I have pinned this post to the top of my blog. It is to remind people of what many of our opponents want. Alison Aires wants a tyrannical government. They want summary execution for private possession of firearms.
An Obama-appointed federal judge just decided the Supreme Court’s rulings are more like suggestions, and Republicans in Congress are done pretending she has the authority to make that call.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued an order on Friday blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals. It was a brazen display of judicial activism, and it took Republicans about a weekend to respond.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) announced he will file articles of impeachment against Burroughs on Monday, accusing her of trampling both the Constitution and a Supreme Court ruling that should have ended this fight already.
It’s not going to result in a criminal conviction, but it would be effective. If nothing else, with enough usage, and replacement with constitution affirming replacement judges, when the case was reheard the odds of getting a judge respecting SCOTUS decisions would be much higher.
I can see this process having application in other areas.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Firearms Act (NFA) no longer applies to suppressors and other items whose taxes were reduced to $0 in July 2025.
United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, granted a motion for summary judgement from attorneys representing the Silencer Shop Foundation Wednesday.
A summary judgement!!!!
It was NOT a Second Amendment based decision:
The judge said Congress itself undermined the NFA through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. By reducing the transfer and making tax on most covered firearms to $0, Congress eliminated the Taxing Clause basis for the law, and courts can't substitute the Commerce Clause instead.
Thank the GOP legislators and President Trump for enabling this win. The gun organizations had a relatively easy layup in court.
The Four Boxes Diner has the best legal take. Something you should know is that the decision only applies to the plaintiffs, their members, and their customers. It is not nation-wide. It only applies to people in the federal district court in the Northern District of Texas:
The plaintiffs include:
Gun Owners of America
The National Rifle Association
B&T USA, LLC
Palmetto State Armory, LLC
SilencerCo Weapons Research, LLC
The Virginia Citizens Defense League
The Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition
Fifteen states
Silencer Shop Foundation
That NRA membership is still good for something!
I don’t know for certain how the “fifteen states” plays out in this context. We will need some clarification from a lawyer on that. My guess is that the Feds can’t prosecute any of those state that makes, uses, or sells silencers, SBR, and SBS. But, I am not a lawyer.
They cannot imagine it was about anything other than about money. They need to think of a new rationalization. This one is so boring. Can’t they come up with something just as nonsensical and not so boring? I’d like to suggest:
The NFA was needed to assist in alcohol prohibition, and we need it now for recreational drug prohibition!
Protecting the hearing of gun owners takes away another reason to ban guns!
The rubble shall be bouncing in June 2027 when the Supreme Court opinion on AR15 bans is released. This single opinion will set the anti-gun movement back for generations.
I look forward to hearing more. What I expect is a lot of powerful legal stuff. I doubt we will hear, in so many words, what will be just as important. The proper ruling at SCOTUS, and enforced by the DOJ, will create a huge morale boost for us and the morale of the anti-gun people will crash. That change in attitude is what will make the heads explode and set the anti-gun movement back for generations.
Our side will have them on the run. They will have no defenses. We will, metaphorically, be chasing them with torches and pitchforks.
People love to be on the winning side. They will be happy to donate money and see their abusers crushed in the courts. People will go to the range and laugh and tell jokes about the tears of the anti-gun leaders and the bankruptcies of their organizations.
We will be tearing down their remaining infringements in months and years that took them a century to construct. They will constantly on the defense and unable to even find a defensible position.
Any time an anti-gun people timidly proposes anything they will be hammered by “the plain text of the 2nd Amendment” from their opposition and even their lawyers. Shall. Not. Be. Infringed. What part do you not understand?
You would think the anti-gun people would know this and realize sending bullets in the direction of violent criminal would be better than making laws to ban guns. Laws banning recreation drugs don’t prevent the use of the drugs. And creating a black market for guns isn’t going to prevent criminals from using guns or even make them unhappy. Banned guns become another market for criminal activities.
But sending bullets at them at 1,000 feet per second? That can seriously chill their body temperature as well as their mood.
The state of Delaware has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. But don’t make the mistake of believing that “distinction” means the state is safe from criminal gun misuse.
