Rather, it is blatant signs of mental illness and ideological zealotry. The media will not address this issue, and political puppets like Joe Biden will not address it either. Remember, the goal is gun confiscation, not public safety. If they actually cared about public safety then the mental illness connection would not be ignored. It is also important to point out that such tragedies are not limited to the US as some gun grabbers would like you to believe. Numerous mass murder incidences have taken place in Europe and Asia despite strict gun control. Many people have forgotten the mass murder of French citizens in Paris in November of 2015 by Islamic militants with AK47s. Or, how about the mass killing of Spanish citizens by Muslim terrorists in Barcelona in 2017 using a moving truck? Another factor which is almost always present during mass murder events is that most of them occur in gun free zones; places where carrying by law abiding citizens is denied or frowned upon. If we are going to address the issue of mass murder, we cannot ignore the commonalities of mental illness and gun free areas. The existence of guns in civilian hands is not the problem, if it were then mass murders would be a daily occurrence in every community in the country. However, this does not stop leftists from trying to exploit every tragedy as an opportunity to attack gun rights. They don’t care about nuance or honest solutions, they just want guns out of the hands of people they don’t like. The establishment also wants guns out of public hands for obvious reasons; it makes it much easier to erode other parts of the constitution when the 2nd Amendment is no longer a deterrent. Joe Biden argues that Americans “need to stand up to the gun lobby” in the wake of the Texas shooting, but the gun lobby has nothing to do with these events either. The biggest gun lobby in the US is the American people standing in defense of their freedoms, and they have committed no crime. At bottom, no gun owner or gun rights advocate is to blame for what happened in New York or Texas this past week. We didn’t commit the crimes, but the assertion is that we should be punished anyway. Well, I’m not going to allow that, and millions of conservatives and liberty minded people are not going to allow it. The appeal for new gun control measures and confiscation is aimed at the political left, and it is designed to make them feel better about the reality of tragedy. It’s a false silver bullet solution (no pun intended). It doesn’t address the real causes of mass violence, it only makes us more vulnerable to it. Frankly, I don’t care if leftists feel better, or feel like they accomplished something when they did not. I also know that increased gun control is exciting to many of them simply because it goes against the values of people they hate – i.e. conservatives. The fact is this: No matter what tragedy arises, our right to self defense overall is more important than appeasing the emotions of the moment. We won’t be giving up our guns. It’s not going to happen. They think we will capitulate given enough threats or enough pressure, and they are wrong. It will not end well for them. Other solutions need to be explored because the path to a revision or erasure of the 2nd Amendment, whether by legislation or by executive order, is nothing more than a path to civil war. It’s time to move on from the foolish notion that taking away guns from everyone (or just the people we disagree with politically) solves the underlying causes of mass murder. It doesn’t remove the motivation, nor does it even remove the means, it only sets the stage for a conflict that leftists will find impossible to win.
Joe Biden Dems are Liars and Frauds... Gets repeatedly spanked and checked on basic facts... Biden Repeats False Claim About The Second Amendment https://summit.news/2022/05/26/biden-says-the-second-amendment-is-not-absolu... https://summit.news/2022/04/12/biden-claims-2nd-amendment-didnt-say-you-can-... https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1513594693354934276 https://jonathanturley.org/2022/05/26/president-biden-repeats-false-claim-ab... https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3501080-when-it-comes-to-gun-bans-the-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/28/bidens-false-claim-that-2... https://summit.news/2022/05/25/video-carlson-slams-unfit-biden-for-bitterly-... https://twitter.com/VoteRandyFine/status/1529427654839046144 https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2022/05/25/brevard-rep-randy-fine-de... Joe Biden declared Wednesday during remarks on the Texas school shooting that the right to bear arms in the U.S. is “not absolute”. After signing an executive order to reform policing, and wheeling out George Floyd’s family for the press, Biden addressed the shooting, saying he “just sick and tired.” “When in God’s name will we do what needs to be done to, if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of the carnage that goes on in this country?” Biden continued. Then came the kicker. “The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed, you couldn’t own a cannon…there’s always been limitations,” Biden proclaimed. Watch: Biden: "Second Amendment Is Not Absolute"; There’s Always Been Limitations pic.twitter.com/ogkYe0t46n — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 25, 2022 Biden continually makes this argument. Just last month, he repeatedly lied during a gun control speech, claiming that from its very inception the Second Amendment never allowed for Americans to own any firearms they desire. BIDEN: "You couldn't buy a cannon when the Second Amendment passed." That's not true. pic.twitter.com/absJjj3eUP — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 11, 2022 Really? “Certain people from the very beginning weren’t allowed to purchase guns.” That’s just plainly false. Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley 'fact-checked' Biden: Once again, there were no federal laws barring cannon ownership when the Second Amendment was enacted. Gun laws remained local matters and I do not know of any bans on cannons or other gun types until much later in our history. Early local laws did control concealed weapons, though concealed cannons were not part of those ordinances. Indeed, the Constitution itself supports private cannon ownership in the case of privateers. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 allows Congress to “grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal.” That allowed private parties to privateer on the high seas with . . . cannons. (Recently some members of Congress wanted to issues such letters of Marque again to enlist privateers in the fight against Russia). As with the failure to acknowledge the limitations on the range of legislative options due to Second Amendment protections, President Biden is undermining efforts to reach common ground with this repeated false claim. If we are going to reach what the President calls “commonsense” responses to this massacres, we must start from a common understanding of the constitutional and historical foundations for such reforms. It isn’t the first time Biden has made this claim. When he was running against Trump, Biden outlined his gun control manifesto, and further claimed “From the very beginning you weren’t allowed to have certain weapons,” adding “You weren’t allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.” Biden’s claim has been fact checked and found to be completely false. The Washington Post wrote that “Some readers might think this is a relatively inconsequential flub. But we disagree,” adding “Every U.S. president has a responsibility to get American history correct, especially when he’s using a supposed history lesson in service of a political objective.” “The president’s push for more gun restrictions is an important part of his political platform, so he undercuts his cause when he cites faux facts,” the Post added. As we noted yesterday, a whole host of anti-Second Amendment actors again jumped to action within minutes of the horrific event in Texas to play politics. Michael Moore literally called for immediately scrapping the Second Amendment. In response, Florida Congressman Randy Fine tweeted that Biden should “try to take our guns and you’ll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place.” I have news for the embarrassment that claims to be our President — try to take our guns and you’ll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place. — Rep. Randy Fine (@VoteRandyFine) May 25, 2022 Anti-gun ‘activists’ accused Fine of “threatening gun violence,” and immediately alerted the authorties: Let me go ahead and tag the @FBI, @CIA and @SecretService to come and scoop you up. — Ebony Jade Hilton, MD (@EbonyJHilton_MD) May 25, 2022 Reported. @VoteRandyFine just threatened gun violence the day after 19 children were slaughtered by gun violence. TF is wrong with you? https://t.co/WbKi1oGpNY — Titus (@TitusNation) May 25, 2022 Are you threatening president Biden ?because it sure sounds like it. — ✌🏼rosanna arquette (@RoArquette) May 25, 2022 This is the language of fascism, not democracy. In a democracy, we don’t threaten the president with guns (hi @SecretService) & we understand our rights must be balanced in a way that protects people. If your priority is protecting guns not babies you don’t belong in office. https://t.co/jQcBbIEbKc — Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 25, 2022 This MAGA-Republican argues we don’t need violent history checks on firearms by violently threatening the President. This is exactly why we need gun discipline in America. https://t.co/yUSED0elr1 — Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) May 25, 2022 In response, Fine told Florida Today that “Joe Biden needs to learn a history lesson,” adding that “The history of our nation is predicated on people being afraid of an overbearing federal government.” “Joe Biden can go on TV and not wait one minute before he blames Republicans and demands our guns be seized. That’s apparently ‘peace and unity.’ We respond and we’re riling people up,” Fine further asserted, adding that “If the president of the United States wants to politicize a tragedy, he should expect people to get angry in return.”
Armed interested responsible civilians onsite to be better than faraway cops response, cops prevented civilian response, as always problem not guns but social issues, and gun free zones... "It took between 40 minutes and 1 hour from when Ramos began opening fire to when the CBP agent, backed by his tactical team, shot him." One parent, Javier Cazares... raced to the school... only to find that police weren't moving in... "Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to" "Go in there! Go in there!" women shouted at the police soon after the attack began, according to neighbor Juan Carranza, who told the Associated Press about the parents' efforts to get the police to confront the shooter. Carranza said the officers did not go in. Uvalde Shooter Fired Gun For 12 Minutes Outside School Before Entering https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/26/onlookers_urged_police... The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas lingered outside for 12 minutes firing shots at people in a funeral home across the street, before scaling a fence onto school grounds where he fired more shots. He then entered the school and barricading himself in a classroom before opening fire, according to the Wall Street Journal. Victor Escalon, a regional director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said he couldn’t say why no one stopped the deceased gunman, 18 year-old Salvador Ramos, from entering the school during that time Tuesday. Most of the shots Ramos fired came during the first several minutes when he entered the school, Mr. Escalon said. DPS officials previously said an armed school officer confronted Ramos as he arrived at the school. Mr. Escalon said Thursday that information was incorrect and no one encountered Ramos as he arrived at the school. “There was not an officer readily available and armed,” Mr. Escalon said. -WSJ Ramos began Tuesday morning shooting his grandmother in the face, then using her truck to drive to the school - crashing it into a ditch at around 11:28 am according to a timeline laid out by Escalon. Texas law enforcement officials ignored pleas from distraught parents as a gunman was left alone for up to an hour at a Texas elementary school - killing 19 children and two teachers, before a Border Patrol agent charged into the school and killed the suspect. A woman cries as she leaves the Uvalde Civic Center, where authorities were reuniting children from Robb Elementary School with their parents after the shooting. William Luther, Staff, San Antonio Express-News "Go in there! Go in there!" women shouted at the police soon after the attack began, according to neighbor Juan Carranza, who told the Associated Press about the parents' efforts to get the police to confront the shooter. Carranza said the officers did not go in. Minutes earlier, Carranza had watched as Salvador Ramos crashed his truck into a ditch outside the school, grabbed his AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and shot at two people outside a nearby funeral home who ran away uninjured. Officials say he “encountered” a school district security officer outside the school, though there were conflicting reports from authorities on whether the men exchanged gunfire. After running inside, he fired on two arriving Uvalde police officers who were outside the building, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine. The police officers were injured. -RealClear Politics One parent, Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter Jacklyn was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, only to find that police weren't moving in. A family grieves outside of the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) "Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to," he said, adding "More could have been done." "There were five or six of [us] fathers, hearing the gunshots, and [police officers] were telling us to move back," he told the Washington Post. "We didn’t care about us. We wanted to storm the building. We were saying, ‘Let’s go’ because that is how worried we were, and we wanted to get our babies out." One clip shows officers tackling parents outside the school to prevent them from rushing in. However, the precise timeline of the below videos compared to what was happening inside the school remains unclear... This video make so much more sense now. The cops literally stopped parents from helping their kids. pic.twitter.com/zhQfUjlpjd https://t.co/DqgZUH3uCC — Matt Novak (@paleofuture) May 26, 2022 That said, it now appears as if several cops may have entered the school to save their own children while the shooting was unfolding and the parents were being held back. It's not super explicit but this does sound like Texas DPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez confirming that cops entered the school to save their own children during the shooting while police were holding back families and refusing to go in outside. https://t.co/YNRZ1ObxwA — Evan Hill (@evanhill) May 26, 2022 After Ramos entered the school, he charged into one classroom and began to open fire. According to Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Department of Public Safety, he "barricaded himself by locking the door and just started shooting children and teachers that were inside that classroom." According to Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw, it took between 40 minutes and 1 hour from when Ramos began opening fire to when the CBP agent, backed by his tactical team, shot him. Not only did cops with long guns have their tasers out, ready to stop parents from saving their own children, it looks like the cops have one parent pinned to the ground. You can hear one person yell, "what the fuck are you doing to him? Let him up!" pic.twitter.com/zW5V9FJ2r0 — Matt Novak (@paleofuture) May 26, 2022 Two Uvalde police officers were among the first on the scene - engaging the shooter after he had entered the building when they were both shot and injured. "When the cops came, the cop said: ‘Yell if you need help!’ And one of the persons in my class said ‘help.’ The [shooter] overheard and he came in and shot her," a boy who hid under a table in his classroom told KENS5 news. "The cop barged into that classroom. The guy shot at the cop. And the cops started shooting." Of note, in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, police waited outside the school and didn’t enter until almost two hours after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold started shooting—and an hour after they’d committed suicide. In the meantime, they killed a dozen students and a teacher. Columbine shocked the nation and marked a shift in tactical philosophy: Police officers are now expected to enter buildings with active shooters as rapidly as possible, regardless of their equipment or training. As a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department briefing on the topic explains, “Officers realize and accept the dangers, they also realize if they do nothing, more people will die or be injured than if they had taken action.”
as always problem not guns but social issues, and gun free zones...
“For far too long [we’ve] failed to look back at the root causes of rampage violence,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said. “Questions involving things like ‘Why is our culture suddenly producing so many young men who wanna murder innocent people?’ It raises questions like, could things like fatherlessness, isolation from families, the breakdown of civil society or the glorification of violence be contributing factors? “But instead the left once again is calling for more gun control." Lee also blasted gun control groups like the Brady Campaign for “[wasting] no time in trying to profit off of this tragedy,” noting that immediately following news of the shooting several gun control groups sent out emails asking for donations to “play off of [peoples’] emotions” about the shooting. Sen. Cotton during his questioning of Dettelbach asked for a definition of the word “assault weapon,” a catch-all term often used by gun control advocates Cotton noted “you called for a ban on ‘assault weapons.’ What is an ‘assault weapon,’ could you define it for me?” “Senator, when I was a candidate for office I did talk about restrictions on assault weapons, I did not define the term and I haven’t gone through the process of defining that term,” Dettelbach admitted. “So you’re running for public office and you called for a ban on assault weapons but you don’t have a definition for assault weapons?” Cotton asked. Photo Bomb, Chicago Style - Man Points Gun At Live TV Crew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEnPmPGF4aY "Thugsters need arrested, corporal spanked in public, sent to community service programs for years... break that attitude!" During a live shot from the corner of Clark and Hubbard Streets in downtown, a man crossed behind reporter Joanie Lum and pointed it over her shoulder at the crew. Video then shows him pointing the gun across the street before merrily skipping away down the sidewalk. So far, there’s no media framing of the incident as an example of black-on-Asian violence. Chicago police are gently referring to the man in Wednesday’s TV incident as a “person of interest.”
Thugsters, the Abdullah's and other criminals of the world, don't give a fuck about gun laws and bans, and have no problems getting guns... "Do your job ... Get crime off the streets." NYC Subway Shooter Who Killed Goldman Banker Had "About 20 Prior Arrests", Including Murder Charge From 2017 Just two days ago we reported about the unfortunate death of a Goldman Sachs analyst, who was shot dead on the northbound Q train as it passed the Manhattan Bridge. Daniel Enriquez, who joined Goldman's research division in 2013, was shot in the chest in an unprovoked attack. According to NYPost at the time, the family of Enriquez had only one message for Mayor Eric Adams: "Do your job ... Get crime off the streets." And they make a crucial point, especially as it relates to this specific attack. Why? Because it was revealed in follow up reporting yesterday that the suspect, 25 year old Andrew Abdullah of Brooklyn (who has now been placed in custody), had "about 20 prior arrests" for "assault, robbery, menacing and grand larceny", ABC News reported this week. ' In fact, the same report notes that he has "three cases that are still pending, including an April arrest for fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property for allegedly being found with a stolen motorcycle, as well as a June 2021 arrest for violating a protective order and March 2021 arrest for assault." But wait...that's not all. According to ABC: In January 2020, Abdullah was arrested as part of a gun-related case and in May 2017 he was charged with second-degree attempted murder as part of an 83-count federal indictment of the Harlem-based street gangs Fast Money and Nine Block. Abdullah was sentenced to three years in federal prison, but served just four months before being released in 2019. When Mayor Adams and 埃里克 Swalwell predictably propose more gun control please point them to this: https://t.co/5WF9Xcf9W8 pic.twitter.com/UZOgyWmORr — Bearded Miguel (@beardedmiguel) May 24, 2022 Goldman CEO David Solomon described Enriquez as a "dedicated and beloved" colleague. "We are devastated by this senseless tragedy and our deepest sympathies are with Dan's family at this difficult time," Solomon said in a statement. Sunday's train attack comes a little more than a month after the shooting in April on the N train left nearly two dozen people injured. Confidence in riding public transportation has plummeted as violence soars across the city. Meanwhile, delusional Mayor Eric Adams has been focused on trying to get JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to ride the subway to work in the morning. Maybe he should focus on cleaning up the streets so that people with 20 prior arrests aren't wandering free - and then Dimon will consider his offer.
Gun Control Advocacy Group Plans Nationwide Protests After Texas School Shooting https://www.theepochtimes.com/gun-control-advocacy-group-plans-nationwide-pr... "A student-led gun control advocacy group is planning nationwide protests." No, most big lefty groups are funded and run via chains leading back to grand manipulators Soros, Gates, Schwab, Clinton, Democrat orgs, PAC's etc. Any original "students" if not outright, are then groomed, exploited, programmed, paid, and subsumed into them. Resource, coordination, and control needs dictate that that's how global and national political groups work at scale. “Our message and ask is simple: no longer will we be held hostage by our lawmakers and no longer will we tolerate feeling unsafe in our communities” Here they admit that politicians, thugs, failure to take up personal and community self-defense, and FUD brainwashing are their problems, not guns. “Regardless of what party you stand for, if you do not support lifesaving measures like universal background checks, we will pledge to vote against you this fall and in future elections.” Grandstanding for show, they're already voting against the right and for the left anyways. BGC's never saved any lives from any killers either, most of whom had no prior disqualifying records anyways. "March for Our Lives says it believes gun violence across the country is the result of gun glorification, political apathy, poverty, armed supremacy, and a nationwide mental health crisis." “President Biden and all our elected officials must act with a fierce urgency to call this crisis what it is: a national public health emergency,” the group states on its website." Again they all clearly admit that other things are the root problem, not guns. "The group proposes proactively addressing these issues while banning assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and other weapons, and holding the gun industry and lobbyists more accountable, and a national gun buy-back program to reduce the estimated 265–393 million firearms in circulation by at least 30 percent." Yet instead of addressing what they freely admit are the real problems, they continue trying to ban everyone's highest natural rights to defense and overthrow of their tyrannical govts, frivolously sue people they don't like, and stealing people's property under threat of prison and murder. "The group proposes proactively addressing these issues via policies to disarm gun owners who pose a harm risk." “When in God’s name will we do what needs to be done to, if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of the carnage that goes on in this country?” Biden said. Here they grab guns of people they have no idea how to qualify, or simply don't like for say freespeech or political religious other affiliations and label them "risks" of "harm" to their causes. All while still refusing to do any real hands-on work and assume their bespoke social responsibility to actually help the troubled at risk human being. “When it was passed, you couldn’t own … a cannon, you couldn’t own certain kinds of weapons.” Here Biden outright lies out his ass for at least the third time. "Biden: We know certain ones will have a significant impact and have no negative impact on the Second Amendment." Biden always the apologist for tyranny, ignorant of the reality of 500M guns, 100M gun owners, and makers movement, and ignorant and opportunist denier of reasons why the 2nd Amendment exists. "A bill requiring them, titled the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, or H.R. 8, passed the House in March 2021 but the Republican-controlled Senate has not taken it up." For good reason, it's not "bipartisan" else they'd take it, and just like "drugs" interpersonal trade cannot be stopped, creates a formal gun registry which leads to future political persecution as all registries do, imposes undue cost burdens and delay of defense, etc... and does absolutely nothing to address the admitted real underlying root problems. Check world history... gun grabbing lying big govt socialist rager censoring taxing frauds are a genuine risk to actual freedom. They can also move to any of 190+ gun free countries instead of trying to erase and homogenize away the last country that maintains at least a degree of freedom therein.
Crypto and cryptocurrencies and books and internet and speech and... are all munitions they try to ban too. @MarkRobinsonNC spittin truthfire! https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1530302876647665665 When time matters... https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1530314772108955651 https://twitter.com/johnrich/status/1529686361703337985 "There are thousands of laws on the books across the country that limit the owning or using of firearms, laws that have not stopped madmen from carrying out evil acts on innocent people in peaceful communities," he said, adding that the gunman committed a felony before "he even pulled the trigger" by carrying a gun on a school campus. -- Abbott https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1530313201367363584 President Donald Trump says it's time for highly trained teachers to be allowed to carry concealed firearms to protect children at schools. #NRAconvention "Our schools should be the single-hardest target in our country." Gun grabbers never address some actual problems... https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1530311626175528961 https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1530312115008970753 Gun control myths busted... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-benny-show/id1584730781 Rights... https://twitter.com/apexworldnews/status/1530422484016803842 Timely self-defense... https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/27/alleged-attacker-with-an-ar-15... A likely mass shooting was stopped on Wednesday in West Virginia. A man came in to a graduation party firing an AR-15 at the crowd but a woman carrying a gun shot and killed him before he hit anyone. This is why our right to own guns & carry is so critical! https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1530312533013319681 Leftists don't want you to see this... https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1529839869182324737 It's understandable why some, in the aftermath of a shooting, will ask, "Why are there so many guns in so many hands?" But I think the far more important question is this: "Why are there so many young men suffering from depression, depravity, and derangement? https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1530357140191186944 I have spent the past few days researching the training of Uvalde officers, including the tactics they were expected to use to halt school shooters. The documents are jarring. Here’s a thread of our findings so far... https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1530237453801603072 Tired of people acting like Texas law enforcement didn’t spring into action to save those children. They armored up and brought out the MRAP and went in there ready for battle. Oh wait. This was what they did to a bar that tried to serve some beer during COVID lockdowns. https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1529900705363939354 Who ordered the stand down? https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok https://twitter.com/electionwiz Hypocrites... https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFTxvCVWWQAAiCrq.jpg Self proclaimed "anti-facist" proves antifa are no better than the authoritarians they claim to fight against... https://twitter.com/DrewHLive/status/1530279030611664897 https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1530405094256156677 Ethan Klein of H3 Podcast calling for violence and provoking the public to “bomb” the NRA conference For the left, respecting black people was so 2020... https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-antifa-gun-control-activists-rage-outsid... Retarded bespittled ragers... https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1530294983877697542 Beto the unwanted child exploiter... https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1530293257980334081 https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1529861180919099394 https://twitter.com/DrewHLive/status/1530285604352802820 Biden the geriatric parkinsonian amnesiac stroke having eye bleeding brain surgeried dementia lifetime angry mental rager is hardly rational or capable on this, or anything else either... https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1530293719840313345 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-benny-show/id1584730781 https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1529956368773439494 Blah blah Biden, tyrant and liar... https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1529864608223199232 Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, and confirmed active shooter and law ignorer, killed American children... drone strike, and was never arrested and tried by jury. @BarackObama bizarre attempt at linking, tries to manufacture race war out of this... As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer. His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1529900705363939354 Who ordered the stand down?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra When something raises the power of Govt and Elites, when they clamor politicize and opportune for authoritarian rulership, when their history is rife with such things and corruption, nothing should be excluded from examination. So says Internet fora.
Democrat-Liberal owned and operated gun grabbing Fake News Media routinely refuse to print proof that gun owners save lives more than killers kill, if they were fair, these defense actions would also be headline news for weeks, since they aren't they're obviously corrupt and Dem biased News Media, and are pumping the news full of carnage to motivate copycats and gun grabbers, instead of defenders to demotivate copies and put distributed defense, all for corrupt political gain of their Democrat masters... Media Silent as Armed Woman Kills Active Shooter with AR-15 As He Opened Fire on Graduation Celebration https://www.foxnews.com/us/west-virginia-woman-shoots-kills-man-fired-party
So police will break down a door in full military gear, guns pointing at some poor streamer’s head when a fake swatting call is made, but they sit outside a school doing nothing for 90 mins when they hear real gunshots? Gun control? What about SSRI control? https://preview.redd.it/oo6016sbgp191.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku The 3 deadliest school shooters in US history were all on anti-depressants. https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2019/09/37-mass-shooters-who-were-o... https://www.ssristories.net/school-shootings/ https://ssristories.org/ http://www.antidepressantstatistics.com/ The Texas Shooter had the Same Weapon that was found at the Vegas Shooting.
Cold hard fact for Libtard gun grabbers... https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court... https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have... Yes it is, but the police are not legally required to protect you or your kids in all situations. Look up the case of Joseph Lozito from New York. He was stabbed multiple times while two cops watched. He was able to subdue his attacker, and that's when the police decided to step in. He sued, and lost. We all are responsible for protecting ourselves, our families, and our communities. Don't let these gun grabbers convince you that you'll be better off allowing the police to "protect" you. No one wants to take away your guns No one wants to shut down your business No one wants lockdowns to continue more than necessary No one is going to force you to have a vaccine passport No one is teaching your kids critical race theory These are all just conspiracy theories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI TastefulTuna: Fuck The Dept https://i.redd.it/g8fjsgaz17291.jpg Tired of people acting like Texas law enforcement didn't spring into action to save those children. They armored up and brought out the MRAP and went in there ready for battle. Oh wait. This was what they did to a bar that tried to serve some beer during COVID lockdowns. https://twitter.com/WaltonNJohnson/status/1257846430737338373 https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/SPD-pay-top-ten-W... https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/06/23/why-the-city-of-sea... Its extortion at its finest they literally come to your car with a gun and demand you pay money. Are you allowed to walk up to a random person demand ID, possibly detain said person and take things from them? Honestly I have no idea how civil asset forfeiture is not uniting Americans against it. The way it is used in practice is tyranny and theft by the state. The only explanation I have is that civil asset forfeiture is so outrageous that most people don't believe it's real. Like they think it's not possible that cops in many jurisdictions can just roll up and take your shit at gunpoint and leave without arresting you for anything. If you are a police officer and you are unwilling to run toward gunfire, to protect little kids... Quit. Quit tomorrow. Find another job. Home Depot is hiring. Do something else. So police will break down a door in full military gear, guns pointing at some poor streamer’s head when a fake swatting call is made, but they sit outside a school doing nothing for 90 mins when they hear real gunshots? It sucks those kids died, but we should be thinking about George Floyd -- Obama
Justin Trudeau the pansy assed Gimp for the US Liberals, who CA resident vloggers love to hate, bans and grabs guns to pave way for US Biden-Dems to point and follow... https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-trudeau-announces-legislation... "We're implementing a national freeze on handgun ownership." This also applies to police and gov't right? They don't get to keep handguns either right? Handguns were already all but banned in Canada. The same government that arrested and froze people's bank accounts for protesting. Yeah, this won't be abused for control or anything. Parse that carefully... they said "freeze" which implies it will be "temporary", NO they are LYING it will be forever, they said "ownership" which means gun grabs, by force. Did you all catch that fucking Evil Smile Trudeau flashed, only lasted for a split second as he forced himself to suppress it, God damned scary evil shit right there. Top five reasons the 2nd Amendment exists... 1) Overthrow of Tyrannical Government 2) Self defense, Defense of others 3) Defense against invasion 4) The shooting sports 5) Provision of food If I was a Canadian ....I would be stocking up on rifles and as much ammo as you can get your hands on. A government would only ban guns after 200 years if they intend on doing something you would shoot them for. - I’m buying a new gun tomorrow. -- I'm gonna have a boat accident tomorrow. --- If it's time to lose them, it's time to use them. This guy is a fucking dictator.. does canada have a gun violence problem? specifically with handguns? Doubt it. As soon as people understand that this isn't a country-specific thing and realize this is all in lockstep across the world they will better be able to come to grips with what is coming. Groomed as one of the WEF young leaders. - Whoa they’re actually doing it? Things about to get even more wild. - That’s what I’m saying that’s crazyyyy - A “red flag" law which would require people deemed a threat to themselves or others to turn in their firearms to law enforcement. - Wonder what other gems are in this bill. - Basically means you can take guns from anyone on a whim... If you honk your horn too much you're a domestic terrorist in Canada so imagine how low the bar is to be considered in a red flag law. Well in 1931 the Weimer Republic established a gun registry to track extremist groups like the Nazis. In 1933, when the Nazis seized power they then used those same records to identify, and disarm, their political opponents. After they had seized their political opponents guns, they were able to enact a cleansing of society, starting by trumped up charges against political opponents and placing them in labor camps, with little real opposition Wait, what, a spoken intent of *direct self-inflicted* harm of *suicide* is now a threat to others?, and the State somehow has jurisdiction over your body to keep you from *self suiciding*? Whoa! These USA and Canada gun grabbing politicians are going to initiate hundreds of thousands of SWAT raids where innocent people end up getting murdered for defending their rights to own guns. This will spark a revolutionary war as gun owners have always said gun grabbing is the last line in the sand. The ultimate veto is guns. Banning guns is not gonna stop people from having guns when people are still gonna make them and sell them on the streets. Its not to take it away from criminals but from average Canadians that could oppose a tyrannical regime. My mom was in Uruguay when they had gun control and it was totalitarian ran. She was a kid and at her aunts house when it got raided because officers heard her uncle had guns but he wasn’t home. The place got trashed and when he got home he asked if they had taken his guns, her aunt said no and he went to the spots he hid them to check on them and they were still there. Point of this story is that people are gonna keep their guns. People are gonna have guns. He’s a POS. Why does this even matter up here in canada? The few people that own handguns (legally) have to follow all this crazy protocol just to have one. Justin Fidel Castro is such an actor. A deep state puppet and overall POS. It’s pretty hard to own a handgun in Canada and a real pain in the ass (before this passed). If you wanted to take your handgun to the range you had to call RCMP and let them know where your going and that’s the only place you can take it. It must be unloaded and locked in a safe at all times. He wants to do that now because he's planning on increasing mandates in the fall and he knows it will push many over the edge. Yep, it's annoying people can't see disarmament always comes right before authoritarianism. It's a pattern throughout history. As an American, I own one gun. After seeing this, I might go buy a couple more. Why? Because we can't trust our police or our government to take care of us. That's the strange thing, every time they say they want to get rid of guns, sales and production go up. Surely they're aware that every time over decades that they make these supposed moves that it encourages people who otherwise wouldn't own one, to start considering it. As with all laws... This law isnt for criminals this is for obedient citizens. Criminals have more rights. Funny, it's people like Trudeau that makes me think about getting a gun. What a fucking sick bunch of cowards with their masks of shame on behind this feckless little perpetual blackface wearing asshole. This fucker just wreaks of dictator vibes. You can't leave your country if you aren't vaccinated, can't get on a bus or a plane and now you can't own a handgun to protect yourself... that's a fucking police state. Tyranny is about to go into hyperdrive folks. Govern and police me harder daddy, expand them government powers. Next they are coming for your horns, honk! Stock up on ammunition and guns cause the United Nations are coming to a state near you. They don’t want you owning guns cause if every citizen had a gun the government would be overthrown. There is no reason. Trudeau just wants an excuse to increase authoritarianism, similar to how the U.S. government put on mass surveillance and the Patriot Act, all under the excuse of “counter-terrorism”. Didn’t democrats spark the biggest rise in gun sales in American history after their summer of love riots? This is why there can be no compromise on gun control. The gun grabbers will not stop until they have banned all guns. Don’t forget about Broward County, FL where they just stood around as well.
