Category Archives: Gun Rights

They are Now All Playing Defense on their Home Turf

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Virginia has recently been featured in a lot of headlines about gun control, for all the wrong reasons. A number of them have mentioned a federal gun control bill pending in the U.S. Senate, sponsored by Tim Kaine (D) and Mark Warner (D) of Virginia. Dubbed “The Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2026,” it tries to portray Virginia as a gun control leader whose policies could serve as a model for the rest of the nation. But, like most firearm prohibition branding, this framing is not only untrue, it is the opposite the truth. Virginia, in reality, is the victim of a national gun control agenda, not the progenitor of one.

The latest slate of gun controls laws unleashed on Virginia by its Democrat-controlled legislature and governor are not some thoughtful or tailored set of policies that organically arose from Virginia’s unique public safety picture or the particular dynamics of its crime. Instead, it is grab bag of generic policies pushed by national gun control groups, approved by their billionaire donors, and modeled on a globalist paradigm arising in nations that have no constitutional rights to arms. Virginia is simply an opportunist expansion market for these concepts, not their origin point.

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This Virginia Plan is the California Plan, which is the Everytown Plan, which is the Bloomberg Plan, which is the Australia Plan. It has nothing to do with the citizens of Virginia or with the Old Dominion’s culture and values. What an ignominious fall from grace for a state that produced some of the most important and influential of America’s Founding Fathers. In evaluating this fall, it is important to recognize that the core elements are being driven, not by ordinary Virginians, but by globally orientated billionaires, national public interest groups, and a Democratic National Committee that would love to see Richmond morph into the San Francisco of the East Coast.

Beware the rhetorical shift and media narrative to flip the script and make an established national policy package appear more locally grounded and politically palatable, even though its underlying structure has remained unchanged for years.

Further beware that your state may be next. If it can happen in the cradle of American Constitutionalism and the home of NRA’s Headquarters, no gun owning American should believe it could never come home to him or her.

NRA-ILA
April 28, 2026
NRA-ILA | Federal Bill Passes Off National Firearm Prohibition Agenda As “Virginia Model”

Lies and deception. It is an essential part of their culture.

I had overlooked the fact NRA headquarters is in Virginia as I watched those gun control bills breeze through the legislature. I believe that was the last of the major Gun Rights organizations to have their headquarters in a free state:

Did I miss any?

It must really suck to be such a strong advocate for gun owner rights that you work for such an organization and then suffer the daily infringement of your rights. The politicians inflicting this on innocent people should go to prison.

The only good things I can see about this is that it should motivate the people who work for these organizations and make it somewhat easier to find plaintiffs and file lawsuits.

Don’t Get Cocky

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I don’t think people understand just how much of an existential crisis Democrats are in. If they don’t gain control of the House, Senate, Presidency, pack the Supreme Court, re-mandate racial gerrymandering, and give illegals mass amnesty by 2032, they will all but die as a nationally competitive political party.

With the VRA being overturned we will net at least 15 seats and the census will give us like a dozen more, as well as forcing democrats to redraw their seats being bolstered by illegals, making them more republican. This will make the house all but impossible to win for Dems.

Then the senate will become increasingly hard for them to win as states like Nevada keep shifting red and republicans slowly keep picking better candidates.

And the nail in the coffin? The census will make it all but impossible for dems to win the presidency unless they win the popular vote by at least 6 points.

We’re witnessing the last gasps of the satanic ideology known as leftism. We will win.

Modern McCarthyist @SensibleFascist
Posted on X May 8, 2026

I think the trend is generally good for most civil and economic liberties. But I am very skeptical of the stated scope. This is especially true if a lot of people actually believe this. Overconfidence can get you killed.

Orwellian

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The lawsuit continues recurring conflicts between local authority and Trump administration advocacy for gun rights that has played out in other cities and states.

A similar Justice Department lawsuit is pending against the District of Columbia over its restrictions on certain kinds of automatic firearms. The restrictions require registering many AR-15 and AK-47 style guns.

The District of Columbia has been joined by civil rights groups such as the Brady: United Against Gun Violence and the Giffords Law Center in asking a federal court to dismiss the lawsuit.