The national gun control activist group Giffords, named after former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), awarded the state an A- grade on its recent gun control scorecard. Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control organization funded by billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ranks The First State as #10 on its national ranking of states with tough gun laws.
If there’s a gun control law that national anti-Second Amendment activists are looking for, it’s likely already law in Delaware. That might lead some to think Delaware has solved the “gun violence problem” and that its residents are safe.
That would be terribly mistaken.
Recent reporting by the Delaware News Journal revealed the number of minors who have been shot this year has nearly doubled when compared to the same time period last year. According to the report, the number of homicide victims has remained relatively unchanged, but shootings have ticked up year-over-year.
Gun control proponents aren’t looking for new answers. They’re just rehashing the old and ineffective ones.
That they keep trying more of the same thing that does not make their citizens safer is very telling. This means they have some sort of mental health issues and/or citizen safety is not the goal. While mass delusions do happen with surprising frequency, they usually require more isolation from those who do not share the delusions. That means there is a good chance the alternate hypothesis is correct. Citizen safety is not the goal.
It probably will require the courts to give them the proper incentives to change their evil ways.
Expect a surplus of liberal tears and widespread whining.
The Japan Self-Defense Forces has a strict 1-to-1 return policy. If a soldier is issued 30 rounds, they must return 30 spent casings or 30 live rounds.
If even one casing is missing, the entire range shuts down. Every soldier stays until that single piece of brass is found. Those nets and bags aren’t just for show, they are “efficiency tools” to avoid a 5-hour crawling through the grass!
The Japan Self-Defense Forces has a strict 1-to-1 return policy. If a soldier is issued 30 rounds, they must return 30 spent casings or 30 live rounds.
If even one casing is missing, the entire range shuts down. Every soldier stays… pic.twitter.com/lE3PpBtSXK
I once read about some U.S. GI training with the Japanese military and spending an hour looking for a single piece of .50 BMG brass. This is the first time I have seen any video of the extremes they go to save their subjects from the dangers of empty shell casings.
If it were practical I would donate worn out shell cases to be spread over their cities via 1/4 scale B-29 drones.
imagine if we treated adding a new law to the economy in the same way we treated adding a new medicine to the body. you’d have to demonstrate no harmful effects show up in controlled trials, people who pass laws with damaging side effects would be held liable, etc
The nation’s oldest gun violence prevention organization, Brady: United Against Gun Violence, is celebrating Mayor Brandon Johnson signing an executive order to establish responsible procurement standards for firearms purchased by city agencies in Chicago. The executive order addresses a shocking national problem, exposed by a Brady investigation, that law enforcement agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars buying firearms from dealers and manufacturers with repeated violations of federal firearm regulations.
Dear Brady, I think it is wonderful that you are celebrating over this. Please continue celebrating every small victory… while you still can find them.
Next July tens of millions of gun owners will be celebrating our big win with SCOTUS ending all bans on semi-automatic rifles.
This is the hottest part of the year, and my underground bunker is keeping it’s cool:
The ragged sort of sine wave line was the outdoor temperature over the last 24 hours. The other lines are the temperatures of the rooms with thermostats in them. There has not been any artificial heat in weeks and never any cooling. The bedroom is a little warmer that Barb likes for sleeping but I think if we opened two windows at night and put fans in the windows, we could cool the bedroom down to her ideal of 66 F.
The humidity varies from 45.2% to 53.3% That’s near ideal.
A report from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University found that 62 percent of adults aged 18-29 said that the design and structure of our nation’s government needs significant changes, no matter which party is elected.
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Forty percent of Gen Zers said political violence is justified to some degree, compared with 30 percent of millennials and 11 percent of baby boomers.
Mayor Wilson and Chief Barnes repeatedly mentioned efforts to reduce ‘gun violence’. That typically translates to more gun control measures against law-abiding adults including the 112,500 King County residents who have valid concealed pistol licenses. They haven’t hurt anybody. Yet, instead of acknowledging that the problem is with criminals, including juveniles whose parents should be asked why their kid is at the Seattle Center shooting people, we hear about something called ‘gun violence reduction.’ But you’re not going to reduce gun-related violence by penalizing the wrong people, and Seattle’s leaders must keep that in mind.
