“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."

Commentary/Second Amendment

Gun Rights Groups File Lawsuit Targeting NFA

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 16, 2025

The NFA is a double abuse of power. It tramples the Second Amendment and defies the limits the Constitution places on Congress.

A coalition of three top gun-rights organizations has filed the much-anticipated lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA) now that the $200 tax has been removed from NFA items in President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

On August 1, the National Rifle Association (NRA), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), American Suppressor Association (ASA), Prime Protection STL Tactical Boutique, and two members of the organizations filed the lawsuit Brown v. ATF in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” alleviated the $200 tax and tax-enforcement registration regime on certain classes of firearms, including suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and NFA-defined “any other weapons.” Since the tax has been eliminated, the joint complaint alleges that the NFA registration regime is no longer justifiable as an exercise of Congress’s taxing power, nor any other Article I power.

By Mark Chesnut

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

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