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Seven Years Later, Snopes Says Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis ‘Very Fine People’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/23/seven-years-later-snopes-says-trump-did-not-call-neo-nazis-very-fine-people/
A temporary election worker for Maricopa County in Arizona was arrested after he allegedly stole items from an election center.
Law enforcement officials revealed that 27-year-old Walter Ringfield was arrested on Friday after he reportedly stole a security fob and keys from the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center, according to KTAR News.
Ringfield, who was on probation for a previous felony, was booked into jail on charges of “theft and criminal damage,” according to the outlet.
The Maricopa County Elections Department said in a statement to ABC15 that election workers who had been conducting “daily inventory” on Friday morning, realized that “an item” was missing “from the Ballot Tabulation Center and had been taken the night before.”
“On Friday morning, when completing a daily inventory, Maricopa County election workers identified that an item was taken from the Ballot Tabulation Center on Thursday evening,” the Maricopa County Election Department said. “Staff took immediate action to investigate the matter and contacted the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The stolen item has been recovered but to ensure the integrity of the Maricopa County Elections, election workers are reprogramming and reconducting logic and accuracy testing of all equipment.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/24/temporary-election-worker-maricopa-county-arrested-theft-keys-election-center/
Former President Barack Obama is anxious about President Joe Biden’s chances of reelection, so he has “increasingly involved” himself in the Biden campaign, sources told New York Magazine.
Obama’s involvement reportedly began after Biden campaign officials realized in late 2023 that they would face former President Donald Trump in a historic rematch.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/24/anxious-barack-obama-increasingly-involved-biden-campaign/
Tyler Cherry, the newly-appointed White House Associate Communications Director whose radical, anti-white tweets have become a lightning rod for controversy, also has a long history of anti-Israel rants on social media.
As Breitbart News reported Sunday: “Tyler Cherry found himself in the center of a social media firestorm over the last week when past posts resurfaced that featured him espousing extremist rhetoric.” Many of the posts were harshly critical of law enforcement, and disparaged white people.
Jewish Insider reports that Cherry had anti-Israel posts as well:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/24/controversial-white-house-official-tyler-cherry-hates-israel-old-tweets/
Trump urges people to watch ‘Screams Before Silence’ October 7 film
Trump wrote that the documentary was “incredibly difficult to watch because, sadly, it graphicly portrays the death and destruction that Hamas has unleashed.”
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-807620
Victims of Oct. 7 attack sue UNRWA for allegedly laundering money for Hamas
Over 100 victims of the October 7 Hamas attacks are suing UNRWA, alleging it laundered money for Hamas and supported its infrastructure and propaganda.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-807600
The point is lost here as destroyers of an ancient historical landmark follow their guiding star of Marxism. Puzzling over their actions is to miss the mission of perpetual dismantling, replacement, destruction, cancelation and death. Until broader society realizes there is only one solution for these mentally-ill people it will continue:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/climate-protesters-out-control-they-attack-stonehenge-and-disrupt-pga-championship
Former shotput/javelin thrower reports on former commietard Calgary Mayor graduating to provincial politics in Alberta. I realize that my intro seems convoluted but I’m realizing such headlines best reflect reality:
Merchan’s Sham Verdict Violated The Constitution In Spades – Unpacking Some Of The Most Grievous Abuses
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/publish-tomorrow-merchans-sham-verdict-violated-constitution-spades/
Jun. 25, 2024 8:00 am
We are now a little over two weeks away from President Trump’s sentencing, scheduled for July 11th at 10:30 AM Eastern Time in New York City. By this point, millions of Americans are keenly aware of the legal onslaught initiated by Biden and the Democratic Party against Donald Trump, which has deeply impacted the integrity of our judicial system.
No longer can a criminal defendant, especially one with dissenting or pro-Trump views, be confident that his constitutional rights will be upheld in every court across the nation.
This stark reality, which runs counter to longstanding American principles, underscores the critical stakes of this year’s election cycle. Essentially, what’s at stake is not just democracy, but the very integrity of our justice system.
While Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s names will appear on the ballot this fall, voters will effectively choose between two fundamentally divergent – and incompatible – forms of governance: one rooted in constitutional principles that uphold the rule of law, due process, and myriad cherished guarantees.
The other, a despotic system that displaces those liberties with brute force. This system is one in which the supposedly democratically elected “leader” gets reduced to a mere figurehead, clearly lacking his mental marbles, who is in turn absorbed into a centralized bureaucratic apparatus managed by shadowy overseers working to subvert the will of the American people from behind the scenes with their own, self-interested goals.
The guilty verdict in President Trump’s case marked a significant turning point, a proverbial Rubicon moment, in American judicial history. Convicting a past and future president, who remains one of the most popular and respected figures in American politics, is unprecedented in our nation’s history. Such a brazen assault on the Constitution would have been inconceivable to the Founding Fathers.
Judge Merchan’s disregard for constitutional norms and established legal precedents, including recent Supreme Court decisions requiring unanimous jury verdicts, highlights his departure from the judicial oath to uphold the Constitution’s core principles.
His actions, such as imposing a gag order on President Trump with shameless abandon, that inhibited his ability to address conflicts of interest involving the judge, not only violated the First Amendment – and otherwise established judicially disqualifiable financial ties between he judge and case – but also ignored well-established legal standards.
This includes recent Supreme Court precedent that, for example, imposes a constitutional obligation of unanimous jury verdicts, which traces its roots all the way back to English common law, arising in the fourteenth century.