Is it possible for Biden-Libs to be this fucking ignorant? https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUHvhkhXwAAhOVO.jpg https://twitter.com/dhookstead/status/1531306086917189633 Probe the depths of their ignorance... ask them what "AR" stands for. https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUG3wT2WUAEtEV8.jpg Guns https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUF166RXoAEfzFF.jpg Biden Hypocrite https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUDOQ10WUAAhNY_.jpg Trudeau Hypocrite https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUBLQBgUsAAtWTa.jpg Liberals https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUHFpbhXsAADQTF.jpg Illogical https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUDOT2OXEAA8N6k.jpg Coward https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUC_aKdWIAExyTE.jpg Police https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUCKt33WQAAwUW-.jpg Police https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUDdozTWUAAhH8U.png 88mph http://3dprintergobrrr.com/ https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFUDZgJhXoAANZYL.jpg Oh Canada! https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1808/text This bans possession of every semiautomatic firearm in existence, be it rifle, pistol or shotgun. Every magazine for a semiautomatic in existence. Literally 95% or more of the firearms market. But nobody wants ban guns. They don’t want to ban guns. They want a monopoly on them. 40+ slaughtered in Chicago gun-free zone, over 100 shot, memorial weekend, gangland violence of Democrats failed cities, when can we expect Joe Biden to swing by and give a speech? There is no rational basis for Uncle Joe living in the White House, yet here we are. Uvalde city, ISD police dept. no longer cooperating with school shooting probe - ABC News https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/us/texas-shooting-911-call-press-conferen... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10871737/New-footage-reveals-Uvalde... "Uvalde cops DID know kids were alive in classroom with gunman: Damning footage captures child victim saying they had been shot and shooter had entered class - when police chief insisted the kids were dead"
Onslaught of flat out unconstitutional and does-nothing bills crawling out of Beto's Democrat gun grabbers offices, here's New York's latest pile of crap... Meanwhile, after Democrat Chicago Mayor fails to cure her own ghetto violence, another mental nutcase blows away five in a hospital, because as with schools, no security plus "gun free zones" = easy mass murder target. New York Governor To Raise Age Limit For Semi-Automatic Rifle Purchases, Ban Body Armor New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and top state lawmakers announced ten bills that have been introduced in both the Assembly and Senate that would tighten New York's gun laws following the mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas. The bills would raise the minimum age to purchase a semiautomatic rifle to 21 years old from 18, prohibit the purchase of body armor for anyone not eligible (NY tried to ban it last year), require a license to buy a semiautomatic rifle, eliminate grandfathering of large-capacity ammunition feeding devices (otherwise known as extended magazines), strengthen the Red Flag law, and require new pistols to include microstamping technology for tracing. Gov. Hochul, Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Speaker Carl Heastie announced the introduction of the ten new bills on Tuesday. The bills are expected to gain traction as the public outcry for lawmakers to do something increases after the recent mass shootings. The legislative package includes: A.1023-A (Paulin)/S.4970-A (Kavanagh) Requires all state and local law enforcement agencies to report seized or recovered guns to the criminal gun clearinghouse; participate in ATFs collective data sharing program; test-fire seized or recovered guns for national integrated Ballistic Information Network; and, enter the make, model, caliber, and serial number of the gun into the national crime information center. Also requires gun dealers to implement a security plan for securing firearms, rifles and shotguns; prohibit persons under eighteen and not accompanied by a parent from the certain locations of a gun dealer's premises; provide training to all employees on the conduct of firearm, rifle, and shotgun transfers, including identification of and response to illegal purchases; adhere to record keeping requirements; and require the State police to conduct inspections of gun dealers every three years. A.6716-A (Wallace)/S89-B (Kaminsky): Creates the crimes of making a threat of mass harm and aggravated making a threat of mass harm. A.7926-A (Rosenthal, L)/S.4116-A (Hoylman): Requires DCJS to certify or decline to certify that microstamping-enabled pistols are technologically viable and if certified as viable, to establish programs and processes for the implementation of such technology; and, establishes the crime of the unlawful sale of a non-microstamping-enabled firearm A7865-A (Fahy)/ S.4511-A (Kaplan): Requires social media networks in New York to provide a clear and concise policy regarding how they would respond to incidents of hateful conduct on their platform and maintain easily accessible mechanisms for reporting hateful conduct on those platforms A.10428-A (People-Stokes)/S.9229-A (Hoylman): Eliminates the grandfathering of large capacity ammunition feeding devices that were lawfully possessed prior to the enactment of the Safe Act or manufactured prior to 1994. A. 10497 (Jacobson)/S.9407-B (Kavanagh): Makes unlawful the purchase and sale of body vests for anyone who is not engaged in an eligible profession. Eligible professions include law enforcement officers and other professions designated by the Department of State in consultation with other agencies. Also requires that any sale of a body vest be done in person. A.10501 (Meeks)/S. 9465 (Bailey) Creates a new Task Force on Social Media and Violent Extremism in the Attorney General's office to study and investigate the role of social media companies in promoting and facilitating violent extremism and domestic terrorism online. A. 10502 (Cahill)/S. 9113-A (Skoufis): Expands who may file an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) petition to include health care practitioners who have examined the individual within the last six months; requires police and district attorneys to file ERPO petitions upon credible information that an individual is likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to himself, herself or others; requires the State Police and the Municipal Police Training Council to create and disseminate policies and procedures to identify when an ERPO petition may be warranted; amends the firearm licensing statute to make it clear that when an individual has been reported by a mental health practitioner and a county mental health commissioner has concurred with such practitioner that the individual is likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to themself or others, such report is considered in determining whether or not to issue a firearm license to the individual; and, expands the mental health practitioners who can make such reports. A10503 (Jackson)/S. 9458 (Thomas): Requires that an individual obtain a license prior purchasing a semiautomatic rifle. This is prospective and applies to purchases made on and after the effective date. A. 10504 (Burgos)/S. 9456 (Sepulveda) Expands the definition of a "firearm" to include any weapon not defined in the Penal Law that is designed or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of an explosive. This is intended to capture firearms that have been modified to be shot from an arm brace, which are evading our current definitions of firearms and rifles. "Within the last month, two horrific mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas have rattled this nation to our core and shed a new light on the urgent need for action to prevent future tragedies," the governor said. "New York already has some of the toughest gun laws in the country but clearly we need to make them even stronger. New Yorkers deserve to feel safe in schools, in grocery stores, in movie theaters, in shopping malls, and on our streets -- and we must do everything in our power to protect them. Working closely with Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Speaker Heastie, and all of our partners in the legislature, we will strengthen our gun laws, help keep New Yorkers safe, give law enforcement the tools they need to prevent crime, and stop the spread of dangerous weapons. As New York once again leads, we continue to urge the federal government to seize this opportunity and pass meaningful national gun violence prevention laws," the governor continued. "Just 10 days separated the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde that took the lives of 31 people. Nowhere else in the world is this happening. We are in desperate need of a conversation about guns, but we are also in desperate need of action." Speaker Carl Heastie said. In a statement, chair of the New York State Republican Committee Nick Langworthy responded to the governor's push for even stricter gun laws, pointing out it doesn't even address America's mental health crisis: "This package of bills does nothing to actually address the underlying mental health crisis at the center of the problem or invests in securing our schools. If Hochul and legislative leaders cared about shooting victims, they would vote today to repeal their disastrous bail laws that has turned our streets over to violent criminals." New Yorkers who already own a semiautomatic rifle or body armor will be grandfathered in if the bills are passed. Other states would likely follow New York's move. Also, Democrats in Washington, D.C., are pushing bills to raise age limits to buy guns and ban high-capacity magazines. Podcaster Joe Rogan warned last week that Democrats are coming for your guns and argued that criminals would be the only ones left with firearms.
Hey you Democrats, put "Gun Free Home" sign on your front lawn. Gun Control Narrative Omits Cases Where Guns Save Lives: Erich Pratt https://www.theepochtimes.com/lefts-narrative-pushing-gun-control-omits-case... https://www.ntd.com/erich-pratt-on-debate-over-gun-rights-after-shooting_786... https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-second-amendment https://crimeresearch.org/2018/06/more-misleading-information-from-bloomberg... https://www.gunowners.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PoliceOnes-2013-Gun-Pol... The left’s push for more gun control omit the many cases that go against their narrative, such as instances where guns were used to neutralize shooters, according to Erich Pratt, the senior vice president of Gun Owners of America (GOA), a gun rights advocacy organization that represents more than 2 million Americans. “The left is all about pushing gun control. It’s absolutely disgusting what they’re doing. They’re pushing gun control, they’re fundraising off of this within hours of the shooting,” Pratt told NTD’s Capitol Report, referring to the May 24 shooting that killed 21 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “And really, it’s despicable because it becomes clear they only care about certain deaths,” he said. Erich Pratt, Senior Vice President for Gun Owners of America, in an interview on NTD's Capitol Report, on May 28, 2022. (NTD/Screenshot via The Epoch Times) Politicians and activists pushing for gun control neglect to talk about cities that already have the policies they want to implement for the entire nation, he said. “For example, more than 40 people have been shot and killed in Chicago this month. In the last 30 days, in Baltimore, there had been 20 people shot and killed. But the left is not talking about that. They’re not fundraising off of Chicago or Baltimore because they already have very strict gun control,” Pratt noted. “Those cities don’t serve their cause—[they] have red-flag, gun confiscation orders, they have universal background registration checks, they have so-called assault weapons bans, they have everything that the left is trying to push on us, and yet they have murders out the wazoo in those two cities that they can’t control it. “And what that tells us, obviously, is that gun control is not the answer,” he said. Pratt noted examples of past deadly attacks that did not involve guns, and said that blaming a certain instrument for mass attacks is “short-sighted because no law that bans a certain object is going to stop an evil-determined heart from killing.” “What’s amazing, and this is one of the things that the anti-gun left does, is they only talk about certain uses of a firearm, which fit their narrative when they’re used in a bad way. But then they won’t talk about firearms when they’re actually used to stop mass shootings,” Pratt said. Pratt noted how, on May 25, the day after the mass shooting in Uvalde, a woman with a concealed carry permit in West Virginia shot and killed a man who had started firing an AR-style rifle into a crowd of people at a birthday-graduation party. He accused the left-wing media of generating opposition to people’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms “by only selectively talking about certain stories,” and neglecting stories that show how guns may be used to avert more deaths. “A lot of times where there has been a lot of killing … they are brought to an end by a good guy with a gun,” he said. Pratt shared the story of Stephen Willeford, who is currently GOA’s spokesperson. As an armed citizen, Willeford in November 2017 stopped a shooter at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, from potentially killing more people. “Sadly, everyone at that church in Sutherland Springs did not have a gun on that day except for the bad guy,” Pratt said. “But when Steven Willeford, who lived down the street heard the shooting, he ran out of his house barefoot with his AR-15 [and] called the guy out of the church. That guy came out and Steven mortally wounded him.” “I mean, the guy got in his car, drove off but eventually took his own life because he was wounded so bad,” he continued. “The FBI cited that case and many other cases as examples where armed citizens use guns to stop attempted mass murders.” Pratt argued against the concept of gun-free zones, saying they only serve to be places where shooters seek to go. The Uvalde shooting was an example of that, he noted. “It’s really important to point out that in most cases, these killers will try to seek out a location where it’s a gun-free zone. You know, 81 percent of police agree that teachers and staff should be armed, and with good reason because no school has ever had a mass shooting where there were armed teachers and staff,” he said. “But tragically, that wasn’t the case at the Texas School. Police were reportedly not quick to rush in. And this Texas school didn’t take part in the program that allows teachers to be armed, so it was a gun-free zone. “And again, that’s what killers often choose to target. And why would 94 percent of mass shooters target gun-free zones? Because they don’t want bullets being fired back at them. “That’s why they don’t target police stations or gun shows because killers love gun control. And sadly, that’s what enabled this killer in Texas.”
Coe said “numerous” teachers on campus are armed and trained in what to do. Coe said the active shooter response protocol is, “Basically, the first one on scene, we’re going in. “We’re not going to sit around and wait for backup. If I have to go in alone, or the deputies have to go in alone, if by chance there’s two of them, we’re going in and we’re going to the source.” He said he couldn’t think of a scenario in which he wouldn’t go in and head to the gunfire. “We don’t have time to wait,” Coe said. “As soon as [active shooters] are challenged, nine times out of 10, if they haven’t barricaded themselves in, the minute they’re challenged, they either run or commit suicide. And that’s just statistics.” He said the local school has panic buttons situated in the hallways, cafeteria, and locker rooms that directly transmit to anyone with a radio issued by the sheriff’s office. A red button connects to the sheriff’s office and a blue button to EMS, Coe said.
Despite fact that ending "gun free zones" and hardening soft targets works, Democrats insist on sparking civil war, just like they did with sparking race riots in 2020. If it's a war they want, and a war they will lose, grabbing guns is the surest way to start one. https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1531733747707813888 Democrat Beto O’Rourke wants to CONFISCATE guns from law-abiding Americans. “I don’t think that the people who have them right now in civilian use should be able to keep them.” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/beto-orourke-ar-15-owners-shouldnt-keep-the... Beto O’Rourke wants door-to-door confiscation of guns by the government. Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said existing owners of semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15 shouldn’t "be able to keep them." Biden Democrat Admin refuses to support defense, because doing so would not be in their interests of power... cause problem, proclaim yourselves as faux Saviour, and fuck everyone over further beholding them to you as the solution... classic tactic... JEAN-PIERRE: "There's been a conversation about hardening schools. That is not something Biden believes in."
https://www.youtube.com/c/ActiveSelfProtection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU7Eas_F7fw Cop told about active shooter killer in progress and makes no move to help public or stop shooter, then cop hears about already downed cop and races in with gun drawn to help cop. Ignorant Biden: "No Rational Basis" For 9mm Ammo In Self-Defense https://nypost.com/2022/05/30/biden-goes-on-anti-gun-tirade-suggests-theres-... https://shootingindustry.com/industry-news/charting-9mms-dominance-in-2010s/ In spontaneous remarks on the White House lawn Sunday morning, President Joe Biden pointed his shaky gun control sights at the most popular self-defense cartridge in America. Recalling a trip to a New York trauma center, Biden said: “They said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out—may be able to get it and save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body. So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of...self-protection, hunting.” It's not the first time Biden has condemned 9mm weapons. In 2019, Biden noted that Americans aren't allowed to own machine guns or bazookas before asking, “Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?” As the New York Post notes, 9mm pistols dominate Americans' holsters, nightstands and gun cabinets: According to Shooting Industry magazine, 9mm pistols accounted for 56.8% of all handguns made in the US during 2019. In all, more than 15.1 million 9mm guns were produced in this country during the 2010s. The possibility of outlawing or otherwise regulating such weapons are likely to be a non-starter among conservatives and gun rights advocates. Aside from the complete implausibility of enacting restrictions on 9mm weapons and ammunition, Biden's scatterbrained commentary betrays his fundamental misunderstanding of the very nature of armed self-defense when faced with the threat of death or great bodily harm. When using a pistol or any firearm to stop such a threat, it's understood that one is using deadly force. It isn't a game of "tag, you're it." The popular Active Self Protection YouTube channel has real-life examples of assailants reanimating after being struck multiple times by police ammunition—likely 9mm or larger .40-caliber—to say nothing of Biden's kindler, gentler .22. Which brings us to the next point: Biden singling out 9mm ammunition as supposedly "high-caliber" is laughable, given its place along the pistol caliber continuum—to say nothing of deer-hunting rifle ammunition with which he's apparently at peace. We'd love to know what nearby Secret Service agents were thinking as Biden said "high-caliber" 9mm ammunition "blows the lung out of the body" and therefore has "no rational basis" in self-defense. Will Biden order them to switch to a .22 so would-be assassins have better odds of making it out of surgery? Finally, as absurd as Biden's latest commentary was, it failed to outdo his preposterous 2013 advice that women should always arm themselves with 12-gauge shotguns rather than AR-15s—because AR-15s are supposedly "harder to aim" and "harder to use." This classic video does a great job demolishing Biden's premise: Joe Biden suggests he wants to ban “high caliber” 9mm handguns. “There’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection.” pic.twitter.com/lPITAN5kEU — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 30, 2022
Trudeau's Convoy Power Grab was Part Eunuch, Here's more on Part Douch, complete with new Traitors... "When Power cancels Rights by calling them Privileges, Tyranny always follows." Trudeau Proposes Law Banning Handgun Sales In Canada Fresh off his disturbingly authoritarian response to trucker protests against Covid-19 vaccine mandates, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau turned the dystopia dial all to way to 11 on Monday, introducing legislation that would completely freeze the import, purchase or sale of handguns, while compelling compensated forfeitures of "assault weapons." On the same day President Biden declared there's "no rational basis" for 9mm ammunition in the context of self-defense, Trudeau said: "Other than using firearms for sport shooting and hunting, there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in their everyday lives." Flanked by families of shooting victims and a group of officials that included Canada's "Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Youth," Trudeau declared, "It will be illegal to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada." NOW - PM Trudeau: "It will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada."pic.twitter.com/rVd5gWgEtq — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) May 30, 2022 In 2020, Canada similarly banned the sale of more than 1,500 models of so-called "assault weapons." Owners were allowed to keep existing rifles provided they had a permit; others were given a two-year amnesty period in which to turn them in. While the government estimated that 105,000 weapons were affected by the policy, Canadians had turned in just 160 of them through December 9, 2021. To this point, no compensation has been provided. Now, under proposed law, most owners of covered rifles will be required to surrender them to the government, via a mandatory buyback program set to begin by the end of 2022. It's unclear how much compensation will be offered. The proposed legislation would also require rifle and shotgun magazines to be "permanently altered so they can never hold more than five rounds." Canada would also ban the sale or transfer of so-called "large capacity magazines"—which, under Canadian law, would be defined as one that could hold just six rounds or more. The proposal includes a new "red flag" law by which courts can order individuals considered a danger to themselves or others to surrender their firearms to police. “We need only look south of the border to know that if we do not take action, firmly and rapidly, it gets worse and worse and more difficult to counter,” Trudeau told reporters. Making his own comparison, Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair said, "In Canada, gun ownership is a privilege, not a right. This is a principle that differentiates ourselves from many other countries in the world, notably our colleagues and friends to the south." The legislation is fully expected to be enacted this fall. Canada's constitution has no equivalent to America's Second Amendment. For the most part, Canadian law only allows handguns to be loaded or fired at shooting ranges; they generally aren't allowed to be carried. Canada's rapid descent down the slippery slope from banning the sale of assault rifles to ordering the surrender of such rifles and freezing handgun ownership should stand as a stark cautionary tale for current and prospective American gun owners—and for Republican legislators now under pressure to compromise with Democrats on assault rifle bans or other purported "common sense" gun control measures. On Sunday, Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger announced his willingness to consider a ban on AR-15s. "Look, I have opposed a ban, you know, fairly recently. I think I'm open to a ban now."
Justin Trudeau the pansy assed Gimp for the US Liberals, who CA resident vloggers love to hate, bans and grabs guns to pave way for US Biden-Dems to point and follow...
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1544389483524722691 Trudeau slips up, accidentally says he is “banning” firearms in Canada. He then corrects himself and says the government is “freezing” sales. This was intentional, signalling to other gun grabbers to make their move in unison, not a "slip up".
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Firearm Stocks Soar Over Fears Of New Gun-Control Laws Shares of gun and ammunition companies jumped Wednesday over speculation of new gun control laws in the wake of Tuesday's horrific mass shooting that killed at least 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school. Investors anticipate increased sales ahead of calls for stricter gun laws by Democrats. As of Wednesday afternoon, Smith & Wesson Inc. and Vista Outdoors Inc. were both up around 10%, American Outdoor Brands Inc. +6.5%, Sturm Ruger & Co. +5.5%, and Ammo Inc. +5%. Gun makers' shares typically rise when Democrats call for stricter gun control measures after mass shootings because people buy on the fear that more rules could make owning a gun harder or costlier. This was the case in 2012 when gun sales soared after the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, at Sandy Hook school. Search trends for "buy a gun" immediately erupted Tuesday evening after the shooting at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Even though Democrats and President Biden have vowed to get tough on guns, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was out Wednesday, indicating new gun control measures would be hard to pass because there isn't enough Republican support. Still, some fear the Biden administration will get tough on guns via executive fiat. Stocks also rise during massive new waves of self-defense buying of arms due to the public's growing recognition that no amount of laws bans and police can truly protect the public against criminals, that realtime need demands firearm ownership among the everyday public.
Gun grabbing liars keep on suppressing rights in the USA... Suppressing the Truth About Suppressors https://www.theepochtimes.com/suppressing-the-truth-about-suppressors_448703... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-legislation-ban-gun-silencers https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1131/text https://www.police1.com/investigations/articles/did-silencer-make-a-differen... https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/15/democrat-suppressor-gun-contro... https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2469/text https://www.westerncriminology.org/documents/WCR/v08n2/clark.pdf Big government leftists aren't only trying to silence your voice on social media and through the Department of Homeland Security's new Ministry of Truth, they're also trying to silence your ability to simply possess a firearm suppressor. Hollywood, the "besties" of the left, likes to make it seem as if a suppressor completely silences a firearm, as seen by clever TV assassins and action-movie stars. Last year, New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson-Coleman backed this up, calling silencers "tools of murder." Sen. Bob Menendez (also from New Jersey) said, "Gun silencers are dangerous devices with one purpose and one purpose only—to muffle the sound of gunfire from unsuspecting victims." I'll give you one guess as to which two Washington politicians have been watching a few too many Hollywood movies. Hint: they're the same two who introduced legislation in 2021 to ban all Americans from simply possessing a gun suppressor. Not using one. Possessing one. Gun suppressors (called "sound moderators" in the UK) only decrease the noise of a gunshot by 20 to 35 decibels. That leaves them still "louder than your average ambulance siren," according to an article by the Associated Press posted by Police1. That organization is a part of the nation's leading content, policy, and training platform for public safety. Their job isn't to kiss babies and raise money; their job is to tell the truth when it comes to how guns work in the real world. As much as the left would have you believe these devices are only used for Hollywood hitman-style murders, the truth is that the greatest use of silencers is for sporting professionals (pdf). Many shooting pros build private ranges in their basements and use silencers out of respect for their neighbors—literally the opposite of committing a crime. Second to sporting, suppressors are used with small-caliber subsonic ammunition to rid local areas of disease-carrying vermin, like rats (pdf). Stopping disease from a distance is a good thing. Fortunately, not all politicians believe big-action Hollywood movies are documentaries. Rep. Bob Good, from Virginia, looked to protect Americans from the suppressor-grab introduced by Menendez and Watson-Coleman. Good's 2021 legislation sought a complete deregulation of gun suppressors at the federal level and it preempts state laws that would regulate, tax, or prohibit the possession of these devices. "The Second Amendment is the guarantor or protector of all other rights," Good told Breitbart News. "If our Second Amendment right is not safe, no rights are safe. Democrats continue to fear-monger and spread misinformation as a justification to undermine our constitutional rights. I'm pleased to introduce legislation that will remove regulatory burdens from purchasing accessories that protect hearing and promote safety." There are more than 60,000 legal federal gun-suppressor permits throughout the United States. If suppressors are so dangerous and used only as "tools of murder" then one would expect there to be a plethora of federal prosecutions for crimes committed with a firearm fitted with a suppressor. In reality, such federal prosecutions are rare occurrences (pdf), and the vast majority of those are not because a crime was committed but rather because someone hadn't properly registered the suppressor. In other words, Menendez was flat-out lying about how they're used. It's ridiculous to use Hollywood and fear to limit a person's firearm use for competition, sport shooting, hunting, self-defense, teaching children about being responsible gun owners, or for any other constitutionally protected purpose. Don't be fooled—bills like this do nothing to stop a criminal. They only serve to hurt your ability to use your firearm in a responsible manner. A suppressor is not a firearm and is incapable of discharging any projectile, yet it's regulated in the same manner as a machine gun. A firearms suppressor is a simple accessory, like a scope, holster, or any of the hundreds of other firearms accessories available, and ought to be available for purchase over the counter like any other lawful product. Maybe President Joe Biden's new Ministry of Truth should look at the Menendez and Watson-Coleman bill as their first order of business when rooting out misinformation. Somehow, I doubt they will.
Get Woke, Go Broke Texas Law Forces Companies To Be Neutral On Guns Or Face Consequences https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-25/texas-forces-companies-to... https://twitter.com/WillHild/status/1528740373929025536 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/24/state-farm-lgbtq-children... Woke companies who want to continue operating in Texas will have to effectively take a vow of neutrality on guns following the latest school shooting. Gun rights advocates gathered outside the state Capitol in Austin in 2019 (Eric Gay / The Associated Press) Thanks to a June 2021 law endorsed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) signed by Governor Greg Abbott, firearm makers, retailers and industry groups have special protections using language typically reserved to shield people from racism, sexism, ageism or other 'isms, Bloomberg reports. The bill requires companies signing contracts with state government agencies to verify that they don't discriminate against the gun industry - which forces them to ignore calls from Democrats to sever business ties in the state over the latest shooting in Uvalde, TX in which a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. "Texas has pro-gun legislation which clearly makes a statement at ensuring that the firearms industry is well protected," said Janice Iwama, a professor at American University, who studies the impact of gun legislation. Meanwhile, the National Shooting Sports Foundation wants states to follow in Texas' footsteps, as companies in the industry are regularly denied services by banks. Similar bills have been advanced in Oklahoma and Louisiana, while additional measures have been introduced elsewhere. The Texas law has already cast ripples across Wall Street, where Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. had been curtailing some ties to gun companies, including by not lending to those that make military-style weapons for civilian use. Citigroup Inc. had also put in place restrictions for retailers that it works with. The Texas bill requires any public contract valued at or more than $100,000 to include a provision that states the company does not and will not discriminate against a firearm entity or trade association. -Bloomberg Texas' law caused virtue signaling banks such as BofA, JPMorgan and Goldman to stop underwriting Texas muni bonds, however Citigroup returned to the market last year, and earlier this month JPMorgan took a first step to re-enter the market with an attempt to appeal to state lawmakers. This isn't the first time woke corps have bent the knee. Earlier this week, State Farm withdrew support of a program providing LGBTQ-themed children's books to teachers and libraries, after conservative groups slammed the insurance company as "a creepy neighbor," a play on its slogan "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there." "State Farm tells us they’re a good neighbor, but would a good neighbor target 5-year-olds for conversations about sexual identity?" a narrator says in a Monday video by the conservative group, Consumers' Research. "That's what State Farm is doing." This gross and blatant attempt to indoctrinate our children by @StateFarm is shameless and consumers should be aware a company founded on family values is now encouraging five-year-old children to question their gender. And we have the receipts. pic.twitter.com/UYTWGb5yod — Will Hild (@WillHild) May 23, 2022 "Conversations about gender and identity should happen at home with parents," said State Farm spokesman Roszell Gadson in a statement to the Washington Post on Tuesday. "We don’t support required curriculum in schools on this topic. We support organizations providing resources for parents to have these conversations. We no longer support the program allowing for distribution of books in schools." Get woke, go broke.
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Democrats state they do not give one shit about the US Constitution, nor did all failed countries in history about theirs either. Numbers are stark, hardly any Democrat has ever fired any firearm, rarely spent so much as a day at an arms range, never taken classes, never joined any shooting sports, doesn't own any firearm, never been Military or LE, etc. Yet you moronic sheeple let them rule over your life with an iron fist, and let them point their Govt guns at you. Truly beyond dumb, failure cometh upon you soon. House Judiciary Democrts Vote To Advance Expansive Gun Control Bill https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-judiciary-committee-votes-to-advance-exp... The House Judiciary Committee voted this week to advance a gun control bill in the wake of a deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The final vote fell along party lines, with every committee Republican voting against the legislation and every committee Democrat voting to advance it. Splits between Democrats and Republicans were on full display during the hearing, which focused on the “Protecting Our Kids” Act, H.R. 7910. That bill, among other provisions, would ban the sale of “any semiautomatic centerfire rifle or semi-automatic centerfire shotgun that has, or has the capacity to accept, an ammunition feeding device with a capacity exceeding 5 rounds” to citizens below the age of 21; currently one only needs to be 18 to buy such a weapon. It would also codify the Department of Justice’s controversial ban on bump stocks, a weapon modification that increases the fire rate of a semiautomatic firearm. In addition, it would also make it a federal crime to possess weapons that critics have pejoratively labeled “ghost guns,” usually describing homemade or 3D-printed weapons without a serial number. Democrats pushed strongly for the passage of the bill, saying that stricter gun control laws are needed in response to the shooting in Uvalde that left 19 children and two adults dead. The legislation “might have saved those children in Uvalde,” Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said, adding “whoever saves one life, it’s as if he saved the whole world.” Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) argued at one point in the hearing that arguments against the bill hinging on the Second Amendment are faulty. “The Supreme Court has ruled time and time again that the Second Amendment is not absolute,” he said. Others pushed for the bill as a matter of urgency, and called for various changes to Senate rules and the Supreme Court’s composition if necessary to pass the legislation. “This epidemic of gun violence is not unstoppable,” said Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.). “It is a choice—a choice you could make differently at any time, a choice between our lives and your guns.” “Time and time again you have chosen to put your right to kill over our right to live,” Jones added. “But your selfishness and your indifference have not killed our hope.” “If the filibuster stops us, we will abolish it,” Jones said. “If the Supreme Court objects, we will expand it. And we will not rest until we have taken weapons of war out of circulation in our communities.” “Each and every day, we will do whatever it takes to end gun violence,” Jones said. “Whatever it takes,” he emphasized. Republicans, by contrast, have pushed for legislation to address mental illness and to increase school security, but have rejected efforts to limit gun rights. While what happened in Uvalde was “a tragedy,” Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said, “protecting children is not a Democrat or Republican issue.” Jordan called instead for legislation based on making schools safer rather than restricting gun rights, a sentiment shared by many other Republicans. “We’re all for that,” Jordan said. “But we’re not for taking away Second Amendment liberties.” Rather, Jordan said, we should focus on discovering “the why” of mass shootings: “Until we discover the ‘why,’ we’re never going to solve the problem.” “The left and the Democrats’ response to practically every problem is to take more power and control into the national government, or take away individuals’ rights, or throw taxpayer money at the problem—sometimes both,” said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.). “That’s why they tend to exacerbate practically every problem without resolution,” Biggs said. “They misidentify the cause of virtually every effect. “The misuse of guns for evil or even criminal purposes is another example. Millions of Americans safely and responsibly own and use guns.” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) echoed the sentiment. “You are not going to bully your way into stripping Americans of fundamental rights,” Bishop said. In a statement, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that the House would vote on the legislation next week. Though the legislation is likely to pass the lower chamber, it has little to no chance of passing in the Senate, where it would need the support of at least 10 Republicans to overcome the 60-vote filibuster threshold.
