Intervenor Motion Filed in New York NRA Case

 

The motion, filed by NRA Board of Directors candidate by petition, Frank Tait, and member Mario Aguirre, president of Brock’s Gap Training Center, seeks to ensure that the membership is not held accountable for the actions of association officers and “to protect their rights as individuals and as NRA members under the U.S. and New York constitutions as well as applicable New York statutes.” [More]

Protect the members and say goodbye to Wayne & Co.? That seems a lot fairer of a resolution than just letting Letitia burn the whole place to the ground.

Persistence Pays Off

Appellate court order is a win for gun owners, a loss for Nikki Fried - NICS entry alone NOT sufficient to deny carry license [More]

Florida Carry shares some positive news about a gun owner who wouldn't take "No" for an answer.

Surrounded

As we enter into the last days of the most destructive legislative session in Oregon history, the pace of the destruction is not slowing. [More]

Oregon Firearms Federation members are up to their necks in it and on their own. 

This is where beneficiaries enlist and allies help.

Payback

 Trump Endorses Lisa Murkowski’s GOP Challenger Kelly Tshibaka For 2022 [More]

I've seen him endorse far too many squishes and outright enemies over the years.

Good riddance if it works. 

Tshibaka looks promising:

I will be a strong voice in opposition to illegal immigration and, as the proud descendant of Americans who fought in virtually every major American conflict from the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War, I will be a tireless advocate for our military and our veterans. I will fight to preserve our Second Amendment right to bear arms and, as an unapologetically pro-life Alaska conservative, I will be a voice for the unborn. And I’m for America first, always.

Naturally, the left already has its knives out.

I just want to know if I'm pronouncing her name right.

[Via Mack H]

How the Sausage is Made

LEAKED AUDIO OF SEN. JOE MANCHIN CALL WITH BILLIONAIRE DONORS PROVIDES RARE GLIMPSE OF DEALMAKING ON FILIBUSTER AND JANUARY 6 COMMISSION [More]

This looks to me like someone is trying to discredit him and set him up on an ethics charge so they can kill the filibuster. If so, I think revolver came to the wrong conclusion.

Am I reading things right?

No Recount Needed

 Smith & Wesson: Ammo shortage shows no sign of improving [More]

That's one form of voting that can't be faked.

About That 'Great Victory'...

 Biden Is Cracking Down On Guns Again With AR-15 Pistol Ban, And He’s Using Heller To Do It [More]

Here's how.

And more...

[Via Mack H]

Exit Strategy

Pentagon to train departing service members to shun recruitment by 'anti-government' extremists [More]

You know, like VCDL...

[Via Jess]

Settled Science

 Rabid rock fans looking to celebrate a return to normalcy by taking in Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show later this month will be on the outside looking in if they’ve received the AstraZeneca vaccine, which hasn’t yet been authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration. [More]

So it hasn't been authorized yet it's still being administered?

What if they promise to use the wrong bathroom?

Less is More

 Black Americans laud Juneteenth holiday, say more work ahead [More]

Actually, doesn't another holiday for government trough-feeders mean less work?

And just like with disarmament edicts, "it's not enough." Once a beachhead is attained it's used as a base from which to launch the next incursion.

UPDATE: Think of this as "repurposing":

Changing the Algorithm

 I needed to go to Sipsey Street earlier today to check on something and experienced something I never have before: Searching for it on Google produces plenty of hits about it, but I'm not seeing a link to it, at least on the first page of hits.  Just a few days ago, the very first link that would come up would be the one that goes to the blog.

UPDATE: I guess I didn't make myself clear.  A link to SSI still exists, it's just that anyone searching for it on Google won't see it come up, at least on the first page of returns.

I Second the Motion

 CRT Can KMA [More]

Bravo!

Future Cat Ladies of America

 Six white female academics have posed as scholars of color in recent years [More]

That's OK-- as Ralph Northam proved, if you're a Democrat you can get away with blackface.

[Via Michael G]

UPDATE: What is it about crazy broads and academia?

Texas is On a Roll

 Texas is now the 15th Second Amendment Sanctuary State [More]

And as noted yesterday, he finally signed permitless carry.

And some other stuff, too.

[Via Michael G]

Your Tax Dollars at Work

 Brady Center Gets Second PPP Loan [More]

Them and a bunch of other grabbers.