Tom Ramstack
May 6, 2026
Justice Dept. Sues Denver and Colorado to Block Restrictions on Gun Ownership | The Well News | Pragmatic, Governance, Fiscally Responsible, News & Analysis

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“Civil rights groups“??? I am amazed at their willingness to adapt such an Orwellian mindset. I didn’t expect that until much later in their march to totalitarian socialism. My presumption is their delusions have expanded even further outside of reality.

At least they are making it exceeding clear that the book Nineteen Eighty-Four is an example of their utopia instead of a dystopian novel.

Prepare and respond appropriately.

Egg-Headed Goons Tripping Back in Time

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Times are good and possibly getting even better for those who value guns, gun rights and the Second Amendment.

The changes brought by President Donald Trump are simply stunning. In just one year we went from an ATF that targeted individual gun owners for imaginary crimes to one that’s focused on arresting real bad guys with illegal guns.

Constitutional Carry, known by the other side as permitless carry, is growing. Today, 29 states allow law-abiding adults to carry firearms without a state permit, and the number is expected to grow.

So, it’s understandable that those who want to restrict and subvert the Second Amendment are getting desperate. In fact, they’re willing to try almost anything to restrict access to firearms while President Trump is in office. It’s as if they never even heard of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

Enter the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.

These egg-headed goons want to roll back the clock to the late 1980s. Their just-released “Public Carry Permitting: Model Policy Guide” is pretty much what some states offered decades ago. It’s laughable—a trip back in time. Nowadays, it’s likely too restrictive for even the bluest of blue states.

Of course, the Center begins their report with lies—absolute deception—about guns, gun owners and gun rights.

Lee Williams
May 5, 2026
Fearing Expanding Gun Rights, Anti-Gun Group Creates Absurd Concealed-Carry Policy – TheGunMag

The media is not supporting the anti-gun groups like they have in the past. Hence, we see John Hopkins, Everytown, etc. as doing their usual thing and it appears to out of touch when they don’t have major media support.

Even the DOJ lawsuits against existing law do not yield a “Blood in the streets!” response. CNN is essentially just reporting the facts”. The same tone is seen with the New York Times and Washington Post articles on the same lawsuits. I would expect them to frame it as the fascist Hitler forcing freedom on innocent people or some such nonsense.

I don’t know what to make of this. Grok has this to say:

The constitutional framing of the Second Amendment as protecting an individual civil right is now unavoidable in serious legal reporting—Heller/Bruen made it binding precedent, and the current DOJ is enforcing it. This doesn’t mean these outlets have become pro-gun or neutral overall; their opinion sections and long-term editorial stance still favor stricter controls, and they highlight gun-control group perspectives in other contexts (e.g., mass shootings or state wins). But in straight-news coverage of these DOJ suits, the tone is more balanced and less advocacy-heavy than it was 15–20 years ago. Your pro-gun-rights feeds make the contrast sharper because they celebrate every development as a win while noting the relative downplaying in MSM.

If you’re seeing mostly silence or isolation of the old advocacy groups, it’s because the national legal story has moved on to court battles where the rights framework now has the upper hand federally. The groups are still fighting hard—just more at the state level and in response mode right now.

I would like to think they are becoming more accepting of gun ownership as a civil right. But they may just be grumbling to themselves about how times have changed or biding their time for a more favorable atmosphere to spread their lies.

For Entertainment Purposes Only

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In March of 2026, Everytown, the activist organization created with the help of considerable funds by Multi – billionaire Michael Bloomberg, place a website online called EveryShot. EveryShot is an artificial intelligence tool using ChatGPT-40 mini to search for and list, according to Everytown, a collection of incidents in the 50 U.S. states where there was a shooting involving a firearm or gun or if a gun or firearm was brandished. Specifically excluded a BB guns, pellet guns, toy guns or events which are fictional. A filter is used to exclude duplicates. The tool often shows multiple sources for a single event. The tool can flag events when there is uncertainty or discrepancies the flag brings the attention of a human for review. The tool updates the database twice a week.

In the Terms of Use, Everytown states the results can be “incomplete, inaccurate, offensive, or otherwise unpredictable”. In this correspondent’s use of the tool, such a description is correct.