A short history of gun confiscation The Ottoman Empire – 1911 The Ottoman Empire existed in the region of current-day Turkey. That government slaughtered millions of Armenians who were native to the empire. A short history of the slaughter was published by the University of Michigan. The university’s report noted that in 1911 the empire achieved full gun confiscation. Between 1915 and 1917 approximately 1.5 million Armenians (out of a total of 2.5 million) were murdered by their government. This mass murder has become known as the Armenian Holocaust. The University of Michigan report also discussed the formation of “Butcher Battalions” composed mostly of violent criminals released from prison to kill ethnic Armenians. https://www.coursehero.com/file/pvni5rt/Butcher-Battalions-of-convicts-relea... Armenians who were part of the Ottoman military and discharged “…were disarmed, placed into labor battalions, and then killed.” Soviet Union – 1929 Soviet citizens were allowed to have firearms until 1929 when private gun ownership was abolished. The repressive and brutal régime of Joseph Stalin emerged at the same time that firearm ownership was outlawed. Tens of millions of Soviet dissidents and others perceived as threats to the government were rounded up and either murdered or placed in labor camps or prisons and forced to work, sometimes to their deaths during Stalin’s tenure. Stalin’s heartless indifference for life combined with his extreme paranoia eventually led to the purging of the Communist Party at the same time a total gun ban was instituted. Stalin once famously said during the purge “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” (This reminds us of a statement by Representative Eric Swalwell, the first 2020 presidential candidate to drop out of the race, when he said: “If Americans fight against gun confiscation, Feds can nuke them.”) Germany – 1938 Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler instituted gun control in 1938 at about the same time he ordered the extermination of Jewish men, women, and children. By the time the killing stopped his murderous decisions resulted in the death of approximately 13 million Jews and others from different unwanted minority groups. China – 1935 The greatest mass murderer of the 20th century was China’s Mao Zedong. According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with — by execution, imprisonment or forced famine. The Nationalist Chinese government established gun control in 1935. Mao Zedong famously said on at least two occasions in speeches “Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Although he was likely referring to the use of firearms in times of war given the number of Chinese citizens and dissidents killed under his régime we presume that his “truth” applied to gaining power by killing innocent people. Cambodia – 1956 The year this Asian nation issued its total gun control edict was 1956, but the real carnage did not begin until several years late during the regime of the demonic Pol Pot. Between 1975 and 1977, his regime murdered as many as 1 million “educated” people in “killing fields” that were later depicted in a movie by the same name. Summary of World Wide Gun Control 160,000,000 to 200,000,000 people have been killed by their totalitarian governments around the world. Some estimates are as high as 262,000,000 https://reason.com/2014/05/15/be-antigovernment-and-proud There is a correlation between the citizens being disarmed through gun control and the mass murders (see the summary above). There appears to be a relationship between the mass murders and gun confiscation imposed by rulers and despots who knew that the only way they could continue to brutalize their people and stay in power was by disarming them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4iQxpwYhAg Tacoma Residents Defensive Shootout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E0aIviVU7w Only you can defend, not cops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1TXEE_QK4 Ghost Defense Always Exists Pre-2A hardware, all legal for everyone before and after, cannons too... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckle_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalthoff_repeater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookson_repeater https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girardoni_air_rifle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946) https://armsandthelaw.com/archives/WellRegulatedinold%20literature.pdf https://www.yarchive.net/gun/politics/regulate.html Democrats the willful ignorants and anti's of history, never ask... Why does the second amendment exist? Why did the founders think speech and guns were the first two things to list that citizens were guaranteed with? A: Please forgive me for not wanting to negotiate my gun owership with people who just a few months ago wanted me ELIMINATED from society because I didn't want a forced medical treatment. -- Internet Can you imagine if they tried to send us to little camps for being unvaccinated like they did in Australia ? How do you see that going over here? Now how do you see it going if they tried that and we had no guns? You don’t even have to use the gun, just owning them provides a deterrent. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59486285.amp https://youtu.be/mGFdWcJU7-0 Internment Camps guns are not going to disappear with the flick of a magic wand...like Democrats seem to imply. "The 2nd amendment doesn't work for self defense", says people that don't exercise their 2nd amendment rights. Electricity and the internet is not a sure thing. When the bad guys break down your door ready to harm you, your family, and take your property, how is the internet going to help you? Freedom of speech is everything. The right to arm ourselves is everything. Because when we give up our right to speak out against anything like abortion, guns, speech, then we have someone who speaks for us. Doesn't seem too free huh? Then the guns. If we give up our right to protect ourselves then we give someone else the right to protect us or NOT protect us. When this country was founded we were leaving another nation bc NOTHING basically was yet free. Speech against a king for instance. If we put freedom of speech in our constitution, it made us free and able as a nation to speak against a king or another nation AND individuals and organizations in our own country. Then we got the guns... Okay. So stepping off the boat, there were wild animals they didn't know about and the native Americans who were pissed off, rightly so, for our basic invasion of their land. Guns were necessary and as a nation trying to break away from forced religious beliefs, another country who had burned women alive lol, yeah very fucking necessary and they never knew when war would happen. Owning guns was an individual's right to protect themselves, their land and new freedoms at all costs. People say well that was hundreds of years ago. Those were absolutely needed then. But now we have people in our own government wanting to take these rights away. Our own government. It's so obvious to me and I know some people don't see it like I do. But those amendments are what makes us free Americans and if we give up our rights to speech and guns, we are quickly going to collapse. I'm telling you right now if you give one inch on the 2nd Amendment, the Radical Left is going to take a mile. That's how they operate. They play for keeps. a well balanced breakfast, being necessary to the start of a good day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed. Whose right is it? The well balanced breakfast’s or the people? What you are describing is not a 2nd amendment right but sedition and treason. The same words England used to describe the US once upon a time. I’m under no illusions about this being the same thing, however the founders enshrined gun rights in the constitution should we ever get there. I do not want to be lectured on gun control by a guy who left $7 billion in weapons to the Taliban. -- Fournier “Arms” is inclusive of all arms, not exclusive of some arms. The regulations started due to Hollywood using the Thompson SMG in mobster movies. very few people were using Thompsons to commit crimes... but because of media portrayal, here we are. American government is the new tyrannical world power, and is the one the founding fathers would be worried about if they were here today If you are actually pro 2a, then you recognize that encryption and access to private and secure communications are also technically arms, and necessary as well. There's a reason that encryption tools and tech has been treated like arms by governments and military all over the world. I'm pro 2a and I'm pro 1a, and I'm anti gov spying on it's own citizens. Plenty of us understand that freedom of communication and organization is just as important as access to arms. Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. -Karl Marx, BLM, Progressive Democrats, etc still quote this guy yet somehow disavow this part the real problem, among many others, is a fiat money debt based economy that favors the wealthy elite who strives to control us by dividing us. School shootings have been in the public conscious for decades. The UT shooting was in 66 and was national news...so at least since the 60s...faculty, former students, current students, and outsiders have all shot up schools killing and injuring people. Elementary and middle schools were getting shot up in the early and mid 90s before Columbine happened. Only real difference is the "news" media changed along with the internet, now everything is an instant worldwide 24x7 "crisis". So the same kid can be given a gun and sent to the middle east but can't have one here? universal background checks were going to pass. Do you remember what one of the big hang ups was? The registry. That’s a non starter, it’s absolutely unacceptable to pro 2A types for the government to maintain a database of who owns what. In the case of the Buffalo shooter the tools were already in place to flag him, he mad written and verbal threats over a long period of time. Once again, the government failed to use the tools it already has but we’re supposed to vote to give them more? The ability of the INDIVIDUAL to protect themselves from TYRANNY, everyone THINKS because of PROGRAMMING that it was all about taxes, well it wasn't, people were having their tongues cut out for speaking ill (Based on Facts of Action) of certain people and groups, RELIGIOUS GROUPS, and when those groups are trying to be placed as the governing body to commit more TYRANNIES through limited principles of applied power, sometimes you need to ARMED to protect yourself from them. NOW one of the societal problems is that "REASONABLE DOUBT" clause in which one organized criminal group is planting evidence against another group whether criminal or not or planting evidence against themself which has clearly been planted but blaming that plant on others to create such "Reasonable Doubt". SO YES you do need to be ARMED because that is inside the Government not just on the outside of it pulling the strings. And it wasnt just one government, it was the majority of the world's governments at the same time as a power play to bring about an unelected global authority. Maybe also an important reason to have guns. Maybe. Why does US send these weapons of war to secure a foreign border, yet calls Americans racist for attempting to protect their own You never know when or where the next despotic tyrants will pop up, but they will always give themselves away by trying to take the means to defeat them away from the people. Democrats are today's Despotic Tyrants. They're also the biggest anti-freespeech conspirators and censors the planet has ever seen. a shitload of new Constitutional Carry state legislature had cute little additions that forbade Political carry because the government fucking hates when citizens exercise their rights. The founders could not have been more clear they believed the government would not last and would need to be forcefully removed. Why do you think it’s necessary to the security of a free state? Christ some people here are dense. When such a gang of tyrants attack the 1st and 2nd amendments like that, it's time to throw them out, permanently. The 2A doesn't prevent the government from killing its citizens. It just makes it prohibitively costly to do so at scale. Which is why if it is ever repealed, liberty is dead. The 2A is like countries owning nukes— it preserves the balance of power. The fact that we have the weapons keeps the government in check so they never push beyond a certain line. In Utopian Democracy the power of the people lies purely in voting rights. We don't, and won't ever, live in such fantasy utopia. Thus we maintain other powers and rights. Since when is believing in the Constitution right-wing? It shouldn’t matter what your party affiliation. If you are an American, you believe in the US Constitution. If you don’t? Leave. 60 years of military buildup just got run out of Afghanistan by a bunch of goat farmers with cold war era AKs The taliban achieved a comprehensive victory against an invader that was much richer and had much more advanced technology. That Rebellion, by the way, was started because Massachusett's state taxes were deemed too high by the rebels because it had led to many of the state's citizens becoming deeply indebted to the state. The US State taxes ~45%, that's ~44% more than before, revolutions started over ~1%... you're ~45x past due to revolt. Free speech should be a right of all people, being told what you can and can’t say is some communist shit. Now just cause you can say what you want Doesn’t mean you don’t have to deal with consequences. As far a guns, I believe it was to protect the American people from the American government, being able to protect yourself and your family is also a right everyone should have. Why is it ok to deny the right to bear arms to marijuana users? Why can I have my firearms seized for fishing without a license? I noticed how you didn't mention Hunter Biden lying on his handgun permit paperwork which resulted in a handgun being thrown in the trash by a schoolyard. owning a gun IS a right. And it is directly related to the right to self-defense. If you want to outsource your safety to a civil institution you go right ahead. If we need a license to drive a transportation method, we need a license to own a purpose built tool for killing. Lol, you only got a DL because you fell for their mind control that said you needed one, they never existed since the dawn of cars. when people with guns (the government) tells you, that they will offer security, in exchange for your freedom, by taking away one of the few, if not only, means you are able to resist people with guns, you need to ask yourself who are they doing this for. Your security or their power hold. I agree. I also feel a lot safer with a countryside full of hicks with guns. Seriously. After witnessing the fascist shit other countries have pulled the last couple years, I'm glad our wannabe authoritarians in power can't just strongarm the nation, thanks to the implicit threat of our firearms. people who just won a revolution against a tyrannical government because they had full access to military weapons wanted to guarantee their citizens that same right in perpetuity due to their concern and importantly for many founders assumption they US would eventually slip into tyranny. People who think the 2A changes meaning with time are uneducated on the historical and context and speeches on it and have also clearly had the blinders on these last few years. 2A is more necessary than ever and these threatened infringements and bans could lead us down a very very bad road The second amendment was added to protect against slave uprisings. Now that everyone are slaves to Govts and Corps, and people are angry at them for that, the Govt is protecting itself by removing their ability to uprise. The government has been screwing everything up so they need your guns to protect themselves Alexander Hamilton wrote #29 of “The Federalist Papers“. He was very explicit in why we have this right. The reason for allowing all citizens access to guns is so they have guns to shoot and kill politicians, soldiers, and policeman. "What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…” – George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790 “And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.” -George Washington, Debates of the Massachusetts Convention of February 6, 1788 “That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion.” -George Washington, letter to George Mason April 5th 1769 “It may be laid down, as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.” -George Washington, letter to Alexander Hamilton May 2, 1783 John Adams Gun Quotes “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent on others for essential, particularly for military, supplies.” -John Adams, speech to US Congress January 8, 1790 Thomas Jefferson Gun Quotes “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” – Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776 “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787 “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787 “The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776 “A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785 “The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824 “On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823 “I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and captives of the enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in April, 1775, until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any consequence … I think that upon the whole it has been about one half the number lost by them, in some instances more, but in others less. This difference is ascribed to our superiority in taking aim when we fire; every soldier in our army having been intimate with his gun from his infancy.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778 Benjamin Franklin Gun Quotes “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” -Benjamin Franklin George Mason Gun Quotes “To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.” – George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788 “I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.” – George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788 “That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.” -George Mason, Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 12 1776 Noah Webster Gun Quotes “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.” – Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787 James Madison Gun Quotes “Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788 “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.” – James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789 “…the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone…” – James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788
Gun Expert's Study Suggests a Simple, Powerful Solution to Stop Mass Shootings at Schools https://trendingpolitics.com/gun-experts-study-suggests-a-simple-powerful-so... The mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas has left many alarmed parents seeking immediate ways to better secure our schools against such future horrific attacks. Beyond improving police response and ensuring basic security measures like locking doors during school hours are followed, there is one additional measure that can be installed to enhance school safety. It is, however, controversial: Permitting teachers and school resource officers on school grounds to be armed. While many parents who support gun control measures would shudder at the thought of allowing armed teachers at the schools their little ones attend, there is surprising evidence that suggests it may be a simple, powerful solution. A 2019 study conducted by gun violence expert John Lott Jr. shows there wasn't one school where a teacher was armed that had a non-suicidal gun violence incident during school hours. "After the Columbine school shooting 20 years ago, one of the more significant changes in how we protect students has been the advance of legislation that allows teachers to carry guns at schools, the study notes. "There are two obvious questions: Does letting teachers carry create dangers? Might they deter attackers? Twenty states currently allow teachers and staff to carry guns to varying degrees on school property, so we don’t need to guess how the policy would work." "There has yet to be a single case of someone being wounded or killed from a shooting, let alone a mass public shooting, between 6 AM and midnight at a school that lets teachers carry guns," the study continues. "Fears of teachers carrying guns in terms of such problems as students obtaining teachers guns have not occurred at all, and there was only one accidental discharge outside of school hours with no one was really harmed." "While there have not been any problems at schools with armed teachers, the number of people killed at other schools has increased significantly – doubling between 2001 and 2008 versus 2009 and 2018," the report adds. [IMG] The study's dataset shows only a few schools with potential qualifying incidents where teachers were armed, but the cases were either suicides or fell outside of school hours (5 total incidents). The one case that came the closest to qualifying was a 2017 incident that took place in a school parking lot outside of Spanish Fork High School at 2:30 a.m. in the morning. "A 19-year-old man shot an 18-year-old man in the parking lot of Spanish Fork High School before turning the gun on himself early Friday morning," Fox 13 reported at the time. "Police were called to the school parking lot near 99 N. 300 W. at about 2:30 a.m. where they found the 18-year-old had been shot in the upper arm." [IMG] "Officers said the victim and other witnesses ran when the shooter fired three to five shots in the air and also shot at a witness," the report added. As of January 1, 2020, 28 states allow schools to arm teachers or staff in at least some cases or as part of a specific program.* (See list below) [IMG] Education Week, which tracks school shootings, reports that "there have been 119 school shootings in which at least one person was killed or injured since 2018." [IMG] Education Week also provides a map for the school shooting locations in 2020. We will examine those incidents due to there being a more authoritative list on states allowing teachers or staff at that time (provided below). Certain anti-gun activist websites proved to be unreliable in terms of their relevant lists. Additionally, current regulations are in flux, as Louisiana and Ohio are now moving to allow armed teachers. It must be qualified, however, that remote learning in some school districts during the 2020 Covid response limits the generalizability of the analysis. According to Education Week, there were 10 school shooting incidents in 2020. Of those 10 cases, 3 incidents in states that permit armed teachers or school resource officers occurred outside of the school building itself (Florida, Ohio, Texas), and 4 incidents appear to be accidental discharges (California, Florida, Texas). (This is consistent with many — but not all —mass shooting reports in 2021 and 2022.) There was one case that took place inside a school gym in Dallas, Texas in January 2020. A 15-year-old shot and killed an 18-year-old after a brawl over a basketball game and also wounded a police officer. The teenage suspect later turned himself in. It is now 2022, and there are more cases than in 2020. The source cites 27 school shooting incidents already. The most startling case, of course, is that of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers. In the case of Uvalde, contrary to early misleading reports from the Texas Department of Public Safety, "there was no school resource officer on site" that confronted the mass shooter at Robb Elementary School. The Uvalde case highlights that there is a major difference between allowing a teacher or school resource officer to carry a gun and there actually being one on hand to stop a mass shooter should one attack. The deadly mass shooting incidents that appear to shock the public conscience the most are ones that occur in schools. According to the strictest technical definition, there have been thirteen deadly mass shootings in the United States since 1966. That doesn’t make the events any less tragic, but it does suggest that the solution does not lie in depriving law-abiding gun owners of personal defense firearms, but rather in identifying young persons prone to mass violence and ensuring there are responsible adults nearby who can put a quick end to a potential shooting rampage. While there are states that are now moving to implement stricter gun control laws in the aftermath of Uvalde — namely, Colorado, Connecticut, New York, and California — there are nearly as many states seeking to arm qualified teachers: Florida, Louisiana, and Ohio. Each list can be expected to grow in the weeks and months ahead. Along with these new state proposals, there should be more comprehensive analyses on school shootings and the effects of arming teachers and school resource officers to inform this vitally important debate. * [Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. See Ivey, 2018; Crime Prevention Research Center, 2018b; Hernandez, 2018; Fla. Stat. § 1006.12; Ga. Code Ann. § 20-8-5; Hawaii Rev. Stat. § 302A-1134(b); Ida. Code Ann. § 18-3302D; Ind. Code Ann. § 35-47-9-1(a); Ia. Code § 724.4B; Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-7c10; Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. Ch. 269, § 10; Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 750.237a; Minn. Stat. § 609.66 subdivision 1d, item 8; Miss. Code Ann. § 97-37-17; Mo. Ann. Stat. § 571.107; Mont. Code Ann. § 45-8-361; N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 193:13; N.J. Stat. Ann. 2C:39-5; N.D. Cent. Code § 62.1-02-14; Ohio Rev. Code § 2923.122(B); 21 Okla. Stat. Ann. § 1277; Ore. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 166.370; S.D. Codified Laws § 13-64-1; Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-6-816; Tex. Educ. Code Ann. § 37.0811; Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-505.5; Knicely, 2018; Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 21-3-132.] Syndicated with licensed permission from Becker News.
Banning firearms from schools, gun free zones, were stupid. You Democrats are lying, you would never put "gun free house" on your front lawn, nor ban guns from your corrupt Government. A Call To Arms: Teachers In Conservative States Are Volunteering To Carry Guns https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-call-to-arms-teachers-in-conservative-states... Crosses and flowers laid out in the public square of the grief-stricken town Uvalde, where a teen gunman killed 19 students and two teachers, are an all-too-familiar scene igniting a call to arms for teachers in Texas and beyond. An emergency worker directs a volunteer with simulated injuries during a training exercise for an active shooter at Hopewell Elementary School, in West Chester, Ohio, on May 25, 2016. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) The Republican-led Texas legislature is addressing the twin issues of school safety and mass violence following the May 24 Uvalde, Texas, school shooting. Committees of lawmakers are reviewing past legislative efforts, such as the Guardian and Marshal programs that allow teachers to carry firearms in the hopes of hardening schools as targets. School officials and firearm trainers in the Lone Star State say interest has risen sharply since the recent shooting. Jeff Sellers owns Schools on Target, a company in Marble Falls, Texas, that trains teachers to carry firearms in schools. Since the school shooting, Sellers told The Epoch Times that he has added nine additional classes—double the amount customarily held—for June through August. “I’ve gotten an insane amount of calls,” Sellers said. “It hasn’t stopped. Ninety percent is because of Uvalde.” Bryan Proctor, owner of Go Strapped Firearms Training in Arlington, Texas, told The Epoch Times much the same thing—that training requests for the Guardian program have skyrocketed. “We’ve had about a 100 percent increase,” Proctor said. “It’s been pretty dramatic. I’ve sent out over 20 proposals in the past week.” Proctor said teachers want to protect their students and themselves, despite what people may be hearing form the select voices in legacy media. “What you’re seeing is a vocal minority,” Proctor said. Arming teachers isn’t about giving them something else to be responsible for—but instead giving them a tool as a last defense. Elsewhere, state legislatures are investigating how to make schools safer and arm teachers. Louisiana is currently looking at legislation similar to Texas, allowing teachers to carry guns in schools after receiving specialized training. Ohio’s latest bill aims to be less restrictive than the current law, mandating 700 hours of police training and board approval before allowing teachers to be armed. Republican governors Bill Lee of Tennessee and Ron DeSantis of Florida took action on school security this week. Lee signed an executive order June 6 to ensure working safety protocols at schools, and to evaluate training for active shooter scenarios. DeSantis signed a school safety bill into law on June 7 that focused on crisis intervention and training, and mental health awareness. Meanwhile, teacher unions have nixed the idea and portrayed arming teachers as unpopular with educators. A 2018 Gallup poll found that 73 percent of teachers oppose the idea. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America during a anti gun rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 10, 2015. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Meanwhile, policies to arm teachers in some form has widespread participation throughout the country amid the horror of gunmen targeting schools for mass shootings. The RAND Corporation reported in 2020 that 28 states permit armed teachers under some circumstances, while states such as Texas and Florida have passed laws encouraging the practice. In North Florida, one principal at a private Christian school said he would like to see the program expanded to include private schools. The principal, who didn’t wish to be identified, said he added chain-link fencing around his school’s 40-acre perimeter and allowed just one-way traffic onto the campus, except during drop-off and pick-up times. Now, cameras monitor doors into buildings, and access is controlled remotely or with special key fobs. Classrooms stay locked throughout the day. But it’s not enough anymore, he said. He asked for training under Florida’s school guardian program to protect his school’s 340 students, ranging from toddlers to high school seniors. He was denied because the program doesn’t extend to private schools. Currently, it is open to employees of public schools or charter schools who volunteer to serve as guardians and their official job duties. To qualify, they must pass psychological and drug screenings, and complete a 144-hour training course. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) arrives at a memorial service on the one-year anniversary of the shooting which claimed 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., U.S., on Feb. 14, 2019. (Joe Skipper/File Photo/Reuters) Sheriff’s offices in 45 of Florida’s 67 counties participate and receive funding to cover screening and training costs. And guardians receive a one-time bonus of $500 for serving in the program. Schools in districts can arrange to send employees for certification. So the principal is now training on his own to become a licensed, armed security guard. “It’s the only option,” he said. “Even before this last school shooting, I said, ‘I’ve got to go get this taken care of.’ So we’re doing it the right way.” About a decade ago, Texas lawmakers created the school Marshal program, as a way for educators to carry weapons inside schools, and later initiated the Guardian program. Under the Marshal program, school employees can carry a handgun on school premises after 80 hours of training. However, school marshals are restricted from carrying concealed firearms if they are regularly in contact with students. Instead, the marshal can store a gun in a safe at the school. There are 62 school districts participating in this plan, according to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement. Gretchen Grigsby, director of government relations with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, told The Epoch Times that 30 new students and nine new school districts have signed up for the Marshal program since the Uvalde shooting. The Guardian program authorizes school boards to arm employees under the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act and the Texas Penal Code. After completing 16 hours of training, those employees may carry a concealed firearm in the presence of students. According to the Texas Association of School Boards, 389 districts reported using the Guardian plan as of May. While Democrats are calling for gun control, people like Sellers reiterate that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Sellers told The Epoch Times that the first few minutes of an active shooter situation are critical, and arming teachers could save lives. “In active shooting incidents, time is everything,” Sellers said. “No gun control law is going to stop evil from conducting evil acts.” File photo showing people singing the national anthem during a rally promoting Second Amendment rights, in Washington, D.C., on July 7, 2018. (Toya Sarno Jordan/Getty Images) Madalyn Maresh is an assistant superintendent at the Edna Independent School District, a rural 3A district northeast of Victoria, Texas. She told The Epoch Times that her district reopened the application process for the Guardian program at her school in response to the Uvalde shooting. “The day I reopened it, I got two applications immediately,” she said. In the three years since the program has been operational, she gets between 3 to 10 volunteers per year. Without guns for protection, teachers are forced to use their own bodies to shield students from an active shooter, she said. “You’ve got to find what fits your community. We got zero push back on it—our community embraces it,” Maresh said. Kyle Collier, police chief for City View ISD in Wichita Falls, Texas, said an additional four or five teachers volunteered after the Uvalde shooting.
https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1537482995489288192 How "red-flag" laws work in reality: https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFVY8Oa3WQAEX5EE.jpg Kari Lake for AZ Governor @KariLake When I’m Governor, Arizona will not recognize unconstitutional Gun Laws in our state. We just won’t do it. What are the Feds going to do? Fly down here and arrest a sitting Governor? Call my bluff. https://twitter.com/realDSteinberg/status/1539430793654767619 https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FFV0oJZYXEAMOUnd.jpg Cornyn’s approach to save children’s lives is to give unconstitutional power to the “public health” institutions that caused a massive increase in children’s homicide and mental health deaths. Join, fund, and participate in action to defend your rights and those of others... https://www.firearmspolicy.org/ https://www.gunowners.org/ https://www.nationalgunrights.org/ https://www.saf.org/ https://jpfo.org/ https://drgo.us/ https://www.ccrkba.org/ https://constitutionalrightspac.com/ https://www.americanfirearmsassociation.org/ https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/ https://www.rkba.org/ https://www.nraila.org/ https://www.congress.gov/contact-us https://www.youtube.com/user/mrcolionnoir https://www.youtube.com/user/hickok45 https://www.youtube.com/user/theakguy1974 https://www.youtube.com/c/ActiveSelfProtection https://www.lp.org/ https://yaliberty.org/ https://www.reddit.com/r/2ALiberals+2ndamendment+AR80Percents+CCW+Constituti... https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1539406248583614466 You can tell this bill was written in a rush. They’re going ram it through quickly, and it will take years to figure out how it works. Vague provisions will be abused. And, in the meantime, the likelihood that it will stop any shootings is very small. https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1539420090864611328 14 Republicans voted 'YES' tonight: Roy Blunt Richard Burr Shelly Moore-Capito Bill Cassidy Susan Collins John Cornyn Joni Ernst Lindsey Graham Mitch McConnell Lisa Murkowski Rob Portman Mitt Romney Thom Tillis Todd Young https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1539414457864134658 Tucker Carlson Blasting Senate RINOs Over Gun Control Deal w/ The Left & Their Plans To Sell Out On Immigration "Has there ever been a greater more brazen sellout of any group of voters than what Republicans Senators Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn & the rest are doing right now?"
Poso: Remember last week when I said to arm the churchgoers in Nigeria and all of Woke Twitter lost their minds? Nigerian Governor Orders Mass Issuance Of Gun Permits To Counter Murderous Hordes When murder and kidnapping are rampant, the right of armed defense quickly becomes self-evident.
https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FFWcH85JUUAATJD1.jpg "Like leaking of Roe v Wade, this doxing was intentional -- The Internet" Bonta, who refuses to ban the state from owning guns to wage both his power and the state's murderous power, is a corrupt commie Democrat authoritarian school indoctrinator who helps his wife commit nepotism into office, baits the race sex and abortion wars, and publishes gun lists so Democrats mob of harassers stalkers threateners house protesters vandals and actual violent actors can persecute them, and street thugs can break in and steal their guns thus creating more street violence for more faux saviour Dems. This is exactly why there must never be any gun registries. History repeatedly proves that databases of humans are always abused by evil powers against rights freedom and ultimately the lives of those in them. Here's a glaring example... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://www.amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corporation/dp/09141... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ibm+and+the+holocaust Now western people are being censored and banned from both speech and markets, politicially and otherwise arbitrarily social scored, US military db's used by Taliban to hunt people, etc. Databasing your own slavery and persecution. Hopefully none of these good people ever has to use their firearm in defense when some Democrat lunatic or robber goes to get stupid at them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Bonta In February 2021, CalMatters reported that Bonta had regularly solicited donations, also known as "behested payments", from companies with business before California's legislature for his wife's nonprofit organization. On June 28, 2022, Bonta released an online dashboard containing data on firearms in what he said was an effort to improve transparency and increase public trust.[36] The following day, the site was taken down after discovering that an unauthorized disclosure of personal information took place. The dashboard had allowed sensitive information about concealed-carry weapon permit holders in the state to be accessed and downloaded. Additionally, data from the following dashboards were also impacted: Assault Weapon Registry, Handguns Certified for Sale, Dealer Record of Sale, Firearm Safety Certificate, and Gun Violence Restraining Order dashboards. The information exposed included names, date of birth, gender, race, driver’s license number, addresses, and criminal history.[37] Gun rights advocates criticized the breach, with the California Rifle & Pistol Association saying it had "put the lives of judges, prosecutors, domestic violence victims and everyday citizens at risk" and gave criminals "a map to their homes". The leak happened less than a week after a major Supreme Court case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York, had struck down New York's system for issuing concealed carry permits, systems that had been allowed in California counties prior to the ruling.
https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFWN9WoXVEAADuk9.jpg https://ussanews.com/2022/06/30/how-changing-gun-regulations-has-reduced-bra... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpKG8PODdg4 Carlson: Brazil - prints guns, crime drops
https://i.redd.it/uvsjdhvbpf891.jpg Rooftop Koreans Apr29 Saigu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWMj-mFUDGA Rooftop Koreans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df3ZL862vgw Rooftop Korean Wavemix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act Funny it was against cali law to have a loaded gun in california. Signed into law by Reagan in the late 60s It was passed by a Democrat controlled assembly and Democrat controlled senate. Signed by a republican governor. Both parties are shit. This photo is from downtown LA during the Rodney King Riots. It is a reminder of what happens why the 2nd amendment and our rights to bear assault rifles shall NOT be infringed. Link to a video that explains the story of what happened and why the Rooftop Koreans are American Heroes for arming themselves to protect themselves and their property from chaos and villainy. There is a conspiracy to tell you that you don’t need to defend yourself with a weapon, but even in this “civilized” and modern society, where rioters and mobs outnumber and outrun law enforcement, you need to be able to defend yourself. The police, the army, none of them will save you if these events repeat themselves in our lifetimes. Considering the overall health of the country, that day is looking like it’s getting closer and closer. Something that seems to have been lost in the telling of this story over the years is that the LA police, who were doing nothing for nobody that day........see the Reginald Denny beating for an example......swooped in and carted all the Rooftop Koreans off to the station house and as soon as they were gone their stores were immediately looted and burned down by the mob........predictably so of course. Rooftop Koreans, OG Korean gangsters having gun fights with people stealing in thiers shops. In the United-States people have to have guns to defend them or thier shit if not it would be hell on earth, don't get me wrong it kida is ATM but it will be worse if people give away thiers weapons... Exactly. Things will get worse in this country if the state is the only group that is armed. It never works out, hasn’t in all of human history. Don’t let foreigners bark that they have low crime rates. They have tyrannical governments oppressing them constantly and forcing mandates and corrupt and hypocritical rules on them. Imagine a huge crowd of blm, antifa and leftists coming to destroy your existence for some stupid reasons and you have only a kitchen knife to defend yourself and your family. We don’t have to imagine it anymore, they’re in every city in America thanks to the media Reginald Denny didnt have a gun. He got yanked out of his truck and beaten close to death. Black on white ass beating. The main takeaway from this story as an analogy for current times should not be about "self defense" it should be noting what happened when these people tried to defend themselves and that was that the police who were doing absolutely NOTHING then decided to step in.......arrested all these guys that had the rifles, carted them off to the station house which of course allowed the mob to swoop back in and burn all those stores down.......same then as it is now........see Kenosha Well if you ever have an intruder in your home and the cops don't show up in time I'll just blame you for not having bars on your windows. If you have to use a kitchen knife to defend yourself I will again blame you for not securing your home well enough. After all, the intruder wouldn't have been harmed if he couldn't get in. You should really give humans a break, honestly. Do you realize what we evolved from? What is naturally in our DNA? Kids fight naturally. We can be very violent creatures, because we are only RECENTLY TAMED ANIMALS. Once you realize this, you may find more happiness in life. Just be glad you're more evolved/civilized. Not everyone is. And I truly believe it's not always their choice. Whats an assault rifle? It’s a rifle that every American should own if we lived in a country that still followed the United States constitution. What the government owns, we the people should own. There were no assault rifles in the videos, only at most your everyday dead common vanilla AR/AK/Mini semi-auto box-maggers, shotguns, handguns. This country needs more roof Koreans! I love this image. It's a pity we didn't have teams of korean shooters lining the rooftops during the most.recent BLM riots lol. That’s because a supporters were given up as sacrifices to the establishment as far right wing radicals. Just look at Kenosha So inspirational actually. I love the bandanas too. Such badasses defending their livelihoods. True heroes for their families. I wonder if any of them got military training in the country they are from.. (S. Korea maybe?). Yeah I loved this. Exercising their rights, using solid tactics, being immune from claims of "muh racism" due to their minority status. Weren’t the riots also caused by a Korean store owner shooting a teenage girl she mistakenly thought was stealing a thing of Orange juice? I guess it depends how narrow of a view you wanna take. I’d argue there were some underlying causes, but yes the trigger was the not guilty verdict of those police officers who beat the shit out of Rodney King. Freemason Socialist Trudeau neutered the Canadian men and banned their guns. Freemason liberal Biden and the democrats are hard at work trying to ban America's guns. Soon, the freemasonic NWO will be a reality, and freedom will be a thing of the past. Kyle Rittenhouse was found innocent because he committed no crime. The leftoids lost their minds over it and forgot about it a week later I am quite aware of the story. It's a great modern day self defense story, imo, and along the lines of what you were referring to The real story of Rittenhouse is that he shot 3 rioters and managed to hit a literal serial child rapist, a felon carrying an illegal firearm, and a woman-beater. People have no clue how fragile "society" really is, when it breaks down and options vanish, a firearm is the best defense.
