{"id":150835,"date":"2023-12-16T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150835"},"modified":"2023-12-15T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T01:09:40","slug":"feds-have-been-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150835","title":{"rendered":"Feds have been busy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, the Supremes, in a major disappointment, refused to rule on Illinois’ “assault rifle” ban despite the fatuous reasoning of the 7th Circuit Court from whom the buck was passed.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that gun restrictions, in order to be constitutional, must be analogous to laws on the books at the nation’s founding. As a result, an Illinois gun retailer and a gun rights advocacy group challenged the state’s law, contending that the “ban is not consistent with the nation’s history and tradition of firearms regulation and fails constitutional muster.”<\/p>\n

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<\/picture><\/a>An ideologically mixed panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, however, writing that the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the right to bear arms “extends only to weapons in common use for a lawful purpose,” not to semiautomatic weapons that “are much more like machine guns and military-grade weaponry than they are like the many different types of firearms that are used for individual self-defense.” NPR<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Apparently no one on the Supreme Court read their own decision on Bruen, as the most common type of centerfire rifle sold IS the AR. Rifle murders only happen a few hundred times a year (most killings are done with handguns). The 7th’s decision should have been tossed on its ear, not ducked by a Court that should know better. Oh, with only just over two weeks to go, mandatory Illinois citizen registration compliance is hovering around 1%.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But Biden’s folks are watching, and gun violence czar Kamala is encouraging action at the state level since support at a Federal level just isn’t there.<\/div>\n
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The administration is encouraging state officials to establish their own state-level gun violence prevention offices; to invest in gun violence prevention, such as community violence intervention programs; to bolster support for survivors and victims affected by gun violence; to push for safe storage and reporting of lost and stole firearms; and to enact legislation to strengthen background checks and ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.<\/div>\n
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If all that doesn’t sound familiar, you aren’t paying attention. If they can create vast stretches of the US where semi-autos are banned, they create enough legal confusion to make gun ownership anywhere difficult. Pity there isn’t some clear, easy to understand Federal law applying to all 50 states:. How about\u00a0 “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” But I would drop the first phrases because sure as shooting, waterheads will cite ‘militias’ as the reason to own a gun.<\/span><\/div>\n
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But hey, at least this bought and sold administration isn’t beholden to foreign oligarchs intent on subverting the justice system. Oh, wait…<\/div>\n
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Missouri\u2019s Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent letters to congress Wednesday to urge both Republican and Democrat lawmakers “to further investigate and eliminate funding for programs that are counter-productive to public safety” and that “aid or encourage prosecutors to abuse discretion by refusing to bring criminals to justice.”<\/p>\n

Bailey\u2019s letters follow what he describes as a “galvanizing moment” in Missouri when disgraced St. Louis circuit attorney Kim Gardner \u2013 “a progressive soft-on-crime prosecutor” \u2013 let a repeat criminal out on bail who then drove his speeding car into a young girl, leaving her with injures that required the amputation of both of her legs.<\/p>\n

Bailey names the Vera Institute \u2014 a Brooklyn-based advocacy group that says it wants to “transform the criminal and legal justice systems” with ties to Washington, D.C., Democrats \u2014 as a “deeply embedded” key partner in Gardner\u2019s former office, “turning it into a catastrophic social experiment more concerned with lowering prosecution rates than convicting violent criminals.”<\/p>\n

(George – ed.) Soros’ Open Society Foundations donated nearly $11 million to the Vera Institute in previous years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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