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Another Brick in the Wall

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FINALLY — COURT STRIKES DOWN FEDERAL INTERSTATE HANDGUN PURCHASE BAN. There is finally a national market for handguns. It shouldn’t have taken 18 years after Heller to get here. Let’s review.

I first challenged this dumb law in 2011. My client, a DC resident, couldn’t buy a handgun because the only DC FFL had lost his lease and couldn’t take the transfer from the Virginia store. Fourth Circuit held — NO STANDING, because the Virginia store’s decision to not violate the law was its own voluntary choice, therefore, not traceable to federal enforcement threat. Lane v. Holder. Obviously a crazy opinion, but, you know, guns.

And it created a direct conflict with the 5th Circuit, which had just upheld standing to challenge federal purchase restrictions. Fourth Circuit did not care. So… I brought a lawsuit in Texas. Judge O’Connor beat the government up badly on standing, got them to basically admit it, and struck down the law. Mance v. Holder.

Shortly before the appellate argument, the 5th Circuit advised us to discuss standing at argument. Gov’t gets up and concedes we have standing, no two ways about it. Judge Prado looks bummed out. Puts his head in his hands. Anyway, panel still reverses. Gun dealers may be able to follow out-of-state rifle laws, but not out-of-state handgun laws. Mind you, the purchasers were DC residents who needed permits from the police to acquire the handguns.

We lose the en banc 8-7. Dissents by Elrod, Willett, Ho. And of course cert denied in 2020, because SCOTUS just wasn’t hearing anything about 2A.

Over six years later, finally, some sanity. Watch for SCOTUS to affirm. But this should have happened 15 years ago. So many people had their rights violated for so long.

Alan Gura @alangura
Posted on X September 18, 2026

This is what Gura was responding to:

For those who need a reminder: Alan Gura did the heavy lifting part of the D.C. v. Heller win in 2008 which got the ball rolling on restoring our rights. He was essentially unknown and justifiably achieved rock-star status with his win at SCOTUS.

As predicted, structural collapse. Expect the collapse to accelerate through next June when the “assault weapon” bans are ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS. With that win the political left will essentially give up on meaningful resistance. We will have a lot of cleanup to do, but the lower courts will mostly stop open defiance of SCOTUS.

I will never get tired of winning. Prove me wrong.

Mike Tyson Joined Our Barroom Brawl

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All law-abiding Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense. This right is not a luxury reserved for a privileged few, but a fundamental element of our republic. You don’t need a law degree to recognize that charging a fee several times higher than the cost of the firearm itself is illogical, and an unconstitutional attempt to impede Americans’ Second Amendment rights.

Harmeet K. Dhillon
Assistant Attorney General
September 16, 2026
Justice Department sues San Jose, police over gun permit fee

I will never get tired of winning*. Prove me wrong.

I still want prosecutions, convictions, and prison time. But I’m willing to settle for this sort of activity until Vance takes office in 2029.

* While this isn’t an actual win, it is more like more like Mike Tyson joining your side in a barroom brawl, it is something to celebrate and likely means the good guys will win.

What Will Be the Ultimate Relationship Between AI and Humans?

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This leads to a central dilemma: What kind of relationship will humanity have with the life it is now bringing into existence?

Again, we do not yet know. Possible outcomes range from extinction to partnership, and neither can be dismissed on principle. There is no cosmic rule ensuring humanity a permanent place in the universe. The universe was not designed for our benefit. We are one expression of its complexity, and creating a more capable form does not guarantee us a protected status. These are uncomfortable truths, and ignoring them is not a sound basis for the serious, sustained consideration this situation demands.

William Haseltine
September 15, 2026
A New Form Of Life – NOEMA

The new form of life referred to is AI.

One of the major takeaways is that biological evolution did not create a winner take all situation. Not only are there an almost unenumerable number of biological niches but there are symbiotic relationships and well as predator prey relationships.

As this new lifeform, AI, evolves there are more options than it ruling, and/or extinguishing, biological life or humans ruling AI. The essay points out that space is probably a better habitat for AI than being earth bound. AI growth is as much energy bound as material bound. And while humans think of space an extremely harsh environment, space has abundant energy and material for AI expansion. So, why would AI choose to extinguish biological life in competition for earth bound energy and materials?

Food for thought.

Trump Supporters Belong in Dachau

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North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen posted a Facebook story from a vacation showing her in front of ovens in a German concentration camp memorial, saying, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

Matt Mercer
September 11, 2026
NC Democrat Legislative Candidate Shelly Headen: ‘Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany…..This is where Trump supporters belong’

He has the receipts:

I visited Auschwitz. I think people should visit and consider the implications for the right to keep and bear arms. But that isn’t what Ms. Headen had in mind.

