Spare me the BS about constitutional rights.
David Cicilline
U.S. Representative (D-RI)
Democrats Don’t Care Whether Banning ‘Assault Weapons’ Is Constitutional
[The last 30 years of firearm legislation by the Democrats (and some Republicans) made it impossible to envision a mindset any different from this. But us knowing it to be true and one of them openly, unambiguously, saying it in public is something new.
I applaud Rep Cicilline open confession. I hope he enjoys his trial.—Joe]
Unlike with marriage or protesting (two other contexts where licensing of a right is permitted), the ruling class are likely to remain completely hostile to the idea of the peasantry being armed. For non-discretionary licensing to work, there needs to be broad consensus that it should be non-discretionary, and you’ll never have that with guns.
Sebastian
July 21, 2022
The New Resistance to the 2A
[While I agree with the first sentence I’m not convinced the second sentence is true. It would seem to me that liberal application of 18 USC 242 with harsh sentencing (the death penalty could be justified in some situations) would get us sufficiently close.—Joe]
It’s not just that the anti-gunners are losing. It’s that their cause is becoming irrelevant, obsolete.
David Hardy
July 28, 2022
Right to arms — in Taiwan
[I think a case can be made for his assertion even though I think this might be somewhat overstating the situation. They still have some fight in them. See, for example, the law New York state passed in response to the Bruen decision, the bill Biden just signed into law, and the bill just passed by the House.
Most of those laws will not pass constitutional muster but it will take a lot of time and money to get them thrown out.—Joe]
You are illegally storing your guns. Did you take your gun training? Or those guns are illegal too? Instead buying a bunch of guns to feel manly, would you ever consider just doing some push-ups? Or just accept that you have a small peen, instead of over compensating?
Hey Now! @HeyNowTrucker
Tweeted on May 12, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Via a tweet from In Chains @InChainsInJail.—Joe]
Concerns over the firearm industry’s marketing practices and accountability grew Thursday, prompting more proposed legislation, a day after chief executives of two leading gun manufacturers told Congress they bore no blame in the recent mass shootings.
House lawmakers introduced a measure that would direct the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the gun industry’s advertising and marketing practices. It is the latest attempt by federal legislators to hold gun companies responsible after the massacres in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas.
Melissa Chan
July 28, 2022
Concerns grow over gun industry’s accountability after CEOs tell Congress they bear no blame in mass shootings
[In related news Democrat lawmakers dismissed as “ridiculous” an amendment to include spoons and forks in the FTC investigation. This is despite spoons and forks being used in almost all obesity related deaths totalling 100s of times more deaths than “assault weapons”. This comes amid growing claims that people would be much safter if the general population did not have access to high capacity feeding devices instead of using chopsticks.—Joe]
We’ve seen the Supreme Court is no longer an instrument of justice.
Malcolm Nance
July 23, 2022
GOP Will ‘Defund Every Component of the U.S. Government’ If It Becomes Party in Power, Ex-MSNBC Analyst Warns
[He says this as if this were a bad thing.
The job of SCOTUS is the interpretation of the constitution, laws legally enacted, and make sure those laws are appropriately applied. Those laws may or may not have anything to do with his, mine, or anyone else’s vision of “justice”.—Joe]
The DC District Court is going to hate this. It has generally been very supportive of DC’s rights-infringements, but NYSRPA v. Bruen is very, very clear.
Well done, Mr. Heller.
Carl Bussjaeger
July 10, 2022
Dick Heller is Suing DC again
[It is a very slow process. But it is working. Give it a decade or so and perhaps then we can start prosecuting the criminals and speed things up.—Joe]
Via email from JHardin:
Just getting SO tired of “where does the 2nd Amendment say anything about *guns*?”
After we get machine guns and other NFA weapons secured without taxes we need artillery.
Stop lying about the causes of “gun violence” and pushing laws that enable rapists, murderers, and sex traffickers
Your selfish demands endanger lives of women, minorities, & marginalized communities
sacrebleu14 / SA Hinchcliffe (@sacrebleu141)
Tweeted on July 22, 2022
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Lawyers seeking to invalidate a Wisconsin-based YouTube celebrity’s gun crime indictment are citing a recent Supreme Court decision over gun rights, calling the state’s 78-year-old law regulating machine guns unconstitutional.
Attorneys for Matthew Hoover, a Wisconsin gun dealer whose YouTube channel has nearly 151,000 subscribers, have asked a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida to dismiss his January indictment with Clay County, Florida, resident Kristopher Ervin, who was charged last year with selling illegal machine gun conversion equipment online.
Hoover’s lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard earlier this month to rule that the National Firearms Act, a 1934 law restricting machine gun ownership by creating a tax license requirement on them, is at odds with the Constitution’s Second Amendment right to bear firearms.
Kaelan Deese
July 19, 2022
Celebrity YouTuber cites Supreme Court gun ruling in bid to dismiss machine gun charges
[This is a little bit earlier than I would have liked to see a challenge to machine gun law. I would prefer we had “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines securely protected then work our way on to suppressors and finally machine guns.—Joe]
Today U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore issued a temporary restraining order against the ban on so-called “assault weapons” recently enacted by the town of Superior, Colorado, in Boulder County. The case is Rocky Mountain Gun Owners v. Superior.