Of course, being an avowed enemy of Anglo-American jurisprudence, Merchan saw fit to abandon that venerable tradition, and instead adopt a legal predisposition readily found in communist and socialist societies like Cuba, Venezuela, or the former Soviet Union, where the prosecution of political enemies is commonplace.
In doing so, Merchan has sided decisively with the enemies of the American system, who, rather than heeding Lincoln’s eternal proverb, that right makes might, has instead acted with a Machiavellian vengeance that punishes its enemies without recourse to due process or the presumption of innocence.
If Merchan – and by extension, Alvin Bragg and Joe Biden – have their way, our civilization is at risk of plunging into a dark age of barbarism and tribalistic bloodlust, which will mark the end of America.
Here are just a few examples of constitutional provisions that Judge Merchan flouted by convicting President Trump, grounds for which his verdict is demonstrably unconstitutional and illegitimate:
First Amendment: As Harvard Law Professor Emeritus, Alan Dershowitz, spelled out in a Wall Street Journal column this weekend (and as I have written at great length previously), Judge Merchan’s gag order is a flagrant breach of the First Amendment.
In his article, Professor Dershowitz explained the issues surrounding the gag order, which rests on highly tenuous authority. The first, being the scope of the order – which is unprecedented both in breadth and content. First, rarely ever has a gag order been so egregiously misapplied – and lasted so long, all the way through the verdict and still ongoing!
The fact that there were two iterations of this gag order, both of which were designed to quash President Trump’s political speech is bad enough. The defendant has every right under the sun to critique the judge and jury of perceived bias – especially here, with a judge that, on numerous fronts, should have recused himself for contributing directly to the Biden-Harris campaign; for having a wife who was once employed by Letitia James, Bragg’s Attorney General; and for having a daughter who is president of a consulting firm that has made millions from representing political clients, including the Biden-Harris campaign, creating a direct pecuniary stake in the outcome of this case.
It is not hard to see how an immediate family member of Judge Merchan – namely, his daughter – might receive a financial windfall from a guilty verdict.
Beyond that, Merchan’s use of the gag order as a sword against the defendant, rather than as a shield to protect the defendant from outside threats, which is the ordinary use of such orders, is equally without precedent and violative of well-established law. As I have previously written:
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Only in the rarest of cases has the Supreme Court upheld prior restraints on speech. In the few cases where the Court has upheld gag orders, a form of prior restraint, the order was necessary to achieve a compelling state interest. In other words, the Supreme Court has only permitted gag orders that satisfied the extremely high burden of strict scrutiny analysis. Where gag orders are at issue, strict scrutiny compels courts to limit the scope of the order to an articulable set of facts – the facts encompassing the order must be extremely particularized and limited in scope, and only considered as a final option if and when all other alternatives to help ensure a fair trial have been totally exhausted.
Thus, gag orders are only ever to be used as a last resort option, and only in the most exceptional cases when the right to a fair trial would otherwise be severely jeopardized without it. In the rare cases where a gag order would be appropriate, again the court must take great pains to ensure that it is structured in such a way as to be particularized to a highly limited set of facts that have a direct bearing on the integrity of the proceeding – and go no further. The gag order should always be temporary, with a definitive start time and expiration date, terminating whenever the danger that resulted in its issuance in the first place subsides, or immediately once alternative, less constraining methods that would ensure a fair proceeding become available, whichever comes first.
This past weekend Professor Dershowitz corroborated in his own piece what I had written months ago:
It is important to remember that a gag order is a prior restraint on speech. The First Amendment prohibits prior restraints except in the most extraordinary circumstances, in which important countervailing interests are at stake. In New York Times Co. v. U.S. (1971), the Pentagon Papers case, the Supreme Court rejected such claims by the government and allowed the media to publish sensitive classified information. Prior restraints may also be permissible to protect the integrity of continuing jury trials, though the constraints must be narrowly tailored to actual dangers to fair-trial rights. Here any such dangers, if they ever existed, ended when the trial concluded. The judge has almost certainly already decided on the sentence he would impose, and even if he hasn’t, allowing the public (and him) to hear what Mr. Trump has to say wouldn’t endanger the sentencing process.
In sum, President Trump has every right, as a criminal defendant, to criticize the proceedings. That is routine. Even if the trial were done properly and in accordance with law – which, of course, it emphatically was not – the defendant still would retain that fundamental right.
One does not simply lose one’s all-important right to speak, particularly on matters essential to the defendant’s liberty interests – such as the prejudiced composition of the jury, or political biases of the venue or judge – when the stakes are highest; indeed, to the contrary, that is when the need to preserve the right to speak freely is greatest.
Nor does the judge get to rewrite centuries of well-settled case law because he has a personal gripe against the defendant. Nor when he has a financial or professional stake in the defendant’s guilty verdict, and/or a vendetta with Anglo-American jurisprudence overall, which, having absorbed the tenets of critical race theory, he likely considers an oppressive creation of evil white men.
Just one of these are more than enough grounds for a recusal (and at least one is grounds for Judge Merchan’s disbarment). Never mind the fact that the defendant was and will be again the President of the United States, whose rights deserve extra care – and any deprivation thereof, extra scrutiny – given the monumental political stakes that are implicated by the trial and judgment, whose shockwaves are bound to reverberate across American society.
Fifth and Sixth Amendments: Arguably even more pernicious than Judge Merchan’s trampling over the First Amendment is his running roughshod over fundamental rights guaranteed in the Fifth and Sixth Amendment – namely, the requirement that due process be upheld, for one; and that every count be proven on their elements beyond a reasonable doubt, for two.
