Source.

A federal appeals court’s Thursday ruling could force the Supreme Court to decide if suppressors and magazines fall under the definition of “arms.”

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday in Comeaux v. United States that suppressors fall under the category of “arms” and are protected under the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment Foundation noted the “circuit split,” when two appellate circuits disagree on similar cases, in a series of posts on X, while SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Konstadinos Moros specifically mentioned the Ninth Circuit case Duncan v. Bonta.

“There is now a circuit split on whether suppressors are arms,” Moros posted. “This is of critical importance to those of us in states that totally ban them. While everyone else is arguing about whether registration is constitutional, we can’t even register them under the NFA if we wanted to!”

So what? The cowardly SCOTUS will ignore the circuit split just like they’ve ignored trampling 2A rights by failing to grant certiorari to AR ban cases.

Reminder: I still favor a complete 1-for-1 swap between the Fifth Circuit and the supreme court.

David Codrea.

“The Court is currently persuaded that both the history and practice surrounding Sec. 13 establish no individual right to possess military style weapons by members of the unorganized militia,” Glover states.

“The public is entitled to the implementation of laws” created by the representatives and approved by the Governor, Glover concludes. If the ban is struck down later, “the balance between the legislature judiciary is maintained [but] to enjoin the legislature preliminarily is not… in the public interest.”

He’s left the door the chicken coup wide open. All weapons are or were once used in military endeavors and thus have military style at some point, from knives to shotguns (see Marine Corps operations in Now Zad, Afghanistan), pistols, bows, bolt action rifles, high powered scopes, etc., etc.

That’s intended, by the way. The judge wants to leave the door open for the legislature to ban all firearms whether for militia use or not.

Cowboy State Daily.

While investigating a poaching case against a Utah hunting guide, wildlife officials found a video on his cellphone showing him shooting a compound bow at cattle.

In the video, one of the cows jumps after he releases an arrow, as if it might have been struck. The condition of the cattle remains “unknown,” Chase Pili, captain of administrative services for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR), told Cowboy State Daily.

Pili said he wasn’t sure when the video — which was released Friday by the DWR — was taken, but charges were filed in the case in February.

[ … ]

The man was under investigation for allegedly poaching a deer, DWR reported. Investigators executed a search warrant on his cellphone and discovered a video of him shooting at cattle.

“In addition to significant legal fees, the suspect now faces a long-term suspension of both his hunting and guiding licenses,” the agency says.

Good grief.

The man is a sociopath.

Source.

A flesh‑eating fly thought eradicated decades ago has been found in Texas, its first return to the United States in generations.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of New World screwworm in a 3-week-old calf in Texas on June 3, marking the first known U.S. case in decades and the closest the parasite has come to reestablishing itself north of the Mexico border since its eradication in the 1960s.

The answer to this is clear and the solution easy.

So you kill the cartel boss who’s extorting money for the USDA flights. Then when you try another flight and some cartel big wig tries to extort money from you, you send folks to kill him too. And so on. Until you reach the end of cartel bosses who want to perish because of fly drops.

There is no real problem that can’t be solved in this manner. The other option is to let our cattle herds be eaten alive and forswear ever eating beef again.

Which will it be?

But we won’t do that because the U.S. has become a nation of effeminate cowards.

Cowboy State Daily.

A Wyoming man is apologizing for tossing, kicking and stabbing a coyote in a controversial video that went viral last week.

Aron Snyder posted a video statement on social media over the weekend in which he says the coyote video was taken in Texas in 2019 or 2020.

He said that he finished off the wounded coyote with a knife because he didn’t have a firearm with him at the time. He also admits that the video is “a very bad optic.”

No. It’s not a “very bad optic.” Optics has nothing whatsoever to do with anything.

I don’t believe him. Here’s why. He apparently had enough gun to shoot the Coyote to begin with. Then he expects me to believe he suddenly lost his firearm?

A man who will do this to an animal will do it to a human.

Source.

Video captured the moments after Los Angeles police fatally shot a dog that was wearing a New York Knicks jersey as officers were responding to calls of a screaming woman — screaming which turned out to be a celebration of the Knicks winning the NBA championship.

Shortly after the Knicks won the NBA Finals on Saturday, the Los Angeles Police Department shot and killed the dog while responding to an unrelated incident, the LAPD said in a news release on Tuesday.

The LAPD said it was responding to a radio call about a “screaming woman” in Canoga Park, a Los Angeles neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

When the person reporting the screaming directed officers to an apartment unit, a resident opened the door to the responding officers, the LAPD said. Beside her was what the LAPD described as a “large dog” barking at officers.

“The officers asked her to secure the dog, and the resident closed her door momentarily. She re-opened the door, and the dog exited the apartment,” the release states. “Once outside of the apartment, the dog charged at one of the officers, resulting in an Officer-Involved Shooting (OIS).”

