“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."

Day: June 14, 2024

Second Amendment

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era bump stock ban

by Doris Wise Montrose on June 14, 2024

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on bump stock accessories on firearms. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a bump stock does not transform a firearm into an automatic weapon, striking down a federal rule that banned bump stocks. In a 6-3 decision, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “Congress has

Second Amendment

BREAKING: District Court Vacates Biden Pistol Brace Final Rule

by Doris Wise Montrose on June 14, 2024

“In today’s decision, the District Court judge agreed that the ATF rule was illegal and likely to be rejected by other courts. The case is likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, those involved said. For now, it is legal to have the pistols — AR style or others — equipped with stabilizing arm braces.”

Second Amendment

Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Rapid-Fire Bump Stocks

by Doris Wise Montrose on June 14, 2024

The Trace is a pro-gun control, anti-gun rights organization. It’s important to know what one’s adversaries are up to. “But the opinion could buoy the regulation of auto sears, commonly referred to as Glock switches. The ATF has also said that those devices transform a semiautomatic weapon into a machine gun. In a footnote, the majority opinion

"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.)