Women are converting in droves, away from the Democrats dangerous and unconstitutional anti-gun politics, to gun ownership and safety... safety from the violence the Democrats created in their Big Cities... Women Now Make Up The Largest Group Of New Gun Owners https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2022/07/07/women-new-gun-owners/ https://www.instagram.com/beachytrex/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/more-women-are-becoming-g... https://www.nrawomen.com/content/nssf-survey-says-women-comprised-one-third-... https://www.instagram.com/jerseyl18/ The last couple of years has pushed many on-the-fence people from owning zero guns to at least own one gun. Whether it’s out of a newfound enjoyment for shooting sports or for personal protection, people just seem to be wising up to the benefits of being a firearms owner. Of those new gun owners, women now make up the largest group accounting for nearly half of new gun owners over the last five years. According to a recent study conducted by Harvard University, women now make up 42% of new gun owners accounting for nearly half of all new gun owners over the past 5-years. This number is up 14% from that same span of time and 3.5 million women joined the ranks of new gun owners between January 2019 and April 2021. An NSSF survey partially backs up this claim by the Harvard study by stating that 1/3rd of 2021’s new gun owners were women. Keen observers of the firearms industry might have also noticed a distinct shift in the way that firearms companies are producing marketing material with many new products like the recent release of the PDP F Series being specifically marketed towards female shooters. Shooting organizations like “Shoot like a Girl” have also cropped up featuring female firearms instructors whose aim is to bring more women into shooting sports and provide them with a more comfortable environment to train in. In the study conducted by Harvard University, one-quarter of the women surveyed said self-defense was the main reason they wanted to purchase a firearm for the first time with many citing the uptick in civil unrest and reduction of law enforcement assets during the summer of 2020. Another reason cited by many women as to why they’ve armed themselves is that many of them are now living alone and feel more comfortable having a firearm in the home for self-defense. Regardless of what is spurring this increase in gun ownership amongst women, I think this is a net positive for the firearms industry as a whole and the women that the industry is trying to serve. Let us know if the ladies that you know are taking on an increased interest in firearms and what they are saying as to how or why they’re getting into firearms.
California Dictator and Jackass Tyrant Extraordinaire Newsom signs law allowing people to sue paintbrush makers who market and sell paintbrushes, for liability when someone murders someone else with a paintbrush, or when their paintbrush products [themselves] "causes harm". or a paintbrush gets stolen or sold on the side. He and his cronies claim this will prevent paintbrush violence by compelling paintbrush makers to prevent side sales and theft. Lol. Long since been proven that the only ones owning paintbrushes will be criminals, and they will use them against your dumb defenseless ass. California is lunatic, courts and juries will throw them out.
Gun control is dead, stopped by a civilian with a clean shot, demand for right to keep and bear arms, self defense buyers, takes off after public news of the effective on-hand demo spreads... Mass Shooter At Indiana Mall Killed By Armed "Good Samaritan" Civilian A man with a rifle walked into an Indiana mall and opened fire in a food court Sunday evening. A law-abiding citizen with a permit to carry a handgun responded in seconds and was able to shoot and kill the suspect, ending the rampage. The Greenwood Police Department said a lone suspect entered the food court area of the Greenwood Park Mall, located on Highway 31 on the south side of Indianapolis, around 1800 local time. The suspect was armed with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and immediately began firing. He was identified as an adult male, and police have yet to release a motive. The suspect killed three people and injured two during the rampage but was stopped short by a 22-year-old man carrying a gun lawfully. Police have not shared the man's name, but local authorities are already calling the citizen who stopped the shooter a "real hero." "Someone we are calling the 'Good Samaritan' was able to shoot the assailant and stop further bloodshed," Mayor Mark W. Myers wrote in a Facebook post. "This person saved lives tonight. On behalf of the City of Greenwood, I am grateful for his quick action and heroism," Myers continued. Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison reported during a media briefing from the mall's parking lot that "the real hero of the day -- is the citizen that was lawfully carrying a firearm in the food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began." The left-leaning press fails to headline 'a good guy with a gun' stopped Sunday's mass shooting (though it was mentioned within each respective article). As the national debate rages about stricter gun control measures, a good guy with a gun neutralized a bad guy with a gun in his tracks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberator_(gun) https://abc13.com/no-questions-asked-gun-buyback-event-success-one-safe-hous... https://www.fox26houston.com/news/man-claims-to-have-sold-dozens-of-ghost-gu... https://twitter.com/moderatorgage/status/1553874315799584769 Profit: Man 3D-Prints 62 gun receivers, turns them in to Houston Gun Buy Back for $150 each, Govt had to pay him because gun laws define them as guns. Video: US Gov BATF goes door to door demanding that owners of multiple firearms prove they still have them... however, that inquisition is not a requirement or part of any law or regulation, and is against the 2nd and 4th amendment, the 1st, etc. Multiple instances prompt court cases. https://i.redd.it/qpg5o9hlj5f91.jpg https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/wdpuzf/i_trust_my_fellow_man_mo...
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Profit: Man 3D-Prints 62 gun receivers, turns them in to Houston Gun Buy Back for $150 each, Govt had to pay him because gun laws define them as guns.
https://twitter.com/2Aupdates/status/1557049843956195330 Utica New York - August 27 2022 10AM No-questions no-limit buyback event at $350 per non-working unserialized "ghost" "assault" rifle. Offered by the full faith and credit of NY attorney general. What's that sound? 3D Money printers going brrrrrrrr !!! Watch for the event videos. https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/ceo-says-roughly-two-t... https://offensively-patriotic.com/2022/07/02/ups-cancelling-firearm-dealer-s...
Florida Man With Concealed Firearm Kills Gunman Who Threatened To "Shoot Up The Crowd" Instead of waiting for the police, a law-abiding citizen with a concealed carry license (also known as a 'good guy with a gun') took matters into his own hands and acted quickly, drawing his weapon and killing a gunman who was about to "shoot up the crowd" at a party in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday night. Local news CBS12 said a fight broke out between 20 people at a family gathering on Division Avenue and 4th Street in West Palm Beach. At that moment, a 22-year-old male retrieved a short-barreled shotgun from his car and threatened to "shoot up the crowd." West Palm Beach Police said the man refused to drop the weapon after yelling out mass shooting threats, and that was when a 32-year-old man with a concealed weapon license fired his pistol, hitting the armed suspect. The law-abiding citizen immediately called 911 late Sunday night after he shot the crazed gunman. Detectives said the 22-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Instances such as this where a good guy with a gun neutralizes an armed person threatening to kill others tend to be ignored by liberal mainstream media because it goes against the left's narrative of more gun control. In the last several months, we have documented multiple acts of bravery from law-abiding citizens with concealed carry licenses who acted swiftly to neutralize threats: "Law-Abiding West Virginian Woman With Concealed Firearm Stops A Mass Shooting" "Mass Shooter At Indiana Mall Killed By Armed "Good Samaritan" Civilian" It's clear the left-wing media cherrypicks gun-related stories by focusing solely on mass shootings neglecting reports that show how law-abiding citizens with guns have saved lives. Watch the local media report via CBS12.
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Video: US Gov BATF goes door to door demanding that owners of multiple firearms prove they still have them... however, that inquisition is not a requirement or part of any law or regulation, and is against the 2nd and 4th amendment, the 1st, etc. Multiple instances prompt court cases.
https://twitter.com/SarahisCensored/status/1549853848071806976 Joe Biden lied, election promise said he wasn't going to take people's guns. Nor are these confiscations and prosecutions constitutional either... 3D Printing takes up the slack. ATF Shows Up At People's Homes To Confiscate Rare Breed FRT-15 Triggers https://www.ammoland.com/2022/08/atf-showing-up-at-peoples-doors-confiscatin... https://vimeo.com/486488684 https://vimeo.com/user126802150 A new report from the gun blog website AmmoLand Shooting Sports News claims that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents have shown up at the homes of "multiple people" to confiscate previously legal forced reset triggers for AR-15 style rifles that were recently classified as "machine guns." According to the report, it is unknown how the ATF acquired the customers' information - though the owners in question acquired their triggers via Gun Broker or the Rare Breed Triggers website. Rare Breed Triggers FRT - Animation from RARE BREED TRIGGERS on Vimeo. "It is possible the ATF received the customers' information from credit card processors or shipping companies," AmmoLand said, adding the federal agency had received customer information from Authorize.net and Stamps.com to track people who've bought 80% lowers from gun parts kits manufacturer Polymer80. A person named "Paul Britton Finch" is allegedly one of those gun owners who got a knock on the door from ATF agents. "Just a heads up, I got a visit today from the AFT for a trigger I bought from gunbroker and one from Rare Breed directly...hide your dogs, ladies and gentlemen. They're comin' a knocking," Finch said in a post in what appears to be a gun forum. He continued: "I don't want to say much more on here because they [ATF] do infact watch this group and who posts what information. so take what you will of it. They're out there with all the information you used to buy them with and enough to prosecute you if they want to push it. Yeah it sucks, but that's the reality of it right now." Finch provided pictures of the special agent's identification card who visited his home that served him with a "warning notice: you may be in violation of federal law." The notice was dated Aug. 16. We have thoroughly covered the ATF's battle against Rare Breed Triggers. The gun parts company once legally sold a drop-in trigger for an AR-15-style rifle that forces the trigger to reset at such a high speed that it increases the weapon's fire rate. ATF Now Labels FRT-15 A Machine Gun, Turning Law Abiding Citizens Into Criminals Rare Breed Triggers Fires Back At ATF, Says "Will Not Comply" Rare Breed Triggers Responds To Alleged Leaked ATF Memo To Seize FRT-15s From Dealers ATF Declares Some FRT-15 Triggers "Prohibited Machineguns" Rare Breed Triggers Cancels Customers' Orders After "ATF Raided Vendor" Meanwhile, people are learning to 3D print these triggers, posing an even larger challenge for the ATF. ATF Tries To Ban Forced Reset Triggers As People Begin To 3D Print At Home Under the Biden administration, the ATF has waged war against gun companies, parts manufacturers, and law-abiding citizens. Last month, a Delaware man was stunned when special agents rang his doorbell and asked if they could do an inventory audit of his legally-obtained firearms. ATF agents and a #Delaware state officer showed up to a man’s house without a warrant demanding to see his #firearms. #2A pic.twitter.com/DKuRd8UtKt — Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) July 20, 2022 And last summer we told readers that the "puzzle pieces were all laid out" - in terms of how the ATF, weaponized under the Biden administration, would try to ban semi-automatic rifles. One year later, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to ban importing, selling, manufacturing, or transferring semi-automatic assault weapons. However, it has no chance of passing in the Senate. Meanwhile, the online gun community is quickly accelerating the 3D printing technology of guns that can be entirely printed at home, even the plastic ammo. We've pointed out that others have printed weapons at home for under $350, while one company in Austin, Texas, unveiled the 0% lower earlier this year.
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Gun Grabbing Feds Now Grabbing Across The USA, Courtesy Biden-Dems... Unconstitutional Totalitarian Socialist Tyranny... History Repeats to the USA... "Get A Warrant" - ATF Agents Attempt To Confiscate Solvent Trap Components https://www.ammoland.com/2022/08/atf-confiscation-going-door-to-door-demandi... https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1563311733842018306 https://twitter.com/SarahisCensored/status/1549853848071806976 https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1563183342521962497 A new report from the gun blog website AmmoLand Shooting Sports News claims that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents are paying visits to law-abiding gun owners' houses to confiscate solvent trap components. AmmoLand's John Crump claims, "multiple law-abiding gun owners have contacted me about visitations by ATF agents attempting to get the individuals to hand over solvent trap components purchased on GunBroker." This is a solvent trap. Solvent traps are devices that can be used when cleaning firearms to catch the cleaning solution if poured down the barrel. The device helps prevent mess and if in the field, can help prevent harmful chemicals from being dumped into the environment. They can also be used as makeshift silencers. We pointed out earlier this year that ATF considered solvent traps as suppressors. This comes as some gun owners legally bought the devices and manufactured them into homemade suppressors, then filed a National Firearms Act "Form 1" with the ATF and paid a $200 tax to own them legally. Crump provides an example of ATF agents showing up at a man's house earlier this month. Agents demanded he turn over solvent trap components: "On the week of August 14th, a Louisiana man was visited by an ATF agent who demanded he turn over solvent trap components that were acquired through GunBroker Auction seller RifleRemedy2000. The ATF agent produced the Warning Notice pictured below. The man, fearing retribution and unwanted persecution by the rogue agency, agreed to sign a letter stating he had destroyed the items and no longer possessed the items the ATF has now deemed to be suppressors regulated by the NFA." Source AmmoLand: The ATF agent delivered this Warning Notice to a Louisiana man regarding his purchase of solvent traps from Gunbroker.com account "RifleRemedy2000." Source:AmmoLand: The second page of the Warning Notice purchase of solvent traps from Gunbroker.com account “RifleRemedy2000." Then there's this. On Thursday, a Florida man recorded ATF agents demanding he turn over the device. "This video was captured by Nick, a Charlotte County, Florida man who multiple ATF agents visit his home. Nick had purchased solvent trap components through GunBroker seller RifleRemedy2000 and had paid for the tax stamp to complete a form 1 self-made suppressor. "Apparently, the man had enough solvent trap components to make more than one, self-manufactured suppressor, and the ATF was demanding that he hand over the materials to the ATF for confiscation and destruction. This man exercised his right to remain silent and asked the ATF to "come back with a warrant." -- Crump The video provides a unique view of an encounter between a private citizen and federal agents who deliberately intimidated the man. Gun Owners of America (GOA) posted the video of the conversation. Here's commentary from GOA on the video above. The ATF agents got upset because a man exercised, not only his 2nd Amendment Right to Bear Arms, but also his 4th Amendment Rights, by refusing a warrantless search. Any door to door "enforcement" by the ATF is too much. — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) August 26, 2022 ATF agents showing up at homes of gun owners have recently been making national headlines. We reported last week that agents are showing up at homes of people who bought legal forced reset triggers for AR-15-style rifles that were recently classified as "machine guns." Also, video footage last month captured a Delaware man stunned when special agents rang his doorbell and asked if they could do an inventory audit of his legally-obtained firearms. ATF agents and a #Delaware state officer showed up to a man’s house without a warrant demanding to see his #firearms. #2A pic.twitter.com/DKuRd8UtKt — Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) July 20, 2022 And last summer, we told readers that the "puzzle pieces were all laid out" - in terms of how the ATF, weaponized under the Biden administration, would try to ban semi-automatic rifles. Here's what Biden said this week about banning guns: You heard that right folks, Joe Biden says that if America elects two more Democrat Senators, they will ban assault weapons. pic.twitter.com/W8dkHwEy9X — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) August 26, 2022 The rise in the ATF's door-to-door operations at homes of law-abiding citizens is disturbing as Second Amendment appears to be under attack.
Joe Rogan: "Isn't It Fucking Wild", Anti-Gun Hollywood Is Biggest Promoter Of Weapons In Movies Hollywood is the wokest place on earth regarding social responsibility, but when they try to lecture law-abiding Americans on firearms, it's an absolute joke. During a recent episode of the "Joe Rogan Experience" with guest comedian Tim Dillon, Joe Rogan pointed out Hollywood's hypocritical stance on firearms. "Isn't it fucking wild that Hollywood, in general, is very anti-gun, but they promote guns more than any other media on the planet? All their best movies, whether it's 'The Gray Man,' or whether you're watching 'The Terminal List' or 'Mission Impossible. "It's all 'Guns save the day.' Guns kill aliens, guns kill werewolves, guns kill everyone. Everyone bad gets killed by guns ... but guns are bad and you shouldn't have guns.' It's crazy," Rogan said. Virtue-signaling celebs have no trouble profiting off movies featuring violence and guns. However, they love to criticize gun advocacy groups such as the National Rifle Association for making communities less safe. Comedian Bill Maher on his show "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO, recently pointed out that children "see 200,000 acts of violence on screens before the age of 18." Maher cited the FBI, who said the common denominator with signs of a school shooter is "fascination with violence-filled entertainment." Maher concluded: "It's funny, Hollywood is the wokest place on earth in every other area of social responsibility… but when it comes to the unbridled romanticization of gun violence — crickets."
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1561518391977984002 3D-Printers Going Brrrrr Around The World, FTW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oP99HiZ_iA Marjorie Taylor Greene for Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7fSU0zm3q8 Marjorie Taylor Greene for Congress Win Marjorie Taylor Greene's 50 Cal Rifle... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WurKgebhaU Win MTG's .50 Cal This is the same type of gun that TRIGGERS the Fake News Media and Democrats all across the country. And it’s the same type of gun the hate-America gun-grabbers in DC would love to BAN if they ever get the votes. Valued at $10,000. Someone has to win it ... might as well be you! Enter to win here: https://action.greene2020.com/50-cal-gg/ https://greenegun.com/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2190938/Video-Georgia-congressi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJSGDp_rij0 Jerone Davison Exposes Democrat History Jackass Donkey Democrats... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMUOPN2iaJs Man Up - Make Rifles Great Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM52rpkO39w Politician 2ndA Related Ads https://nypost.com/2021/01/05/rep-lauren-boebert-loads-gun-walks-around-dc-i... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QoBcwIBfA4 boebert smashes hypocrisy https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9108499/Colorado-congresswoman-gun-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNCGd96RfxI Yet Another Triggered Raging Borderline Violent and Outright Lying Democrat Exposes Themselves Yes, Biden, O'Rourke, and Democrats did and do explicitly say on video and in print that they will take your guns away, and they are literally enacting and doing it as any good 2ndA firearms news sites have been documenting for decades.
The very racist history of gun control. The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is indispensable to Black equality. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/31/opinion/very-racist-history-gun-contr...
Yes, Biden, O'Rourke, and Democrats did and do explicitly say on video and in print that they will take your guns away, and they are literally enacting and doing it as any good 2ndA firearms news sites have been documenting for decades.
These tyrants are also coming for your crypto, but that's harder for people to grasp. https://twitter.com/america1stwomen/status/1565726943693119489 Don't forget Biden and O'Rourke's secret gun grabbing czar deal caught on camera in the burger joint, among many other fine examples. Rights, of any kind, are rights, if you give one away, you've just mentally committed yourself to giving them all away.
Democrats EXPOSED as Two-faced Hypocrite Liars... Democrats say: Guns for mee, but not for thee... Democrat Karen Bass Says Her Guns Were Stolen from Her Home VOTED 100% of the Time Against Gun Rights and Gun Ownership https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/update-democrat-karen-bass-says-gun... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/democrat-congresswoman-candidate-lo... https://ktla.com/news/local-news/karen-bass-says-home-was-burglarized-firear... https://bass.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-bass-statement-passin... https://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Karen_Bass_Gun_Control.htm https://www.ontheissues.org/Notebook/Note_10-PVS-q10.htm As reported earlier, radical California Democrat Congresswoman and candidate for Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass, said her home was burglarized. Karen Bass on Saturday said her home was broken into late Friday and two firearms were stolen, KTLA 5 reported. Nothing else was stolen from Congresswoman Bass’s home. According to Bass, her firearms were “safely and securely stored.” So no jewelry or cash or anything else of value was taken from Karen Bass’s house. The burglar(s) knew exactly where Bass kept her firearms and only stole two guns. Obviously, Bass knows the thief and the thief knows Bass. What is particularly odd about this report is that radical Socialist Democrat Karen Bass, a supporter of Fidel Castro, is a gun owner. After all, Bass has voted against EVERY MAJOR legislation supporting gun rights and gun ownership. Here is a rundown on Karen Bass’s voting record on Second Amendment rights. Via On the Issues. Supports restricting gun purchase & possession. Bass supports the PVS survey question on gun restrictions Project Vote Smart infers candidate issue stances on key topics by summarizing public speeches and public statements. Candidates are given the opportunity to respond in detail; about 16% did so in the 2010 races. Project Vote Smart summarizes candidate stances on the following topic: ‘Gun Issues: Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?’ Source: Project Vote Smart 10-PVS-q10 on Nov 2, 2010 Ban large-capacity ammunition. Bass co-sponsored Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit the transfer or possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, except for its lawful possession within the United States on or before the date of this Act’s enactment; and the importation or bringing into the United States of such a device (with some exceptions). Identification Markings: Requires a large capacity ammunition feeding device manufactured after this Act’s enactment to be identified by a serial number that clearly shows that the device was manufactured after enactment. Whoever knowingly violates this law shall be fined, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. Source: H.R.138&S.33 13-HR0138 on Jan 3, 2013 Repeal “stand-your-ground” laws. Bass co-sponsored Resolution on Gun Violence Congressional Summary: Urges Congress to enact legislation based on the President’s recommendations to reduce gun violence Urges state legislatures to reject proposed stand-your-ground legislation Urges states to repeal enacted stand-your-ground laws. Condemns gun violence Democrats like Karen Bass don’t want you to own guns. But she keeps her own stashed in her house fo protection.
Retarded Democrats and Politicians... Man 3D-Prints Guns For New York Buyback Event, Makes A Whopping $21,000 https://www.wktv.com/news/local/man-claims-he-was-paid-21-000-for-3d-printed... https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/08/3... Another person outsmarted a state government trying to confiscate firearms via a gun buyback program with merely a 3D printer and PLA filament. A man named "Kem" printed 110 firearms on a $200 printer he got for Christmas and turned them into a gun buyback program held at the Utica Police Department in Oneida County, New York. "I 3D-printed a bunch of lower receivers and frames for different kinds of firearms," Kem told local media WKTV. He drove six hours across the state to turn in the firearms he printed in August, collecting a whopping $21,000 from the New York State Attorney General's Office. "And it ended with the guy and a lady from the budget office finally coming around with the 42 gift cards and counting them in front of me ... $21,000 in $500 gift cards," Kim added. WKTV contacted the state Attorney General's Office about 3D-printed firearms, though there was no response to that question besides it being a 'big success and that the program, in general, keeps New York families safe.' "I'm sure handing over $21,000 in gift cards to some punk kid after getting a bunch of plastic junk was a rousing success," laughed Kem. Asked where he got the idea, he told the local media outlet he saw people on Twitter talking about using 3D printers to make big bucks by printing guns for buyback programs. Perhaps he was referring to the story of a man who recently turned in 62 3D-printed guns to Houston's buyback program and collected $3,100. Some police departments have changed policies on accepting 3D-printed firearms as more and more people take advantage of flawed buybacks. Keith Taylor, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which is part of the City University of New York system, recently told Pew Research that buybacks are mostly ineffective at reducing homicides: "It's a waste of resources if the entities that are sponsoring believe that it's going to have a positive effect on reducing crime." Kem concluded to the media outlet: "Gun buybacks are a fantastic way of showing, number one, that your policies don't work, and, number 2, you're creating perverse demand. You're causing people to show up to these events, and, they don't actually reduce crime whatsoever."
Biden... keeps disrespecting American holidays, 2ndA RKBA, mass protests likely... Republican Representative Shreds Biden For His Gun Comments On Thanksgiving https://conservativebrief.com/comments-68606/ Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs shredded President Joe Biden for going after a fundamental right when he spoke to reporters on a national holiday. The representative spoke to host Carl Higbie when he crushed the president’s comments on Thanksgiving. “How do you turn Thanksgiving holiday into an attack on the Second Amendment? Well this administration can do that at any time. This is one of their big goals,” he said. “I was pretty upset that they would try to distract from the very special day to an attack on our rights, but that’s par for the course for the Biden administration,” the representative said. “This notion that we’re going to go ahead and take away what we believe to be a God given inherent right in this Constitutional Republic because Joe Biden doesn’t know the difference between an automatic, a semi-auto, what he likes to call assault weapons, that’s just absolutely , it’s tyrannical in its way,” he said. Biden took aim at lawful gun owners again this week following a pair of shootings at a club in Colorado and a Walmart in Virginia. In remarks to a reporter, Biden lashed out at all Americans who own “semi-automatic” guns, which, according to published data, amount to more than half of all firearms in private hands. During a press event in Nantucket, Mass., Biden specifically referenced the shooting in Colorado Springs, Colo., where a self-described “non-binary” gunman killed five patrons and wounded nearly 20 others at Club Q, a hot spot for the gay and lesbian community. “The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick,” Biden said. “Just sick. It has no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.” Another reporter went on to ask the president if he thought he could make any progress on new gun control laws when Republicans take control of the House in January, responding that he would have to take stock of votes first. “I’m going to try,” Biden said. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.” The president was blasted over his remarks for his overly generalized statement regarding firearms and the tens of millions of Americans who own them. “So essentially all guns are on the Big Guy’s chopping block,” Hollywood actor James Woods tweeted. So essentially all guns are on the Big Guy’s chopping block. https://t.co/EwZlxZROJy — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 25, 2022 “Wow. Are there any guns Biden would not ban?” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton noted on Twitter. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said that Biden was “maligning most gun owners” and added that Americans rejected recent gun control proposals floated by outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Americans rejected Pelosi’s gun control schemes in the mid terms, yet here is Biden saying he wants to ban modern firearms, and maligning most gun owners. https://t.co/8cXyftBx8j — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 24, 2022 Missouri’s 4th congressional district U.S. Representative-elect Mark Alford called Biden’s stance on gun laws “sheer ignorance,” going on to cite an article noting that semi-automatic weapons make up 50 percent of all gun sales in America. Serving up sheer ignorance for Thanksgiving!! @POTUS now wants to ban ALL semiautomatic weapons. “The idea that we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick” Semiautomatics make up 50% of ALL gun sales in America. https://t.co/181vuX0sQg @NRA — Mark Alford 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@markalfordkc) November 24, 2022 In June, the U.S. Supreme Court handed strengthened the Second Amendment’s individual right to keep and bear arms by striking down a concealed carry law in New York state that a majority of justices viewed as unconstitutionally restrictive. And in October, the Biden administration lost another case in federal court regarding the right. According to reports, U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in Charleston, W. Va., ruled that a federal ban on guns without a serial number or with a serial number removed is unconstitutional in the first such ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld broader gun rights in a June ruling. Goodwin ruled on Wednesday that the ban was inconsistent with the United States’ “historical tradition of firearm regulation,” which is a new standard for deciding Second Amendment cases that the Supreme Court laid out over the summer, Reuters reported, adding: The decision came in a criminal case charging a man, Randy Price, with illegally possessing a gun with the serial number removed that was found in his car. The judge dismissed that charge, though Price is still charged with illegally possessing the gun after being convicted of previous felonies. Price’s lawyer, Lex Coleman, called the decision “thoughtful, measured and accurate.” A spokesperson for the office of U.S. Attorney William Thompson in Charleston, which is prosecuting the case, said the office was “reviewing the ruling and assessing options.” The federal law in question prohibits anyone from transporting a gun with the serial number removed across state lines, or from possessing such a gun if it has ever been transported across state lines. Serial numbers, first required by the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, are intended to prevent illegal gun sales and make it easier to solve crimes by allowing individual guns to be traced.
https://mises.org/wire/bans-assault-weapons-do-not-reduce-crime Bans On "Assault" Weapons Do Not Reduce Crime Joe Biden is a liar on stats, seeks to grab guns for one reason only, to remove the ability of Americans to handily revolt against such dictators as obviously intended per the 2ndA, and to incite crime against unarmed in order to roll out more Govt. Doesn't spend one penny on mental health, education, responsibility... only wants to grab guns which no one will give up and criminals will still abuse. Idiot, asshole. When seconds count, all you have is yourself and an appropriate weapon. https://reason.com/2022/05/16/why-new-yorks-assault-weapon-ban-didnt-stop-th... https://reason.com/2014/10/28/the-truth-about-mass-public-shootings/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/04/mass-shootings-more-deadl... https://crimeresearch.org/2022/05/biden-on-assault-weapons https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/06/16/a-crime-puzzle-violent-crime-declines-... https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/07/20/record-28-million-ar-15... https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/07/20/record-28-million-ar-15... https://www.nssf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NSSF-factsheet-High-Capacity... Prominent Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have repeatedly expressed interest in reinstating a federal assault weapons ban. Biden himself included an assault weapon ban in his 1994 crime bill, which lasted ten years until its expiration in 2004. Biden has claimed that the ban did its job and reduced mass shootings: “When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled.” But a detailed review of the data demonstrates that the ban had no real benefits whatsoever, and neither did it lessen the frequency of major shootings. What Is an Assault Weapon? Contrary to popular belief, an assault weapons ban does not ban AR- or AK-style rifles. Assault weapons bans focus primarily on the specific functions of these rifles. The 1994 ban described assault weapons as semiautomatic rifles that had the ability to accept a detachable magazine and possessed two of the following five features: (1) a folding or telescopic stock; (2) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; (3) a bayonet mount; (4) a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; or (5) a grenade launcher. This definition permits some adjustments to be made to rifles, such as an AR-15, that would make them completely legal (or “compliant”). Rifles that comply must have a fixed stock. Stocks cannot be telescopic or folding. A pistol grip is incompatible with a compliant rifle. Compliant rifles typically have a stock that has additional material added to it, so the pistol grip is attached to the stock or is extended far enough to prevent the shooter from wrapping around it with their thumb. The maximum number of rounds the rifle’s magazine can hold is 10. Any more than that is regarded as a high-capacity magazine. The rifle may not have a flash suppressor. Many creative minds have discovered countless ways to transform basic AR-style rifles into completely compliant weapons. Today, several states have their own assault weapons bans with similar or identical provisions as the 1994 federal ban. In these states, the ownership of AR-15s and such is not at all uncommon. The same went for gun owners during the federal ban from 1994–2004. The reality of compliant assault weapons is a strong indicator that the assault weapons ban did not work, outside of some inconveniences for gun owners. Any owner could easily convert a compliant rifle into a fully functional (and illegal) one using minimal tools and labor. And many, including mass shooters, take advantage of this. The 1994 ban led to a sharp increase in the demand for assault weapons, which initially increased prices. But after an increase in production, prices began to fall to their previous state. A 2002 study showed: In the short-term, the federal AW ban reduced the availability of AWs to criminal users by increasing the cost of these weapons in primary and, presumably, secondary markets. However, the ban also stimulated production increases for AWs and legal substitute models, resulting in a post-ban decline in prices. Proponents of a renewed ban completely overlook the rise in the ownership of assault weapons both before and after the 1994 ban. Any positive benefits cited by Biden and other politicians and talking heads are seriously called into question in light of this fact. Did the Ban Decrease Mass Shootings? When we closely examine the facts, Biden’s assertion that the ban will reduce the number of mass shootings is shown to be, to put it mildly, an excessive exaggeration. It is safe to assume that Biden derived this claim from a 2019 study that references the Mother Jones mass shootings database, or possibly he obtained it directly from Mother Jones. Either way, there are numerous flaws in citing this data as evidence. The methodology Mother Jones utilized to create their dataset on mass shootings and the conclusions that were made using this data have garnered criticism from criminologists such as Grant Duwe, who points to underreporting problems and says that “the Mother Jones list relied exclusively on news reports as a source of data, and news coverage tends to be less accessible for the older cases.” He anchored the hunt for more in-depth news reporting on mass homicides in his own study of homicide using the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) data. The SHR data has several shortcomings, but it is the most complete homicide dataset currently accessible that sheds light on, among other things, when and where the majority of mass shootings have occurred in the United States. Duwe’s research revealed that mass shootings are “roughly as common now as they were in the 1980s and ’90s.” But what about the frequency of assault weapons used in mass shootings? Did that change? Economist John R. Lott says: “There was no drop in the number of attacks with assault weapons during the 1994 to 2004 ban. There was an increase after the ban sunset, but the change is not statistically significant.” Did the Ban Decrease Gun Homicides? Assault rifles (and rifles in general) are very rarely used in gun crimes, so we would not expect to see any significant decrease in gun homicides or gun crimes due to the 1994 ban. Multiple studies have been done examining the effects of the ban on gun homicides and the results are generally inconclusive. A 2016 review published in JAMA found that four different studies, “do not provide evidence that the ban was associated with a significant decrease in firearm homicides.” Between 1991, when violent crime reached an all-time high, and 2017, the country’s overall violent crime rate decreased by 47 percent, with a murder rate decline of 34 percent. Meanwhile, it appears foolish to attempt to count the almost two hundred million new firearms purchased by Americans, including the more than twenty million AR-15s and the hundreds of millions of “large” pistol and rifle magazines. Conclusion The assumption that the 1994 assault weapons prohibition was successful in lowering gun homicides, mass shootings, or even the possession of assault weapons is not backed by strong evidence. Most likely, those who advocate for the ban’s reintroduction are unaware of the compelling evidence against the prohibition, whether on purpose or accidentally. When the police and ATF start enforcing a new ban, there may even be an uptick in violence.