Dean Weingarten
May 4, 2026
GUN WATCH: Everytown’s Everyshot AI tool: Use Extreme Caution. Many Limitations and Inaccuracies

From reading the test results of Weingarten it appears he is being extremely generous to Everytown’s creation. I cannot imagine something this broken used for anything other than entertainment purposes.

You have to wonder what they expect this to be useful for. As everyone should know, you do not judge constitutional rights on the basis of how a right can be misused. The right to remain silent when questioned does not get judged on how frequently criminals avoid successful prosecution. The right of free speech does not get judged on often people say untrue things on the Internet. And the right to keep and bear arms should not be judged on how many times a firearm is used to further a crime.

But that is not how the anti-gun people work. Hence, I suspect they are still trying to influence people to do a means-end scrutiny. But in Bruen SCOTUS explicitly said constitutional rights are not subject to judicial cost‑benefit analysis. The anti-gun people are trying to fight with a weapon that was made obsolete four years ago. They are using clubs while facing an opponent using bows and arrows. I further suspect people are trying to retain their paycheck from Bloomberg and are desperate to show their worth. AI is all the rage, and this is what they came up with.

They should get a real job that produces a product more than a handful of people want to spend money on.

If you are interested, see the tool (pun intended) here: EveryShot | Everytown Research & Policy.

Big 1st Amendment Win at SCOTUS

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SCOTUS decision in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. NJ is huge. Despite the iconic SCOTUS decision in NAACP v. Alabama, and the more recent decision in Americans for Prosperity Fdn v. Bonta, many lower courts have continued to insist that compelled disclosure of one’s affiliations is not a harm that can even support a challenge to the government’s actions.

Yesterday the Supreme Court firmly rejected that approach:
“Demands for private donor information … ‘chill’ protected 1st Amendment associational rights even when those demands contemplate disclosure only to government officials and not ‘the general public. …

“An injury in fact does not arise only when a defendant causes a tangible harm to a plaintiff, like a physical injury or monetary loss. It can also arise when a defendant burdens a plaintiff ’s constitutional rights. And our cases have long recognized that demands for a charity’s private member or donor information have just that effect.”

This is a huge win for privacy and freedom, a huge blow to those who seek to “cancel” individuals or intimidate them from participating in public debate with threats of government retaliation, direct or indirect.

Brad Smith @CommishSmith
Posted on X, April 30, 2026

This is great news. For years the anti-gun people wanted the NRA membership list. This should at least slow them down. Of course, pro-gun people cannot get the anti-gun organization lists either. But then, that is only a few thousand people compared to the millions of people who belong to the CCRKBA, FPC, GOA, NRA, SAF, etc. And the anti-gun people are becoming less and less relevant.

As Mark Smith at The Four Boxes Diner says, “The trend is our friend.”

Substantive Discussion of Access to Weapons?

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 Listen, having covered too many of these shootings, you know, and a wide array of circumstances, schools and others, one thing we know is that there’ll be a lot of discussion afterwards about security measures, rhetoric perhaps as well. There won’t be any substantive discussion of access to weapons, right? There just won’t because it’s — I mean, we’ve been down this path so many times, right? That’s just a part of the discussion you don’t go to. 

Jim Sciutto
April 26, 2026
CNN.com – Transcripts

Archer had the best response to this sort of claim I have ever seen:

I’m always amused (in an ironic sense) after every high-profile mass shooting, when the Left comes out of the woodwork and says, “We need to have a national conversation on guns!”

Bruh, where have you been? We’ve all been HAVING a “national conversation on guns” since 1934. I joined it personally about two decades ago, give or take. It has never ended.

And we’ve invited the Left to engage. We’ve reached out. We’ve offered to discuss and find common ground. And we’ve been ignored at every stretch … until they can use a high-profile murder scene to claim that we obstinately refuse to discuss the issue.

They don’t just lie about guns, or gun owners, or the facts. They go so far as to lie about “the conversation” itself, as if we’ve all been refusing to have a conversation, when the reality is we’ve been having a conversation and invited them, but they refused to join.

When they can’t even be honest about the conversation they say they want to have, why should we trust them on anything else?

Why can’t they be honest? Because their culture is based on lies.

