250 years ago – to the day – some of our forefathers decided they would resist tyranny…at gunpoint.
This imaginary news ‘report’ is what we’d likely see published in today’s leftist controlled media.

Date Line – BOSTON,

Units of the Massachusetts Governor’s Counter Terrorist Task Force seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed today by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and Law Enforcement sources estimated that 72 were killed and more than 20 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.

Speaking after the clash, Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices.

The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.

The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons. Gage issued a ban on military style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early April between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms. One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that; “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned their weapons over voluntarily…”

Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition, however, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had apparently been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.

During a tense standoff in Lexington’s town park, Major John Pitcairn, commander of the advance contingent of government troops, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the extremists, however there is some doubt about who actually did fire it.
Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.

Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Francis Smith, in command of the entire force, finding his troops overmatched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.

Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor has also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as ringleaders of the extremist faction, remain at large.

Luke 23

1  And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
2  And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
3  And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
4  Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
5  And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
6  When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.
7  And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.
8  And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
9  Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.
10  And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.
11  And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
12  And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
13  And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
14  Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
15  No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
16  I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
17  (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
18  And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
19  (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prisn.)
20  Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
21  But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
22  And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
23  And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
24  And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
25  And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
26  And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
27  And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
28  But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29  For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30  Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
31  For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
32  And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
33  And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
34  Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
35  And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
36  And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
37  And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
38  And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
39  And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
40  But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
41  And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
42  And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43  And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
44  And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
45  And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
46  And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
47  Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
48  And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
49  And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
50  And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
51  (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
52  This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
53  And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
54  And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
55  And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
56  And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

Just to add to the history of today:

The Doolittle Raid, conducted on April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States Army Air Forces on Japan during World War II. Led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle, the specially modified B25 Mitchell bombers, were launched from the carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) and targeted military and industrial sites in Tokyo and other cities, marking the first American air operation to strike the Japanese homeland.

The raid aimed to, and did, inflict both material and especially psychological damage on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor, boosting American morale and demonstrating that Japan was vulnerable to American air attacks.

It also re-energized the Imperial Japanese Navy’s plan to assault and invade Midway Island, some historians saying that it caused Admiral Yamamoto to so hasten implementing the operation, the IJN didn’t fully prepare for it.

Trump Rules Out Gun Control After Shooting at Florida State

If Kamala Harris were president today, the White House would have already put out a statement demanding a ban on “assault weapons”, regardless of the fact that Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil says the perpetrator of the shooting on the campus of Florida State got at least one of his guns from his mom, a sheriff’s deputy.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, made it abundantly clear on Thursday afternoon that the fault lies with the person who pulled the trigger, not the inanimate object he used.

Asked about shooting, Trump said “it’s a shame,” adding that he knew the school and the area “very well.”

But Trump suggested that he would not be advocating for any new gun legislation, saying, “the gun doesn’t do the shooting, the people do.”

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump called himself a “big advocate” of the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms.

“I have an obligation to protect the Second Amendment,” he said.

I appreciate Trump’s sentiment, and he’s absolutely right that the gun doesn’t do the shooting, the person pulling the trigger does. The gun control lobby, however, is going to have a field day with his comment about an obligation to protect the Second Amendment, which they’ll twist to claim Trump doesn’t think he has an obligation to protect us, including our sons and daughters attending class on a college campus.

The sad truth is that today’s shooting is a tragic and painful reminder that gun control laws don’t stop those who are committed to the idea of killing as many innocent people as possible.

Florida bans concealed carry on college campuses, and open carry everywhere in the state. The killer didn’t care.

Florida bans the sale of firearms to adults under the age of 21. The killer didn’t care.

Florida has a three day waiting period on firearm transfers for most adults over the age of 21. The killer didn’t care.

The killer cared as much about Florida’s gun laws as he did the lives he took on Thursday afternoon. They served as no impediment to playing out his murderous fantasies, and most importantly, they offered no protection to his victims or those in the nearby vicinity who, by luck, chance, or God’s grace, weren’t harmed in his cowardly killing spree.

Would an armed citizen have been around to stop the killer’s attack if Florida allowed campus carry? Maybe, maybe not. But the odds of intervening before more lives were lost and more people were hurt would at least have been much higher if students, staff, and visitors who can lawfully carry off campus had the same ability to do so once they set foot on the university’s grounds.

