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ICYMI: Governor Pillen Signs Constitutional Carry Bill Into Law

LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen signed LB77 Constitutional Carry into Nebraska law. LB77 allows law-abiding Nebraskans who are 21 years or older to carry a concealed handgun without a permit. Governor Pillen was joined by the bill introducer Sen. Tom Brewer and state senators.

 “Signing this bill upholds the promise I made to voters to protect our constitutional rights and promote commonsense, conservative values,” said Governor Pillen. “I appreciate the hard work of those senators who supported this legislation, and particularly that of Sen. Brewer who led this charge and carried it through to the end.”

 “Nebraskans should not have to pay the government a fee or ask permission for constitutional rights,” said Senator Brewer. “This bill finally delivers on the promises in Nebraska and United States constitutions. I am proud to help Nebraska join twenty-six of our sister states in removing this obstacle to the right to keep and bear arms.”

 A video of the bill signing can be found here and photos are below.

 

Today, May  9

1540 – Hernando de Alarcón sets sail from Acapulco with 2 ships, the San Pedro, and the Santa Catalina, later joined by the San Gabriel at St. Jago de Buena Esperanza, in Colima, to travel up the Gulf of California, explore the Baja California Peninsula and contact and resupply the overland expedition by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado.

1865 – Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.

1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole.

1941 – The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.

1955 – 4 Days after having its sovereignty returned and recognized by France, Britain and the United States, West Germany joins the NATO alliance.

1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle’s Enovid, making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive.

1974 – The House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran by the shiite moslem theocratic government, prompting the mass exodus of the Jewish community in Iran.

1980 – The Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, causing a 1,400 foot long section of the southbound span collapse. 6 cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water killing 35 people in the vehicles.
In Norco, California, 5 masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. 2 of the gunmen and 1 police officer are killed and 33 police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.

2002 – A 38 day long stand off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.

2020 – The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.

2022 – President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.

Gavin Newsom tries anti-gun attack that backfires

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will probably run for president someday. I wouldn’t be surprised to see President Joe Biden decide to replace Vice President Kamala Harris with Newsom–it would keep California locked up electorally and Harris is…well, she’s just bad all around.

For now, though, Newsom is content to just act like an idiot when and where he can.

And that’s what he did when he went on the attack following the shooting in Allen, TX.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately criticized the Republican controlled Congress after a deadly mass shooting at a mall in suburban Dallas, Texas killed at least 8 and injured 7 others on Saturday afternoon, slamming Congress for not passing gun control reform.

“This is freedom?? To be shot at a mall? Shot at school? Shot at church? Shot at the movies?” the Democrat governor wrote in a Twitter post shortly after police confirmed the causalities. “We have become a nation that is more focused on the right to kill than the right to live.”

Oh, sick burn.

Except, of course, it’s total male bovine excrement.

I challenge Gov. Newsom to show me one place in the United States that actually has a “right to kill.”

Sure, many have taken steps to preserve the right to self-defense, but that’s fundamentally different. Even Newsom will acknowledge–publicly, at least–that you have a right to defend yourself if you find yourself being threatened.

That’s not “the right to kill.”

So where is it, Newsom? Where is this “right to kill” that Congress is supposedly so focused on?

Nowhere. That’s where it is. At least, not with a firearm.

California, however, wants to be an abortion mecca for people who feel like they can’t get one in their home state. For a lot of people, that sure looks like California and Newsom are worried about an actual “right to kill.”

There’s also California’s euthanasia law that allows anyone who has lived in the state for six months to get assisted suicide–another thing that sure looks like killing to a lot of other folks.

In other words, a case can easily be made that Newsom’s California is one of the few places that actually does have a right to kill.

The truth of the matter is that no matter what gun control you pass, there will be a potential for mass shootings. I reported on three from Europe just recently, including two in Serbia just days apart. Another was in Portugal.

Those three were within the span of a week, folks, and there is no nation in Europe that is particularly gun friendly. Not by American standards, anyway.

Newsom and people like him would do well to stop focusing on the guns and start looking at what we can do that might actually work.

That’s not going to happen, though. It’s not going to happen because Newsom wants to square up his anti-gun credentials prior to his presidential run, whenever that actually happens.

The thing is, I don’t think that will work the way he intends.

Today It’s Your Gas Stove, Tomorrow It’s Your Dishwasher.

“Don’t worry about the dishwasher,” our host told us as we checked out the house where my wife and I were staying in the south of France several years ago. “It’s more than two years old.” I had no idea why I needed to worry about this or any other dishwasher, but I was about to find out.

