Starvin Larry

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”—Edmund Burke

“Folks, it’s time to break the cycle.

Let’s make 2019 the year we say no to the laundry list of abuses—cruel, brutal, immoral, unconstitutional and unacceptable—that have been heaped upon us by the government for way too long.

Let’s make 2019 the year we stop living in a state of utter denial, desensitized to the government’s acts of violence, accustomed to reports of government corruption, and anesthetized to the sights and sounds of Corporate America marching in lockstep with the police state.

Let’s make 2019 the year we refuse to allow the government’s abusive behavior to be our new normal. There is nothingnormal about egregious surveillance, roadside strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, censorship, retaliatory arrests, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, indefinite detentions, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, police brutality, profit-driven prisons, or pay-to-play politicians.

Here’s just a small sampling of what we suffered through in 2018.”

RTWT @

https://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/break_the_cycle_in_2019_say_no_to_the_governments_cruelty_brutality_and_abuse?utm_source=The+Rutherford+Institute&utm_campaign=d27da56bcf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_31_06_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d7ffde3304-d27da56bcf-42109549

h/t WRSA

“THEY SAY: “Those assault rifles have no sporting purpose. You don’t need a 30-round magazine for hunting deer they’re only for killing people.”

WE SAY: “I compete in DCM High Power with my AR-15. You need a large-capacity magazine for their course of fire. My SKS is a fine deer rifle, and I’ve never done anything to give my government reason not to trust me, blah, blah, blah.”
(FLAW: You have implicitly conceded that it is OK to ban any gun with no sporting use. And eventually they can replace your sporting arms with arcade-game substitutes.)

WE SHOULD SAY: “Your claim that ‘they’re only for killing people’ is imprecise. A gas chamber or electric chair is designed for killing people, and these devices obviously serve different functions than guns. To be precise, a high capacity
military-type rifle or handgun is designed for CONFLICT. When I need to protect myself and my freedom, I want the most reliable, most durable, highest capacity weapon possible. The only thing hunting and target shooting have to do with
freedom is that they’re good practice.”

Read it all – Then think

https://zerogov.com/no-their-cold-dead-hands-part-ii-by-bill-buppert/

http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/an-update-on-this-years-efforts-to-hold-a-convention-of-states-by-publius-huldah/

“A lawsuit was filed Thursday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia seeking injunctive relief from the Trump administration’s redefinition the legal term “machinegun” and its resulting ban on “’bump fire’ stocks, slidefire devices, and devices with certain similar characteristics.” The action was filed by attorneys Stephen Stamboulieh and Alan Beck on behalf of plaintiffs Owen Monroe, Scott Heuman and this correspondent.”

“The complaint asks the court, among other things, to:

“Issue an injunction requiring Defendants to rescind the Final Rule [and] Issue an injunction prohibiting Defendants and anyone acting in concert with them from taking any action inconsistent with the rescission of the Final Rule…”

Filing in the District was “a good choice since most of the attack is over the Administrative Procedure Act, and in the DDC they know that and take it seriously,” attorney and author David T. Hardy notes on his Of Arms and the Law Blog. Hardy summarizes other points raised in the complaint:”

Read more @

https://www.ammoland.com/2018/12/bump-stock-lawsuit-makes-unique-points-to-seek-injunction-against-ban/

RTWT

https://www.americanpartisan.org/2018/12/situational-awareness-and-wargaming-your-ao/