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It takes a special kind of arrogance to ignore a court order and continue enforcing a law that has been ruled to be unconstitutional, yet here we are. The state is doing nothing more than wasting taxpayer dollars in an attempt to defend a law that has already been successfully challenged on Second Amendment grounds. A court has ruled HB129 violates the rights of citizens in the state, and we fully expect to be successful in our challenge as well.

Alan M. Gottlieb
SAF founder and Executive Vice President
October 23, 2026
MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION FILED IN FIREARMS PURCHASE WAITING PERIOD CASE

There is a word to describe someone with that special kind of arrogance. That word is bigot.

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Aside from such obvious risks and liabilities, the in-development Wi-Fi system raises all kinds of privacy and legal exposure concerns. Because the absence of metal detectors or visible cameras notwithstanding, this is hardly, as the report characterizes it, a “nonintrusive alternative.” It’s highly intrusive and overrides the entire purpose of concealed carry.

David Codrea
October 20, 2026
Wi-Fi Gun Detection Threatens Concealed Carry Privacy

Via post on X by Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras.

I don’t like this. The assumption of the tech is that people carrying a concealed gun are probably criminals. But there are lot more people carrying concealed who have no intent to commit a crime and probably will not commit a serious crime for the remainder of their lives.

I don’t like their attitude, but that doesn’t mean that I necessarily think the tech will be a serious problem.

I think we are reaching to point where concealed carry is so common and accepted* that outing concealed carry holders is about like outing gays on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Concealed carry is legal** in all states. More people have concealed carry permits than there are people in gay marriages. By the time this tech can be commercialized and deployed, the response to outing someone carrying a gun is going to be, “And your point is?”

* Look at all the positive news coverage of the father who shot the school shooter in Bend.

** Yes, there are a lot of restrictions in many places, but these are decreasing. Once the game has been fully played out the courts are ruling in our favor more than against us.

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What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have health care?

Abdul El-Sayed
April 6, 2023
MI Senatorial Candidate El-Sayed: ‘Replace 2A with Health Care Right’

What if we prosecuted him under 18 USC 241 and/or 18 USC 242?

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In a decision that could gut gun laws everywhere, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of the NRA.

The ruling in NYSRPA v Bruen will result in more guns in our communities. And it will assuredly result in more gun violence immediately. #GunLawsSaveLives

Brady | United Against Gun Violence @bradybuzz
Posted on X June 23, 2022

Page 1 of the 10-page infographic response from SAF:

See also SAF FACT SHEET REFUTES ANTI-GUN RHETORIC AND PREDICTIONS.

The anti-gun people lie because it is the only way they can hope to advance their agenda. It is part of their culture.

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The political arms of three leading gun-control groups have massively outraised and outspent those of the three largest gun-rights groups in the midterm election cycle, with new Federal Election Commission reports showing them at about a three-to-one advantage on both fronts. The spending gap also appears set to widen thanks to a similar advantage in what they have left in the bank.

The Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, and Brady Political Action Committees (PACs) have brought in nearly $18.8 million so far this cycle compared to a combined total of $5.8 million from the National Rifle Association (NRA), National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), and National Association for Gun Rights. The gun-control groups have spent $9.7 million to this point, while the gun-rights groups have spent just $3.8 million. The gun-control group arsenal sits at just over $13 million still in the bank, and the gun-rights groups have $3.8 million still in their coffers as of the end of the most recent reporting period in August.

Everytown and Giffords have also recently announced plans to spend another $10 million each on ads in the coming midterm elections, while the gun-rigths groups haven’t publicized any comparable spending sprees.

Julie Miller
October 8, 2026
Gun-Control Groups Dominate Midterm Fundraising, Spending | The Reload

Elections matter. And money influences elections. That makes this something to be concerned about. But we have losing in the legislative branches of state governments for years. Federal judges have been viciously stomping those legislative victories into the mud.

Hence, the total dollars spent don’t matter as much as how wisely they are being spent. If you are inclined to donate money to elections, I suggest you look at important U.S. senate elections. Being able to easily populate the Federal Judicial system and replace retiring SCOTUS judges is vital.

Another thing to pull away from the quoted article is that the gun control groups* are mostly funded by a few big donations and the gun rights groups are larger numbers of small donors.

* Notice they are openly saying gun control instead of the attempted deception with a “gun safety” descriptor?

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Armed Self-Defense Belongs in the Public Record

The CDC’s correction does not establish an exact annual count or mean every defensive gun use saved a life. It does restore a fuller account of research on Americans using firearms for protection.

Government agencies should not bury that evidence because it makes gun bans harder to sell.

The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms. That right does not depend on Gun Violence Archive’s bogus research or whether armed self-defense complicates the next gun-control campaign.

Shall not be infringed has no statistical threshold.

Duncan Johnson
October 8, 2026
CDC Corrects Defensive Gun Use Estimates After Anti-Gun Push

Emphasis in the original.

The article reenforces what we already knew. The anti-gun groups are opposed to the First Amendment too. The truth interferes with their agenda. All Falsehoods Have a Price and the price for their lies has been paid for with the lives of people who would have been able to save themselves had they not been legally prevented from using the best tools available to defend themselves.