The latter bespeaks the constitutional requirement of unanimity, a requirement perpetuated over centuries of practice, and reaffirmed in two very recent Supreme Court decisions: Ramos v. Louisiana (2020) and again, just last week, in Erlinger v. United States (2024).
The unanimity requirement is most directly affirmed in Ramos, where the High Court stipulated in an 8-1 ruling the Sixth Amendment’s requirement that “the government must prove to a jury every one of its charges beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Perhaps anticipating a direct appeal to the Supreme Court from President Trump’s lawyers based on the Ramos precedent, the Court also elaborated the principle of unanimity in Erlinger. There, the Court said that “‘any fact’ that ‘increase[s] the prescribed range of penalties to which a criminal defendant is exposed’ must be resolved by a unanimous jury beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Reading these two decisions together, the Court first reaffirmed the condition that felonious guilty verdicts be unanimous. Through the Fourteenth Amendment, that constitutional right applies equally in content to criminal verdicts in state court as much as it does to federal courts.
Moreover, in Erlinger, the Supreme Court described that one of the components of unanimity is that the government must prove every element of every crime alleged beyond a reasonable doubt. In other words, the now infamous 4-4-4, mix-and-match jury verdict that Judge Merchan allowed in his instructions is a flagrant violation of both Erlinger and Ramos.
This is because the government must show, in a case alleging multiple crimes, that the defendant is guilty of either all crimes, or, at the bare minimum, of one of the three alleged crimes. That crime must have each of its elements spelled out, at which point the government has the burden of showing that each element met the burden of proof.
Here, that did not occur. Nobody other than the jury knows which of the three crimes the President was indicted on. That is plainly improper and blatantly unconstitutional.
For all we know, four of the jurors may have found President Trump guilty on crime A, but not crimes B and C, while another four might have found the President guilty of crime B, and not A and C, and so on.
This is why the guilty verdict has been colloquially dubbed a “mix-and-match” or “smorgasbord” – the judge violated the obligation of unanimity by allowing jurors to pick any charge they individually felt met the burden of proof, without having to be in consensus over which one.
Those instructions clearly infringe the holdings from Erlinger and Ramos. In turn, they deny President Trump of due process and other fundamental rights. This is because the requirement for unanimity is contained in the Sixth Amendment, which has been incorporated to the states via the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In other ways, President Trump’s right to due process has been abridged – he was unfairly prejudiced all throughout the trial through the salacious and defamatory testimony of Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, as just one instance. But the most direct violation might be the Judge’s disregard for unanimity, a requirement older than the Constitution itself.
This egregious violation raises other doubts about whether the burden of proof was met at all for any charge alleged (jury deliberations were notably kept under lock and key) – in turn, raising other, maybe even stronger, grounds for due process challenges.
Other Constitutional Violations: In addition to blatant and unprecedented violations of the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, Merchan violated a litany of other constitutional provisions and rules of evidence and professional conduct. He flouted rules governing venue and jurisdiction.
For starters, it is extremely dubious that an alleged federal election law violation, which was asserted in the judge’s instructions, could be brought in state court. In particular, the purported crime in question – a FECA violation, is governed exclusively by the Federal Election Commission.
The FEC is a civil agency of the federal government that already cleared the federal election law violations asserted by Bragg and Merchan. Under normal circumstances, this charge should have been preempted by the FEC. At the bare minimum, as a civil agency, the FEC lacks prosecutorial authority, and cannot prosecute criminal matters without bringing in the Department of Justice.
So, the basis upon which a state court can “prosecute” a federal election law violation that is routinely treated as a civil, and not criminal, matter is beyond anyone’s comprehension – an important nuance in the law that clearly eluded both judge and jury here. Again, the fact that this alleged violation previously received an FEC clearance raises very strong grounds upon which to believe the underlying matter was not criminal at all, and certainly not felonious.
There are of course more violations, too numerous to count. The Rules of Evidence, particularly governing inadmissible hearsay and the prohibition of prior bad acts that have no bearing whatsoever on the case at hand, were ignored with shameless abandon.
The Judge acted inappropriately by excluding certain expert witnesses, such as the FEC Commissioner that was supposed to flesh out the legal analysis I briefly articulated above.
Merchan also admonished the one defense witness, Robert Costello, with a generally favorable view to President Trump and his case. Merchan acted so plainly outside the bounds of proper judicial conduct, even for an acting state court judge, which is what he is, that he should have been dismissed from the case – and indeed disbarred.
As a judge, it is wholly improper to have a financial interest in the outcome of any decision, let alone continue presiding over it. This not only denies the defendant his fundamental right to a fair trial, but maybe even more devastatingly, it has lasting detrimental effects on the trust and integrity of the criminal justice system overall.
Now, tens of millions of Americans have a jaded view of the prospect of free and impartial justice in this country. The damage done to the integrity of the rule of law may be irreparable; it could well take generations to rehabilitate some semblance of the esteem American lawcourts once universally enjoyed in the eyes of the public – the real tragedy is the likelier prospect that it may never happen.
Over two hundred years of Anglo-American law, customs, and norms have been sabotaged in Judge Merchan’s courtroom. Even if President Trump is exonerated, what has been allowed to take place already is, without exaggeration, the greatest miscarriage of justice ever committed in American history.