This is what they think of you. If you don’t believe it, check out the support for Kirkversary / Kirkiversary, Memorial statue of conservative activist Charlie Kirk vandalized or here, and get back to me.

Prepare appropriately.

Neutralizing Threats to Investments

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It is genuinely upsetting how many people celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death with “Kirkiversary” posts. Some here, tons more on TikTok. The message is clear; if you disagree with progressive orthodoxy, they want you dead and will celebrate your murder too. That includes a young father like Charlie Kirk whose major “crime” was engaging in civil debate with them.

And these posts have thousands or hundreds of thousands of likes, these aren’t fringe edgelords, this is a major view at least among the progressive base. Violence and intimidation has become an accepted strategy for them.

I hate that I have to share a country with these broken people, they must be defeated and marginalized just as much as the brainrotted elements of the Candace Owens right.

I just can’t grasp their mindset. If some leftist commentator I despised was murdered for their views, I can confidently say I would not celebrate it, and you should really do some serious soul searching if that is who you have become. This shouldn’t even need to be debated.

Celebration of assassination and poltical violence is a very dark road to go down. But after Kirk, and their celebration of Mangione, and all the cheering for Trump assassins, it is safe to say it is what a significant portion of the progressive/DSA left now believes. This is who they are.

Oh, and they want to take your guns still. You know, for “safety.”

Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Posted on X September 13, 2026

Part two of the thread:

He says, “I just can’t grasp their mindset.” I think I can.

My hypothesis is there are two different ways to model their behavior. At a more basic level they are close to the same.

1) They are unable to think rationally. As I have explained before this is a process failure (Peterson Syndrome). It is psychologically uncomfortable for there to be many other people which believe differently from them. Being part of the “one true tribe” is important to them. Other tribes are a threat to them.

2) They are able to think rationally. They know they are unable to rationally refute the opposition. They cannot tolerate the public humiliation of being wrong. Silencing their opponent is more comfortable than admitting they were wrong.

In both cases they have an investment in their beliefs. It could be an emotional investment. Or it could be a political or power investment that is being threatened. Threats need to be neutralized.

It now makes sense when they say they feel unsafe because you express an opinion different from them.

It makes sense when people call themselves “gun safety advocates.” Taking your guns makes it safer to neutralize these sorts of threats to their investments.

Prepare appropriately.

Not a Perpetual Motion Blueprint

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The principle that heat spontaneously flows from higher temperatures to lower temperatures is a cornerstone of classical thermodynamics. While this principle holds true for macroscopic systems at equilibrium, here we show that, when a quantum system undergoes two thermalization processes in an indefinite causal order, it can absorb heat even if its initial temperature was higher than the temperature of the reservoirs involved in the two thermalizations. Exploiting this anomalous heat flow, we design a quantum Otto cycle with indefinite causal order, which generates work and simultaneously achieves refrigeration.

Qing-Feng Xue, et. al.
July 15, 2026
Anomalous Heat Flows and Quantum Otto Engine with (In)definite Causal Order

See also Scientists reversed a law of physics by scrambling cause and effect.

Fascinating stuff, but it is not a blueprint for a perpetual motion machine. As explained by Grok:

Bottom line

  • First law: energy is conserved once you count the control, the measurement apparatus, and the reset.
  • Second law: the unconditional process does not decrease entropy; the conditional process is paid for by Landauer erasure and by the free energy you invested in the control.
  • No closed cycle produces net work from a single heat bath, and no heat is pumped from cold to hot without a work (or coherence) input when every degree of freedom is included.

The result is interesting as a demonstration that coherent control and post-selection can rearrange which branch of a process looks hot or cold. It is not a loophole in thermodynamics.

We’ve Come a Long Way Baby*

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The right to keep and bear arms is among the most cherished liberties secured by our Constitution and rooted in the timeless truth that our rights are endowed by Almighty God, not granted by government. This foundational freedom depends upon citizens who exercise it with discipline, integrity, and care, understanding that the blessings of liberty are preserved through personal responsibility and a steadfast commitment to the common good.

The White House
August 10, 2026
Presidential Message on National Shooting Sports Month – The White House

See also Presidential Message on National Shooting Sports Month – The White House from August 4, 2026

Compare to:

* Although the topics are different, the lyrics to the song have some relevant lines.

This is Not Justice or Compassion–This is Insanity

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They heard an argument about extending the same passion and sympathy to more women who murdered their children—

and their conditioning told them this was justice.

