The modern gun control industry relies on the free or reduced cost legal labor, called pro bono work, that firms provide to advocacy groups and individual plaintiffs. Trump’s actions against Big Law are threatening that pipeline.
They are known as prepared or professional citizens, part of a growing number of gun owners who are adapting their mind-set to uncertain and polarized times.
The purpose of such lawsuits, orchestrated by Everytown for Gun Safety, is to destroy America’s lawful firearm industry. Making a mockery of PLCAA, not to mention the Second Amendment, is the game that’s being played.
The lawsuit stemmed from a June 14, 2017 editorial, “America’s Lethal Politics,” that wrongly suggested Palin may have incited a January 2011 mass shooting in an Arizona parking lot.
Everytown for Gun Safety will back Democratic candidates in 10 competitive states, including Virginia this fall and Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin, among others, next year, according to John Feinblatt, the organization’s president.
The program maintains a database that enables journalists to connect with “hundreds of community members with lived experience of gun violence” to broaden the narrative on firearm violence beyond the usual police reporting.
While claiming that a magazine that holds over ten rounds is not an arm, the majority asserts that a magazine that holds ten or less is an arm because it “is necessary to the ordinary operation” of the firearm “as intended.”
We can laugh at the people who are about to be paying $300 for a pair of Jordans, but some of those people will also be the ones bitching when they have to pay a little more for American-made 9mm.
The lawsuit was filed on the basis that the tax is unconstitutional because it does not pass a “means-end” test handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2022 Bruen decision.
Back in the day, the Court would determine whether a film was obscene by watching it. Here too, the Court adopts a “know-it-when-you-see-it” approach to determine whether a kit qualifies as a “weapon.” Justice Stewart would be proud.
