Dean Weingarten has a good find at Ammoland.
Judge Eduardo Ramos, the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, has issued an Opinion & Order that a ban on stun guns is constitutional. A New York State law prohibits the private possession of stun guns and tasers; a New York City law prohibits the possession and selling of stun guns. Judge Ramos has ruled these laws do not infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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In September, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions published a tract titled “Extreme Risk Protection Orders: A Clergy Resource Guide” (extreme risk protection orders are the gun control advocates’ preferred term for red flag gun confiscation orders). The document was authored alongside groups including Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, Faith Leaders for Ending Gun Violence, and Jewish Women International.
Another author was the Presbyterian Office of Public Witness, which the document described as “the public policy information and advocacy office for the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).” The “progressive” PCUSA currently hosts the guide on its website. Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, who has put his version of religion at the forefront of his campaign, trained at a PCUSA seminary.
Astute gun rights supporters will know that the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health bears the name of billionaire gun control financier Michael Bloomberg. For his part, Bloomberg appears to believe he can dictate terms to the divine.
Here’s the deal, buddy boy. Run from churches like that. This is an easy problem to solve. Don’t ever hook up with folks like that under any circumstances. Don’t take vows of submission to elders, don’t let clergy know you have weapons, and don’t open the door to tyrants who want to take your guns.
But this doesn’t surprise me about the PCUSA. They are lost, and have been for some time. Want to see an example of what I’m saying?
"We don’t use gendered language about God here, for good reason….’He’ ‘Father’ ‘Lord’ ‘He’ ‘Him’ ‘He’- I couldn’t even hear his message."
PCUSA ‘pastor’ explains how she couldn’t hear another man’s preaching because she was too upset/ distraught by the use of male pronouns. https://t.co/tg7b2v3DGp
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released an Open Letter and Frequently Asked Questions explaining how it will treat ownership, transfer, and transportation of the National Firearms Act (NFA) firearms for which Congress eliminated the making and transfer taxes in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Under ATF’s guidance, ATF will not enforce the requirements for individuals to apply and receive ATF approval before making or transferring short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors (silencers), and certain other concealable firearms known in the law as “any other weapons.” ATF also will not enforce the NFA’s registration, tax-stamp or related requirements for those covered items. The $200 tax remains in place for machine guns and destructive devices. The NFA requirements apply in full to those weapons. The guidance does not supersede state and local laws that restrict NFA firearms.
I had previously stated that I thought this would create an inconsistency between the federal code and states laws that still required suppressors to be registered as NFA items (because of a lack of schema for registration in light of the court order). I was mistaken. This Q&A exists down below.
Will ATF permit individuals to file registration forms voluntarily?
Yes. ATF will continue to maintain the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record and approve all NFA forms for those who voluntarily wish to submit them.
So non-free states like the one I live in – NC – will have to get the law amended to take advantage of this court ruling, and that’s not a simple thing in NC where Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro tend to rule the roost.
Pathetic. Cowards, one and all. They have sought out the wrong sort of person to be LEOs, or to them, maybe the right sort of person. I suspect LE has redacted the audio.
H/T WiscoDave.
🚨BREAKING: I got the HeeHaw Shooting bodycam footage. This is the raw footage, as provided by prosecutors. Does this look justified to you? https://t.co/bVGiDn37Vj
This is AI generated, but I commend it to you — the entire video. If you’re a hunter, or even if you’re not, you will want to know the information in this video. In fact, if I had the energy, I’d try to round up the source studies it uses for the narration and study them myself. I find this interesting — and highly troubling.
BLUF: It’s very, very complicated. Also, as if you needed to be told, man is involved it its spread and probably was involved in its inception.
🚨BREAKING🚨 Solicitor General John Sauer just notified Congress “that @TheJusticeDept [will not] file an appeal” in GOA’s victory against the NFA, Silencer Shop v. ATF. ATF cannot force GOA members to register suppressors or short barrels EVER AGAIN. This is PERMANENT! 🇺🇸 https://t.co/46u7EbHSGl
Here is the problem. Many states – my own tyrannical state of NC – have laws that require form 4 to own a suppressor. Unless the DOJ makes clear in rule changes that they will not grant form 4s for suppressors, this is incomplete. But that may only be a partial victory. The state law needs to be amended to undo the requirement to seek ATF registration for suppressors.
I’m not sure of the chances of that happening in NC.
Because America is stupid. And I don’t want to hear that we need to shut down the A-10 program because those aircraft are slow and vulnerable to SAMs, and besides that, the AF boys want to fly sexy jets. Sexy jets are vulnerable to SAMs too.
You can’t argue to shut down the A-10 program while at the same time discussing a slower prop aircraft for things like UAVs (like the defense establishment has been). It just doesn’t work with me.
I remain convinced that it should be possible to simply swap out the Fifth Circuit for the SCOTUS. I have long advocated for that.
🚨BREAKING🚨
The Fifth Circuit just struck down the unconstitutional federal ban on purchasing handguns across state lines.
“The Ban sullies the plain text of the 2A & is inconsistent with the nation’s tradition of firearms regulation, dating back to the founding era.” pic.twitter.com/1yLcSokXNT