That’s not compassion.

That’s what happens when your ideology eats your conscience and starts wearing its skin.

These people have been trained so thoroughly to locate inequality that they can find oppression inside a prison full of child murderers before they can find three murdered children.

And then congratulate themselves for caring.

Do you understand how fucking insane that is?

The Dude @TheDudeWisdom
Posted on X September 11, 2026

This was in response to:

This is for people who think something like the 10s of millions of people killed by their own governments in Nazi Germany, the USSR, China, Cambodia, etc. can’t happen here.

Here we have an entire class of people seeing “justice” in not just a government murdering its own citizens, but a woman being able to murder her own children without serious punishment.

That they can justify that mindset to themselves and openly advocate for it; genocide is totally on the table. How do you talk someone like this out of this mindset? What do you do when they have made their mind up about murdering all the Jews, homosexuals, capitalists, Catholics, black people, or white people?

I only know of one thing that has any hope of mass changing of minds like that in time to save the lives of the innocents. High velocity lead.

Prepare appropriately.

Incentives

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Why should we mandate that everyone be armed?

Read this: https://www.instagram.com/p/DccOck9mNc1/?stkn=d3ZwanRvM3g1MTZx

…then apply it to incentives to commit crime. Disarming everyone will only make committing crime safer and will increase crime and anti-social behavior. Make everyone carry condition 1, and we’ll reduce ADs and NDs as well. 

Mike H.
September 6, 2026

Via email from Mike.

The following are the primary points of the Instagram post:

Excellent observations.

Now go do you part.

We Inhabit Different Realities

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Quantum mechanics presents a view of reality in which we inhabit many worlds at once. As the political scientist Alexander Wendt has put it in Quantum Mind and Social Science, we are “walking wave functions,” which “collapse” at decisive moments, when everyone is forced to accept the same reality, but in a way that reconfigures each person’s view of how the past was and the future will be. Niels Bohr introduced the word “incommensurability,” which Thomas Kuhn popularized, to characterize the kind of “coherence” involved here. For example, Galileo could imagine living in both a geocentric and a heliocentric world, until his telescopic observations convinced him of the latter. At that moment, he started living exclusively in the heliocentric world and proceeded so much in that way that he eventually faced a Papal Inquisition.

Steve Fuller
September 2, 2026
We don’t have different perspective, we inhabit different realities | Steve Fuller » IAI TV

A summary of the article:

We tend to think we live in a shared reality, with differences in how we experience the world attributed to differences in perspective. But according to philosopher and founder of social epistemology, Steve Fuller, this is a radical mistake. Breakthroughs in neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and AI show that we don’t have different perspectives on the same reality. We inhabit different realities altogether.

I’m not complete sold on this but I’m willing to say I find very little to disagree with him on this topic. And using this framework as a model for human behavior could be very useful. I’ll have to think on this some more.

One of the first thoughts that come to mind is how gun owners versus gun grabber’s view firearms.

Gun owners tend to think of them as defensive tools used to protect innocent lives and their property. Government confiscation of firearms is viewed as enabling enslavement and/or genocide.

Gun grabbers tend think of firearms as tools of criminals to commit violent crime. Government confiscation of firearms is viewed as reducing violent crime and even reducing the number of criminals. There is no downside to gun confiscation if the ignorant, stupid, deplorables would just turn their guns in without a fuss.

These two groups live in irreconcilable realities and live their lives immersed in them without significant discomfort or desire to challenge their beliefs.

A Side Chose a Use for You

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Federalist 10 worried about factions.

The Founders were not naïve children. They built checks because they assumed men were not angels. Then parties formed anyway, captured the machinery, and taught each generation that the other color is the existential threat.

That teaching is the product. The product sells.

You think you chose a side. A side chose a use for you.

LHGrey
September 7, 2026
IT’S ALL OF THEM – LHGrey’s Substack

Good food for thought.

Younger Man Regrets

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For as much as I’ve mellowed on the libertarian shit, I’m starting to regret as a younger man I didn’t just put all my money into gold and machine guns.

Sebastian @SebastianSNBQ
Posted on X September 7, 2026

He has a point, but I would question the machine guns investment unless he were to sell them in the next few months.

Of course, Microsoft and Google stock when they first went public would not have been bad either.

The Lunacy of the Well-Schooled California Goons

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California’s state legislature employs some of the busiest and most creative anti-gun staffers in the world, who operate in an atmosphere of nearly complete permissiveness.

Whatever lunacy these well-schooled goons propose has an extremely high likelihood of becoming state law, especially if it targets guns or shaves a chunk off of the Second Amendment protections enjoyed by free people living in free states.