I don’t believe them. It was a Doodle.

Cops worldwide are the most cowardly, ignorant, and uneducated of any humans.

But what sort of moron screams over grown men playing little boy’s games?

Shooting News.

In the last 17 months, the Trump administration has delivered win after win for the nation’s most ardent gun-rights advocacy groups, chipping away at dozens of federal regulations. While many of these efforts target regulations from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — the law enforcement agency within the Justice Department tasked with regulating the nation’s millions of firearms — the administration’s work stretches across the executive branch.

Supporters of tighter gun restrictions have pilloried the Trump administration, saying officials are acting recklessly and could endanger the public with a wholesale rollback of regulations. But gun rights advocates who portrayed the Biden administration as trampling on the Second Amendment have praised the current administration’s actions as a needed corrective.

Trump vowed on the campaign trail to be a pro-Second Amendment president and pledged that, under his leadership, “no one will lay a finger on your firearms.” He said he would roll back Biden-era ATF regulations and received the backing of the big gun rights groups.

Right. That’s why we’re still fighting to get access to the SCOTUS on an AR ban case. Apparently, the DOJ hasn’t had the guts and fortitude to demand certiorari for any AR ban cases.

And this is why we got the big, ugly, awful bill without the hearing protection act. Because the administration is the most pro-2A administration in history.

Right.

I’m having trouble making comments show. I’m not sure why.

I have been absent from writing for a while. I have been trying to finish a paper for publication and presentation at a nuclear engineering conference. It has been time consuming. By the way, other than Joe and Wes, not many of you have asked about my status.

However, I wanted to mention a few things. I will be more frequent with deletion of comments in the future. This sidebar activity of the professional paper has been a good a welcome relief from what has become the burden of this web site.

Concerning the post Of Fools and Fudds, most of the comments are unthinking and conveyance of stupid memes (like “we’re not going to vote our way out of this”). Meanwhile, the SAF has to take up a legal fight with the U.S. Virgin Islands over possible new gun control, the Firearms Policy Coalition and Gun Owners of America have to take up all sorts of fights with virtually everyone in America over their new efforts at gun control – in the courts, no less, not where the fight should be, or at least not where the first line of defense should be. And in Virginia, the VCDL has to take up the fight in Virginia via the courts. But local prosecutors and some (not all) Sheriffs who refuse to enforce the new Virginia gun ban is incomplete. Sheriffs refusing the enforce confiscation can’t force FFLs to sell guns to anyone.

So while gun owners sit on comfortable couches and parrot stupid memes rather than vote, communists around the country become elected to office and make it more difficult to exercise God given rights. Apparently, only the communists understand politics. But it’s not about you. It’s about your progeny and those who come after you. While you may have the firearms and ammunition you want or think you need, the young ones who come behind us now must fight to procure them and the training to use them. Whether AR confiscations occur in Virginia or not, they cannot be purchased in light of the new laws. Neither can anyone procure them from adjacent states even under the current rules because no FFL will sell to Virginia residents.

I call it laziness, and I’m right. Leaving this to the courts is stupid and lethargic. I have never said that the ballot box was the last option. It’s the first option before the jury box and ammunition box. With the number of gun owners in America who do not vote (into the millions), we could be the most powerful lobby in the country. Rather, we have become a laughingstock while we circle the wagons and make it even worse for ourselves.

But Christ made His position plain. If you can’t be faithful in the small things, He will not even give you the opportunity to be faithful in the larger things (Luke 16:10-13). Quod erat demonstrandum.

I’m not stupid, and neither are you. I think through these things and I expect you to do the same. In the comments, don’t speak back to me like you think I’m stupid.

Alloutdoor.

The Henry Lever Action Supreme Rifle, Guns & Ammo’s Rifle of the Year, just got a new chambering. The LASR is now available in .450 Bushmaster, and for hunters in straight-wall cartridge states, this is the addition that makes the platform genuinely field-ready for big game. The .223 and .300 BLK variants were already out there, but .450 Bushmaster brings the kind of terminal performance that matters when you need to put something large and unpleasant on the ground at deer season distances.

The .450 Bushmaster LASR runs an 18-inch free-floated blued steel barrel and ships with a DuraMag Stainless Steel 10-round magazine. The platform is MSR-magazine compatible, so if you want to push capacity beyond 10 rounds you have options. The match-grade trigger breaks at 4 pounds out of the box and is user-adjustable within a 1-pound range using the included hex key, which is a legitimately useful feature for a hunting rifle that might need to be tuned for gloved hands in cold weather.

Okay, well, nice job, I guess. But I’m still waiting for a traditional non-box-magazine-fed 460 S&W and 500 S&W model. Why am I having to wait for so long?