“Shall not be infringed has no statistical threshold.”

I like that.

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Seven hours before the law was set to take effect, a federal judge late Wednesday blocked Connecticut’s new ban on the sale of “convertible pistols” that users can easily turn into hand-held machine guns firing 1,000 rounds per minute. 

The preliminary injunction against the “Glock switch” bill does not strike down the law, which was the heart of a gun-control bill proposed by Gov. Ned Lamont last spring and adopted by the state legislature.

Rather, the order by Judge Kari A. Dooley sets up a potentially long legal battle over the provision, between the state and the parties that won the block after filing for it on Sept. 21: Glock Inc., the maker of the highly popular pistols at issue; the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry group; a separate manufacturer; and a firearms retailer. 

Dooley, in Bridgeport federal court, said in her order that the disputed provisions “are likely unconstitutional under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution,” and therefore cannot take effect Thursday.

Dan Haar
October 1, 2026
Judge blocks Connecticut’s ‘Glock switch’ gun law from taking effect, setting up a battle

This is not the final word. It is just a temporary injunction. Still, at a bare minimum the law is going be delayed for many months and perhaps permanently thrown out.

Even if the mortar has not been applied it is still another brick in the wall.

See also:

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The biggest thing I’ve learned is to ask: Do our detectives have every available resource to investigate and make an arrest? We have reached more than a 90 percent clearance rate. That means if you kill somebody in the city, the Birmingham Police Department is making an arrest.

Perception and reputation are two intangibles that are part of this public safety conversation. The city of Birmingham had to get very serious about sending a signal to people, whether they live here or outside the city: If you commit gun violence, we are coming after you, and you will be held accountable.

Randall Woodfin
Mayor of Birmingham Alabama
September 1, 2026
Is Birmingham Bucking Its Long Struggle With Gun Violence?

Notice this was from The Trace and written by Chip Brownlee. I have quoted Brownlee before:

• Quote of the day—Chip Brownlee
• A Tidal Wave of Gun Law Reform

The second post is the reason I went looking for current Brownlee writings. I quoted Brownlee as saying:

One of the greatest, perhaps the most dangerous, foes that we face in the gun violence prevention movement is hopelessness. It’s a feeling that nothing can make this problem better.

I wondered if his concern about hopelessness had materialized. What appears to have happened, as least in part, is that I don’t see much said about gun restrictions as the path forward. But I also see him marking progress in reduced “gun violence” where the mechanism which achieved the reduction was things other than gun restrictions. And in fact, in this interview of the mayor, constitutional carry came to the state, and they still made tremendous progress in reduction the homicide rate. Of course it wasn’t called “constitutional carry,” The mayor said, “The state Legislature removed the requirement for concealed carry pistol permits.” But that Brownlee put this in print, in The Trace, is very telling. He is admitting the claimed goal of homicide reduction can be achieved by means other than, and even despite losses in, gun control.

Brownlee is realizing that gun control is not necessarily the answer to the stated goal of a safer society. Perhaps soon we can welcome him to the correct side of history, and he can leave his dark past behind.

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AI companies can do an enormous amount of public good by empowering chatbots to share evidence-based information on gun safety. They should seek advice from law enforcement and gun violence prevention experts on when to highlight gun safety information to users. In training their models and in governing their behavior after release, AI companies should give greater weight to vetted or evidence-informed information about gun safety practices, firearm laws, and gun violence statistics that comes from credible sources.

A non-exhaustive list of pro-safety chatbot responses includes:

• Informing new firearm owners that storing a firearm unloaded and in a locked storage device is the best way to prevent unintentional child shootings, theft, and unauthorized access to the gun.
• For new firearm owners or users interested in acquiring their first firearm, identifying training courses that cover state and federal firearm laws, safe handling of firearms, and the risks of keeping a gun in the home.
• Informing users of the importance of separating loved ones who are in acute distress from firearms.
• Providing accurate information on extreme risk protection orders to users concerned about a loved one engaging in self-harm or harming others (including state-specific resources explaining where this safety tool exists) and providing accurate information about locations where a person in crisis can temporarily store their firearm out of the home.
• Providing accurate information about firearm-prohibiting court orders and local violence prevention resources to users afraid of being victimized by intimate partner violence or interpersonal gun violence.
• Providing accurate information about home defense alternatives to firearms.
• Ensuring that chatbots share vetted and accurate gun violence statistics and studies on gun violence prevention topics, avoiding dangerous misinformation or hallucinations.

Krystal LoPilato, Sriraman Madhavan, Ruhi Bengali, Olivia Li, Justin Wagner
September 26, 2026
Artificially Assisted Gun Violence: Chatbot Risks and Preventative Steps for Responsible AI Companies | Everytown Research & Policy

Via:

The best response in the thread was from Entropy Generator who uploaded some quotes from the Everytown paper to ChatGTP, asked its opinion, and asked for an image with its quote to post. The result was:

To be fair I read the entire post and there is some good content in there. But it seems they could not help themselves from going too far.