“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
– attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto IJN
December 7, 2025
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“We believe the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars, through welfare fraud, in American history.”
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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 6, 2025
‘nonpartisan’
My opinion is that anything concerning the 2nd amendment can not be ‘nonpartisan’. There is no middle ground when it comes (as Justice Thomas called it) the unqualified statement: “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”
I’d like to see the actual curriculum that is going to be taught. That being said, two of the three directors, Ashley Hlebinsky and David Kopel are well known for their pro-RKBA stances.
Dept. of Education to fund nonpartisan 2nd Amendment high school curriculum
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the University of Wyoming nearly $1 million to develop what the college calls a “historically grounded” school curriculum on the Second Amendment. The university’s Firearms Research Center said the initiative will give educators nationwide tools to better understand the constitutional right to bear arms.
The two-year, $908,991 grant stems from the department’s American History and Civics Education Program tied to the country’s 250th anniversary celebrations. In September, President Donald Trump redirected $137 million to the program that’s directed by what The New York Times called organizations “closely aligned with the president’s Make America Great Again movement.”
The National Second Amendment Initiative’s aim is to give teachers sources, instructional videos and access to academics that the university said come from various perspectives on the lightning rod issue of firearms in America.
“Our project will honor the nation’s 250th anniversary by allowing educators to engage with the complexity and nuance of the country’s founding documents,” Ashley Hlebinsky, executive director of the Firearms Research Center, said in a release.
Because it’s not named as a role of the federal government in the Constitution, the Department of Education cannot force the curriculum on school districts. The restriction is also described in the 1979 law establishing the department. It can only ensure schools are obeying federal education laws like the Civil Rights Act and conduct the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Why Wyoming?
While the U.S. has myriad schools focusing on constitutional law, colleges and universities with a specific focus on the Second Amendment are far and few between. Beyond Wyoming, Duke University’s Duke Center for Firearms Law is one of the only major collegiate programs that focuses on firearms law, but not from a gun violence prevention perspective.
Wyoming’s law school positions itself as the “premier law school for practitioners who serve the legal needs of all those who produce, employ, own, and regulate firearms.”
What happens in the classroom?
While the federal government cannot dictate curriculum and states set broad educational requirements, the teacher still controls the classroom.
The National Education Association, the country’s largest teacher union, has long been outspoken on its advocacy for gun control laws.
In an issues section of the union’s website, the association focuses on school violence due to the country’s proliferation of firearms and advocates for laws that would place restrictions on gun possession and locations where they can be carried.
The union did not respond to a request for comment.
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
— Winston Churchill
December 6, 2025
A follow-up to an earlier post.
Charges filed against man shot by manager during Murray jewelry store robbery
MURRAY — Criminal charges were filed Thursday against an Oregon man who police say attempted to rob a jewelry store in Murray and ended up being shot by a store manager.
Beyker Villegas, 22, of Redmond, Oregon, is charged in 3rd District Court with two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of aggravated kidnapping, first-degree felonies.
On Nov. 25, two men walked into Sierra-West Jewelers, 6190 S. State. One man “was wearing a long black wig, and the other had a scruffy brown wig, fake mustache and beard,” according to charging documents. Both were wearing dark jackets and matching black and red plaid pants.
As the assistant manager asked if he could help, Villegas “pulled a gun,” the charges state. The manager attempted to press the silent alarm, but Villegas pulled him to the middle of the floor.
“(The assistant manager) was unable to understand the suspects because they were yelling in Spanish. Villegas kicked him in the leg and gestured to the ground,” according to the charging documents.
As the men attempted to duct tape a woman also working at the store, the assistant manager grabbed his concealed firearm and fired a round into the ground. That prompted both Villegas and his partner to try and get the gun away from him, the charges say.
“(The assistant manager) shot another round toward Villegas. As the suspects ran outside, (he) hit Villegas in the head several times with his firearm. (The assistant manager) attempted to stop the suspects from leaving, but they were able to get in their vehicle and dragged (him) with the car as they backed up,” according to the charges.
Not long after the men drove away, a man with a gunshot wound to his abdomen was dropped off at an urgent care center in Sandy. Employees at the clinic called the police. Villegas was transferred to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray for further treatment. He was released over the weekend and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail.
Prosecutors say police are still working to identify the second man in the robbery who was able to get away.
Villegas has family in Oregon, but prosecutors say he “is also a citizen of Venezuela. He currently has a federal detainer, and if not held, he could be deported or transferred to other custodial facilities.” They are requesting that he be held in the Salt Lake County Jail without the possibility of posting bail pending trial.
GOA Slams Bondi for Challenging Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act
Missouri's Second Amendment Protection Act is dead at SCOTUS—a tragedy for Missouri gun owners and for gun owners nationwide. pic.twitter.com/9pg2hxrzpn
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) December 4, 2025
“technology changes, rights don’t”
Where’s My EMP Rifle? Why Tomorrow’s Anti-Robot Weapons Are Already Protected by the 2nd Amendment
If Elon Musk gets his way, Tesla’s Optimus robots and full-self-driving cars aren’t just sci-fi—they’re the next multi-trillion-dollar industry.
