“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

Trump Admin Ends Shotgun and Rifle Ban in DC

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 27, 2025

This article answers the question about whether and how this affects handguns.

In a significant policy shift, federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia have been directed to stop bringing felony charges against individuals solely for carrying rifles or shotguns. The new directive, confirmed by U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro, stems from a Justice Department determination that the city’s longstanding ban on the public carry of long guns is unconstitutional in light of recent Supreme Court precedent.

This change arrives at a seemingly contradictory moment, as the Trump administration simultaneously intensifies federal law enforcement presence in D.C. to combat crime. While the White House has highlighted the seizure of dozens of firearms under this new “surge,” this policy carves out a major exception for non-violent possession of certain weapons.

The Legal Rationale: Heller and Bruen

The U.S. Attorney’s Office argues that D.C.’s law, which makes it a crime to carry rifles or shotguns outside the home or business without a rarely-granted permit, is no longer legally defensible. This conclusion rests on two landmark Supreme Court decisions that have reshaped the legal landscape of the Second Amendment.

By Ross J. Fodera, Esq.

It’s time for President Trump to end the ATF

10th Circuit panel blocks New Mexico’s 7-day waiting period on gun purchases

"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.)