Category Archives: Gun Rights

Time to Remove this Government from Power

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Anybody who cares about liberty or property rights or just public safety in general, the focus should be removing this government from power.

Tracey Wilson
Vice-president of public relations for Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights
January 17, 2026
Ottawa unveils next steps in its national gun buyback program. Here are the details | CBC News

Some of the details are infuriating:

Compensation payments will be issued within 45 business days of a successful validation of the outlawed firearm. The official said the pool of funding is $248.6 million — which will let the government pay for about 136,000 outlawed firearms from individual Canadians.

There are an estimated 2 million of the outlawed firearms. The government only plans to pay for about one out of 15 of the guns. That isn’t what they repeatedly promised.

But perhaps they did the arithmetic and figured that was all the money they would need:

Last fall, the federal government launched a six-week voluntary pilot project in the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia to test how the process would work. Officials were confident they would collect about 200 firearms.

Instead, just 25 were collected and destroyed, the Department of Public Safety revealed earlier this month. Responding to followup questions, the department said on Friday that 16 people participated.

If the participation rate is anything like it has been in Connecticut, California, Connecticut, New York, etc. then they should expect about a 5% compliance rate.

I will predict the next election will have a higher voter turnout than usual.

It might even move the talks on the Alberta and Saskatchewan Movements Push to Join U.S. as 51st State a little closer to reality.

Ideology Doesn’t Require Reality

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Communists are always certain of themselves because their certainty is ideological, not factual—and ideology doesn’t require reality.

Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet
Posted on X, January 15, 2026

All successful politicians express great confidence. I do not know how many actually believe themselves. But I know a great many of them seemingly compulsively tell lies. Truth and reality are tough, really tough. So, the more connected to reality and the more truthful you are the less confidence you will express. That gives the communists and liars a big advantage in getting followers because they express the confidence that gives people a feeling of stability in an uncertain world.

The same can be said for anti-gun people. But anti-gun people are mostly communists, so that isn’t adding much.

A Stroke of the Pen and It Is a Right Less Infringed

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Section 1715 of title 18, U.S. Code, is unconstitutional as applied to constitutionally protected firearms, including handguns, because it serves an illegitimate purpose and is inconsistent with the Nation’s tradition of firearm regulation. See N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111, 2129–30 (2022).

The Department of Justice may not, consistent with the Constitution, enforce section 1715 with respect to constitutionally protected firearms. The Postal Service should modify its regulations to conform with this opinion.

T. ELLIOT GAISER
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legal Counsel
January 15, 2026
Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 1715 (or here)

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Boom! A significant infringement upon our right to keep and bear arms has just been removed.

Just on Wednesday, I was talking to a co-worker about this infringement and a horror story directly related.

I am amazed at how fast things are moving in this space. Heller was decided in 2008. McDonald was decided in 2010. Sometime in there Alan Gura told a group of gun bloggers that it would take 20 years or more to get things straightened out. That was difficult to believe. But as the years crept along, I thought perhaps he had underestimated the time it would take. Now, it seems possible.

See also the following video on machine guns. The possibility of restoring that right is actually on the table! And what I find most interesting is that it would not be because it violates the 2nd Amendment!

Strawman Argument and Deliberate Lie

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While the horror of events in Rhode Island sinks in, it is inevitable that, just as night follows day, defenders of mass gun culture across the United States will rush to blame Brown University for not having enough security barriers to entry at the classroom building where the shooting took place.

For them, it is always something else, not the way our nation lives awash in easily available high-capacity firearms, that is at fault. This time, let’s stop the “more security” fallacy before the propaganda machine backing it kicks into high gear.

I am a college teacher, and of course I want my students to be as safe as possible. I have even discussed with students the possibility of a mass shooting event on campus, especially when teaching in classrooms with no opening windows. However, I also do not want students to pay $10,000 more in annual fees to have an army of armed guards in armor stationed at every door or swarms of security drones hovering everywhere.

