A responsible gun owner knows a few certain truths. Always assume a gun is loaded, and liberals will never stop trying to take our guns away. They’ll play coy and try to say it’s in your best interests, but we know better. The Marxist state only persists when citizens are disarmed. In this never-ending battle to protect our freedom, we enjoy wins and suffer losses. Unfortunately, the most recent battle was a loss, and it will paint the future of this fight for years to come.
A New Supreme Court Decision
In case you missed it, the Supreme Court made an important decision last week. They refused to rule on an appeal against Maryland’s assault weapons ban. The ban was first passed in 2012 (as a snap decision response to Sandy Hook), and it prohibits the sale of 45 different semi-automatic weapons within the state. It also bans magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
The law was upheld when the appeal reached the 4th Circuit. As judge Robert King put it, “We have not power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war.” This ridiculousness highlights the left’s fundamental misunderstanding of firearms. The “assault weapons” banned by the 2012 law are all designed explicitly for civilian use. Those who understand the law know that this is because “weapons of war” have been outlawed for civilian use for almost a hundred years.
Regardless, the Supreme Court’s refusal to rule on the appeal puts Maryland gun owners in a tough spot. There is no longer an avenue to easily repeal the ban, and it has set precedent in favor of liberal gun haters. You can expect them to pounce.
What Comes Next
Liberals tried circumventing the federal government to ban guns before. In 2008, the Supreme Court ultimately ruled that local governments cannot ban handguns. That setback didn’t last long, and with a perceived victory in the highest court, you can expect the left to try to ban guns at every state and local level they can.
Much like they did with minimum wage, they’ll convince any subgroup possible to get rid of guns with haste, and they will inevitably win in a number of states. They don’t care that all of the evidence is against them. They’re perfectly willing to excuse the fact that the 10 most dangerous cities in America are the ones with the strictest gun control. They are fully indoctrinated in this issue, and reason has gone out the window.
Because of that, it is up to us, the responsible citizens of the country, to meet them on the new battleground. Every state and local municipality is at risk. Get active. Get to the polls. Fight for your rights. It’s going to be a long and difficult struggle.
A Changing Fight
While we meet the left head-on across the country, we also need to consider alternative options. It is currently possible that we could push a Republican Congress to pass legislation that would stop state and local level weapon bans. It’s a bit of a long shot, and it could eventually backfire if the left takes the majorities back, but as things stand we will surely lose ground. Hyper-liberal states like California and Washington are sure to continue to inhibit freedom, and we all know that death tolls will follow.
It’s also important to take a little perspective. While the Supreme Court’s decision is definitely a win for the left, they didn’t actually make a ruling. When it comes to federal law and cases they accept, they are still far more likely to rule in favor of the 2nd Amendment than against it. This is one reason why we should try to push our majorities in Congress while we have them. Anything upheld by the Supreme Court will be harder to overturn down the road.
We also can’t abandon education. The liberal fear of firearms is mostly born of ignorance. If we continue to maintain gun safety and education courses, we can combat these absurd propaganda efforts. Informed minds are the best protection against the left, so keep promoting gun education at every corner. Whether training for a concealed carry permit or staying visible and exercising your right to carry, every effort helps.
~ American Gun News
That despicable appeals judge actually saying that “we have not the power…”? You have no power to overthrow what’s written in the constitution! Read the constitution, helpless dolt! The power lies in the constitution, NOT with you!! How dare these airheads in dark robes take away rights given to us by our Founders! Sorry, but this makes me voiling mad when these legal beagles try to tell Americans what sort of weapons they can own and use to defend themselves. I’m not waging war on my neighbors but I could make an exception with them!
Whatever happened to the authority the Constitution gives to the Federal government as far as it’s over individual states? This country is in deep trouble on various issues we have faced over the last 8 years. Due largely to the Socialistic, open borders, one world order Democrats and RINO’s. Also people like Soros who funds a lot of these social issues.
Watch the You Tube “Innocents Betrayed” to learn what happens to citizens of countries which allow their government to disarm them. Also learn about the government created false flags in our country on the 11/10/17 Caravan to Midnight web site, episode 834. Our Second Amendment Rights provides us with the only protection we have from having our country become a police state. The destruction of our rights to protect ourselves by one thousand cuts should be fought by all freedom loving Americans.
American Gun News
You candyasses remind me of the “kids” looking for a “Safe place” after seeing Trumps name wrote on the sidewalk.
The second amendment is not about owning guns but “USING GUNS” to protect, not only the Second Amendment but all “Rights and Freedoms”.
These liberals are not afraid of you reporting the news, but when you start issuing a “Call to arms” for citizens to organize and “USE THOSE GUNS” to protect their “RIGHTS”, they will pay attention.
The reason the second amendment was included in the bill of right was so citizens would always have the power to overthrow any government, or army that might support that government, but to maintain that power/authority, weapons of war will have to be used.