The Second Amendment isn’t a guarantee that a good person with a gun will be there when you need it any more than it’s a magic solution to all our social ills. But at its core, the right to keep and bear arms is supposed to give us a fighting chance at survival; whether against a tyrannical government or the petty tyranny of a mentally disturbed or downright evil individual who’s decided the most important impact they can make in life is destroying someone else’s.

Protecting the Second Amendment doesn’t mean we’re not interested in protecting our kids, our neighbors, our communities, or ourselves. It just means that we fundamentally disagree that the pathway to safety must include the destruction, degradation, or deprivation of a fundamental civil right.

Bills Protecting Veteran Second Amendment Rights Hit The House And Senate

A pair of companion bills currently making rounds in the House and Senate seek to protect the Second Amendment rights of veterans by preventing Veterans Affairs (VA) from reporting names to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as a routine part of benefit-related actions. According to the authors of the bills, the NICS system uses those reports to strip veterans of their right to purchase and possess firearms without the same due process afforded to American citizens who did not serve in the military because the process doesn’t include a court finding that the veteran is a danger to themselves or others.

Republican Representative Mike Bost from Illinois, the bill’s sponsor, and House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs chairman, spoke about H.R. 1041, which has over 50 Republican co-sponsors, at a February 25 hearing.

“This bill is not about guns on demand… It’s about giving veterans the same due process as every other American,” said Bost.

The issue stems from a VA-appointed fiduciary program intended to assist veterans in managing their benefits and finances. Bost says that such an appointment has nothing to do with a veteran’s propensity to be a danger to the public and should not affect their NICS background checks in such a way that deprives them of their Second Amendment rights, which some veterans say discourages or prevents them from seeking mental health care.

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First Circuit Upholds Massachusetts ‘Assault Weapon,’ Magazine Bans

he Bay State’s ban on the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms and ammunition magazines does not run afoul of the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

A three-judge panel for the First Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the denial of a preliminary injunction against Massachusetts’ ban on the sale of “assault weapons,” such as the popular AR-15, and ammunition magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds. It determined that the logic of a prior ruling upholding Rhode Island’s ban on certain magazines applied to the weapons banned by Massachusetts law.

“A straightforward application of our prior holding in Ocean State Tactical supports the Commonwealth’s demonstration that the Massachusetts Ban’s AR-15 restriction ‘is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,’” Judge Gary Katzmann wrote in Capen v. Campbell. “This means that Appellants have failed to demonstrate at this stage that the Ban is unconstitutional in all its applications.”

The ruling extends the unbeaten streak for states defending hardware bans at the federal appellate level ever since the Supreme Court handed down its New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen decision in 2022. It will undoubtedly add to the growing sense of frustration among gun-rights advocates who believe Supreme Court precedent forecloses sales bans on common semi-automatic firearms and the magazines that come standard with them.

The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), the plaintiff in this case, did not respond to a request for comment. The group sued over Massachusetts’ bans in 2022, shortly after the High Court handed down the Bruen decision. They were first upheld by US District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in December 2023 after Saylor ruled that the banned items fit within the country’s historical tradition of regulating “dangerous and unusual” weapons.

Between that ruling and Thursday’s update on appeal, the First Circuit issued a separate opinion upholding Rhode Island’s nearly identical ban on ammunition magazines in March of 2024.

“The justification for the law is a public safety concern comparable to the concerns justifying the historical regulation of gunpowder storage and of weapons like sawed-off shotguns, Bowie knives, M-16s and the like,” Judge William Kayatta wrote in Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island. “The analogical ‘how’ and ‘why’ inquiry that Bruen calls for therefore strongly points in the direction of finding that Rhode Island’s LCM ban does not violate the Second Amendment.”

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Many claim that only government can say what is and isn’t a right, largely so they can justify stripping people of their natural rights, and invent new rights that have no moral or logical basis.
It’s by this claim that they seek to destitute perceived enemies to subjugation, while those enemies serve the preferred classes.
It’s the immoral basis for all authoritarianism, totalitarianism, slavery, communism and fascism.
-Jeff Shetler

Weapons concerned are a shotgun and handgun…
Officers shot the suspected gunman, who is now hospitalized.

