“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."

Commentary

A Bad Week of Losing for Biden’s “AFT”

by Doris Wise Montrose on June 20, 2024

What’s bad for the ATF is good for Americans.

Isn’t schadenfreude wonderful?

Last week was bad for Joe Biden’s out-of-control Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Courts, particularly in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, are taking a very dim view of Biden’s executive fiats on guns, striking down two in as many days.

Pistol stabilizing braces

Last Thursday, a federal district court in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated – nationwide – Biden‘s attempt to reclassify nearly all AR-15-style pistols using stabilizing braces (PSBs) as “short-barreled rifles” (SBRs), which are tightly regulated by the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA).

You may recall that in recent years, the ATF had repeatedly ruled that PSBs, originally developed to help wounded warriors shoot relatively heavy AR-15-style pistols, were not shoulder stocks and therefore didn’t change the classification of guns on which they were installed.

By Paul Valone

Bump stock case more than the 2A

Trump-Appointed Judge Halts Biden ATF Rule Changing Definition of ‘Firearms Dealer’

"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.)