It’s time to come for their guns.
Rich Campbell @RCampbellmc58
Tweeted on May 30, 2022
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Category Archives: Gun Rights
Background checks don’t work
Via a tweet from Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras we have this from Heidi Stevens @HeidiStevens13:
Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.
Thank you for pointing out background checks for gun purchases cannot, and do not, make the general population safer. This has been carefully researched and should be made common knowledge. Don’t let people be science deniers: https://fee.org/articles/california-s-background-check-law-had-no-impact-on-gun-deaths-johns-hopkins-study-finds/
See also: Background checks.
Quote of the day—Rep. John Kowalko
I’ve got a suggestion for you and your fellow gun worshipers (sic), Instead of wearing a mask stick the barrel of your piece in your mouth. Maybe those 14 children killed in Texas would have been safer from the virus and you psycho, small-penis gun fondlers.
John Kowalko
Delaware state Rep. (D)
Posted on Facebook May 26, 2022
Dem State Rep. Goes On Fake-Fact-Checker Facebook Meltdown, Tells ‘Small-Penis’ Gun Supporters To Kill Themselves
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Via email from Rolf.
This is what they think of you. They want you dead.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin
It’s the semi automatic weapons. They have to go. My god, think of how low that bar is.
Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin
Tweeted on May 27, 2022
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Armed citizens stop mass shooters
Via SAF we have this FBI (alternate copy here) report:
ACTIVE SHOOTER INCIDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES In 2021
In two incidents,21 citizens engaged the shooter. In one incident citizens sustained injuries. • In one incident,22 seven employees exchanged multiple volleys of gunfire with the shooter, four of them during the final encounter resulting in the death of the shooter. Two people were killed (one customer and one employee) and two employees were wounded (one was shot in the arm and one in the leg). The shooter was killed at the scene by armed employees.
2021 witnessed an increase in incidents where citizen involvement impacted the engagement.23 In four incidents,24 citizens confronted the shooter, thereby resulting in the incident ending. • In one incident, two citizens confronted and tackled a shooter until law enforcement officers arrived.25 • In one incident, a teacher disarmed and detained the shooter (a student) until law enforcement arrived.26 • In one incident, an armed citizen shot and killed a gunman who had just ambushed a law enforcement officer.27 • In one incident, an armed employee shot and killed the shooter (an employee terminated earlier in the day).
Details:
On February 20, 2021, at approximately 2:50 p.m., an identified male, 27, armed with a handgun, began shooting inside the Jefferson Gun Outlet, Metairie, Louisiana. Two people were killed (one employee); two people were wounded (employees). The shooter was killed by armed citizens (employees) during an exchange of gunfire at the scene.
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On May 15, 2021, at approximately 7:15 a.m., an identified male, 26, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, began shooting inside and outside the Three Corners Townhouses (apartment complex), Fort Smith, Arkansas. One person was killed. The shooter was killed at the scene by an armed citizen
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On June 21, 2021, at approximately 1:30 p.m., an identified male, 59, armed with a shotgun, began shooting in Old Town Arvada, Arvada, Colorado. One person (law enforcement officer) was killed. The shooter was killed at the scene by an armed citizen.
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On October 21, 2021, at approximately 1:20 p.m., an identified male, 61, armed with a handgun, began shooting inside Agrex Elevator, Superior, Nebraska. Two people were killed (employees); one person was wounded (employee). The shooter was killed at the scene by an armed citizen (employee) prior to arrival of law enforcement
Quote of the day—The Editors at Scientific American
The science is abundantly clear: More guns do not stop crime. Guns kill more children each year than auto accidents. More children die by gunfire in a year than on-duty police officers and active military members. Guns are a public health crisis, just like COVID, and in this, we are failing our children, over and over again.
The Editors at Scientific American
May 26, 2022
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives
[They have to lie to justify their beliefs and agenda. You only need to click on their own reference to discover the lie. Guns kill more children than auto accidents? Only if you consider 24 year old’s as children:
For much of the past few decades motor vehicle crashes were the most common cause of death from injury—the leading cause of death in general—among children, teenagers and young adults in the U.S. But now a new analysis shows that, in recent years, guns have overtaken automotive crashes as the leading cause of injury-related death among people ages one through 24.
They are intentionally lying in an effort to deprive an entire nation of a specific enumerated right. They should be prosecuted.—Joe]
Quote of the day—John Crump
AmmoLand News has obtained a leaked copy of the 2019 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Industry Operations Manual.