Joe Biden the raging anger spastic sadistic violent lying gun grabbing constitution violating anti-freedom anti-america[n] commie socialist ignorant abusive asshole tyrant... Biden's brain-rage always exploding and routinely exposed... Rational knowledgeable experienced union member triggers Biden's brain... https://twitter.com/jerrywaynear14/status/1452657208211107841 Dems and Biden Admin now advocating and acting against union railworkers... more power for GovPol, less ability for you to reclaim it... "You will own NOTHING! -- WEF, Schwab" As expected, Democrats have 'crossed a line' and voted to remove labor unions' leverage by approving a bill to force them to accept the railroad labor deal. Pelosi said in a letter to her colleagues last night that Democrats have stood with “hard-working railroaders in their fight against greedy railroad corporations for fairer wages, benefits and working conditions,” she said in the letter. “However, we must act to prevent a catastrophic strike that would touch the lives of nearly every family: erasing hundreds of thousands of jobs, including union jobs; keeping food and medicine off the shelves; and stopping small businesses from getting their goods to market.” House lawmakers voted 290 to 137 on legislation that would force the adoption of a tentative labor agreement by rail workers, using the power of a 1926 law that allows Congress to intervene in railroad disputes that threaten to disrupt the U.S. economy. US equities have rebounded on the news... Any legislation that passes the House will have to be approved by the Senate as well. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) proposed a similar sick-leave measure. As we detailed yesterday, union leaders have already expressed their ire at the intervention. Michael Paul Lindsey, a locomotive engineer in Idaho and steering committee member for Railroad Workers United, told Insider it was a "blatant betrayal," but he wasn't surprised. "I thought it was kind of laughable that anyone would think that either the Democrats or the Republicans actually cared. Bottom line, they care about money," he said. Even so, "there was always that hope in the back of my mind that maybe someone would do something that was actually right for the American worker for once — instead of just what's right for corporate America." Republicans have traditionally philosophically-opposed government intervention into private contractual obligations, and Senator Marco Rubio has vociferously defended the workers' rights: “Just because Congress has the authority to impose a heavy-handed solution does not mean we should,” he said. “It is wrong for the Biden administration, which has failed to fight for workers, to ask Congress to impose a deal the workers themselves have rejected.” House lawmakers are also expected to vote on a second bill that would increase paid sick leave to seven days.
Restricting Gun Rights Won't Prevent Tragedy https://www.gunowners.org/ https://crimeresearch.org/2018/06/more-misleading-information-from-bloomberg... https://www.newsweek.com/buffalo-shooter-saw-new-yorks-gun-laws-his-advantag... https://www.gunowners.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PoliceOnes-2013-Gun-Pol... https://crimeresearch.org/2022/10/massive-errors-in-fbis-active-shooting-rep... https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2022/07/18/elisjsha-dicken-identif... https://www.denverpost.com/2007/12/10/guards-hands-didnt-even-shake-as-she-s... https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/stephen-willeford-sutherland-springs... https://www.gunowners.org/goa-celebrates-massive-right-to-bear-arms-scotus-v... As 2022 comes to a close, the Biden Administration has renewed its calls for gun control, including a ban on commonly-owned firearms, millions of which are currently in circulation. This isn't the first time that we at Gun Owners of America have heard calls for shredding the Second Amendment. In fact, we've survived worse and come out on top. On the eve of the ten-year anniversary of the tragedy at Sandy Hook, it's good for us to examine why these calls for so-called "assault weapon" bans continue even ten years later, and why they're just as misguided and ineffective today as they were all those years ago. The tragic shooting at Sandy Hook is a testimony to the failure of gun control. 94% of mass shootings occur in Gun Free Zones, as these killers are looking for easy targets and know that it's unlikely anyone will be armed and able to stop them. This is proven repeatedly, most recently with the Buffalo, NY shooter. He wrote in his manifesto about his decision to carry out his attack in a state like New York which has very strict gun laws, thus making it harder for someone to stop him. In the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook, there was a massive push for banning firearms that are commonly used for self-defense. But Gun Owners of America took action, and with the help of our members, we were able to stop the proposed gun control. This victory, of course, made the anti-gun lobby furious. "Gun Owners of America showed with one email alert that it could help flood the phone lines on Capitol Hill days before the Senate vote," said National Public Radio after the gun control bill was defeated. While anti-gun politicians were frustrated by our members flooding the phone lines, GOA members simply knew the truth -- gun control won't stop these sorts of tragedies. But if gun control can't stop mass shootings, what can? Almost 90% of police say that armed citizens are the best way to stop mass shootings and over 80% of police say that teachers should be armed. The data backs this up. Armed citizens stopped almost 50% of mass shootings last year. Often these cases of armed citizens stopping mass shootings are largely ignored by the mainstream media with their gun control agenda. The corporate media fails to report on the stories of Elisjsha Dicken, Jeanne Assam, Stephen Willeford, and countless others who've stopped mass shooters. The corporate media specifically ignores the stories about armed citizens who stop mass shooters because they fail to promote their narrative that more laws will stop criminals who, by definition, do not follow laws. Even the Supreme Court, with their recent decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen, agrees that Americans have a right to self-defense against those who would do them harm outside their homes. The Biden administration and anti-gun governors nationwide will spend the rest of 2022, 2023, and beyond plotting how to get around the Bruen decision and pushing for so-called assault weapons bans through Congress or by unconstitutional executive fiat (or as Biden calls it, regulatory authority). But Gun Owners of America stands ready to fight these unconstitutional actions in Congress or, if necessary, in the courts. We'll hold the line for you in Washington. We are No Compromise. Join the Fight Now. Erich Pratt is the Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America, a national grassroots lobby representing more than two million gun owners.
Georgia Restaurant Worker Fatally Shoots Armed Intruder In Self-Defense https://www.theepochtimes.com/georgia-restaurant-worker-fatally-shoots-armed... An employee at a restaurant in Georgia fatally shot an armed intruder in self-defense after the masked assailant pistol-whipped the worker during an attempted robbery, authorities say. An American Philly N Wings in Warner Robins, Georgia. (Courtesy of Google Maps via NTD News) Warner Robins Police Department Sgt. Justin Clark told Fox News in an interview on Tuesday that the intruder, identified as Joshua Hickey, entered an American Philly & Wings restaurant on Dec. 5 and demanded money. “Hickey … had a stolen pistol,” Clark told the network, explaining that he entered the restaurant and demanded money from the manager, which led to a struggle with the employee. The worker, who was not identified, suffered a head injury after being pistol-whipped and knocked to the ground, Clark said. After managing to get back on his feet, the employee pulled his own legally owned pistol and fired three shots at Hickey, striking him twice, according to police. “Once Mr. Hickey was shot, he fled from the restaurant but only made it about 75 yards before collapsing on the street,” the official said. Authorities transported him to the hospital, but he died of his wounds. When Clark was asked in the interview how the worker was doing mentally after experiencing the fatal encounter, he told the anchor the worker “took it pretty hard.” “Of course, nobody wants to be in that situation and … he was doing his best to come out of it okay,” the police sergeant said. In recent years, the United States has seen overall crime increase after enjoying decades of generally declining crime. In particular, robberies, carjacking, burglaries, and theft, have increased over the past year or so. Clark told Fox News that Warner Robins, a city in Houston and Peach counties located in the central part of Georgia, has not necessarily seen an increase in crime, although the area did report “a fair share of crime,” including violent crime and theft. When asked to react to major cities reporting an increase in robberies and homicides in recent years, Clark blamed it on staff shortages, adding that it is hard for law enforcement to do their jobs efficiently nowadays. “It’s terrible, a lot of it has to do with, you know, officer shortages,” he told the network. “Everybody, including us, is dealing with this. Unfortunately, it is hard to get people to do the job nowadays.”
Oregon Judge Blocks High-Capacity Magazine Ban https://www.gunowners.org/ https://www.gunowners.com/ https://twitter.com/GunFoundation/status/1603519551299358720 Gun Owners of America & Gun Owners Foundation have successfully delivered on their promise to fight gun control in the Beaver State. https://www.gunowners.org/goa-and-gof-secure-comprehensive-tro-against-orego... https://www.gunowners.org/wp-content/uploads/Oregon-State-Court-TRO-Order.pd... https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/11/06/five-out-of-state-donors-provi... https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1600247588145352704 A Judge in Oregon State Court granted GOA a Preliminary Injunction in the case Arnold & GOA v. Brown. The injunction halts the magazine ban in Oregon’s most recent gun control law – Ballot Measure 114 (BM 114) - from being enforced. The Judge also maintained the Temporary Restraining Order on BM114’s permit-to-purchase requirement. This means that Oregonians can still buy standard-capacity magazines and purchase firearms without a permit. GOA has secured a preliminary injunction against the Oregon magazine ban in state court! The restraining order on permits to purchase has ALSO been maintained. pic.twitter.com/gliqyWrbpp — Gun Owners Foundation (@GunFoundation) December 15, 2022 Previously, on December 6th GOA was granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against BM 114. This Comprehensive TRO prevented the entire new law from being enforced before it could go into effect on December 8th. Ballot Measure 114 passed by razor-thin margins, and was reportedly bankrolled by out-of-state anti-gun lobbying groups such as Everytown and Giffords. Had the law gone into effect, it would have Banned Magazines over ten rounds Required a permit to purchase any firearm Required a training course, application fee, fingerprinting and a duplicative background check to obtain a permit-to-purchase. “With implementation [of measure 114], there are serious harms to the public interest as well, which could include individuals being arrested and prosecuted for Class A misdemeanors under what could be found to be an unconstitutional statutory scheme." https://t.co/qdE63UJzDI — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) December 6, 2022 Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior Vice President, had this to say: “GOA and GOF are very glad that Judge Robert Raschio responded to our arguments and is protecting the Second Amendment rights of Oregonians. We will continue to oppose the ineffective magazine ban and permit-to-purchase scheme, as these infringements would fail to control criminals, but instead, would endanger the safety of law-abiding citizens.” This victory is just one of many battles for your rights that GOA & GOF are fighting in the court system nationwide. Like we have been warning anti-gun activists and politicians since the Bruen decision, fall in line with this precedent, or we will make you. We’ll hold the line for you in Washington. We are No Compromise. Join the Fight Now.
Gavin Newsomw (Gun Grabber) Launches Unconscienable In-Terrorum and gets his ass spanked... Federal Judge To Block "Tyrannical" California Gun Law Provision https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-judge-to-block-tyrannical-california-g... https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-second-amendment A federal judge said he will block a “tyrannical” provision in an incoming California gun law because it would have the “chilling effect” of discouraging people from challenging the statute in court. Judge Roger Benitez said in a San Diego courtroom on Dec. 16 that he would soon issue an injunction halting part of a state law scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, according to The Associated Press. The offending provision would require those who fight the state’s gun laws to pay the government’s legal fees should they lose in court and was heavily promoted by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat with presidential ambitions. The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, is Miller v. Bonta, court file 22-cv-1446. The lawsuit is one of many now pending in courts across the country after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this past June that individuals have a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. The so-called loser-pays requirement would produce a “chilling effect” that would hinder state residents from suing to vindicate their legal rights because they would fear having to pay potentially huge lawyers’ tabs, Benitez said, agreeing with Second Amendment advocates. “I can’t think of anything more tyrannical,” said Benitez, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush. Benitez previously ruled against California laws targeting gun ownership. His defense of the Second Amendment has earned him the nickname “St. Benitez” among gun rights activists. In June 2021, the judge found that California’s Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989, which prohibited so-called assault weapons such as the popular AR-15 rifle in the state, ran afoul of the Second Amendment. Weeks later the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit put his ruling on hold. And in March 2019, Benitez found that the state’s ban on large-capacity magazines included in Proposition 63 was unconstitutional. In the case at hand, the judge said he would not prevent the rest of the statute from coming into force, leaving intact provisions that prohibit the sale of certain so-called assault weapons and a ban on guns lacking serial numbers. The California gun law relies on a novel enforcement mechanism inspired by a Texas law enacted last year that crowdsourced abortion enforcement, giving individuals the right to sue over alleged violations of the state’s fetal-heartbeat abortion law. The law allows, for example, for someone who helped a woman obtain an unlawful abortion by driving her to a clinic to be sued. Newsom argues the Texas abortion law is unconstitutional but says if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds it, then his state will rely on the same enforcement mechanism to target Second Amendment protections. The U.S. Supreme Court refused a request to block the Texas law and on Dec. 10, 2021, issued a complex procedural ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, remanding the case to a lower court. Then in June of this year, the high court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent that held abortion was a constitutional right, leading to a flurry of activity in state legislatures and legal challenges to abortion laws in courts across the nation. In court on Dec. 16, Benitez chided lawyers for the state of California who said the state does not intend to enforce the legal fees rules unless the Texas law survives legal scrutiny. “We’re not in a kindergarten sandbox. It’s not about, ‘Mommy he did this to me so I should be able to do this to him,’” Benitez reportedly said. The Epoch Times reached out repeatedly to both sides for comment over the weekend. Bradley Benbrook and Stephen Duvernay, attorneys for the California gun law challengers, and lawyers for the state, Elizabeth K. Watson and Thomas A. Willis, did not reply as of press time. The California Gun Rights Foundation, which is fighting the law, also did not reply to a request for comment. But lawyer Joshua Dale, who represents a San Diego area gun club that is involved in the lawsuit, told Benitez the law would put undue pressure on would-be litigants. “I’m terrified of this law,” Dale said in court, according to the AP. “It would be absolutely devastating to pay the state’s attorney fees. I’ve got kids. I’ve got a mortgage. I could never pay $50,000 or $100,000 without emptying my 401(k) account.”
States drop cases they would lose to avoid having precedents sent down from higher courts per the highest law of the land on the issue... The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed. Texans as Young as 18 Can Carry Guns After State Drops Appeal https://www.theepochtimes.com/texans-as-young-as-18-can-carry-guns-after-sta... People as young as 18 can carry handguns in Texas after the state dropped an appeal of a recent order. Texas officials were prepared to make their case against the order, which found a Texas law barring people aged 18–20 from carrying handguns unconstitutional, but abruptly asked to withdraw the appeal on Dec. 20, court records show. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for the withdrawal and the appeals court granted the unopposed request. McCraw did not say why the state, which filed a notice of appeal in September but never filed a brief outlining its position, was backing down. The department did not return a request for comment. The Firearms Policy Coalition, which sued the state over the law, celebrated the move. “We applaud Texas for doing the right thing and accepting the district court’s ruling against its law prohibiting 18-to-20-year-old adults from carrying firearms in public,” Cody Wisniewski, the coalition’s senior attorney for constitutional litigation, said in a statement. “Not only do young adults have the same constitutionally protected right to bear arms as all other adults, they are also among the reasons we have a Second Amendment, Constitution, and Country in the first place.” The law was still in effect because U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee who used to serve as a justice on a Texas appeals court, stayed his order blocking it to give the state time to seek an appeal and, if an appeal was sought, for the appeals court to rule on it. The Law Texas law says that people younger than 21 cannot carry handguns in any place not “on the person’s own premises or premises under the person’s control; or inside of or directly en route to a motor vehicle or watercraft that is owned by the person or under the person’s control.” The law has led to criminal penalties for young people who carry guns, whether openly or in a concealed manner. The law does not apply to young adults who obtain a license to carry a handgun, but another part of the Texas code states that a person must be at least 21 to get such a license. “Accordingly, while Texas allows law-abiding adults 21 years of age or older—and 18-to-20-year-old adults in or honorably discharged from the military—to exercise their rights to keep and bear arms in public, the State bans ordinary, law-abiding adults who are 18-to-20 years of age from exercising their right to carry a handgun for self-defense in public,” the coalition said in its lawsuit, which was joined by several young adults seeking to carry. At the same time, 18- to 20-year-olds can carry rifles, the plaintiffs noted. The law violates Supreme Court rulings including District of Columbia v. Heller, the suit asserted. Defendants argued that the law was constitutional under Supreme Court precedent, including Heller, in part because prohibitions on young adults carrying handguns have been around for years. Pittman’s Order The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Pittman sided with the plaintiffs, concluding that “the people” include 18- to 20-year-olds. The amendment does not mention age restrictions, and in Heller, the Supreme Court found that “the people” refers to “all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset,” the judge noted. Also, in another decision on gun rights, the court said that “ordinary, law-abiding, adult citizens … are part of ‘the people’ whom the Second Amendment protects.” The population from which members of the militia can be drawn, meanwhile, includes “all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense,” the nation’s top court has said, or all able-bodied men. Under the June ruling that saw the Supreme Court strike down a New York gun law, states that have restrictions on gun ownership and possession must show that the regulation “is part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the right to keep and bear arms.” Texas did not do so in this case, Pittman ruled. The Texas law “starts by prohibiting 18-to-20-year-olds from carrying a handgun for self-defense outside the home,” he wrote. “Only if a rare exception applies may an 18-to-20-year-old seek to obtain a license to carry. And rather than determining that a person in question is a threat to public safety, certain exceptions require an individualized determination before allowing a person to exercise their Second Amendment right.”
More unconstitutional Democrat crap shot down by the courts... The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed. Judge Keeps Oregon’s Strict Gun Control Measure On Ice https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-guns An Oregon gun-control measure that many predict will wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court remains in limbo. In a Dec 23 hearing, Circuit Court Judge Robert Raschio said he would rule by Jan. 3 whether to lift a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the Oregon Ballot Measure 114 requirement that a background check be completed before a firearm can be sold or transferred. Earlier this month, Raschio issued a TRO on the measure’s permit-to-purchase provision and its ban on magazines that carry 10 or more rounds. Those TROs are still in place. Passed in November with just 50.7 percent of the vote, Ballot Measure 114 was initially scheduled to take effect Dec. 8 but, starting on Dec. 6, faced a flurry of lawsuits. antifa A driver pulled a handgun after Antifa members smashed his truck lights in Salem, Ore., on March 28, 2021. Second Amendment activists say that if fully implemented, Oregon Ballot Measure 114 would adversely impact a citizen’s right of self defense. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images) In a Harney County suit filed on Dec. 6 by Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Gun Owners Federation, Cliff Asmussen, and Joseph Arnold, Raschio issued a TRO just three hours after Federal Court Judge Karin J. Immergut had denied such relief to plaintiffs in one of four related cases. In his ruling, Raschio said the law violated the Oregon state constitution’s right to bear arms and that Oregonians would be “unable to lawfully purchase a firearm or bear a magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition in the State of Oregon.” The Oregon Department of Justice immediately filed a petition asking the Oregon Supreme Court to vacate the lower court’s decision. “We strongly disagree with the decision of the Harney County Circuit Court,” Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum wrote to the court. “Our mandamus petition to the Oregon Supreme Court gives our highest state court the opportunity to weigh in now and reverse the Harney County judge’s ruling.” The state Supreme Court refused to intervene. State Unprepared to Issue Permits On Dec. 13, Raschio heard arguments on the permit-to-purchase provision, which the state acknowledged was not ready to go. The state had declared that it needed until approximately Feb. 8 to implement that system. Lifting the order before the permitting system is ready would cause “irreparable harm to the constitutional right to bear arms,” he said. The judge continued the TRO for this provision. When the state notifies him in writing that it is prepared to roll out the new permitting program, he will schedule a hearing. The court then considered the ban on magazines that hold 10 rounds or more. The state argued that such firearms were not in “common use” when the Second Amendment was ratified. So, they are not protected. The state’s expert, Brian DeLay, associate professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, testified that high-capacity firearms were an “experimental technology” and not commercially available when the Oregon Constitution was ratified. Experts for the plaintiffs testified that high-capacity firearms have existed since the 16th century. Lewis and Clark Carried High Capacity Firearm Isaac Botkin, the technical and education director at manufacturing company T-Rex Arms for more than a decade, described a long history of firearms capable of holding more than 10 rounds, the most famous being one carried by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It was in 1804-06 that Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Lt. William Clark led the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest. “Meriwether Lewis carried a firearm that had the capability of 20 or 22 rounds that was quite effective,” he said. The state’s attorney argued that Botkin shouldn’t be allowed to make any “historical conclusions” on the history of guns, claiming that he is not an expert. The judge disagreed and allowed Botkin to continue. Plaintiff’s Attorney Tony Aiello Jr. argued that magazines that hold more than 10 rounds are standard for guns manufactured today. He said those guns are “essentially the same firearm, just modified by design and function,” as some of the nation’s earliest guns. Raschio asked whether magazine restrictions would “reasonably promote public safety by restraining a constitutional right to bear arms” as claimed in the ballot measure. Aiello argued that it would not, claiming that the ban would deny law-abiding Oregonians the ability to defend themselves while criminals continue to ignore the law. Background Check Provision Scrutinized Convinced that the ban would violate Oregonians’ rights under the state constitution, Raschio also extended the TRO on the magazine restriction. “Based upon the preliminary evidence, the result of BM 114 would be a near absolute prohibition on handguns and many other firearms with their magazines,” Raschio wrote. The Dec. 23 hearing focused primarily on the measure’s requirement that a background check is completed before a firearm can be sold or transferred. Oregon special Attorney General Harry B. Wilson argued that the completed background-check requirement would save lives, is constitutional, and wasn’t explicitly challenged by the plaintiffs. A licensed firearms dealer can legally deliver a purchased gun after three business days if the required federal background check is not complete—what gun control advocates call the “Charleston Loophole.” Measure 114 would end that by giving the state more time to complete background checks. Measure Offers No Guarantee of Expediency “Although a significant percentage of background checks are completed automatically within minutes, many require additional time,” Wilson wrote to the court. “As a result, in some instances, individuals with felony criminal histories can obtain a firearm because the transferer can deliver the firearm after three days and before the background check is complete.” Aiello argued that the federal law ensures a gun buyer doesn’t have to wait indefinitely. He claimed Measure 114 offers no guarantee that background checks will be processed promptly. “This is infringement because … they can slow-walk background checks or not do them whatsoever,” he said. Ironically, the hearing on background checks took place as Oregon had nearly 40,000 people waiting for their background checks to be completed. The adoption of Measure 114 has caused a spike in gun purchases, and the Oregon State Police haven’t been able to keep up. “While we are pleased that GOA’s suit has thrown sand in the gears of the state’s tyrannical and rabid effort to disarm the law-abiding, the reality is that the queue of people waiting for their property is growing and barely moving,” a spokesman for the Oregon Firearms Federation told The Epoch Times. “People’s rights are being denied right this minute.”
Even Juan Rat are statist turncoats on guns, they don't want you able to shoot them dead when they steal rape destroy. Gun Owners Of America Labels 18 Republican Senators "Turncoats" https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-second-amendment https://www.theepochtimes.com/gun-owners-of-america-labels-18-republican-sen... Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Virginia-based Second Amendment rights advocacy group, issued a scathing rebuke of the 18 Republican senators who voted for the 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Act. In a Dec. 22 press release, GOA accused the group of advancing the Biden administration’s anti-gun agenda. “Unfortunately, 12 gun-control items just passed the Senate with the help of these 18 Republican turncoats,” the press release states. The Republicans who voted for the bill are Sen. Roy Blount, Missouri; Sen. John Boozman, Arkansas; Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia; Sen. Susan Collins, Maine; Sen. John Cornyn, Texas; Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas; Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina; Sen. Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma; Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky; Sen. Jerry Moran, Kansas; Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska; Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio; Sen. Mitt Romney, Utah; Sen. Mike Rounds, South Dakota; Sen, Richard Shelby, Alabama; Sen. John Thune, South Dakota; Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi; and Sen. Todd Young, Indiana. The GOA was already unhappy with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) for his support of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Attempts by The Epoch Times to contact the senators were unsuccessful due mainly to their offices being closed for the Christmas holidays. All 18 listed expressed support for the Second Amendment on their websites. All but Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds mentioned their Omnibus votes. The vast majority said military spending, national security issues, and funding were part of their decision. One example is Sen. Jim Inhofe who represents Oklahoma, considered the reddest of red states. His Omnibus press release lists defense as one of his top priorities. Inhofe touts spending on computer technology, weapons systems, and construction projects at military installations around the world. He also includes a list of infrastructure projects in at least 17 counties and municipalities in Oklahoma. Not to mention grants for research at various Oklahoma institutions. One Oklahoma project that might draw GOA’s attention is a $10 million Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) to train law enforcement officers to respond to mentally ill or disabled persons. GOA flagged such spending as a way for federal officials to promote Extreme Risk Protection orders—so-called Red Flag laws—in the states. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) touted defense spending, homeland security, and infrastructure projects as reasons he supported the Omnibus bill. (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images) Red Flag Laws allow local officials to confiscate firearms owned by a person who has been ruled to be a danger to himself or the community. This can be done regardless of whether the person has broken the law. Inhofe wrote that, overall, he is happy with the Omnibus deal. “While this is not the package Republicans would have written on our own, the $45 billion increase for our troops will make our country more secure,” his statement reads. But, a review of the 18 senators’ reveals a mixed bag regarding Second Amendment fervor. All the senators criticized by GOA portray themselves as Second Amendment advocates. Some, however, do call for limits or increased regulation. Senator John Cornyn, from the generally gun-friendly state of Texas, draws GOA’s ire in particular. Like Inhofe, Cornyn touts defense, homeland security, and infrastructure spending as big wins. However, his press release highlights school safety grants and laws supporting crime victims. Much of this is covered by the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,” which Cornyn helped pass. The GOA opposed the law and school safety grants as the foot-in-the-door for Red Flag Laws. During his fight to pass the Act, Cornyn denied that it called for such laws. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) wrote on her website that she believes Extreme Risk Protection orders can be balanced with due process rights. She also listed defense spending and infrastructure as reasons she supported the Omnibus spending bill. (Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images) However, Senator Susan Collins, who worked on the Act with Cornyn, pointed to Maine’s “Yellow Flag” law as an example of what could be done to reduce gun violence and protect individual rights. Collins’ website doesn’t have one press release specific to the Omnibus bill, but she does list several projects funded by the plan. These include new ships for the U.S. Navy and funding for colleges and medical facilities. She is also a strong supporter of Red Flag laws. On her website, Collins says these laws can be implemented while respecting the due process rights of individual citizens. Utah’s Sen. Mitt Romney also supported the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. His press release on the Omnibus bill doesn’t mention the Second Amendment, but he does agree with Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. They complain that the current process makes it difficult to take firm stands on specific issues. “The process for government funding must change in the next Congress and allow for individual appropriations bills to be voted on in regular order instead of being combined into large catchall bills which force us to vote for the bad to get the good,” Romney wrote. Graham agrees. “This legislation is far from perfect, and the process that led us to this point needs to change,” Graham wrote on his website.