2 dead, [Leon County] sheriff deputy’s son in custody after shooting at Florida State University; multiple victims injured

What we know

  • Two people are dead and a sheriff deputy’s son is in custody after an active shooter was reported at Florida State University’s campus in Tallahassee.
  • The suspect is the 20-year-old son of a current sheriff’s deputy who had access to one of her weapons, according to Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil.
  • At least six people are receiving treatment at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.
  • In a recent update, FSU informed students that the threat to the campus has been “neutralized” but the area around the campus is still considered an active crime scene.
  • One FSU student who saw the shooter described him as a “normal college dude” who was wearing an orange T-shirt and khaki shorts. “I was walking and this guy pulls up in an orange Hummer,” the student said. “And he gets out with a rifle and shoots in my direction.”

ATF Targeting Old Men in Rural Missouri

The entire State of Missouri can rest much easier now. The ATF has made the Show-Me State a much safer place. Two rule breakers from small Missouri towns were indicted by a federal grand jury last week. Their crimes? They’re accused of selling guns without a federal license. Their ages? One was 75 and the other was 81 years old.

This, friends, is not a sick joke. The ATF actually publicized the arrests in a press release, which was sent out last week.

“According to an indictment returned this week, Aubrey Foxworthy, 81, of California, Missouri, was charged with dealing firearms in Morgan and Moniteau Counties from approximately June 2, 2023, through September 9, 2024. He did not have a federal firearms license to deal firearms. Foxworthy was also charged with possession of a rifle with a barrel length less than 16 inches and that rifle was not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record,” the press release states. “According to an indictment returned this week, Philip Leroy Rains, 75, of Popular Bluff, Missouri, was charged with dealing firearms in Morgan County from approximately April 1, 2023, through April 4, 2024. He did not have a federal firearms license to deal firearms.”

Each man now faces five years in a federal prison and fines of up to a quarter-million dollars for the no-FFL charges, but Foxworthy faces an additional 10 years in prison and fines of up to $10,000 for whatever the ATF considered an unregistered short-barreled rifle. Nowadays this could be a legal firearm with a brace. Unfortunately, if things go the ATF’s way, Foxworthy could leave federal prison in 2040 at the ripe age of 96.

Foxworthy could lose a lot more than just his freedom. According to his indictment, the ATF also ordered him to turn over all of his guns, and the 81-year-old had a decent collection.

The ATF wants 197 of Foxworthy’s personal firearms, according to a list attached to his indictment. The guns are about what you’d expect a lifelong gun owner to have in his safe. Almost all are American made: Ruger, Colt, Winchester, Savage, Browning, Remington, Marlin, Mossberg, Henry and Smith & Wesson. The ATF also wants Foxworthy’s ammunition, and the list claims he had more than 16,000 rounds.

Because the ATF prepared the list, there are four firearms identified as “machineguns,” but the type, manufacturer and calibers are listed as “unknown.” Also, Foxworthy was not charged with the illegal possession of any machineguns. This makes sense in a sick way, because experience has shown when the ATF can’t identify a firearm, they usually just consider it a machinegun.

The list also shows that Foxworthy owned a dozen Winchester Model 94 rifles. The serial number of one rifle shows it was manufactured before 1896. Depriving the man of that rifle is a sin, especially since it will likely be kept or even resold by some nameless ATF agent.

Calls to Foxworthy’s defense attorney were not returned.

Takeaways

Who hasn’t seen an old man at a flea market with a couple guns for sale either on a folding table or laying on a blanket in the bed of his pickup?

It’s classic Americana, right? There is certainly no crime or criminal intent.

Unfortunately, Joe Biden robbed us of this for a few years. Biden’s “engaged in the business” rule required anyone who made a profit on a single gun sale to obtain a federal firearm license.

“Under this regulation, it will not matter if guns are sold on the internet, at a gun show, or at a brick-and-mortar store: if you sell guns predominantly to earn a profit, you must be licensed, and you must conduct background checks,” former Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced about a year ago.

The press release shows that both arrestees’ alleged law-breaking occurred while Biden was napping at the White House. Besides, it was easier for the ATF. Their agents are much less likely to be shot or scared if they harass a couple old men, rather than going after big-city gangsters armed with full-auto Glocks with Glock switches.

Truth be known, Attorney General Pam Bondi or her staff should examine all of the ATF’s cases made during Biden’s term. Some were much worse than this one.

I certainly hope that whoever is actually in charge of the ATF today will take this into account and drop all charges against Messrs. Foxworthy and Rains.

The ATF has put each of them through enough. I hope that Foxworthy gets to keep his guns, too, especially the pre-1896 Model 94.

To do anything else would be a real crime.