RALEIGH, N.C. (April 10, 2023) – A bill introduced in the North Carolina House would prohibit financial institutions operating in the state from using a credit card merchant code to track the purchases of firearms and ammunition.
Rep. Reece Pyrtle (R) and 19 Republican cosponsors introduced House Bill 564 (H564) on April 4. The proposed law would ban financial institutions from using a firearms code in connection with a payment card transaction involving a firearm retailer in North Carolina.
The bill would also prohibit a financial institution from knowingly maintaining a record of individuals residing in this State who own firearms.
NC wouldn’t be the first state to do this. This is a good move, and I suspect being outlawed from operation in various states, or at least sending the state AG to court against you for violation of state laws, is a real bummer for the progressive banks and a wet blanket on their plans.
Of course, goober Roy Cooper will veto the bill, and the House and Senate will have to override the veto to make this law just like they did with ridding us of the ridiculous CLEO handgun permitting and taxation scheme.
Goober Cooper can’t go away fast enough. I hope NC voters are embarrassed at having elected that idiot to office, along with his wife (who famously flipped a bird at a school child). Both of them are obscene, low class people.
The power of the sword, say the minority…, is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.
Notice that whatever the minority was saying, whether it be that the right of military weaponry was limited to the state, or that the continental congress should be in control of the militia, or whatever else, they were in the minority. The minority.
This is the context when the second amendment was ratified. End of discussion. This allows for no control over weaponry owned and used by the common man because common men are the soldiers, using every terrible implement in order to ameliorate tyranny.
He should know. He was there. 21st century progressives were not.
This is a remarkable development in a gun ban case in federal district court in Hawaii. Everytown is representing Hawaii. They argued on HI behalf today in the attached. The document is a pro hac vice (allows you to practice in a court you aren’t licensed in) that was signed by the HI AG office, and lists Hawaii AG as the person Everytown is defending.
He has his own body guards, so you’re on your own. He and his money don’t care about the peasants. I’m sure his body guards carry “assault pistols.”
Remember that if a gun is in common use, the supreme court decision in Heller says it cannot be banned. Full stop. The debate is over. I hope Michael throws away a lot of money on this.
Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the tomb.2 And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it.3 And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.4 The guards shook from fear of him and became like dead men.5 And the angel said to the women, “[a]Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified.6 He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying.7 And go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you to Galilee. There you will see Him; behold, I have told you.” – NASB
First up in this most recent but awful recent procession of the ugly and parade of the vulgar is a report from New Mexico.
The New Mexico State Police released additional information Thursday on a deadly shooting that happened the day prior in Farmington after officers mistakenly responded to the wrong home and shot one of its occupants to death.
In a Thursday statement, the NMSP said an officer with the Farmington Police Department fatally shot the victim, identified as Robert Dotson, 52, after responding to a call for a domestic violence incident at around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Farmington police officers responded to the area but visited the wrong address.
“Once on scene, officers mistakenly approached 5305 Valley View Avenue instead of 5308 Valley View Avenue,” the NMSP said. “Officers knocked on the front door of 5305 Valley View Avenue and announced themselves as Farmington police officers. When there was no answer at 5305, officers asked their dispatch to call the reporting party back and have them come to the front door.”
The addresses are located across the street from one another. Police said the occupants of 5305 Valley View Avenue opened the door armed and an exchange of gunfire ensued.
“Body camera footage shows as the officers backed away from 5305 Valley View Avenue, the homeowner, Robert Dotson, 52, opened the screen door armed with a handgun. At this point in the encounter, officer(s) fired at least one round from their duty weapon(s) striking Mr. Dotson,” police said.
The NMSP added: “After the initial shooting, Mr. Dotson’s wife, also armed with a handgun, fired from the doorway of the residence. Once again, officer(s) fired. Once she realized that the individuals outside the residence were officers, she put the gun down and complied with the officer’s commands.”
If one doesn’t know who is at the door making a commotion, it seems to make perfect sense to go armed. But in fact it doesn’t. If police can shoot you with immunity for simply being in possession of a firearm, then the RKBA doesn’t exist at all.
