Perhaps the biggest factor that demonstrated that Adamiak’s RPGs were not weapons but training aids were massive holes drilled in the high-pressure area of the tubes – right where an operator’s face would be when firing them.
The state’s liberal establishment knows an armed populace is harder to control, so they’ve weaponized bureaucracy to achieve what outright bans cannot.
Ironically, although the dropped federal NFA charge had required the government to argue the braced CZ Scorpion was a rifle, the charge Taranto is still facing under D.C. law required it to argue the same firearm is a handgun.
This “clinic” is led by a former litigator from Everytown Law, a gun control group. It operates in partnership with MN AG Keith Ellison’s office as a political and legal arm of the Walz/Ellison Administration’s gun control strategy.
Some good Second Amendment news from the Supreme Court today. The Justices have denied cert in Worth v. Jacobson, a
“You come in here telling us that shooting stats are down, yet 60,000 more people have carry permits than they did in the two and a half years preceding Bruen.”
Lots of things had gone into the pressure cooker that eventually exploded into the American Revolution, but the ultimate intolerable act, the spark that made the patriots decide it was time to start shooting was the British attempt to disarm them.
As the person at DOJ who would be primarily responsible for taking action against those who violate individuals’ gun rights as established by the Supreme Court, Assistant AG for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon certainly seems to have the right attitude.
“Polis might think he’s scoring points with the anti-gun crowd, but as far as we’re concerned, he has just handed us a rallying cry. … This fight is far from over, and we’re playing for keeps.”
The two prosecutors and the ATF’s Bodell tried to penalize Adamiak for the flats, despite a 15-year-old ruling that says the flats are not firearms. The judge in that case even ruled, “The court finds that…selling flats is not illegal conduct.”