Musk is openly talking about humanoid robots doing factory work, replacing human labor, and rolling out in the thousands in the next few years. (The Times of India)
Put that together with weaponized drones, autonomous systems, and AI everywhere, and you can see where this goes: at some point, the threat to you and your family may not be a human attacker at all, but a machine—whether it’s criminal misuse of robots, hostile code, or a rogue state’s toys.
So here’s the obvious question almost nobody in the gun-control world wants to touch:
If the Supreme Court says the Second Amendment covers “all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding,” why wouldn’t a future EMP rifle or anti-robot weapon be protected? (Justia Law)
If the right to keep and bear arms is tech-neutral, then the logic of Heller, McDonald, Caetano, and Bruen doesn’t stop with muskets, Glocks, and AR-15s. It runs straight into the age of Tesla robots and directed-energy weapons.
Lets makes that case—and swat down the usual anti-gun talking points on the way.
The Supreme Court Already Answered The “But It Didn’t Exist In 1791!” Argument
The anti-gun side’s favorite dodge is simple: “If it didn’t exist when the Founders wrote the Second Amendment, it’s not protected.”
The Supreme Court has already burned that argument to the ground—twice.
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Court went back to founding-era dictionaries to define “arms” and found they meant “weapons of offence, or armour of defence” and “any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes into his hands, or useth in wrath to cast at or strike another.” (Teaching American History)
That definition isn’t about flintlocks or bayonets. It’s about function: offensive or defensive weapons you can carry.
Then in Caetano v. Massachusetts (2016), the Court took the next step and hammered it home:
“The Court has held that ‘the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.’” (Justia Law)
That’s not vague. That’s not soft. That’s a straight-up rule:
- If it’s a bearable arm—a carried weapon for offense or defense—
- It’s presumptively protected by the Second Amendment.
Stun guns weren’t around in 1791. The Court said: Doesn’t matter. They’re arms.
So, if tomorrow there’s a shoulder-fired EMP rifle or some compact anti-robot beam weapon you sling like a carbine, it fits the same box:
- Bearable? Yes.
- Weapon? Yes.
- In existence in 1791? Irrelevant under Heller and Caetano.
On text alone, that future tech starts in the protected column.
Our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the U.S. are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts – Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
— Abraham Lincoln
December 5, 2025
— Capitalist-Infidel-Complicated-Simpleton (@HenrySlack) December 4, 2025
NSSF Happy with DOJ’s Moves to Protect Gun Rights
A lot of people are displeased with the Department of Justice.
[Yours truly here among them!]
They see mixed signals from an administration that vowed to be strong on gun rights. They see them because they’re present. The DOJ will defend gun rights one day, and oppose them the next. It’s kind of causing a certain degree of whiplash.
But as I noted on Tuesday at the above link, purity was probably never going to happen.
For what it’s worth, though, Larry Keane of the NSSF is pretty happy with what’s happening overall.
President Donald Trump signed his Presidential Executive Order Protecting Second Amendment Rights back on February 7, 2025, instructing U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to review all presidential and agency actions taken between January 2021 and January 2025 that “purport to promote safety” but infringed on the rights of law-abiding citizens. That includes rules issued by the DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), classifications of firearms and ammunition, regulatory enforcement policies and even reports issued by the former taxpayer-funded White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention that just pushed gun control.
In other words, for the first time, the Civil Rights Division is directed to treat the Second Amendment as what it is: a civil right deserving active protection, not a second-class right that must constantly give way to regulatory experimentation.
Women for Gun Rights Applauds Creation of New Second Amendment Rights Section
Women for Gun Rights applauds the U.S. Department of Justice’s creation of a new Second Amendment Rights Section within the Civil Rights Division, marking a historic step to protect the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners and elevate the importance of firearms freedom at the federal level.
This is the first time the federal government has established a dedicated unit focused on protecting, not restricting, the Second Amendment. For millions of women across America – mothers, professionals, survivors, and first-time gun owners – this represents a welcome shift.
“This is a tremendous moment for the millions of Americans who choose to exercise their right to protect themselves and their families,” said Dianna Muller, Founder of Women for Gun Rights. “For too long, federal agencies have been used to advance gun-control agendas. The creation of a Second Amendment Rights Section signals that our rights are civil rights, and they deserve to be defended at the highest levels of government.”
Prior to President Trump’s inauguration in January, Women for Gun Rights called on the incoming administration to repurpose the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which poured over $1 billion dollars into the states to advance gun control legislation, toward firearms safety, education, independent research and empowerment.
“This new section is a strong step toward restoring balance, reaffirming constitutional freedoms, and ensuring the federal government upholds the rights of law-abiding Americans,” Muller added.
About Women for Gun Rights
Women for Gun Rights is a nationwide organization of women committed to safeguarding the Second Amendment. A non-partisan initiative of daughters, mothers, and sisters that believes education is the key to firearm safety and violence prevention, not legislation.
Learn more at www.WomenForGunRights.org.
Erika Kirk Takes Second Amendment Stance While Addressing Husband’s Death
Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk insisted that the assassination of her husband, Charlie Kirk, was “not a gun problem” as she reaffirmed her support of the Second Amendment during the New York Times‘ Dealbook Conference on Wednesday (December 3).