Reader’s Links for March 19th, 2024

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  1. This Canadian Trade Commission report examines doing business in communist China. It provides objective facts on what foreign business must do to navigate and be compliant in that system. It must hire compliance officers for their service to be effective.

    I can verify that a similar infrastructure is being put in place in Canada for businesses domestically. Quietly and incrementally business is being exposed to diversity, equity and inclusion practices in a top-down fashion. The largest government service providers such as BGIS (property management) send questionaires to supplier subcontractors. Supply chain conformity includes divulging how many women, visible minorities, handicapped, indigenous, and sexually non-binary individuals comprise the company’s staff and ownership structures.

    The linking of a company’s bank account to its social credit via direct deposits further enhances compliance.

    This report is delivered in dry but effective governmental writing style, and also in a tone that reflects intensive study for, in my opinion, domestic adaptation and replication.

    https://www.tradecommissioner.gc.ca/china-chine/cscs-scse.aspx?lang=eng

    Dear Leader really wasn’t kidding when he said he admired the CCP system of governance. He has listened closely to his own politburo, and implemented their instructions.

  7. Under Negative Nonsense / The Sky is Falling
    Every time I hear Steven Guillbeault, Canada’s Environment Minister speak, he reminds me of George Carlin saying, “Think how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that”.

  8. Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the $454 million bond required to appeal the civil fraud judgment against him could force a fire sale of his real estate.

    New York Attorney General Letitia James’ prosecution of Trump essentially tries to bankrupt the president. Trump must post a liquid (cash, securities) bond covering the full amount of the judgment to pause enforcement of the judgment, but 30 surety companies told Trump they would not accept real estate assets as collateral, Trump’s lawyers said Monday. The enforcement will begin on March 25.

    If Trump can not post the $454 million bond, James could seek to freeze some of his bank accounts and properties.

  9. A self-declared “drag queen” guest of the White House allegedly raped or attempted to rape multiple young men, according to an investigation by Rolling Stone magazine.

    Darius Jeremy (“DJ”) Pierce, who presents himself as “Shangela,” is a big hit in the business of “drag” where men portray themselves as exaggerations of stereotyped femininity.

    He is “one of the most visible queer people in pop culture,” the magazine reported.

    Rolling Stone explained the allegations:

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/19/lawsuit-says-white-house-transgender-star-raped-several-men/

  10. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed Monday that the Biden Administration would consider cutting off arms sales to Israel if it did not submit a report explaining how its use of the weapons complies with international law.

    Sullivan added that he expected Israel to provide such a report, but did not rule out ending U.S. supplies to Israel.

    From the White House briefing transcript:

    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/19/report-biden-to-consider-cutting-arms-to-israel-over-human-rights/

  11. The Biden Administration is reportedly preparing to allow a Hamas-linked contractor to participate in the construction of the floating port that the U.S. military is preparing to build off the coast of Gaza to assist the delivery of humanitarian aid.

    The shocking report comes from Baruch Yedid, the Arab affairs correspondent for Israel’s Channel 14, who reported that the Biden administration had asked Qatar to finance the project. Qatar agreed, on condition that the project be performed by the Al Hissi company, a company with close ties to Hamas, and which has been the primary contractor within Gaza under Hamas rule. The project would therefore enrich Hamas and ensure it can continue to exist, and fight.

    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/19/report-biden-to-allow-hamas-linked-contractor-to-build-gaza-pier/

  12. A Lebanese migrant apprehended near El Paso, Texas, reportedly claims to be a Hezbollah terrorist. The Lebanese national claimed to be headed to New York and said he wanted to make a bomb.

    Border Patrol agents arrested 22-year-old Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a Lebanese national, after he illegally entered the United States from Mexico near El Paso. “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” Ebbadi told Border Patrol agents when asked why he came to the U.S., according to an exclusive report by the New York Post.

