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As a Matter of Fact, the Supreme Court Did Not Uphold the ATF’s Bump Stock Ban
First, denying cert in a case is not a ruling on the merits of that case. The decision not to take a case is not an explicit endorsement of a lower court’s ruling. …
Second, there is good reason in this instance why the Supreme Court may want to take a wait and see approach to how the law in this area develops in the lower federal courts.
At present, another bump-stock case, Cargill v.
Gun Meme of the Day: Dating App Edition
Gotta weed ’em out quick.
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Korean War Era Ammo: Even Stored Under Sub-Optimal Conditions, Every Round Fired Almost 70 Years Later
This past weekend, I had a chance to fire an M1 Carbine I recently found in the bottom of a lake. My diving crew friends also recovered some ammo with the gun. Uncle Sam’s Lake City Army ammunition plant had loaded it almost 70 years ago. Stored in an ammo can in a detached garage for many of those years, the US government ammo ran flawlessly.
A couple of years ago I wrote here about how antique ammo stored even in less than ideal cool and dry conditions will still go bang reliably.
Michael Bloomberg Has a Militia Fetish and He Wants You to Have One, Too
By Lee Williams
If you don’t control your mind, someone else will. Jim Morrison said that, and it’s as true today as it was when The Doors front man first uttered those prophetic words.
When it comes to the right to keep and bear arms, there is no one who wants to control minds more than former New York City mayor and multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
Bloomberg, 80, funds a vast array of anti-gun propagandists who operate across multiple digital and print platforms.
Underwater: Poll Shows ‘Gun Control’ Doesn’t Register in Top 10 Issues Americans Care About
An Ipsos poll just released shows two-thirds of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track. Not only that, but President Joe Biden’s polling numbers continue to swirl around in the toilet bowl. The befuddled Big Guy has fallen to under 50% approval on every one of the top ten issues Americans care about most.
What’s more remarkable about the Ipsos results is that gun control doesn’t even make the top ten.
Police Say Black Louisiana Teen Posed As White Racist In Threat To Shoot Blacks At Alabama County Fair
The demand for racism certainly exceeds the supply in most of America. That even applies in the South where cops say an 18-year-old black male named Pharrell Smith pretended to be a racist white man when he threatened to shoot blacks at the Lee County (Alabama) Fair.
Unfortunately for Mr. Smith, he didn’t cover his tracks very well and within a few days, Alabama authorities tracked him down to Lafayette, Louisiana and arrested him there.
The Army has Misplaced a Ma Deuce Machine Gun…Have You Seen It?
You know that sinking feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you lose something important? You pat the pocket where you usually keep your phone and…it’s not there. You frantically search everywhere for the damned thing as your heart races and you start to panic.
That’s pretty much what happened to a bunch of the US Army’s finest over the weekend at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
Gun Meme of the Day: Tasty Beveridge Edition
Gotta stay hydrated out there!
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Personal Preparedness: Are You Ready For More ‘Societal Change’?
Some days it feels like the Biden administration is at war with Western Civilization. It’s almost as if they want to take Americans down a few pegs in terms of our standard of living. They’re actively working to decriminalize crime while restricting and criminalizing gun ownership.
Those who run government will always live large, of course, while the little people like you and me will just have to sacrifice and learn to live with less in order to save Gaia or rethink policing and criminal justice.
Things that Don’t Suck: Viridian HS1 Laser Hand Stop
The Viridian HS1 laser hand stop falls under the general category of Why the Hell Didn’t Anyone Think of That Sooner™. Incorporating a laser sight into a hand stop seems like the most natural V8 forehead-slapping idea in the gun accessory category.
The HS1 is a simple, intuitive design with a standard M-LOK mount. Don’t worry…if your rifle has a Pic rail-equipped handguard, Viridian makes a Picatinny adapter for the HS1, too.
The HS1 Laser Hand Guard turns on via the protruding electric greed button.