John Davenport
December 21, 2025
Mass shootings in the US must stop. We need gun control | Opinion

He goes on to build his case against “an army of armed guards.” But other than security guards at K through 12 schools I have never heard anyone suggest anything like what Davenport believes (or claims to believe) to be the case. He never addresses the solution we do advocate. That is an end to “gun free zones”. Let people defend themselves with the best tools available.

There probably is a reason for not mentioning this. I can’t believe it was an oversight on his part. I believe it was a deliberate omission. A form of lie. It is what anti-people do.

Getting Spicy

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It’s time for the American people to organize and to utilize their Second Amendment right to protect themselves from what is clearly become an unaccountable and lawless agency that’s killing Americans.

Michael Fanone
Former D.C. Police officer
January 8, 2026
Pritzker dismisses ex-DC police officer’s call for Americans to use Second Amendment to protect against ICE
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Now they think the Second Amendment is relevant?

Things could get spicy.

Prepare appropriately.

Let’s Call All Democrats Criminals

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Let us concede that gun rights advocates have won the argument: guns don’t kill people, people do.

However, there is a certain class of people that merit a greater share of the blame for the mass casualty events our communities have endured. For lack of a more encompassing term let’s call them, “gun owners”. As well, we must acknowledge that gun owners are largely responsible (by commission and omission) for the constant blood letting since Sandy Hook.

Jude Folly
January 1, 2026
Guns Don’t Kill, Gun Owners Do – The Good Men Project

H/T to Lee Williams (The Worst Anti-gun Story of 2026 … So Far)

It is always nice to get a concession from these people. Now, with this concession, we can focus on the people problem.

Since more than twice as many convicts identify as Democrats as all other political parties combined, let’s call all Democrats criminals.

Agreed, that not entirely true, but the truth arrow is pointed in the correct direction.

Further evidence is this summary by Grok when asked for “All governors convicted of a felony in federal court, 1950–present, by party.”

Here is a list of U.S. governors (or former governors) convicted in federal court of felonies since 1950, based on reliable sources like Wikipedia’s list of state officials convicted of federal corruption offenses and compilations from sources tracking such cases (e.g., Center for Gaming Politics, cross-referenced reports). These focus on federal felony convictions tied to public corruption (e.g., bribery, extortion, mail/wire fraud, Hobbs Act, RICO, conspiracy), typically for conduct during or related to their time in office. The list excludes purely state convictions, misdemeanors, ethics violations without felony status, post-office non-corruption crimes (e.g., some bank fraud cases), or cases overturned on appeal without retrial conviction.

No such convictions appear to have occurred since around 2011 (the last major one being Rod Blagojevich), based on available records up to 2026.

The list is organized chronologically by year of conviction:

  • Otto Kerner, Jr. (D – Illinois, Governor 1961–1968) Convicted 1973: Mail fraud, Travel Act (some Travel Act counts reversed on appeal). Related to accepting bribes for racetrack favors while governor.
  • David Hall (D – Oklahoma, Governor 1971–1975) Convicted 1975/1976: Bribery, extortion, racketeering (Hobbs Act and Travel Act). Used influence to divert investments.
  • Ray Blanton (D – Tennessee, Governor 1975–1979) Convicted 1983: Mail fraud, conspiracy, extortion. Sold liquor licenses for profit.
  • Arch A. Moore, Jr. (R – West Virginia, Governor 1969–1977, 1985–1989) Convicted 1986/1990s (multiple): Extortion, mail fraud, obstruction of justice, tax fraud (Hobbs Act). Accepted illegal contributions and extorted funds.
  • Edwin Edwards (D – Louisiana, Governor multiple terms 1972–1996) Convicted 2000: Racketeering, extortion, money laundering, mail and wire fraud (Hobbs Act, RICO). Schemes during tenure.
  • John G. Rowland (R – Connecticut, Governor 1995–2004) Convicted 2004: Mail fraud (pleaded guilty). Corruption involving gifts and contracts.
  • Don Siegelman (D – Alabama, Governor 1999–2003) Convicted 2006: Bribery, mail fraud, conspiracy, obstruction (some mail fraud vacated later). Sold board seat for donations.
  • George Ryan (R – Illinois, Governor 1999–2003) Convicted 2006: Mail fraud, RICO. Corruption in contracts and licenses (Operation Safe Roads).
  • Rod Blagojevich (D – Illinois, Governor 2003–2009) Convicted 2011: Hobbs Act, mail fraud conspiracy (including solicitation of bribery). Attempted to sell U.S. Senate seat.

