“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

9th Circuit shoots down California’s gun limit law

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 16, 2025

A 9th Circuit panel struck down California’s gun-rationing laws, and while Attorney General Rob Bonta may seek en banc review, history, doctrine and a weak factual case may all work against him.

Last week, a unanimous three-judge 9th Circuit panel ruled California’s gun-rationing law unconstitutional in Nguyen v. Bonta. Under California Penal Code § 27535(a), it is a crime to acquire more than one firearm in a 30-day period, but that limit violates the Second Amendment, said the court.

If California Attorney General Rob Bonta petitions for the case to be reheard by an en banc panel, history suggests his chances of winning a reversal are excellent. As Judge Van Dyke pointed out in his 2022 dissent in Duncan v. Bonta, “whenever a three-judge panel actually finds a gun law unconstitutional, without fail, the case is reversed en banc.”

On the other hand, an en banc petition could carry risks. A 9th Circuit en banc panel consists of the Chief Judge, plus 10 more judges drawn at random from the other 28 active duty judges. An unlucky draw, from the attorney general’s viewpoint, could create a panel that could reverse much of the prior anti-rights en banc precedents.

By David Kopel

Constitutionally Illiterate Sixth Circuit Says Machine Guns Not Protected By Second Amendment

Final Judgement from 9th Circuit Strikes Down California Gun Rationing Law

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