    Agents captured Ebbadi on March 9 after he crossed the border from Mexico into Texas. The agents transported the Lebanese man to the El Paso hardened facility for processing and investigation. Two days later, Ebbadi told the agents he was going to make a bomb. The agents moved the man to isolation and contacted the Tactical Terrorism Response Team to conduct an interview.

    https://www.breitbart.com/border/2024/03/18/report-self-proclaimed-hezbollah-terrorist-arrested-at-border-in-texas/

  13. Michigan Lawyer Stefanie Lambert Arrested by US Marshals in DC Following Court Appearance — After Submitting “Evidence of Numerous Crimes” Including Internal Emails from Dominion Voting Systems to Law Enforcement
    by Jim H?ft Mar. 19, 2024 8:15 am1068 Comments

    Michigan attorney Stefanie Lambert Junttila was arrested in Washington, D.C., on Monday following a court hearing after she gave the “evidence of numerous crimes” to law enforcement containing internal emails from Dominion Voting Systems, AP reported.

    Lambert attended a court hearing in Washington, D.C., for a defamation case involving Patrick Byrne, whom she represents. Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock, is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems over his claims of election fraud.

    Lambert’s arrest occurred after it was revealed that she had leaked confidential documents from Dominion to Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, who has been actively investigating claims of voter fraud from the 2020 election, according to CNN.

    The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf has made a bold move by sending a letter to U.S. Representative Jim Jordan, urging a congressional investigation into what he claims as evidence of “foreign interference” in the 2020 election.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/michigan-lawyer-stefanie-lambert-arrested-us-marshals-dc/

    • Barry County Sheriff Sends Evidence to Rep. Jim Jordan Alleging Foreign Interference in Voting Machines Across the State During 2020 Election — Demands an Immediate Review and Investigation
      by Jim H?ft Mar. 19, 2024 8:00 am338 Comments

      Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf has made a bold move by sending a letter to U.S. Representative Jim Jordan, urging a congressional investigation into what he claims as evidence of “foreign interference” in the 2020 election.

      Sheriff Leaf alleges that electronic voting machines were accessed by foreign nationals across the United States, including Michigan, to manipulate election results.

      In his letter, Sheriff Leaf details ongoing investigations and expresses concerns about the integrity of election systems both locally and nationwide. The sheriff asserts he is ready to submit critical portions of his investigation to Congress for immediate review.
      Sheriff Leaf stated in his letter:

      My office is investigating criminal acts related to elections in Barry County, the State of Michigan, and the United States. I am in possession of evidence involving voting machines. Additionally, I have recently received a subpoena from Prosecutor D.J. Hilson of Muskegon County for my file. D.J. Hilson worked with the Michigan Attorney General to bury the Muskegon fraud investigation that was initially reported by the Muskegon local clerk. Not one person was charged related to the Muskegon fraud despite confessions, and physical evidence. Considering this, I am going to provide portions of my file to Congress for immediate review and investigation.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/barry-county-sheriff-sends-evidence-rep-jim-jordan/

  14. Trump Files Lawsuit Against ABC and George Stephanopoulos for Calling Him a Rapist During Interview With Nancy Mace (VIDEO)
    by Jim H?ft Mar. 19, 2024 9:30 am235 Comments

    Former President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos, alleging intentional harm and false statements made with malicious intent.

    The Gateway Pundit previously reported that sniveling former Bill Clinton henchman George Stephanopoulos’s attempt to shame Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) as a rape victim blew up in his face on ABC’s “This Week.”

    Stephanopoulos started his interrogation Sunday by demanding to know why she endorsed President Trump after a corrupt leftist jury found him liable for defaming certified nut E.Jean Carroll (the Clinton crony said Trump was found “liable for rape”). Carroll had outlandishly claimed Trump had raped her.

    Mace responded by going speaking briefly about her own dramatic rape experience at the age of 16 and blistered Stephanopoulos for daring to lecture her.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/trump-files-lawsuit-against-abc-george-stephanopoulos-calling/

  15. Groundswell of Second Amendment Cases Seems Destined for the Supreme Court

    Federal courts in blue states seem to be upholding the majority of gun control laws, even after landmark Supreme Court decisions upholding the fundamental right to keep and bear arms

    We recently posted about the New York Second Amendment case challenging New York’s concealed carry permit law that requires that a permit applicant prove to a local official that he or she is of “good moral character.” Not only is this an absurd requirement (how exactly are you supposed to prove that you have “good moral character”), but even after doing so, said local official then has complete discretion on whether to approve the applicant’s permit request . . . or not. The challengers in the case just asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case after the Second Circuit approved the “good moral character” requirement:

    From our report: Second Circuit’s Partial Upholding of New York’s Gun Carry Law Appealed to SCOTUS:

    The key part of the Petition [asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case] is its discussion of the New York law’s requirement that New Yorkers prove that they have “good moral character” before obtaining a concealed carry permit:

    [T]his case would allow this Court the opportunity to clarify that government may not selectively disarm law-abiding members of “the people” whenever licensing officials feel they are of poor character, potentially dangerous, or otherwise unworthy of enjoying the natural right to self-defense with which they were endowed by their Creator….