By party summary (felony federal corruption convictions in federal court, 1950–present):

  • Democrats: 7 (Kerner, Hall, Blanton, Edwards, Siegelman, Blagojevich, plus others in some lists if including variants like Hall’s timing).
  • Republicans: 3 (Moore, Rowland, Ryan).

This reflects a bipartisan issue, though with more documented Democratic cases in the sources (often concentrated in states like Illinois and Louisiana with histories of corruption probes). Counts vary slightly by source depending on exact inclusion criteria (e.g., some include tax evasion add-ons as felonies; others strictly corruption statutes). No comprehensive official federal tally exists solely for governors, but these are the consistently cited cases from DOJ-prosecuted federal corruption matters.

Do you see the pattern? Again, seven out of ten are Democrats. If we want to make a serious dent in the number of criminals in political office all we need to do is ban all Democrats from political office. And we would have just as much justification as people like Mr. Folly (what an appropriate name) would have for banning gun ownership.

More Guns, Less Crime (again and as always)

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For decades we have seen one gun control myth after another used as excuses to restrict our Second Amendment rights. Yet here we are, when those rights are being gradually restored thanks to strategic court victories, when 29 states have adopted permitless carry laws, when more people own guns and more people are legally carrying them for personal protection, and the data shows violent crime involving guns is declining. Looks like we’ve been right all along, and the establishment media essentially is confirming it.

Alan Gottlieb
November 27, 2025
CRIME DOWN, GUN CARRY UP REFLECTS NATIONAL TREND | Citizens Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms

More Guns, Less Crime. Or, as I have been saying for over 20 years, Just One Question.

Nearly all the information you get from the mainstream media is wrong it some way. It can be incomplete and misleading, it can be exaggeration, and it can an outright lie. I suspect a significant component of this is that society has created an evolutionary environment for this. Highly emotional information gets attention. Attention brings more money. Boring news providers go out of business.

I don’t know of a solution to this. The only partial mitigation I know of is to get your news from multiple sources. And even then, if the sources are all politically (or whatever “tribe” type) aligned you get amplification of the misinformation rather than correction toward the truth.

Reality is tough. Really tough.

Will They Start Playing Calvinball?

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SCOTUS’s current practice of deciding like 50 cases a year may have worked in a system where the lower courts acted in good faith. SCOTUS would decide Bruen, and then lower courts would do their best to faithfully apply it.

Instead, the antigun circuits almost always find a way to rule against the Second Amendment except on the specific issues SCOTUS has decided. The Ninth Circuit is now on its 10th en banc to reverse a pro-2A panel ruling.

Sure, maybe SCOTUS will take the occasional case like Wolford and correct a particularly egregious ruling. But the Ninth Circuit’s antigun majority knows there is no way SCOTUS will grant cert to every antigun ruling, or even a large minority of them. So they’ll keep doing what they are doing, and so what if a few get reversed. Most won’t.

To actually correct this, SCOTUS needs to go back to deciding many more cases each year, or alternatively, issue short and curt summary reversals very liberally.

For example, when the Ninth Circuit (probably) upholds the handgun roster’s MDM and CLI requirements, the Supreme Court shouldn’t need a full cert grant and briefing to explain why that is wrong. A one page per curiam saying there is no historical tradition of such “feature” requirements, and California can’t ban popular handguns, would suffice.

Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Posted on X, December 30, 2025

I would be interested to see what would happen if SCOTUS returned a one page per curium within minutes of when one of these outrageous decisions were punted up to them. An automated AI system could easily do it. If the autopen was good enough for Biden, then an AI should be good enough for SCOTUS, right? Would the lower courts continue playing these games? Or would they start Calvinballing it?

I’m inclined to believe we will not get 2nd Amendment justice until people are prosecuted.