Anti-gun People Lie Because They Have To

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An honest argument for Prohibition would — at the VERY least — acknowledge the social good that privately-owned firearms provides, and then attempt to justify prohibiting them anyway. A FULLY honest argument would also acknowledge the potential second-order effects of banning guns, such as increased crime against citizens rendered defenseless by the ban. But that would be an uphill battle, so Prohibitionists choose instead to “lie by omission,” frame their arguments exclusively around the social negatives of crime and violence, and never mention that guns can also be defensive or how often defensive gun use happens.

Anti-gun people lie — a LOT — because they have to. If they were honest about their intentions or the real-world effects of their proposed laws/policies, they’d never succeed.

Archer
April 28, 2026
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It has been a part of their culture for decades and perhaps a century or more.

Brian Stelter Goes off Half-Cocked

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In an analysis, CNN’s Brian Stelter insinuated that nobody will consider tougher gun laws to prevent such an incident. He should have looked at the facts before going off half-cocked.

The suspect in this case is known to have purchased the shotgun and a handgun used in the attack from two different California gun stores. He had to pass two California background checks and endure two separate waiting periods. It is widely known California has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, and the suspect was able to complete his legal purchases. Just what more does Stelter think could be done?

Alan Gottlieb
CCRKBA Chairman
April 27, 2026
CCRKBA RIPS CNN COMMENTATOR’S CALL FOR GUN CONTROL AFTER ATTACK – CCRKBA

Obviously, the gun control we have does not work to prevent crime. Hence, we need ban guns completely just like we do with hard core recreational drugs. Then we won’t have to worry about getting shot while eating dinner at a fancy hotel. Duh!

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I always found it curious that politicians thought it necessary to pass a constitutional amendment to allow them to ban alcoholic drinks and create an income tax, but no constitutional change was required to ban arms. Grok gave me reasonable answer to that. I still think it is bogus, but I have a better understanding of how it happened.

The Most Volatile, Complex and Dangerous Threat Environment

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This is the most volatile, complex and dangerous threat environment I’ve experienced in the 42 plus years that I’ve been involved in law enforcement and Homeland Security.

We’re an angry, polarized nation. We have a growing number of people, particularly young males, who believe that violence is the only way to express their sense of grievance or their opposition to the current political conditions in this country. They are inspired and increasingly informed by content that they consume online. That’s placed there by terrorist groups, foreign intelligence services and others, specifically for the purposes of inspiring and inciting violence.

And increasingly, we’re seeing them turn to artificial intelligence to help them develop attack plans that allow them even an unsophisticated attacker, to engage in a violent attack. So the threat environment is significantly dangerous.

John Cohen
Former Acting DHS Undersecretary for Intelligence
April 26, 2026
‘This Week’ Transcript 4-26-26: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche – ABC News

And which political party is leading in the initiation of violence? The same as it has been for the last 100+ years in all countries. The political left. The communist revolutions in Eastern Europe and Asia, the national socialist workers party of Germany, the U.S. Democrats from the KKK, to the violent riots and bombings of the 1960s and early 1970s, the BLM, ANTIFA, and the most recent shootings of Republican political leaders, Charlie Kirk, and the multiple assassination attempts on Trump. Yes, there have been a few Democrats murdered who could be blamed on a Republican, but the Democrats are racking up points on the score board so fast that even if the Republicans and Libertarians were combined, they are not even in the game.

Why are liberals so violent? It is in their nature.

Just imagine what they would do if their political opponents were unarmed. If they come for your guns, just keep saying, “NO“ until you run out of ammo.

Welcome to the awakening. Enjoy your stay.

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This video is worth the watch. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

This is what single issue voters finally find out. Your vote should be about policy, not the person. Identity politics only goes so far before it all unravels.

Welcome to the awakening. Enjoy your stay.

Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84
Posted on X, April 20, 2026

Democrats do not have a monopoly on tribal loyalty over policy. Republicans talk a good talk about economic freedom and gun owner rights, but don’t really do much about it, they opposed gay marriage and grudgingly tolerate it now. And they are downright hostile to social freedoms such as freedom from religion, recreational drug use, social nudity, and sex work.

But freedom loving people cannot fight on all fronts at the same time. If we have the backing of Republicans and a chance to fix the wrongs of Democrat policies, then help them out. And when there is a chance to undo wrongheaded Republican policies, take advantage of that momentum too.

