Here’s hoping for the best!

California: The NRA Files Legal Brief in Second Amendment Challenge to San Francisco Gun Control Laws

On May 17, 2012, attorneys for the National Rifle Association, the San Francisco Veteran Police Officers Association, and several San Francisco gun owners filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings in their legal challenge to San Francisco’s “locked-storage” law, as well as the City’s prohibition on the sale of “hollow-point” ammunition and all ammunition that does not “serve a sporting purpose.”

The lawsuit, Jackson v. City and County of San Francisco, was filed as a test case in May of 2009, before the McDonald v. Chicago decision in 2010, and in the wake of the 9th Circuit’s May 2, 2011 confirmation in Nordyke v. King that the Second Amendment is “incorporated”, i.e., that it protects against infringements by state and local governments.

The motion [available here] asserts that the City has not raised a viable defense, and asks the Court to issue an injunction preventing enforcement and to declare the ordinances unconstitutional. At minimum, the motion will serve to narrow the issues, and to prevent the City from misdirecting the litigation with irrelevant distractions.

The Jackson case was strategically designed to, potentially, be the first case to address the “standard of review” applicable to Second Amendment challenges. The case is legally “cleaner” than many of the Second Amendment cases currently being litigated, as it does not raise issues about public carry, “sensitive places” where a firearm may or may not be possessed, or other issues that might make it easier for a court to water down Second Amendment protections.

via NRA-ILA | California: The NRA Files Legal Brief in Second Amendment Challenge to San Francisco Gun Control Laws.

This comes from Ammoland.com:

Tester Leads Senate in Blocking U.N. Arms Treaty

U.S. SENATE –(Ammoland.com)- Standing up for Montanans’ Second Amendment rights, Senator Jon Tester today successfully blocked government funding from being used to advance the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

Tester’s bipartisan amendment, which unanimously passed the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, prevents spending to advocate for or agree to any treaty provision that would that would restrict Americans’ gun rights.

“Firearms possession is guaranteed by the Second Amendment and cannot be surrendered to an international treaty,” said Tester, chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus and a lifelong champion of gun rights. “As a staunch defender of the U.S. Constitution, I won’t let any treaty impede our Constitutional rights and infringe on our way of life.”

via Tester Leads Senate in Blocking U.N. Arms Treaty.

Reblogged from Stately McDaniel Manor:

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At the end of Update 6, I promised to address these—and more—issues in this update:

PRIMARY THEMES OF THE EVER-EVOLVING NARRATIVE:

(1) A Sanford Police Investigator wanted, at some point, to see Zimmerman charged with manslaughter, therefore he must be guilty and must be convicted of second degree murder.

(2) If Zimmerman remained in his vehicle, everything would have been just fine, therefore, Zimmerman must be guilty and must be convicted of second degree murder.

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If you've been following the Martin/Zimmerman case, then you need to head on over and get some great analysis from Mike McDaniel. This is part 7, all parts of this are excellent reads.

MILLER: Soldier gets his guns

Congress needs to reform District’s property seizure laws

The active duty soldier who had his guns confiscated by the District of Columbia two years ago will have his property returned by Memorial Day. It took the help of a high-powered lawyer, two U.S. Senators, a member of Congress and national publicity to force the obstinate District to show some respect for the Constitution. It should never happen again.

On Friday, D.C. property clerk Derek Gray determined the city would finally return 1st Lt. Augustine Kim’s “dangerous articles” because the Army national guardsman fulfilled the plea agreement arranged with the U.S. attorney’s office a year earlier. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) arrested Lt. Kim on four felony charges of carrying firearms in the District after he was pulled over with the items securely stored in his trunk, as is allowed under federal law.

Lt. Kim pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of possessing an unregistered gun, and that charge was dismissed in May 2011. Since then, Lt. Kim’s lawyer, Richard Gadiner, had failed to get the attention of Mr. Gray, who refused to respond to his repeated requests for a hearing.

via MILLER: Soldier gets his guns – Washington Times.

Media tears at eleven.

Cops, Witnesses Back Up George Zimmerman’s Version of Trayvon Martin Shooting

Two police reports written the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin said that Zimmerman had a bloody face and nose, according to police reports made public today.

The reports also note that two witness accounts appear to back up Zimmerman’s version of what happened when they describe a man on his back with another person wearing a hoodie straddling him and throwing punches.

It has been such a contentious case that even the evidence is being disputed.

via Cops, Witnesses Back Up George Zimmerman’s Version – ABC News.

In related news:

Witness Told Cops He Saw Trayvon Martin Straddling George Zimmerman And Punching Him “MMA Style”.

A witness told Florida cops that he saw Trayvon Martin straddling George Zimmerman and pummeling the neighborhood watch captain “MMA style” shortly before the unarmed teen was felled by a gunshot to the chest.

The witness’s account was included in Sanford Police Department reports released today.

