“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

OSD 326: The NFA is coming from inside the House

by Doris Wise Montrose on May 19, 2025

Setting the tax stamp to $0 is a meaningless political compromise, not a permanent win. Without removing silencers from the NFA altogether, the door remains open for future restrictions while leaving all the regulatory requirements.

On the rumors about companies undermining NFA reform.

We were going to write a detailed breakdown of what happened in Congress last week with NFA reform, but then Isaac Botkin made an excellent video about it that you should just watch instead:

The summary is that there were various bills under discussion to remove silencers and potentially other items from the NFA, then those bills got watered down to keep everything in the NFA but reduce the cost of a silencer tax stamp to $0. That will probably be the final draft that gets voted on (if it does ever get voted on), despite some chatter that the more comprehensive reforms are still under discussion.

The really explosive gossip is that silencer companies were lobbying behind the scenes to keep silencers in the NFA. Silencer Central put out a statement endorsing the Hearing Protection Act after social media glommed onto them for some reason as the culprits:

By Open Source Defense

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DOJ to Illinois Gun Owners: Write Your Democrat Legislators to Repeal Infringements

"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.)