“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

Government Shutdown Highlights Restrictions on Second Amendment and NFA Items

by Doris Wise Montrose on October 22, 2025

It’s such an obvious obstacle to exercising Second Amendment rights, yet it’s rarely the first thing that comes to mind when we talk about how the federal and state governments deliberately make it difficult.

One unintended consequence of the ongoing government shutdown of “non-essential” services is that it has highlighted what the Justice Department has claimed are “modest restrictions” to Second Amendment rights are, in fact, debilitating roadblocks, completely reliant upon government operation.

In other words, infringements.

The ATF’s (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) NFA (National Firearms Act) Division has been closed all 17 days of the shutdown, deemed to be non-essential. That action has completely stopped the processing and approval of NFA-regulated items, like suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and machine guns.

Following intense pressure from a coalition of gun rights groups and elected representatives, the ATF announced it is recalling NFA examiners to return to work on Monday, October 20.

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"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.)