Interviewed by cops about 90 minutes after the shooting, the witness–whose name was redacted from police documents–said that he was inside his home when he heard a “commotion coming from the walk way” behind his residence.

The man recalled seeing “a black male, wearing a dark colored ‘hoodie’ on top of a white or Hispanic male who was yelling for help.” The black male, he added, “was mounted on the white or Hispanic male and throwing punches ‘MMA (mixed martial arts) style.’”

Via: Witness Told Cops He Saw Trayvon Martin Straddling George Zimmerman And Punching Him “MMA Style”.

Keep the pressure up on these lawless fucks, or you will lose all your rights.

The one and only thing you should ever say to a cop is “I want a lawyer.” Anything else is suicide.

If you are asked if they can search your car, say no. If they ask why, say no. They have to have probable cause to search your vehicle. If they had it, they wouldn’t ask.

Don’t fuck yourself over. LAWYER UP!

MILLER: Injured vet’s guns stolen by D.C.

By Emily Miller

After being injured on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, Lt. Augustine Kim spent the night in a D.C. jail for possessing unregistered guns.

Mr. Kim was transporting his firearms from his parents’ house in New Jersey to South Carolina when he stopped at Walter Reed in Washington for a medical appointment in the summer of 2010.

After being pulled over, handcuffed, arrested, thrown in jail overnight, his guns were confiscated by the city.

In the end, the platoon leader felt forced to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge, which was later dismissed, but the District still refuses to return to him $10,000 worth of firearms and parts. The national guardsman will deploy to Kosovo this summer. The city should return his property before he leaves to serve our nation overseas for the third time.

via MILLER: Injured vet’s guns stolen by D.C. – Washington Times.

Fight for your rights! It may save your life.

Veteran shoots intruder with gun carried during Korean War

ELIZABETH, Pa. – Police say an 84-year-old western Pennsylvania man wounded a home invasion suspect with the gun he carried in the Korean War.

Elizabeth Township police say 25-year-old Raymond Hiles was captured not long after trying to break into Fred Ricciutti’s home early Tuesday morning.

Ricciutti tells WPXI-TV he heard Hiles break a window and then confronted him, firing a single shot that grazed Hiles’ neck.

Investigators say Hiles was arrested a few blocks away, carrying a screwdriver and a stun gun. He’s being held on $100,000 bail on charges including criminal trespass and burglary.

via Veteran shoots intruder with gun carried during Korean War | Fox News.

This bullshit wouldn’t happen if he was just some Joe Schmoe that talked shit about the SCOAMF.

Ted Nugent is being RAILROADED!

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Robert

Just so you folks know how bad it is if you dare to take on “Chicago Jesus” and have a platform to do it:

Equal justice under the law? hardly. (Ted Nugent)

I clearly informed AK Asist US Attrny Jack Schmidt that he would violate his EJUTL oath when he publicly charged me in AK since no other hunter ever charged would end up as a feature story across the globe viciously attacked by the entrenched gang of political & media haters that were obviously on his side.

That aint equal shit any way ya cut it.

It was also agreed I would be under “unsupervised probation for 2yrs” (again, far far from equal in these cases) but VIOLA!! Now I am contacted by Fedzilla probation officers in TX and must in fact be “supervised” by them on a regular basis, including filling out questionnaire’s asking me if I share the booty from my crimes with family & friends, if my crimes are motivated by an anger towards society & many numerous other numbnut subhuman lowlife punkass recividistic maggot supervisionery tactics that couldn’t be more polar opposite of my 63 year life of exemplary behavior.

via Ted Nugent is being RAILROADED! | American and Proud.

Still waiting for the outrage…

Cries of racism in 3, 2, 1…

Trayvon: 46 Days; Fast and Furious: 527 Days and Counting

By M. Catharine Evans

The Attorney General of the State of Arizona should charge the Attorney General of the United States with negligent homicide in the deaths of Agents Terry, Zapata and Mexican nationals.

Sound extreme?

Not really. The government sanctioned program of allowing convicted felons to sell guns to drug cartels without interdiction resulted in cold-blooded murder, yet no one has been charged. Contrast that with the frenzied rush to judgment in the Trayvon Martin case.

The 16-month Fast and Furious investigation has been virtually drip, drip, drip. In addition, the Mexican government has been eerily quiet about gun walking weapons used to kill its own citizens. Congressman Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, keeps threatening to get to the bottom of it and the mainstream media folks won’t touch anything not approved by the regime.

But fortunately for us, the Obama administration decided to exploit the Trayvon Martin tragedy.

The barrage of protests, press conferences, high level official confabs and media headlines demanding George Zimmerman’s arrest for the shooting of 17-year old Martin provide a sharp contrast to the last year and a half of perjured testimony, media blackouts and stonewalling by the DOJ in the gunwalking fiasco.

via Articles: Trayvon: 46 Days; Fast and Furious: 527 Days and Counting.