The Left prides itself all the time for preserving democratic institutions; but the damage that Merchan, Bragg, and ultimately Joe Biden have wrought to our democratic institutions is unforgivable – because, unlike past injustices, this one may be permanent.
If America dies, these diabolical men will have delivered the fatal blow. Hundreds of years of our inheritance has been squandered in a matter of weeks by vengeful evildoers who are operating to destroy our system, root and branch.
This cannot be tolerated; this will not be tolerated. Americans have every right in the world to be outraged by what is occurring. Should he be reelected, President Trump will have a mighty task on his hands to restore integrity and order in our judiciary, which is of paramount importance if we are going to persist in the years to come as a free nation.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/publish-tomorrow-merchans-sham-verdict-violated-constitution-spades/
NEVER FORGET: US Government Has Now Held Jeremy Brown in Prison for 1,000 Days for Leaking Video of FBI Trying to Recruit Him for January 6
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/never-forget-us-government-has-now-held-jeremy/
Jun. 25, 2024 11:00 am
Retired Army Ranger Jeremy Brown, the face of an American patriot.
Jeremy Brown is a Green Beret and former Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s 14th Congressional District. Brown served in the United States Army from 1992 to 2012 and reached the rank of Special Forces Master Sergeant.
Jeremy Brown served his country honorably.
Jeremy Brown NEVER entered the US Capitol on January 6. His crime was, in reality, refusing to be an FBI informant, as TGP described in several previous posts.
As The Gateway Pundit reported over two years ago now, Jeremy Brown refused to be an informant for Chris Wray’s FBI on January 6 — They wanted him to be one of their undercover operatives at the Jan. 6 Trump rallies. He refused, and later released video of the agents coming to his home to recruit him to do their dirty work.
So the FBI stormed his home at 3:45 PM on a Thursday in October 2021 and arrested him on bogus misdemeanor charges.
Jeremy Brown has now been a political prisoner of the Biden regime for over 1,000 days!
Jeremy’s supporters released this statement today.
** Please donate to Jeremy Brown’s defense fund today if you can.
Jeremy Brown did nothing wrong. But he did expose Chris Wray’s lies.
Jeremy joined the Oath Keepers in November of 2020 following the controversial presidential elections and went to Washington DC to provide security at the many protests and rallies that were planned in DC that week.
In March of 2021, Jeremy Brown began speaking out about how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) contacted him in December 2020 and attempted to recruit him to spy on patriots and everyday Americans on January 6th.
In December 2020 FBI agents contacted Jeremy Brown at his home for “posting some things online.”
Jeremy later released video surveillance of the FBI contacting him at his home. And Jeremy then later released an audio recording of his actual meetup with the FBI.
Jeremy struggled for months about whether or not to go public with this information. But according to his Facebook page — “After listening to politicians and the FBI Director, Chris Wray, tell lie after bald-faced lie to the American People, he could not stay silent any longer.”
Jeremy decided his desire to protect and defend the American people and the TRUTH are more important than privacy or personal safety.
So in March 2021, Jeremy joined Brandon Gray on Banned.TV to explain what happened to him after he joined the Oath Keepers in November.
Jeremy released a video of his encounter with government officials when they came to his home. Jeremy also released audio of his meeting with the FBI at a local restaurant when they tried to recruit him to work undercover for him on January 6th in Washington DC.
Jeremy explained in his video that the FBI called his cellphone and asked for a meeting after trying to contact him at his house. Jeremy then met with the FBI agents at a restaurant in Ybor City in December 2020. He told Brandon Gray that 38 seconds into the interview the FBI attempted to recruit him to spy on the Oath Keepers.
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The Gateway Pundit first spoke with Jeremy Brown in June 2021 after he went public with his incredible story. Jeremy was SAFE at the time, but laying low and keeping on the situation until he says he has “a full grasp on any fallout that is sure to result.”
In September 2021 the same agents who tried to recruit him months earlier returned to Jeremy Brown’s home with nearly two dozen agents to arrest him.
The Gateway Pundit was notified the next morning by his family and an attorney. The FBI searched their house, RV, and trailer for hours. Then they arrested Jeremy and took him away.
Jeremy Brown is a Green Beret and served in the United States Army from 1992 to 2012 and reached the rank of Special Forces Master Sergeant.
The Gateway Pundit spoke with Jeremy’s girlfriend after his arrest. She told us Jeremy would later appear in Pinellas County Court. Jeremy was charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor. The FBI later made up charges against Jeremy Brown after they scoured his home and found military weapons that his brother left him when he passed away. The FBI was in Jeremy’s home for 5-and-a-half hours looking for evidence. We were told the FBI did not read Jeremy his rights.
Jeremy Brown NEVER entered the US Capitol on January 6. His real crime was refusing to be an FBI informant.
As we reported months ago, Jeremy Brown refused to be an informant for the dirty FBI — They wanted him to be one of their plants at the Jan. 6 Trump rallies. He refused So they stormed his home months later and arrested him on bogus charges.
Jeremy Brown was sentenced to over seven years in prison in 2023.
** Please donate to Jeremy Brown’s defense fund today if you can.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/never-forget-us-government-has-now-held-jeremy/
Before Discussing Restricting the Second Amendment, Terms Have to Be Defined
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/before-discussing-restricting-second-amendment-terms-have-be/
Jun. 25, 2024 9:30 am
MOTOHIDE MIWA. Motohide Miwa from USA, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Liberals argue that drugs should be legalized to reduce drug-related crime, claiming that legalization would lower prices and eliminate criminal gangs from the equation. These same individuals advocate for reducing gun deaths by making guns illegal. Ironically, drugs kill more than twice as many Americans each year as guns, yet they want to legalize drugs and criminalize guns.
