Veto-proof majority in Louisiana House approves constitutional carry

So far this year we’ve seen two states adopt permitless or constitutional carry, not only with the support of lawmakers but with the backing of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen. If Louisiana is going to follow suit and become the 28th state to recognize the right to bear arms without a government-issued permission slip, however, legislators are going to have to overcome an anticipated veto by Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards, who previously killed a similar measure back in 2021.

We’re one step closer to that becoming reality today after the Louisiana House voted 70-29 on Tuesday in favor of HB 131, just enough to override Edwards’ veto… at least if no one changes their vote.

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May 24

1218 – The armies of King Andrew II of Hungary and Duke Leopold VI of Austria, leave Acre in the attempt to take Cairo Egypt, beginning the Fifth Crusade

1607 – Under the leadership of Captain Christopher Newport, the first 100 English settlers arrive to established Jamestown settlement at the mouth of the James River on the Virginia coast, the first permanent English colony in America.

1626 – Peter Minuit buys ‘the Island of Manhattes’ – Manhattan NY –  from the Canarsee Indians of the Lenape Tribe in exchange for trade goods worth 60 guilders, which currently equals about $950.

1738 – John Wesley starts his own evangelical ministry in London, which people called Methodism for “the methodical way in which they carried out their Christian faith”.

1775 – John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

1813 – Leading the invasion of Venezuela, Simón Bolívar enters Mérida in the northwest of the country and is proclaimed El Libertador

1844 – Samuel Morse sends the first Morse Code message “What hath God wrought”, a biblical quotation from Numbers 23:23, from Washington D.C. to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, beginning commercial telegraph service between  the two cities.

1856 – In response to the sack of Lawrence Kansas, John Brown and his followers raid Pottawatomie Creek Kansas, killing 5 men.

1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is completed and opens to traffic.

1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.

1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single rotor helicopter flight.

1941 – During World War II, the German battleship Bismarck sinks the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Hood, in the Denmark Straight, with the loss of 1415 of 1418 crewmen.

1948 – During the Arab–Israeli War, Egypt attacks and occupies the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai.

1958 – The United Press and the International News Service merge to form the United Press International.

1962 – During Project Mercury, astronaut Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral and orbits the Earth 3 times before splashing down northeast of Puerto Rico.

1994 – 4 of the 6 moslem terrorists who were involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, convicted in March of the bombing, are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT) Treaty, agreeing to limit each nation’s arsenal. of nuclear weapons.

2022 – A mass shooting occurs at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children, while over 300 law enforcement officers wait in fear for over an hour, before members of the U.S. Border Patrol arrive, charge the shooter and kill him.

Remember all the “Stop Asian Hate” posturing? That went away when people started pointing out where the violence was coming from.

No prison time for black man who set Asian Berkeley students on fire with homemade blowtorch

Prosecutor funded by George Soros gets criminal sent to ‘diversion program.’

A black man found guilty of setting two Asian University of California Berkeley students on fire will face no jail time as part of a plea deal with a prosecutor who ran on an agenda of ending “mass incarceration.”

Brandon McGlone “was found guilty of lighting UC Berkeley students on fire at a boba shop near the Cal campus in 2020 has been released from custody without prison time or probation after agreeing to participate in a diversion program for veterans,” according to The Berkeley Scanner, which reviewed the court records.

But he reached a plea deal with the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, which is run by Pamela Price, who “has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from the progressive billionaire George Soros,” according to The Washington Free Beacon.

The two students were not the first victims of McGlone, who earlier in the day had said he “wanted to light someone on fire” and then proceeded to carry out his wishes.

He first chased one man down the street and tried to light him on fire after spraying him with WD-40. “Another man also ran from McGlone to escape being set on fire after being sprayed with a liquid while waiting in line at Taco Bell Cantina, according to testimony,” the Berkeley Scanner reported.

The paper further reported:

McGlone’s next stop was Feng Cha Tea House, at 2528 Durant Ave., where he found students waiting in line to order food and drinks.

He sprayed two of them with WD-40 and used a lighter to ignite the gas, creating a massive fireball, witnesses said.

The students managed to pat out the flames and escape injury. Members of their group then confronted McGlone and fought with him in the street.

During the fight, according to testimony, McGlone first pulled out a knife and then pulled out a hatchet.

Student senators also cited the incident in 2020 when it passed a resolution that called for mandatory xenophobia training.

Dër GrëtchënFührër® is at it again.

Michigan governor signs red flag gun law, questions linger over enforcement

ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gave final approval Monday afternoon to a red flag law that aims to keep firearms away from those at risk of harming themselves or others as the state grapples with ways to slow gun violence in the wake of its second mass school shooting.

Michigan joined Minnesota as the second state in under a week to implement a red flag law after Democrats in both states won control of both chambers and the governor’s office in November. New Mexico previously was the last state to pass a red flag law in 2020.