The manual is the internal guide that the Industry Operations Inspectors (IOI) use when conducting federal firearms licensees (FFL) inspections. An IOI is not a special agent. They are an ATF employee assigned to carry out compliance inspections and audits of records that FFLs hold. While special agents are considered law enforcement and have the power to arrest, the IOIs work on the industry side of the Bureau.
The document is 190 pages long and gives an insight into what the IOIs look for during their FFL compliance inspections. The document lays down what the IOIs can and can’t do during their official visits. It includes when the IOI can run a NICS check on the FFL’s responsible parties. The document also covers when an IOI must refer a case to a criminal investigator. The IOIs cannot perform a criminal investigation.
The document not only goes into procedures used by IOIs during their compliance visits but it also covers the techniques that the IOIs will use during their visits to FFLs. The document also covers more mundane topics such as the ATF’s work from home policy and the use of government vehicles by the IOIs.
One of the interesting things about the IOI position is that IOIs are not allowed to carry firearms while working. This restriction even applies to those who have valid concealed carry permits. The IOIs are not even allowed to keep their guns in their cars.
The document will be an immense help to firearms dealers that are fighting against the revocation of their FFLs. Currently, FFL revocations are up by 500%. Under the current Biden administration, the ATF has targeted FFLs and has been revoking FFLs for the slightest infraction. President Biden calls these gun stores “rogue dealers.” By having a copy of the manual, these targeted FFLs can ensure that the ATF IOIs followed proper procedures during the inspections.
The IO Manual can also help in a criminal defense strategy of a gun dealer accused of criminal activity if the ATF employee improperly used their role as an IOI to collect evidence of illegal activity when they should have filled out a suspicious activity report. The manual makes it abundantly clear that IOIs are not law enforcement officers.
The ATF has stalled multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests trying to get a copy of the Industry Operations Manual, leading many in the gun community to wonder why the ATF would try to prevent the manual from being distributed to the public. Some think that the ATF did not want the IO Manual to fall into the hands of criminal defense lawyers and FFLs.
John Crump
May 25, 2022
ATF Leak Exposes Industry Operations Manual
[Cool! The good guys get a break.—Joe]
Quote of the day–UR a Smart Ass, Carl @Ur_a_Smartass_C
Any black person who fights for gun control is nothing more than a tool for their own destruction.
UR a Smart Ass, Carl @Ur_a_Smartass_C
Tweeted on May 23, 2022
[Carl has an interesting story to tell about his conversion from “a young gun control Democrat” to owning a safe (or three, I’m not sure) full of guns.—Joe]
The original “assault rifle”
Quote of the day—Sen. Chris Murphy
There are not a lot of moments where everybody goes from Position A to Position Z. You need to build political power in order to enact important, controversial social change.
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I think that we have made enormous progress over the last nine years, and I sort of look at Sandy Hook as the before and after moment.
Sen. Chris Murphy
May 22, 2022
From Sandy Hook to Buffalo: Ten years of failure on gun control
[I found the article fascinating. No hint of awareness that gun control might not help public safety, let alone thoughts it enables violent criminals. No hint of awareness that the Second Amendment protects a specific enumerated right and SCOTUS is about to slap down New York for their abuse of gun owners. No hint of awareness that since Sandy Hook, gun sales have exploded and the Antifa “summer of love” have changed the political landscape regarding gun ownership.—Joe]
This is what they think of you
VIa email from pkoning.
Tyrants gotta tyrant:
IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may deny a license under this section if the Attorney General determines that the applicant poses a significant danger of bodily injury to self or others by possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm, after examining factors the Attorney General considers are relevant to the determination, including…
(gg) any recent acquisition of firearms, ammunition, or other deadly weapons;
This is one of those “can’t win” scenario those who have mental issues create for you. If you buy some ammo they can declare you unfit to buy a gun because you might actually have the ability to use it.
I’ve experienced and put up with a mental issues environment… for decades. Highly discommended.
The other case you see this sort of behavior is the situation described by Ayn Rand regarding the creation of criminals. This is a situation you want to avoid even more than an individual with mental issues.
But what I find most telling about this proposed legislation is what such a politician must think of you. It must be one of the following:
- You are too stupid to see the trap this creates, or
- They believe that the desire to exercise a specific enumerated right demonstrates criminal intent.
Just say no, and keep saying no, until you run out of ammo.
Tyrant tool
Via Stephanie:
AI may be searching you for guns the next time you go out in public
When Peter George saw news of the racially motivated mass-shooting at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo last weekend, he had a thought he’s often had after such tragedies.
