GUN: “Open Carry” just makes the armed citizen a priority target

Monday, March 15, 2021

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2021/03/14/attorney-claims-open-carry-unconstitutional-n42108

Say What? Attorney Claims Open Carry Is Unconstitutional
By Cam Edwards | Mar 14, 2021 12:30 PM ET

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“For those of us in fire self-defense training circles, all you’re doing by open carrying is identifying to the potential attacker who he needs to take out first.”

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The politicians and bureaucrats have no common sense when it comes to guns.

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GUNS: Montana Colleges Scramble To Adjust To Constitutional Carry – Bearing Arms

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

And it requires the Montana University System to drop its restrictions on campus carry by June 1.

Montana Colleges Scramble To Adjust To Constitutional Carry – Bearing Arms

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Constitutional carry is long overdue back in the USA.

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GUNS: Is Philly DA Playing Politics With Trump-Supporting Veterans?

Friday, November 13, 2020

Was it reasonable for Macias to believe his license to carry in Virginia was going to be recognized in Pennsylvania? Maybe, though if he’d been paying attention to Second Amendment issues in the state he would been aware that in 2018 Pennsylvania’s AG revoked the state’s reciprocity agreement with Virginia.

Source: Is Philly DA Playing Politics With Trump-Supporting Veterans?

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If my drivers’ “license” is reciprocal, why isn’t my concealed carry?

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NEWJERSEY: New Jersey Sued Over Carry Laws – Bearing Arms – 2A lawsuit

Thursday, November 5, 2020

In the lawsuit, which can be read here, both Stanley Bennett and Michael Hucker lay out the steps that they took in order to try to get a carry license, including having to provide multiple character references who were willing to be interviewed by local police.That provision alone should be enough to get New Jersey’s law tossed as unconstitutional, in my opinion, but the suit details further infringements on the right to bear arms stemming from the state’s “justifiable need” requirement.

Source: New Jersey Sued Over Carry Laws – Bearing Arms – 2A lawsuit

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There is no “Second Amendment” in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee.

As well as a lot of other “rights” here.

Argh!

When will the “We, The Sheeple” revolt?

When they start loading the trains for the camps?

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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GUNS: NJ Man Charged For Illegal Suppressors … …

Sunday, October 25, 2020

https://bearingarms.com/came/2020/10/22/nj-man-charged-illegal-suppressors/

NJ Man Charged For Illegal Suppressors That He Tried To Turn In To Police
Posted at 9:00 am on October 22, 2020 by Cam Edwards

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Musella’s press release truly makes it sound like Moran was some sort of international smuggler of silencers, instead of a guy who voluntarily alerted police to the suppressors that arrived on his doorstep. The fact that Musella’s press release doesn’t even mention Moran’s cooperation with police is disturbing, but not nearly as troubling as Moran’s arrest for trying to follow the law in the first place.
 
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Wonder if @governorphilmurphy will intervene?

Doubt it!

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GUNS: The “incorporation doctrine” is the camel’s nose

Thursday, October 8, 2020

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2020/10/04/federal-courts-fail-again-in-washington-gun-case/

Federal Courts Fail Again in Washington Gun Case
By: Mike Maharrey|Published on: Oct 4, 2020|Categories: 2nd Amendment, Court Cases, Incorporation Doctrine

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The judge’s opinion notwithstanding, the federal government has no constitutional authority to place any restrictions on firearms. The Constitution does not delegate any firearm regulating authority to the feds, and the Second Amendment slams the door on any regulation on firearms within the scope of other constitutionally delegated powers such as regulation of commerce. “Shall not infringe” does not come with an asterisk. No terms and conditions apply. The Second Amendment absolutely prohibits any federal infringement on the right to keep and bear arms.

But this should have never been a federal case to begin with. It should have been decided in state court under the Washington state constitution. Section 24 of the state constitution restricts state regulation of firearms.

“SECTION 24 RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.”

So why did it end up in federal court? Because of the bastardization of the 14th Amendment known as the “incorporation doctrine.”

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Everything becomes a Federal case.

Both the Section 24 of the state constitution and the Second Amendment should have protected the citizens’ right to “keep and bear arms”.

But it’s unfashionable today to have an armed citizenry.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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GUNS: CA Sheriff Took The Fifth In Grand Jury Probe Over Carry Permits

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Sheriff Smith is ultimately the sole person with the authority to approve concealed carry applications in Santa Clara County. It’s not unreasonable for the average person to wonder if Sheriff Smith had any involvement in the pay-to-carry scheme, given that third party committees supporting her re-election campaign were the primary beneficiaries of the bribes. Invoking the Fifth Amendment may have been sound legal advice in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion, it’s sure to raise even more questions than the ones she’s so far refused to answer.

Source: CA Sheriff Took The Fifth In Grand Jury Probe Over Carry Permits

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Sure seems like there are different rules for those “politically connected”?

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GUNS: THE RIGHT TO BUY WEAPONS IS THE RIGHT TO BE FREE

Monday, July 6, 2020

Having not read The Weapon Shops of Isher in some years and unable to find my old paperback copy I ordered a replacement from Amazon. So there it was, on the first page, in the prologue:

THE RIGHT TO BUY WEAPONS IS THE RIGHT TO BE FREE

People have understood this for generations, it took a lot of efforts (yes, I put that plural on purpose) by anti-immigrant bigots, people seeking favor with protection racketeers, racists, fascists, and fake liberals to reach the current level of hostility to the right to bear arms our so-called betters keep trying to keep stirred up

Source: Letters to the Editor

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Seems absolutely correct to me!

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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GUNSTeens beat a 15-year-old girl before stealing her sneakers and phone

Friday, March 6, 2020

Authorities have released surveillance footage of several young boys attacking a 15-year-old girl in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. They also stole her shoes and phone.

Source: Teens beat a 15-year-old girl before stealing her sneakers and phone

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That’s why the Dead Old White Guys wanted folks to have guns.

Let’s imagine we are not in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee, os as in this case the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk, and this young woman was “packing heat”.   Say a “small 380” like a RUGER – LCP II with 7 in the magazine.  OK, rerun the incident.  The mob of 20 chase her, she stops, pulls out her gun, and takes a firing stance.  Who’s going to be first to rush her?  No one ever wants to be down range of a crazy woman with a gun; let alone one who’s in fear for her life!  True, she only has seven shots. But I assume she’ll have extra mags. I bet the “mob” will beat feet for safer targets.  And so what if she “puts down a few animals”?  I’m pro-choice and pro-life, but the RKBA means the right to be secure in your person.  Aggressors have no rights.

I’m firmly convince this would have be  another in yet a long list of DGUs (Defensive Gun Use) incidents where no shots are fires and the threat disappears.

Bernie Goetz all over again. Mugged once; armed the next time.

“God made men and women; Sam colt made them equal.” — Unknown

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GUNS: New Jersey State Constitution seems to permit “constitutional carry”

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

“All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain natural and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.”

Source: New Jersey State Constitution

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Following the advice of Brion McClanahan (i.e.,  “Think Locally Act Locally”, I actually looked for an equivalent to the Second Amendment, but found some support for the RKBA.

Wonder why we don’t have Constitutional Carry?

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