Bear had an excellent article on the tyrant in New Mexico attempting to use the Covid Tyranny paradigm to advance her gun grab agenda. This is a tiny taste of what the WHO Pandemic treaty would look like. Everything the globalists want to put an end to will become a health threat. We know “President” Puddin’head has no problem with handing U.S. over to the Chinese, Ukrainian corruption, Romanian corruption and on and on, including but not limited to the W.H.O. pandemic treaty.
I’ve written about this a couple of time, well, more really, but if you are new, try these;
But this time, there may be, just may be some of the “pawns” that are refusing to play the game. And this gives me great hope that there is the spirit of sanity that may be starting to wake up in this beleaguered country.
The first one is in New Mexico. Sheriff John Allen from Bernalillo County (north of Albuquerque) announced he will not comply with the diktat. Rather publicly actually, in a “tweet” or is it an “X” now? I dunno. Here’s a snippet.
However, as the elected Sheriff, I have reservations regarding this order. While I understand and appreciate the urgency, the temporary ban challenges the foundation of our Constitution, which I swore an oath to uphold. I am wary of placing my deputies in positions that could lead to civil liability conflicts, as well as the potential risks posed by prohibiting law-abiding citizens from their constitutional right to self-defense.
I was elected to represent and safeguard all constituents and to ensure the balance between our rights and public safety is maintained. That means we must critically evaluate any proposed solution to the deeply rooted issue of gun violence, ensuring we both protect our community and uphold the values that define us as a nation.
Feni Ammunition is also helping citizens of New Mexico “fight back”. They have a special shipping offer.
Feni Ammo’s excellent response
Commandant Grisham (ja VOL!) is so obviously over the top that Elon Musk weighed in and I think while I like Bear’s point the very best, this would be an option. There needs to be a very clear signal sent, not one millimeter more.
She needs to be gone. Yesterday.
Our second story comes from, wait for it, The People’s Republik of Kalifornia. There’s a 7:18 video.
An entire American city has just voted to officially ban all future mask and vaccine mandates: Huntington Beach, California—which is quite notable because California had some of the most stringent mandates in the country.
Your local elections matter as much, if not more than the federal ones at times. One courageous Sheriff, and others may rise up as well. Well, the ones that aren’t Demoncrats. A city council that you’ve vetted, a school board that puts children and their education ahead of the current thing and their ideology will make a huge difference in your day to day life, that of your business and your children’s future. I learned this lesson the hard way years ago, my group emerged victorious over the issue, but a huge overstepping of bounds lead to the entire county commission being replaced in the next election. As it should have been.
People aren’t stupid, if there is much trust left in the blathering of the MSM, aka #FakeNews I’d be shocked to hear it. They know our country is in trouble, and I understand many former Demoncratic demographics are catching on to who is responsible.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, apparently enouraged by her success at tyrannical ChinCOVID rights-violating restrictions, is moving the tyranny goal posts a little closer.
She has totally “suspended” the right to publicly possess firearms in Albuquerque. Except for her uniformed thugs, naturally.
And the criminals who have already been carrying unlawfully. I suppose she “expects” them to obey her diktat when they blew off the law.
The Democratic governor said she is expecting legal challenges, but felt compelled to act in response to gun deaths, including the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week.
Damned right there will be legal challenges, and outright disobedience.
The order proper was issued by Patrick M. Allen, Secretary of of the NM Department of Health; under the claimed authority of Lujan Grisham’s previous executive orders. The governor did direct that the order be issued; “spurred” by three recent shooting deaths of children.
Let’s look at those cases.
A 13 year old girl was shot by a 14 year old boy, at his home, using his father’s gun. The “public health” order doesn’t ban possession of a firearm at one’s own home. And being 14, without adult supervision at the time, he was in unlawful possession of the firearm.
A 5 year old girl was killed in a drive-by shooting, by an underage suspect in unlawful possession (doubly so; an Albuquerque ordinance violation, too), and in a stolen car. I suspect this order would not have deterred him either, since the other laws didn’t.
The case of the 11 year old boy is less clear; the suspect has not yet been identified. But the circumstances prompt me to doubt that the shooter lawfully possessed the firearm: road rage shooting victim’s vehicle reportedly pulled in front of another car. That car did a U-turn and came back to let loose seventeen rounds at the victim’s car. I’m just waiting to see if this was a gangbanger, who we all know are prone to obeying laws and public health orders. (Yes, sarcasm.)