Second, the wisest counsel would say don’t open the door for police. Just like you never talk to the police without a lawyer, you don’t open the door for the police. Simply don’t do it, especially if you’re in possession of a weapon. Don’t let your dog[s] out or they will also get shot by Barney Fife. Ensconce inside your home and assess the situation, but don’t believe for even a single second that the police are there to protect your safety. In fact, there is no situation so bad and so dire that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.
Two police officers in Clearwater, Florida, were suspended following an incident wherein they both shot at each other in the darkness. They responded to a call about a man firing a gun in his backyard. They approached silently, in the darkness, positioned themselves, and when the man fired a round, they both essentially mag-dumped at each other. One of the officers was hit.
Reid fired 18 rounds and Woodie fired six, according to internal affairs documents. Reid fired toward where he saw a “muzzle flash,” believing that direction to be Wassman’s location. However, he did not see Wassman, internal affairs documents say.
Woodie told internal affairs he saw a person in dark clothing holding a gun and believed he was firing at Wassman. However, one of Woodie’s bullets grazed Reid’s arm, and officers also found four “projectile materials” from Woodie’s rounds in a neighboring home.
The violations of extremely important rules of safety are so stark it boggles the imagination. Don’t shoot if you don’t know what you’re shooting at. Know your target and what’s behind it. The Supreme Court decision in Tennessee v. Garner, and so much more that it’s just not productive to lay out all of the failures here.
Third up in this display of foolishness comes straight to you from the FBI and SOCOM.
Members of the FBI and the US Army Special Operations Command who were conducting a training exercise in downtown Boston raided the wrong hotel room and detained the person inside before realizing their mistake, the FBI said in a statement to CNN.
The FBI said its Boston division was helping the military with a training exercise around 10 p.m. Tuesday “to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment.”
“Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player,” the FBI said.
[ … ]
An officer with the US Army Special Operations will lead the investigation into the incident, Burns told CNN Friday. The investigation will be an administrative fact-finding inquiry, but it can result in recommendations that could lead to judicial proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
It’s a wonder they didn’t kill anyone.
Good grief. Have things gotten so bad in SOCOM that they have to take lessons in how to screw up from the FBI? My son did this for real among real bad guys in Fallujah and could teach them how to do this right. Better yet, there are tactical trainers out there who make a living doing this (here you must be careful since there are also some fakes, like the FBI, and also some trainers who don’t believe in the RKBA and would tyrannize the American people).
The point is that the FBI is the very last place SOCOM should go for training. If they have fallen to that level, America’s armed forces are truly in trouble.
I knew a sergeant in a local PD who knew that I have a penchant for 1911s. He told me once that he wouldn’t trust any officer in his department to carry or decock a hammer fired pistol, even if it’s a backup pistol to his service issued firearm. Of course, you must know what you’re doing with a striker fired gun too, but he’s a wise man to restrict his officers to something he thinks they can handle.
You’re never in more danger than when the police are around. Do everything humanly possible to get away from them as quickly as possible.
Never forget that you owe this precedent-setting debacle of an empowered ATF making up law out of whole cloth to Donald Trump. Never forget that. This all gave the go-ahead for the pistol brace rule, and many other things yet to come.
Huge Breaking 2A News! Biden administration late last night at the last hour before the final deadline filed a 197-page Writ of Certiorari, aka request that the US Supreme Court hears the Garland v Cargill bump stock lawsuit at SCOTUS. #2A#GoodFriday2023#2AShallNotBeInfringedpic.twitter.com/wY8XSzQ0Bz
This is interesting for most of us, although it wouldn’t and doesn’t dissuade me from carrying a revolver for personal defense. Of course, if your name is Jerry Miculek, none of this applies to you. It seems to me that one of the lessons is to carry a backup handgun if you think you might be in a protracted gunfight. If you can’t predict the future like most of us, I guess get good with speed loaders. I like the idea of carrying a secondary weapon better.
On a related note, I don’t ever buy Armscor ammunition. One comment to Sam’s video is interesting: “Back as a cop, I carried a 22 mag pocket revolver as a backup to the 38 issued weapon. Our armourer specifically warned us not to use Squires Bingham (what Armscor used to be in those days) 22 wrmf rounds for this reason. And this was quite a while ago now. Seems their QA for their rimfire mag round has not improved much.”
2 years, 5 months ago
