To someone with an interest in edged tools for most of his life, this sounds rather ironic.
German leader vows tougher knife laws and more deportations after fatal attack in Solingen
SOLINGEN – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers Monday as he visited the scene of the knife attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people.
They;re going to blade blades in the City of Blades?
Twin Falls, Idaho police have an interesting way to “catch criminals faster.”
Both shops say TFPD is trying to force them to use a program called “LeadsOnline.” They claim the program not only acts as a de facto “gun registration program” because it requires personal information about the customer selling the gun as well as information about the firearm being sold.
The gun store owners maintain that this is a form of backdoor gun/owner registration because, unlike typical pawn shops — where the make model, serial number (and often caliber) of a pawned firearm is reported, and only if it comes back stolen do the police request (maybe with a warrant) the identity of the pawning customer — TFPD is demanding names, addresses, phone numbers of every single seller. In advance; preemptively, so to speak.
Note also that per Joshua Van Dyke of Homestead Tactical, none of these shops are pawnbrokers. That’s going to be important.
Idaho has statewide preemption and a constitution that forbids registration. I suppose the police might claim that this isn’t gun owner registration because they’re collecting data on former owners who sold their firearms. Never mind that such sellers in a gun shop (versus a pawn shop) are often trading them in for newer, pricier guns. On the list you go!
But wait… it is not the police department collecting this data. They use a commercial third party, LeadsOnline. Yep, the reporting is online, and data stored online. Think on that.
The police cite city ordinance Chapter 4, Section 10 as their authority to require this reporting.
3-4-10: REPORTS TO POLICE DEPARTMENT:
The Police Department may, at its discretion, require a written monthly report of said business and during the business hours of every day may require a personal examination of the books or records of such pawnbroker, showing the articles or other property purchased, pledged, traded, consigned, or otherwise received. (Ord. 2591, 9-8-1998, eff. 10-1-1998)
Chapter 4 defines pawnbrokers/pawn shops and “secondhand dealers” as separate entities. Reporting is only mandated for pawnbrokers (as opposed to Section 3-4-11 3-4-11: CLOSING HOURS, which specifically addresses both “Every “pawnbroker” or “secondhand dealer.” See above; neither Quick Response nor Homestead Tactical are pawnbrokers; the requirement doesn’t apply.
Did the police simply decide that all parts of Chapter 4 apply to all pawn shops and secondhand shops?
Not really. Per Homestead Tactical’s Joshua, “[T]he PD is choosing to only enforce this against gunshops-the city ordinance, however, is not specifically limited to retail firearms shops only. In other words, the PD isn’t going after other businesses (small engine repair, used cars, etc.) that handle serialized items. They are being discriminatory in the application of the city ordinance.”
To my mind, that only firearms are being subjected to this snooping turns this into a 2A — and Article 1 Section 11 of the state constitution — issue. Preemption violation.
Twin Falls Police are collecting data — via an online third party of unknown computer network security capabilities — in violation of the state constitution and preemption.
Say; did TFPD vet LeadsOnline’s security to ensure innocent sellers’ data cannot be hacked? Does TFPD incur any liability if data they demanded gets stolen? Who knows? The police did not respond to my inquiry. At all. Not even an automated “out of office” message. Likewise, Idaho Dispatch’s Greg Pruett was unable to pry answers out of TFPD’s media contact, Lieutenant Craig Stotts. I tried Chief Kingsbury, too; -crickets-.
They are also — surprise! — violating Article 1, Section 17 of the state constitution.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue without probable cause shown by affidavit, particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized.
If that language seems oddly familiar, then you recognized that the police are also violating the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution by demanding warrantless access to the stores’ customer records.
And in this refreshing post-BRUEN environment, TFPD should be scrambling to find some old laws to show their scheme “is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
If the Twin Falls police are talking to anyone about this, for their sake, it had better be attorneys; good ones. What with exceeding their authority, preemption violations, and multiple violations of state and federal constitutions, they’re in trouble.
Added: Another Fourth Amendment aspect to this occurred to me, based on a recent Fifth Circuit case. In United States v. Smith, the Circuit Court found that geofencing — a sweeping identification of everyone in a specified area in a specified timeframe — violated the privacy rights of all those caught up in the net who were not suspects. There was a lack of probable cause to look up everyone.
And isn’t that exactly what the TFPD is doing? ID all your customers, just in case one might have committed a criminal act. We don’t need no steenkin’ probable cause.
The Fourth Circuit has upheld geofencing, so we now have a Circuit split, ripe for SCOTUS review. Perhaps this would be a good time to get the Ninth Circuit involved, potential leading to the Supreme Court.
Well boy howdy, do the Demoncrats ever have a task in front of them! Even tougher perhaps than building something that would actually serve America, you know, they country they claim to love, namely, a border wall. No no, that’s not needed or wanted according to the Demoncrat party. No instead they’ve chosen to build the Walz. A third rate politician enamored with the Chinese brand of Communism.
I’m sure we’ve all heard how brave #TamponTim carried weapons in war. Oh? The hashtag? One of his major accomplishments besides allowing his cities to burn during the George Floyd riots to enact social justice for a drug addicted thief who once pointed a gun at the stomach of a pregnant woman during a robbery was putting tampon dispensers in the boy’s bathroom in schools. Boy if nothing else screams poor judgment, one would think that would! But I’ll see if I can up the ante.
Since we’re on the topic of the George Floyd riots, lets look at how the people #TamponTim is closest to dealt with the riots that burned businesses to the ground and saw many attacked by the likes of Antifa and BLM.
His wife Gwen kept the windows open because she enjoyed the smell of the city burning to the ground.
Walz’s Wife Said She Kept Windows Open To Smell ‘Burning Tires’ During George Floyd Riots
The wife of Democrat VP-pick Tim Walz said during an interview in 2020 that she kept her windows open for as long as she could so she could smell the burning of tires rioters set on fire during the Minneapolis-area riots in response to the death of George Floyd.