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Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman Wants to Roll Back Your Gun Rights if Elected to the Senate
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has a few ideas for ushering in crushing blows to the Second Amendment should he be elected in November. The man who once wielded a shotgun against an African-American man he wrongfully believed was involved in a crime wants to obliterate your gun rights.
Lt. Gov. Fetterman, the tattooed, hoodie-wearing, Senate candidate vying for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) wants to become President Joe Biden’s biggest gun control ally.
Enomoto: Gun Stocks Are Controversial and Risky, But Buy Smith & Wesson
Outside of the private-prison segment, few market sectors attract as much attention and controversy as self-defense stocks, particularly companies tethered to the firearms industry. With countless tragic gun-related crimes sparking across the nation over the years, tickers like SWBI, RGR, and POWW cannot avoid public anger. At the same time, gun and ammunition manufacturers do plenty of good, making for a complex but possibly bullish case.
Inherently, the issue of gun control consistently ranks near the top among the most politically significant discussions in the U.S.
A Life With Guns: Growing Up in India
By Opsimath
It was an expletive-laden phone call that threatened to kill the young columnist. “You’re going to die because you wrote xxxxxx about yyyyyyy.” The young man laughed, and told the caller, “You’re not going to kill me over the phone. Come over, since you know where I am. I’ll be waiting with a gun.” The call ended.
Back in those days, there were no cellphones in the “sovereign, secular, socialist, democratic republic” as India called itself.
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Parkland Killer Nikolas Cruz May Have Talked His Way Into a Death Sentence
Terry Spencer, AP
It’s possible Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence.
Prosecutors played video last week at Cruz’s penalty trial of jailhouse interviews he did this year with two of their mental health experts. In frank and sometimes graphic detail, he answered their questions about his massacre of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018 — his planning, his motivation, the shootings.
Archibald: Carrying a Gun Doesn’t Make You Safer, It Makes You More Dangerous
We have become victims of our own fear. Gun sales surged after 9/11, and after Sandy Hook, and at the start of the pandemic. Open carry laws proliferated, and in Alabama, lawmakers decided you don’t even need a permit to carry a concealed weapon anymore.
We are supposed to be afraid. Because fear drives politics, and gun sales, and emotions. And deaths.
In 2020 the national murder rate rose.
Basic Bitch or Basic Witch, Everyone Has a Right to Armed Self-Defense
It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Texas Man Shouted ‘Die’ As He Strangled and Shook Newborn Babies
A real life horror story came to life recently in Odessa, Texas. Reports say Marcus Dewayne McCowan Jr., assaulted a slew of hospital staff before he began strangling and shaking newborn babies in a maternity ward. The young man screamed “die!” as the newborns turned blue, according to police.
Given that it happened in Texas, Mr. McCowan’s lucky he’s still alive.
Not only was McCowan not shot dead or beaten to a bloody pulp, but he continued to fight when police arrived.
Schoolhouse Rock: Prof. David Yamane Breaks Down the Structure of Anti-Gunners’ Arguments
A recent video provides a great summary of what makes most anti-gun arguments tick these days.
Sociology Professor David Yamane of Wake Forest University is already well-known for his work on Gun Culture 2.0, or the shift in motivations behind gun ownership in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In his latest video, The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership, he gives a six-point summary that encapsulates most anti-gun arguments today.
Florida Sheriff Grady Judd on Looters: ‘Shoot Him So He Looks Like Grated Cheese’
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: People have a right to be safe in their homes… I highly recommend, if a looter enters your home, you grab your gun and you shoot him, you shoot him so he looks like grated cheese.
— Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd at press conference.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: People have a right to be safe in their homes… I highly recommend, if a looter enters your home, you grab your gun and you shoot him, you shoot him so he looks like grated cheese.
Gun Meme of the Day: Square That Circle Edition
No need to reconcile those two things. You just don’t get it because you’re bitter clingers.
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