Politicians don't ban guns because they want to see you live, they could give a fuck about you other than to keep you around as their stupid slaves, they ban guns to keep you from rising up and killing them to win back Freedom from their tyranny... Biden and Brazil's Lula explain... Brazil Bans Firearms From Capital Ahead Of Lula's Inauguration https://www.theepochtimes.com/brazil-bans-firearms-from-capital-ahead-of-lul... https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-firearms Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes issued a temporary firearms ban in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, on Wednesday ahead of the Jan. 1 inauguration of President-elect Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva. The decision was made as a precautionary measure, according to the judge, and will last until Jan. 2, the day after the inauguration. Those who violate the ban risk being arrested. Members of law enforcement and security forces are exempt from the ban, as are those employed by private security companies. Specifically, the temporary ban suspends licenses that allow hunters, marksmen, and collectors to carry guns and ammunition in the region. In his ruling, de Moraes said the ban was needed to ensure public safety after a rise in the number of “terrorist groups financed by shameless magnates” committing crimes in recent weeks, CNN reported. Incoming Justice Minister Flavio Dino said that da Silva’s team had requested the gun restrictions be put in place. Dino also praised the move for bolstering security at the inauguration. Tensions have been running high in Brazil since da Silva’s victory against conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro was certified on Dec. 12. Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters across the country have been protesting the results of the election over claims of fraud and calling for the military to intervene. Lawyers for Bolsonaro later challenged the outcome of the election and requested that the electoral authority invalidate the votes cast on some of the country’s electronic voting equipment. That challenge was rejected by de Moraes. Bolsonaro has not yet conceded the results of the election. Brazilian President and reelection candidate Jair Bolsonaro (L) in Brasilia, Brazil, on Oct. 2, 2022. (Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images); Former president of Brazil and candidate of the Worker’s Party Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Oct. 2, 2022. (Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images) Registered Gun Owners Rise in Brazil The number of registered gun owners in Brazil jumped six-fold to about 700,000 under Bolsonaro’s efforts to relax gun laws, beginning in 2019. Shortly before the ruling to ban guns in the capital, police arrested a 54-year-old gas station manager over his alleged planting and possession of explosive devices at Brasilia International Airport. The suspect allegedly told police that he planned “to provoke a military intervention and the decree of a state of siege to prevent the installation of communism in Brazil.” Da Silva and his Workers Party led Brazil for two terms from 2003 to 2010, during which he implemented a string of social justice policies, including anti-hunger and income-transfer programs in which the government subsidized electricity and food prices and transferred cash to the poor. He also helped establish relations with other BRICS countries: Russia, India, China, and South Africa. However, he was banned from returning to power in 2018 after he was convicted on charges of money laundering and corruption at the state-owned oil and petrol company, Petrobrás. He was subsequently sentenced to 12 years in prison following an investigation into the scheme. Throughout his time in prison, da Silva maintained his innocence and called the case against him politically motivated. His conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court when seven of 11 justices agreed that he should be tried in the state in which he lives as opposed to the state in which he was accused. A new trial has not yet been scheduled in court regarding the charges.
History: SocComs, Authoritarians, Tyrants, Dictators... always take your gun rights away before rolling out horrible regimes... https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-admin-expands-crackdown-on-ghost-guns_49... 3D printing even full gunsmithing are now widspread in the community of public domain, all such "crackdowns" are now futile.
Biden's unconstitutional nonsense grabs will fall to US Courts... The ATF has finally unveiled its "final rule" regarding pistol braces. https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1613986202302005249 https://www.gunowners.org/great-victory-gun-rights-activists-celebrate-as-tr... https://www.gunowners.org/na10042022/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsARzvLo7aE This rule, also called "Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached Stabilizing Braces," could result in serious criminal charges for owners of up to 40 million guns if they do not register their braced firearms with ATF. 🚨BREAKING🚨 The @ATFHQ just released @JoeBiden's unconstitutional pistol brace ban that affects as many as 40,000,000 lawfully purchased firearms. Read the new rule here ⤵️https://t.co/dVWgf3isNo pic.twitter.com/6dYftjaDXQ — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) January 13, 2023 GOA's Legal & Federal Affairs team are currently going over the final rule with a fine-toothed comb, but here's what we know so far. According to the final rule, gun owners who possess braced firearms will have 120 days to destroy, reconfigure, register, turn in their firearms to ATF, or face NFA violations which include $250,000 in fines and a hefty prison sentence. In addition, ATF has released a list titled "Commercially available firearms equipped with a stabilizing brace that are short-barreled rifles." ATF claims that the list is representative of how the agency will apply the definition of "rifle" to firearms equipped with a stabilizing brace. The immediate logistics of this final rule have been called into question by even the anti-gun corporate media. It is a well-known fact that ATF's NFA division consistently misses its own performance benchmarks and routinely sees wait times for ATF form approvals and tax stamps in the 300-400 day range. If 40 million firearms are added to that waitlist, it is logical to assume that gun owners forced to comply with this unconstitutional registration scheme may wait years in limbo. But don't despair! Gun Owners of America is currently pursuing multiple actions to defeat this unconstitutional ATF overreach on America's 2nd Amendment Rights. The first is to work with members of Congress to overturn the rule via the Congressional Review Act. The Congressional Review Act allows members of Congress to introduce a Joint Resolution of Disapproval to reverse any agency rule or action they deem unconstitutional. Of course, if Congress doesn't cooperate, GOA will not give up. We are prepared to file a lawsuit immediately and fight this subversion of the lawmaking process in the court system. Erich Pratt, Gun Owners of America's Senior Vice President, had this to say: "This administration continues to find new ways to attack gun owners, and this time their target is brace-equipped firearms that allow persons with disabilities to safely and effectively use pistols. We will continue to work with our industry partners to amplify the disapproving voices in the firearms industry, and the Gun Owners Foundation, our sister legal arm, will be filing suit in the near future." Aidan Johnston, GOA's Director of Federal Affairs, added: "President Biden just initiated the largest federal gun registration scheme in our nation's history without even the passage of a new law. GOA is actively working with Congress to pass a resolution blocking this rule under the Congressional Review Act, and we continue to lobby lawmakers to support Rep. Clyde and Sen. Marshall's Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today (SHORT) Act. If President Biden will not sign such legislation, then Congress must defund this rogue agency." GOA has a history of overturning these unconstitutional rule changes. In 2020, when the ATF under the Trump administration attempted to regulate pistol braces, GOA rallied our members to take action. GOA members flooded the proposed rule with comments. Because of this, ATF abandoned its attempt and withdrew the rulemaking. While GOA is prepared to take the ATF to court over this issue, we're interested in cutting the ATF's ability to regulate Short Barreled Rifles, Short Barreled Shotguns, and similar types of firearms. To strip the ATF of its ability to regulate these types of firearms, we're targeting the core of the issue, the National Firearms Act. The outdated and unconstitutional NFA allows ATF the leeway to make these unconstitutional rule changes. We're working with Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas and Congressman Andrew Clyde of Georgia to pass the SHORT Act, which would remove Short Barreled Rifles and Shotguns from the NFA. But we can't do it alone. We need your help fighting back against the rogue ATF and the anti-gun Biden administration. Help us fight by calling your Senators and Congress members and asking them to support the SHORT Act and the Joint Resolution of Disapproval.
Biden "Mr. Unconstitutional" gets destroyed in court AGAIN Yes Joe, Drug Users have a God Given and Constitutionally affirmed Right to Own Arms too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YsSPqxaNB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=donaIJfrt6M Michael Cargill @michaeldcargill Jan 6 I won 13 to 3 Cargill v Garland - Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals #2A #Bumpstock #ATF #DOJ #BreakingNews Owner/Founder: Central Texas Gun Works & Talk Show Host of Come And Talk It - 07 FFL, SOT, LTC, First Responder, Private Security 2,3 & 4 Instructor Austin, TX michaelcargill.com Joined November 2011 Tweets 3,248 Following 2,529 Followers 4,827 Likes 2,743
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Lying Unconstitutional Democrats... It's about ultimate unchecked power for them, SocCom's the lot of them, time and time over history, guns taken away, countries go to SocCom nightmares. It's not about Freedom for you, proof, Democrats never ever utter that word. 911 is a joke. Only you can protect yourself. And when you can't get away from danger, the best protection is a sidearm. 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After the three public shootings over the last two weekends in California, Democrats are again clamoring for even more gun control laws. To California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the solution is to ban more places where people can carry permitted concealed handguns. Unfortunately, the proposal has nothing to do with stopping these attacks, and more gun-free zones only encourage these attacks. Other heavily Democratic states such as New York, New Jersey, and Maryland are making similar pushes. Concealed handgun permit holders didn’t commit those or other mass public shootings. Permit holders are also extremely law-abiding, being convicted of firearms-related violations at 1/12th the rate of police officers. With the country’s strictest gun control laws, California probably shouldn’t hold itself out as a model for the rest of the country to follow. The periods after 2000, 2010, or 2020 show a consistent pattern: The per capita rate of mass public shootings in California is always greater than the rate for the rest of the country. The rate is also much higher than for Texas, which gun control groups give an “F” grade for its gun control laws. Since 2010, California’s mass public shooting rate per capita is 43% higher than for Texas and 29% higher than for the rest of the U.S. From 2020 on, California’s rate was 276% higher than Texas’ and 100% higher than the rest of the country. But while California is moving to create more gun-free zones, the problem is that it has already been virtually impossible to get concealed handgun permits in the parts of California where the attacks occurred. In Los Angeles Country, where two of the attacks occurred, there is only one permit for every 5,660 adults. In San Mateo County, where the other attack occurred, there is one permit per every 24,630 adults. By comparison, there is one permit holder for every nine people in the 43 right-to-carry states. Unsurprisingly, concealed handgun permit holders don’t stop mass public shootings in California. But they do make a difference in the 43 states where there are a lot of permit holders. Indeed, people legally carrying guns stopped at least 31 mass public shootings since 2020. And when Americans are allowed to legally carry concealed handguns, they stop about half the active shooting attacks in the US. It is hard to ignore that these mass public shooters purposefully pick targets where they know their victims cannot protect themselves. Yet, the media refuses to discuss that these mass murderers often discuss in their diaries and manifestos how they pick their targets. For example, the Buffalo mass murderer last year wrote in his manifesto explaining why he chose the target that he did: “Areas where CCW are outlawed or prohibited may be good areas of attack” and “Areas with strict gun laws are also great places of attack.” That is a common theme among mass murderers. These killers may be crazy, but they aren’t stupid. Their goal is to get media coverage, and they know that the more people they kill, the more media attention they will receive. And if they go to a place where their victims are defenseless, they will be able to kill more people. Even if an officer is in the right place at the right time, a single uniformed police officer has an almost impossible job in stopping mass public shootings. An officer’s uniform is a neon sign saying, “Shoot me first.” Once the murderer kills the officer, the attacker has free rein to go after others. But where concealed carry is allowed, the attacker will have to worry that someone behind him is also armed. Take school shootings: Twenty states, with thousands of schools, have armed teachers and staff. There has not been one attack at any of these schools during school hours since at least 2000 where anyone has been killed or wounded. All the attacks where people have been killed or wounded occurred in schools where teachers and staff can’t have guns. Newsom’s approach contrasts sharply with another country that faces constant terrorist attacks. After a Jan. 27 mass public shooting in Israel left seven people dead, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared: “Firearm licensing will be expedited and expanded in order to enable thousands of additional citizens to carry weapons.” Unfortunately, California’s strict gun control laws create fertile ground for successful mass public shootings. But the new push in some states for more gun-free zones is guaranteed to give mass murderers and other criminals even more hunting grounds.
Constitutional carry *is* open carry. Constitutional concealed carry implies open carry. https://www.gunowners.org/membership-levels/ Florida RINO's Refuse To Amend Pro-Gun Bill In Defiance Of DeSantis The Republican supermajority in Florida is against legalizing open carry. Please call the Florida Legislature at (850) 717-5019 & (850) 487-5028 and let them know you want open carry added to the bill. Even after repeated statements in favor of the law change by Governor Ron DeSantis this week, the Republicans in Florida's legislative branch don't seem too keen on adding the legalization of open carry to their constitutional carry bill. To make matters worse, Republican leadership is openly dismissive of the idea of legalizing open carry, something that is legal in 47 other states. Only Florida, Illinois, and New York have total bans on open carry. GOA's Florida State Director, Luis Valdes, brought the debate on open carry to the forefront this week when he asked Governor DeSantis if he would support adding open carry to the current constitutional carry bill, to which the Governor confirmed he would. In the same statement, DeSantis expressed his doubt about the Republican Legislature legalizing open carry in the new bill, saying, "I don't think they're gonna do it." DeSantis may be correct. When asked about open carry being added to the current bill, sponsor Chuck Brannan apathetically stated that the bill "is what it is as filed," indicating that he has no intention of legalizing open carry. Senate President Kathleen Passidomo shared similar sentiments with Rep. Brannan. Thirty-six years after Janet Reno, as Miami-Dade County State Attorney, worked to pass a ban on open carry, Republicans are still working to defend this unconstitutional law. Now is the chance for Governor DeSantis to demand that the Republican Supermajority in Florida add open carry to the bill and finally remove Florida from the company of New York and Illinois on the issue of open carry. Gun Owners of America has been working diligently in Florida to not only pass Constitutional Carry, but get open carry added to the current bill. It's time to pressure Republican leadership, and we need your help! Please call the Florida Legislature at (850) 717-5019 & (850) 487-5028 and let them know you want open carry added to the bill.
It's time for the lunatic power grabbers aka Biden Democrats to shut the fuck up and get deposed from power... President Biden @POTUS 6h "It's time for Congress to ban assault weapons." @internet "Is this a priority because of rifle deaths or is Biden worried about an armed revolution?" US Drug overdoses 106,699 deaths https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates Covid-19 created with US Govt funding 1,149,253 deaths https://covid19.who.int/region/amro/country/us Rifle murders 447 deaths https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapo...
Freedom Grabbers like piece of shit Biden never address the fundamental underlying hard social problems, nor take simple solutions like securing schools, arming defense, etc. No, these fucks always attack the non-problems that are hardly involved in any crime, and always with "solutions" that only enable one thing... Freedom Grabbing. Joe Biden is an outright FRAUD upon Freedom. https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1635746004036206595 BIDEN: "My executive order directs my Attorney General to take every lawful action possib— *BURP* —possible to move us as close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation."
https://www.theepochtimes.com/senate-republicans-introduce-bill-codifying-ri... Senate Republicans Introduce Bill Codifying Right to Bear Arms Outside the Home It would also allow citizens to sue government for infringement of rights March 16, 2023 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Senate Republicans are set to introduce on a bill on Thursday that would codify the right to bear arms for self-defense outside the home. The bill would incorporate elements from the Supreme Court’s 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision and the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen decision from 2022, he said. In Heller, the court affirmed an individual’s right to own a firearm. The Bruen decision affirmed the individual’s right to carry a gun for self-protection outside their home. Graham said the bill would enshrine those rights in federal law. It would also give citizens the right to sue any government agency or official who tried to infringe on that right. “When you live in an autocratic environment, you don’t own; the government does,” Graham said during a March 16, 2023, press conference. “[The Act is] to give you a cause of action so you can fight back.” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) walks to the Senate Republican Luncheon in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Aug. 2, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Graham was joined by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). Kennedy said Americans must respect the court’s decisions, regardless of whether or not they agree. He said some Democrats have been taking the position that it’s okay to ignore rights they disagree with. “Their copy of the Bill of Rights goes from amendment one to amendment three,” Kennedy said. According to Graham, the Democratic Party is continuing an assault on Americans’ fundamental constitutional rights and the institutions set up to protect those rights. He said a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on protecting public safety in the wake of the Bruen decision is an example. In that hearing, gun control advocates told how the Bruen decision had impacted other laws, especially the prohibition of firearms ownership for those subject to domestic violence protection orders. In Bruen, the court established a “text and history” test for courts deciding a law’s constitutionality. Under this test, if a law does not conform with how similar laws have been enforced, it would not be considered constitutional. Epoch Times Photo The Supreme Court building in Washington on March 26, 2020. (Juliet Wei/Sound of Hope) Victims of domestic violence and gun control proponents told the committee that this test was used by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to remove protections. In that case, Zackey Rahimi had been involved in several altercations in which he fired a gun while subject to a civil protection order. Based on the Bruen decision test, Rahimi pleaded guilty to that charge but successfully appealed. Second Amendment advocates told the committee that Rahimi should have been imprisoned for his gun crimes. Instead, he was released by the courts, which allowed him to commit more crimes. According to Graham, the hearing was one step in finding ways to chip away at a basic constitutional right by undermining a Supreme Court decision. Graham said liberals in the Democratic Party are committed to their political agenda above all else. He said that after the recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, overturning the constitutional right to abortion and sending the decision back to the states, certain liberal Democrats began to talk of packing the court. He said attempts to remove the filibuster and President Joe Biden’s recent executive order expanding background checks, increasing public scrutiny on gun dealers and redefining what it means to “deal in firearms” are part of that plan. Epoch Times Photo President Joe Biden speaks about his efforts to reduce gun violence at The Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley, in Monterey Park, Calif. on Mar. 14, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) The executive order “evades the American legal system to get a political outcome,” said Graham. “They want an outcome, and they don’t give a damn how they get it.” Cornyn said Congress should go even further in affirming Second Amendment rights and called for “national reciprocity.” Under national reciprocity, concealed carry permits and firearms licenses would be honored in every state, just as driver’s licenses are. “A concealed handgun license should be treated the same way,” he said. Acknowledging that driving is not a constitutional right, Kennedy said it is still considered a right for Americans to drive cars. He pointed out that law-abiding drivers are not penalized for those who drive drunk. Epoch Times Photo After a speech on the Senate floor in support of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) talks to reporters as he walks through the Capitol Rotunda in Washington on June 23, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “We don’t solve that problem by revoking everybody’s license. We focus on the problem—the drunk driver,” Kennedy said. Gun rights organizations have criticized all three senators for supporting a gun control bill Biden has touted as the most significant gun safety bill in 30 years: The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Cornyn in particular has come under fire for his role in negotiating provisions of the bill for Red Flag laws. These laws allow the government to seize guns from persons a court has ruled a danger to themselves or the community. The Texas lawmaker stood by his efforts, saying the law would keep guns out of the hands of criminals and those who are not competent to own guns. “Any suggestion that I don’t support the Second Amendment is false,” Cornyn said. “It’s just a lie.”
https://donate.gunowners.org/join/ https://www.gunowners.org/anti-gun-republicans-must-be-held-accountable/ https://www.gunowners.org/na06232022/ https://www.gunowners.org/na06152022/ https://www.gunowners.org/news12312015b/ https://www.gunowners.org/senateguncontrolframework/ https://www.gunowners.org/sen-cornyns-expanded-gun-dealer-definition-mimics-... https://www.gunowners.org/goa-slams-biden-for-mandating-backdoor-ubcs/ https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Background-Check-Survey... https://www.gunowners.org/lawmakers-investigate-biden-admin-over-database-co... https://www.gunowners.org/onebillionrecords/ GOP Compromise Unintentionally Creates Universal Firearm Background Checks Submitted by Gun Owners of America, Remember the Cornyn-Murphy Compromise that Gun Owners of America and our members warned Congress about? We were loud and clear about how this legislation did nothing to end mass public murders and only infringed on gun owners' rights. We attempted to warn elected officials. Nevertheless, Congress rushed to sign gun rights away, including 15 Republican Senators who enabled the passage of the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act." Well, President Biden just announced that he'll be using his "regulatory authority" to implement Universal Background Checks thanks to that bill. When we told the anti-gunners in Congress how this bill was poison and would just add fuel to the fire for President Biden to go beyond what was written, compromise-hungry swamp monsters didn't believe us. Well, we hate to say, "I told you so," but that's exactly what happened. The Biden Administration, by their own admission, is going around Congress to infringe on your rights. President Biden wants to use the expanded definition of "engaged in the business" to force you to file a background check for every single time you purchase a firearm. According to the White House, the President is directing the Attorney General to move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation by supposedly clarifying the statutory definition of who is "engaged in the business" of dealing in firearms, as updated by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It seems that Biden would rather harass law-abiding gun owners who sell as few as just one firearm per year than lock up the criminals who are responsible for gun violence. For those who are unfamiliar with this fight, President Obama attempted a similar executive order towards the end of his term in 2016. Obama attempted to expand the definition of gun "dealer" to: - Restrict private transfers of firearms under the guise of the so-called loopholes "online and at gun shows." - Prosecute those who sell even as many as one firearm unless they obtain a Federal Firearms License. - Punishing this otherwise lawful behavior with "up to five years in prison and fines up to $250,000." While Biden has just announced his executive order, we currently have no specifics on what that will entail. Obama's executive order gives us a look into the future of what this rulemaking could potentially look like. While the Biden administration may think this move is popular, the support for Universal Background Checks is fake. The fact is, most people who are polled in these anti-gun surveys don't fully understand what a Universal Background Check is, or that they're actually Universal Registration Checks. According to a survey of 1,000 people done by the Crime Prevention Research Center, 86% say they support background checks on all gun sales or transfers, but as soon as they're asked follow-up questions which explain how this would look as policy, support starts to drop. For example, when survey participants were asked a question with context on how the law would affect them, 44% now say they oppose Universal Background Checks, and only 42% say they support them. Universal Background Checks don't stop crime or criminals, instead they limit the ability of law-abiding citizens from being able to innocently transfer firearms to each other. The goal of President Biden's new backdoor universal background check scheme is to turn as many private citizens as possible who sell their guns into FFLs, restricting their ability to conduct private gun transfers without being recorded in the ATF's illegal national federal registry. Remember, the ATF already has a database of nearly one billion gun and gun owner records in their West Virginia facility. GOA will do everything in our power to defend your gun rights from this infringement. We'll lobby Congress, participate in any rulemaking, and challenge it in court when it is published and becomes possible.
Building Infrastructures for 1984's Nightmares, and the violent confiscation of Freedom by Tyrannies... https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-documents-show-fbi-and-atf-warrantle... https://www.theepochtimes.com/atf-gains-financial-information-on-potential-g... EXCLUSIVE: ATF Gains Financial Information on Potential Gun Buyers for Warrantless Tracking, Documents Show A person holds a gun in a file image. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A person holds a gun in a file image. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Emily Miller By Emily Miller March 14, 2023Updated: March 15, 2023 biggersmaller Print The federal government has been using Americans’ income and gun purchases to conduct warrantless tracking and deny Second Amendment rights. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gave salary estimates to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the reason to have people’s firearms purchases monitored. Erich Pratt, senior vice president of Gun Owners of America (GOA), told The Epoch Times that the ATF’s activities “monitoring innocent people” is a serious problem. “Congress needs to rein in this rogue agency by either exercising oversight over it or abolishing the unconstitutional agency altogether,” said Pratt. These revelations come from new documents, viewed by The Epoch Times which it received from its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The latest production from the FOIA has hundreds of pages—many redacted—showing ATF agents requesting warrantless surveillance by the FBI for lawful reasons such as low salaries, past firearm purchases, and sending “bizarre” messages. The Epoch Times exclusively reported in January about the FBI’s secret monitoring service that tracks people by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for gun purchases for mere “potential violations of law.” Too Poor to Buy Guns According to the documents, a man in Arizona was put into the NICS’s daily monitoring because he has a “reported income” of only $2,839. The ATF agent wrote, “In my experience, someone with this amount of income would not be able to afford 20 firearms.” An Asian man in Texas was put on the manual background check because the ATF said he has “no work history” which “could possibly indicate” that he is “straw purchasing.” A special agent in Kansas emailed ATF’s liaison at the NICS to flag two purchasers for “potential trafficking.” The agent wrote: “My targets are purchasing an abundance of firearms without a license or known financial means to obtain the product.” The FBI’s NICS expert instructed the agent in Kansas on what to include to ensure approval for tracking the suspects. “I would suggest covering the lack of income versus expenditures and also if there is substantial make/model duplication,” wrote the FBI. The ATF agent emailed back with the incomes for each man, acquired by the Kansas Department of Labor. All the cases in the documents are related to the ATF investigating dealing firearms without a license and straw purchasing, which is buying guns for people prohibited from owning a firearm. Tracking Income Gun rights activists say federal law enforcement is missing the mark. “The poor usually live in areas with the most crime and thus have a strong need to arm themselves heavily,” Pratt said. “So targeting the indigent is simply another avenue for gun grabbers to implement a backdoor gun ban.” ATF headquarters will not disclose how it acquired the other suspects’ incomes, employment information, and past gun purchases found in the FOIA forms. “We are unable to discuss specific techniques utilized in criminal investigations,” ATF spokesman Erik Longnecker told The Epoch Times. “ATF utilizes a multitude of legal means in our criminal investigations to protect our communities from violent gun crime.” Longnecker referred The Epoch Times to the National Tracing Center website for information about “several overt programs such as multiple sales and demand letters that can be helpful in identifying illegal firearms trafficking.” Buying Too Many Guns A black man in Florida was monitored daily by the FBI for at least 90 days in 2020 because an ATF agent wrote: “Based on my training and experience, I have not seen a legal firearms purchaser purchase approximately 30 firearms in a 120-day window for their personal collection.” Licensed firearms dealers must report to ATF the sale of two or more handguns to the same purchaser within five consecutive business days. However, there is no federal law limiting the number of guns a person can buy. “Some agent just decided that is enough Second Amendment for you this year,” Robert Olson, the attorney who filed the FOIA lawsuit for the GOA, told The Epoch Times. Buying and Selling Guns A Wisconsin man was put under surveillance in 2020 because an ATF agent saw text messages related to buying and selling guns and suspected dealing without a license. The agent said the man bought guns from the website Gunbroker.com, transferred them through a local gun store, and then resold the firearms “using email, text messaging, and the website Armslist.com.” There is more redacted black markings than visible information on this form, but it does not disclose the number of guns the suspect bought and sold. The ATF has an online guide that explains: “If you only make occasional sales of firearms from your personal collection, you do not need to be licensed.” It also says you “will need a license if you repetitively buy and sell firearms with the principal motive of making a profit.” Too Many Gun Parts In the secret documents, an ATF agent asked the FBI to flag a man in Arizona suspected of dealing parts of guns. “In my experience, it is common for people to purchase large number of AR-15 style lower receivers, build them into rifles, and sell the rifles for profit,” the agent wrote to get the suspect put into NICS. A “lower receiver” is the base part of an AR-style rifle which has a serial number on it. It cannot fire without a barrel, trigger, and other parts put on it. “It is common for people to buy several lower receivers and build them into finished guns. If it’s your hobby, that is not sufficient to prove you are illegally dealing firearms,” said attorney Olson. “How does the agent distinguish between the Second Amendment enthusiast and the criminals?” ‘Bizarre’ Messages A Missouri man was put into NICS after an ATF agent emailed that a “U.S. Attorney’s Office asked that we monitor his activity due to recent threats and bizarre messages he has been leaving.” The agent wrote that the man “was recently released from BOP [Bureau of Prisons] and has begun making threats toward the U.S. Attorney’s Office, federal judge, and ATF case agent.” The completed form does not indicate the man has committed a felony, which would mean he would be in the NICS and prevented from buying a gun at the point of sale. “Sending bizarre messages is not something that makes you lose your Second Amendment rights,” said Olson. “He sounds like a bad guy, but it’s not connected to firearms. That’s a huge misuse of the background check process.” Anonymous Tips The ATF’s law enforcement role is to investigate when a prohibited person completes a 4473 gun background check, and the NICS denies the purchase. In one case in the files, the ATF appears to have a woman tracked before the investigation has been done and based on an anonymous tip. Documents show a Hispanic woman in Texas was put into the NICS because an agent got an “iTip provided by an anonymous person” who related that she had “purchased 10 firearms in the last two weeks.” The agent wrote that the investigation was incomplete because it did not have the background check forms from the dealer (“4473s”) nor video footage from the store. ATF and FBI Unbowed There are no instances of the FBI denying any ATF request to put a person under warrantless surveillance in all the documents released so far. Moreover, there are no documents showing the monitoring periods ended. As we previously reported, the FBI told the ATF that it will renew the NICS flags of 30 to 120 days and limitless times if requested. “It’s time for Congress to repeal the NICS check. Given that more than 95 percent of the initial stops are for mistaken identity, it is clear that NICS is not keeping guns out of criminals’ hands,” GOA’s Pratt said. The ATF spokesman declined to say if this monitoring program with the FBI was ongoing. The FBI did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
Biden Unlawful... Repeatedly Rapes the US Constitution... https://www.theepochtimes.com/an-all-out-assault-on-the-second-amendment-gun... ‘An All-Out Assault on the Second Amendment’: Gun Rights Groups Respond to Biden’s New Executive Order New executive order will make criminals out of law-abiding gun owners, 2A advocates say Second Amendment advocates have responded to President Joe Biden’s newest executive order designed to advance his gun control agenda and his repeated call for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines. “Crimes are committed by criminals. Until President Biden and his allies decide to go after violent criminals, violence will continue to spiral out of control as it has. The focus of our laws and efforts should be on the criminal element and not on law-abiding Americans,” a statement from the National Rifle Association reads. Biden’s order will require background checks on more than just retail firearms sales, promote the adoption and use of “Red Flag Laws,” make gun dealer inspection reports public, call for stricter enforcement of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and request that the Federal Trade Commission issue a report on the marketing of firearms to children by gun makers. “The executive order ramps up our efforts to hold the gun industry accountable. It’s the only outfit you can’t sue these days,” Biden said while in California on March 14. ‘Most Anti-Gun President in US History’ Dudley Brown, president of the National Association for Gun Rights, issued a statement calling on Congress to stand against an unconstitutional attempt at gun registration. National Rifle Association members National Rifle Association members listen to speakers during the NRA’s 142 annual Meetings and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on May 4, 2013. (Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle via AP, File) “This is an all-out assault on the Second Amendment, and we’re looking into every legislative and legal option to fight back against the most anti-gun president in U.S. history. What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ does Biden not understand?” Brown’s statement reads. Like the other organizations that responded, Brown said the order wouldn’t reduce crime. Instead, it will make law-abiding citizens criminals if they don’t comply with the government’s voluminous regulations, he wrote. “The reality is this executive order will do nothing to stop criminals from buying and selling firearms illegally, but it will entrap otherwise law-abiding Americans and put them on the bad side of the ATF. The unconstitutional NICS database should be abolished, not expanded,” Brown wrote. Epoch Times Photo Handguns in a store in Houston on Sept. 9, 2022. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Gun Owners of America wrote in a statement that it has been expecting such action from the president. The organization’s senior vice president, Erich Pratt, is quoted as saying that the current background check system fails 90 percent of the time. Pratt doesn’t believe expanding it will make things better. “Guns will continue to fall into the wrong hands as long as politicians and bureaucrats fail to acknowledge the real elephant in the room—violent criminals freely walking the streets,” Pratt wrote. Biden also declared his intention to continue pursuing a ban on certain types of rifles and magazines. He claimed that mass shootings tripled in the United States after the previous 10-year ban expired in 2004. “I’m determined once again to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” Biden said. The chairman of the Committee for the Citizens’ Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Alan Gottlieb, said Biden’s agenda has nothing to do with safety. Like the other gun rights advocates, Gottlieb believes that Biden’s plan will fail if it’s implemented. “The only people who will be any safer are the criminals who ignore gun-control laws already,” Gottlieb said.