Wake up and align yourself against government overreach. The policy is important. The party and the people are not.

Consistent with the Model–He is Nuts

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The 2nd Amendment was moral turpitude in and of itself. The possession of a gun is the mark of a person with a violent mind and bad character parading behind the nonsense, unprovable claim that our founding fathers meant/intended things they would have more than likely been against.

Dan Hensley @IAmDanHensley
Posted on X, April 19, 2026

There are probably over 80 million gun owners in the U.S. who own hundreds of millions of guns and shoot billions of rounds of ammo each year. Yet only an extremely small fraction of them commits a violent crime in their lifetime. It is almost as if he is living in an alternate reality.

I has been a few years since I have read anything this messed up. I have to wonder if he just got Internet access after spending several years in a psych ward.

But that is being generous to him. It probably is almost as likely that he is just trying to move the Overton Window to enable elimination of private gun ownership and then a sizable number of the people who owned them.

Another, possible explanation is that he expected to get a lot of traffic from making outlandish statements. Here are few more.

April 19, 2026:

The only way to keep society safe:

Abolish the 6th Amendment, and start charging suspects with disorderly conduct, obstructing the police, and contempt of court when they invoke the 6th. We need to force accused criminals to own up to what they did without hiding behind an attorney.

We also need to abolish the court’s ability and authority to find someone not guilty. We need law that says all criminal court cases MUST end with a guilty finding. There is no such thing as an innocent criminal.

April 18, 2026:

It’s time for our nation to ban all politics and political parties. Political speech, all political speech should be banned in all its forms as well. It’s the ONLY way to do away with political extremism.

But I somewhat discount he believes those are outlandish. Those are the only posts of that type I could find after scrolling through several dozen posts. He openly admits he lives in Chicago, claims to be a “Media Personality” and “Chicago Public Safety Journalist.” I find the attitude expressed in the posts above to be consistent with my model of his bio.

Stay Dangerous, Stay Good

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The Second Amendment is not about “gun culture.” It is not about hunting, sporting clays, or weekend range days.

It is the final, unbreakable firewall that keeps every other right from becoming a temporary privilege granted, or revoked, by those in power.

The Founders placed it second only to speech because they had just overthrown a government that tried to disarm them. They understood a brutal historical truth: an armed, trained citizenry is the one thing tyrants fear most. Without it, speech becomes punishable, assembly becomes rebellion, and due process becomes whatever the regime decides.

In 2026, some still call the 2A “outdated.” They ignore the clear, repeating pattern of history. When governments disarm their people, tragedy does not follow by accident, it follows by design. The right to keep and bear arms is the one right that ensures We the People remain the ultimate check on power, not the other way around.

Here is some examples of what happens when that line falls:

  • Ottoman Empire / Turkey – Gun registration and disarmament laws by 1911. Armenian Genocide (1915–1917): 1.5 million Armenians (plus hundreds of thousands of Assyrians and Greeks) systematically murdered in just 3 years.
  • Soviet Union – Gun control enacted 1929. Stalin’s regime (1929–1953): ~20 million dissidents, kulaks, and civilians killed through executions, engineered famines, Gulags, and deportations in 24 years.
  • Nazi Germany – Tightened gun laws and mass disarmament of Jews and political opponents (1938). Holocaust and related atrocities (1939–1945): ~13 million Jews and others exterminated in 6 years.
  • Communist China – Strict gun control inherited and enforced after 1949. Mao’s regime (1949–1976): 40–65 million dead from Great Leap Forward famine, Cultural Revolution purges, and mass executions in 27 years.
  • Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) – Full civilian disarmament upon seizing power 1975. Pol Pot’s regime (1975–1979): 1.5–2.8 million Cambodians (roughly 25% of the population) slaughtered or starved in just 4 years.

These are not isolated tragedies. They are the documented pattern: disarm the people first, then the atrocities become possible because resistance becomes impossible.

The Second Amendment was written precisely to prevent this from ever happening here. It is not a suggestion. It is not conditional. It is “shall not be infringed” for a reason that history proves in blood.

That is why we train without apology.

That is why we carry daily.