    In Bruen, this Court rejected New York’s requirement that, to be authorized to bear arms in public, citizens first must demonstrate “proper cause” — defined as “a special need for self-protection.” Here, the panel sanctioned New York’s stand-in requirement that citizens convince licensing officials of their “good moral character” prior to licensure. As the district court explained, New York simply “replaced” proper cause with good moral character, “while retaining (and even expanding) the open-ended discretion afforded to its licensing officers….”

    New York’s “good moral character” standard is…a prohibited “suitability” determination and, as the district court noted, is merely a surrogate for the “proper cause” standard that was struck down in Bruen…Indeed, under the CCIA, New York officials decide whether a person “ha[s] the essential character, temperament and judgement necessary to be entrusted with a weapon….”

    It is quite difficult to understand Bruen’s criticism of “suitability” not to include “good moral character.” And it is even more difficult to believe that this Court would approve the discretionary power to deny carry licenses to “all Americans” unless they first “convince a ‘licensing officer’” of their general morality.

    In doing some research to see if other cases exist that are working their way through the courts, I was surprised to find out that there are — a lot of them.
    Rhode Island Magazine Limit Law

    For example, as reported in the Second Amendment advocacy website The Reload, a Federal Appeals Court recently upheld a Rhode Island ammo magazine ban:

    Rhode Island’s ban on possessing ammunition magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds doesn’t violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday [March 8, 2024].

    A three-judge panel for the First Circuit Court of Appeals [which covers Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island] unanimously upheld a lower court’s denial of a motion for preliminary injunction against Rhode Island’s magazine ban. The panel did so after ruling that “large capacity magazines” (LCMs) are rarely used in self-defense, and the state’s ban imposes “no meaningful burden” on Rhode Islanders’ ability to defend themselves. It also held the magazine ban was relevantly similar to historical gun restrictions, as required by the Supreme Court’s test in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen….

    The ruling deals a blow to the state’s owners of the affected magazines, which come standard with most modern firearms. Because Rhode Island’s ban includes possession as well as future sales, those who do not surrender or permanently modify their magazines risk facing up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine.

    “Deals a blow” to firearms owners? I’ll say. Think about a home invasion scenario, more and more a possibility these days with illegal aliens overrunning the entire country, and you’ll understand that one handgun with only a ten-round magazine will do little to stop said invasion.

    Anyway, the Plaintiff/Appellants in the case are undoubtedly going to ask the Supreme Court to review their case as well, just like the New York Plaintiffs did. We will update you when they do.
    Illinois “Assault Weapon” Ban and Magazine Limit Law

    There is also a case challenging an Illinois law banning certain “assault rifles” and also imposing a magazine limit: Seventh Circuit Upholds Illinois ‘Assault Weapon,’ Magazine Bans:

    Illinois and several of its localities can continue to enforce their bans on AR-15s and other semi-automatic weapons, a federal appeals court ruled Friday [November 3, 2023].

    A three-judge panel for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court decision blocking the gun bans after finding that the state and local governments “have a strong likelihood of success” in defending the law on constitutional grounds. In a 2-1 decision, the judges said that semi-automatic AR-15s and the magazines that come standard with them are not “arms” protected by the Second Amendment because they are “indistinguishable” from fully-automatic machineguns like the M16….

    The ruling deals a sweeping blow to gun-rights advocates in six separate lawsuits fighting gun bans in Illinois. The order—which covers bans of the state, the cities of Chicago and Naperville, and Cook County—functionally ends any hope gun-rights supporters may have had that the bans would be blocked before a decision is reached on the merits in any of the cases….

    Judge Michael B. Brennan, a Donald Trump appointee, dissented from his colleagues and argued that the Illinois bans at issue were far too broad to pass constitutional muster.

    “The Second Amendment ‘right of the people to keep and bear Arms’ is not a second-class right,’” he wrote. “Yet the State of Illinois and several Illinois municipalities have categorically banned law-abiding citizens from keeping and bearing a sweeping range of firearms and magazines.”