During the 2020 riots, cities like Minneapolis burned, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Gov. Walz has been criticized for his slow response to the destruction and violence by the left-wing protesters.
“We had more sleepless nights during the riots,” Gwen Walz told an ABC News affiliate back in July 2020. “I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”
Well, perhaps his daughter is slightly less deranged than her parents? Nope.
Hope Walz’s Old Posts Spark Attacks From Conservatives
On May 30, 2020, Walz’s daughter, now 23, reportedly reposted and responded to an account on X, formerly Twitter, that urged all protesters to “GET OUT NOW” because the National Guard and SWAT were allegedly on their way to the scene of the Minneapolis riots. In the post thread, she insisted to protesters that the National Guard “WILL NOT be present tonight.”
Her reported post stated that “there is a lot of misinformation that is further spreading fear and chaos at the scene of the protests..the guard can not be sent in within minutes. it takes time for them to deploy because they come from all over the state. to be clear, the national guard will not be present tonight. just because someone asked for something doesn’t mean it’s happening right away or even happening at all. i don’t know about swat but what i do know is the guard will not be present arresting people tonight.”
And how about the radical jihadi Walz is so crazy about? Illan Omar?
Minnesota Governor’s Daughter Used Tweet to Deliver Intel to Looters and Rioters
Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi, retweeted a list of supplies for “comrades” who are rioting in Minneapolis.
Isra Hirsi is the co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and her Twitter bio says she ‘hates capitalism.’
Isra Hirsi retweeted a post from Twin Cities DSA (Democratic Socialists of America): Want to help out your comrades protesting at the 3rd precinct (at Lake and Minnehaha?)
Here’s a good list of much needed supplies (except for milk! Water is always better for eyewashing than milk!! Please don’t bring milk!)
Golly gosh, gee whillikers! Just think of all the primo information his daughter would have to sell out the whole country instead of just a state full of innocent citizens if her dad is ever near the white house.
What did old Kamel-toe herself do during the riots? Did the former prosecutor and VP nominee strongly urge stiff sentences for those that rioted and burned the livelihood and hard work of innocent Americans to the ground? Did she object to the innocent people violently attacked? Naw, in true Demoncratic form, she sided with the criminals. Demoncrats are sometimes predictable.
She wrote entire blog posts asking people to donate to a fund that released murderers.
Vice President Kamala Harris promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organization that has since used donor contributions to bail out violent criminals, in a May 2020 blog post.
Harris encouraged her readers to help “the protestors on the front lines” of the riots following the death of George Floyd by donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund in the blog post, first reported by the Washington Examiner. The Minnesota Freedom Fund went on to bail out multiple convicted murderers and other violent criminals in the years following the riots, according to court records.
Now we’ll hit the big one, the “weapons of war” comment.
As I’m sure everyone knows, #TamponTim didn’t go to “war”, he went to Italy and then misrepresented his service and his rank.
CNN Misses the Point Regarding Walz’s ‘Weapons of War’ Comment
The AR-15 is a semi-automatic firearm that bears some superficial similarities to those “weapons of war,” but does not work in the same manner. They’re not the same gun, and yet he stood there and said they were.
But it’s good to be a demoncrat if you’re dishonest, the media will lie for you. Like a rug and without a payoff.
Bloomberg News Caught Covering Up Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor – Here is the Stealth Edit
“We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war” – Tim Walz
What’s more disturbing about what Tim Walz says here?
1. Gov. Walz never went to war yet clearly said he did
2. Gov Walz is a far left gun grabber#TamponTimmy #TimWalz… pic.twitter.com/P7gK6l5qbt
— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) August 6, 2024
Tim Walz dropped out of the Army after his unit was deployed to Iraq.
So he not only lies about his own service record, but about the guns he should have been familiar with at the least.
So is the Harris-Walz campaign going to respond by coming clean? Nopity nope.
Kamala Camp Begins Baselessly Smearing Veterans in Attempt to Cover Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor.
Even the Babylon Bee got in on the action. They’re probably more honest than the MSM anyway.
8 Harrowing War Stories From Tim Walz, The Man Who Was There
I’m sure we’ve all figured out that Kamala and #TamponTim would be bad for the rights of law-abiding Americans.
President Kamala Harris Would Be Grave Threat to Second Amendment
Vice President Kamala Harris has already been an integral part of the most extreme anti-Second Amendment administrations in American history. But things will get even worse for responsible gun owners if Harris takes charge next January.
During her very first campaign rally in Wisconsin after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Harris pledged that her administration would “pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban” – three pillars of anti-Second Amendment activism. Prominent anti-gun groups have flocked to Harris and offered their enthusiastic endorsement, including Everytown, the Community Justice Action Fund, and the Newtown Action Alliance.
And perhaps one might wonder why would Old Kamel-toe and #TamponTim be so dead set on leaving ordinary Americans defenseless against the criminals they embrace?
Because they’re tyrants, or at least aspiring tyrants.
Let’s look at Kamel-toe first. Jessie Watters did a great breakdown of what the price controls she wants would bring. It’s a bad idea, and not even an original bad idea.
“The proletariat must rise!” Harris shouted in front of a backdrop of a large hammer and sickle flag with armed militants flanking her side. “In order to preserve the rights of the working class the government must seize the means of production and murder all capitalist pigs!”
Harris announced her new platform after pitching a few new economic policies this week that included price caps for food, centralizing economic power, condemning capitalism, and calling for the arrest of all bourgeoise scum.
Yeah, it’s the Bee but it’s not far off.
And #TamponTim? He had Minnesota national guard fire paintballs at innocent civilians standing on the own from porches during his draconian covid lockdown rules.