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Like several other towns in Boulder County, Superior recently outlawed semiautomatic centerfire rifles that have at least one supposedly bad characteristic, such as an adjustable stock; various semiautomatic shotguns; various semiautomatic handguns; and magazines with a capacity of over 10 rounds.
It was obvious that such arms are “commonly used by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,” which is the Supreme Court’s rule from District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) for which arms are protected by the Second Amendment.
David Kopel
July 22, 2022
Colorado U.S. District Court issues TRO against magazine and gun ban
[And so it begins!—Joe]
Democrats have guns, too. We just don’t jerk off with them in public.
John Collins @Logically_JC
Tweeted on April 26th, 2022
[It’s not only another Markley’s Law Monday, it is another science denier!
Democrats obtain theirs illegally then commit crimes with them.
Via a tweet from In Chains@InChainsInJail.—Joe]
Debt is likely to grow exponentially in the next 5-10 years, as the world experiences hyperinflation. But we must also remember that as commodities such as food and energy plus many raw materials like precious metals go up exponentially, all the bubble assets (stocks, bonds and property) will implode in real terms.
Egon von Greyerz
July 13, 2022
BEWARE OF MARKETS FULL OF FOOL’S GOLD
[We live in interesting times.
Prepare appropriately.—Joe]
Republicans who claim to support the Second Amendment voted not only to continue punishing people for exercising the rights it guarantees but to increase the penalties they face. So did Democrats, despite their avowed concern about excessively severe sentences and racial disparities.
This is what bipartisan compromise means for members of Congress: I will compromise my principles if you compromise yours.
Jacob Sullum
July 20, 2022
A New Gun Law Reflects the Worst Instincts of Both Parties
[I gave up on the legislative process for removing restrictions on our rights years ago. Instead I donate thousands each year to organizations (SAF and FPC) which are getting things done in the courts.—Joe]
There is NO WAY that this court is going to rule in ANY way that could expand our rights under the Second Amendment. The right of a citizen to own AND POSSESS the means of self defense makes it exceedingly difficult and often dangerous for those in power to wield power. Disarming us so they can rule with impunity is their NUMBER ONE AGENDA. And there is quite literally nothing the commies in power won’t do to achieve that goal….including murdering a SCOTUS justice if required. And compared to killing a judge packing a few more quisling puppets onto the bench is small potatoes.
Dan
May 1, 2021
Comment to
[This was in in regard to NYS Rifle and Pistol Association V. Superintendent of NYS Police (No. 20-843) which was decided 14 months later on June 23, 2022.
I realize progress is excruciatingly slow to the point it seems as if it is hopeless, but the court system is working for us.—Joe]
Via Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith:
It’s isn’t exactly new information. This was pretty clear, if not the 1960s, then, by the 1970’s. But in this case I give the meme maker a lot of slack for poetic license.
There is only one outcome: The Supreme Court affirming that there is no right to carry a firearm outside of your home this meaning that there is no right to self-defense outside your home.
In the one in a trillion chance they rule for us the scope will be so narrow it will be rendered worthless and meaningless.
Shawn
April 27, 2021
Comment to Quote of the day—Independent Firearms Owners Association
[This was in in regard to NYS Rifle and Pistol Association V. Superintendent of NYS Police (No. 20-843) which was decided 14 months later on June 23, 2022.
I was pretty sure things were going go conclusively in our favor. I was certain enough that I offered to make a small bet with him. This would have been the first I had made since the one with Caleb back in 2008.
If you wish to stand by the odds given I would like to make a small bet with you.
The offer was silently declined. I really don’t understand why. I was only going to bet a single penny.—Joe]
I like living in the future.
I suspect this is the same or nearly the same technology I have referenced before.
Scientists are working on a drug that lets you live for 200 years
Adding another 100 years to your lifespan might be the stuff of science fiction but scientists are working on a miracle drug that would make it a reality.
The drug, taken in pill form, works by eliminating cells that contribute to the ageing process in the human body, thus potentially doubling our lifespan.
Human ageing is hurried along by cells called ‘zombie cells’, scientifically known as senescent cells. These cells stop dividing over our lifespan, accumulate inside our bodies, and eventually release compounds that speed up ageing.
The drug has been tested on mice in a 2020 trial and the result was improved physical function and extended health and lifespan. Scientists are now working on replicating the result in humans.
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The pills are reportedly already in the human trial stage and could very well hit the market within the next ten years.
Revolutionary technological development is frequently “ten years” away for several decades. I’m hoping I live long enough to hitch a ride but it may not be ready until my children ready to taken advantage of it.
* Deliberate reference to an obscure television show I used to watch
I disagree that something like Jan6th “shouldn’t happen again” in the United States.
It’s a feature, not a flaw.
Doesn’t mean the protestors were right. It does mean that if you send signals of fraud to the American public (real or not), the crowd is coming.
Every time.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Tweeted on July 19, 2022
[I can see that.—Joe]
Via John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr:
Forty-yard shots, on a (probably) moving target, who will be returning fire with a rifle if you miss and getting eight hits out of ten shots is awesome!
I think we have a new USPSA stage design coming out this weekend.