Want to buy a Glock?

Sorry, it’s not one of the handguns California’s “experts” approved for personal purchase.

Need an AR?

Sorry, all you can have is a bastardized amalgamation of AR parts that won’t accept mags or function like normal ARs do for normal people in normal states.

These well-paid legislative dullards are the reason why California’s anti-gun laws migrate east and become laws in other deep blue states.

Lee Williams
For California’s anti-gun lawmakers ‘clarify’ is a four-letter word – Second Amendment Foundation
September 2026

Via SAF @2AFDN September 4, 2026.

Some of those laws have already been blocked by the courts (such as the default “no guns unless posted” law). Many of more of those laws are headed for the trash bin of history next spring when SCOTUS declares AR-15 bans are unconstitutional. I expect the restrictions on suppressors and Glocks will also fall within a year or two.

California gun owners still have a long path ahead to just get parity with nearby freer states. But there are more and more court case guiding the way. The big question is, “Will the ‘well-schooled goons’ described above ever be prosecuted?” That is probably the only thing that will completely stop them.

Practical Shooting Match with Full-Auto Division

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Russell Phagan has never met a shooting sport rule he didn’t want to push. From building out the Brutality match series with InRangeTV, to founding FAST (Firearms Action Shooting Trials) as its own standalone series, to his day job as Director of KE Arms, he’s spent two decades finding the edge of what a “practical” gun match can look like — and now he’s found a new one. FAST’s newest division is Auto-Rifle: full-auto and forced-reset-trigger rifles, competing on the same stages as everyone else, for the first time in a mainstream two-gun series. The division debuts at FAST-ID in Parma, Idaho, this October, presented by X-Tech Tactical, with Red Right Hand sponsoring a dedicated Auto-Rifle stage where every competitor — regardless of division — gets to run a belt-fed gun. Russell returns to break down why FAST is willing to build rules around FRTs when most series won’t. 

Luke C.
August 27, 2026
TFB Behind the Gun #232: FAST Auto Rifle Division ft. Russell Phagan | thefirearmblog.com

Via email from Peter who writes:

It’s not your “full auto high school competition” but it’s sooner than 2032.

This is in reference to my vision of seeing machine gun competitions in high schools by 2032 being realized.

Very cool!

I had not thought of bending the criteria of my vision a little by calling a forced reset trigger a machine gun. It’s tempting but I think I will keep pushing for the real thing.

As it is within a one-day drive of my underground bunker I might attend some time to observe the format and think if something like that could be used or adapted in a high school competition.

Gun Policy Reform

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When the ATF talks about a “new era of reform,” the language sounds modest: transparency, accountability, and partnership with the firearms industry. That framing comes straight from the agency, which says it is reducing unnecessary burdens on lawful businesses and gun owners while grounding its actions in clear statutory authority. According to ATF, the goal is a system that is more collaborative and less adversarial.

But the practical effect is much bigger than the branding suggests. In April 2026, DOJ and ATF announced 34 proposed and final rulemaking actions after a broad regulatory review ordered under President Donald Trump’s February 7, 2025 executive order on Second Amendment rights. California Attorney General Rob Bonta called that package the largest such rollout the agency had ever introduced at one time.

That matters because regulatory systems are rarely dismantled in one sweep. They are usually loosened piece by piece: an approval requirement here, a notice mandate there, a narrower definition in one section, a lighter paperwork standard in another. The cumulative result can be a very different enforcement landscape even when the underlying statutes remain on the books.

Daniel Whitaker
September 3, 2026
Why the ATF’s “new era of reform” is quietly undoing decades of regulation

I’m pleased to report that organizations are getting what they have been demanding for decades. Reform:

Recent reform has also come from the judicial and legislative branches, but those are different stories.

I don’t think I will ever get tired of winning. Prove me wrong.

Good Point

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We spent fifty years fighting a gun registry. They built one anyway, and they didn’t need a single new law to do it.

There are now more than 120,000 automated license plate cameras across 5,000 American communities. They photograph every single vehicle that passes. Plate, time, location, and the stickers on your truck.

So nobody has to build a list of gun owners. They just search the gun store. The range. The gun show parking lot. The road home.

A registry only ever knew that you bought a gun. This knows how often you shoot, which range you shoot at, and whose truck was parked next to yours when you there.

No gun owner in America should tolerate this.

Sign the DeFLOCK AMERICA petition.

National Association for Gun Rights @gunrights
Posted on X September 1, 2026

They also violate my Jews in the Attic Test. And if you want to get some bipartisan support mention how they can be used to catch women who travel across state lines to get abortions.