‘Light ‘em up!’: Police shoot paintballs at Minneapolis residents standing on their porch
It that the only appalling thing Walz did regarding covid? Nope.
And….how did that turn out for the parents and children?
Covid shots are the SOLE cause of child heart failure surge
A major study at Oxford University which tracked equal numbers of vaccinated and unvaccinated kids shows that only the vaccinated kids are dying unexpectedly and experiencing myocarditis and pericarditis.
Expect health authorities to ignore this because otherwise it would make them look bad.
Horrible judgment!
Are American criminals the only ones Walz supports? Not on your Aunt Nelly!
Tim Walz Compared ICE Enforcement Actions Against Illegal Immigrants to ‘Terrorism.’
Like Kamel-toe’s bad ideas, this one isn’t original either.
German Media Admits New Knife Ban Is About Migrant Crime.
It seems some of the former citizens of the UK have finally caught on to what their ruling betters are doing to them and they aren’t onboard with having their daughters and wives raped or their shops looted and have spoke out.
Pity for them, they’ve been electing leftists for too long now.
But help may be on the way for the beleaguered Brits. Russia Sends Troops To Liberate Oppressed British People From Communist Rule
Sources within the British government said Prime Minister Keir Starmer remained committed to retaining power and keeping the people of the UK enslaved under his totalitarian regime.
At publishing time, Russia was rumored to also be in the early stages of making plans to liberate the United States in the event of a Kamala Harris presidency.
UK Police Commissioner Threatens International Citizens Over Online Posts “We Will Come After You”
This statement was met with glee by one Virginian, he seems to realize neither Kamel-toe nor #TamponTim would defend U.S. from the ruling class in the UK.
Perhaps one of the most, if not the most troubling aspect of this train wreck of a VP candidate is his close association with muslim jihadis in addition to Illan Omar.
Video Shows Tim Walz Calling Hitler-Praising Muslim Cleric a ‘Master Teacher’
A resurfaced video depicts vice presidential nominee and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz praising a Hitler-promoting Muslim cleric as a “master teacher,” after his campaign denied that they had a “personal” relationship.
Walz hosted the individual — Imam Asad Zaman — at an Islamic Center event in 2018, where he applauded his wisdom and expressed gratitude for the “lesson[s]” he taught him, according to an unearthed video obtained by The Washington Examiner and published on Tuesday. Zaman has publicly promoted claims that Hitler was a misunderstood hero and declared “[Palestine’s]… right to defend itself “the day Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and killed roughly 1,200 people.
Harris’ Walz Problem Just Got Even Messier
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington Examiner found.
The imam, Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, joined other Muslim leaders in May 2023 for a meeting about mosque security with Walz’s gubernatorial office in Minnesota. Zaman also spoke at a May 2020 event to call for peaceful protests with the governor during the riots in Minnesota sparked after George Floyd’s death. In April 2019, the cleric delivered an invocation before Walz’s state address — just months after Zaman called for an end to a government shutdown at a press conference with Walz in January 2019.
Zaman, moreover, attended a May 2019 event that Walz hosted for Ramadan, social media posts show.
Walz’s ties to Zaman could serve as problematic baggage for the Minnesota governor as he campaigns with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee. News of the ties also comes after a Washington Free Beacon report this week found Walz spoke at a 2019 event with an antisemitic scholar who has defended terrorism against Israel.
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In recent years, Zaman has also appeared to equate Hamas committing terrorism to Israel defending itself. State records reviewed by the Washington Examiner show Walz’s administration has awarded over $100,000 in funding to MAS Minnesota.
The Muslim American Society was once described by federal prosecutors as being “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,” court records show. The MAS, which the United Arab Emirates designated as a terrorist group in 2014, came under fire in 2019 after a video surfaced online of children at an event held by its Philadelphia chapter calling for the murder of Jews.
“We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque,” two young girls said at the event, according to the Times of Israel.
How much you might ask, does #TamponTim support hamass? A lot, $100,000 of taxpayer money worth.
Pro-Hamas group received funding from Tim Walz as governor of Minnesota
Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz gave an extreme Muslim cleric’s group $100,000 of public funds and has hosted him at official events as governor of Minnesota, The Washington Examiner reported Friday.
Asad Zaman has been a mouthpiece for Hamas for many years, publicizing its propaganda on his social media.
On October 7th, the day the terrorist organization invaded Israel, massacring 1,200 people, including infants, and abducting some 250 to hold as hostages, the imam said that he “stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks.”
And this is the man that Kamel-toe chose over the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania, a state she needs, though she may get it anyway. But, I guess considering where she got her “JOY” campaign slogan, that could have been uncomfortable.
I’ve heard people ask did Kamel-toe even vet this guy? Did she know how horrible he is? I think that’s naive at best. Of course she did. She picked exactly what she wanted. A Jew hating radical communist. Just like herself. Someone that has no problem using tyranny to rule over innocent defenseless subjects. One would think the fact he abandoned his 87 year old mother who had recently had heart surgery during covid would turn her off. Tim Walz Says During Covid He Isolated and Left His 87-Year-Old Mother, Post-Heart Surgery, Alone in Her Home to Fend For Herself. But I don’t think Kamala is too worried about families herself. She chose and got exactly what she wanted. And that should tell you everything you need to know about the dumpster fire that is the Demoncrat party.
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The Eighth Circuit has tossed the ATF’s pistol brace rule. The Court didn’t bother addressing the Administrative Procedures Act violations, because they found that another element of the challenge to the rule sufficed all by itself. The decision is thirty-three pages, but this one little excerpt pretty much summarizes it.
Thus, the Coalition is likely to succeed on the merits of its argument that this step is arbitrary and capricious; the ATF “has articulated no standard whatsoever for determining” when a stabilizing brace’s rear surface area would allow the shouldering of a weapon.