On July 1, California’s Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced AB 1383, a bill that guts the pension reform Sacramento passed in 2013 to keep its own promises honest. It would drop the public safety retirement age from 57 to 55, invent a new 3%-at-55 benefit formula, and let cities bargain away the cost-sharing rules that reform required. CalPERS already carries more than $179 billion in unfunded liabilities. California’s total state and local pension debt tops $200 billion. Sacramento’s answer, apparently, is to promise more.
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Congress has already written one pension bailout check. In 2021, it authorized $97 billion in Special Financial Assistance to prop up failing multiemployer union pension plans, and even that money did not close the gap. Roughly $745 billion in unfunded multiemployer promises remain today. State and local public pensions carry nearly $1.27 trillion in unfunded liabilities nationwide, according to the Equable Institute’s most recent accounting, more than 15 times the multiemployer shortfall Congress already covered.
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Sacramento just showed Washington what happens without a floor. The next state to test Congress’s resolve will not file a request. It will simply run out of cash and dare anyone in Washington to watch retirees lose their checks on television.
Either these politicians do not understand numbers, and/or they are deliberately trying to destroy the country. It is not difficult to make the case it is deliberate.
Party transformations follow a predictable six-stage evolution — recoil, squint, rationalize, submit, amplify, and purge. Each stage has language you can hear long before you see it in the votes. Republicans just finished the full cycle. Democrats might be starting it.
Watch how the language shifts, stage by stage, for signs of whether recent socialist wins are an anomaly, or the start of something bigger and broader.
Stage 1: Recoil. Denounce, by name. Lindsey Graham called Trump a “kook” who was unfit for office. Ted Cruz called him a “pathological liar.” That was 2016. Both later defended him against the exact words they coined.
Stage 2: Squint. Support without looking. “I haven’t seen the tweet” became the go-to response of House and Senate Republicans in Trump’s first term when they were asked about the latest storm. Some did the binary dodge: “The other side is worse.”
Stage 3: Rationalize. This is the “yes, but” stage: “I don’t love the style, but the judges … the tax cuts … the border … He’s a fighter.” This is where accommodation becomes the norm, and the need to win trumps style or tactics.
Stage 4: Submit. Dissent becomes career-ending. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said on the floor that Trump “bears responsibility” for Jan. 6. Two weeks later, McCarthy flew to Mar-a-Lago to make peace. In less than three years, he’d been ousted as speaker. Silence becomes life-and-death survival.
Stage 5: Amplify. Fully adopt the vocabulary, the style, the maximal claims. Try to out-Trump Trump. After privately calling Trump “America’s Hitler” in 2016, JD Vance is now vice president. And routinely seeks to show his Trumpiness. That’s almost every Republican now.
Stage 6: Purge. Actively work to oust anyone who disagrees. You either fully accept and amplify, or get exiled. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) — gone. This year alone, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) was beaten in a Trump-backed primary, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) chose retirement over humiliation, and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) drew a primary challenger (and lost to him) after voting with Trump 99% of the time.
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The counterpoint: Socialism is widely seen by most elected Democrats as political poison. So this moment could prove fleeting. Four reasons for this:
Socialism has no enforcer yet. Trump ended careers personally. An idea can’t, unless someone becomes the idea. Mamdani endorsing, campaigning and toppling incumbents is what an enforcer looks like in beta. But it’s hard to see Bernie Sanders or AOC taking this national.
The far left has no Fox News synchronizing base and elites. In fact, it’s safe to assume The New York Times, The Atlantic and MS NOW will resist socialism, at least initially. But watch for the formation of a media ecosystem to counter them. Politics is downstream from information flow and currents.
Transmission is slower. Democratic voters, broadly speaking, are institutionalists. Republican voters wanted demolition. Submission to an insurgency may have a lower ceiling on the left.
Socialists need to clear general-election hurdles, as Trump did. If socialist nominees cost Democrats swing seats in November, expect the Iraq-style reversal and recoil to come roaring back.
Interesting… But as near as I could determine these stages are anything but “predictable”. My research suggests this is the first time such a classification has been proposed. Political “science” (for some definitions of science) does study these sorts of things but this analysis and classification system is new. Via Grok:
Political science does study related phenomena—party realignment, factional capture, elite defection and conformity under primary incentives, populist takeovers, and the dynamics of movement entry into parties—but these are typically analyzed through historical comparison, voting data, network analysis, or game-theoretic incentives rather than a fixed six-stage sequence.