Clearly this unconstitutional order isn’t going to reduce crime, as they pretend.
Section 1. [Supreme law of the land.]
The state of New Mexico is an inseparable part of the federal union, and the constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I think the guv is going to be hard pressed to find a BRUEN-style general, historical legal tradition for totally disarming private citizens outside of their own homes.
But back to the NM constitution. It has more to say on the subject.
Sec. 4. [Inherent rights.]
All persons are born equally free, and have certain natural, inherent and inalienable rights, among which are the rights of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of seeking and obtaining safety and happiness.
Self defense is a little more likely when you have something with which to defend yourself; maybe something like…
Sec. 6. [Right to bear arms.] No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.
That’s pretty clear. Even more so than the US Second Amendment.
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
If a single person, who otherwise would have been carrying a defensive firearm, is killed or raped because they were rendered helpless by this order, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Secretary Patrick M. Allen can be sentenced to death. They could be executed; and despite my tendency to oppose government-conducted death penalties, I would cheer.
And Fulton County, Georgia mass indictment-style every staffer and bureaucrat that Lujan Grisham and Allen talked to about this can join them.
This change, as in the past, probably trashed all comments that had been submitted. So I’ll comment again. And very likely — based on the ATF’s history of NPRM errors — a third time. We’ll see.
Update 2: The new second docket, AT-2023-0002-0001, briefly went dead, but now appears again. It’s unknown if the comments we submitted were retained. We’ll submit comments again just in case. But…
Live, but empty at this time. If you look at the “Browse Documents” tab, it does link back to the intermitteently visible ATF-2023-0002-0001.
So as of 9/8/2023, 10:20 AM EDT, we’ve had
ATF_FRDOC_0001-0051 (dead)
ATF-2023-0002-0001 (sometimes there, sometimes not)
ATF-2023-0002 (empty, but links to ATF-2023-0002-0001; it may be a “home folder” for 2023 NPRMs)
This looks very much like someone is deliberately interfering with commenting.
Original post follows.
Of screwing Americans. The ATF is that. As usual.
More than a year ago, The Zelman Partisans warned that the so-called Bipartisan Safer Communities Act changed the definition of “engaged in the business” of selling firearms. And not in a good way.
No longer would you need to be selling enough guns to make a living. Just a single sale, if your intent is to make money, suffices to require a Federal Firearms License. There is no exception for sales to friends or family. There is no exception for sales to pay off medical bills.
The ATF has published their Notice Of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) instituting this change. There is a 90 day commenting period. I encourage you to comment and point out the idiocy of the ATF and Congress. TZP has done so. Feel free to use this as a basis for your own comments.
This proposed rule, essentially requiring any person, selling a single firearm to pay bills, to first obtain a Federal Firearms License (FFL), is blatantly unconstitutional. It also would not work as advertised, and would even be counter-productive.
Allow me to explain.
The proposed rule is in absolute, direct conflict with Supreme Court rulings in HELLER, MCDONALD, and especially BRUEN.
There is no general, historical tradition that has required private citizens making private, occasion sales — as opposed to deriving a significant, ongoing income from regular sales — to first obtain an FFL. That is not “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” Never before has such a thing been required.
In fact, even the FFL itself fails BRUEN’s general, historical tradition test as no federal license for those actually engaged in the business was required until passage of the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 (FFA). America got along just fine without any such law for its first 162 years.
And while this unconstitutional action was directed by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, it would do nothing to make safer communities. Those dealing in black market and stolen firearms will simply ignore this rule; just as they have ignored the FFA for 85 years, and the Gun Control Act of 1968 for 55 years.
The only people who will be affected by this proposed rule are the honest folk, who would have to decide between following the criminals’ highly successful 85 year old example, or being compliant chumps.
Should a significant number of America’s 100+ million gun owners decide they need an FFL, just in case they might be in a car accident and need to sell their collections to cover medical expenses, the ATF will be swamped with Form 7 applications. The waiting time will rise from the current two month estimate to — potentially — years, leaving said bills unpaid and the victims of unchecked bureaucracy bankrupt. I strongly suspect the Supreme Court would find that such delays themselves are an unconstitutional infringement of the Second Amendment.