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As Bank Crisis Looms, Biden's Aggressive Focus On Firearms Is Suspicious https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gu... Joe Biden has always been hostile to constitutional gun rights, but in the past week his administration has gone into an obsessive fervor, calling for more restrictions on sales, banning high capacity magazines and banning “assault weapons.” Is there a reason for his sudden focus on taking effective firearms from Americans despite the multitude of more important issues facing the nation today? Much of the firearms related discussion in the corporate media has revolved around Biden's recent executive order calling for individuals in the business of selling guns to be federally licensed and to check the backgrounds of buyers. Under the order, the Attorney General Merrick Garland will “use his discretion” to ensure gun sellers "willfully violating the law" and those unaware of background requirements become compliant. The order makes little sense considering there are already multiple laws in place that require firearms dealers to commit to background checks before a buyer can purchase any weapon. Of course, many people on the political left are illiterate when it comes to firearms related restrictions, and some actually do naively think that a customer can easily walk into a gun store, grab a pistol or rifle off a shelf, and walk out. Is Biden's executive action just a ploy for his ignorant political base as he pretends to implement anti-gun measures while really doing nothing? Or, is something else at play? The order does not seem to be an effort to prevent private firearms sales or gun show sales, which are legal in some states, though there is talk of “universal background checks” in the future. Executive orders have no constitutional standing in any case, and they certainly have no bearing on state laws, but is Biden seeking to change that? The unilateral action also outlines steps to promote Red Flag laws, which are an attempt by gun grabbers to institute backdoor confiscation. Red Flag laws, if enforced widely, would allow various state and federal agencies to target individuals designated as “potentially dangerous” or mentally unstable and take their firearms without due process. It is a guilty-until-proven-innocent policy based on hearsay rather than legal evidence. However, even Biden's Red Flag efforts are more about lip service than tangible results that will make anti-gun proponents happy. The real threat may be in an underlying attempt to normalize gun related executive orders as a means to sidestep checks and balances entirely, but that would require a national emergency as a rationale. Enter the ever escalating economic crisis... Is it merely a coincidence that Biden's amplification of anti-gun propaganda has been timed almost exactly with the rising threat of a systemic credit collapse within the banking sector? It's not just SVB and Signature Bank that signal a problem today, it's also Credit Suisse – A massive bank with over $700 billion in asset exposure. It would appear that a credit crisis is swiftly developing, and as we all know, establishment elites “never let a good crisis go to waste.” The majority of the Biden Admin's rhetoric on social media has not been about background checks, but the outright banning of semi-automatic, high capacity rifles (which are involved in less than 3% of all firearms related murders). By extension, Biden has consistently mentioned the need to circumvent Congress to enforce more gun control, and he seems to be test-piloting the notion of executive orders to do it. It's time for Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. I led the fight to ban them in 1994, and we can do it again. pic.twitter.com/dBDEYuU8Rp — President Biden (@POTUS) March 15, 2023 It is no secret that establishment politicians often ignore handgun related crime in favor of far less used “military-style” rifles, but why? One might suggest that it is the proliferation of these firearms in the hands of the citizenry that has prevented numerous attempts to undermine other constitutional protections. Many believe that Biden's abandonment of perpetual pandemic lockdowns and vaccine passports was directly related to red state resistance and a large number of armed Americans refusing to comply. Medical authoritarianism in the name of covid failed partly because of the 2nd Amendment. With the economic crisis comes another possible window to centralize power and degrade the Bill of Rights further, but not if the populace has the capacity to rebel. Is the establishment realizing they will have to take our guns before they can accomplish any other objectives? And, are they preparing to use a bank crash they know is coming as a rationale or smokescreen for confiscation? With every economic plunge comes an inevitable spike in crime, not to mention public fear. The-powers-that-be might view this as a favorable development in their quest for American disarmament.
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Biden tries render everyone defenseless against tyrants... Even convicted felons have a god given human right to defend themselves... Biden DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Fast-Track Case That Could Reinstate Federal Gun Ban https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-fast-track-cas... https://www.theepochtimes.com/appeals-court-finds-federal-gun-ban-on-domesti... The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that struck down a federal law preventing people under domestic violence-related restraining orders from having guns. The Biden administration asked in its new petition (pdf) for the high court to hear the case on a “highly expedited schedule” because of the “significant disruptive consequences” of the lower court’s ruling. The petition was reportedly filed with the court on March 17 but had not been docketed as of press time. The case comes as courts nationwide are playing catchup regarding the Supreme Court’s landmark June 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen that held firearms restrictions must be deeply rooted in American history if they are to survive constitutional scrutiny. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on March 15 that the Bruen ruling offers little guidance to lower courts on interpreting the decision, as Courthouse News Service reported. “The gun lobby saw Bruen as a landmark win, but it is a significant challenge for police, law enforcement, and the population of America when it comes to public safety,” Durbin said. The case involves Zackey Rahimi of Texas, who pled guilty to violating a 1994 federal law –Section 922(g)(8) of Title 18 of the U.S. Code— that prohibits a person who is subject to a domestic-violence restraining order from possessing a firearm. Rahimi was involved in five shooting incidents after the restraining order was entered against him in February 2020. But when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit took up Rahimi’s case earlier this year, it overturned the law, finding it was no longer constitutional according to the principles laid down in Bruen. The government failed “to demonstrate that § 922(g)(8)’s restriction of the Second Amendment right fits within our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,” the panel stated. The ban on the possession of firearms by someone under a domestic violence-related restraining order “is an outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted.” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said last month the DOJ would appeal the ruling but did not provide a timeline for doing so. “Nearly 30 years ago, Congress determined that a person who is subject to a court order that restrains him or her from threatening an intimate partner or child cannot lawfully possess a firearm,” Garland said in a Feb. 2 statement. “Whether analyzed through the lens of Supreme Court precedent, or of the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment, that statute is constitutional. Accordingly, the Department will seek further review of the Fifth Circuit’s contrary decision.” In the new petition, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argues that the appeals court erred. “In concluding that Section 922(g)(8) lacks adequate historical support, the Fifth Circuit missed the forest for the trees. The court overlooked the strong historical evidence supporting the general principle that the government may disarm dangerous individuals,” the document states. The court also “analyzed each historical statute in isolation and dismissed each one on the ground that it differed from Section 922(g)(8) in some way.” The 5th Circuit’s “mode of analysis was flawed.” Courts interpreting the Second Amendment have to “consider text, history, and tradition, [but] they should not focus on whether the law at issue has ‘a historical twin,’” the petition states, quoting from the Bruen decision. “This Court’s review is warranted because the Fifth Circuit held an important federal statute unconstitutional on its face,” the petition states. The Epoch Times has reached out to the DOJ for comment on its new petition. The Epoch Times has also reached out to Rahimi’s attorneys at the Federal Public Defender’s offices in Fort Worth and Lubbock, Texas, for comment.
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Democrats and Biden repeatedly lie about recent events in massive effort to take everyone's human rights away so that GovPol obviously can gain totalitarian control over you. Meanwhile, just one old lady was smart enough to recognize that by their very nature BOTH the Cops and the Lawmakers have BOTH zero ability and zero duty to protect you. And if that's not obvious to you retards, 3D-Guns and machine tools are also as completely unstoppable and unconfiscateable as the already existing 300M+ firearms are. Your only functional defense is thus to carry, and do the hard hands-on work to solve the underlying psycho-social problems that cause people to kill. https://www.theblaze.com/news/grandma-food-truck-gun-defense Houston police say that a grandmother trying to run her food truck shot and killed a man who pointed a gun through their window in a thwarted robbery attempt. As with crypto... Join, fund, and participate to defend your rights and those of others... Support and defend all your rights, or lose them all... https://www.firearmspolicy.org/ https://www.gunowners.org/ https://www.nationalgunrights.org/ https://www.saf.org/ https://jpfo.org/ https://drgo.us/ https://www.ccrkba.org/ https://constitutionalrightspac.com/ https://www.americanfirearmsassociation.org/ https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/ https://www.rkba.org/ https://www.nraila.org/ https://www.congress.gov/contact-us https://www.youtube.com/user/mrcolionnoir https://www.youtube.com/user/hickok45 https://www.youtube.com/user/theakguy1974 https://www.youtube.com/c/ActiveSelfProtection https://www.lp.org/ https://yaliberty.org/ https://www.reddit.com/r/2ALiberals+2ndamendment+AR80Percents+CCW+Constituti...
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Democrats and Biden repeatedly lie about recent events in massive effort to take everyone's human rights away so that GovPol obviously can gain totalitarian control over you.
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Judge Finds Federal Age-21 Rule For Handgun Purchases Unconstitutional https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.524643/gov.uscourt... https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/the-2nd-amendments-misconstrued-militi... https://www.reuters.com/legal/minnesotas-21-year-age-minimum-handgun-carry-p... https://thereload.com/ninth-circuit-rules-californias-under-21-rifle-ban-unc... A 54-year-old federal prohibition on the sale of guns to Americans between 18 and 20 years old has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Richmond, Virginia. The Justice Department is expected to appeal and ask for the ruling to be put on hold as the case is further adjudicated. The case has three plaintiffs, all between 18 and 20 years old. One, John "Corey" Fraser, was refused when he attempted to buy a Glock 19x from a Federal Firearm Licensed Dealer (FFL). The other two want to buy a handgun but haven't tried, in light of Fraser's experience. The challenged provision of the Gun Control Act of 1968 didn't prohibit possession by 18- to 20-year-olds, it only made it illegal for FFL's to sell handguns to them. Rifles and shotguns have no such federal restriction. The ruling is the latest in a string of defeats for gun-control measures. The trend is driven by the application of a new constitutionality test prescribed in the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision. This week's ruling is particularly significant because it's one of the first that uses Bruen to kill a federal law, as opposed to a state one. In February, a federal court applying the Bruen test shot down a 30-year-old law banning gun ownership by people subject to domestic-violence restraining orders Using the Bruen test, a gun-control law can only be upheld if the government demonstrates that it's "consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation." Further, when examining the record, judges are compelled to give the most weight to historical sources from the era of the Second Amendment's 1791 ratification. In Thursday's ruling, Judge Robert E. Payne of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia concluded the government's defense of the age-21 law failed the Bruen test: "The government has not presented any evidence of age-based restrictions on the purchase or sale of firearms from the colonial era, Founding or Early Republic,” wrote Payne in a 71-page decision. While the Supreme Court's 2008 Heller decision found that the right to 'keep arms' isn't exclusively tied to militia service, Payne scrutinized the history of militia laws -- and particularly, age stipulations in those laws -- as part of his review of the historical tradition of gun regulation relative to the challenged law. Those laws blew holes in the government's case. "At the time surrounding ratification of the Second Amendment, 16 or 18 was the age of majority for militia service throughout the nation," wrote Payne, who was nominated by President George H.W. Bush. Elsewhere, he noted that, “if the Court were to exclude 18-to-20-year-olds from the Second Amendment’s protection, it would impose limitations on the Second Amendment that do not exist with other constitutional guarantees." Gun control advocates railed against the decision. "Research shows us that 18- to 20-year-olds commit gun homicides at triple the rate of adults 21 years and older," said Janet Carter, senior director of issues and appeals at Everytown Law. She added that the age-21 handgun-purchase law "is not just an essential tool for preventing gun violence, it is also entirely constitutional.” This decision is very important, but it doesn't yet settle the issue nationally, as judges have been ruling in both directions where age restrictions are concerned: In December, a federal judge in the Western District of Louisiana upheld the same federal restriction that Payne found constitutional this week. Florida's age-21 law for any gun purchase was upheld in March by an Eleventh Circuit panel. A federal judge ruled in March against a Minnesota law establishing a minimum age of 21 to qualify for a handgun-carry permit. Last year, the Ninth Circuit ruled against California's age-21 rule for buying centerfire semiautomatic rifles. The patchwork of decisions could make the issue ripe for Supreme Court consideration. In the meantime, amid all that judicial inconsistency, state legislatures have been actively installing or considering new age-21 restrictions. For example: In April, Colorado set age 21 as the minimum for buying any firearm. Earlier this month, the Oregon House passed a bill that would raise the minimum age for buying semiautomatic weapons to 21. This week, a Texas legislative committee advanced a bill setting 21 as the minimum for buying semiautomatic rifles.
Biden is a RACIST gun grabbing illogical unconstitutional SocComMarx totalitarian piece of shit... and him and his Democrat party are coming for all your rights by canceling your god given right to defend them with Freedom. Joe Biden is a MENTALLY SICK piece of shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnN5d4YxTGs
Ron Paul Wrecks 'Red Flag' Gun Laws Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute, http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2023/may/15/gun-contr... Gun control advocates continue to claim that only restrictions on gun ownership will keep people safe from mass shooters and other criminals. However, good people with guns can stop bad people with guns. And bad people will still have guns despite gun control laws. Further weakening the argument that restricting private firearms ownership will reduce violent crimes is the fact that states with “constitutional carry” — where individuals are free to exercise their Second Amendment rights without seeking permission from the government — have lower homicide rates than states with more restrictive gun laws. One policy that is popular among gun control supporters and some who normally support the Second Amendment but want to “do something” about gun violence is red flag laws. These laws allow law enforcement to confiscate an individual’s guns based on a report that the individual poses a threat to public safety. Red flag laws allow governments to restrict the exercise of a constitutionally protected right without due process. Another weakness in the argument that more restrictive gun laws will reduce violence is that many of the cities and states with the highest incidence of violent crime have restrictive gun laws. Gun control supporters try to explain this by blaming individuals who bring guns from states with more permissive gun laws into states with more restrictive gun laws. The guns can, though, at the same time be coming from states with less violent crime into states with more violent crime. But, if guns were the problem, then violent crime would be higher in states with permissive gun laws than in states with more legal restrictions related to firearms. The gun control debate ignores the root causes of rising violence, which is a symptom of the decline of traditional morality that respected every individual’s inalienable right to life, liberty, and property. This traditional morality has been replaced with a nihilistic philosophy that denies moral law and natural rights. Instead, it justifies doing whatever one feels is necessary to achieve one’s goals. This disregard for a higher moral law finds expression in a foreign policy that then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously supported while defending US sanctions that starved Iraqi children. The US is viewed as the world’s “indispensable nation,” and whatever it does is automatically considered right, regardless of the human suffering caused by the US government’s overseas interventions. We also see this expression of disregard for a higher moral law in support for abortion that is based on the idea that preborn do not have the right to life. Whether the baby lives or dies is called a matter of “choice.” Should we be surprised a society produces mass shooters and other psychopaths when government, schools, media, entertainment, and even some churches promote nihilism that devalues human life? While government can undermine morality, it cannot promote virtue. Any attempt to use government power to “make people good” will inevitably result in tyranny. It will also lead to a less virtuous population. Instead, those seeking to replace the nihilism with a philosophy that recognizes that all humans are born with inalienable rights should work to restore limited constitutional government that does not attempt to provide for the people’s material or spiritual needs.
Report Reveals ATF Misappropriated $20 Million To Pay Bureaucrat Salaries https://twitter.com/GunOwners https://www.gunowners.org/ by Gun Owners of America A recent report from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel revealed that the ATF unlawfully paid agents more than $20 million in wrongful benefits using taxpayer funds. According to that report, ATF intentionally misclassified jobs as law enforcement positions and paid those employees benefits to which they were not entitled. The sum of the findings totaled about 20 million dollars over five years to 108 ATF employees. That's around 37 thousand dollars a year in salary and retirement benefits per employee. As detailed by the OSC's report, these actions were ATF leadership's standard operating procedure for many years. A quote from the report surmised that the actual cost could be much higher given that the unlawful job classifications had been common practice at ATF far longer than the five-year timeframe reviewed by investigators. It's interesting that this report was released about a week after the House Judiciary Committee hearing that ATF Director Steve Dettelbach testified at. 🚨BREAKING🚨@ATFHQ systemically committed financial crimes & used taxpayer dollars to pad the salaries of AT LEAST 108 bureaucrats. Meanwhile, @JoeBiden wants to INCREASE the agency's funding to over $1.9 BILLION.#DefundTheATF pic.twitter.com/K5IUmZkWyU — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) May 3, 2023 Still, Congress cannot turn a blind eye to ATF's corruption and this rogue agency must be held accountable. Additionally, the OSC stated in their press release that they have notified President Biden and Congress of their findings. Yet, the Biden Administration has done nothing to withdraw its proposed budget for fiscal year 2024. Instead, The Biden Administration would rather reward ATF for its financial crimes with a 13.6% increase over the 2023 budget—raising the operating budget to nearly $2 billion. DEFUND 👏 THE 👏 ATF 👏 https://t.co/5JghPBa03J — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) May 2, 2023 Meanwhile, law-abiding gun owners applying for their tax stamps continue to suffer extremely long paperwork delays on registration forms which should not even exist in the first place. When it comes to ATF finances, OPM's report states that: "ATF leadership had acted outside of the merit system principles and demonstrated disregard for the rule of law and regulations." The American people deserve transparency from these unelected agency bureaucrats at ATF. Another telling quote as to the extent of the issue can be found on page 4 of the report. It reads: "The whistleblowers expressed their views that the report did not adequately capture the extent of ATF's illegal practice of the full impact of the harm." This revelation only serves to highlight the double standards that exist between the treatment of gun dealers and the ATF itself. The fact is that the very agency that puts gun dealers out of business for a single infraction is itself bilking the taxpayers for millions of dollars illegally. We can only hope that more brave whistleblowers continue to bring these issues to the public's attention, and, hopefully, the attention of Congress as well. We'll hold the line for you in Washington. We are No Compromise. Join the Fight Now.
Legislation To Block Biden's ATF Rule Stalls As Millions Set To Become Felons Overnight https://www.gunowners.org/ https://twitter.com/Rep_Clyde/status/1660808882363432960 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/20 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-joint-resolution/44 Most Americans are unaware that a new rule from President Biden's ATF is less than one week away from turning millions of fellow citizens into felons overnight. The new rule targets firearms that utilize a brace, a device originally designed to aid disabled veterans in shooting guns without assistance. These braces were approved for sale and use by ATF themselves. An estimated 40 million of these firearms are owned by law-abiding citizens. Those citizens, unless aware of the ATF's rule change, will become felons on June 1st – unless the House votes on H. J. Res. 44 to overturn the ban using the Congressional Review Act. This process allows both chambers of Congress to pass a resolution of disapproval to nullify the regulation, and a vote in the Senate would not be subject to filibuster rules. When the clock strikes midnight on May 31st, up to 40,000,000 pistol-braced firearms will be deemed illegal by the ATF. And the law-abiding Americans who own these guns will become felons. Congress can stop this tyranny by passing my bill, H.J.Res. 44. But we must act NOW. — Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) May 23, 2023 The Republican-controlled House has already cleared the resolution through committee. Currently, there are 189 cosponsors of the bill. But for some reason, it is not scheduled a vote before Congress goes into recess or the rule goes into effect. This vote is extremely important because it would force members of the Senate, with vulnerable Democrats in gun-friendly states, to go on the record while answering this question: will you vote to allow this administration to turn many of your constituents into felons overnight? Even though the CRA likely would be vetoed by the President, getting these members of Congress on record holds them accountable to their constituents. It would look ridiculous if they voted no on an issue like this which affects such a large swath of the population, but then turned around and preached about being "pro-gun." Ben from GOA explains why the ATF's 'free' tax stamp for your braced firearms isn't exactly free... This is where we need your help. You can call your elected officials at (202) 224-3121. Tell them to demand that your representative tell Speaker McCarthy to schedule a vote for this important issue that impacts millions of Americans. And if they aren't already, let them know to support S.J. RES. 20 if they're in the Senate & H.J. RES. 20 if they're in the House of Representatives We'll hold the line for you in Washington. We are No Compromise. Join the Fight Now.
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Democrats obviously don't care about stopping criminals with guns or ending crime since they let their criminals run wild in their own failed big city streets, decriminalize crime, and incite violence. What they want is to not be removed from power by an armed american populace. History shows that is the end of SocComs, right after they succeed in trashing Constitutions of countries... Biden's DOJ Illegally Bribing States To Pass Gun Confiscation Laws https://www.gunowners.org/ https://donate.gunowners.org/join/ Last summer, weak Republicans teamed up with Anti-Gun Democrats to pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Part of that law included funding for 'red flag laws' nationwide. The reason for this is that the Anti-Gun lobby knows that a national red flag law is totally unconstitutional and would immediately be struck down by federal courts. So instead, they chose to bribe states with federal funds into passing their own 'red flag' laws at the state level, where challenges to the laws could get stuck in court proceedings for years to come. According to the letter penned by Senator Roger Marshall of Kentucky and Representative Alex Mooney from West Virginia, the Biden Department of Justice has weaponized Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to Illegally bribe states into passing red flag laws. In the letter, the lawmakers state that the Justice Department gave Federal funding to States that did not meet the criteria for due process. "The Department of Justice appears to have weaponized the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to illegally fund ineligible red flag laws and bribe pro-gun states into passing gun confiscation laws." Interestingly, Minnesota passed a red flag law within 100 days of receiving $3.7 Million from this program. These Federal grants were supposed to only be given to states whose 'red flag' laws met "due process requirements," a term specifically set by one of the bill's Republican authors, Senator John Cornyn of Texas. When Gun Owners of America pointed out that this provision would be abused and ignored by the government, Republicans who supported the legislation accused GOA of lying. But now it seems that states that don't have red flag laws at all, -- such as West Virginia, Alaska, Kansas, and Arkansas – got millions of dollars towards implementing these sorts of laws in their respective states. This letter, -- along with Representative Lauren Boebert's Shall Not Be Infringed Act, which would repeal all the gun control passed by the 117th Congress -- are just a few of the battles that GOA is fighting for your 2A rights every day on Capitol Hill. Read the letter here: So, pick up the phone and call your Senators and Representative and demand to know what they're doing to hold the Biden administration accountable for this misuse of federal funds. We'll hold the line for you in Washington. We are No Compromise.
US Democrats entire anti-gun narrative is imploding, badly, not least due to the rampant crime and violence they incited in their corrupt big cities, defunding police, pushing anti-work and marxist memes, indebting people, etc. Israel Shows Why Americans Have Right To "Weapons of War" For Self-Defense https://donate.gunowners.org/join/ by Gun Owners of America https://www.gunowners.org/vp-kamala-harris-becomes-bidens-gun-czar-as-war-on... https://www.jta.org/2015/06/21/united-states/obama-cites-israel-in-arguing-f... https://twitter.com/RealGunLobbyist/status/1711120470660075851 https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1711169608177086495 https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1711196270327415222 https://www.gunowners.org/does-polling-really-show-that-a-majority-of-americ... https://twitter.com/SenDuckworth/status/1710334684465398102 https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1709037341354910071 https://twitter.com/RandyEBarnett/status/1711162579551441286 As videos emerge from Israel about the recent invasion by Hamas, it should become clear that the Second Amendment here in the US is "Necessary to the security of a free state." While gun control continues to be pushed by the Biden administration, Israel, a state lauded by gun control advocates for its strict regulations, has axed some of its gun control measures in an attempt to fight the recent terrorist invasion. BREAKING: Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir just axed a ton of #guncontrol for the security of their free state. TRANSLATION BELOW ⤵️ Today I directed the Firearms Licensing Division to go on an emergency operation, in order to allow as many citizens as… https://t.co/HT0LmR3H1Q — Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) October 8, 2023 It's no wonder that Israel has realized that their gun control measures are getting their citizens hurt or worse. Horrifying video from border towns near Gaza shows Hamas fighters going house to house looking for Israelis. Without access to firearms, Israeli citizens are helpless to defend themselves against these heavily armed fighters, resulting in kidnappings and killings. You can thank our Founding Fathers we have the Second Amendment to protect ourselves now. https://t.co/EibtZ7wDnM — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) October 9, 2023 While Israel removing some of its firearms regulations is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, gun ownership still comes with heavy restrictions and unnecessary bureaucratic red tape. Israel JUST loosened firearm licensing, but many Israelis still don’t live in an eligible region. Others simply cannot afford to wait a week for a telephone interview or need more than the allotted 100 rounds of ammo. A good first step, but Israel needs a Second Amendment ASAP! https://t.co/uPi6HaXy9N — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) October 9, 2023 During the hours of the initial invasion, US Senators continued to tweet support for gun control while similar policies were resulting in deaths across the ocean. Imagine all the shootings we could prevent and lives we could save if we reinstated a nationwide assault weapons ban. — Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) October 6, 2023 Additionally, to those that say "that could never happen here" regarding the United States, be aware that the ATF recently notified FFLs in border states warning firearms dealers about straw purchases of 50 caliber and belt-fed firearms. A follower sent this alarming email to me ATF is apparently warning firearms dealers about intelligence showing criminal networks plan to buy .50 cal and/or belt fed rifles in the next 2 months via straw purchasers This is clearly due to our open border Terrorism event soon? pic.twitter.com/6rGqFhreMI — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 3, 2023 These threats are precisely why Americans have the right to own "weapons of war" for self-defense. Politicians who push gun control should realize that their actions will only empower criminals and terrorists. This really should be the end of the gun control debate in the United States. — Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) October 8, 2023 We'll hold the line for you in Washington. We are No Compromise. Join the Fight Now.
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed -- US Constitution, 2nd Amendment" https://donate.gunowners.org/join/ https://joinfpc.org/ California's 9th Circuit Strikes Again: Liberal Majority Upholds California's Ban On High-Capacity Magazines California's extremely liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled in favor of California, allowing the state's ban on high-capacity gun magazines to remain in effect while the state appeals a federal judge's ruling which found the ban unconstitutional. In a 7-4 vote, the 9th Circuit stayed a Sept. 22 ruling by US District Judge Robert Benitez in San Diego, who found that the state's ban violated gun owners' rights to keep and bear arms under the 2nd Amendment. Benitez cited a 2022 decision by the US Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which requires that firearms restrictions be "consistent with this nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation." Following Benitez's decision, California AG Bob Bonta (D) moved to stay the decision, which the 9th Circuit's liberal majority quickly did. The Monday ruling applies to a long-running lawsuit brought by the California Rifle & Pistol Association as well as gun owners challenging the ban. "If a stay is denied, California will indisputably face an influx of large-capacity magazines like those used in mass shootings in California and elsewhere," wrote the 9th Circuit Democrat majority. The four Republican-appointed judges on the 9th Circuit dissented, including US Circuit Judge Patrick Bumatay, who said the majority's attitude towards the 2nd Amendment was "laughably absurd." In response to Monday's decision, Bonta's office said it was "relieved that the court considered the public safety of Californians in its decision." One can join the raging discussion over the decision over at Calguns.net.
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed -- US Constitution, 2nd Amendment" https://donate.gunowners.org/join/ https://joinfpc.org/ Democrats are fucking INSANE LUNATICS! NYC Democrat Sponsors Bill Requiring Background Checks For 3D Printers https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A8132 https://twitter.com/RealGunLobbyist A Democratic lawmaker in New York City has submitted a bill to the New York State Assembly requiring anyone to undergo a criminal history background check with the government before purchasing a 3D printer. Sponsored by Democratic Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar, representing Queens neighborhoods of Glendale, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Ridgewood, and Woodhaven, bill A8132 would expand background checks for any "three-dimensional printer sold in this state, which is capable of printing a firearm or any components of a firearm." This means any store selling 3D printers must conduct a background check on customers. According to the bill's text, the commissioner of criminal justice services will ensure the customer does not have a felony or serious offense or outstanding warrant of arrest that would force state officials to deny the purchase of the 3D printer. The vetting process could take upwards of 15 days. The bill is designed by Democrats who continue to wage war on the Second Amendment and say the proliferation of violent crime across major metro areas, such as NYC, is directly linked to guns. But these ignorant lawmakers fail to mention the latest surge in violent crime is due to failed progressive policies, such as 'defunding the police' and open southern borders. "In their craze to eliminate the Second Amendment, there appears to be no limit to what gun control—or in this case 3D printer control—New York state politicians will consider. The New York state legislature just needs to accept that the Bill of Rights protects the right to keep and bear arms from the tyranny they so badly want to enact," Aidan Johnston, Director of Federal Affairs, Gun Owners of America, told us. Bill A8132 remains in the committee stage and may not even reach a floor vote, much less be enacted into law. However, if passed, the days of walking into a Midtown Manhattan Best Buy and purchasing a 3D printer in minutes would be over. Yet this is more incompetence from Democrats who have no limit to what gun control is and will stop at nothing to ban firearms from law-abiding citizens. Remember, last month, the New Mexico governor tried to suspend the right to carry guns in public under an emergency health order. Furthermore, progressives have transformed NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, Baltimore, Detroit, and many other metro areas into crime-ridden hellholes. Still, these rogue politicians that cater to a 'fringe' minority instead of the majority wage war on law-abiding citizens while only emboldening criminals. Why is this?
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed -- US Constitution, 2nd Amendment" https://donate.gunowners.org/join/ https://joinfpc.org/ Unconstitutional Democrat Gun Grabbing Murder Purveyors For Power, Get Spanked... US Appeals Court Blocks California From Banning Guns In Most Public Places Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A U.S. appeals court on Jan. 6 allowed a judge’s ruling that blocked California from enforcing a new gun-control law that bans the carrying of firearms in most public places on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. A California-legal AR-15 style rifle is displayed for sale at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, Calif., on June 5, 2021. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved an order by a different 9th Circuit panel from a week earlier that suspended an injunction issued by a judge who concluded that the Democrat-led state’s law violated the right of citizens to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. “The administrative stay previously entered is dissolved,” the court wrote in May v. Bonta. “The emergency motion under Circuit Rule 27-3 for a stay pending appeal and for an interim administrative stay is denied pending further order of the court.” Last week’s order temporarily stayed the injunction. It allowed the law to take effect on Jan. 1. Gun rights groups then asked the 9th Circuit to reconsider, and on Jan. 6, a different panel of judges dissolved the order, suspending the injunction. “So the politicians’ ploy to get around the Second Amendment has been stopped for now,” C.D. Michel, a lawyer for the gun rights groups, said in a statement. California’s appeal of the injunction will now be heard in April. The state’s attorney general, in court papers, had argued that “tens of millions of Californians will face a heightened risk of gun violence” if the law were blocked. The law was enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in June 2022 that expanded gun rights nationwide. The high court, in that case, struck down New York’s strict gun permit regime and declared for the first time that the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment protects a person’s right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense, establishing a legal precedent for future cases. In December, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney handed down a preliminary injunction against the gun law after he found that it would “unconstitutionally deprive” people with carry permits because they would not then have the “constitutional right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense.” The judge also said California, with the law, intentionally undermined and ignored the landmark 2022 Supreme Court ruling. “The law’s coverage is sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court,” Judge Carney, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, wrote in his ruling. “The law designates twenty-six categories of places, such as hospitals, public transportation, places that sell liquor for on-site consumption, playgrounds, parks, casinos, stadiums, libraries, amusement parks, zoos, places of worship, and banks, as ‘sensitive places’ where concealed carry permitholders can’t carry their handguns. The law, known as SB2, would make “every public place in California into a ‘sensitive place,’ effectively abolishing the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding and exceptionally qualified citizens to be armed and to defend themselves in public,” he wrote. Kostas Moros, a lawyer for one of the plaintiffs in the case—the California Pistol and Rifle Association—told The Reload that the earlier appeals court ruling meant that the “right to carry in California was unconstitutionally eliminated for almost a week.” He hailed the court’s recent decision to block the law. “We are relieved the status quo has been restored, and Californians with CCW permits, who are among the most law-abiding people there are, can resume carrying as they have for years,” he said, referring to concealed carry weapon permits. In a statement to news outlets on Jan. 6 in response to the court order, a spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the move is “dangerous” and “puts the lives of Californians on the line,” adding, “We won’t stop working to defend our decades of progress on gun safety in our state.” The SB2 law was signed by Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, in September of last year. The 9th Circuit will hear arguments for the case in April. Responding to the decision, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, wrote on social media: “We’ve ensured California’s common-sense concealed carry weapons law—prohibiting concealed firearms in sensitive places like playgrounds and hospitals—takes effect tomorrow & while we appeal the lower court’s dangerous decision.”