I would love to know the future of socialism in this country. But this analysis methodology has not been proven to be a good predictor.
For the general public, the biggest takeaway is that gun law in America is being rewritten in real time. The center of gravity has shifted from legislatures making policy judgments to courts applying an aggressive historical test that often leaves modern public safety evidence in the background.
That makes outcomes harder to predict for nonlawyers. A law that once seemed settled can suddenly become vulnerable if judges decide there is no close historical analogue from the 18th or 19th century. New Jersey’s loss shows how quickly a state can go from defending a long-standing law to facing a precedent that may weaken similar rules across the country.
It also means the national debate is no longer just about whether gun restrictions are popular or effective. Increasingly, it is about whether they fit a constitutional template shaped by history, common use, and a Supreme Court that has become more protective of gun rights. That is a very different battleground from the one most Americans are used to.
So yes, this New Jersey ruling could reshape gun laws across the U.S. It already has, in one important sense: it changed the terms of the argument. From here on out, every state with an assault weapon ban, every state with a magazine cap, and every judge hearing those challenges will be looking over their shoulder at what happened on July 17, 2026.
The political left is getting a clue. And I think they are going to look for greener pastures than gun control. They have to realize they are on the wrong side of history.
Imagine taking a day off from work in a future without capitalism.
It might not feel as badly needed as it does now. You enjoy your work; it’s interesting to you, and you’re well trained for it. You work as much as you are able and no more than needed, and you would control your own labor and see it going to good use. It’s not just a job to pay the bills.
Speaking of bills: you don’t really have them anymore.
You have no debt. You don’t need health insurance. You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.
OK, enough about bills. What do you do on your day off? Maybe in the morning, you walk your kids to school, run errands, or go to a doctor’s appointment. In the afternoon, you might play a sport, practice a new skill, read, plan a trip. In the evening, you could meet up with friends or family and eat together, maybe go to the movies or down to the park.
Among the items on the DSA platform she is happy to defend: “Abolish the Senate,” “Replace the presidency and Supreme Court,” “Abolish ICE,” “Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the U.S. illegally,” “Defund the Pentagon,” “Abolish prisons,” “Government or public ownership of most large corporations.”
Watch this video to hear her say it with enthusiasm:
Fox: "Abolish the Senate?"
DSA Chair: "True"
Fox: "Abolish ICE?"
DSA Chair: "Absolutely"
Fox: "Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone in the US illegally?"
This is mind bogglingly delusional and/or a deliberate set of lies.
While I can see this set of visions could be appealing to some people, I don’t think enough people will believe these same lies that have been told for 100+ years is going to gain traction in the age of the Internet. People know what happened in Venezuela. People know what happened in Cuba and East Europe. Just spend a day in the U.S., Germany, Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, or even France or England. Compare that to a day in Vietnam, Poland or Czechia. I have visited all those countries. And even though Poland and Czechia have been released from the bonds of heavy socialism for 30 years, you can easily still see the price they paid before rejecting socialism and accepting something approximating a free market. Vietnam is far worse off than any of those countries. Did they find their workers’ paradise by going full socialist fifty years ago? No. Not even close.
The socialist never stop lying, but maybe this surge in popularity will see their lies rejected before 100s of millions more people have to pay the price.
From the Greg Price thread on X:
THIS SHOULD BE IN AN AD FOR EVERY R running for Congress in Nov.
This is the new Democrat Party platform and Rs need to shout it from the fucking rooftops.
These people are insane. Show the world how insane they really are.
A portion of every NJ-15 supports the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, the lead plaintiff in the recent 3rd Circuit victory, to directly fund the legal battles for their second amendment rights. Help us spread freedom. pic.twitter.com/Cc21zD47tJ
— Palmetto State Armory (@palmettoarmory) July 24, 2026
These guys made a harpoon cannon and shot it at various things. Everything except for the fireball worked quite well. Fireballs are tough. Ry and I put a lot of effort into figuring out how create fireballs.
They finally got it right. Had they ever been to Boomershoot, they would have known to forget the other stuff and go straight to road flares.
