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Old 01-31-2023, 19:06   #1711
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'"for the children''
Whenever I read that there is such a sense of optimism...
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Old 02-01-2023, 09:46   #1712
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“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. … Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Thomas Jefferson, “Commonplace Book,” quoting 18th-century criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1774-1776

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. … The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” — Patrick Henry, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778

There is only one reason people in power wish to disarm citizens. Control and power.
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Old 02-01-2023, 15:27   #1713
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There is only one reason people in power wish to disarm citizens. Control and power.
Meaning they want to do something to you for which you would otherwise shoot them.
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Old 02-01-2023, 18:14   #1714
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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

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True in the 1700's and still true today
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Old 02-01-2023, 18:43   #1715
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Our founding fathers possessed a helluva lot more wisdom than any of today's politicians. Thanks to all who shared the above quotes.
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Old 02-02-2023, 20:55   #1716
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Federal District Judge lays TRO on NJ carry restrictions

NJ carry law (post-Bruen) gets smacked temporarily; certainly her verbage and rationale seems solid to me.
9 minutes (including the presenter's requisite shilling for channel sponsor). The contention was over the broad list of restricted areas.

Here's the video.

Drip, drip.
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Old 02-03-2023, 08:12   #1717
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NJ carry law (post-Bruen) gets smacked temporarily; certainly her verbage and rationale seems solid to me.
9 minutes (including the presenter's requisite shilling for channel sponsor). The contention was over the broad list of restricted areas.

Here's the video.

Drip, drip.
With the compliance of the NRA, gun control advocates used incrementalism to get what is in place today. Rolling back incrementally will work, although I'd rather just have SCOTUS have to rule on the Constitutionality of the NFA and the subsequent powers given to the ATF to infringe upon the 2A.
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Old 02-04-2023, 22:29   #1718
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Pot smokers can possess firearms:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...18991.36.0.pdf

The important part of this is the fact that the burden is on the government to produce an historical analog for any form of gun control.
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Old 02-05-2023, 16:15   #1719
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Pot smokers can possess firearms:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...18991.36.0.pdf

The important part of this is the fact that the burden is on the government to produce an historical analog for any form of gun control.
Those who indulge in alcohol can legally own firearms, why not pot heads?
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Old 02-09-2023, 07:05   #1720
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….’To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the law abiding gun owner that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless”……

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Old 02-23-2023, 07:55   #1721
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A Closer Look at the Pivotal Bruen Decision

I think there's some good analysis in this piece, worth reading.

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen decision (issued June 23, 2022) was a pivotal ruling. Following up on the District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and the McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) decisions, Bruen reaffirmed private gun rights, quite solidly. Up until those three decisions, the Supreme Court had conspicuously ignored taking up any Second Amendment cases, for more than 50 years. But now, the highest court has made it quite clear that the right to keep and bear arms is nigh-on absolute.

I’ve mentioned the Bruen decision before in SurvivalBlog. But today, I’d like like to examine it more closely.

The majority opinion for Bruen was written by one of my heroes, Justice Clarence Thomas. He had previously lamented that the Second Amendment had been treated as “a disfavored right.” But in the 2022 decision, Justice Thomas set things write. He forthrightly wrote that the only gun regulations that can be deemed constitutional are ones that don’t infringe on conduct that is plainly covered by the text of the Second Amendment and that are “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition.” This part of Bruen means that any gun law enacted at any level must have a demonstrable parallel in regulations that were in place at the time of the ratification of the Bill of Rights — meaning circa December, 1791. Thus, Bruen sets a very high bar for legislators to hurdle. If lawmakers cannot cite a similar law that existed after the War of Independence but before December, 1791, then any statute pertaining to arms of any description would be unconstitutional!
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FIRING THE OTHER BARREL
Just days after the Bruen decision was handed down, the Supreme Court also issued a decision in the West Virginia v. EPA case. This case will have a profound effect on executive branch agency rulemaking. By reaffirming that only congress can make new federal laws, the Supreme Court has effectively tied the hands of the “alphabet soup” agencies (EPA, ATF, OSHA, MSA, HUD, DOE, et cetera) in issuing any major rules that amplify or supersede existing laws. Thus, the ATF’s recent absurd redefinition of “frame or receiver” and their repeated waffling on pistol arm braces will almost surely be ruled as executive branch overreach. (Arm-braced pistols didn’t somehow magically become “short-barreled rifles” just because a man from a different political party took office as president.)
Based on Bruen...the NFA and subsequent gun control laws are unconstitutional.
Based on WV vs EPA...the ATF can't be making up gun control rules as they see fit.
Too bad that both the NFA/GCA can't quickly be brought to SCOTUS for a ruling to strike them down based upon Bruen. As well as SCOTUS striking down the ATF's arbitrary rule making which creates law breakers.
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Old 03-04-2023, 11:37   #1722
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Brick by brick, gun control is being dismantled.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...4593.154.1.pdf

From the decision:

“Doubtless, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) embodies salutary policy goals meant to protect vulnerable people in our society. Weighing those policy goals’ merits through the sort of means-end scrutiny our prior precedent indulged, we previously concluded that the societal benefits of § 922(g)(8) outweighed its burden on Rahimi’s Second Amendment rights. But Bruen forecloses any such analysis in favor of a historical analogical inquiry into the scope of the allowable burden on the Second Amendment right. Through that lens, we conclude that § 922(g)(8)’s ban on possession of firearms is an “outlier[] that our ancestors would never have accepted.” Id. Therefore, the statute is unconstitutional, and Rahimi’s conviction under that statute must be vacated.”
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Old 03-04-2023, 13:23   #1723
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Brick by brick, gun control is being dismantled.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...4593.154.1.pdf

From the decision:

“Doubtless, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) embodies salutary policy goals meant to protect vulnerable people in our society. Weighing those policy goals’ merits through the sort of means-end scrutiny our prior precedent indulged, we previously concluded that the societal benefits of § 922(g)(8) outweighed its burden on Rahimi’s Second Amendment rights. But Bruen forecloses any such analysis in favor of a historical analogical inquiry into the scope of the allowable burden on the Second Amendment right. Through that lens, we conclude that § 922(g)(8)’s ban on possession of firearms is an “outlier[] that our ancestors would never have accepted.” Id. Therefore, the statute is unconstitutional, and Rahimi’s conviction under that statute must be vacated.”
Nice when it's made apparent and the subject of the review isn't the most stellar dipstick on the planet.



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The Second Amendment is not “a second-class right.” Bruen, 142 S.
Ct. at 2156. It is not “subject to an entirely different body of rules than the
other Bill of Rights guarantees.”

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18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) disarms individuals based on civil protective
orders—not criminal proceedings. As the court today explains, there is no
analogous historical tradition sufficient to support § 922(g)(8) under Bruen
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Old 03-05-2023, 07:22   #1724
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I have no faith in government doing the right thing when it comes to sincerely securing the rights, freedoms, and liberties of American citizens

while the courts are doing on thing - the administration will surely continue to try and undermine the constitution by trying to make gun control a United Nations Treaty issue that the current puppets will glad sign the USA up as signatories to some half assed "anti-gun" global security peace and butterflies treaty

...of course, that could NEVER happen in todays political landscape now - could it
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Old 03-08-2023, 10:38   #1725
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New Jersey throws a temper tantrum and irritates judge.

This guy sums it up well.
There’s a link to the entire docket in the video description.

https://youtu.be/ljYtl-SuV1I
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