{"id":157881,"date":"2024-06-18T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157881"},"modified":"2024-06-16T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T19:44:34","slug":"tuesday-gun-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157881","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday gun update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, the Supremes are in hot water with the anti-gun left. SUPREMES MAKE VEGAS-STYLE BUMP STOCKS LEGAL!!! etc.\u00a0 Well, no, that’s not actually what they said.<\/p>\n

President Trump ordered the ban in 2017 after a single gunman at a Las Vegas concert used multiple guns modified by bump stock devices to kill 60 people and injure 400\u2014all in the space of 11 minutes.\u00a0 NPR<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Might remember that the next time Trump tells you how pro-gun he is – he did more to\u00a0 hep anti-gunners than Obama did.)<\/p>\n

Back to the decision – BATFE has defined a machine gun as one that intentionally fires multiple rounds with a single pull of the trigger. Bump stocks use the recoil of the gun to pull the trigger REPEATEDLY for rapid fire. Ergo, not a machine gun by their rules. But the Trump ATF unilaterally declared a bump stock makes an ordinary rifle a machine gun.\u00a0 Nope, a) it doesn’t and b) Congress has to do that, not the BATFE. All the Supremes did was say “BATFE overstepped their authority – they can’t DO that”. But oh, the streets are about to be running with blood – and hyperbole. Like the abortion ruling, what they actually said and what is being said they did are two different things.<\/p>\n

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And in more bad news for the anti-gun crowd, Gavin Newsom is having a bad week.<\/p>\n

On NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show last June, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a proposal that seemed politically impossible from the start: Convincing two-thirds of state legislatures in America to officially call for a constitutional convention to adopt national gun safety laws.<\/p>\n

One year later, no other state has joined Newsom\u2019s fight.<\/p>\n

The inability to advance the gun safety proposal beyond California, even in other Democratic-controlled states, suggests that \u2014 so far at least \u2014 Newsom\u2019s plan was more flash than substance.\u00a0 LA Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For once, he was constitutionally correct – can’t just contravene the 2nd Amendment with non-conforming laws – there are a multitude of decisions in the last 20 years which have shown just that. But an amendment to kill the 2nd? That’s legal – for a quick example, look at the rise (18th Amendment) and fall (21st Amendment) of Prohibition. Seems that popular support for ‘get rid of the 2nd’ is somewhat lacking.<\/p>\n

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Might recall Bryan Malinowski, the airport executive who was gunned down by BATFE agents in his home in March while they served a non-knock search and warrant on him. Well, the DA has (surprise, surprise) found the ATF agents’ actions aboveboard and is requesting no charges be filed.<\/p>\n

In his letter, Jones said the agents had properly identified themselves with police running lights and sirens outdoors before they entered and announced their presence at the front door. Jones wrote that during the raid one of the agents saw another agent fall to the ground, heard a gunshot and saw Malinowski holding a gun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Malinowski may have been skirting the law on being a dealer (about a transaction a week at gun shows within a three year period) and one could argue that in a raid seeing another agent fall and a supposed gunshot could lead to the wrong conclusion. But why the raid in the first place? Malinowski had no idea he was being investigated, worked inside an airport (isn’t that a gun free zone?) – why not just visit him at his office? Why not wear BATFE-mandated body cams? Why tape over his doorbell camera?<\/p>\n

In his letter, Jones said the agents had properly identified themselves with police running lights and sirens outdoors before they entered and announced their presence at the front door.<\/p>\n

Bud Cummins, the family’s attorney, on Friday said questions about the raid were \u201cfar from over” despite Jones’ decision. Cummins noted that, according to Jones’ letter, ATF agents only waited 28 seconds after knocking on the Malinowski’s door before they began to ram it.AP<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Depending on where the bedroom, lights in the street may not mean much. Neighbors dispute that “siren” bit, too. 28 whole seconds before breaking in the door?\u00a0 Be honest…how many people wake, pull on some kind of clothes, and can even GET to their door in 28 seconds? This one is a full-Janet-Reno level procedural screw-up and there needs to be a public investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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