Maj Toure: The State Isn’t In Charge of Gun Safety, We The People Are
“I absolutely want more people to have firearms…catchphrases like: ‘An armed society is a polite society.’ Absolutely….We need to give all Americans that level of empowerment.”
“I absolutely want more people to have firearms…catchphrases like: ‘An armed society is a polite society.’ Absolutely….We need to give all Americans that level of empowerment.”
ATF director Steve Dettelbach is at least self-aware enough to realize that his employment opportunities in the federal government after January 20 are severely limited.
Today the Third Circuit reaffirmed its earlier finding that someone who commits a “nonviolent, nondangerous misdemeanor” and hasn’t been incarcerated can’t be deprived of his Second Amendment rights.
In the 1990s, the 2A was on its deathbed. So-called “assault weapons” were banned, concealed carry permits were increasingly rare, and “high capacity” magazines were the next target. We were on our way to becoming Australia.
“We are also alarmed that if Barnes thinks the Second Amendment may not be appropriate, what other rights does he think are outdated? What about the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches?”
“The results affirm what we’ve known all along. Trump’s return to the White House coupled with GOP control on Capitol Hill bodes well for rights which the current administration has tried to trample for the past four years.”
In the mind of the New York Giants, the New York City subway system was too dangerous for its star quarterback. If that’s the case, how is the average New Yorker or tourist expected to fare when they head underground?
“The second Bruen came down, there was the starting gun for a sprint, for which we have not stopped yet,” Bill Sack, director of legal operations for SAF told Stateline. “Stuff is ripe for a fresh challenge.”
Rather than viewing this as a nice-to-have wish list about which we should be happy getting some items accomplished, we should look at this list as the bare minimum Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress owes to gun owners.
Matt Gaetz has strongly supported the Second Amendment since his first day in Congress, and he will get President-elect Trump’s backing for his new job regardless of what the Democrats choose to do.