That is why we fight every single incremental step, because once the guns are gone, the graves fill quickly.

The 2A is not about guns.
It is about ensuring that liberty never becomes optional again.

We can not let that line fall.

Stay dangerous, stay good.

RedBeard @HargusJeremy
Posted on X, April 15, 2026

I wish I could write like that.

It is All Lies and Deception

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A recent news headline declared, “11,500 shootings occurred within 500 yards of US schools last year.” The obvious implication is that American school children are under daily fire on school campuses nationwide. But, as with most gun control narratives in national media written by reporters who mostly don’t understand the basics of firearms or criminal gun use, that narrative collapses under the slightest scrutiny.

The first glaring red flag in this story is that Hearst Television Data Visualization Journalist Susie Webb and the WCVB Get the Facts Data Team built their agenda-driven narrative by relying on gun control advocacy site The Trace’s “School-Adjacent Shootings” dataset, which tracks Gun Violence Archive (GVA) incidents that fell within 500 yards of a K-12 school. Even that dataset warns that each row is a shooting-to-school match and must be deduplicated before anyone totals up the incidents, deaths or injuries. However, that was not done before Webb and WVTM’s story went live on several news outlets, on social media, on Hearst Television’s YouTube channel and was even—unsurprisingly—picked up by MSN.

This blatant error is not a trivial methodological footnote. It is the difference between measuring school-related crime and measuring a broad circle on a map. It’s also a trick that’s been seen time and again from the likes of Everytown’s propagandist at The Trace and GVA.

The central problem is in the dataset’s own limitations. Each row is a “shooting-to-school match,” meaning one shooting can be linked to multiple schools if several campuses fall within the 500-yard range.

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The public hears “31 shootings a day near schools” and is encouraged to picture students dodging bullets at recess. But the GVA data are more often than not actually criminal and gang activity near or after school hours, accidental discharges, suicides, police interventions near a campus and/or juveniles getting caught with a firearm at school. This means the methodology sweeps in a much wider universe of incidents with duplication risk baked in.

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The result is predictable: bad facts drive bad policy. The issue here is not whether crime near schools is serious. The issue is whether the public is being told the truth. On that question, the answer is clear. The methodology does not support the headline, and the headline does not deserve the public’s trust. We all have a right to expect more from those who hold themselves out as objective journalists.

Salam Fatohi
April 9, 2026
‘31 Shootings a Day’ Media Narrative Collapses Under Easy Scrutiny • NSSF

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The autho

The anti-gun people are deliberately deceptive and liars. It is fundamental to their culture. This is just one more example.

The Stupidity of It

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Via email from Rolf:

All gun control is stupid as a means to reduce violent crime and unconstitutional. Banning 3D printed guns is extra stupid.

Never forget:

One thing that humbles me deeply is to see that human genius has its limits while human stupidity does not.

Alexandre Dumas
Circa 1865, Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe Siècle: Français, Historique, Géographique, Mythologique, Bibliographique, etcetera, Volume 2, Entry: Bêtise, Quote Page 650, Column 1, Published by Pierre Larousse, Paris. (Google Books Full View)

Second Amendment Civil Rights Division–Shall Not Be Infringed

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The Second Amendment protects the rights of law-abiding citizens to own and use AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles for lawful purposes.’ Just last year, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear in a unanimous opinion that the AR-15 is “both widely legal and bought by many ordinary consumers.” Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 605 U.S. 280, 297 (2025). See also Garland v. Cargill, 602 U.S. 406, 429-30 (2024) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting) (AR-15s are “commonly available, semiautomatic rifles.”). Unfortunately, Virginia appears poised to infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to enjoy and use AR-15 rifles for lawful purposes by making it a crime to purchase and sell them. This Civil Rights Division will seek to enjoin any attempt to infringe the right of law-abiding Virginians to acquire constitutionally protected arms that are possessed by literally tens of millions of Americans. See Snope v. Brown, 145 S. Ct. 1534 (2025) (Kavanaugh, J., statement respecting denial of certiorari).