The year was 2017, and new EU regulations had gone into effect, effectively crippling the dishwashers people had long depended on to clean their dishes. A cleaning machine that cleans is a radical idea, I’m sure, to radical EU regulators. Our host had remodeled his kitchen barely in time to install a machine made the year before the new EU rules regarding water and energy use went into effect. The new washers use so little water and energy that EU truth-in-labeling laws ought to prevent manufacturers from calling these overpriced beasts “dishwashers.”

“Dishwetters” might be more accurate. Or perhaps more accurate still would be “Dishmoisteners.”

If it’s a choice between an appliance that’s been over-regulated to the point that consumers have to pay far more than they used to for a dishwasher that does far less than it should or them standing in front of the sink for 30 minutes every night after dinner, singing, “Tonight we’re gonna scrub like it’s 1929,” then Brussels has already made the choice for them: If you want to buy a dishwasher, you’re still going to have to hand-wash those dishes before they go into the machine.

Here’s where Presidentish Joe Biden steps up to say: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, Jacque.

In yet another notorious Friday afternoon news dump, Biden’s Department of Energy proposed new efficiency rules for dishwashers sold in the U.S.

If the proposed regulations go into effect — and there’s no doubt that the enviro-cabal running the White House is in favor — water use would be reduced by a third on some standard-sized machines, and energy use would be reduced by more than a quarter.

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Vermont Gun Bill Creating 72-Hour Waiting Period Passes

The Vermont Legislature on Friday passed a bill that requires a 72-hour waiting period for the purchase of guns and includes other provisions aimed at reducing suicides and community violence.

The Vermont House concurred with a Senate amendment by a vote of 106 to 34. But Republican Gov. Phil Scott “has significant concerns about the constitutionality of the waiting period provision,” his spokesman Jason Maulucci said Friday.

The legislation also creates a crime of negligent firearms storage and expands the state’s extreme risk protection orders so that a state’s attorney, the attorney general’s office or a family or household member may ask a court to prohibit a person from purchasing, possessing or receiving a dangerous weapon.

Supporters say it’s time to take action against gun violence and the rate of suicide in Vermont, which is higher than the national rate.

Opponents say the bill violates the Second Amendment of the Constitution.

Per Heller and the Bruen Standard, it mostr certainly does

According to the bill, more than 700 Vermonters died of gunshots from 2011 to 2020 and 88% of those deaths were suicides. In 2021, the state’s suicide rate was 20.3 per 100,000 people, compared to a national rate of 14 per 100,000, the bill states. Children in a home with a firearm are more than four times more likely to die by suicide than those in a home without one, the legislature states.

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These are semi automatic “assault rifles”, although the term is made up, this is what the left wants to take. I actually don’t care what you call them, at all, as long as you don’t call them “modern sporting rifles”. That term is a pathetic attempt at the gun movement trying to placate the left.

I dont own these rifles for sport, I don’t hunt with either of these rifles although I could. Both of these rifles are owned because they’re effective against two legged predators at varying distances. I own these rifles in case someone or a group of people intend to kill me or my loved ones. These rifles are owned specifically to defend myself against humans.

Let’s not mince words. Every attempt at banning them only makes me buy more and more. No legislation will make me give them to you, no tragedy will ever make me anti gun. Each shooting I see in the news makes me want to buy more and train harder to be more effective against the evil in this world.

These guns don’t make me a psychopathic killer. I’m not a violent person but I’m also not an idiot who believes the world is a safe place. As the world gets increasingly more dangerous I look for better and better tools to defend myself and my family. As the government gets more corrupt and the economy crashes I hedge my bets with effective self defense tools and the skillset to effectively deploy them.

My guns aren’t a threat to anyone that isn’t trying to kill me. So you can cry, you can protest and you can even legislate, these are mine and you’ll never get them. They’re absolutely no danger to you unless you’re someone who means me harm and tries to kill me. How many people need to die before I turn in my guns? There isn’t an amount. What do my guns have to do with shooting rates in this country? Do you advocate chopping off your penis to help prevent others from raping?

Tweet away, vote away, protest and cry. They’re still mine.

‘What is citizenship worth if you can get better benefits by being illegally here?’

Campus Reform higher ed fellow Nicholas Giordano joined Fox Business‘ Maria Bartiromo to discuss a recently announced spending package in Boston that includes funding for illegal migrants to go to college.

“Americans are facing the highest inflation in forty years, you have food cost at all time highs, you have people struggling to pay bills, students parents taking on enormous debt burdens and officials are looking to provide illegal immigrants with college tuition,” said Giordano

The illegal immigrant funding provision comes as the latest part of a trend where states and municipalities are showing increasing interest in these spending programs.

