Category Archives: Gun Rights

I Hope They Enjoy their Trials

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From Chad Mizelle @ChadMizelle47, Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice:

Today, the Department of Justice announced its first investigation (of many, if need be) into whether States and localities—today, Los Angeles County, California—are engaging in a pattern or practice of depriving ordinary, law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights.

As Justice Thomas has explained, “the Second Amendment warrants the same respect as any other constitutional right.”

Or as the Supreme Court

But many States and localities keep insisting on treating the Second Amendment as a second-class right.

California has been a particularly egregious offender.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has bragged about having the strictest gun control laws in the country.

California Governor Gavin Newsom even called for a “28th Amendment” to restrict Second Amendment rights after recent pro-Second Amendment decisions from the Supreme Court.

To make things worse, many California localities appear to be imposing additional burdens beyond those required by state law, including by imposing expensive fees and lengthy wait times for concealed handgun licenses.

THIS MUST END. Today, the Civil Rights Division announced an investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to determine whether it is engaging in a pattern or practice of infringing Second Amendment rights.

There is more, but you get the drift. Newsom’s own tweets were quoted, and I presume will be used at his trial.

I believe I have been pushing for this longer than anyone. I first read the law back in the early 2000s and talked to other gun owners about it. No one could imagine it happening. And nothing did happen.

There was a time when blacks in the deep south believed there would never be prosecutions for the KKK terrorism. They also believed there would be no justice for the lynchings.

Times change. And the time for gun owners to believe in justice has arrived. We have long known that prosecutions are needed to stop the relentless oppression. New laws are created faster than the courts can respond. There must be consequences for their criminal acts.

And now there is a serious threat of consequences.

If prosecutions actually take place, I will search through all the comments. I will look for those who insisted the trials would never happen. Then I’m going to put them all in one blog post. And I will give one last lecture on moving the Overton Window. And how things happen in a manner similar to an earthquake. The pressure builds and then there is a sudden shift as things slip into a new alignment. There is a new reality. A reality that most people were unable to see just a short time before.

Then we can all enjoy the trials together.

How Did This Happen?

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People need to learn to protect themselves instead of giving up their liberties to the government in exchange for a “sense of security.” Everyone dreams of a world without killing or murder, but there are those out there that wish harm on their fellow human beings. Disarming everyone on a college campus, or anywhere for that matter, only turns people into targets for a murderer like Cho.

Robert G. Ridgell
September 11, 2007
Letter: Gun control may not be the answer | Opinions | collegiatetimes.com

I don’t have anything to say about the content of today’s QOTD.

What I find most interesting is the date. This letter to the editor did not show up in my Google alerts until March 25, 2025.

How did this happen?

When I’m wearing my tin-foil hat, I can believe Google deliberately blocked pro-gun content from their indices. Then, recently, as the political winds changed direction, they decided to remove the restrictions, and the pro-gun content was indexed. The alert then fired.

When I take off the hat and look for other instances of old pro-gun articles showing up, I can’t readily find any.

What Type of Sand?

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Reacting to a call by 14 perennially anti-gun House Democrats that President Donald Trump remove Kash Patel as acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms suggested the group “pound sand.”

 Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
March 20, 2025
CCRKBA TO DEMS WANTING KASH PATEL REMOVED AS ATF DIRECTOR: POUND SAND

Preferably, sand that is an ore for one or more of the metals, copper, zinc, or lead. We need more ammunition.

Too Timid to Play with Kindergartners

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U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Tim Sheehy (R-MT) introduced the Protecting Americans’ Right to Silence (PARTS) Act to cut government red tape and ensure gun owners and businesses are not unfairly targeted by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The bill modernizes outdated federal regulations on firearm suppressors, providing much-needed clarity to manufacturers, retailers, and law-abiding gun owners.

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he PARTS Act would clarify that a silencer refers to a complete device or a single principal component, rather than an assortment of parts that could be used in its construction.

Additionally, the bill would streamline the purchase of consumable silencer parts, such as wipes, without requiring additional ATF paperwork, ensuring gun owners can properly maintain their lawfully owned suppressors.