    He took particular aim at the majority’s classification of civilian semi-automatic weapons as being similar to bannable machineguns.

    “In a remarkable conclusion, the majority opinion decides that these firearms are not ‘Arms’ under the Second Amendment,” Brennan wrote. “The banned arms are ‘in common use.’ They are commonly possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, including self-defense. They may be ‘dangerous’—as are all firearms—but they are not ‘unusual,’ and thus would not be within the history and tradition recognized in Heller of prohibiting ‘dangerous and unusual’ weapons.”

    In this case, three separate petitions have been filed asking the Supreme Court to review the case.

    The first petition, in a case entitled Harrel v. Raoul, Kwame Raoul being the Attorney General of Illinois, states the questions presented to the Supreme Court as follows:

    (1) Whether the Constitution allows the government to prohibit law-abiding, responsible citizens from protecting themselves, their families, and their homes with semiautomatic firearms that are in common use for lawful purposes.

    (2) Whether the Constitution allows the government to prohibit law-abiding, responsible citizens from protecting themselves, their families, and their homes with ammunition magazines that are in common use for lawful purposes.

    (3) Whether enforcement of Illinois’s semiautomatic firearm and ammunition magazine bans should be enjoined.

    Kwame and the State of Illinois have until April 15, 2024 to respond to Harrell’s request that the Supreme Court take the case. They will undoubtedly respond that the Seventh Circuit got it exactly right, and the AR-15 ban (of which there are 24.4 million in circulation nationwide) and magazine bans are good law and fully constitutional.

    The second petition, in a case entitled National Association for Gun Rights, Robert C. Bevis, and Law Weapons, Inc. [doing business as] Law Weapons & Supply, An Illinois Corporation v. the City of Naperville, Illinois, Jason Arres, and the State of Illinois, Jason Arres being the Naperville Chief of Police, states the questions presented to the Supreme Court as follows:

    1. Is the State of Illinois’ ban of certain handguns constitutional in light of the holding in D.C. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), that handgun bans are categorially unconstitutional?

    2. Is the “in common use” test announced in D.C. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), hopelessly circular and therefore unworkable?

    3. Can the government ban the sale, purchase, and possession of certain semi-automatic firearms and firearm magazines that are possessed by millions of law-abiding Americans for lawful purposes when there is no analogous Founding era regulation?

    The City of Naperville, IL and the other Supreme Court “Respondents” also have until April 15, 2024 to respond to the Petitioners’ request that the Supreme Court take the case. They will also undoubtedly respond that the Seventh Circuit got the case exactly right and the Supreme Court should not review the case.

    The third petition, in a case called Langley v. Kelly, Brendan F. Kelly being the Director of the Illinois State Police, states the questions presented to the Supreme Court as follows:

    1. Is the State of Illinois’ absolute ban of certain commonly owned semi-automatic handguns constitutional in light of the holding in D.C. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), that handgun bans are categorially unconstitutional?

    2. Is the State of Illinois’ absolute ban of all commonly owned semi-automatic handgun magazines over 15 rounds constitutional in light of the holding in D.C. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), that handgun bans are categorially unconstitutional?

    3. Can the government ban the sale, purchase, possession and carriage of certain commonly owned semi-automatic rifles, pistols, shotguns and standard capacity firearm magazines tens of millions of which are possessed by law-abiding Americans for lawful purposes when there is no analogous historical ban as required by D.C. v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), and New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).

    Kelly also has until April 15, 2024 to respond to the Petitioners’ request that the Supreme Court take the case. He too will also undoubtedly respond that the Seventh Circuit got the case exactly right and the Supreme Court should not review the case.

    Lots for the Supreme Court to chew on as they decide whether to take these cases.

    One interesting twist is that in the Harrel v. Raoul case, the National Association of Police has filed an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” brief supporting the Harrel Petitioners. This brief, available for review here, argues that the “Seventh Circuit’s legal standard eviscerates the Second Amendment, that the Illinois law’s “restrictions [approved by the Seventh Circuit] threaten to leave American citizens without effective means to utilize the sort of weapons employed by criminals throughout the country—and employed by nearly all police departments to fight them.”