Something Worth Defending

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Wanna piss of a Eurocrat (or a US based wannabe Eurocrat)? Tell them that you spend money, time and effort to be capable of armed self defense because what you defend is worth it, and at minimum you need to survive until backup arrives, with a realistic expectation of the likelihood of that backup arriving and when. Whereas they have made that same calculation: what they could be defend[ing] is not worth that time, effort or expense. Ergo: you’re worth more than they are, by self-evaluation.

Tirno
January 1, 2026
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I’m not sure I would always use this in a manner to intended to piss off whoever I was talking to. There are certain occasions and people who this sentiment could be expressed to in a manner that would give the recipient something profound to think about.

The Warmth Comes from the Fire of Gunpowder and/or Ovens

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We will draw this city closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

Zohran Mamdani
New York City Mayor
January 1, 2026
Bishop Barron rips Mamdani’s ‘warmth of collectivism’ remark: ‘For God’s sake’ | Fox News
Conservatives sound alarm over Zohran Mamdani’s ‘collectivism’ comment | Fox News

Spell checker wanted to correct Mamdani to “Madman”. I wonder if it there is some significance to that.

If you want an economic argument as to why Mamdani’s plans are a really, really, bad idea read The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents-The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2): Hayek, F. A., Caldwell, Bruce, Caldwell, Bruce, Caldwell, Bruce: 9780226320557: Amazon.com: Books

If you want to read the detailed results of a real-world test case of this political philosophy read The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Complete 3 Volumes Collection (Volume 1, 2, 3): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn: Amazon.com: Books.

I don’t want to read any more about it. I want my underground bunker in Idaho*.

If you follow the X post above, you will find the following means and many more:

The difference between the two:

Ricardo Gomes sums it up for me:

* The night of January 1st, 2026 was the first time I spend the night in my underground bunker in Idaho. It’s not really ready, but for this time of year, it is better than the camping trailer. While it will not be completed, I expect that within a month Barb and I would be comfortable here should the need occur. It is not a minute too soon.

How Long Will this Last?

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California’s open-carry ban: Gun law struck down as unconstitutional

California ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional, court rules

I expect it will be overturned within a month. Perhaps in as little as a week.

I expect a request for an en banc hearing will be made. Or possibly, the 9th Circuit judges will do it without being requested. The en banc hearing will overrule the three-judge panel and the tyrants will continue to rule unperturbed.

You shouldn’t get upset over it. Just smile and consider the ruling as more evidence to be used at their trials.

Categorical, Presumptive Protection

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Nothing in the plain text of the Second Amendment mentions the size of a magazine or the specific features of a firearm. The plain text provides categorical, presumptive protection for all bearable arms.

Erin M. Erhardt & Joseph G.S. Greenlee
September 8, 2025
Page 8 in 20250908164326764_25-153 Amicus Brief.pdf

In other words, “What part of shall not be infringed don’t they understand?“

Via Cam Edwards.

Little Willingness to Defend Themselves

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Europeans are a people with little willingness to defend themselves. They are people who believe that peace treaties, appeasement, and disarmament produce peace.

Walter E. Williams
October 27, 2009
Walter E. Williams: Obama should refuse the Nobel Prize – Orange County Register

This attitude extends to their attitudes toward the natural right to keep and bear arms.

It appears that with the increasing levels of violent crime in Europe and England combined with the specter of a reformulated USSR the attitude may be dissolving. The question is, “Will it be enough and soon enough to save them?”

The Ukraine may have been too late in learning. Israel took a heavy blow before wising up a small amount.

None With a longer or Deeper History

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Of all the natural rights codified in the Constitution, none — not freedom of speech, press or religion, or the ability to vote or to demand due process — had a longer or deeper history in our law and tradition than the right to defend oneself.

David Harsanyi
December 19, 2025
Gun-control wackos are actually blaming TRUMP after the shooting at Brown

Excellent point.

Why We Fight Them Tooth and Nail

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Nothing outside of a pure ban will satisfy gun banners.