Huh; “arbitrary and capricious.” Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah; in The Zelman Partisans’ original comment of the Notice of Proposed Rule-Making, more than three years ago.
This proposed rule is an incoherently expressed description of an arbitrary, capricious, and incoherent process of classifying firearms.
As no standards were given, a subjective examiner’s guesstimate of “rear surface area” could pass a brace, or put it right on the edge of alleged short-barreled rifle by itself. Will one examiner estimate the “rear surface area” of a cuff-type brace by the physical area of the rear EDGE of the cuff, while another goes by the area of the space ENCLOSED by the cuff?
We could have saved a lot of time and money if the ATF jackbooters had simply taken note of that at the time. But the ATF livesd for — and on — “arbitrary and capricious.” As backed up with Chevron deference, which the courts have also taken away from them.
UNITED STATES v. RAHIMI is in the news with a Supreme Court ruling a few days ago. And the victim disarmament crowd is all over it.
You see, SCOTUS found that someone never convicted of a crime can still lose his Second Amendment rights via a domestic violent prevention order. Associate Justice Thomas dissented. For very good reasons.
Michigan’s Attorney General is one of the people eyeing this ruling with glee.
Nessel says SCOTUS gun ruling confirms constitutionality of Michigan gun laws
“Michigan’s recently passed ERPO [extreme risk protection order] law was modeled after the federal law at issue in the Rahimi case, and the Supreme Court’s decision today only confirms the constitutionality of our own law.”
Not so fast, statist thug.
Rahimi was charged with unlawful firearm possession under 18 U.S. Code § 922(g)(8). An important part of that is this:
(A) was issued after a hearing of which such person received actual notice, and at which such person had an opportunity to participate;
That’s a problem with Michigan’s ERPO law (“red flag”). Michigan’s law allows ex parte proceedings in which the accused does not receive “actual notice, and at which such person had an opportunity to participate.”
So, no, RAHIMI does not support your unconstitutional “red flag” law.
A lower court had dismissed the charge against Rahimi, based on the BRUEN test of general, historical legal tradition; the court found no early laws analogous to firearm possession bans via protective order. But — compromised? — Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, claims to have found not one, but two such laws.
By the 1700s and early 1800s, though, two distinct legal regimes had developed that specifically addressed firearms violence: the surety laws and the “going armed” laws. Surety laws were a form of “preventive justice,” 4 W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 251 (10th ed. 1787), which authorized magistrates to require individuals suspected of future misbehavior to post a bond
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Surety laws could be invoked to prevent all forms of violence, including spousal abuse, and also targeted the misuse of firearms.
Can you spot the subtle difference between a surety bond to prevent a person performing an actual violent act, and a protective order that bans possession of a tool regardless of whether it was used?
Dolly-influenced(?) Roberts couldn’t.
His other example law similarly misses the mark.
The “going armed” laws—a particular subset of the ancient common law prohibition on affrays, or fighting in public provided a mechanism for punishing those who had menaced others with firearms. Under these laws, individuals were prohibited from “riding or going armed, with dangerous or unusual weapons, [to] terrify[ ] the good people of the land.”
The “going armed” laws were specific to threatening and menacing actions using guns (and other weapons), not the simple possession of those implements.
Roberts missed it by this ……………….. […] ………………….. much. I’m not sure how he missed it, since I figured it out two years ago. Yes, I examined historical surety bonds and such in this very light. Maybe the Fifth Circuit read it, even if Roberts didn’t.
Thomas, dissenting, gets it right, as usual.
To trigger §922(g)(8)’s prohibition, a restraining must bear three characteristics. First, the order issues after a hearing where the accused “received actual notice” and had “an opportunity to participate.”
No ex parte proceedings allowed.
Just as important as §922(g)(8)’s express terms is what it leaves unsaid. Section 922(g)(8) does not require a finding that a person has ever committed a crime of domestic violence. It is not triggered by a criminal conviction or a person’s criminal history, unlike other §922(g) subsections.
And Thomas correctly notes that this is a deprivation of rights not triggered by a criminal conviction. Plus…
In addition, §922(g)(8) strips an individual of his ability to possess firearms and ammunition without any due process. Rather, the ban is an automatic, uncontestable consequence of certain orders.
The bans firearm possession, not just threatening or menacing actions. Sometimes it’s like Thomas reads my work as much as I read his. (That’s a joke; I’d be dumbfounded if Thomas knows who I am even if prompted with my name.)
And what does Clarence Thomas think of Roberts’ surety laws argument?
Section 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment. First, it targets conduct at the core of the Second Amendment— possessing firearms. Second, the Government failed to produce any evidence that §922(g)(8) is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. To the contrary, the founding generation addressed the same societal problem as §922(g)(8) through the “materially different means” of surety laws.
Aha! the outright ban on mere constitutionally protected possession is not analogous, it is a “materially different means.”
Thomas notes that even the prosecution didn’t try to present surety and going armed laws as analagous to 8 U.S. Code § 922(g)(8).
Despite canvassing laws before, during, and after our Nation’s founding, the Government does not identify even a single regulation with an analogous burden and justification.
The Government couldn’t come up with even one, so Roberts invented one for them.
Remember the shoulder things that go up? Move over, McCarthy; Senator Ben Cardin [Dumbass-MD] says, “Hold my beer.”
It’s time to pass mandatory background checks, bans on assault weapons and high-ammo stocks.
We owe it to young people everywhere.
Confusing stocks and magazines? Stocks made of a bunch of cartridges? High-priced ammunition company exchange shares? Who knows? I had a brief impulse to contact Cardin’s office and ask what he was talking about, but…
The fact is, when you’re a tyrannical SOB who wants to regulate, control, or ban everything, it doesn’t really matter if you’re also an ignorant, tyrannical SOB.
As for “mandatory background checks,” sales through Federal Firearms Licensees already have mandatory background checks. And the ATF has already published a rule requiring anyone who might sell, or buy, a gun to be an FFL required to conduct “mandatory background checks.”