Bill Cassidy
U.S. Senator for Louisiana
Cassidy, Sheehy Introduce Bill to Protect Gun Owners from ATF Overreach | U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy

What the hell!!!

The courts could throw out the entire NFA by the beginning of Vance’s first term. And the elimination of the ATF seems to be a minor stretch goal shortly after that. I’m planning on my grandchildren having the option of participating in high school machine gun competitions.

And this guy is so timid that he wants to just clarify that silencer wipes don’t require any paperwork? Are there any modern-day suppressors that even use wipes?

Cassidy needs to get in touch with reality. As it is he is too timid to play in a kindergartner T-Ball league.

An Interesting Twist

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Lets suppose for a minute that suppressors become available through vending machines and at WalMart. No tax stamp, just cash or credit card.

I can see municipalities across the country adding regulations requiring suppressors at outdoor public ranges where housing developments have popped up in the recent past.

How would you like to see a potential multiverse wherein suppressors go from prohibited to required? Is that not just as oppressive a dictate from government? Would we not have the NRA and FPC running campaigns against mandatory suppressor use? “It adds an unreasonable financial burden on our 2nd Amendment right to require suppressors…”

Or maybe this is how we pitch it to Liberals. “You know… I have this way to make all guns more expensive, and the RKBA crowd will simply love it! As a matter of fact, they’re proposing it now. Hear me out…

Mike Hines
Via email on March 14, 2025

I laughed out loud.

It would be an interesting change of perspective to be in court fights insisting requirements to possess are unconstitutional. We could always offer the compromise of government subsidies. Of course, such subsides must be funded by taxes on those who registered as being gun free. And those registries would, of course, be public records available to everyone.

The Party of Hate

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For today’s Democrats, nothing matters more than hating Trump. That, my friends, is a crucial point in all of this. Hatred of Trump has become their go-to position on just about everything; it is what energizes them, motivates them and dictates what they say and do.

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Instead of coming up with fresh ideas to show why they’re a reasonable, more rational alternative to Trump, what they’re doing is showing anyone paying attention why he won.

Democrats think Trump is the enemy. But the truth is, they are their own worst enemy.

Bernard Goldberg
March 12, 2025
Opinion: Democrats’ hatred of Trump makes them their own worst enemies

My view of the Democrat party is that they define themselves by what they hate. It may have started earlier, but at least since the U.S. Civil war they hated Republicans because they were going to take their slaves away. Then they hated people with dark colored skin because, “Those uppity blacks think they are just as good as white folk.” Then LBJ convinced the party the votes of the blacks be bought*.

As Democrats warmed up to and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Senator Dodd (D) introduced the precursors to the Gun Control Act of 1968. These were Senate Bill 1975 in 1963, “A Bill to Regulate the Interstate Shipment of Firearms”, and Senate Bill 1592 in 1965, “A Bill to Amend the Federal Firearms Act of 1938”.

Democrats, in general, have hated gun owners ever since they started pretending to be defenders of blacks.

I would like to believe that they have a limited amount of hate. If this were true, then as their hatred for Trump, Musk, and MAGAs increased the hatred of gun owners would decrease. But as the legislative record shows, the hatred has spread and increased in intensity rather than focused.

As I have said before, “Gun owners are the ni**ers of the 21st Century” and “the anti-gun bigots are the KKK of the 21st Century.” See also Bigotry is alive and well. And Quote of the day—Dinesh D’Souza.

Perhaps, all this hatred has finally caught up to them.

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Emotion Driven Theatrics

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Giffords’ pivot to actual theater matches their overall approach of using theatrics to push gun control laws that do little to hold criminals accountable for their crimes and instead only penalize law-abiding Americans seeking to exercise their rights to keep and bear arms and the lawful and highly-regulated industry that provides for the exercise of that Constitutional right.

It all makes more sense now.

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The Giffords gun control group’s call from theater pitches is just that – theatrics. It won’t lead to safer neighborhoods. It won’t lead to more violent criminals being locked up for committing acts of violence. It won’t protect families, homes or businesses from those choosing to ignore existing laws and instead harm innocent lives.