    And in a key paragraph:

    In the world far removed from courtrooms, judge’s chambers and lawyers’ offices, Americans are using guns to defend themselves and others at extremely high rates—up to 2.8 million times a year. More than half of the incidents of self-defense involve more than one assailant, in which the ability to fire more defensive rounds obviously assumes more importance. Indeed, 3.2% of incidents involve five or more attackers, where the ability to shoot more than ten rounds is obviously critical. There are, of course, numerous reported incidents of citizens defending themselves who have been required to use more than ten shots to do so—or failing to defend themselves when only ten rounds were available.

    Take that, gun controllers — hopefully it will pique some interest among the Court.
    Delaware “Assault Weapon” Ban and Magazine Limit Law

    Three cases winding their way through the Delaware federal court were just argued at the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (which covers New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware).

    On Monday, March 11, 2024, the Third Circuit heard oral argument in Delaware State Sportsmens Association Inc, et al v. Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security (Nos. 23-1633, 23-1634, and 23-1641), where the Plaintiff/Appellants argued, in a key paragraph:

    As a matter of plain text, the Second Amendment extends to “all instruments that constitute bearable arms,” Bruen, 142 S. Ct. at 2132; i.e., “any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes into his hands, or useth in wrath to cast at or strike another,” Heller, 554 U.S. at 581. As a matter of history, Heller and Bruen establish that the only exception to this broadly protective amendment, is that arms that are “dangerous and unusual” are not protected. However, if an arm is “in common use” then it is, by definition, not dangerous and unusual. In this case, that is dispositive and the State and the district court’s arguments to the contrary, including the argument that these arms, which are chosen by millions of Americans for the purpose of self-defense, are by their nature ill-suited to that purpose, are irrelevant and should be disregarded.

    It will take several months, most likely, for the Third Circuit to render a decision in this case. We will let you know when they do, and either way there will likely be yet another Petition to the Supreme Court asking the Justices to review the case.
    Connecticut “Assault Weapon” Ban and Magazine Limit Law

    In August of last year a federal judge in Connecticut, Senior District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton, upheld Connecticut’s restrictive “assault weapons” ban and magazine limits: Federal Judge Upholds Connecticut ‘Assault Weapon,’ Magazine Bans:

    The Second Amendment does not protect AR-15s and ammunition magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

    U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton, a Bill Clinton appointee, denied a motion for a preliminary injunction against the state of Connecticut’s ban on the possession and sale of so-called assault weapons and large-capacity magazines (LCMs). She did so after determining that AR-15s and similar rifles, as well as LCMs, are not protected by the Constitution.

    “Plaintiffs’ proposed ownership of assault weapons and LCMs is not protected by the Second Amendment because they have not demonstrated that the specific assault weapons and LCMs in the Challenged Statutes are commonly sought out, purchased, and used for self-defense,” Arterton wrote in Flanigan v. Lamont. “In the absence of persuasive evidence that the assault weapons or LCMs listed in the statutes are commonly used or are particularly suitable for self-defense, Plaintiffs have failed to carry their burden.”

    The ruling deals a blow to gun-rights advocates looking to challenge hardware bans in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in 2022’s New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.

    This case has been appealed to the Second Circuit, now titled National Association for Gun Rights v. Lamont, and written briefs have been submitted. Oral argument should be scheduled fairly soon, with an opinion out several months after that.
    Washington State “Assault Weapon” Ban and Magazine Limit Law

    In June and September of last year, a federal judge in Washington, as in Connecticut, upheld laws similar to Connecticut’s banning certain so-called “assault weapons” and placing limits on ammo rounds carried in handgun magazines: Federal Judge Upholds Washington Ammo Magazine Ban:

    Washington state can continue to enforce its ban on the sale of commonly owned ammunition magazines, a federal judge ruled Monday.

    U.S. District Judge Mary Dimke, a Joe Biden appointee, denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by gun-rights advocates against the state’s magazine ban. She ruled that the plaintiffs failed to make a persuasive case that “large capacity” magazines are “arms.”

    “At present, the evidence in the record is insufficient to establish that Plaintiffs are likely to prove that large capacity magazines fall within the Second Amendment right,” Judge Dimke wrote in Brumback v. Ferguson.

    The ruling deals another blow to gun owners in the Evergreen State, who have faced a string of losses in legal challenges to the state’s gun laws in recent months even as similar laws have been struck down by courts elsewhere. A separate challenge against the state’s ban on certain semi-automatic weapons was similarly rejected in June.