In addition, laws that require constitutionally protected firearms owned by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes to be maintained in an inoperable state are unconstitutional. See D.C. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 630 (2008) (“[T]he District’s requirement … that firearms in the home be rendered and kept inoperable at all times … [is] unconstitutional.”). We are aware that the Virginia General Assembly has forwarded to you several bills that, if enacted as currently written, would mirror the unconstitutional restrictions struck down in Heller 18 years ago. There are also other provisions contained in those bills that otherwise prevent lawful use of constitutionally protected arms for self-defense.

In all, the General Assembly has forwarded to you over 20 bills that restrict Second Amendment rights. I urge you to reconsider allowing any bill that would infringe on the lawful use of protected firearms by law-abiding citizens to become law. In an effort to avoid unnecessary litigation, the Second Amendment Section stands ready to meet and confer with attorneys in the Virginia Attorney General Office. Your counsel may contact Acting Chief Andrew Darlington at Andrew.Darlington@usdoj.gov. The Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens shall not be infringed.

Harmeet Dhillon
Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
Posted April 10, 2026 on X

It is thrilling to have a Second Amendment Section of the Civil Rights Division, let alone them writing, “shall not be infringed.” It is not an 18 USC 242 event, but it is still Enjoy Your Trial time.

See also the complete letter:

Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 1715

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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

I wonder why the legacy media has not been talking about this. Are they drowning their sorrows in cheap boxed wine? Have they finally decided gun laws are now a lost cause?

But as Copilot told me:

The OLC opinion is a quiet admission that the 1927 handgun‑mailing ban was never compatible with the Second Amendment — it simply took a century for the government to say it out loud.

Media Influence on Frames of Reference

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If a man wants to cum on his girlfriend’s face because he saw it in porn, and she doesn’t feel like getting her face cummed on, we cheer go-girl and frown at the man for even watching porn at all. But if a woman wants her boyfriend to buy her flowers because she grew up being fed this action in movies, and her boyfriend doesn’t feel like it, we have no sympathy for him. We are horrified even at comparing the two things. It’s obvious to us that porn should not influence what happens in sex, but we have been so immersed in romance-porn that the idea of buying flowers for a woman is seen as what romance ought to be. The romance narrative has become romance, and rejecting the narrative becomes rejecting romance itself. We have lost the ability to distinguish!

Aella
April 9, 2026
The Other Porn Land – by Aella – Knowingless

I love how Aella can see alternate realities and express them in ways that make me laugh and almost whoop for joy at the twisting of everyone’s view of the world.

The same sort of things applies to gun ownership. “Guns are icky and only criminals have them” versus “Everyone should have guns and know how to use them because they are tools for self-defense against criminals and tyrants.”

Framing matters. Media and your peer groups dominate the positioning of the framing. Try to see through framing and get a grasp on the true reality. Seeing things other people cannot see gives you a huge advantage. We cannot all be Aella or Elon Musk, but we can do better than what we currently do. Realty is tough, really, really, tough.

Greener Pastures

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On Dec. 1, 2025, Washington reported 706,046 active CPLs. On April 1, that number had plummeted to 696,015. The alarming decline has been explained by many gun owners, saying they’ve either left Washington for more Second Amendment-friendly environs in Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and elsewhere, while others have decided to carry without a CPL because they refuse to pay the state to exercise their right to bear arms, which is specifically protected by both the state and federal constitutions.

Dave Workman
April 3, 2026
Wash. CPL Numbers Decline; Gun Owners Flee, Others Refuse to Renew – TheGunMag

I think the Washington state gun laws will be straightened out by the Federal courts in less than five years. But the taxes and crime situation will probably continue to deteriorate. So, with that in mind I am working on an escape plan. I can’t leave right now because I need to save up money for retirement. Underground bunkers in Idaho are expensive.

The underground bunker be completed soon (only a few more days of work). I will then start counting the days until I can retire and have the option to leave Washington state as well.

Are you thinking of fleeing the tyranny of your state too? I’m giving free tours of my underground bunk to people attending Boomershoot this year (the first weekend of May). It would give you something to think about…

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Brits surrendered their firearms in 1997.

Less than 30 years later, they’re being arrested for Facebook posts.

That’s not “safety.” That’s the speed of tyranny once a government knows its citizens can’t push back.

When people are disarmed, the state no longer fears the people. And when governments have zero fear of the people, they do whatever the hell they want.

Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy
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