The theme is similar to Everytown for Gun Safety’s recently launched high dollar ad campaign, which mocks the hard-working and law-abiding Americans who comprise the firearm industry. Everytown, of course personally funded by billionaire gun control stalwart Michael Bloomberg, spared no expense to create a glitzy caricature of the firearm industry, repeating tired and inaccurate tropes about who is buying firearms today and who safeguards the Second Amendment right to do so.

Needless to say, these ad campaigns and the theatre pitches haven’t yet and won’t put any meaningful dent in the occurrence of violent firearm crime or the criminals who commit heinous crimes.

Larry Keane
March 7, 2025
While Gun Control Plays Theatrics, Firearm Industry Pursues Real Solutions for Safer Communities • NSSF

Via JPFO.

The anti-gun side has emotion driven theatrics. We have data, philosophy, and SCOTUS.

Abolish Firearms Background Checks

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The idea of undergoing and passing background checks as a prerequisite to exercising the Second Amendment should have never been a thought even in the darkest corners of the most communist minds of the most radical left-wing ideologues, not only because it violates the rights of American citizens but also because it puts undeserving Americans in legal jeopardy and in physical danger.

According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2017, the NICS background check system denied 112,090 people the right to purchase a firearm. Of those 112,090 denials, only 12,710 were investigated. We have to ask ourselves: If over 112,000 people were denied but only 12,710 investigations took place, wouldn’t that be clear evidence that the system is failing and falsely denying good people their right to keep and bear arms?

It gets worse.

That same year, and from that group of 112,090 denials, there were only 12 prosecutions for the crime of attempting to purchase a firearm. Now the anti-gun crowd says, “See, we stopped 12 mass shootings!”

There are problems with that argument.

Dan Wos
March 6, 2025
Should firearms background check system be abolished? | Buckeye Firearms Association

I agree background checks should be abolished. But from a political capital perspective this should be prioritized near the elimination of restrictions on machine guns. It isn’t going to get much traction in the near future.

A Canadian’s View of The Second Amendment

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When I was travelling through the South over the past month, I was told by several hosts that they all carry guns. They confirmed that they do not tolerate the nonsense that Jews face elsewhere. America: Never ever give up or water down your Second Amendment. It is the means by which you maintain your freedom from all enemies, domestic and foreign.

Gad Saad @GadSaad
Posted on X, March 7, 2025

Dr. Saad is the psychologist author of the bestselling book, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. I listened to it and liked it. I follow him on X and find his sarcasm quite entertaining. He taunts the Canadian censors with his criticism of woke ideologies.

His childhood history as a Jew in Beirut likely influences his views on the right to keep and bear arms.

Careful What You Wish For

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To all progressives who say “gun control” as an alternative to policing: THOSE ARE THE SAME THING. Police are the people who control the guns!!

Another name for gun control is “stop and frisk”!!

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion
Posted on X, March 6, 2025

No respect for the fourth or the second amendment. No awareness of the consequences of living in a society where those rights are not respected.

He should be careful what his wishes for.

How could it be any clearer?

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Mexico can’t show the court how a lawfully-made and lawfully-sold gun that is illegally straw purchased, illegally smuggled across an international border, illegally possessed in Mexico and criminally misused by narco-terrorist drug cartels is the responsibility of U.S. gun makers.

Larry Keane
March 6, 2025
What SCOTUS Got Wrong About Firearms and the Gun Business During Arguments in Mexico’s Lawsuit Against US Gun Makers – Shooting News Weekly

I think what happened is that they believed their logic was irrefutable. It went like this, “Guns are bad. Companies that make and sell bad things are bad. These bad things hurt our people. Companies must make us feel good by giving us lots of money.”

How could it be any clearer?

The SCOTUS decision will reflect the soundness of their arguments.

Emma Brown is Stupid, Ignorant, Delusional and/or Evil

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Kash Patel has no experience fighting crime, preventing mass shootings or stopping domestic terrorism. As the only federal law enforcement agency whose sole mission is to fight violent crime, the ATF requires serious leadership. That’s not Kash Patel.

Kash Patel talks tough on crime, but he will let the gun lobby walk all over him. He didn’t get this job because he’s the most qualified, he got it because gun industry CEOs know he won’t lift a finger to rein in gun violence. American communities will pay the price.