“The biggest problems is we see these programs expand, so its not just Boston. New York City Mayor Eric Adams also announced a similar program where he wanted to take it statewide, and he was working with Gov. Hochul to do this,” he added.

Allen shooting survivor recalls gunfire, says store associate died ‘trying to save us’

ALLEN (CBSNewsTexas.com) — After taking an impromptu shopping trip to the Allen Premium Outlets Saturday afternoon, Racquel Lee soon found herself stuck in a bathroom closet hiding from an active shooter.

Lee said when she pulled up, she parked in front of the outlet’s H&M store—the exact spot 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia would later drive up to and begin shooting.

In an interview with CBS News Texas’ Nicole Baker, Lee shared the moment she and 12 others were gathered by a store associate inside the store’s bathroom closet.

“It sounded like a war zone,” she said. “It was horrifying and it felt like you were in a dream.”

Lee explained they were trying not to be heard crying and praying in fear the gunman would find them. She said people were also trying to call 911 but that they couldn’t dial out.

“I remember thinking that he’s coming in here next, and I was hoping we didn’t get hit by a bullet,” Lee said. “Then the store associate saved our lives.”

8 May

589 – Reccared I King of Hispania and Septimania, opens the 3rd Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Church.

1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans by the English, turning the tide of the Hundred Years’ War for the French.

1541 – On his travel of exploration, Conquistador Hernando de Soto stops near present day Walls, Mississippi before making the first documented crossing of the Mississippi River by a European.

1639 – William Coddington, a magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, leaves Boston due to a religious controversy, and founds Newport, Rhode Island.

1846 –  American forces led by Zachary Taylor defeat a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the Mexican–American War.

1877 – At Gilmore’s Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.

1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton introduces a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine “…to ease ailments such as dyspepsia, headache, impotence, and morphine addiction.”

1912 – Famous Players Film Company  (later Paramount Pictures)  is founded by Adolph Zukor, Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman in New York City.

1927 – Attempting to make the first non stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off piloting a Levasseur PL.8-01 biplane L’Oiseau Blanc from Le Bourget Field in Paris.

1942 – The Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II comes to an end with Japanese Navy carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the U.S. Navy carrier USS Lexington.

1945 – VE – Victory in Europe DAY. Under terms of the surrender by Germany, the order for “all German military, naval and air authorities and to all forces under German control to cease active operations” takes effect.

1973 – A 71 day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.

1978 – Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler make the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.

1980 – After the last naturally occurring case of smallpox was diagnosed in 1977, the World Health Organization announces the eradication of the disease.

1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell’s Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS switch network outage, knocking out service to over 40,000 customers for 2 weeks.

 

PA’s Insane Ammunition Registration Database, Wants All Your Ammo to Have Separate Serial Numbers

Proposed Pennsylvania House Bill 586, introduced on March 20, 2023, proposes significant changes to ammunition regulations that would impact law-abiding gun owners in the state. The bill, which was introduced by 12 state Democrats, including prime sponsor Representative Stephen Kinsey, seeks to give the Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police and the Secretary of Revenue the power to enforce the new rules and collect a tax on ammunition to fund the changes.

Encoded Ammo Database, Pennsylvania House Bill 586

The bill has several provisions, including a requirement that all ammunition sold in Pennsylvania must be encoded with multiple serial numbers. This means that a manufacturer must add individual serial numbers to all ammunition provided for retail sale in a manner yet to be established by the Pennsylvania State Police commissioner. Each bullet would have a unique serial number located at its base, inside the cartridge casing, and outside the box of ammunition.

In a related article that alerted us to this crazy bill, Riley Bowman, Vice President of ConcealedCarry.com pointed out that this could pose significant challenges for producers and negatively impact ammunition produced for law enforcement, even though they are exempt from this bill. He noted that ammo producers are already struggling to keep up with demand, and the time required to produce a single round of ammunition could increase from seconds to minutes.

The bill also requires anyone who possesses non-encoded ammunition to dispose of it by January 1, 2024. Is what they are proposing that millions and millions of rounds of ammunition be shot in less than a year by Pennsylvania gun owners?

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Frustratingly, the same judge who issued the foolish opinion which was overturned by the Supreme Court in McDonald v. Chicago has once again stepped in to enforce unconstitutional gun control. This is not the last laugh, and we are fully invested in ensuring this law is defeated. GOA will continue to fight until lower courts, executives, and lawmakers at all levels fall in line with the Bruen precedent.

Erich Pratt GOA Senior Vice President