    Brumback v. Ferguson is now stayed pending the outcome of the Ninth Circuit case, Duncan v. Bonta. En banc, meaning entire court, oral argument in that case is scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, 2024, and concerns a California law limiting magazine capacity, which was ruled unconstitutional by a California federal judge.
    Oregon Magazine Limit and Carry Permitting Law

    From The Reload: Federal Judge Rules Oregon Magazine Ban, Gun-Purchase Permitting Constitutional:

    A federal judge has ruled Oregon’s controversially strict gun-control law constitutional.

    On Friday [July 14, 2023], District Judge Karin Immergut ruled that Measure 114’s ban on large-capacity magazines and permit requirement to purchase a firearm does not violate the Second Amendment.

    “As explained below, Plaintiffs have not shown that the Second Amendment protects large-capacity magazines, defined as magazines capable of firing eleven or more rounds without reloading,” Judge Immergut wrote in Oregon Firearms Federation v. Kotek. “And even if the Second Amendment were to protect large-capacity magazines, this Court finds that Defendants and Intervenor-Defendant have established that Oregon’s restrictions on the use and possession of large-capacity magazines are consistent with the Nation’s history and tradition of firearm regulation.”

    This case was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, but the appeal is stayed pending Duncan v. Bonta, which was ruled unconstitutional by a California federal judge.
    Summary

    As you can see, numerous cases are either at the U.S. Supreme Court requesting review, or are likely to end up there.

    Whether the Court grants review in any of these cases might individually be a longshot, but sooner or later the Court will have to take notice of the sheer volume of these cases and provide further guidance.

    We will keep you updated.

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/groundswell-of-second-amendment-cases-seems-destined-for-the-supreme-court/

  16. Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/03/vanishing-police-we-are-on-our-own-are-you-prepared/#ixzz8UwMFBOBb
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    Vanishing Police! ….We Are On Our Own, Are You Prepared? ~ VIDEO
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on March 19, 2024 by John Farnam

    Opinion

    Diminished Police Protection:

    “Why doesn’t our government protect us? Why aren’t criminals following gun laws? Why do we have to protect ourselves?” ~ John Glassy.

    The City of Pittsburgh, PA used to have (just a few years ago) a Police Department with 1700 sworn officers- on patrol, answering calls, making arrests, and investigating crimes.

    Today, that number is barely holding at 800. It will dip below 700 by the end of the year!
    The Department has lost nearly all of its experienced officers through early retirement and outright mass resignation.

    Dedicated officers have grown weary of pro-criminal, pro-crime Democrat politicians, and they’re expressing disgust with their feet. Police recruit classes are impossible to fill despite conspicuous lowering of standards.
    This drop in police trend is identical in woke-controlled metro areas nationwide.

    In Pittsburgh, police staffing shortages are currently so critical that the Department has just announced its officers will no longer respond to calls involving theft, harassment, criminal mischief, burglary, etc, during the hours of three to seven am. That time gap is, of course, already expanding as staffing continues to decline and will soon embrace the entire day.

    In many woke cities, it already has.

    In plain English, police officers will not be arriving as a result of any call from a City resident unless shots are being fired and there are dead bodies lying around!

    All other “emergency calls” will be immediately shunted to a “Telephone Reporting Unit” (AKA: an answering machine). No in-person response will ever result.

    Six of the City’s precinct stations have been essentially abandoned. During evening hours, fewer than twenty officers are (at least technically) “on duty” throughout the entire City!

    Accordingly, the precious few officers actively patrolling during evening hours are dangerously isolated and swamped with calls. When they get in over their heads, they cannot expect any back-up, probably for hours.

    As a result, residents should not be surprised when they are extremely timid, cautious, and slow. Morale within the Department, as one might expect, is pitiable and going lower.

    Panicked politicians are mouthing feeble excuses while simultaneously and quietly arranging for special police protection for themselves.

    Violent crime throughout the City is going off the chart.

    Anxious/frightened City residents are buying guns and ammunition.

    Those still “in denial” can look forward to an unhappy and short life!

    “Who willingly, indeed eagerly, trade individual freedom, liberty, and Constitutional rights for promised ‘protection’ and welfare handouts, naively never imagine they’ll need guns some day. Of course, when they suddenly do, it is too late, and sympathy is in short supply!” ~ Doc Gunn.

