“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

States Move to Protect Suppressors If NFA Is Repealed — And Silencer Shop Is Leading the Charge

by Doris Wise Montrose on March 5, 2026

While passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill eliminated the $200 tax stamp on suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and other National Firearms Act (NFA) items, many in the firearms community are pushing further. Lawsuits have been filed and federal legislation introduced to completely eliminate the NFA, which is now, technically, a tax law with no tax attached.

At the forefront of that effort is Silencer Shop and its nonprofit advocacy arm, the Silencer Shop Foundation (SSF). On July 4, 2025 — the same day the Big Beautiful Bill passed — SSF joined forces with GOA, B&T, SilencerCo, Palmetto State Armory, and others to file what’s now known as the “Big Beautiful Lawsuit” against the ATF and DOJ. The legal argument is straightforward: the NFA has always been upheld by courts as a tax law. With the tax now zeroed out, what remains is a regulation masquerading as a tax — and that may be unconstitutional.

“It was just an accident of history,” said Silencer Shop founder Dave Matheny. And SSF is working to correct it.

By Mark Chesnut

New Legal Strategy Challenges ATF’s Interpretation of the 1986 Hughes Amendment Machine Gun Ban

Constitutional Carry Act in U.S. Senate

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