Cain killed Abel roughly 5,000 years before guns were invented, showing that people will always find ways to kill each other. Criminals will always be able to obtain illegal guns to commit crimes. Additionally, many of those who support drug legalization and gun control also favor soft sentences for violent offenders and release without bail. This combination leaves honest citizens defenseless.
Before discussing the problem of gun deaths, it is important to look at the numbers. In 2023, nearly 43,000 people were killed by guns in the United States. This number is less than half the number that are killed by drugs, which was 107,000. More than half, roughly 57%, of these deaths were suicides, close to 40% were homicides, 1% were considered unintentional or accidental gun deaths, and 1% were shootings by police. Spousal murder and gang-related violence account for a large percentage of gun homicides. Because gang members are frequently under the age of 18, the number of “child” gun deaths is distorted. While mass shootings, which tend to get the most press, represent a smaller percentage of deaths.
Every time there is a mass shooting, the subject of gun control comes up. People push for legislation regarding gun control, but they often lack the vocabulary to discuss the issue rationally. Terms like assault rifle, semi-automatic, military-style weapons, bump stock, AR-15, and mass shooting are thrown around. If you wish to build a case for or against anything, your facts have to be correct, and you should begin by defining these terms accurately.
Most importantly, rather than just making laws to show they care, lawmakers should only propose laws that effectively reduce deaths while preserving gun rights. However, suicides and murders will continue with or without guns. Gangs will continue to operate and kill people. Individuals with mental illnesses who kill for no reason will still exist and will use cars, bombs, or knives, as seen in other parts of the world experiencing mass stabbings. Guns will still be available on the black market or can be homemade. Restricting cosmetic changes to guns, reducing magazine sizes, or limiting the number of guns or bullets purchased in a year will have no impact on death rates. Finally, the term “shall not be infringed,” as written in the Second Amendment of the Constitution, needs to be considered.
Disclaimer
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The information provided is based on general knowledge and may not reflect the most current legal standards or interpretations. Readers are advised to consult with local, state, and federal authorities to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Always verify legal requirements with the appropriate governmental agencies before making any decisions related to firearms or firearm ownership.
Fully automatic weapons are true military firearms. As long as you hold down the trigger, bullets continuously fire from the weapon. These guns are generally not available to the public. They require a tax stamp under the National Firearms Act (NFA), which involves a thorough background check, paying a $200 tax, and registering the firearm with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). In most cases, a Federal Firearms License (FFL) is required for dealers, manufacturers, and importers of such firearms, but not for private ownership. It is very difficult to legally purchase or obtain the necessary permissions to own a fully automatic weapon. Neither the NFA process nor fully automatic or military weapons have played a significant role in many mass shooting incidents.
Assault Rifle – Technically, an assault rifle is a military rifle, such as an M-16, which has a selector switch that allows you to switch from semi-automatic to fully automatic fire. The rules for ownership are the same as for fully automatic weapons. They require a tax stamp under the National Firearms Act (NFA), which involves a thorough background check, paying a $200 tax, and registering the firearm with the ATF. In most cases, an FFL is required for dealers, manufacturers, and importers of such firearms, but not for private ownership. It is very difficult to legally purchase or obtain the necessary permissions to own an assault rifle. These weapons have not been used in most of the mass shootings in the U.S.
Semi-automatic – A semi-automatic weapon is one where each time you pull the trigger, a single round is fired. This includes nearly every make and style of weapon sold, with the exception of bolt-action and pump-action long guns, as well as some revolver pistols. These are the most common weapons available to the public, and they are the ones used in most mass shootings. However, I have seen numerous stories where the press mistakenly referred to pump-action weapons (usually shotguns) as semi-automatic, even though they aren’t.
Assault-style or military-style weapons – Many news reports have claimed that shooters were using assault rifles, which is a misnomer because the weapons were not fully automatic. The correct term would be military-style or assault-style, which only refers to the general appearance of the weapon and has no influence on how or how quickly the weapon fires. The fact that a gun is assault-style or military-style is a moot point in terms of legality or firepower in most states; however, some states have imposed additional restrictions on military-style weapons. Many guns are sold in multiple versions, or conversion kits can be purchased separately, which alter the appearance of the weapons to make them look like military-style weapons.
A bump stock is a device attached to a semi-automatic rifle that uses the weapon’s recoil to allow rapid firing by “bumping” the trigger against the shooter’s finger. It increases the rate of fire but does not convert the rifle into a fully automatic weapon because each bullet fired still requires a separate trigger pull. Fully automatic weapons, in contrast, fire continuously with a single trigger pull. Therefore, by legal definition, bump stocks do not make a rifle fully automatic.
AR-15 – The original AR-15 is very similar to the M-16 and was developed for military use. The military version, M-16, has a selector switch allowing for fully-automatic fire and was the weapon of choice from the early 1960s until the 1990s. However, the AR-15s used in mass shootings are generally not military-grade AR-15s. These civilian versions only look like the military AR-15 but fire the same as any other semi-automatic rifle, meaning each trigger pull fires a single round.
Conversion Kits – Conversion kits to change the appearance of a weapon, making it look like a military weapon, are generally legal and can be purchased in gun stores. However, conversion kits that alter the way a weapon fires, such as making it fully automatic, are illegal and are not sold in gun stores. There are many online sites that will teach you how to convert your firearm, but it is illegal to do so or to possess a weapon that has been converted. Again, fully automatic weapons have not played a role in most mass shooting incidents.