Everything is a red herrings—rate of fire, length of barrel, color, magazine capacity, size of bullet, how loud or quiet it is, everything.

The problem is they are stuck on deodands and the object must be sacrificed for its evilness.

They never focus on the shooter. They never focus on the murderer. It’s always the guns’ fault, never the person using it.

And when they feel they’ve sated themselves on removing one tool, they’ll focus on anything else that could be used as a weapon—knives, clubs, saps, pepper spray, anything.

They do this because their first principle is flawed and they either refuse to see it or are intellectually incapable of doing so.

This is why we fight them tooth and nail, because given their druthers, they’ll ban both of those too.

Robb Allen @ItsRobbAllen
Posted on X, December 22, 2025

Truth.

You can see the evidence in England where they have banned pointy knives and carrying a knife in public without an occupational reason. Canada bans the defensive carry of knives as well. Seattle bans the carrying of air-soft guns and even slingshots.

Into the Woodshed for Long Past Due Education

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I’m really excited about this. For the first time, the DOJ Civil Rights Division and the DOJ at large will be protecting and advancing our citizens’ right to bear arms as part of our civil rights work. Some of the things we’re seeing, and that is going to be the focus of our work around the country, include multi‑thousand‑dollar costs for citizens to apply for concealed‑carry permits.

Harmeet Dhillon
Assistant Attorney General
December 23, 2025
New federal unit targets state gun rules

See also: DOJ sues DC government over AR-15 ban.

Who could have imagined this just 18 months ago? Agreed, they are not changing Federal laws as fast as I think they should either. Why not let people buy guns in any state? Why not let 18 -> 20-year-old adults buy handguns? But going after the states and D.C. makes the cases much easier because they are so egregious.

30 years ago, we expected the Feds to be going door to door by now in the process of taking AR-15s. Instead, they are taking California and DC laws and politicians into the woodshed for a long past due education.

Merry Christmas to gun owners and those who would like to own guns. A stocking with a single lump of coal for the anti-gun people.

People Problem, not a Gun Problem

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There’s an illegal flow of guns into states across the country from a couple states with weaker gun laws. We should at least have a penalty to make sure that we can fund enforcement of this common sense idea.

Jack Schlossberg
U.S. Congressional hopeful for New York’s 12th District
December 20, 2025
Exclusive | JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg wants to hit some states for guns flowing to NYC | New York Post

One response in the correct direction:

CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb countered, “How about penalizing New York for all the criminals they release on cashless bail, who then commit crimes in other states?”

The veteran gun rights advocate said New York doesn’t have a “gun  problem, it’s got a criminal justice problem.”

I don’t think this goes far enough. He is right about the criminal justice problem. We have a people problem, not a gun problem. People like Schlossberg should be referred to the criminal justice system for prosecution.

Another Step Closer to Prosecution of Criminal Judges

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Nobody is above the law. This Department will not tolerate obstruction, will enforce federal immigration law, and will hold criminals to account—even those who wear robes.

Todd Blanche
Deputy Attorney General
December 18, 2025
Wisconsin judge convicted of obstructing immigration agents in courthouse

It is good to have a demonstration that at least state judges with be prosecuted for violating Federal law. We still have some distance to go in moving the Overton Window far enough to prosecute them for violating the 2nd Amendment. But this will help make the threat of prosecution, in a year or five, more real.

I hope they enjoy their trials.

An Interesting Observation

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The Leftroids claim that European and American civilization was built by black slaves, and that Africa is a shithole of savagery because of ‘colonization’. Even though it’s been a shithole since long before any European ever set foot there. So, they’re saying that black people can only build a civilization if they’re enslaved and told exactly what to do?

Imaginos1892
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While this is an interesting hypothesis, I advise against trying to reproduce the results in a controlled experiment.

However, it does explain why they want to enslave everyone.

The Only Question

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Via Sarah A. Hoyt:

The thing is though; society is not honest and historically accurate. The anti-gun culture is one of lies and deception.

Related, from Hoyt’s same collection:

Somewhat related and also from Hoyt:

Please note that in addition to creating great collections of memes, she is also the author of some really good science fiction.