Democrats intentionally importing gangland cartels and "migrants"... "It gives us more excuses to keep, rollout, and exert more power and our democratic socialist programs, the Democrat operative said"... Illegal Aliens Tried Buying Guns 48,000 Times In 25 Years Over the past 25 years, illegal aliens have attempted to purchase firearms at gun shops just under 48,000 times - only to be denied, according to a group that monitors border security policy. Henry Escobar, manager of MPP Guns in Phoenix, Ariz., stands behind the counter on Jan. 6, 2024. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reported on Jan. 2 that the FBI has nearly 14 million records of firearms applications that failed a national background check due to "unique prohibiting events." Of those, 47,930 denials were issued to illegal aliens according to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) between Nov. 1998 and Nov. 2023. "While the 13.9 million unique prohibiting events cataloged in the FBI database represent events—not individual illegal aliens—the data point to large numbers of migrants in the market for firearms. Whatever the total may be, one is one too many," according to FAIR, which added that "the dangers posed by largely unvetted illegal aliens possessing firearms has been vastly exacerbated over the past three years, as the Biden administration has presided over record numbers of new illegal aliens entering our country." "At the same time, federal policies and the proliferation of sanctuary jurisdictions that prohibit the sharing of critical law enforcement information will inevitably result in more Americans falling prey to criminal aliens.": Meanwhile, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported the seizure of 547,610 illegal weapons in 2023 alone, including ammunition, gun parts, scopes, silencers and body armor, the Epoch Times reports. In 2022, there were 1,147,497 weapons seizures. "We’ve got plenty of laws; criminals are criminals," Arizona gun shop owner Charlie Bollenbaugh told the outlet. "They’re going to find ways around them." Mr. Bollenbaugh added that there’s “no real way of telling” who is a U.S. citizen the moment they walk through the door to purchase a gun. But there is a legal process to weed out the ineligible buyers, he said. In Arizona, as in other states, the gun buyer must first show a valid state driver’s license or government-issued photo ID along with proof of age and residency and have no felony convictions. Federal law requires that each buyer fill out and sign a Form 4473 national background check under penalty of perjury. The form is submitted by the gun store electronically through the NICBS, and the results are known within minutes. -Epoch Times "If they are legally allowed to purchase a firearm, and they’ve come here correctly, the government tells me to go ahead and proceed," Bollenbaugh told the Times. "They can’t buy a firearm without going through a valid background check and presenting a government-issued ID." Arnold Gallegos, the owner of ABQ Guns in Albuquerque, N.M., and an officer with the Jemez Springs Police Department considers a public health order banning firearms in public an "illegal" act by New Mexico's governor. Photo taken on Sept. 12, 2023. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) More via the Epoch Times; In 2019, the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that mandated federal background checks for all legal firearms sales and transfers. Included in the bill was a Republican-sponsored amendment that would have required gun dealers to report to federal immigration when an illegal alien attempted to purchase a firearm. The provision failed passage in the Senate in a heavily partisan vote. “In rejecting this amendment, the Democrats have shown their true colors,” said U.S. Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.), sponsor of the amendment, in a written statement after the vote. “It is clear they are not interested in preventing gun violence or stopping the illegal purchase of firearms, but rather they are only interested in limiting the rights of law-abiding citizens to advance their political agenda.” In southern border states such as Texas, crime involving illegal aliens is a serious problem. The DHS reported more than 422,000 criminal aliens were booked into Texas jails between June 1, 2011, and Dec. 31, 2023, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS). A group of more than 1,000 illegal immigrants wait in line near a U.S. Border Patrol field processing center after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico, in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 18, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images) Nearly 300,000 were classified as illegal aliens by DHS. The TDPS added that illegal aliens committed more than 509,000 criminal offenses, including homicide, burglary, drug offenses, theft, sex crimes, and kidnapping. In the first few days of 2024, there were 3,104 noncitizen arrests by CBP, 48 involving weapons violations. In 2023, there were 15,267 arrests, with 307 for weapons offenses, according to CBP data. Mr. Bollenbaugh said illegal gun purchases by criminals happen “all the time” despite serious efforts by law enforcement to track every firearm transaction and serial number in the United States. He said it is illegal for a U.S. citizen to purchase a firearm for a person who is not authorized to own a gun, which includes illegal aliens. A gun purchase by proxy is known as “straw purchase,” he said. “The definition of a straw purchase is you are knowingly filling out the 4473 and background check because you know the person that wants the gun can’t obtain it legally,” Mr. Bollenbaugh said. At MPP Guns in Phoenix, gun manager Henry Escobar said the rules are clear when purchasing a firearm. “Our policy here is if you come in with more than one person—two or three people—we’re going to ask everybody for ID,” he said. “Even if they come in with an ID from another state, we’re going to turn them down.” He said that many people enter the store simply to inquire about purchasing a gun. “We ask if they’re a citizen, from out of state, or a permanent resident,” Mr. Escobar told The Epoch Times. While federal background checks work for the most part, he said: “If they come in and lie saying they’re a U.S. citizen, and they fill out the form”—hopefully, “there’s a way for [the ATF] to catch that,” he said.
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"Turn in your guns and pay taxes to cover our debt! -- Britain" "No, Fuck You! -- Revolutionary Freedom" As freedom is being recinded everywhere, this needs done worldwide in every land.
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If you haven't heard yet, Firearms Policy Coalition has filed what may be one of the most critical petitions for writ of certiorari for Marylanders and possibly gun owners in general in the case Bianchi v. Frosh.
The case itself centers around the Maryland "Assault Weapons Ban" (AWB), also known as SB281 or the Firearms Safety Act of 2013.
But before we dive into the law itself, let's look at the question being proposed to the Supreme Court in this writ of certiorari. The question presented is: "Whether the Constitution allows the government to prohibit law-abiding, responsible citizens from protecting themselves, their families, and their homes with a type of "Arms" that are in common use for lawful purposes?"
The way this question is asked, we can see that if decided in favor of gun owners, the overturning of the Maryland AWB would be an unprecedented victory for gun owners nationwide. A Repudiation of assault weapon bans would free states like California, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey from their tyrannical state governments who've imposed their versions of this "Assault Weapon Ban." FPC's Adam Kraut affirmed that position saying, "This case presents the Court with an ideal vehicle to both address the scope of protected arms and constitutionally infirm analysis applied by these recalcitrant lower courts."
The petition correctly describes the term "Assault Weapons" as a "pejorative and inaccurate label for a category of common semi-automatic firearms." Then quoting directly from Heller goes on to describe those same firearms as "in common use" and "typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes."
Maryland's AWB is an assortment of inconsistent rules and regulations thought up by bureaucrats in Annapolis who have little understanding of firearms they seek to regulate. A few examples of inconsistencies: AK pattern rifle chambered in 7.62x39? Banned. AK pattern rifle chambered in 5.45x39? Good to go. AK Pistol in 7.62x39? Good to go. The only difference between the banned rifle and pistol? The stock.
It also bans the AR15 and other "Scary" looking rifles but allows AR15s that conform to a Heavy Barrel Profile, or HBAR. It also allows for rifles that are functionally identical to the AR15, like the Ruger Mini 14.
Ultimately, we won't know if the Supreme Court will hear the case until sometime in 2022, as The Supreme Court will hear it in their 2022 session. But the chances are good for the Court to take this case up. Many of the Justices have signaled that they're ready to hear 2nd Amendment cases. If the recent NYSRPA v. Bruen is any indication, we will likely see them tackle more gun rights issues that have far-reaching implications.
Also, the makeup of the Court has changed in recent years. With the addition of Amy Comey Barrett replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court has a solid conservative majority. As lower court judges, Justice Barrett and Justice Kavanaugh signaled they think courts need to rethink the framework used to often measure how gun regulations are evaluated. This framework is known as "Intermediate Scrutiny."
When intermediate scrutiny is applied, a law has more of a chance to survive legal challenges because the government must prove only that it is "substantially related to an important government interest."
This intermediate scrutiny clause is what has kept not only the Maryland Assault Weapon ban in place but many other AWBs nationwide. If the Justices are looking for a case that has far-reaching consequences for the 2nd Amendment and the process by which states uphold these unconstitutional laws, they need look no further than Bianchi v. Frost.
This is why I posed the question: "Is this the beginning of the end for gun control?"
In our coverage of gun control issues over the past year, we've seen a clear pathway that the anti-gun lobby is taking. Using the NFA, 1968 GCA, FOPA, and other gun control laws on the books, they've managed to ban Bump Stocks and inch closer and closer to regulating semi-automatic firearms under the NFA or outright ban them. This Case, Bianchi v. Frost, would put a significant roadblock in front of that.
On 1/23/22, Steven Schear <schear.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
Screw firearms, think antitank and Stingers.
Depends on the game. Lots of games involve long attrition of opportunistic potshots until one or both sides just give up. Yes if there is need to defend against rolling stock and aircraft the defenders will need explosives and rocketry. Drones are a big problem, however the supply chain keeping them in the air is vulnerable to the same opportunistic defense. Wars rarely won without mass boots on ground, but if the imbalance is bad enough, everyone could theoretically be killed by drones from regions and resource pools afar out of reach of the defender. At least one country has been excercising limited form of that for last 80 years. So far history has always raised spies, moles, defectors, bombers, conscience, interceding parties, protest, etc to balance things. Defunding war machines, say via cryptocurrency gold political/protest action, is the better option, but that requires a war of change in mind of "leaders" and masses, immunizing themselves against the propaganda of war being laid upon them via Media, etc. There is debate if "peace" is even possible in humanity, but it's worth more of a try.
Summary of Democrat strategy... Stoke racial and other division, fuck up your own big cities, fund leftist antifa blm type groups, prominent democrats support and incite via the media to violent action, defund police, weaken laws, prosecute no one, lock everyone down from work and life, fire millions from their jobs, inject panic and stress and lies and hoaxes 24x7... watch the intentional chaos ensue and grow... then claim that guns are the problem, that Democrats are the Saviour, bleating across the nation to let them cancel the 2nd Amendment. Classic, textbook perfect, manufactured, false flag. Mayor Eric Adams Begs For Federal Help As NYC's Crime Problem Spirals Out Of Control With NYC's violent crime situation spiraling out of control just weeks after his inauguration, Mayor Eric Adams has decided to call for help from - who else? - his Democratic buddies in Washington. In an interview on Sunday, the mayor - who had spoken just a day earlier about a shooting that left one NYPD officer dead and two seriously wounded - declared that the federal government "must step in." Since taking NYC's top job, Adams has been confronted with a seemingly non-stop stream of high-profile violent crimes, including a subway-pusher who killed an Asian woman, unleashing a frenzy about security on the badly underfunded MTA. Speaking in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America", Adams, a former police officer, said that local police departments aren't well equipped to disrupt gun trafficking organizations, and that this task would be better left up to the Feds. "The police department is doing their job taking thousands of guns off the streets, yet each time you take a gun off, there’s a constant flow of new guns coming here," Adams said. "And if we don’t coordinate to go after those gun dealers that are supplying large cities in America such as New York, we are losing the battle, and the federal government must step in and play a role in doing so." During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union", Adams said that street cops can't seize guns fast enough given the constant stream of guns being supplied to NYC. "We have to stop the flow of guns. We are removing thousands of guns off our streets, and it appears for every gun we’ve removed from the street, five are coming in. That is unacceptable," he said on "CNN’s State of the Union." All of this follows an emotional speech from Hizzoner on Friday evening, where he lamented that "there are no gun manufacturers in New York Cit. We don't make guns here," but somehow, so many still find their way into the hands of criminals who reside in the Big Apple. “We need Washington to join us and act now to stop the flow of guns in New York City and cities like New York.” Lashawn McNeil, the 47-year-old man who allegedly shot the pair of NYPD cops Friday evening, used a Glock .45 with a high-capacity ammunition magazine that was stolen from Baltimore in 2017, the NYPD said. Adams wasn't the only New York Democrat to pledge a crackdown on gun trafficking and related crime. Gov. Kathy Hochul claimed in a statement this weekend that she had "tripled" funding to stop guns coming into the Empire State. She also said we need "Washington teaming up with locals teaming up with us" to get it done. Last night, a shot from an illegal gun took the life of a @NYPDnews officer. When I say we’re going to do everything we can to stop the scourge of illegal guns in our state, it’s not just talk. We are tripling funding for efforts to get these guns off the streets. pic.twitter.com/zXv0xbL4Em — Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) January 22, 2022 During his primary campaign for the Democratic nomination, Adams staked his political fortunes on his ability to assuage the city's worsening crime problem. So far, he's been off to a rough start. But immediately calling for help from Washington doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Maybe NYC can get AOC to raise a citizen's watch so Gracie Mansion doesn't have to be put in the awkward position - politically speaking - of raising spending on law enforcement after the 'defund the NYPD' movement of 2020 led to meaningful budgetary cutbacks.
Summary of Democrat strategy...
Another Democrat strategy, and Joe Biden's fave, is to violate the constitution, again, and again, and again... Ridiculous that Governments thinks they can force private citizens to purchase and consume private services and goods. Among other preposterous notions, such as that governments have the right to commit theft, robbery, and extortion upon you, when you have no such right to do that to them, or even any right to defend yourselves from them committing those crimes. San Jose To Disproportionately Punish Low-Income Gun Owners With Liability Insurance Requirement "Hold on, guys. Let me check the gun laws first. -- said No Criminal Ever." https://abc7.com/san-jose-gun-law-control-laws-sam-liccardo/11508623/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/16/big-brother-san-jose-mandates-video-t...
From their ivory towers (and returning to their low-crime neighborhoods) the San Jose, California City Council has decreed that gun owners will soon be required to carry liability insurance and pay a fee if they want to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights.
The new requirements - the first of their kind in the United States - disproportionately punishes low-income residents who wish to defend themselves against criminals who will ignore the new financial burden. It’s the illegal gun ownership that needs restrictions. Don’t punish legal gun owners. — Septimber😷 (@Septimbersells) January 26, 2022 It's unclear when exactly the plan will go into effect, according to ABC7. Fighting the law is the Firearm Policy Coalition, which called it "burdensome, unconstitutional, and prohibited by California law" to law-abiding citizens who own firearms. "Since San Jose's recalcitrant City Council members don't believe that the United States Constitution applies to them or their citizens, Firearms Policy Coalition and our members are now committed to fight the City's outrageous and offensive policies in federal litigation and take every possible action to block their enforcement," said the group. The move follows June 2021 legislation requiring the video taping of all legal gun purchases. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said at a Monday press conference that "San Jose has an opportunity to become a model for the rest of the nation to invest in proven strategies to reduce gun violence, domestic violence and suicide and the many other preventable harms from firearms in our communities." Having liability insurance would encourage people in the 5,500 households in San Jose who legally own at least one registered gun to have gun safes, install trigger locks and take gun safety classes, Liccardo said. The liability insurance will cover losses or damages resulting from any negligent or accidental use of the firearm, including death, injury, or property damage, according to the ordinance. If a gun is stolen or lost, the owner of the firearm would be considered liable until the theft or loss is reported to authorities. -ABC7 The law won't apply to current or retired law enforcement officers, those with a license to carry, or anyone who simply ignores it.
Biden hopes to trigger another bloody situation via the ATF for political purposes.
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Is ATF Preparing To Confiscate Forced Reset Triggers? https://themachinegunnest.com/is-atf-moving-to-seize-lawfully-owned-items-im... https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/breaking-atf-to-start-confiscating-these-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcMi4Ukf7s4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUW4mwuN58Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLwE2nhnIZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3gf_5MR4tE https://themachinegunnest.com/whats-next-for-david-chipman/ https://www.rarebreedtriggers.com/ by The Machine Gun Nest (TMGN) Gun Owners of America, one of the largest pro-gun organizations, has just published what appears to be a leaked internal ATF email documenting their plans to start seizing lawfully-owned forced reset and wide-open triggers beginning immediately. Gun Owners of America has credibility when it comes to finding out what the ATF is doing before going public. If you remember, they were some of the first to break the news on the ATF considering braced pistols to be short barrel rifles, a very similar situation. GOA's video (linked here) discusses how the ATF has just given their field agents the go-ahead to start demanding the forfeiture of Rare Breed's Forced Reset Trigger and BDU's Wide Open Trigger, which the ATF considers to be a "machine gun." For now, the ATF appears to be targeting manufacturers and resellers, according to the email. Still, the question is, of course, whether this portends similar action against individuals down the road. The interesting thing about these items is that (as we've covered before) they're not machine guns at all. Anyone possessing a bump stock violates the Hughes Amendment and the National Firearms Act and is subject to harsh penalties. This situation is very similar to the bump stock situation in 2019, where a firearm accessory increases the rate of fire yet does not convert the gun itself to "automatic." The ATF, of course, cared little for these nuances and ended up considering bump stocks themselves to be "machine guns" in 2019. They're now seemingly looking to do the same for forced reset triggers. In the leaked email, these plans for confiscation are detailed further. We can see that the ATF is planning to "take possession of any documents and FRTs" that retailers and manufacturers have. Additionally, it's detailed in the leaked email that if said manufacturers, distributors, or retailers refuse to comply, the field agents can "seize them for forfeiture." One of the most interesting parts of the leak is how the word "defendant" is used. In the email, it reads, "FMS will be collecting the number of FRT's recovered and number of defendants found in possession of these devices." It seems that the ATF has already declared those in possession of FRTs to be guilty. The FRT was an amazingly popular device with wide circulation among gun owners. This leak is disturbing news. But this is just another example of the ATF changing the law on a whim and criminalizing millions overnight. Who knows how many gun owners may be affected by this change in policy. There's another aspect to this policy change that is even more sinister, though. The forced reset trigger technically still is a semi-automatic trigger. Even though it may allow the operator to increase their fire rate, the trigger is still being actuated per shot. There's a reset of the trigger each time it's pulled. All the forced reset does is, force the resetting of the trigger to happen. So by all logical standards, that trigger is semi-automatic. Gun owners should be very concerned about this. When the ATF banned bump stocks, many people thought they were silly devices that were more of a novelty than anything else, and while that might be true, how they were banned has opened up the path to banning all semi-automatic firearms. To ban the bump stock, the ATF could only use laws already on the books. That law is the NFA (National Firearms Act). The NFA subjected certain firearms to a regulatory tax and background check for the purchase. Those items are suppressors, short barrel rifles/shotguns, and suppressors. In 1986, the Hughes Amendment was added to FOPA or Firearms Owners Protection Act. This amendment banned possession of all new production machine guns after 1986 altogether. So how did the ATF "ban" bump stocks? By considering them to be machine guns, no bump stocks were made before 1986. So all bump stocks were effectively banned using the NFA, GCA & FOPA. The ATF uses this same process to ban and criminalize possession of forced reset triggers. Now here's why gun owners should be concerned. These devices are not machine guns. They only increase the rate of semi-automatic fire. How long until single-stage triggers are considered machine guns? Then semi-automatic triggers in general- Have you ever seen Jerry Miculek shoot? For those reading now that think that maybe I'm being paranoid, I'd highly encourage you to read "Legal & Lethal," an article for Giffords written by none other than failed ATF nominee David Chipman. In Section 9 of Legal & Lethal, Chipman details his idea that semi-automatic firearms with "large-capacity magazines" in his mind are the same as machine guns, and considering a semi-automatic trigger like Rare Breed's FRT is another inch closer to that goal.
National Concealed Carry? It Might Be Sooner Than You Think https://themachinegunnest.com/national-concealed-carry-might-be-sooner-than-... https://www.nraila.org/articles/20171120/victory-in-dc-shall-issue-concealed... If you're unaware of the most recent 2nd amendment case in the supreme court, let me give you a quick refresher. NYSRPA v. Bruen deals with the "may-issue" scheme plaguing liberal states. Essentially the government decides whether you can carry a firearm based on specific criteria or an atypical need from the general population. Suspiciously missing from this criteria is "self-defense." Maryland has a scheme very similar to New York's. The Machine Gun Nest is a Maryland-based company, and I grew up in Maryland. I recently received my concealed carry permit from Maryland State Police after submitting to an intensive background check which required me to prove (with tax forms, bank account statements, and more) that I was indeed a business owner. If I had merely said that I was a humble tax-paying, law-abiding citizen who was concerned about their safety on my evening walks through Baltimore city, I would have denied that permit. See the issue here? Well, so does the Supreme Court. Oral Arguments for NYSRPA v. Bruen took place on Nov. 3rd, and afterward, it seemed like the majority of Justices were staunchly on the 2nd amendment side. We'll have to wait until summer 2022 to get the verdict, but it appears that the State of New York has seen the future and has already started crafting legislation to render a concealed carry permit useless. New York Bill A08684 is an apparent reaction to the almost certainty that the Supreme Court will rule New York's permitting scheme as unconstitutional. The bill itself states that no firearms can be possessed anywhere on "public" transportation (including rideshares, trains, and taxis), in restaurants, or anywhere where 15 or more people are gathered. While this bill may be depressing to read for the New Yorkers who are desperate for the ability to defend themselves, the evidence is clear that even the Government of New York seems to be confident that they're going to lose NYSRPA v. Bruen. What does this mean for the rest of the country? Well, it means the end of "may-issue" schemes, which means that all 50 states would switch to a shall-issue system. We saw a similar occurrence in 2017 when Washington DC lost in DC Circuit Court for the case Wrenn v. District of Columbia. If you want to carry a firearm in DC and complete the required training, you are guaranteed to receive a permit to carry a gun. Interestingly enough, DC Government did not appeal the case to the Supreme Court probably because they didn't want an NYSRPA v. Bruen situation on their hands. The firearms industry certainly is preparing for an explosion of concealed carry. We were at SHOT Show in Las Vegas and heard much talk about the case, especially from dealers and firearms instructors in more liberal states. In addition, many new products for 2022 are personal protection and carry focused, like Federal's new 30 Super Carry, S&W's new CSX handgun, and many more. So, what should we expect? Later this year, when the court announces their verdict, they also may decide to clear up a big problem in gun law right now. There's only been a handful of 2nd Amendment cases that the Supreme Court has ruled on. Because of this, 2nd Amendment law isn't exactly crystal clear to some courts. (How you could misinterpret "shall not be infringed is beyond me) The result of this uncertainty is that lower courts like the liberal-leaning 9th Circuit essentially rubber stamp unconstitutional gun control like assault weapon bans and more because the Supreme Court hasn't explicitly ruled on one way or another on an issue. NYSRPA v. Bruen may serve as an excellent opportunity for the Supreme Court to clear up some bad lower court rulings. At the very least, here in Maryland, we're expecting an explosion in concealed carry permits. To give you an example of the disparity between a free state and a liberal state, Maryland and Indiana have similar populations. Still, the percentage of residents with carrying permits in Maryland is 0.4%, while Indiana is 18%. That's a significant disparity, and this disparity has likely grown larger as the statistics on carry permits were last recorded in 2017. 2020 & 2021 saw a considerable rise in concealed carry permit applications at the rate of 10.5% growth in permit applications year over year. Needless to say. We're excited to be delivering some good news when it comes to gun law, but only time will tell what the Supreme Court has to say for NYSRPA v. Bruen. But if there's any indication of victory, it's when the blue state governments start to panic. That's clear from the pending legislation in New York. So, we're predicting a victory for the 2nd Amendment. The only thing yet to be shown is how far that victory will go.
Rare Breed Triggers Responds To Alleged Leaked ATF Memo To Seize FRT-15s From Dealers https://themachinegunnest.com/blog/ https://www.rarebreedtriggers.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ALNk-jDdrI Demonico w Rare Breed https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ocBsC30pAnk5pxJXvnXLg Custom 3D Hobby Lawrence Demonico, the president of Rare Breed Triggers, has just released a YouTube video responding to the alleged leaked ATF memo circulating the internet in the last 24 hours. "We have all seen the ATF letter that is spreading like wildfire across the internet, regarding the ATF plans to steal private property from dealers, and of course, I'm referring to the FRT-15 trigger," Demonico said. "All though I cannot authenticate this letter that is allegedly being circulated by the ATF. I can tell you we've received word from one dealer in Illinois late yesterday afternoon stating that the ATF visited him and handed him a cease and desist order and seized FRT-15 triggers," he continued. Demonico said he has a lot of experience dealing with the "corrupt and dirty practices of the ATF." He said, "my jaw is absolutely on the floor in complete disbelief that they're choosing to take action based on an illegitimate examination and report that was conducted by David Smith and approved by Earl Griffith at the ATF technology branch." Demonico went on to say the report is full of "outright lies," labeling the forced reset trigger as a machine gun. He pointed to a video on the Rare Breed website that demonstrates the FRT-15 trigger is not a machine gun. Demonico said the news of the alleged ATF memo was first put out by Gun Owners of America (GOA). He said the GOA has yet to support him but has a meeting with them, adding that since the ATF is attacking dealers, maybe the group will finally provide some assistance. Demonico ends the video by saying, "we're not back down, and we'll see this through to the end," adding "if the ATF can simply just say the FRT-15 is a machine gun without a claim being based on actual laws in the US code -- what's to stop them from reinterpreting the AR-15 altogether is a machine gun -- there's nothing to stop them from doing that." Here's Demonico's full video responding to the alleged leaked ATF letter: Maryland-based gun advocacy group The Machine Gun Nest (TMGN) has pointed out this slippery slope numerous times. Here's what they have to say about the latest alleged ATF memo: The fact that the ATF is allowed on a whim to change the definition of a machine gun from "Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger" to "any device that increases the rate of fire" sets an extremely dangerous precedent. In this video, TMGN sums up the entire current situation happening between the ATF and Rare Breed Triggers.
Times of India: Ukraine MPs vote to give permission for civilians to carry firearms Funny how govts and pols want you to have firearms so you can die saving the govt's and pol's asses, then like all govts and pols, they confiscate the guns from you after you save them so you won't take them out when they fuck you over later.
Democrats fixation on mandatory serial numbers bizarre given serial numbers do absolutely nothing to keep people from killing each other. Their intent is unchallengeable political power, not saving lives, proof in the 35 top US big cities they own for decades... Baltimore, DC, LA, Chicago... crime failures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X65gX2SPPI0 Beto the Grabber Once a grabbing two faced liar, Always a grabbing two faced liar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=347-c9gI8Vk Grabbing apologists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf_VptbmTwU Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yigdilDwZ8 USCCA, self reliance Cultural Shift: Nearly Two-Thirds Of Americans Oppose New Gun Control Laws https://www.youtube.com/embed/86wSCRyuL5E https://themachinegunnest.com/blog/ https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/gun_... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/14/obamas-strang... https://news.gallup.com/poll/357317/stricter-gun-laws-less-popular.aspx https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M21-3423 https://www.bigtrial.net/2022/01/state-investigating-krasners-failure-to.htm... https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-gun-arrest-prosecutions-201... https://themachinegunnest.com/maryland-state-senator-pushes-for-right-to-car... https://sanctuarycounties.com/2021/09/29/1965-american-counties-are-now-seco... https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/594223-democrats-show-little-appetite-fo... https://themachinegunnest.com/expect-a-blue-wave-of-gun-control-in-2022/ https://themachinegunnest.com/is-atf-moving-to-seize-lawfully-owned-items-im... https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2022-01-25/califo... https://themachinegunnest.com/national-concealed-carry-might-be-sooner-than-... It seems the fallout from the insanity of 2020 continues to stay in the public's mind. Even a year out from the panic buying craziness, riots, movement to defund the police, and the election of Joe Biden, Americans seem to have a new take on gun control. According to a new poll, 63% of Americans support enforcing current gun laws instead of passing new gun control into law. This change shouldn't be surprising for anyone who's lived through the past two years. With 2020 & 2021 bringing COVID, Lockdowns, panic buying, the massive BLM riots, and the movement to defund the police, it's no surprise that Americans are starting to oppose new gun control in more significant numbers. A statistic that has helped shape that polling data is that millions of Americans became first-time gun owners during the pandemic. I experienced this rush of new gun buyers at The Machine Gun Nest, where we became completely inundated with first-time gun buyers. Many of those buyers had no idea that firearms required a background check (and a wait time here in Maryland). This process was a rude awakening for many of these same first-time buyers that everything they had learned about firearms being "easier to buy than books" was all just corporate media lies. What's even more interesting is that the data changes come primarily from non-traditional gun owners, people who identify as political independents, and even Democrats. Recently there was a 15 point drop in support for strict gun control laws from independents, according to Gallup. Considering that 50% of all new gun owners in the past two years are women, and many more are minorities, it makes sense that attitudes are shifting. It's a drastic change compared to pre-pandemic thinking. Just a few years ago, in 2018, after the mass shooting in Parkland, FL, support for gun control was at its highest point, with 66% of the country supporting new gun control legislation. We also know that activist district attorneys like those in Philadelphia and other liberal cities often refuse to charge or prosecute criminals on firearms charges, leading to higher rates of violence in those same cities. In Philadelphia, out of 1,810 firearms cases in 2021 (that's more than 4 per day), 61.5% of cases were dismissed or withdrawn. Only 2.6% of those same cases (that's 47 total) were found guilty at trial. We at The Machine Gun Nest can speak from experience being in Maryland. Baltimore City is an example of these failed policies. It's no wonder with the failure even to prosecute violent criminals with gun crimes that Maryland residents are desperate to buy and carry firearms. It's also no wonder that the people of the United States, especially in these liberal jurisdictions, want the law enforced! Another significant movement creating conversation and awareness that may have contributed to this new poll is the number of counties that have become 2nd Amendment Sanctuaries. The 2nd Amendment Sanctuary movement first gained attention when, in early 2020, the Governor of Virginia moved to pass an "Assault Weapons Ban," among other gun control measures. This gun control push triggered a massive response from the citizenry of VA (one of the most armed states per capita in the country). It caused many of Virginia's counties to become 2nd Amendment Sanctuaries, where the local government refuses to enforce gun control laws. This idea became so popular that 62.5% of counties in the United States are now 2nd Amendment Sanctuaries. So why does all this matter? Well, the country's mood has shifted when it comes to firearms. This cultural change is reflected in government, where Democrats don't want to pursue gun control legislation whatsoever! A few days ago, Joe Biden marked the fourth anniversary of the mass shooting in Parkland, FL, by calling on Congress to pass new gun control legislation. But Democrats don't seem to be interested, as reported by The Hill – Democrats don't seem to feel that there's enough support for new gun control to push the legislation! Gun owners can take solace in the fact that, at least in Congress, the gun control agenda has stalled. This stalemate is, of course, why the Biden administration has been pushing gun control via executive fiat, using the ATF to circumvent the legislative process altogether. With hotly contested midterms and Presidential approval ratings plummeting, the Biden Administration will be looking for any scapegoat to rally their base back to vote. We've seen it recently with Biden trying to "rally around the flag" with the situation in Ukraine, and we know that gun control is food for the base so to speak. I'd expect Biden to announce that he's "solved the ghost gun issue" this spring when the ATF releases their new unconstitutional rules on frames and receivers. The flip side of the gun control agenda stalling at the Federal level is that States will then take the issue into their own hands. We currently see some of the most egregious local gun control pushes yet, with San Jose, CA, requiring that gun owners purchase liability insurance for their firearms and pay a fee, which will be donated to an anti-gun group! Meanwhile, in Boulder, Colorado, local legislators have entirely thrown out State Preemption to pass a city-level assault weapons ban, literally balkanizing the State of Colorado legally in the process. With the verdict for NYSRPA v Bruen on the horizon and many more legal battles ahead, 2022 will be a very interesting year for gun rights. Video: A breakdown of how the country's mood towards firearms has shifted in just two years.
On 1/23/22, Steven Schear <schear.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
Screw firearms, think antitank and Stingers.
Funnily enough, a bit over one month later that became the right of pretty much any Ukrainian who wanted one, including scary looking black "assault" rifles, tanks, grenades, drones, etc. Now of course if Ukrainians had both that individual and collective defensive right beforehand, maybe at least a lot more would have had them on hand and been culturally trained to use them in such situations. The spoolup delay proving costly, you can't defend yourselves, in realtime dire need, with tools you don't have, and don't know how to use.
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jim bell
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