  17. Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2024/03/wyoming-legislature-moves-to-radically-reduce-state-gun-free-zones/#ixzz8UwN3Q6BD
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    Wyoming Legislature Moves to Radically Reduce State Gun Free Zones
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on March 19, 2024 by Dean Weingarten

    Wyoming House Bill 125 is on the way to Governor Mark Gordon. Two Wyoming State Senators (Bouchard and Biteman) were instrumental in passing a ban on Red Flag gun seizures (SF – 109) and the removal of gun free zones (HB 125). They give an explanation of how they passed the bills in an 8-minute video. Senator Biteman reports the last time a similar bill passed, in 2017, the former governor, Matthew Hansen Mead (R), vetoed the bill.
    Wyoming is on the way to removing nearly all “gun free zones”. Anyone who is not prohibited from owning a firearm will be legally free to carry concealed weapons in meetings of government entities, including the state legislature and committees thereof.

    People who have a concealed carry permit recognized under Wyoming statute 6-8-104(a) (ii) (35 states, and people who meet the Wyoming state permit requirements) will be immune from the ban on carrying in public schools, public colleges, and university athletic events which do not sell alcohol. Students of elementary or secondary schools are excluded from this section. The bill further prohibits any regulation by entities other than the legislature of the state of Wyoming on the following:

    “sale, transfer, purchase, delivery, taxation, manufacture, ownership, transportation, storage, use, carrying or possession of firearms, weapons, accessories, components or ammunition except as specifically provided by this chapter.”

    HB 125 has gone through some remarkable legislative gymnastics before being sent to Governor (R) Mark Gordon. The bill was introduced on February 7, 2024. It was given a “Do Pass” recommendation by the House Judiciary Committee on February 22. The bill passed a third reading of the House on February 27, 2024, 54-7-1.

    HB 125 had a much harder time in the Senate. The Senate received the bill on February 28, 2024, and assigned it to the Judiciary Committee on the same day. On March 5, the Senate Judiciary Committee failed to give the bill a “Do Pass” with a 2-3 vote against the bill. All members of the committee were nominally Republicans. This would ordinarily kill the bill. In an extraordinary measure, the Senate voted to recall the bill from the Judiciary Committee by the most narrow of margins: 16 for, 15 against. This vote, when most members of the Senate may have believed no one was watching, shows the true support for the bill. HB 125 then passed on the third reading vote for the whole Senate, 22-8-1.
    HB 125 is expected to be sent to Governor Mark Gordon reasonably soon. Governor Gordon has been a Second Amendment supporter and is likely to sign the bill. The lobbying to pressure him to veto the bill has already started.

    The only person who can stand in the way of this catastrophic bill becoming law is Governor Mark Gordon. According to the Wyoming Constitution, he has three days while the legislature is in session and fifteen days once the legislature has adjourned, to sign, veto, or allow a bill to become law without this signature. There’s still time to make your voices heard!

    Join us in calling on Governor Mark Gordon to veto this reckless and ill-considered legislation. It is crucial that we stand together to defend our rights, our safety, and the democratic values that define our state.

    It remains to be seen if Governor Gordon will sign HB 125.

  18. Hand in Hand: A Second Amendment Group Fights to Defend First Amendment Rights
    By
    Doug Howlett –
    March 17, 2024 24
    The AWCY Scz0rpion EVO, one of the many 3D printed guns that can be built from plans available on one of Defense Distributed’s subsites.

    Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Defense Distributed have filed an appellants’ brief in their long-running First Amendment challenge of the New Jersey statute which prohibits the publication of computer files containing digital firearms information. Defense Distributed, according to their website, is the first private defense contractor in service of the general public. Since 2012’s Wiki Weapon project, Defense Distributed has provided state-of-the-art information in small scale, digital and personal gunsmithing technology.

    The brief was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. SAF and Defense Distributed, based in Texas, are represented by attorneys Chad Flores and Josh Blackman, both in Houston, Texas and attorney Daniel L. Schmutter at Hartman & Winnicki in Ridgewood, N.J.

    Since July 2018, the New Jersey Attorney General has acted under color of law to censor the publication of Defense Distributed’s Second Amendment speech. This has included a cease-and-desist letter to Defense Distributed, and threats to Defense Distributed’s third-party service providers. It amounted to a campaign of harassment and intimidation, which led to the federal lawsuit filed by SAF and Defense Distributed.