It’s almost enough to make me miss New York Congress-scum Major Owens, who at least had the honesty to file bills to simply repeal the Second Amendment outright.
This is not the sort of headline I expect to see coming out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ninth Circuit: Felon Has ‘Right to Possess Firearm for Self-Defense’
On Thursday a three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided that Steven Duarte, a felon, has a “right to possess a firearm for self-defense.”
That opening sentence explains much: a three judge (2 Dubya appointees, and a Trump appointee) panel, not en banc. I’ve no doubt that the state is preparing a motion for en banc review.
The decision, United States v. Duarte, is here. The majority based this ruling on BRUEN, with a dash of HELLER: there is no national “historical tradition of” barring felons who have completed their sentences from possessing firearms. Some readers may recall that such a bar never existed until the Gun Control Act of 1968, less than 50 years ago.
Almost two years ago, I pointed out that, “Much of the GCA ’68 is on very thin ice.”
The dissent, by Dubya appointee Judge Milan Smith Jr., is interesting in a morbid way.
The Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), did not overrule Vongxay. Instead, Bruen reiterates that the Second Amendment right belongs only to law-abiding citizens.
That’s a two-fer. First, the referenced Vongxay is a 2010 Ninth Circuit opinion. Smith is asserting that d 2022 BRUEN, by the lowly Supreme Court of the United States — you know; that one above the Ninth — does not override the majestic Ninth’s precedent. His rationale is that BRUEN didn’t specifically mention and overturn Vongxay by name.
Mommy! Timmy won’t stop poking me!</i?
Stop poking your sister, Timmy.
Mommy, he’s poking me again!
Timmy! I told you stop that!
But that was when I poked her with my index finger. You didn’t say I couldn’t use my middle finger, Mama.
Second, BRUEN does not reiterate “that the Second Amendment right belongs only to law-abiding citizens.” On the contrary, in BRUEN Associate Justice Breyer, in his dissent admitted:
Founding-era legislatures did not strip felons of the right to bear arms simply because of their status as felons.
BRUEN determined that law-abiding people do have Second Amendment protected rights, but it does not specifically exclude convicted felons who have completed their sentences, and presumptively reformed and now law-abiding people, whom it’s also presumptively safe to let walk our streets.
Rather like recognizing the right of a convicted felon, who has completed his sentence, to vote.
Yom HaShoah (Heb. יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה – “The Catastrophe”) is the day Israel commemorates the victims of the Holocaust (the Shoah). The full name is “Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah”— in Hebrew literally translated as the “Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism.”
Sometimes you will hear people talk about Jews and the Holocaust. In the past it might be something ignorant such as “It was a long time ago, the Jews really need to let it go and move past it. No one is putting Jews in ovens these days”. This gave way to “It didn’t really happen you know” or “The Jews exaggerated the number of those killed”. How very wise General Dwight Eisenhower was. He had Congress (A legislative body from back when America had three distinct branches of government) and newspaper writers come to Europe to see and document the atrocities that had taken place in the camps.
General Eisenhower and the Documentation of the Holocaust
Professor Harry Reicher talked about an episode which occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. While liberating concentration camps and witnessing sights that “beggar description,” General Eisenhower ensured the horrific scenes were captured for posterity in graphic photographs and film. Professor Reicher asserted that he grasped the impact which visual evidence was to have in the Nuremberg Trials, and foresaw the era of Holocaust denial. Video clips of concentration camps were shown
This is a movie, a bit over an hour.
Eisenhower Asks Congress and Press to Witness Nazi Horrors
The first Nazi camp liberated by US forces was Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald (the main camp would be liberated one week later). The 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry of the Third US Army entered Ohrdruf on April 4, 1945. When soldiers of the 4th Armored Division entered the camp, they discovered piles of bodies, some covered with lime, and others partially incinerated on pyres. The ghastly nature of their discovery led General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, to visit the camp on April 12, with Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley. After his visit, Eisenhower cabled General George C. Marshall, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, describing his trip to Ohrdruf:
The things I saw beggar description. … The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick … . I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to “propaganda.”
Seeing the Nazi crimes committed at Ohrdruf made a powerful impact on Eisenhower, and he wanted the world to know what happened in the concentration camps. On April 19, 1945, he again cabled Marshall with a request to bring members of Congress and journalists to the newly liberated camps so that they could convey the horrible truth about Nazi atrocities to the American public. Within days, congressmen and journalists began arriving to bear witness to Nazi crimes in the camps.
Clearly Eisenhower knew students from Columbia, Haavaad, USC and the like.
And now everything old is new again.
You think these little terrorist supporting mush brained students at elite universities are a new phenomenon? Nopper.
Roosevelt’s Address on the “Fifth Column”
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt took to the airwaves on May 26, 1940—before the French army had even surrendered—to criticize those who closed their eyes to what was happening in Europe. He also warned of a potential threat to American security: “the Trojan Horse. The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery.”2
According to Roosevelt’s address, a portion of which is featured here, the methods of these “spies and saboteurs” was “to create confusion of counsel, public indecision, political paralysis and, eventually, a state of panic…. The unity of the State can be sapped so that its strength is destroyed.”
And speaking of Columbia…this time in Missouri, not the pretend university. Note this was 1936.
“Nazi Exchange Students at the University of Missouri”
Priwer’s article prompted some of her classmates (whom Priwer describes as a “liberal group” of mostly non-Jewish students) to write to the American Jewish Council, asking the organization to expose the propaganda efforts of German exchange students. The resulting report (attached as an addendum to Priwer’s article) was circulated around the University of Missouri campus to warn students and faculty of a major campaign to influence their attitudes toward Nazi Germany.
