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It’s Time for More American Jews To Use Their Second Amendment Rights to Defend Themselves
The current unpleasantries in the Middle East have spilled over to affect Americans right here at home. Jews have become targets of pro-Palestinian mobs in a number of cities. There have been fist fights in Times Square and fireworks attacks in New York’s diamond district.
Diners in New York and Los Angles have been assaulted and spat upon.
Tonight in my city, NYC. Eating while Jewi*h. pic.twitter.com/rPUQn0mqnt
— Mendy Pellin (@MendyTV) May 21, 2021
Jews being attacked on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
DuraMag Introduces 20-Round 6.5 Grendel Stainless Steel Magazines
From DuraMag . . .
DuraMag, the brand known for solving the shooter’s magazine challenges such as creating reliable 7.62x39mm and 450 Bushmaster AR magazines has done it once again. This time with a sleek new magazine for 6.5 Grendel.
6.5 Grendel shooters chose their caliber for more energy on target at longer ranges while still keeping the platform compact and lightweight. Extended ranges, of course involve some “weaponized math” to get on target, but that hasn’t been the complaint.
Justice Thomas’s Quiet Influence on the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Jurisprudence
In 2008, Thomas signed on to Justice Antonin Scalia’s landmark opinion holding that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to have firearms for self-defense. Supporters of gun rights believed that many gun regulations across the country would fall.
But lower courts, citing a part of the District of Columbia v. Heller decision that said that the “right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited,” allowed for some regulations.
Gun Meme of the Day: Earn Your Allowance Edition
It has been a weird year.
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When Big Banks Dump Firearms Industry Customers, Smaller Banks Are Ready to Step In
Big corporations with “woke” policies are waking up to the fact that smaller businesses are glad to take the business they shun.
American Banker reported that corporate banks are quaking in their boots over the Texas state legislature’s debating a bill that would end taxpayer support to contract with corporations that willfully discriminate against the firearm industry. The bill, SB 19, is termed the Firearm Industry Nondiscrimination (FIND) Act and would end discrimination by corporate entities against the firearm industry if those companies wanted to do business with the state.
Personal Defense Tip: Don’t Leave Your Gun in Your Truck When You’re in Bear Country
By Mark Thiessen, AP
Allen Minish was alone and surveying land for a real estate agent in a wooded, remote part of Alaska, putting some numbers into his GPS unit when he looked up and saw a large brown bear walking about 30 feet (9 meters) away.
“I saw him and he saw me at the same time, and it’s scary,” Minish said by phone Wednesday from his hospital bed in Anchorage, a day after being mauled by the bear in a chance encounter.
Senator Marco Rubio Supports the Second Amendment, But . . .
By Lee Williams
At 5-feet 10-inches, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is the same height as Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), but that’s not all the two have in common.
Neither Rubio nor Feinstein support the Second Amendment.
While Feinstein is open an upfront about her anti-rights passion, Rubio is riding the fence. Several bills he’s introduced clearly infringe upon the Second Amendment, but he still tries to hide his anti-rights zealotry in communications with constituents.
Huge Taxidermy Auction is Live Right Now
John Brommel, “The Taxidermy King,” has passed away and The Corner Shoppe here in Austin is auctioning off nearly 1,800 lots, some of which include multiple pieces. Most is taxidermy, but there’s a ton of other stuff including antiques, statues, antlers, and much more.
You can bid online HERE, with auctions closing today (May 20th, 2021), tomorrow, and Saturday. Here’s an interesting find:
The “Real Human Skull Butterfly Sculpture” isn’t something you see every day.
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We Need to Create Loopholes in Any ‘Ghost Gun’ Regulations
Can we live with regulating home-made guns? The answer is yes. Californians have lived with detachable magazine regulation through the “bullet button.” All it takes is a little ingenuity. To solve this puzzle, though, we just need to ask ourselves, ‘What do we really need?’
The answer is, we need to maintain a robust market in tools, components and techniques to make ever more new guns. That’s it. That’s all that’s necessary.
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17 Democrat Attorneys General: David Chipman is ‘Uniquely Qualified to Lead ATF’
The letter was led by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and signed by 16 others, including the attorneys general of New York, Virginia, Iowa, Rhode Island, California, Vermont, Nevada, Illinois and the District of Columbia.
