Civil War Arms Collection Order Raises Historical & Contemporary Questions

My primary interest in this is to determine where Wheeler got off ordering arms to be surrendered, and what would have happened had a gun owner told him to go pound sand. [More]

It looks like habeas corpus may not have been the only thing Mr. Lincoln sanctioned suspending...

Confronted Bully Backs Down

N.J. GOV. MURPHY BACKS DOWN, ALLOWS GUN SHOPS BACK OPEN IN SAF VICTORY [More]

That means Murphy knew his position was unlawful but tried to abuse his powers of office to bully it through anyway.

Think about the character of that kind of character. And the majority of New Jersey voters are evidently fine with that.

Last Night on Armed American Radio

Classic AAR Roundtable with David Codrea, Neil McCabe and Brad Premo [Listen]

ICYMI. Fun as always.

Welcome to the Party, Pals

Attorneys for the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a federal civil rights lawsuit in California have filed a revised complaint, adding to the list of defendants to include the City of Los Angeles and Mayor Eric Garcetti, and the City of Burbank and City Manager Justin Hess. [More]

Good. I hope California gun owners do more than bellyache on forums and help with the legal costs.

Now when is the Trump administration going to make good on its commitment and start protecting critical establishments that reopen in defiance of local orders? If Garcetti blatantly violated other civil rights, DOJ would dispatch agents to stop him quickly enough, and without teeth, such proclamations become mere political pandering.

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With the caveat that I'm not a doctor nor do I play one on TV, this makes about as much intuitive sense as anything I've seen.

[Via Carlos Perdue]

Work It Out Privately

Child Custody Conditions Restricting Parents' Speech and Gun Storage [More]

Bring the state into it and dead poodles are the least of your worries. 

You'd think survivalists would know that.

On a related note, there's a reason why I only refer to my guys as feral sons Uday and Qusay and have learned not to post current pictures from which they can be identified. If they want to enter the pit it will be their decision, not mine.

[Via Michael G]

Some Good News for a Change

Globalism gone bust: Italians burn EU flag, vow to leave EU over EU's lousy coronavirus response [More]

It's just a shame it takes people dying to see for themselves that "progressive" promises result in catastrophe when reality decides its had enough.

[Via Michael G]

It Couldn't Be More Obvious

“You see, that’s what’s wrong with our community right now.” [More]

Yes, I believe I do.

[Via bondmen]

TMI

Dem Rep. Thompson: I Don’t Think Gun Stores Are ‘Necessary Businesses’ [More]

He should have stopped at "I don't think."

[Via bondmen]

Every Silver Lining's Got a Touch of Gray

The shooting is Tulsa’s 13th homicide of 2020. [More]

Way to buzz kill after grudgingly being forced by the facts to admit it was a lucky number this time.

[Via bondmen]

It's Academic

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I have to admit a certain qualified admiration for trough feeders who figured out a way to get paid for this.

[Via bondmen]

Forbidden Knowledge

Gun-Rights Activist Releases Blueprints for Digital Guns - Cody Wilson calls the move impervious to legal challenge [More]

I know it's impervious to moral challenge, but I'm not sure I'd bet on "legal."

And now, here's Anoushka Pinto of MEAWW to bring in the PSH for those of you who don't subscribe to WSJ and like your "news" peppered with hand-wringing anti-gun editorializing.

[Via bondmen]

No Time Like the Present

De Blasio says not “time to look backwards” at his Wuhan coronavirus failures [More]

What personal cowards these people who would disarm us prove to be. When they get caught and they know they're wrong, they act like children desperate to escape the consequences of their misbehavior.

[Via Michael G]

Bullet Points

An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for definitions, for persons not to possess, use, manufacture, control, sell or transfer firearms, for sale or transfer of firearms, for Pennsylvania State Police, for firearm sales surcharge, for Firearm Records Check Fund, for retail dealer required to be licensed and for licensing of dealers, providing for ammunition purchase authorization permits, establishing the Ammunition Safety and Enforcement Fund and providing for transporting ammunition into this Commonwealth. [More]

With "Republicans" like Thomas Murt, who needs Democrats? Until gun owners make sure the GOP understands that, the betrayals will continue.

[Via Geoffrey H]

Runs for the Border

Kathy Griffin tried to cut in line for COVID test, turns out she had diarrhea after Mexico trip [More]

What a surprise. And what an apt ailment.

If someone called her a stupid, horse-faced c***, could they be sued for libel, or would a truth defense with "loser pays" be a deterrent?

I ought to do a pool on which new "husband" decides he just can't stomach it anymore and sues for what he came for in the first place: Kathy's or Amy's.

Rhymes with 'Coup'?

Dr. Fauci In New England Journal Of Medicine: Coronavirus Less Severe Than The Flu [More]

So after people's lives, jobs, businesses, and the economy are destroyed, along with the "Republican form of government" the Constitution was supposed to guarantee us, can we expect Emily Litella to come out?

Meanwhile, on the other side of the bipolar information machine:

The coronavirus outbreak could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert warned on Sunday...

[Via DvD]

Intended Primarily

Ohio sets all-mail primary April 28: How to request a ballot [More]

Looks like I'm out of a job this time around.

And with the Democrats playing their "disenfranchised" shenanigans for all they're worth, it's important that gun owners put their cynicism aside and make this minimal effort.