Apparently, some of the nazis have continued to breed and have an impact at the University of Missouri even up until fairly recently. The latest example being the “journalism professor” Melissa Click who was attempting to throw journalists out of an event at the University by demanding students come help her, she “needed some muscle over here”. Melissa specialized in “audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy”. The University it taxpayer funded. Why? In the photo accompanying the article Melissa can be seen practicing her nazi salute. Actually that whole article is pretty interesting. It points out the attitude of “professors” at these taxpayer funded institutions.
And because outrageous behavior like this at taxpayer funded institutions hasn’t been addressed, it’s continued to fester and rot. Just a search on one, just one website for “Jewish Students” yields a couple of pages of results.
In my previous column I covered many of the abuses Jewish students are being subjected to on campus. These little terrorist sympathizing brain dead, specimens of human excrement have absolutely no self-awareness. None. Whatsoever. Meet Johanna King-Slutsky. No, I’m not, she’s a paid instructor. I guess that would be taxpayer paid instructor. Johanna is part of the takeover at Hamilton Hall.
Talk about unaware? She’s sympathizing with terrorists, terrorists that have indeed put Jews in ovens on October 7th. Infants no less, but that’s who Ms. Slutsky sides with, then in her revolutionary zeal demands the terrorist sympathizers be given food and water. Do we want them to die? Um, speaking strictly for myself here, while I struggle to remain neutral on the question, my kindest answer is don’t care, could go either way.
This is a part of the prayer said during every night for the counting of the omer.
We implore You, by the great power of Your right hand, release the captive. Accept the prayer of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Mighty One, we beseech You, guard as the apple of the eye those who seek Your Oneness.
Four months ago in Israel over 1000 musicians met to record a song calling for the return of the hostages.
One of the other things I find interesting is they took hostages. Yep, the little hamass sympathizers took 3 janitors hostage. In another lack of awareness that FDR could have been alluding to in his speech, administrators still haven’t ended the little “Occupy Gaza on the Quad” zones. I don’t think it’s crossed their mind that they may be the next round of hostages. They truly are trying to copy their idols.
It’s been said by people far more learned than I, the Shoah didn’t start with Kristallnacht.
The specimens of human excrement running around campus (taxpayer funded) have long since turned in their “human card” when they choose to side with and support murders and butchers. Will I cut them slack because they’ve been lied to, manipulated and deceived? No. Because they’re about one lit match away from another “mostly peaceful summer of love”. Only this time they have specific targets in mind. It might be worth mentioning the aspiring terrorist’s motto “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people” and they are already chanting “Death to America”. Alan Dershowitz recently stated on a podcast that these little aspiring terrorists are going to become actual terrorists. He knew and defended domestic terrorists back in the 60s. He guarantees, some of this crop will follow the same path.
Apparently they don’t teach history at these elite institutions of higher indoctrination. A girlfriend sent me this picture. A tip of my Stetson, Christie, and it’s 100% accurate. The start of hamass and the muslim brotherhoood was the nazis. When the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, haj amin al-husseini, met adolph hitler they formed the start of those groups. The muslim brotherhood was active in Egypt till they were outlawed. I’m not sure, do you suppose that had anything to do with the decimation of the Coptic Christians in Egypt? Either way, remember where this actually started next time a leftist tries to tell you President Trump is literally hitler. Nope, it’s their team.
In the Shoah, there were those brave Jews that fought back, there is a Ghetto fighters House in Israel. It’s actually the first Holocaust museum in the world, and the first to be founded by Holocaust survivors! It was established in 1949, and I’ve been there. Fellow writer Y.B. Ben Avraham tipped me off to it when I went in 2015. How could I not want to see a museum about Partisans? I spent hours there, just like a little sponge soaking up everything I could about these people that were represented.
Today we have Jewish students that have said, “Enough, we’ve flat had enough!”
Jewish UCLA student: ‘Jews of LA said enough is enough’
Local Jewish leaders blasted the deal, and several leading Jewish organizations called on Northwestern president Michael Schill to resign. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) sued the university on behalf of the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), saying the deal violated civil rights laws by discriminating in favor of Muslim and Palestinian students and faculty, and discriminating against other students on the basis of national origin.
‘Fighting with love:’ Jewish students stand up, push back against campus antisemitism
In WWII, there was the Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Society.
Within the United States, Sophie Magdalena Scholl is not the best-known resistance fighter, but her story is a powerful one. She was a key member of the Weiße Rose (White Rose)—a resistance group run by students at the University of Munich who distributed leaflets and used graffiti to decry Nazi crimes and the political system, while calling for resistance to the Nazi state and the war. On February 22, 1943, she was beheaded for treason at just 21 years old.
Quite different character than Johanna King-Slutsky, eh?
Today, we have Frat boys. While their mission isn’t the same as the White Rose society exactly, speaking out against attacks against Jews, it is similar in that it’s a refusal to let terrorists take over their schools. Lately there’s been an outbreak of the Fraternities defending the flag, challenging the pro-terrorism students and even having a parade with America proud music and flags.
UNC Fraternity Brothers Rescue Fallen American Flag From Pro-Hamas Mob – Then Sing National Anthem
I might point out the GoFundMe someone started to throw them a keg party is over half a million dollars….proving my point. No more taxpayer dollars should be spent on institutions of higher learning. If they offered anything of value people would buy it on their own. Taxpayer money only makes it more expensive, they turn out brain dead anti-human robots, with useless degrees. Then when their gender studies in puppeteering doesn’t pay the rent or re-pay student loans a corrupt junta like the Biden crime regime will pay them off, thus financing terrorism and stealing another dip from hardworking taxpayers.
But wait, there’s more!
And this one I really love, Native Americans are weighing in.
Much like the Maori of New Zeland and Australia dancing the Haka to support Israel.