Whitmer signed the legislation just outside of Detroit, flanked by state lawmakers and individuals affected by gun violence. Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who began campaigning for gun safety after she was shot in the head in 2011, was also in attendance.

“We have heard too many times from those who knew a mass shooter who had expressed concern in advance about that mass shooter’s intentions,” Whitmer said Monday. “With extreme risk protection orders, we have a mechanism to step in and save lives.”

The new law, also known as extreme risk protection orders, is expected to go into effect next spring. It will allow family members, police, mental health professionals, roommates and former dating partners to petition a judge to remove firearms from those they believe pose an imminent threat to themselves or others.

The judge would have 24 hours to decide on a protection order after a request is filed. If granted, the judge would then have 14 days to set a hearing during which the flagged person would have to prove they do not pose a significant risk. A standard order would last one year.

Michigan became the 21st state to implement a red flag law. Questions remain of whether the state will have better success in enforcing it than others have. An Associated Press analysis in September found that in the 19 states with red flag laws, firearms were removed from people 15,049 times since 2020, fewer than 10 per 100,000 adult residents.

Some local sheriffs in Michigan have told The Associated Press that they won’t enforce the law if they don’t believe it’s constitutional. Over half of the state’s counties have passed resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, opposing laws they believe infringe on gun rights.

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US Senator Tries to Undermine Branch of Government Intended as a Check on HIS Branch of Government

As anyone who has an elementary school level education understands, our Founders established our federal government to have three branches—the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary—each designed with their own duties, and also designed to act as a check on the others from trying to assert too much power.

In a fairly simplistic breakdown, Congress determines what laws should be in place, the President makes sure the laws are put into place and enforced, and the Supreme Court determines if the laws comport with the US Constitution.

Sadly, some politicians simply ignore this dynamic, and hate being less powerful than they believe they should be.

Case in point: US Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

Murphy has long been a staunch advocate of diminishing the Second Amendment. He has supported virtually every anti-gun proposal that has come before him for consideration, including banning guns. But, thus far, he has failed to achieve much success in imposing the Draconian restrictions on law-abiding gun owners he would like to see passed at the federal level.

There are, however, a handful of states that are under the political control of anti-gun zealots; states such as California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York. These states have, as our readers know, passed laws that infringe on our rights protected under the Second Amendment; ranging from annoying bureaucratic impediments to exercising the right to arms to actual bans on some of the most popular firearms people choose for self-defense.

That said, while our Founders may have given deference to the states to manage their own affairs, it has been long established that there are certain things that are sacrosanct—like individual rights—and states can be limited as to their authority on establishing laws in certain areas.

So, after a trio of Second Amendment-affirming decisions handed down by the US Supreme Court based on challenges to laws at the state and city level—in the cases of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen—the days of anti-gun states and localities being able to violate Second Amendment rights with no accountability may be numbered.

This seems to terrify Sen. Murphy, and so much so that he has taken up the tactic of making thinly-veiled threats towards the US Supreme Court and questioning our nation’s very foundations of government.

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May 23

1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne.

1609 – The Second Virginia Charter a ” further Enlargement and Explanation of the said Grant, Privileges, and Liberties”, for the London Company  is ratified, more than doubling the area granted from the first charter.

1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.

1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the 8th American state.

1846 – In response to the U.S. declaration of war on the 13th, Mexican President Mariano Paredes reciprocates with his first manifesto of defense.

1895 – The libraries of the Astor and Lenox  Foundations are merged, and using the funds of the Tilden Trust, form and build the New York Public Library.

1900 – Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Assault on Battery Wagner in 1863, the first action where a black soldier would be awarded the Medal.

1932 – In Brazil, 4 students are shot and killed during a protest against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.

1934 – Bank robbers and murderers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

1939 – The U.S. Navy’s Sargo class submarine, USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive with the loss 26 of 59 sailors and civilian technicians aboard.

1945 – Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi SS  – Schutzstaffel –  cheats the hangman, committing suicide by taking cyanide after being detained for investigation of his false identity documents by British forces.

1949 – The Western occupying powers approve the ‘Basic Law’,  Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, which establishes a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.

1960 – A tsunami caused by an 9.5 Moment Scale earthquake in Chile the previous day hits Hilo, Hawaii, killing 61 people.

1995 – Sun Microsystems in  Menlo Park, California releases the first version of the Java programming language.

2006 –  Mount Cleveland on the western end of Chuginadak Island of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, erupts.

2013 – A freeway bridge carrying Interstate Highway 5 over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon, Washington, collapses, precipitating 2 vehicles into the river, but with all 3 riders rescued.

2014 – 6 people are killed and 14 wounded by gunshot, stabbing and vehicle ramming in a killing spree by a lone perpetrator near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara before being shot by police, then committing suicide.

2015 – 46 people are killed in Texas and Oklahoma as a result of flooding caused by an extensive storm system moving through the area.