Allegedly, this proposed rule would have the effect of instituting universal background checks. I think someone failed to consider the effect of 18 U.S. Code § 922(t)(1). With a significant percentage of the gun-owning population being new FFL holders, they could happily transfer all the firearms they wish amongst themselves anyway; be it a previously-private sale, or a conventional purchase in a gun store.
The number of gun purchase background checks would DECREASE.
My personal comment added this line.
Please extract your craniums from your rectal orifice before it’s too late.
It appears the Biden crime regime is waging a war against law-abiding citizens who are Second Amendment supporters by attacking them on First Amendment grounds. Yes indeed Barry Sotero is enjoying his third term via his favorite sock puppet the corrupt Joe Biden, so Biden is carrying on Barry’s proud tradition of using government to attack citizens by force, with lies and with government agencies gone rogue.
They went so far as to physically attack January 6th attendees. We know that incompetent, corrupt (and now promoted) Michael Byrd murdered Ashli Babbit.
Julie Kelly has been covering the trials going on for the January 6th political prisoners, and she’s been pointing out the absolute travesty of justice going on.
BREAKING: Judge Tim Kelly just made destruction of part of a temporary metal fence on govt property a federal crime of terrorism.
Said removal of fence was part of the Proud Boys “conspiracy” to “influence the conduct of government.”
This dramatically increases base level of jail time for Joe Biggs and Kelly no doubt will do the same for the other Proud Boys.
Knew it was coming but still flabbergasted.
She also has pointed out that the “judge” in the President Trump trial in the banana republic formerly known as the USA is far from being an acceptable judge.
Chutkan comes from a family of influential Jamaican Marxists.
In addition to her bias against the January Six defendants, she was appointed by Barack Obama. He nominated the most radical judges he could find.
She also worked at the same law firm as Hunter. Let’s just say, for argument’s sake, that she can be impartial; what about her past with Burisma and her former law firm representing Fusion GPS? She didn’t recuse herself when the Fusion case came up until she was found out the day before the proceedings.
She has referred to defendants as insurrectionists, and her sentences were the harshest of the judges.
Now Kelly is out with a new report about a hearing before Chutkan, and “it’s worse than reported.”
NEW: I have transcript from today’s hearing before Judge Chutkan and it’s worse than reported.
Chutkan marveled at Jack Smith’s rapid “discovery” production while downplaying fact DOJ could not name a single case in DC District that went from indictment to trial in 5 months: pic.twitter.com/pAxcBlv7dv
President Trump was correct when he said they weren’t really after him, he was just in the way of them coming after U.S.
So January 6th fedsentation (a lot like a presentation staged by feds) stopped the challenges to the fraudulent election that were going to be presented. The people (except for the feds, corrupt cops and antifa) that had gone there, had gone to express their grievances, something that is allowed by law. Unlike BLM they didn’t riot or burn cities, no, others presenting themselves as Trump supporters did that.
They have no problem with stifling free speech, that became crystal clear during the covid fiasco. Nor do they have a problem stifling free speech to keep you from defending yourself or others. Such as lawyers. Rules and laws no longer apply to the left.
The weaponized DOJ is also determined to disarm law-abiding citizens. Pawshawwww, pesky Constitution. Why worry about that when you have the Department of Veteran’s Affairs…again.
This outrages me as these are men and women who were willing to place their life on the line for our country. And they basically stand to lose human rights (self-defense) because they didn’t balance their checkbook?
The legislation, introduced on Friday by Reps. Roy, Eli Crane of Arizona, Lance Gooden of Texas, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Andy Harris of Maryland, and Mary Miller of Illinois, specifically bars the VA from sending veterans’ names to the Department of Justice to be added to the federal government’s no-gun list.
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FBI data from 2023 shows that nearly 98 percent of the names placed in the NICS “mental defective” category by federal agencies were handed over to the FBI by the VA.
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A memo released by House Veteran Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost notes that the decision to name a fiduciary and disarm veterans is often made by “VA general schedule employees, not a court or similar judicial authority.” There is an appeals process for veterans who want “relief of firearms prohibitions imposed by the law” but whether or not that relief is granted is once again determined by the VA.
And if disarming them via government agency isn’t sufficient, they’ll just have a government agency shoot you, stone cold, graveyard dead.