But this I love especially. Reporter bewildered by Chabad ‘Moshiach’ flag
During clashes between anti-Israel protesters and pro-Israel counter-protesters on Tuesday night at UCLA in California, one flag held by a counter-protester caught the eye of many.
The bright yellow flag was not that of Israel nor of the PLO, and certainly not the flag of the Hezbollah organization, which is similar in color. Instead, the flag flown by the pro-Israel counter-protester was the yellow “Moshiach” (messiah) flag of the Chabad Hassidic movement.
Perhaps this time it will be different, perhaps this time people won’t say, oh it’s not that bad. Don’t be thin skinned, perhaps this time people won’t put their heads in the sand.
But don’t worry about the little jihadi students. Apparently someone in Iran like my idea. Yes, yes indeed, they are Iran’s kind of peeps. Meanwhile their own peeps are standing in support with Israel. Which of course can get them killed. Yep, lets send the American jihadis to Iran for their free college!
If not Iran, perhaps they could consider increasing their employment chances by getting a job in a carnival?
Ivy League Grads Slip Below County Fair Carnies On Forbes List Of Most Desirable Employee Candidates
U.S. — Forbes has released its newest list of “Most Desirable Employee Candidates”, which saw Ivy League graduates slip down just below carnies and the people who wash car windows at stoplights.
“We surveyed the top 500 companies in the United States,” explained lead author Dan Rollins. “Employers consistently stated they would pass over a Harvard or Columbia grad for a guy with two years of experience operating a Tilt-A-Whirl. It’s been quite a shift.”
I read this little book this morning. It’s about some of the soldiers that have fallen in this war. It gives their name, the company they served in, when they fell, who they leave behind, has pictures of each of them. Interestingly it also includes their last letter home, a what if written before they went into battle. They are filled with such hope and love, for their families, their country, their home. Several of them made note in their letters if they were taken prisoner or their bodies were (because the noble falestinians take bodies for hostage knowing Israel wants to bury them according to Jewish law) they forbid their families to allow terrorists to be released to get them back. They say they want no part in allowing the war or terrorism to continue. The book is both inspiring and heartbreaking.
All I can say, is don’t let their sacrifice be in vain, don’t let the millions that died in the Shoah be in vain. May the G-d of Israel guard, guide and protect her and lead her to complete victory soon. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray for the coming of Moshiach.
Yom HaShoah in Israel,
You know, it’s been my observation that the ones that hate communism the most, are the ones that actually know what it is. Not the pig ignorant college students that are running around the streets acting like moneys flinging poop at the zoo. The Russians and Ukrainians I’ve met have a very strong conservative streak, all were supporters of President Trump, and most were strong Second Amendment supporters. Years ago there was a Demoncrat member of the House of Reps in my state, he spoke every year at the Second Amendment rally held in the spring. He had a very compelling presentation. He and his family had come here from Germany and shortly after arriving here had some untoward experiences. One of the first things he did as soon as he was legally able was to purchase a gun. He was a free citizen now you see, he was a free citizen and he was entitled to defend his life and that of his family. Of course that was years ago, when common sense, values, principles and decency were on both sides of the aisle. When Demoncrats waved American, not Ukrainian flags, when they were concerned about, not even more concerned, just concerned, about America’s borders more than another country’s. A country we’ve sent billions to that has shut down elections, shut down church services and seized land from religious organizations, all in the name of “democracy” which gives you and idea of their idea of “democracy”. Don’t exhale yet Republicans, I’m coming for you next.
Recently there have been quite the votes going on in the swamp. The uni-party is spending more to defend another country’s border and civilization than they are ours. They’ve sent more to help Ukrainian citizens and oligarchs than they have the victims of disasters in East Palestine, OH and Lahaina, HI., citizens under attack from an illegal invaders in every state of the union. Joe’s handlers have been shipping them in since he assumed control. Of course after the massive spending bills passed, the Demoncrats waved little Ukrainian flags. Well, they’re honest about that I guess. It’s who they represent. Sadly it’s Americans paying their salary. It’s not just what is coming across the border. Who other than demoncrat politicians benefits from this? Those paying more in taxes? Those losing their jobs to an illegal, those who had their retirement home taken over by illegals? Who? I can not believe the majority of Americans want this. Well, maybe the elites living in their bubble, but real Americans? No. Nor are they going to sign on to this and continue to vote for it. I’ve seen many videos of people in Chicago and NY expressing strong support for President Trump and the America First agenda, though the Mainstream media can’t and won’t believe it, it’s true. Many Americans are not as stupid as the press gambles they are as they continue to lie to them. And one would think the Demoncrat party would quickly begin to re-evaluate their policies, and yet, they aren’t. In fact, they’re doubling down, almost as though they don’t have to answer to voters. What kind of political system is that?
On of the recently passed pieces of tyranny allows spying on American citizens without a warrant. Something that has been violated by the FIB in ways that most wouldn’t believe. There are actually 3 different categories or titles in the FISA warrant program. Title 1 Title III and Title VII. Title VII is where the much abused section 702 comes in.
I found this little primer on FISA abuses very very helpful. Sadly it won’t let me embed the video. But it’s well worth watching. https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-little-known-problems-with-fisa-revealed-truth-over-news-5632987?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
It explains the three categories and has testimony about how much and how many FIB people abuse it. It is absolutely a humongous problem.
A problem politicians that respect civil liberties and their constituents would put a stop to, at once. But Noooooooo.
Here Are the Senators Who Voted For and Against Reauthorizing Spy Powers
In a late-night ballot on April 20, the U.S. Senate voted to reauthorize a controversial spying authority. President Joe Biden signed it into law the following day.
The authority in question, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), has come under increased scrutiny in recent years by privacy and civil liberty advocates in the wake of a series of abuses.
After rejecting a series of amendments designed to strengthen civil liberty protections—including an amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to require a warrant to search Americans’ Section 702 data and another by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to prohibit federal law enforcement from purchasing Americans’ data from third-party brokers—the Senate reauthorized the program 45 minutes after it lapsed.