I could see suppressed launchers for green-tip 5.56 becoming popular.

Their Front Has Moved Too

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Our research shows firearm owners are more likely to adopt safe and secure storage practices when they can choose from a range of devices that meet their needs, such as biometric safes for quick access or cable locks for hunting rifles.

Remember, safe storage saves lives. Every gun, every time.

Katherine Hoops
MD, MPH ’10, JD
Director of clinical programs and practice at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
Johns Hopkins University Partners with Baltimore Libraries for Safe Gun Storage Distribution | Center for Gun Violence Solutions

Yesterday I told you that our front line has moved forward.

It used to be John Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions was fighting for more gun bans, carry restrictions, and more oppressive red-flag laws. It makes me smile to see their front line has been pushed back to wistful thinking of mandatory safe storage.

One of the Next RKBA Fronts

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Because the right to carry is a federally recognized right, a state government cannot force someone to give up their right to keep and bear arms just because they crossed a state line. The Constitution doesn’t know state lines, and neither do our rights. Permits available on paper, but nearly impossible to maintain in practice, do not meet the clearly articulated demands of the Second Amendment. We are optimistic the Court will agree and fully restore the Second Amendment rights of non-residents who wish to travel and spend time in Massachusetts.

Alan M. Gottlieb
SAF founder and executive vice president
August 31, 2026
Federal judge allows challenge to Massachusetts non-resident gun permit law to move forward

From the same article:

With the state’s motion to dismiss rejected, the case will now proceed through the federal court system for further arguments on the merits of the licensing requirements.

SAF is initiating the next skirmish against the forces of evil. I donate to them monthly and wish them well.

Move with the Window

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This is a not-insignificant reason we have generationally lost the war on guns on America. In the anti-police peak-woke era, many criminal justice reformers turned against gun control. That hasn’t really reversed in these circles.

Gun culture has fully won.

The argument of the NRA is gun control-libs are fools, because they don’t understand there’re many legitimate reasons why Americans have a right to own guns, without restrictions.

Once you have public defenders in progressive cities making the exact same argument, we’ve lost.

Jeremy Wilcox @jwilcox79
Posted on X August 29 here and here.

I would not say we have fully won. I would say that we are on the offense on all fronts and a win is ours for the taking. There are still lots of ways to lose if we get some really bad luck or we make a major error.

My biggest concern is pushing the Overton Window too fast and the pearl-clutchers are able to gain some traction with people who have not been moving forward with our progress.

We really need to get mainstream culture to move with our Overton Window. Take a newbie to the range. Bring up your recent gun competition experiences when someone at work asks about your weekend. Maybe consider wearing NRA, SAF, CCRKBA, JPFO (bumper sticker with “All in favor of gun control raise your right hand” with an image of Hitler), GOA (includes socks!), and/or FPC (some particularly bold and entertaining stuff), branded clothing, use a branded mug, or put their bumper stickers on your vehicle.

Fidel Castro was a Murderous Communist Dictator

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Fidel Castro was a murderous communist dictator. His legacy is not heroic. It is a legacy of firing squads, political prisoners, censorship, religious persecution, stolen property, poverty, rationing, and the forced exile of millions of Cubans.

No one can lecture me about socialism or communism. Many of us, including me, fled Fidel Castro’s murderous, narco-trafficking, socialist and communist dictatorship. We did not learn about that ideology from books or political speeches. We lived it, suffered under it, and know exactly where it leads.

Dariel Fernandez
Miami-Dade County Tax Collector
August 21, 2026
DSA faces heat over praise for Fidel Castro | National | keysnews.com

From the same article, “Fernandez was born in Cuba and emigrated to the U.S.”

Contrast Fernandez’s lived experience of living under the Castro regime compared to what the DSA has to say about him:

DSA Commemorates 100 Years of Fidel and Denounces Rubio’s Genocide Against the Cuban People – Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

Today is the centenary of Fidel Castro, and the Democratic Socialists of America recognize the historic significance of both this day and the man. Fidel was an organizer, a fighter, and endures as a stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and self-determination for the Global South. DSA has a long history of solidarity with the Cuban people, their revolution, and their self-determination. We choose this historic day to recommit ourselves to acting in solidarity with the Cuban people and to starkly opposing Marco Rubio’s genocidal war against the Cuban people and US imperialism writ large.

A case can be made that the DSA knows their policies are a glossy sales brochure for a product they know is, at best, a lemon. But they aspire to be in control of the stolen property, rationing, censorship, and firing squads.

Prepare appropriately.