On August 9th in Provo Utah an elderly senior citizen, Craig Robertson was killed in his home. My comments come are in regards to the following article. Apparently the basically home-bound elderly man who took care of his visually impaired son had grown dissatisfied with the Biden Crime Regime’s continual attacks on our country, it’s citizens, borders, way of life and Constitution.
According to an email from FBI spokeswoman Sandra Barker, Craig Robertson “resisted arrest and as agents attempted to take him into custody, he pointed a .357 revolver at them.”
Despite this assertion, the agency hasn’t presented any corroborating evidence. When questioned about photographic or video proof of Mr. Robertson’s alleged action, Ms. Barker refrained from commenting.
Yeah, maybe so, maybe not. The FIB seems to lie about everything these days. I wouldn’t trust them if they told me it’s still Summer. But what the neighbors had to say was pretty interesting as well. What is it with the FIB and these early morning in the dark raids? It’s almost like they are trying to provoke a response to an intruder. Why don’t they walk up to the door at noon, just knock and say “We’d like a word, please”. And this over the top tactical team crap is ridiculous.
His social media also showcased support for former President Donald Trump, displayed tactical equipment, and boasted an expansive firearm collection. Neighbors estimated he owned about 20 guns.
In Texas isn’t that called a neophyte or hobbyist?
During the warrant execution before sunrise, officers employed flash bangs to get Robertson to leave his house. When he refused, alleging innocence, gunshots ensued around 6:15 a.m. local time, as per Jon Michael Ossola, a witnessing neighbor.
Subsequent local accounts state that Robertson was pulled out of his home, where he succumbed to his injuries on the sidewalk, concealed beneath a sheet.
Other neighbors had more to say, so this is kind of out of order from the article.
Another neighbor, Katie Monson, recounted to The Associated Press how agents unsuccessfully tried to breach Mr. Robertson’s door with a battering ram, then used a tactical vehicle. After hearing shots, she saw officers pulling Robertson outside.
A battering ram and a tactical vehicle for a 75 year old disabled man?? Seriously? And about them shooting at Robertson…
The incident escalated when Robertson reportedly aimed a firearm at law enforcement, prompting what witnesses called a “hail of bullets” at his Provo home.
Aimed, not discharged. It’s still dark and he answers the door with a gun in his hand…again, why not noon, knock on the door, and say “We’d like a word”.
His relatives said Robertson — who they described as a “firearm enthusiast, collector and gunsmith” — loved the US “with all his heart” but had become increasingly disappointed by the Biden administration.
“He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens wrought by what he, and many others in this nation, observed to be a corrupt and overreaching government,” the statement said.
“As an elderly — and largely homebound — man, there was very little he could do but exercise his First Amendment right to free speech and voice his protest in what has become the public square of our age — the internet and social media.
Did he say things he ought not have said? Obviously.
This article lists the things off the top of Sen. Lee’s head that were odd. The question came up at a townhall meeting.
My point is, this murder seems to be part of a bigger picture attack on U.S. citizens by various and sundry arms of the Biden crime regime’s captured agencies.
Before the pre-dawn attack on Mr. Robertson, why was the FIB even there?? Because he posted a threat on a social media platform? Because he objected to the erosion of our liberties in the banana republic so the Biden crime regime decided to prove him wrong by murdering him for using freedom of speech? You know, presumably the FIB could do some basic, oh I don’t know, investigation and find out the man is basically home-bound, disabled and 75 freaking years old??? Maybe talk to some neighbors?? You know, investigate? But why do that when you can use all your tacti-cool toys, right? When I took my concealed carry class 153,000 years ago I remember one of the things taught was if you had to be involved in a self-defense shooting, there needed to be three elements.
“I call it the J.A.M. elements,” said Jamison, who also teaches courses on gun laws and safety at Great Guns gun shop in Liberty. J.A.M. roughly translates to jeopardy, ability and means. “First, is the person being placed in jeopardy? Does the person making the threats have the ability to carry out the threat? And third, does he have the means to carry out the threat?” he said.
I would maintain that the elderly home-bound 75 year old caring for his visually disabled son may have lacked some of those elements. I think the FIB case is more like jelly than J.A.M. and that’s what Mr. Robertson was executed for, freedom of speech.
Ayn Rand called it. But then she’d know. She escaped communism.
Jews. Guns. No compromise. No surrender.
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