States with permitless carry could become the majority before the year’s end.
Roque Planas
January 1, 2023
People Can Now Carry Guns Without A License In Half Of America’s States
[This is what I call a good start.—Joe]
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
Quote of the day—Art Daddy @tumbled_heroes
Everyone open carrying is over compensating for other short cummings. 
That’s all they’re doing. Not for safety or security, but out of shame.
Art Daddy @tumbled_heroes
Tweeted on November 13, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Of course they are an artist. It is about the feelings and not the science, morality, or the law. And with it all about the feelings they think childish insults can override anything they feel strongly about.
Via a tweet from In Chains @InChainsInJail.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Just the News Staff
Democrats with ambitions of broad gun control in the United States face a major stumbling block in their efforts to enact those policies: American voters themselves.
Gun rights remain broadly popular in the United States, even after years of Democratic efforts to turn high-profile mass shootings into major gun control initiatives.
A long history of gun ownership, coupled with robust constitutional protections for firearm ownership here, have led to one of the largest private gun stocks in the world.
The enduring popularity of guns in the U.S. was underscored by a recent RMG Research poll conducted by Scott Rasmussen, one that earlier this month found some support for new gun laws among voters but far more overwhelming favorability toward gun rights.
Just the News Staff
December 30, 2022
As Democrats ramp up gun control, a supermajority in U.S. think gun ownership good for society
[This is essential. Over time, SCOTUS rulings will match the culture more than the culture will match SCOTUS.
Keep up the good work. Take a newbie to the range.
Yesterday I took a new coworker to the range. He is former military and likes guns but all his guns were stolen a year or so ago and had not replaced them. I took him to the range and let him shoot several of my handguns and introduced him to Steel Challenge like shooting (with multiple paper targets) and USPSA stages. He said he really enjoyed that and it was nothing like he had ever done before. He plans to get a new gun soon. I plan to take him to a Steel Challenge match when the weather gets better.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Kate Anderson
Black perpetrators were responsible for 69% of physical or verbal assaults, Asians made up 17%, Hispanics accounted for 11% and white attackers committed 3%.
Kate Anderson
December 29, 2022
REPORT: 97% Of Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes In New York Were Committed By Other Minorities
[To my Jewish readers, prepare appropriately.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Matthew Varisco & Kristen Detineo
Based on the above, partially complete Polymer80, Lone Wolf, and similar pistol frames with any kind of indexing or material removed from the front or rear fire control cavities for installation of the trigger mechanism and sear, or slide rail attachments to connect the trigger mechanism and sear to the frame, have reached a stage of manufacture where they “may readily be completed, assembled, restored, or otherwise converted” to a functional frame. As examined, they are classified as a “frame” and also a “firearm,” as defined in the GCA, 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(3)(B), and implementing regulations, 27 CFR 478.12(a)(1), (c). They are classified as firearms even if they are not sold, distributed, marketed, or possessed with any associated templates, jigs, molds, equipment, tools, instructions, or guides.
Matthew Varisco
ATF Assistant Director
Enforcement Programs and Services
Kristen Detineo
ATF Assistant Director
Field Operations
December 27, 2022
Impact of Final Rule 2021-05F on Partially Complete Polymer80, Lone Wolf, and Similar Semiautomatic Pistol Frames
[I look forward to their lawyers justifying this ruling and the existence of their agency in light of the Bruen decision. The ATF did not exist at the time of the creation of the 2nd or 14th Amendment.
I hope they enjoy their trials.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Matthew Rice
As the Supreme Court assesses the emergency brief, it is increasingly likely that Second Amendment jurisprudence will take center stage in this term.
Matthew Rice
December 27, 2022
Gun Rights Advocates Seek Supreme Court Intervention to Block New York Restrictions
[Since Heller was nearly 15 years ago, I expect SCOTUS will be hearing appellate court rulings regarding the 2nd Amendment for at least another 15 years.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Noah @noah_anyname
How do we combat propaganda? Censorship isn’t working. Even the most pro-censorship people will admit that getting companies like twitter to censor propaganda is hard. We can do better. I know that people can do better. You just have to try.
Noah @noah_anyname
Tweeted on April 20, 2022
[This is really late game thinking.
Just keep saying no to Stalinists like this until you are out of ammo. Then attach the bayonet and continue to defend yourself as long as you can.—Joe]
Quote of the day—DonKilmer @donkilmer
Civilization itself rests on an understanding of when, why, and how violence is essential to preserving the peace.
DonKilmer @donkilmer
Tweeted on December 25, 2022
[See also, why the gun is civilization.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Brown Eyed Susan @smc429
Brown Eyed Susan @smc429
Tweeted on November 11, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Via In Chains @InChainsInJail.
How about, “You fear shopping because you might see someone exercising their constitutionally protected rights? Let me buy you a one way, no return allowed, ticket to Venezuela, China, or North Korea.”—Joe]
Quote of the day—David Scott
I’ve always wanted to get a handgun, But I haven’t really had a reason to get one until now. The main thing I’ve been hearing from people is to keep a firearm or something else for self-defense.
David Scott
November 30, 2022
Armed to The Teeth: University of Idaho Students Packing Heat Following Murder of Four Classmates
[They can thank Mike B. and others who spent years getting the University of Idaho and other Idaho higher education schools to comply with the law of the land.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Wokeness doesn’t exist above a certain IQ level.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Tweeted on December 12, 2022
[Interesting observation.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Loz Blain
The science isn’t far off … from being able to replicate the ideal gestation conditions in a temperature-controlled, infection-free womb with a view. An artificial umbilical cord can provide oxygen and nutrition as the tot floats in artificial amniotic fluid, continually refreshed with precisely tailored hormones, antibodies and growth factors. Baby waste products can be removed, run through a bioreactor and enzymatically converted back into “a steady and sustainable supply of fresh nutrients.”