Show Don’t Tell – Preaching the Gospel of Gun Owner Normality

My life is so much better when I don’t have to engage the gun issue in America; I don’t know why I continue doing this to myself. Some days I think it is just the sunk costs of having spent 12 years of my life trying to bring light to an issue that seems more overheated every day. On other days, I am inspired by people I meet to press on trying to tell the story of American gun culture accurately and fairly. Last weekend I had such a day.

Since classes ended this spring, I have been in Northern California helping my newly-widowed mother and celebrating a landmark birthday for my oldest sister. I haven’t had too many free days in my schedule, but as luck has it, one of them coincided with a very interesting shooting event presented by a new organization, Open Source Shooting Sports (OS3).

The group’s abbreviation, OS3, is a play on computer “operating systems.” This and the “open source” idea that comes from computer programming is reflective of its founder, Trish (Resplendor) Sargentini. An automation engineer in the biotech industry, she is just a bit nerdy.

I will have more to say about the APA x Mother’s Day event on my Gun Curious blog later. Today I want to focus on what I learned at the event about representing responsible gun owners and gun ownership.

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If I didn’t have a PS-90 and wanted to make another SBR…………..
And why couldn’t they have come out with this last year?

  • MODEL NUMBER: 19303
  • CALIBER: 5.7X28MM
  • Capacity 20
  • Handguard M-LOK® Attachment Slots
  • Sights None
  • Receiver Material Aluminum Alloy
  • Receiver Finish Type III Hard-Coat Anodized
  • Barrel Feature Threaded
  • Thread Pattern 1/2″-28
  • Barrel Length 10.30″
  • Overall Length 16″
  • Barrel Material Aluminum Alloy
  • Barrel Finish Nitride
  • Weight 66.5 oz.
  • Grooves 8
  • Twist1:9″ RH
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“OUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER SEE SNOW”

The scientific method works as follows: 1) You come up with a hypothesis. 2) You look for the implications of the hypothesis. What will be the case if the hypothesis is true, but will not be the case if the hypothesis is wrong? 3) You carry out observations or run experiments to find out whether the facts implied by the hypothesis do or do not obtain. 4) If you find that a fact implied by the hypothesis is indeed the case, it provides support for the hypothesis. If you find a number of such facts to be true, as implied by the hypothesis, then you may have strong support. 5) But it is not conclusive: if a fact or condition implied by the hypothesis is shown by observation or experiment not to be the case, then the hypothesis is refuted, and you go back to the drawing board.

Global warming hysteria is politics or religion, not science. This conclusion follows from the fact that the global warming models have generated many predictions that turned out to be wrong. A single wrong prediction is enough to disprove a model. Numerous, consistently repeated failures mean that the model is a joke.

The global warming models predict that rising temperatures will cause a precipitous decline in snowfall. Thus, alarmists like Dr. David Viner of the University of East Anglia, the main center of global warming research and propaganda, predicted 23 years ago that:

…within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

This prediction, like so many others generated by defective models, has failed to come true. In fact, there has been no decline in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the last 50 years:

Speaking for myself, I will add that my four children have come of age during this time when alarmists assured us that snow was about to stop falling, and they have not lacked for winter fun. This year, we had a long, cold, snowy winter and a late spring. We had an unseasonably late snow storm on April 1 that dumped massive amounts of heavy, wet snow on the Upper Midwest, bringing down many trees, including one that narrowly missed my house.

If the global warming alarmists actually cared about science, they would admit that their models have proved to be wrong, apologize, and shut up for a while. But the imperative of left-wing politics allows no respite from their misguided labors.

Armed Defense of Vatican Highlights Church Hypocrisy on Guns

U.S.A. — “A car driven by someone with apparent psychiatric problems rushed through a Vatican gate Thursday evening and sped past Swiss Guards into a palace courtyard before the driver was apprehended by police, the Holy See said,” ABC News reports. “Vatican gendarmes fired a shot at the speeding car’s front tires after it rushed the gate, but the vehicle managed to continue on its way, the Vatican press office said in a statement late Thursday.”

Yes, of course, and that’s never been a secret. Established in 1506, the Pontifical Swiss Guard is one of the world’s oldest military units, with its work augmented by the Gendarmerie Corps of Vatican City State. And while tourists might find their historical plumed helmets and halberds picturesque and quaint, they’re the real deal, “lavishly equipped,” as colleague Kurt Hofmann has noted, “with some pretty hefty investments in Sig-Sauer, Heckler & Koch, Steyr Mannlicher, and Glock semi-automatic handguns, personal defense weapons, assault rifles, and submachine guns, not to mention whoever manufactures the swords, halberds, and other more traditional weapons carried by [the Pope’s] guards.”

Guns.com did a great piece on all their arms a few years back.

All this makes some official pronouncements by Pope Francis more problematic and hypocritical than infallible.

“Do we really want peace?” he asked. “Then let’s ban all weapons so we don’t have to live in fear of war.”

Responding “You first” hardly seems out of line here.

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