Let them try to restrict the military to the types of weapons they want to restrict us too, see what kind of out cry you get from them,
Banning what they consider weapons of war is an attack on citizens ability to maintain the power to throw off any tyrant that might arise in government, such as the ones issuing these unconstitutional decisions.
If you want to fight this bullshit, let them know we’re ready to meet them in the streets and issue our own decision.
Start issuing a call to arms, you might be surprise by what can be accomplished, by nothing more than falling out in the street
God I hate stupid people the evidence doesn’t lie it’s not our fault you are too blind to see it don’t ever touch my guns or you will face hell!!!
We gun owners of the once United States are solely responsible for the mess we are in. We have sat on our backsides for decades while the anti gun crowd passed legislation time after time. During the Clinton reign of terror, we sat idly by and let him do what he did and instead of fighting him tooth and nail, what did we do went out and bought up every gun we could manage. We rushed out and bought all the aftermarket gadgets that we could. Oh yeah we did it to show him that we were in command. WRONG! Then we allowed Bush II to gut the Constitution and we did nothing to hold them accountable. Then comes Barak Hussein Obama, clearly a supporter of radical Islam, a communist AND rabidly anti-gun. Yet we sat again on our backsides, hid our heads in our hands and once again, we ran out and bought every thing that goes bang and all the bells whistles and sirens that go on them. What did that accomplish? NOTHING positive unless you are a gun or ammo maker. Those folks made millions upon millions of dollars to what end? All we did was allow the lawmakers do exactly whatever they wanted.
Now we have the Supremes, they are so emboldened by our slothfulness that they have OPENLY shown they are politically driven and motivated. That in itself is a violation of the Supreme Law of the land. But, boy howdy we keep sitting on our rumps and do nothing except run our and buy every firearm and round of ammo we can. Thus giving them MORE impetus and ability to write more and more restrictive gun laws.
WE the people have done this to ourselves. We have all but hand over the 2nd Amendment to the liberal wolves. WE deserve what we are getting. Unless and until WE the people hold the lobbying NRA and GOA and others accountable for THEIR anti gun actions, we will lose the 2nd Amendment in it’s entirety and you know what, WE deserve it.
I wish there was an edit button for comments, I overlooked a couple of typos, I hope the future readers don’t castigate me to harshly.
LIBERALS WILL PLAY HELL TO GET MY GUNS OUT OF MY HANDS!!! I WILL NEVER GIVE UP MY GUNS TO NO ONE!!!
Government also ready to restrict our Free Speech by destroying Net Neutrality. Looks like maybe an armed march on Washington? You can tout against “Marxists”, but what about Fascists? The Right is no less dangerous than the Left.
Let’s see, the Supreme Court said that a sawed-off shotgun was not a weapon of war so it is not allowed, but now they say a weapon of war is not allowed. What kind of idiocy is this?
Time to shut the court down….They are suppose to uphold the law, not change…This is bull shit and the 2nd is all that counts… The rest is commie B.S.
i BELIEVE SO. i THINK MANY PEOPLE WENT AND LOADED UP PRE ELECTION. MOST PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF ARE ON A TIGHT BUDGET. I HAVE STRECHED MYSELF OUT QUITE A BIT. IE; I BOUGHT 2 GLOCK 19 GEN4 FDE FRAME ( HARD TO FIND, QUITE DESARABLE FOR 550.00 EA. TAX & ALL FEES INCLUDED. I AM TRYING TO SELL THE ONE I DID NOT MODIFY. IT IS NIB W PAPERS NEVER FIRED. 550.00 FOR A GEN4 GLOCK 19 FDE FRAME TO BOOT, AND IT IS NOT SELLING. I GOT LUCKY AS I PAY NO FFL FEES. I LOOK AT ARMS LIST AND SEE SOME GREAT GUNS AT VERY REASONABLE PRICES AND I DO NOT SEE THEM SELLING. I AM GOING TO BUY AN AR-15. I CHOSE NOT TO AS THE PRICE OF AMMO WAS UP THERE. THE PRICE ON AR-15 AND THE AMMO HAS COME DOWN QUITE A BIT. NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY ONE, I CAN NOT AFFORD TO DO IT UNTIL SEVERAL NIB RARE SUPER REASONABLE GUNS I HAVE SELL. THEN I CAN BUY. IF THERE IS INDEED A SLUMP, IT IS NOT BECAUSE THERE IS A LACK OF SALES IN ANY PLATFORM AT REASONABLE TO LEANING TO CHEAP. SOME GREAT THINGS HAVE COME OUT OF SHOT SHOW. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING MORE. -SHAWN S ,MPLS,MN
Look for Jesuits & Talmudists & Muslims & Sharia ,Talmud or Noahide Laws,or traitors or plants .Its a complicated approach I am
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