Loz Blain
December 12, 2022
Womb with a view: EctoLife baby farm eliminates pregnancy and labor
[It’s a Brave New World. What could possibly go wrong?—Joe]
Quote of the day—Gary Kleck
You can’t understand any significant aspects of the gun-control debate once you eliminate defensive gun use. It becomes inexplicable why so many Americans oppose otherwise perfectly reasonable gun-control measurements. It’s because they think it’s gonna lead to prohibition, and they won’t have a gun for self-defense.
It’s not complicated.
Gary Kleck
December 15, 2022
Emails Show CDC Removed Defensive Gun Use Stats After Gun-Control Advocates Pressured Officials in Private Meeting
[Before you get involved with a debate with someone about the CDC removing defensive gun stats from their website insist they answer a different question first. Why is the Center for Disease Control involved with private gun ownership?
Private gun ownership can be a legal issue. In this case the courts and/or the Department of Justice might have valid reason to weigh in on it.
If you want to push the envelope, gun ownership can related to criminal statistics and the FBI collects the data on that.
But the CDC? They have a long and dirty history of conspiring to deprive citizens of their specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms. They need to stay in their lane or plan on enjoying their trial.—Joe]
Quote of the day—John R. Lott Jr. and Holly Sullivan
A woman carrying a concealed handgun reduces the murder rate for women by about three to four times more than a man doing the same.
And this message is getting across to women. Between 2012 and 2022, in states that provide data by sex, permits for concealed handguns increased 115% more quickly among women than among men. The percentage of women who say that gun ownership protects people from crime has also been growing faster than their male counterparts.
…
The high cost of permits disarms the very people who most need protection, including minorities who live in high-crime urban areas.
John R. Lott Jr. and Holly Sullivan
December 20, 2022
Why aren’t stalked women ever told to get a gun for self-defense?
[To answer the question, my hypothesis is that one or both of the following are the reason:
- Government employees have a vested interest in having more people dependent upon them.
- Predators are advising the women and prefer easier prey.
As pointed out in the above quote, women are getting it figured out and responding appropriately.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Noah @noah_anyname
There’s no law saying you’re entitled to your own beliefs.
Noah @noah_anyname
Tweeted on December 18, 2022
[Via a tweet by In Chains @InChainsInJail.
From reading his blog he doesn’t appear be that stupid, but this guy is mind bogglingly ignorant on philosophy and law. I wonder what color the sky is in his universe.—Joe]
Quote of the day—John Collins @Logically_JC
Democrats have guns, too.
We just don’t jerk off with them in public.
John Collins @Logically_JC
Tweeted on November 11, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Via In Chains @InChainsInJail.
Citation needed.
You have to wonder what color the sky is in his universe. I have never heard of such a thing happening.
Or, more likely, this just a childish insult because that is the best he can come up with to protect his fragile feelings when confronted with the reality that people exercise rights he does not approve of.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Stephen Halbrook
There is only one Second Amendment. It means what it meant in 1791. Although analysis of attitudes in 1868 is relevant to determining whether the Second Amendment is incorporated, that does not change the fact that what was incorporated was the pre-existing right to keep and bear arms. Post-1868 evidence cannot be used to contradict that original understanding.
Stephen Halbrook
December 14, 2022
Did the Fourteenth Amendment Alter the Meaning of the Second Amendment?
[Shouldn’t that be “Post-1791 evidence…”?—Joe]
Quote of the day—LKB
While the wheels of justice do grind slowly, in this case I foresee them crushing the state of California’s gun control ambitions.
LKB
December 15, 2022
Judge Benitez’s Latest Order in Miller v. Bonta Sets the Stage for Taking Down California’s Assault Weapons Ban
[I expect things will be slow for months or perhaps a year or two then speed up. But the chances of gun control being crushed is quite high.
It’s the trials, and/or the threat of prosecution, which will really speed things up… if they actually start happening.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Ryan Busse
We still depend on hundreds of laws that keep guns out of crowded public places, stop teenagers from buying handguns, and prohibit criminals from arming themselves with assault rifles. Now, because of a recent Supreme Court ruling, many of these remaining regulations are in danger of being dismantled.
Ryan Busse
December 14, 2022
One Nation Under Guns
[Who does he think he is fooling? Do bans on recreation drugs (including alcohol and tobacco) stop teenagers from buying them? Have background checks increased public safety? No.
If he is actually alarmed by the “dismantling” of these laws it because his intent of the laws is something other than public safety.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Joe Biden
I am determined to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines like those used at Sandy Hook and countless mass shootings in America. Enough is enough. Our obligation is clear. We must eliminate these weapons, which serve no purpose other than to kill people in large numbers,
Joe Biden
U.S. President
December 14, 2022
Biden speaks of «societal guilt» for «taking too long» to address the problem of gun regulation in the U.S.
[Ignoring the blatant lie about their sole purpose is the mass killing of people*, I find it very telling that he (and his handlers) express no concern for the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is as if those restraints on government do not exist in their minds. This is the mind of a dictator.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.
I hope they enjoy their trials.—Joe]
* I’ve firing over 100,000 rounds with “assault weapons and high-capacity magazines” without killing anyone. Are they going to claim my guns are malfunctioning or admit they lied about only having one purpose?