Help Wanted, Inquire Within

We are a group of volunteers working tirelessly to keep all of our constitutional rights. We need your contributions to move forward to keep the citizens of Wake County and others from having their rights stripped away. [More]

The suit they're paying for doesn't come from a Beverly Hills tailor.

Some Things Never Change

Allow me to weigh in a bit.  I’ve never seen or heard of this guy (“Caleb” from Gun Nuts Media – I have no idea if that’s his real name or a nom de guerre).  I have visited his site once as you’ll see below, and I’ll never visit again. [More]

Huh. You should'a asked me.

Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe

A federal judge ordered 10 illegal aliens under Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in New Jersey to be released, finding that their underlying health conditions makes them vulnerable to coronavirus. [More]

And we would expect anything less from an embedded ObamaDemocrat on the federal bench?

[Via Michael G]

Titles of Nobility

Harry and Meghan 'will beg Donald Trump for secret service protection' after LA move [More]

Well, there's "royalty" and there are "commoners." It's right there in the Constitution, isn't it?

Remember what Mr. Paine told us?

Ah, good, he told them to pound sand.

Harry ain't the brightest bleeder from Buckingham, is he?

Wallis Simpso... uh... Meghan is counting on that.

[Via  An Hour of Wolves]

Playing TAPS for the Constitution

Don’t Exploit the COVID-19 Emergency to Push the Anti-Gun TAPS Act [More]

More pushback against sterile bee queen Amy Swearer and her Conservative, Inc. drones.

I just received more links than I know what to do with, so with the caveat that I may or may nor have even clicked on some of these,  let alone read them to see if I'm 100% with 'em, here ya go:

• Firearms Policy Conference HR 838
• Firearms Policy Conference TAPS
• Tenth Amendment Center
• Big League Politics
• GOA
• Crime Prevention Resource Center
• The Federalist Society
• The National Interest
• Ricochet

And you could always just go here and here...

[Via Felix B]

Cracking Down on Illegal Aliens

Rhode Island Police to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge [More]

Including house-to-house?  And if they find guns...?

God forbid they do it to non-Americans.

[Via Jess]

Tyrannized for Your Protection

Colorado is Tracking Your Location Using Metadata from Your Cell [More]

Hey, if you're not doing anything wrong...

[Via cydl]

Cowboying Up

Texas Cities and Counties Can't Close Gun Stores as Part of Coronavirus Closures - So opines the Texas AG, interpreting Texas state statutes (and not needing to consider the Second Amendment). [More]

What about these guys?

[Via Michael G]

Call to Arms

AOC MOCKED AFTER THROWING TANTRUM IN CONGRESS OVER BAILOUT PACKAGE - ‘WHO moves their arms like this when they speak?’ [More]

Have we forgotten so soon?

via Gfycat

[Via Jess]

Holder That Thought

VOTE AT HOME will allow more people to vote... [More]

Never mind which people...

You can tell from comments, if nothing else, this f***er will be forever associated with Gunwalker deaths.

[Via Tristan M]

We're the Only Ones On Again, Off Again Enough

Los Angeles Sheriff Reverses Course AGAIN!?, Orders Gun Stores to Close to the Public [More]

If he were obstructing another civil right, the Feds would arrest him.

I guess we get to see how serious they are about what's critical.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

Police should fire BATON ROUNDS at coronavirus curfew breakers says ex-police chief [More]

Just what those whose subversion made this inevitable need-- more power to employ violence against a victim pool of their creation.

[Via Jess]

The Other White Meat

The elephant is dead. Capitalism is gone, the republic is gone. What we have now is an opportunity to feed off of the dead elephant, to stockpile as much as we can, to distance ourselves from each other and prepare for the ultimate battle for survival.  [More]

The Republic: It's what's for dinner. At least per TL Davis.

Call me a cockeyed optimist, I'm not sure we're there yet. In any case, I'm not ready to abandon the remarkable system bequeathed us by the Founders even if those who rule appear to be, if most they rule are oblivious to what they've allowed themselves to be swindled out of, and if many who won't be ruled have concluded it's "Game over."

Come back to me when the lights go out.

The Hole Truth

What became clear during the Kavanaugh hearing is that Ford's story had holes in it. [More]

So does Reade's.

More Evil Right-Wingers

Wilson was linked to the neo-Nazi groups National Socialist Movement (NSM)... [More]

And that is what's being presented as another "one of us"...?

Maybe they're referring to the member of the central government's standing army...?

The FBI sure seems to be getting even dickier these days. Does anybody else get the feeling this Wray guy's first loyalty may not be to his oath?

That Was Uncalled For

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Except ad hominem is the logical fallacy resort of those trying to gin up mob support by hurling insults. Because Constitutionally speaking, Massie was right, and those manipulated to scream against a recorded vote because it's "their guy" doing it know not what they enable.

But hey, it's not like a voice vote has ever come back to bite us in the ass before, right, gun owners?

UPDATE:

John Lott writes a much-needed "In Defense of Congressman Thomas Massie."

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Scared Enough

‘Officers are scared out there’: Coronavirus hits US police [More]

Wait 'til it really hits.

Time for Some Commonsense Tooth Safety Laws

Man in coronavirus quarantine runs into street naked before biting woman to death [More]

Looks like I gotta add "teeth" to the list...

Besides, nobody except trained enforcers needs assault canines, designed only to rip through flesh...