And those things have ammo, if the dearth when shopping is to be believed, and the cost as well.

FWIW, I've seen unsolicited comments from ammo makers, including Win now running Lake City, that they're going as hard as they can, and that they haven't raised their price to the wholesalers or other suppliers. Demand is driving that and the retailers are the ones making those increases. Result is that $0.28/round 5.56 you stacked up awhile back appears to be the genius move of the year. "Look Honey!!! An investment that actually appreciated!"

:D

The Dems are primed to hit the road running...

I did not find any description other than the following:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-...-bill/127/text


Sponser: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]

For all of you guys in the MacDill area or other sunny locations...

https://m.flsenate.gov/session/bill/...text/filed/pdf

I'm fairly certain that it never makes it through the FL Senate, but you should be aware of the attempt.

Thank you (1VB)compforce.

It’s time that Constitutional Carry bills be considered in all free states that don’t already have them.

Thanks. I have engaged my state congressional members.

Just re-read the letter that started this thread. As pertinent and important as when it was first publsihed.

Seeing the letter elsewhere brought me to the site in July 2016, and I cannot express my gratitude enough to the QP's who authored and signed it.

Also thanks to all the QP's who graciously allow this old sailor to hang around these parts.

Here’s the text of the proposed bill:

A BILL
To provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of certain ammunition.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-.../text?r=17&s=1

Just comin' here to post & link that exact thing, thanks. I'm gettin' slow.
(and we've seen this bill before.)

;) Good job being on top of these bills and on this issue.

As stated in another thread, subjugation to socialism requires disarming Law Abiding American Citizens.

This is a must do for the Socialist Democratic Party.

Analysis of HR 127 by the Firearms Policy Coalition:
FightHR127.com: Stop HR 127 - Gun Licensing, Registration & Partial Ammo Ban

HR 127:
 

Communism is here The CCP & Zing Chow Zing wants the U S A to be like China when it comes to firearms....

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/02/n...ary-on-record/

January 2021 FBI NICS figure 4,288,240 reflects a 61.7 percent increase

Caniglia v Strom
 

https://americanmilitarynews.com/202...out-a-warrant/



https://www.scotusblog.com/case-file...iglia-v-strom/

Dont get your hopes up for that to have a 2a friendly outcome....

Agree. They will say it’s in the community’s best interest to seize the firearms.

Speaking of 2A, yesterday I decided to go with CCW Safe, a sort of 2A "insurance"...mostly for piece of mind. It's inexpensive enough, and supposedly they're pretty good.

I know it doesn't keep them from taking a weapon, but it may keep them from taking me...

I'm not wanting to use it, but it's there just in case..

All of us can have hopes dashed against the wall with No BOR absolute. Not my fundamental belief, a right given by GOD can't be given, changed or removed. John Locke.

I'll stand by the Brief Amicus Curiae of Gun Owners of America, Inc.,
Gun Owners Foundation, The Heller Foundation, and Conservative
Legal Defense and Education Fund in Support of Petitioner

"B. The Exercise of Second Amendment Rights Must Not Result in the Forfeiture
of Other Constitutional Rights.

The First Circuit’s decision violates the principle that the exercise of one constitutional right may not permissibly be conditioned on the forfeiture of another
constitutional right.

page 24.... For if the government could deny a benefit to a person because
of his constitutionally protected [rights], his exercise of those freedoms would in effect be penalized and inhibited.

This would allow the government to ‘produce a result which [it] could not command directly.’ ... Such interference with constitutional rights is impermissible.”

Id. at 597. Here, Petitioner was deprived of his Fourth Amendment right to be “secure in his house ... against unreasonable searches and seizures” because he exercised his Second Amendment right to “keep ... arms....”

After Heller, Respondents cannot prohibit Petitioner from exercising his Second
Amendment right to keep a firearm in his home for
self-defense, and the First Circuit may not allow the City to deprive Petitioner of the “benefit” of the warrant requirement so as to allow his firearms to be
seized.

Heller did hold 2A is based on "Text, History & Tradition"! Both in Heller and McDonald. :munchin

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketP...us%20brief.pdf

Text, history & tradition unfortunately doesn't matter to the despots invoking Parkland as their next rally point.

Here's the closing paragraph of WH's latest missive to Congress.
Full text of it here.

3D-printed firearms and liability for police shootings
 

https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/02/3...ice-shootings/

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, when a state attorney general can be pulled into court in another state and when a police officer is immune from civil liability for fatally shooting a passenger in a fleeing car.

Grewal v. Defense Distributed is a dispute between the attorney general of New Jersey and a Texas company that develops digital files used to manufacture 3D-printed guns. In 2018, the attorney general, Gurbir Grewal, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Defense Distributed, warning that distributing such files to New Jersey residents over the internet would violate New Jersey law. In response, the company sued Grewal in federal court in Texas. It sought an injunction barring Grewal from taking any enforcement action against the company, which it argued would violate the First and Second Amendments.

The Texas district court dismissed the lawsuit after finding that it had no personal jurisdiction over Grewal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed and ruled that the case could proceed. Grewal argues in his cert petition that the 5th Circuit’s decision is at odds with the Supreme Court’s case law on personal jurisdiction. He also claims that the 5th Circuit created a circuit split on the question whether state officials subject themselves to jurisdiction in other states merely by sending cease-and-desist letters across state lines.

City of Hayward v. Stoddard-Nunez arises from a police officer’s fatal shooting of a passenger in a fleeing car. In 2013, an officer in Hayward, California, attempted to stop a car on suspicion of drunk driving. After initially stopping in a parking lot, the driver refused to exit the car. Instead, he drove past the officer’s patrol car and fled the scene. The officer, who testified that the car swerved toward him as it fled, fired nine shots into the car, killing a passenger. The passenger’s next-of-kin sued the officer and the city under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, arguing that the officer violated the passenger’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures.