“Could our system have stopped it?” he said. “I don’t know. But I think we could democratize security so that someone planning on hurting people can’t easily go into an unsuspecting place.”
George is chief executive of Evolv Technology, an AI-based system meant to flag weapons, “democratizing security” so that weapons can be kept out of public places without elaborate checkpoints.
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Evolv machines use “active sensing” — a light-emission technique that also underpins radar and lidar — to create images. Then it applies AI to examine them. Data scientists at the Waltham, Mass., company have created “signatures” (basically, visual blueprints) and trained the AI to compare them to the scanner images.
This tool is worse than useless. It will create opportunities for more murders. That is, unless you are a tyrant intent on disarming your subjects.
First off, the mass shooter will start shooting before they pass through the detector, taking out the guards before they even had a clue a threat was present. And, since there is a “funnel” for people going through the detector there will be a group of people ready for “harvesting” by the perp. It also will make it difficult or impossible for people to defend themselves where these systems are deployed.
Hence, if your threat model is a mass shooter, the device will actually make things worse rather than better. Many other threat models suffer similar degradation of public security.
The threat model that doesn’t degrade is the one where you want your subjects to be more dependent on you for security and to make it difficult for them to threaten your position of power. In that case this system will be a useful asset to disarm your subjects.
Quote of the day—Floyd Neeland
The only reason ten blacks murdered in Buffalo are getting so much news coverage is because that supports the false government narrative that white people pose the top threat to America, and guns are evil.
In 2019, nearly 8,000 black people were murdered.* News media failed to cover it or bring the point home. Few arrests, few trials, murderers roamed free amidst newslessness. The following year black murders increased, and again little or no coverage. But now, the so-called “news” media harps on one teenage psychopath who made advanced threats, posted his intentions, never got treatment, and media uses the tragedy to falsely claim whites are part of a scheme. Whites are more racist than blacks or other clinging ethnic groups, they say, guns are evil, while ignoring the real dead stacked in a corner like firewood.
Floyd Neeland
May 20, 2022
9,941 Black People Murdered in 2020*
Saturation coverage of 10 dead in Buffalo is misdirection
Here is hard proof that Black Lives Don’t Matter
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Kathy Hochul
I want to silence those voices now.
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So yes, Lord, forgive the anger in my heart, but channel that into my passion to continue to fight to protect people, get the guns off the streets and silence the voices of hatred and racism and white supremacy all over the internet.
Kathy Hochul
New York State Governor
May 15, 2022
Video, Audio, Photo & Rush Transcript: Governor Hochul Delivers Remarks at True Bethel Baptist Church
[See also New York’s Governor Wants to ‘Silence’ Constitutionally Protected Speech.
So… she is saying she is going to ignore both the 1st and the 2nd Amendments. Got it.
Governor, I hope you enjoy your trial
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
Quote of the day—johnrevill7 @johnrevill7
well, for many, it seems their guns are their penis extensions/subsitute, making up for their massive insecurities. So when you make a joke, or threaten to take it away, they feel rather threatened. You are threatening to CASTRATE them Sister Mary. And that makes them cry.
johnrevill7 @johnrevill7
Tweeted on April 4, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Childish insults are no match for SCOTUS decisions.—Joe]
Quote of the day— @LookImAZombie
They are not a form of Amercan society and they do not protect your freedom. That’s a delusion you created in order to justify your taste for murder and make it look socially acceptable.
@LookImAZombie
Tweeted on May 12, 2022
[Also, from the same thread (emphasis added):
This act was written in 1934 about 1934’s guns only. They would not have written it in a rotten society where you can literally grab a machine gun and murder a whole classroom. But again, you won’t understand this bc you don’t care about facts. You just want an excuse to murder.
This is what they think of you.
And if they think this of you they can justify, in their own minds, your murder.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Michael Malice @michaelmalice
The beautiful thing about gun rights is that there is no longer any pretense that there is value in having a conversation with those who would disarm you Tweet away, gun proliferation is through the roof and increasing (thank god)
Michael Malice @michaelmalice
Tweeted on May 13, 2022
[Via email from Lee H.
Our opponents have no interest in having, and never have had an interest in, a conversation. It has always about silencing us. Remember their insistence upon “reasoned discourse”?
There is a price to be paid for being morally, legally, and philosophical wrong. It even has a name. It is called, “On the wrong side of history.”—Joe]
Quote of the day—Lori Jane Gliha
What happens after a gun is used in a crime? The FOX31 Problem Solvers discovered that sometimes it can be complicated to track.