Anybody else see the similarities of making all of us pay for it?

Confidential Insurrectionists

 Louie Gohmert (R-TX) spoke on the House floor about the January 6th insurrection and promoted a conspiracy theory that federal agents, including the FBI, were involved in planning and instigating the attack, saying that they “egged on” rioters. [More]

They won't even tell us the name of "the officer" who murdered Ashli Babbitt (a "hero cop" per Eric Swalwell) and their apologists at Forbes (no surprise there) dare couch questions as "a conspiracy theory"?

[Via Jess]

UPDATE: "Regime enforcers with badges..."

[Via Michael G]

Beside the Questions

 7 Questions David Chipman Still Needs to Answer [More]

I have an eighth, but no one in a position to ask it apparently wants to...

[Via Andy M]

UPDATE: 

ATF Nominee David Chipman’s Record Shows He Despises Americans And The Constitution 

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Unqualified Enough

 In April, a federal court categorically rejected that argument. It was already "clearly established," it said, that state actors may not beat an unarmed man hanging from a building and then tase him when he is unconscious. [More]

Who needs to have that pointed out to them, and are they really the "Only Ones professional enough" to carry guns?

[Via Michael G]

So Does This Go in the 'Win' Column or Not?

Illinois House passes new FOID bill, allows fingerprinted gun owners to have automatic renewals [More]

That's not without substantial controversy...

[Via Jess]

Home Rule

Rep. Ben Koppelman speaks on law allowing guns and ammunition to be sold out of homes, neighborhoods [More]

I'll bet the handwringers are fine with Mary Kay, Tupperware, and Amway...

[Via Jess]

A Rock and a Hard Place

 Soros Backs More Anti-Law and Order Candidates in 2021 [More]

So our choices are fascism or Marxism?

No one is interested in rights enforcement?

[Via Jess]

Speaking of Being Too Political...

 Biden IRS Declares Christian Activism Too Political For Non-Profit Status [More]

That won't slow Snuffy down none. And speaking of that, I note the use of "Vindicated!" here is pretty much the same as it meant with Holder.

I wouldn't say they've learned nothing since Lois Lerner. They've learned with Democrats in charge they can get away with whatever they want. With Republicans, too, for that matter.

[Via Mack H]

For the Children

 For Less Policing, Black Communities Need More Married Fathers [More]

But...but...but Newsweek selectively presents data to argue that's a racist "myth"...

[Via Mack H]

As the Net Closes

 It is such an obvious attempt to try to crush political dissent, you wonder if they thought no one was paying attention. [More]

Probably because most aren't. And of the ones that are, few will actually do anything about it.

I even have a name for that.

[Via Mack H]

'Who are the Militia? Are They Not Ourselves?'

If the founders were alive today, I believe they would be very concerned – because the Constitution is clear that the only militias protected by the Second Amendment are “well-regulated” units authorized and controlled by state governments, not a private citizen militia. [More]

Would that those even existed!

That said, Tench Coxe is probably a more reliable authority to gauge founding sentiment than left-wing Snopes, and everyone at the time (except the tyranny "loyalists") felt pretty good about Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. More to the point, no branch of government is legitimately, that is, Constitutionally, authorized to forbid private gatherings and training of armed citizens, and to do so would be to infringe on their right to bear arms as well as to freely associate and peaceably assemble.

[Via Michael G]

Extrajudicial Considerations

 The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left the entire Affordable Care Act intact in ruling that Texas, other GOP-led states and two individuals had no right to bring their lawsuit in federal court. The Biden administration says 31 million people have health insurance because of the law, which also survived two earlier challenges in the Supreme Court. [More]

Between this, punting on the election challenge, showing deliberate indifference to 2A, and other stuff, I'm starting to think the prime consideration here is to assess what would happen if they took the cases and the left lost, that is, to keep the cities from burning. 

Because they know disappointed "conservatives" have thus far not done that, as much as the Capitol set up is propped up as the benchmark for violent insurrection.

We're the Only Ones Resigned Enough

Entire Portland Police crowd control unit resigns after officer indicted on protest assault charge - The team consisted of approximately 50 officers. [More]

But they didn't really "resign" resign, if I can template off of Whoopi...

Wake me when that happens and I'll make popcorn.