    “This case has been dragging on since 2018, and it is obvious the New Jersey Attorney General is engaging in legal gamesmanship,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “We won fairly in the Fifth Circuit in the battle over jurisdiction, but now the AG has gone back to a district court in the Garden State simply because he doesn’t like losing.

    “This is a case about government censorship. New Jersey is simply waging an ideological war against Defense Distributed for providing information online about firearms knowledge and possession.”

    “In our continued pursuit of justice,” noted SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut, “we’ve had to literally chase the New Jersey Attorney General from one federal court circuit to another. New Jersey’s effort to stifle the First Amendment rights of Defense Distributed is reaching the realm of stubborn defiance. It constitutes a tortious interference with Defense Distributed’s business, in addition to violating their rights under the First and Second Amendments. The attorney general isn’t just trying to delay justice, he is trying to deny justice altogether.”

    Defense Distributed operates three separate websites beneath their umbrella as part of their effort to support the 3D gun community. They include:

    DEFCAD: A file-sharing platform designed as a comprehensive model repository for digital gunsmiths. DEFCAD is the world’s largest repository for small arms technical data, established by Defense Distributed in 2012. To ensure the world’s 2D and 3D firearms reference files and blueprints are permanently available in the public domain, our platform organizes open source collections and develops bibliographic standards for the benefit of the American rifleman and gunsmith.

    GHOST GUNNER: Ghost Gunner is a third-generation, programmable desktop CNC with a gunsmithing design emphasis and related software. It supports a large open source community and a growing library of firearms patterns, including the AR-15, AR-308, 1911, and Polymer80 frames.

    LEGIO: LEGIO is Defense Distributed’s technical and legal support fraternity with opportunities for supporters and interested 3D creators to join for a nominal fee.

    https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/545608-2/

  20. Just relax, we are going backwards, but who the hell cares? Part of getting old, you remember some moments in history i.e. 2001 The Holy Land Foundation —UNRWA deemed terrorist group.

    “UNRWA is fully complicit in the Hamas terror infrastructure in Gaza — its war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

    Fast forward testimony in 2014-2020, UN agencies spent nearly 4.5 billion in Gaza — $600 million in 2020 alone. more than 80% of that funding was channeled through the UNRWA.

    — Funded miles of terror tunnels,,thousands of rockets, and the Oct. 7 massacre.

    • Who decided to keep on funding (the government never did stop) the UNRWA, was it Justine or a…………

  21. Shari’ah Law mosque and state are one.

    Taqiyya (Shia). Muda’rat (Sunni)
    Utilizing the Principle of Taqiyya for the concealment of one’s beliefs under duress.

    Quoting the revered, Islamic scholar, Sayyid Qutb:

    “The foremost duty of Islam in this world is to depose Jahiliyyah from the leadership of man, and to take the leadership into its own hands and enforce a particular way of life which is its permanent feature”.

    Allah’s Law
    “You are the best of all races that ever existed because you enjoy what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah.” (I thought it was a religion)

    “The House of War is Every land where Muslims do not yet rule — and where Islamists will fight until they prevail no matter how long it takes.

    It is completely irrational to be afraid of an ideology that is actively seeking to overthrow our government and establish a theocracy — yes, it is a completely irrational fear — a phobia.

    There are many Muslim members of the Liberal cabinet, do they believe in Canadian, man made laws or Shari’ah / Allah’s law? Just as Justine, Freeland, Guillbeault, Carney and many other Canadian politicians are members of the World Economic Forum, can they serve 2 masters?

  22. BREAKING: In Major Blow to Biden Regime, Supreme Court Allows Texas to Enforce Immigration Law That Gives Police Power to Arrest Illegals
    by Cristina Laila Mar. 19, 2024 2:00 pm344 Comments

    The US Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce its immigration law that allows police to arrest illegal aliens.

    The Supreme Court’s conservative majority rejected an emergency application by the Biden Regime requesting the high court block Texas’ immigration law.

    The high court temporarily rejected the Biden Regime’s request as litigation makes its way through the courts.

    Texas’ immigration law still may be blocked at a later date.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/breaking-major-blow-biden-regime-supreme-court-allows/