One handgun used by a teenager to shoot a police officer in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, in 2018 was traded with or sold to several other teens before a different man later used the weapon to shoot at a semi-truck driver in Aurora.
Evidence obtained by the Problem Solvers after both shooting cases were closed shows how a web of young people had access to the same gun, and that they used various methods, including Facebook, to get rid of it before it was linked to the crimes.
Lori Jane Gliha
May 12, 2022
How a gun used to shoot an officer went from teen to teen
[If only they had done the background checks like they were supposed to it wouldn’t have been so difficult track.
Or if they had obeyed the law and note purchased the gun was teenagers.
Or if they had obeyed the law against committing violent crimes.
It just shows us we need more common-sense laws to fix the problem.</sarcasm>
Gun control is not about public safety. It is about public control.
Respond appropriately.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Ryan D. Nelson
The district court erred by applying intermediate scrutiny, rather than strict scrutiny, to the semiautomatic centerfire rifle ban. And even under intermediate scrutiny, this ban likely violates the Second Amendment because it fails the “reasonable fit” test. Finally, the district court also abused its discretion in finding that Plaintiffs would not likely be irreparably harmed. We thus affirm the district court’s denial of an injunction as to the long gun regulation, reverse its denial of an injunction as to the semiautomatic centerfire rifle ban, and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Ryan D. Nelson
Circuit Judge
May 11, 2022
Jones v. Bonta
[Via a message from Law Firm of SolitaryPoorNastyBrutish&Short, who sent me this link: Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Restriction on Gun Purchase by 18-to-20-Year-Olds:
From Judge Lee in the case:
If we accept the state’s argument, it redefines intermediate scrutiny as a rational basis review with a small sprinkle of skepticism in Second Amendment cases. And that would allow the government to trample over constitutional rights just by relying on anecdotal evidence and questionable statistics that loosely relate to a worthwhile government goal. If California can deny the Second Amendment right to young adults based on their group’s disproportionate involvement in violent crimes, then the government can deny that right—as well as other rights—to other groups.
For example, California arguably has a more compelling case if it enacts a similar gun-control law that targets males of all ages instead of young adults. Statistics— and science—show that men almost exclusively commit violent crimes. Take mass shootings for instance. Men have been involved in 99% of all mass shootings in America since 1966, according to a database maintained by the Violence Project.2 California can thus theoretically claim that if men cannot own firearms, it will eliminate 99% of mass shootings.
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Our Constitution provides a guarantee of our rights and freedoms. For the most part, people exercise their rights in responsible and productive ways. A tiny percentage, however, does not. But we should not sanction restricting a constitutional right by solely focusing on the few who abuse it.
From Court: California’s Under-21 Gun Sales Ban Unconstitutional:
Federal judges can read the tea leaves. In the coming years, the courts seem certain to strike down numerous gun safety measures in the name of the 2nd Amendment. This 9th Circuit ruling is a harbinger of things to come.
SAF also has things to say:
this ruling could have an impact on another case challenging a similar prohibition in Washington State, which is also part of the Ninth Circuit. There, the prohibition was adopted via a citizen initiative in 2018, and was challenged by SAF and the National Rifle Association.
I haven’t read the entire 100 pages of the opinion. But the biggest win I saw was the strict scrutiny for semi-auto center-fire rifles.
Expect the ruling to be subjected to an en banc challenge and that panel decides elderly nuns in active military service can be banned from reading how to operate a semi-auto spitball shooter.—Joe]
What’s the problem?
Illegal Glock switches found across Tennessee
A Glock switch can turn a normal handgun into a weapon that can “fire 1200 rounds in a minute,” according to special agent Ashley Lightner with the ATF. Officials are finding them all over Tennessee.
At the Memphis Port of U.S. Customs, officials told WSMV that they’ve confiscated 525 Glock switches that have illegally come to Tennessee.
“Oh we’re seeing a bunch in Tennessee,” said Lightner adding that over the past three years there has been an increase in the switches in the State.
A Glock switch can turn a semi-automatic pistol into a weapon with “the power of a machine gun,” according to Lightner
This makes me laugh. If they have confiscated 525 my guess is there are 50K they haven’t confiscated.
I am reminded of a quote by Jeff Cooper:
As I have often stated, if someone wants to shoot at me, I sure hope he does it on full-auto.
Some personal experience, conversation with full-auto owners, and reading test results all confirm Cooper’s assertion. Hence, I don’t see why they are concerned with full-auto firearms. Other than, of course, it is another opportunity to harass innocent people.