New York Court Holds Stun Gun Ban is Not Unconstitutional, in Contravention of Caetano

Herschel Smith · 30 Mar 2025 · 2 Comments

Dean Weingarten has a good find at Ammoland. Judge Eduardo Ramos, the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York,  has issued an Opinion & Order that a ban on stun guns is constitutional. A New York State law prohibits the private possession of stun guns and tasers; a New York City law prohibits the possession and selling of stun guns. Judge Ramos has ruled these laws do not infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. Let's briefly…… [read more]

The Strange World Of Seth Jones

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

NBC News.

The threat of terrorism — particularly from the far right — should be a major concern for governments on both sides of the Atlantic as coronavirus restrictions continue to ease, according to multiple experts and former law enforcement officials who have experience monitoring violent extremist activity.

High unemployment levels due to the pandemic, poor economic prospects and the spread of disinformation through the internet and social media could accelerate radicalization, they said.

And after a major drive by law enforcement agencies to disrupt the organizing potential of violent Islamist movements in the United States and in Europe, where hundreds of people have returned from the battlefields in Iraq and Syria, recent analysis suggests far-right groups now pose the most significant threat to public safety.

“We see an increasing percentage of plots and attacks in the United States shifting over the past couple of years from jihadist motivations, increasingly, to far-right activity,” said Seth Jones, who directs the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank.

Jones defined right-wing extremists as “sub-national or non-state entities” with goals that could include ethnic or racial supremacy. They can also be marked by anger against specific policies like abortion rights and government authority, as well as hatred toward women, or they may be members of the “involuntary celibate,” or “incel,” movement.

A report he co-authored recorded 14 terrorist incidents, including attacks and disrupted plots, from Jan. 1 to May 8. Thirteen of them were classified as right-wing, and the other was recorded as being religiously motivated in the context of jihadism.

[ … ]

“There is a growing trend of right-wing extremism in the U.K., but it is not as significant as the rising right-wing extremism in America,” said retired Maj. Gen. Clive Chapman, the former head of counterterrorism for Britain’s Defense Ministry.

So NBC News managed to cobble together several crackpot analysts to say that the right wing in America is the greatest threat to national security today.

In a time when Antifa/BLM communist insurgency is involved in blinding federal agents with green light lasers, trying to blind legitimate reporters with green light lasers, running through cities pointing rifles at people, blocking traffic, committing arson, pulling people out of cars to beat them for no reason except to perpetrate terror, shooting each other, destroying property, stealing products and goods, trafficking in weapons, threatening to shoot people from rooftops, trespassing and threatening to kill innocent people, declaring white men to be the common enemy, attacking churches, unprovoked shooting at motorists, and conspiring to interfere with the enforcement of the law, the only thing Seth Jones and his ilk can point to is … right wing extremism.  Whatever that is.

What color is the sky in your world, Seth?

Oh, I suppose “the phone call” came in to Seth.  He had to pen some idiotic missive to detract attention from Antifa/BLM.  How much did you get paid for this claptrap, Seth?  What does the deep state have on you, Seth?  Were you embarrassed when you looked back on what you wrote, Seth?

Communist Frivolities In Austin

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

This is from a reader who lives in Austin.

It could be a disinformation campaign, or it could be real intel.  Either way, the communists have no remorse, and have signaled that the revolution has begun.  If they intend to carry through with this, soi bois might get shot.

They don’t intend to stand down, they will not cease and desist, and it won’t be over until the revolution has been destroyed.

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A Day At The Range And At Home With NFAC Grand Master Jay

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

I offer this up without commentary.  The YouTube comments are everything I’d hoped they would be.  Enjoy.

I’m Under Investigation For Buying Diesel Parts!

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

Good Lord!

A communist revolution is well underway, and the DHS is spending resources on this.

Saga Of The AR-15 Forward Assist: A Solution Searching For A Problem

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

Paul Harrell’s Top Five Handguns, Updated For Riots

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

At about 11 minutes into the video, he explains the importance that higher capacity magazines has taken on for him.

NFACs Militia Leader Doesnt Know How an AR Works

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

No.  The 5.56mm round will not “knock yo’ bitch ass down.”

No.  That’s not a bullpup.

No.  That’s not a shorty.  It looks to me like a 20″ barrel, common on earlier AR platforms.

No.  Guns don’t “go off” every day of basic training with people getting killed.

No.  The AR platform isn’t that reckless and dangerous.  Eugene Stoner was a genius, and he objects to your stupidity.

No.  The BCG moving forward is by design to chamber a round – it does not cause a round to discharge.

Yes.  This NFAC leader is an imbecile.

10mm Versus .357 Magnum

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

There are other test setups that are not nearly as good or consistent, but I think he does a fairly good job of the testing.  Frankly, the rounds performed about as expected, and also virtually the same.

In the bush, I’ll stick with .45 ACP or .450 SMC.  In big bear country, I suspect most of them are committed to something larger and faster like the .454 Casull or .44 Magnum.  I’ll have to say that while I’ve heard that 10mm is becoming a popular round in big bear country, I don’t think it’s going to do what it is purported to do.

When Will Ammo Logistics Recover?

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

More perspectives on the ammo shortage.

“We’ve already been told from the manufacturers mostly like, it’s looking like maybe late third quarter, maybe late fall, and it could be pushed into winter or 2021 until we get a lot of the product,” he said.

While Farhat said his store does have ammo in stock, but it’s costing more right now because he’s not able to buy it wholesale.

“We’ve had to go out and purchase through outside distributors that are able to sell us limited quantities here and there, and we just have to make do with what we can get,” he said.

That’s a lot of slush in his estimate.  Of course, I wouldn’t expect the supply chain ever to catch up with demand depending on the election cycle.

New Streamlight Review

BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 2 months ago

Mr. Guns ‘n Gear reviews the new Strealight models.  For reference, 1 Candela emitted over a 4π solid angle = 12.566 lumens.  Lumens is the total amount of light emitted.  Candela is the light sent in a direction of a particular solid angle, so he’s referring to the tightness of the light pattern.



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