“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."

Second Amendment

ATF Pistol Brace Rule Doing Harm, Even After Injunction

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 2, 2024

Doing harm to lawful citizens is the goal of the ATF. The ATF is only authorized to enforce laws made by Congress. The AFT, along with all the alphabet agencies, must be defunded and eliminated.

The ATF’s rule treating pistol stabilizing braces as attachments that turn handguns into short-barreled rifles poses an existential threat to companies like Maxim Defense Industries, even with several injunctions in place that, in theory, should allow Maxim to continue doing business as usual.

Two different federal judges in Texas have granted varying degrees of injunctive relief; one blocking the ATF from enforcing the rule against specific plaintiffs like Maxim, and the other halting enforcement of the rule against any and all pistol brace owners. But as the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports (in a mostly even-handed story, surprisingly enough), the rule is still having a chilling effect on gun owners and manufacturers like Maxim.

Besides braced pistols in 2022 accounting for about three-fourths of Maxim’s $5 million-plus in firearms sales in 2022, freestanding braces comprised about 59% of the company’s $5 million-plus in nonfirearm sales, court documents said.

By Cam Edwards

ATF's poorly trained ‘operators’ are a threat to public safety

The Fatal Mistakes Of Operation Fast And Furious

"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.)