NBC and ABC on Thursday broke in with alarmed coverage of the 6-3 gun rights victory in the Supreme Court, worrying about whether the out of touch conservatives on the Court will get people killed.
Gun Rights
SCOTUS tosses “may issue” firearm carry permit laws
A blockbuster extension of Heller and McDonald has tossed out state requirements to demonstrate a need to carry a firearm, and on the expected 6-3 split. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen, holding that states demanding a special reason to grant access to the right to bear arms violates both the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.
The Bipartisan Senate Gun Control Bill Would Unjustly Deprive Americans of Their Second Amendment Rights
The bill, which is the product of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans who want to be seen as doing something to prevent mass shootings and other kinds of gun violence, purports to achieve that goal without sacrificing Second Amendment rights. But the bill’s details raise serious questions about its effectiveness and fairness. It pays lip service to civil liberties while canceling the gun rights of adults based on juvenile records, and it subsidizes state laws that suspend those rights without due process.
Gun control fan nearly gets shot trying to “prove a point” with police officer
A Utah man who says he wanted to prove that he shouldn’t be able to have a gun may get his wish now that he’s been charged with a felony.
Police in Tooele County, Utah say that 33-year-old Spenser Terrell Thomas was arrested on Saturday after pointing what appeared to be a firearm at a local police officer. Thomas was apparently riding an electric scooter down the road when he spotted the officer and approached him.
Shocker: Rise in Philly carry permits leads to rise in justified homicides
During the summer of love, as riots and other, unrelated crimewaves were on the rise in Philadelphia, people began applying for permits to purchase and carry firearms at rates previously unseen.
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki tried to ‘jeopardize’ mass murder investigation to advance Trudeau’s gun control efforts
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki “made a promise” to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office to leverage the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 to get a gun control law passed.
A week after the murders, Lucki pressured RCMP in Nova Scotia to release details of the weapons used by the killer. But RCMP commanders in Nova Scotia refused to release such details, saying doing so would threaten their investigation into the murders.
The Trudeau government’s gun control objectives were spelled out in an order in council issued in May 2020, and the legislation codifying them were encapsulated in Bill C-21, which was tabled last month, but the concern in April 2020 was the extent to which politics threatened to interfere with a cross-border police investigation into how the killer managed to obtain and smuggle into Canada four illegal guns used to commit many of the 22 murders.
h/t Mauser
Gun trumps butter knife in California carjacking attempt
A California woman was saved from a carjacking after an armed passerby intervened, sending the would-be thief sprinting away.
According to reports, the carjacker was armed with a butter knife when he approached the woman outside of a restaurant in Merced, California on Friday afternoon. The woman handed over her keys after he demanded them, but the suspect then took off running when an “onlooker” pulled a gun and pointed it at the man.
Ottawa Valley hunter fights gun seizure in court, self-represented, and gets his firearms back
Stephen Clouthier, a lifelong hunter from the Ottawa Valley, has always been a private man, but when the Ontario Provincial Police seized his firearms, he took a stand in public court, where he represented himself and won his long arms back.
Pro-Second Amendment New Black Panther Party speaks out against rising crime
Mississippi leaders of the New Black Panther Party spoke out against black-on-black violence and the crime crisis gripping their community Tuesday.
“Black people shouldn’t be killing black people, under no circumstances,” member Steven Harris said during a press conference in Jackson, Mississippi. “You have to love your people.”
Crime and death in the community have reached a crisis point, according to Sherrell Potts, a commander in the New Black Panther Party.
‘There is a rich tradition of black gun ownership’
Maj Toure on how the Second Amendment was essential to the fight for black liberation.
The US’s Second Amendment is often dismissed as reactionary – as white supremacist, even. We’re told that the only people interested in preserving the right to bear arms are racist, rural-dwelling white men.
For Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, this gets things completely the wrong way around. Gun control, he argues, was historically rooted in racism and the Second Amendment was essential to the fight for black liberation.
The Democrats’ Politicized Gun Control Script
There’s far more at stake than gun-control laws.
For those of us of a certain age, we know that every time some psychopath shoots up a school and murders students, the Democrats will respond with their clichéd demagogic script. Exploiting the natural horror and pathos of such events, the Donks will trot out all the usual gun-policy suspects, the majority of which would not have prevented most of the attacks.
Gun Deal Is Less Than Democrats Wanted, but More Than They Expected
WASHINGTON — The bipartisan gun safety deal announced Sunday is far from what Democrats would have preferred in the aftermath of the racist gun massacre in Buffalo and the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, but it is considerably more than they hoped for initially.
The proposal, which still has a long way to go before becoming law, focuses less on the “gun” part of gun control and more on other factors, such as a buyer’s mental health or violent tendencies, in a concession to Republican hesitation and the hard political reality that tough limits on sales, let alone outright bans on firearms, are far out of reach.
Bipartisan Gun Deal Announced: No ‘Assault Weapons‘ Ban, No Raised Minimum Rifle Age
A bipartisan group of senators announced a deal on gun control legislation Sunday in the wake of recent mass shootings — though the compromise excludes President Joe Biden’s “assault weapons” ban and a raised minimum age for rifle purchases.
How hard could it be to tighten gun controls in Canada? Just ask Justin Trudeau
OTTAWA — Nowhere in the Liberal government’s latest attempt to craft clear, practical gun control legislation — by introducing a new handgun “freeze”— does it say “thou shalt not buy, sell, import, trade or transfer handguns.”
Instead, the mechanism to slap a freeze on the acquisition of handguns is found in the legalese of a 55-page bill — and accompanying regulations — that are typical of the morass that is firearms law in Canada.
It’s a classic example of the Liberals’ beleaguered efforts at gun control, which can often seem like more talk than action to its supporters and critics alike.
Michael Moore Calls for Full Repeal of Second Amendment — ‘You Don’t Need a Gun‘
Leftist activist and filmmaker Michael Moore used his Friday podcast “Rumble Michael Moore” to call for a full repeal of the Second Amendment in the wake of the Uvalde, TX school shooting.
Moore said, “I know that there are Democratic Party leaders that do not want me saying this we going to lose the election.”