Archive for the 'Gun Control' Category

I learned today at AR15.com was down, and currently if you go to their site you get their backup website.

Ammoland gives a little more detail.

AR15.com Backup Site [is now] Live, Switching to First Amendment Friendly Site Registrar On Monday, January 11, 2021, I received notice from our site registrar that AR15.com had violated their terms of service and that AR15.com would be shut down immediately. The registrar’s decision to de- platform AR15.com was final and no method to appeal was offered.

It remains unclear specifically what content allegedly violated the registrar’s terms of service. However, I am happy to report that we have found a new, First Amendment-friendly site registrar and we have begun the process of transitioning AR15.com to the new registrar. We expect the switchover to take up to 5 days. During that time, our famous “AR15.com” URL will not be usable. Once the switchover is complete, AR15.com will be fully restored to normal function. In the meantime, I welcome freedom lovers and firearm enthusiasts to visit us at our temporary URL: www.ar15-backup.com. We will post on the backup site when the normal AR15.com has been completely restored.  ~ Juan Avila, President & Co-Founder, AR15.com.

I’m just keeping you posted.  These are the initial shots over the bow.  More to come.

Go Daddy (whomever that is) is responsible.  I consider it to be an unwise decision.

First up is VCDL.  Nothing has affected their web site, but their Facebook page is gone.  Permanently, I would guess.  I don’t know if they’re seeking a replacement.

Second, 2A Sanctuary Groups is being censored.  They now have a MeWe page.

H.R.127.

“To provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of certain ammunition.”

Also see Guns.com.

I’m sure everyone feels safer with that #off the streets.

#offthestreets this week pic.twitter.com/KDb8J2ZVhH

— Toronto Police Service Guns Seized #offthestreets (@TPSGunsSeized) January 4, 2021

NPR.

On the hot-button issues of abortion, guns and race, the court’s conservative majority is most likely to start moving aggressively next term and thereafter.

Will Roe v. Wade, the court’s 47-year-old abortion rights precedent, be overturned? There are two schools of thought on that. One is that the court will systematically hollow out the right to abortion so that it is a right on paper only.

The other school of thought is that leaving Roe a shell is not enough for those opposed to abortion. “There is, I think, a galvanizing view within the pro-life movement that the time has come to call the question,” observes New York University law professor Melissa Murray.

If Roe is to be overturned, however, it likely will take more than a year or two to come to fruition. Former Obama-era Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has said that he thinks it likely will happen within five years or so.

On guns, though, the court looks — for the first time — to have a clear majority that is hostile to gun regulation. Last term, the court once again punted, and punted again on the issue, declining to hear 10 gun-rights cases. Presumably, Chief Justice Roberts’ then-deciding vote was still in doubt.

But now, with Barrett newly on the court and Ginsburg gone, there appear to be five conservative votes ready to march down the path of expansive gun rights, and Second Amendment activists are teeing up new cases.

“I can tell you people are getting more aggressive,” says professor Blackman, a gun-rights advocate. Gun-rights groups “are emboldened to try to push new frontiers” now.

If we’re reminded of nothing else with this sorry lot of people, we’re reminded in 2020 of the traitorous, treacherous nature of the black-robed tyrants.

I’d just as soon they stay out of the second amendment.  Here is a prediction: they’ll do nothing positive for your liberties, and they may make it much worse.  I think people are fabulating support for gun rights that doesn’t exist within the judiciary.

They have a fundamentally different world and life view than you do.

Wheeeee … it’s a spending spree!  You can’t work, you’re going bankrupt, you have to wear a diaper over your face, we require you to sit at home and wait on the crumbs that fall from our table at the Congressional lunch room.

We know how to spend your money wisely.

They will do it until they fear you.

News from Virginia.

The aim wasn’t to reduce anything except liberty.

So I have two questions.  Where are all of those 2A sanctuary counties if they won’t stop this and defend the right of citizens to do person to person transfers without state approval?  And what the hell good are the sanctuary counties if they’re going to forget all about their commitments so quickly?

From “The Civil Rights Lawyer,” a West Virginia attorney.

Every one of these punks deserves to be stripped naked, frog-marched to the town square, and put in stocks.  Unfortunately, California won’t do that (and neither will most locales in America).  In California, they’ll be considered heroes of the community.

I do have one disagreement with the attorney.  This most certainly won’t happen as millions of gun owners try to register their pistol brace guns with FedGov.  Oh sure, there will be a few guys who do it, wives who are soccer moms, urbanite democrats, who do it because the woman of the house tells them to “register it or turn it in”).

Other than those few, noncompliance will trend towards 99%+.

TNR.

Almost everyone agrees that the ATF is in trouble. But this obscure federal agency may be President-elect Joe Biden’s best chance at having a real impact on gun policy—if he takes the opportunity to restore the beleaguered agency’s reputation and revive its mission. In fact, experts told The New Republic that the ATF may be Biden’s best bet at leaving a mark on federal gun policy without having to rely on an intransigent Congress. All agreed that the bureau has faced significant problems over the years, but they outlined a series of proposals they said Biden could push to breathe new life into the bureau and address gun violence.

They argue for focus on pistol braces, 80% lower receivers, audits of FFLs, etc.  I would surmise that even if the democrats don’t get the senate, they’ll peel off a few senators (e.g., Toomey, Cornyn come to mind) and get universal background checks.  If they grab the senate, of course, all bets are off.  There will be a renewed AWB, magazine capacity limits, etc.

All progressives are really totalitarians, and the sons and daughters of hippies weren’t reall liberal.  They were communists all along.  When the parents don’t believe in anything at all, the children don’t stop believing in God.  They just replace the God of the bible with the god of the state.

If this applies to you.  If not, I’m glad FPC is out there doing this.

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