Caliber – In the US, the caliber system is used to measure the diameter of bullets, while the rest of the world typically uses millimeters, hence terms like 9mm. Generally, the smallest diameter bullet commonly used in the US is a .22. Another round, called a .223, has essentially the same diameter but is a much longer bullet, and this is a common round for sport shooting and hunting. The international size equivalent is 5.56 mm. This is also the same size as the bullet used by the US military M-16, which is .223 or 5.56 mm. If a report claims the shooter used military-style ammunition, it means nothing significant, as this size round is sold everywhere, not just to the military. The .22 is the only truly small caliber gun widely sold in the US. When people hear that a shooter used a large caliber weapon, they might picture a hand cannon, but in reality, it refers to any bullet larger than a .22, including a .25, .32, or .38, which are still relatively small.
Gun Laws – In the US, federal laws set some broad regulations, but gun licensing and sales are usually regulated at the state or even city level. New York City, for example, has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, while New York state is more lenient but still significantly stricter than Tennessee. In most states, for long guns, including rifles and shotguns, you typically only need a driver’s license and to be over the age of 18. For pistols, however, you generally need to be over 21, and depending on the state, you may need a gun license or permit and to register the purchase. There are often waiting periods for pistols, but these can vary significantly from state to state.
Gun Shows and the “Gun Show Loophole” – Gun shows are events where firearms, ammunition, and related accessories are sold, often by private sellers as well as licensed dealers. The term “gun show loophole” refers to a perceived gap in the legal requirements for background checks on firearm sales. While federally licensed firearms dealers are required to conduct background checks on all buyers, private sellers at gun shows are not subject to the same federal requirement in many states. This means that individuals can purchase firearms from private sellers without undergoing a background check, creating a potential loophole in the regulation of firearm sales.
Used Weapons – Used weapons are firearms that have been previously owned and are resold through various channels, including gun shows, pawn shops, online marketplaces, and private transactions. The sale of used weapons is subject to the same legal regulations as new firearms. However, the specifics of these regulations can vary widely depending on the state. In states with stricter gun laws, even private sales of used firearms may require background checks and registration. In states with more lenient laws, private sales of used weapons might not require any background checks or registration, potentially allowing individuals to acquire firearms without official oversight.
High Capacity Magazine – A unified definition of high capacity magazine doesn’t quite exist, but most laws and proposed bans define them as magazines that hold more than 10 or 15 rounds. In the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the shooter used magazines holding 30 rounds, similar to what an extended M-16 magazine holds. By banning high capacity magazines, the government could inconvenience shooters by forcing them to change magazines more frequently. However, it is doubtful that such a ban would save many lives.
Mass Shooting – The FBI defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot, either injured or killed, excluding the shooter. This definition is used to categorize and analyze such events for law enforcement and statistical purposes.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/before-discussing-restricting-second-amendment-terms-have-be/
You Can’t Make This Up: Experts are Now Investigating Whether Milk is Racist in Government-Funded Study on Dairy’s Ties to Colonialism
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/you-cant-make-this-up-experts-are-now/
Jun. 25, 2024 9:15 am
“The milk traces in ancient pots confirms the story that bones have been telling us about how pastoralists lived in eastern Africa 5,000 to 3,000 years ago—an area still famous for cattle herding and the historic way of life of people such as Maasai and Turkana,” says Fiona Marshall. (Credit: mar is sea Y/Flickr)
The Maasai in Kenya, a notorious “White Supremacy” known for their traditional cattle-raising practices, have been consuming milk for centuries as a staple part of their diet.
The Maasai value cattle, and the size of their herds indicates their status in the community. Maasai women are responsible for milking the cows, and the milk is a key part of their diet, appearing in almost every meal.
The Maasai drink milk raw or soured, in tea, or turned into butter, which is especially important for infants. They also produce a traditional fermented milk product called kule naoto from unpasteurized whole milk from zebu cows, which they consume in large quantities, averaging 2–3 liters per person per day.
read the rest at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/you-cant-make-this-up-experts-are-now/
Maybe the six-foot distancing rule is better applied to science bullshitters:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scientific-americans-laura-helmuth-continues-embarrass-and-humiliate-herself
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The Truth on Permitless Carry, More Guns Create Safer Communities
Ammoland Inc. Posted on June 24, 2024 by F Riehl, Editor in Chief
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Injunction Sought in Federal Lawsuit Over Riverside, California Sheriff Stan Sniff’s “Discriminatory and Unconstitutional” Handgun License Policies
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I grew up in the inner city of St. Louis in a single-parent household. We faced poverty, hunger, violence, and decay. It was a daily struggle that I assumed was the life of every black family in America. I didn’t know the world that existed outside of my neighborhood.
But by God’s grace, I saw a glimmer of light in the distance and chose a different path. I joined the St. Louis Police Department’s Prisoner Processing Division, where I learned about the true threats that plague our society, what public safety really means, and why we should hold our Constitutional Rights—especially the Second Amendment—close to our hearts.
After 16 years, I left the Police Force but never lost focus on protecting people. So, I continued training individuals in self-defense and started an organization called Aiming for the Truth to focus on changing the underlying factors that drive violence in our communities.
A critical part of my job – as both a firearms coach and someone who is trying to generate wholesale change in impoverished communities – is showcasing truth while dispelling lies surrounding violence, firearms, and the Second Amendment.