Emma Brown
GIFFORDS Executive Director
February 24, 2025
GIFFORDS responds as Kash Patel quietly tapped to lead ATF | GIFFORDS

For some reason I am always amazed. The depth and quantity of falsehoods anti-gun people push to the public is mind-boggling.

The “sole mission” of the ATF is not fighting violent crime. Even if you ignore the alcohol, tobacco, and explosives portion of their mission. Even if you ignore the scandal of things like Operation Fast and Furious… Writing and enforcing these types of regulations is not fighting violent crime:

And then there are all laws they enforce in which there are no victims. Machine gun laws, registration and taxation of suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, private sales across state lines, etc., etc…

Their falsehoods continue with the insinuation gun industry CEO’s desire criminal use of firearms. Who can believe that? That is totally absurd!

Brown and her associates are stupid, ignorant, delusional and/or think the public is. And/or they are just flat out evil.

No Surprises from High-Ranking Colorado Progressive

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Research shows that micropenis can cause a psychological cascade that results in men tormenting themselves with bullshit and then withdrawing from society to escape said bullshit.

It’s okay until they come back out for food or whatever. Should have prepped more. #copolitics

𝖠𝗅𝖺𝗇 𝖥𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗄𝗅𝗂𝗇 @alanfranklin
Deputy Director, ProgressNow Colorado. All opinions are my own, Retweets ≠ endorsement, and my bosses know I am kind of a loose cannon already so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Posted on X, September 24, 2024

It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday; it is another science denier (see also here)!

See also his more recent posts here and here.

It should come as no surprise they are high-ranking Colorado Progressive. Anyone stupid enough to subscribe to such beliefs will of course be unable to articulate an intelligent response to someone advocating for gun rights. All they have are lies and insults.

I will notify the appropriate people in Colorado to put him on their list of people to report for prosecution.

Racial Disparity in Gun-Related Homicide

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When President Biden launched what he called the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, he adopted one of the key assertions of the gun control movement: our nation’s gun-related crime problem is an “epidemic” that must be solved by increased gun control. But if “gun violence” is an epidemic, then it is certainly not one felt by the whole population equally.

Of course, there is no doubt people of all races have been murdered with guns. Similarly, the scourge of mass shootings, while still a very statistically unlikely threat, has not discriminated in who it harms when such crimes do happen. There is also no doubt that far too many Americans succumb to suicide, a large proportion of which are completed with firearms.

But when it comes to what most people mean when they say “gun violence” – violent crimes committed by a person (or people) against another person (or people) using firearms – there is simply no way to beat around the bush: Black Americans are far and away the most affected, and it isn’t even close. Addressing the root causes of why is the riddle we must solve as a country. But to do so, we first have to identify the problem with as much specificity as possible, and reject those who try to shut down this debate.

Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
December 8, 2024
The racial disparity in gun-related homicide: a problem that must be discussed so it can be solved.

It is a long article. But if you don’t want to read the whole thing, at least read the Solutions section.

There Are No Grass Roots

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I’m not surprised this happens. I’m a little surprised they got caught.

Via Ari Hoffman 🎗@thehoffather who had this to say:

WA is spending your $ to attack your 2A rights

WA DOGE volunteers discovered that WA Dept of Commerce put out a six-figure request for proposals for vendors to run an anti 2nd Amendment event June 4 or 5 at the Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle

WA is facing a $12-16 billion budget deficit. Rather than cut our of control spending or keeping prolific offenders in jail, Democrats are releasing criminals, working to reduce sentences and working against your ability to protect yourself

Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras referred me to Hoffman.

I can tell countless stories demonstrating how there are no grassroots organizations for the anti-gun movement. It appeared to me that it was a few big donors. I frequent suspected there were government funds filtering into too. But it was not particularly obvious until recently when people went looking for this type of thing.

Here is another example out of Washington State:

WA State gives 7M to @CascadeBicycle club who then donates money to the No on 2117 campaign to keep voters from repealing the climate act gas tax. Nothing to see here…please move along!

And at the national level see here.