It was sent to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees Chipman’s nomination.
Gun Meme of the Day: Types of Silencers Edition
Apparently we have Dead Air Silencers to thank for this great meme. Find ’em at Silencer Shop and check out my reviews on Dead Air’s Nomad-LT, Nomad-Ti, Wolfman, Odessa, Nomad-30, and Wolf-9SD.
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Wayne LaPierre to NRA Membership: ALL IS WELL!
More than a week after a Texas judge ruled that the National Rifle Association’s double-secret bankruptcy bid was filed “in bad faith” and dismissed it, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre issued a message to NRA members this afternoon.
The gist: EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL! LaPierre’s missive emphasizes that the Association managed to dodge the most deadly bullets that could have fired the NRA’s way. Judge Harlin Hale 1) didn’t dismiss the filing with prejudice, and 2) didn’t appoint a trustee to take over.
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ASP’s Red Gun Rifle: Dummy Gun Training for Dummies
By Jim Davis
Why use a dummy gun? The reasons are many, but this question is probably the most significant.
“Is it unloaded?”
Your partner assures you that it is. Do you trust him? I mean, really trust him? Because even if he’s 100% trustworthy, accidents and negligence happen.
You’re going to want to check that there is no magazine in place and that the chamber is empty.
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Now is the Time to Make the Case: Remove SBRs from the NFA
As the Biden administration gears up to pass fresh guidance on pistol stabilizing braces, I humbly suggest that this is precisely the time to get working on legislation to remove SBRs — short barreled rifles — from the purview of the 1934 National Firearms Act.
Arguments and assertions from the DOJ / ATF / Biden administration related to pistol braces only strengthen the case that SBRs shouldn’t be subject to special scrutiny as compared to rifles with 16-inch or longer barrels.
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Taurus Announces Their New Higher Capacity Micro Nine, the GX4 11+1 Pistol
Taurus is making a strong bid to get into in credibly popular and increasingly competitive higher capacity micro-nine EDC gun game. Today they announced the new GX4 11+1 pistol, joining the likes of the SIG P365, Springfield Hellcat, Ruger MAX-9 and Smith & Wesson M&P Shield Plus (see our head-to-head-to-head-to-head comparison here). While the GX4’s specs are competitive with the Big Four, its MSRP is over $100 less than the least expensive of the four.
Pillow Talk: How a Gun Patent Attorney Undercut Anti-Gunner David Hogg’s Big Venture
By Ben Langlotz
Remember when Newsweek used to be important? Well, it became important again to me last month. I had spent a family day on a Sunday with the phone off, full attention on the kids. Late in the afternoon, I turned the phone on and saw a Google Alert email. I have it set to search for anything in the news with “firearms patent.” This was more interesting than the usual stuff.
BidenHarris Administration Gears Up to Regulate Pistol Braces…Because ‘Gun Violence’
The Biden administration is in the final stages of drafting a regulation on firearm accessories that can be used to make pistols more like rifles, part of the White House’s broader effort to tackle gun violence without involving Congress.
The White House received the Justice Department’s proposal to regulate stabilizing braces on Monday, according to the White House regulatory office’s website. The firearm accessory can make pistols more accurate and deadlier.
Gun Meme of the Day: On My Best Behavior Edition
That’s just…it’s not…I mean…ugh.
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Gun Rights Supporters Have Given Up the Home Field Advantage
In any war, each side seeks to lure their opponent to a battlefield where the adversary will be disadvantaged and operate on what I’ll call the home field advantage. In the war for the Second AMENDMENT we, the People of the Gun, have failed to appreciate this doctrine.
This realization was brought home to me by Christopher F Russo’s article “Critical Race Theory: What Is It and How to Fight It” appearing in Hillsdale College’s ‘Imprimis.’
He writes:
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The Gun Buying Boom Means Huge Windfalls for Wildlife, State Agencies
State wildlife agencies are facing something many haven’t seen for years, even decades. Their seeing flush budgets. Excise taxes paid by firearm and ammunition makers to the Wildlife Restoration Fund, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFWS), is nearly a half-billion dollars at just halfway through the fiscal year.
That’s a 64 percent increase over the same time last year, all due to more guns and ammunition being manufactured and the law-abiding citizens who purchase them.