Thanks to the anti-freedom people and organizations, most of us grow up seeing firearms as a tool for chaos, not a means to peace. But here’s the truth: Guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens create safer communities. But you don’t have to take my word for it–the data proves it.
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In a recent paper from the Firearms Research Center at the University of Wyoming, senior fellow K. Alexander Adams assesses the research surrounding “Constitutional Carry,” a law under consideration in North Carolina that 29 other US states have adopted. In short, this legislation allows qualified citizens to carry a firearm without a weapons permit.
“The relationship between constitutional-carry laws and homicide is negative, which is the opposite of what gun-control activists have predicted,” wrote Adams. In fact, “Constitutional-carry laws were associated with about 6% lower homicide rates. The doomsday scenarios of constitutional-carry opponents are not supported by social science.”
Adam referenced a study published by the Center for Justice Research earlier this year that affirmed his national research.
“Beginning June 13, 2022, Ohio became the 23rd state to allow its citizens to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. In the year following, crime involving guns dropped across Ohio’s eight largest cities as a whole and in six of the eight individually.”
Adams also name checks the John Locke Foundation, quoting from a column published in Carolina Journal, “When analyzing violent crime rates of constitutional carry states (with enough data) in years since enactment, the states either reflected the national trend in violent crime or showed a relative decrease in their violent crime rates.”
As lawmakers in North Carolina contemplate passing gun rights legislation, it’s vital for them to seek and vocalize the truth. We know the gun control lobby are lying – and will continue to lie – about permitless carry – and the Second Amendment more generally – because they want power. If they can convince citizens that their rights can – and should – be compromised, freedom diminishes as the ruling class consolidates control.
So, considering the facts, figures, and future of this great nation, let’s endeavor to spread and amplify the truth – even when it doesn’t fit neatly into a political party or ideology.
Let’s talk about the Black Wall Street Massacre in Tulsa and why gun control is simply Jim Crowe 2.0.
Let’s share the stats about Gun Free Zones becoming the choice location for mass murder and expose the detrimental impact of “assault weapons bans” as they threaten the safety and civility of our communities.
Permitless carry boils down to individual responsibility. The ability to exercise your rights without government intervention. While some try to paint these laws as a recipe for disaster, the data tells another story – a story that young men and women who grew up like me deserve to hear.
https://www.ammoland.com/2024/06/truth-permitless-carry-more-guns-safer-communities/#axzz8eBNUZTGL
NRA: Time to ‘Seriously Examine’ Felon in Possession Laws
By Cam Edwards | 11:31 AM | June 25, 2024
Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
When Hunter Biden was convicted a few weeks ago on federal gun charges, the response from NRA-ILA executive director Randy Kozuch was succinct and to the point: “The National Rifle Association has always stood for the lawful use and possession of firearms. Mr. Biden’s documented lifestyle choices at the time of purchasing a firearm made him a prohibited person under current law.”
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Now, however, the NRA is taking a more nuanced approach to the various prohibitions that preclude felons and others from lawfully possessing a firearm. In a new piece entitled “Felonies Aren’t What They Used To Be”, the organization makes the case that we’ve overcriminalized society; citing (among others) civil rights attorney Harvey Silvergate and Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and their complaints about the flood of felony offenses that have been placed into statute over the past few decades.
The 2021 Supreme Court case Lange v. California involved the question of whether, under the Fourth Amendment, a law enforcement officer may always pursue an individual suspected of having committed a misdemeanor into a home without obtaining a warrant. The Court held that such a categorical exemption to the warrant requirement was impermissible.
During oral arguments there was much discussion on how to treat misdemeanor versus felonious conduct in such circumstances. Understanding the creeping expansion of the definition of felony, Gorsuch defended broad Fourth Amendment protections, noting,
we live in a world in which everything has been criminalized. And some professors have even opined that there’s not an American alive who hasn’t committed a felony in some – under some state law.
Gorsuch went on to explain,
what qualified as a felony at common law was — were very few crimes and they were all punished by the death penalty usually, and today pretty much again anything or everything can be called a felony.
In 2009, civil rights attorney and co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Harvey Silverglate published the provocative book Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. The thesis of the book is that with the United States’ departure from the common law, almost every American is unwittingly guilty of a felony under the ever-expanding thicket of vague federal and state statutes and regulations.
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Which of course, means almost every American could be stripped of their Second Amendment rights, even if they’re convicted of non-violent offenses.
The NRA concludes that the “wild expansion of felonies” isn’t going to be curbed anytime soon, which is why it’s incumbent on the courts to conduct a “serious examination as to the legality and efficacy of blanket prohibitions on felons possessing firearms.”
While Donald Trump’s name never comes up in the NRA’s column, the organization did point out that “in recent years, many on the political left had encouraged use of the politically correct term ‘justice-involved individual’ to refer to those convicted of, even serious, crimes.” But that all changed on May 30, when Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in a New York courtroom. After that, the NRA says, “the great and the good rediscovered the pejorative ‘felon’.”
Now, a cynic could suggest that’s when the NRA discovered that not all felonies are created equal as well. Would the organization have decided it’s time to revisit prohibited person statutes if their endorsed candidate for president wasn’t a convicted felon? I have no idea, but even if that’s what prompted the group to issue its call to action, that doesn’t mean the NRA is off-base in its suggestion. There are tens of thousands of Americans who’ve paid their debt to society, pose no danger to themselves or others, but are still unable to access their right to keep and bear arms without fear of being sent back to prison.
