None of this is terribly complicated. By continuing to throw their support behind gangsters, murderers and other criminals, observes one commentator, the Democrats are simply “digging a deeper and deeper political grave for themselves.
The procedural contortions in these various ongoing magazine ban cases grow more grating with each case. Recall that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected taking up the magazine ban issue in a Seventh Circuit ruling arising from an Illinois law.
The New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center suggests “integrating oral care into gun violence prevention organizations could be essential in mitigating the risks of both gun violence and lack of dental care.”
To say a committed and involved DOJ could be a force multiplier in the project to uphold the 2A would be an understatement. It could be a gamechanger and could give recalcitrant anti-gun states – used to acting with virtual impunity – a reason to curb their prohibitionist ambitions.
The most flagrant attack on the due process rights of American gun owners has come in the form of “red flag” gun confiscation order legislation.
For all of the moralizing by gun control advocates who decry violent crime at the same time they press to curtail the rights of responsible gun owners, the law enforcement environment today means citizens have to be their own first responders.
By going after the most popular firearms “in common use” for lawful purposes, gun control advocates are demonstrating an unbridled disdain for American gun owners, the Second Amendment, and judicial precedent.
Discussing the current incident with the Sun Times, Wintemute acknowledged his earlier findings, telling the paper, “When somebody asks me should we do a buyback, my response is that it depends on what you’re hoping to accomplish… If you think it will reduce rates of crime, go back to the drawing board.”
Ironically, although the dropped federal NFA charge had required the government to argue the braced CZ Scorpion was a rifle, the charge Taranto is still facing under D.C. law required it to argue the same firearm is a handgun.
No less a gun control advocate than Joe Biden labeled his political opposition here as enemies of democracy and his administration even claimed that “domestic extremism” was among the greatest threats to national security.
