“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

DOJ Declares Federal Handgun Mailing Ban via USPS Unconstitutional

by Doris Wise Montrose on January 20, 2026

The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel has issued a landmark opinion concluding that the federal ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, marking a major shift in how the federal government applies the Second Amendment.

The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel has officially declared that the long-standing federal ban on mailing concealable firearms is unconstitutional. This landmark opinion concludes that 18 U.S.C. § 1715 fails the historical test required by the Second Amendment and directs the Postal Service to stop enforcing these restrictions against law-abiding citizens.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (5-minute read) — In a monumental shift for American firearm owners, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued a memorandum on January 15, 2026, declaring that the federal law prohibiting the mailing of handguns is unconstitutional. The statute in question, 18 U.S.C. § 1715, has stood since 1927, but the OLC has now determined that it serves an illegitimate purpose and lacks any historical foundation in the Nation’s tradition of firearm regulation.

This decision comes in the wake of the Shreve v. U.S. Postal Serv. lawsuit filed by Gun Owners of America (GOA). The OLC’s opinion makes it clear that the government can no longer enforce this ban against citizens who wish to ship or receive firearms for lawful purposes such as self-defense, hunting, or target shooting.

By Brandon Curtis

DeStefano flown to New York City, prepping for court hearings

Hawaii’s strict gun law faces Supreme Court scrutiny in landmark case

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