And there are signs that the Supreme Court is already taking a look at the current statutes. In Rahimi, the Court took pains to note that temporarily depriving someone of their right to possess a gun after a judge has found them to be a danger to others is constitutional, but Gorsuch pointed out that the Court wasn’t addressing or answering whether non-violent felons could be barred forevermore from exercising their Second Amendment rights. The justices have been keeping hold of a half-dozen prohibited persons cases until after Rahimi was decided, and there’s a good chance that in the near future SCOTUS will signal that it too believes its time for a serious examination of the blanket prohibitions that are currently in place.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/06/25/nra-time-to-seriously-examine-felon-in-possession-laws-n1225387#google_vignette
Economic growth is being strangled by an “unholy alliance” of big business, big banks, and big government and protecting blue-collar workers means standing up for true capitalism, Nigel Farage tells Breitbart London.
Thatcherism is no longer a relevant or useful political approach for post-capitalism Britain, Nigel Farage told Breitbart at a campaign stop on Monday evening, as he unpicked what the emerging Faragism of pro-“little guy” populism means. Apparently putting aside the Thatcherism that was so clearly the preferred model of his predecessor in the party leader’s seat, Richard Tice, Mr Farage said a different approach was needed to fix the problems of 2024, not 1975.
He told Breitbart News: “Thatcherite is irrelevant. It’s half a century old…. What I do think has happened over the last few decades is the power of the big corporate companies has got bigger and bigger. Capitalism is dead, it doesn’t exist, we’re living in corporatism. An unholy alliance of big business, big banks, and big government… I genuinely think we won’t get economic growth if the country is dominated by six giant multinationals, none of whom pay tax on-shore.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/06/25/exclusive-farage-capitalism-is-dead-were-living-in-corporatism/
Seattle officials have opened up city police jobs to illegal aliens in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
With the Seattle Police Department (SPD) at its lowest staffing level in decades, officials in city hall are looking to take advantage of a recently passed state law that allows jurisdictions to hire non-citizens as police officers.
The Democrat-dominated state legislature recently passed Senate Bill 6157, a law that allows jurisdictions to give DACA recipients police powers. One reason the bill was needed is because so many liberal cities have wiped out their police departments with Black Lives Matter (BLM) policies, defund the police schemes, and other policies that generally undermine their departments, making it difficult to find recruits.
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2024/06/25/seattle-recruiting-non-citizens-daca-recipients-to-become-police-officers/
Note: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the US needs to show they are serious about illegal migration by deporting all the DACA folks first. Oh, and doing something about anchor babies…a nuanced approach will be needed, but that is not the case with DACA.
A major fire at a lithium battery plant in South Korea killed approximately 23 workers on Monday at a building owned by manufacturer Aricell.
The blaze broke out just after 10:30 a.m. on the second floor of the three-story building, which is owned by Aricell, a lithium primary battery manufacturer, Korea JoongAng Daily reported Tuesday.
“The last missing worker’s body was found earlier in the day, bringing the total death toll to 23,” the outlet said, noting authorities explained the building held 35,000 lithium batteries.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/06/25/video-south-korea-lithium-battery-plant-fire-kills-23-workers/
The spread of terrorism and Islamic extremism in Africa is a cause of “great suffering and pain” for Christians in this continent, stated Regina Lynch, executive president of the international charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
In her June 20 report, Lynch declared that ACN was shifting its focus in a particular way to Africa, notably the Sahel region in sub-Saharan Africa, “where jihadist terrorism is spreading and where Christians are facing increasing suffering from the violence.”
Several countries are located either partially or entirely within the Sahel region — notably, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad in the western Sahel and Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti in the eastern Sahel.
According to the Economist, in recent years, the Sahel has become the hub of Islamist violence in the world, with nearly half of all global deaths from terrorism taking place in sub-Saharan Africa.
https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2024/06/25/papal-charity-warns-that-jihadist-terrorism-is-spreading-in-africa/
Hunter Biden’s Washington, DC, bar license was suspended Tuesday, and he remains suspended in Connecticut under an administrative suspension for not paying a small fee.
Hunter was suspended in D.C. in 2007, according to the bar’s records search.
Hunter first passed the bar in Connecticut just after graduating from Yale Law School in 1997. The passage rate for first time test takers of the Connecticut bar exam is 55 percent.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/25/hunter-bidens-d-c-bar-license-suspended-remains-barred-connecticut/
Sergei Melikov, the governor of Dagestan, said on Monday that Islamic “sleeper cells” under foreign direction carried out the bloody attacks on churches and synagogues that killed at least 21 people on Sunday.
The Islamic State congratulated the attackers but did not take direct responsibility for the slaughter.
Russian police said they killed five gunmen in an “anti-terrorist operation” to end the killings in the cities of Makhachkala and Derbent on Sunday. Before they were brought down, the terrorists attacked two Orthodox churches, two synagogues, and a police checkpoint.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/06/25/russian-official-blames-islamic-sleeper-cells-for-church-and-synagogue-attacks/
An unfriendly reminder that, frankly, I don’t want to forget:
https://youtu.be/zI3yU5Z2adI?si=ILB7bdWO4TeS998S
Don’t forget it was the UN pushing: “No one is safe, until everyone is.”
#191 – Dr William Makis Part 1 – The Erosion Of The Medical Profession
Doc Malik – 2 days ago
https://rumble.com/v5380qc-191-dr-william-makis-part-1-the-erosion-of-the-medical-profession.html