“We can either live in a paranoid politically correct world frantically trying not to offend the Hitlers and Mohammeds, and blaming their victims when they kill, or we can be free men and women who have chosen to take the power to defend our rights into our own hands.

While a thousand organizations use the Holocaust as a platform for speeches about tolerance, Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors [Jews Can Shoot] is conducting firearms training… Freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.”

Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish blog

All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece... If a few hundred Jewish fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003

Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first."

Month: January 2019

Second Amendment

New York’s Gun Control — N.Y. Gun Measure Threatens to ‘Essentially Nullify the 2nd Amendment’

by Jews Can Shoot on January 25, 2019

In his latest original video, National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke warns Americans of a new gun control measure that threatens citizens’ privacy and Second Amendment rights. “As part of a sweeping set of gun control proposals that are currently under consideration in New York State,” Cooke begins, “a Brooklyn-based state representative named Kevin Parker

Commentary

Lawmakers introduce assault weapons ban

by Jews Can Shoot on January 25, 2019

Voting matters. “It only needs 60 votes (in the House), and I don’t know that we’re going to be able to stop it,” Bryant said. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A pair of Democratic lawmakers have sponsored a piece of legislation making it illegal to own several different firearms. And several southern Illinois lawmakers plan to fight

Commentary

SHOT Show 2019: Gun industry feels different by state

by Jews Can Shoot on January 24, 2019

Brian Galek, owner of Up North Gun Shop, said firearm sales have been so strong since opening last year, he is already expanding his store. The Wisconsin businessman is in Las Vegas this week to attend his first Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show at the Sands Expo and Convention Center to peruse the latest

Commentary

DoD just bought this formidable new sniper rifle in .300 PRC

by Jews Can Shoot on January 24, 2019

LAS VEGAS — The company that made its name building .50-caliber long-range sniper rifles for the U.S. military has a smaller, but just as formidable, sniper rifle that recently won a defense contract. Joel Miller, director of global military sales for Barrett Firearms, talked with Military Times at this year’s Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade

Commentary

Introducing the AR Pistol: An AR-15s That Is Technically a Pistol

by Jews Can Shoot on January 24, 2019

The AR-15 series of rifles is one of the most versatile long gun platform ever invented. Developed in the late 1950s, the AR-15 is available in broad array of calibers, from .50 Beowulf to .22 Long Rifle. One of the most novel adaptations of the platform is to accommodate semi-automatic handgun calibers. The result is

Second Amendment

Supreme Court will hear New York gun rights case on transporting unloaded handguns

by Jews Can Shoot on January 23, 2019

“The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday took up its biggest gun rights case in nearly a decade, agreeing to hear a challenge backed by the influential National Rifle Association lobby group to New York City’s strict limits on handgun owners transporting their firearms outside of the home. “The nine justices will review a 2018

Second Amendment

Supreme Court’s New Second Amendment Case

by Jews Can Shoot on January 23, 2019

David Kopel on first gun case to be heard by the Supreme Court in a decade. For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court has voted to hear argument in a Second Amendment case. Although the schedule has not been set, oral argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc.

Useful Tips

Angstadt Arms Releases the Shortest AR-15 Stock System

by Jews Can Shoot on January 23, 2019

In September 2018, the U.S. Army awarded Angstadt Arms a contract to supply ultra concealable 9mm sub-machine guns for the purpose of protecting high risk personnel (HRP). To address this operational need, personnel security detail required a weapon with greater lethality than pistols but more conceal-ability than rifles. The ultimate objective being a highly concealable

Second Amendment

Justices, With Kavanaugh Seated, End 9-Year Avoidance of Gun Regulations

by Jews Can Shoot on January 23, 2019

FTA: After nearly a decade and numerous denials, the U.S. Supreme Court will jump back into Second Amendment gun regulations. Is Justice Brett Kavanaugh the reason? “It’s hard not to think that Kavanaugh’s replacement of Justice [Anthony] Kennedy was key here,” said Second Amendment scholar Adam Winkler of UCLA Law School. “The court has turned

Useful Tips

Have You Made an Area Threat/Asset Map?

by Jews Can Shoot on January 23, 2019

Have you ever taken a map, a paper one, marked your home’s location and gone through it with great care and made an area threat/asset map? If there were a natural disaster, a SHTF or TEOTWAWKI event is there an earthen dam up-slope from your home? A chemical plant that could be up-wind? A zoo

"All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars." — Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.)