The district court dismissed the lawsuit, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reinstated it, concluding that a reasonable jury could find that the officer fired the fatal shot after the car had already passed him and posed little threat to the officer or the public. The officer and the city ask the Supreme Court to take up the case to resolve two issues: (1) the proper of level of generality that courts should use to assess whether an officer violated “clearly established law” for the purpose of deciding whether that officer is entitled to qualified immunity, and (2) whether a shooting of a passenger under these circumstances counts as a seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

We all are aware this argument concerning registration will be settled in the SCOTUS. Until then, a counter narrative just as powerful is the National Registration voter identification card, one that must be presented in order to vote. No exception. If they wish to register guns, then this must also be considered.

The socialist democrats would never win another election.

If you think SCOTUS will come to your rescue you’re smoking the Hopium Pipe

A list worth noting
 

Credit for this goes to AWR Hawkins in his (as usual) fine article over at Breitbart discussing the sure-to-come flailing over gun control, as called for by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

But for those who may want to find it from time to time I thought I'd include the article's list of shooting events that were conducted using firearms that had been acquired legally and through a background check. Given the task & purpose of 'the Letter' - now just over some 8 years ago - it seems worth contemplating.

Mike Lee questions Merrick Garland on the 2nd
 

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2102/22/cnr.06.html

I don't think there were any surprises in Garland's responses. Vague, but revealing.

That just proves that ALL guns are bad - more proof that the gubmint should disarm right wing extremists the same way the Earp's disarmed the McLaury's

I plan on following the law of it comes down to it. When asked on the forms. where the guns stored the answer will be in the ground. Your welcome to go look all you want in the state park. :D

What’s that old saying..... “When you feel it’s time to bury your guns, it IS time to dig them up....”

I'll plead the 5th. Right to remain silent.. :munchin

https://mailchi.mp/marylandshallissu...2?e=1845c97627..:lifter

I had many, many firearms after doing 34 years combined work between the military and law enforcement. But, good for me, I was able to turn every one of them back in once I retired. I'm so happy that I don't personally own any of those evil things so it will save the government time from having to check on me.

LYING:
 

It's a SIN to tell a lie to anyone, EXCEPT, THE FBI, LYING to them is a CRIME. Remember how the FBI came for Roger Stone, They brought CNN.

Exceptions are Lois Learner and HRC!

CNN kiddies should take note that there are plate & carrier sales going on all over. Results may differ according to parts of the country, your mileage may vary, not an actual spokesperson, void where prohibited in certain counties.

Communist Chinese Spy Diane Feinstein has introduced the following...

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/pub...9pjyOufQzdfsX0

The communist administrations first steps towards total control:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hou...11/id/1013443/


And we wonder why they are keeping troops in the capitol. I think the passivity in which their stolen election was received has confused them just a bit.

Feinstein introduced 2012 AWB
 

She's had that thing on the shelf for 30 years, and trots it out every 2 years since the first one sunset. Manchin from WV had better get himself a PSD because the Commie leadership in the Senate hates them some traitors.

They'll need to get accustomed to hearing "I will not comply. Your move."

CALIFORNIA FORCED TO COMPLY IN SHARP v. BECERRA RIFLE REGISTRATION CASE

After two years of litigation over a botched computer program to register so-called “assault weapons” in California, a settlement has been reached between the state and all parties involved, the Second Amendment Foundation revealed today.

The case is known as Sharp v. Becerra. In 2016, the California Legislature created a new “assault weapon” classification requiring registration. But there was a problem with the online registration process that prevented gun owners from actually complying before the July 1, 2018 deadline, so a lawsuit was filed by several parties including SAF, the Firearms Policy Coalition, Calguns Foundation, Firearm Policy Foundation and the Madison Society Foundation, along with several private citizens.

“Under this agreement,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “California must reopen the registration process for all individuals who possessed eligible firearms, and reimburse all plaintiffs. California DOJ is required to announce the re-opened registration period and provide notice to other known gun rights groups and law firms. This requirement especially applies to every person who called or emailed the DOJ to complain about being unable to register before or after the original deadline. The department must also conduct a public outreach campaign to notify the public about the reopened registration period.

“It’s fair to say our lawsuit prevented guns from being banned and confiscated, and their owners from being prosecuted,” he stated.

“The department must also accept paper submissions as an alternative,” he added, “on a form that gets the information required by the online registration process. It’s important that California DOJ under Xavier Becerra had to acknowledge its registration website was something of a disaster.

“As noted in the agreement,” Gottlieb continued, “hundreds of people actually contacted the California Department of Justice to seek technical assistance because they encountered problems trying to register online. When you consider the likelihood that many times the number of people who contacted DOJ became frustrated and didn’t contact the agency, we’re talking about a system breakdown that shouldn’t have happened. I’d call this an embarrassing loss and a huge setback for California gun control overall.

“Through this agreement,” he added, “all of the plaintiffs will recover our legal expenses and more importantly, thousands of honest California citizens will be able to comply with the law. DOJ must give gun owners 120 days’ advance notice that the system is re-opening.”

Note: At this point in time, I'm still "I will Not Comply".

They have also had the passage of time and, my wager, there are now more hardened hearts out there than before. How many decimal points can 0% compliance be carried out to?

The 46 administration is urging the scotus to clear the way for warrantless searches for gun confiscations.

Have we had enough yet?

For all the retards that believe the police and military will not follow orders, though blatantly unconstitutional, stop it! History is against you. Do you want me to start with the new york draft riots and work forward? Or the grazing land incident in Nevada and work back?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksib...h=4bc640272829