I was discussing this with Len Savage today and no one knows yet the extent of this. I was speculating that it will declare 80% lower receivers to be illegal unless serialized. Len thinks that’s just the beginning.
The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
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For nearly a year, the rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.
Another reader on this same discussion thread was speculating that they will require that uppers and lowers be serialized the same, making it illegal to purchase uppers and lowers separately.
We’ll see. Either way, this is as obvious an infringement as could be imagined.
So that’s the way it happens. Completely without Congress, if you want to make something illegal, you just declare it so, sort of like Trump did with bump stocks.
He set the standard, so all of you Trump sycophants have no room to complain about this upcoming ruling.
The mere possession of a firearm by a homeowner is not sufficient to justify the use of deadly force by officers.
There is a right to come to the door with a firearm.
Officers must identify themselves as officers to gain qualified immunity.
Mere verbal announcement, without visual confirmation, is not sufficient to gain qualified immunity.
Sufficient precedent exists for officers to be aware of their duty in these situations.
It’s a weak ruling in my opinion, since the officer should have been charged with murder. But at least this should trickle down into behavior – or at least one would hope so.
It’s yet another case of a cop shooting a homeowner INSIDE HIS OWN HOME when the officer was standing OUTSIDE THE HOME.
There are two schools of thought on things like this. One school says, “Well, it’s been a mighty strange several years now, hasn’t it? A bat got AIDS and passed the virus on to humans in a market which all the world got, they had something called Agenda 21 where the richest men on earth plus health professionals and former military generals talked about pandemics just before all of this hit, there is mass migration from South of the border which threatens to crash the American system, the masked the servant class for two years, war is happening in Eurasia, and now they’re saying C19 was just a rehearsal and the real pandemic is coming which will kill half of the world. Guess we need to continue to listen to the experts.”
Then there is the other school of thought that says, “Something very foul is afoot.”
“David Codrea, Scott Heuman and Owen Monroe lawfully owned bumpstocks.1 They relied on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (‘ATF’) repeated express approval of so-called bumpstock-type devices,” a friend of the court brief filed Wednesday in the United States Supreme Court by attorneys Alan Alexander Beck and Stephen D. Stamboulieh explains. “Despite the ten-plus years of approval, the ATF reimagined and redefined terms in an unambiguous criminal statute to outlaw bumpstocks under penalty of prison, fines, and loss of Second Amendment rights.”
Good. Stephen Stamboulieh is a friend of TCJ and a highly successful lawyer and one of the good guys. Glad to see this.
Oh, I wouldn’t worry too much about him. He’s a soy boy from the inner city who wouldn’t know how to pick stalls, doctor a dog or horse, grow produce, or string a barbed wire fence.
It’s Chinese. We all know that. It’s also less expensive than the Trijicon RMR.
If Trijicon wants to compete against a product just as good and less expensive, they’re going to have to do it by coming down on price. I hope someone who works for Trijicon is reading this.
It’s just that simple. Yea, you can make the claim that you don’t want to fund business in China. That’s all well and good. But every unnecessary penny you spend now will affect your future wealth or the wealth of your children’s children.
So Americans can get their righteous indignation on, but when it comes to spending wealth, the case becomes much more complex. God has expectations for what we do with our wealth. So go ahead and play that balancing act – you know that’s what’s going on. And I don’t mind pointing it out.
“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.” – John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
The notion that 51% of the population can give a giant wedgie to the other 49% is wicked. On the other hand, there is this.
“We are on the brink of a dramatic change; we are about to abandon the traditional system of money and replace it with a new one, Digital Blockchain CBDC, which will give us greater clarity over every single transaction.” – Economist Pippa Malmagren, speaking at the 2022 World Government Summit.
And I would add, the ability to manage and approve those transactions, as well as provide opportunity for graft and corruption (like bailing banks out with your wealth).
Sin infects every form of government. It’s all considered building the Tower of Babel to God. Only nations under the rule of His law-word can survive.
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