But the House?
House Speaker Mike Johnson has delayed a vote on two bills relating to FISA Section 702 extension and reform, making it likely that the unconstitutional Section 702 will be renewed without change until April 2024.
Johnson has reportedly refused to take a side on this issue and continues to change his stance. Johnson previously said he would bring both bills to the floor.
But he lied, he did take sides.
And in the House, BREAKING: RINOS WIN – AMERICANS LOSE: FISA 702 Again Passes House by Vote of 259-128 – Here are The 117 RINOs Who Voted for Warrantless Spying on Americans
The House of Representatives on Monday passed a Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider H.B. 7888, which passed on Friday to renew FISA 702 and allow warrantless surveillance of innocent Americans.
This was a betrayal of Americans.
Shortly before the final passage of H.B. 7888 on Friday, the House rejected a commonsense amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), which would have required a warrant to spy on Americans. However, 86 Republicans voted for authoritarianism, with Speaker Mike Johnson casting the decisive vote.
Johnson Defends Vote to Kill FISA Warrant Requirement
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on April 14 defended his crucial vote against an amendment that would have required intelligence agencies to get a warrant to search Americans’ data under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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That final passage came after an amendment by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) to require a warrant to query Americans’ communications and other data failed in a rare tie vote. Mr. Johnson, who, as speaker, doesn’t always vote, cast the decisive vote that killed the proposal, prompting outrage and condemnation from some conservatives.
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During an April 14 appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Mr. Johnson defended that vote, saying that a warrant requirement is “not helpful.”
He insisted that Section 702 is an important tool that has stopped other terrorist attacks like 9/11.
“Remember, that’s how we killed terrorists. That’s how we stopped terrorist plots on US soil,” Mr. Johnson said. “That’s why we haven’t had another 9/11 since that terrible tragedy.”
Does he not understand who, exactly the current junta considers “terrorists”?? Is he totally clueless about parents being dragged out of school board meetings? Is he as dumb as Kamala “Kneepads” Harris? Or is it something else?
Former Trump official Kash Patel reminded Americans of the hundreds of thousands of times the DOJ-FBI used FISA to spy on Americans.
According to an official intelligence document the FBI illegally used FISA 278,000 times to spy on Americans including their political enemies like President Trump, Trump donors, and January 6 families.
This comes from the 2022 memorandum on FISA abuses.
On page 29 of the report: 23,132 separate queries on J6 protesters to find evidence of possible foreign influence despite having no indication of foreign influence related to the query terms used.
On page 31 of the report the analysts admitted to 278,000 non-compliant FBI queries of raw FISA-acquired information.
The FIB is far from the only government agency that isn’t following it’s own rules.
“The Department of Justice confirmed to us last night that the ATF agents involved in the execution of a search warrant of the home of Bryan Malinowski weren’t wearing body cameras,” Cotton and Boozman said in a joint statement. “We will continue to press the Department to explain how this violation of its own policy could’ve happened and to disclose the full circumstances of this tragedy.”
“Mr. Malinowski’s family and the public have a right to a full accounting of the facts,” the Republican lawmakers added.
So the alphabets have gone rogue, no one is holding them accountable and neither party is standing up for U.S. and our new “conservative” speaker of the house has already sold us out.
So, what if it is something else? What kind of system are we living under where the fruit of our labor is taken from us and given to illegal invaders, to people who chose not to work and play the system, to foreign countries? What is that system called?
If you go back to the opening of this column, a cup or two of coffee ago, I was speaking about people that hate communism because they’ve lived under it, I’ll tie this up, or Hogg tie it, if you will.
Meet Lily Tang Williams, she spoke to David Hogg aka #MoneyHogg who is desperately trying to remain relevant.
Pesach starts tonight, when we celebrate the miracle of freedom, when G-d took us out of slavery into freedom and living with laws, morals and a relationship with him. Choose that, choose good, do good, pray often.
חג פסח שמח
Happy Pesach/Passover
Next year in Jerusalem!
And be a beautiful Lily.
The ATF’s rule redefining “engaged in the business,” and who must have a Federal Firearms License, has been released, but not yet formally published in the Federal Register. The Zelman Partisans has been warning you about this since 2022.
The rule document is 466 pages. Most of that is hundreds of pages of “responses” to public comment that amount to “We disagree,” and “tough shit.” The part where they claim that requiring everyone to have an FFL is BRUEN-compliant, because the feds briefly banned the export of cannons and gunpowder in 1794 is a classic.
Well, except for responses to the 250,000 identical form letter comments in favor of the rule. Those responses tend towards, “You’re absolutely right, and it’s a shame those stupid constitutionalists can’t see that.”
The actual final rule begins on page 452, and it’s even worse than the original proposed rule.
“Selling” a firearm includes swaps and barter, not just money.
A single transaction can make you a dealer, as I warned.
No firearm actually even needs to be sold. Whether the ATF thinks you intend to sell a firearm counts.
Buying a single firearm can make you a dealer, if the omniscient ATF magically foresees that you intend to resell it later.
It includes a presumption of guilt. If they accuse you, it’s up to you to prove — somehow — that, “No, I bought that for my own use; I’m not planning to sell it years down the road.” Good luck with that; if you win, you’ll still be bankrupted by legal expenses.
VP “Kneepads” Harris weighed in on the new rule. Sorta. With her usual display of her monumental intellect:
As the head of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, I am proud to announce that all gun dealers must conduct background checks no matter where or how they sell.
This will save lives and keep our communities safe.
Poor confused moron. Dealers have been required to conduct background checks “no matter where or how they sell” for decades.
This rule simply forces universal preemptively-prove-your-innocence background checks by making everyone a dealer.
Almost universal, that is.
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.
Time to decide.