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Actually it has been for a couple of weeks. I've had a pretty bad case of blogger burnout - there's been a number of blog worthy topics and I just haven't been feeling it.
Meh.
Still, 14425 posts and 54948 comments is pretty decent. Especially the comments.
Thanks to everyone who stops by.
Certain governments seek to maximize terror and murders. One strategy is to prohibit concealed carry licensees from carrying on public transit systems. Angelo v. District of Columbia challenged this ban. The district court denied that these licensees had standing to challenge the district's law. The D.C. Court of Appeals reversed that decision:
Otherwise, because the pistol owners have alleged a pocketbook injury that is caused by their compliance with an allegedly unconstitutional criminal statute, we reverse and remand the case for additional proceedings.
Most of this decision is about decisions concerning whether the economic injuries suffered by the ban qualify them to sue. At district court, the plaintiffs also need to raise a Second Amendment challenge. In the Framing Era "sensitive places" did not include either public transit (there was none) or private transit. In various cases in which I have worked, their side has attempted to argue that post-Civil War railroads prohibited private possession of firearms. Their evidence has been either weak or non-existent. Railroads often required long guns to be checked. (People were going west to hunt.)
- Your favorite gadgets are getting way more expensive again. Thanks AI bubble!
- Cop caught on video stalking a woman by using a license plate reader.
- Waymo robotaxi delivers teen hooligans to the cops.
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1X says the goal is full automation for Neo, but for now, the robot is partly teleoperated, as a Wall Street Journal video noted last year.Some guy who works in a Singapore cubicle farm sits at the dinner table with a haunted, 1000yd stare.
“How was work today, honey?” asks his wife…
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As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, gun owners should take a moment to remember how unlikely today’s victories once seemed. In 1976, when the nation marked its bicentennial, many Second Amendment supporters believed the right to keep and bear arms was slowly being written out of American life. The law schools were hostile. The courts were hostile. The media was hostile. Most politicians treated the Second Amendment as a historical inconvenience. The future looked grim.
We chose to keep fighting. Giving up was not an option. The Constitution was clear, and we intended to fight to keep the Republic, even if the chance of success seemed nil.
A strange thing happened. The Second Amendment movement became the seed of the movement to restore the American Republic. This correspondent doubts it would have happened without the clear words of the Second Amendment. They created a rallying point, an anchor of certainty in the righteousness of our cause, a clear guide to who was with us and who was against us. Voting against the Second Amendment showed a politician might say he valued the Constitution, but his actions showed him to do the opposite. We educated ourselves.
The NRA played a critical role. They slowed the advance of the administrative state. It appears they believed the fight was lost, but they were determined to fight long rearguard actions to delay the inevitable. They stopped the registration and licensing of handguns in the National Firearms Act of 1934. They stripped registration of handguns out of the Gun Control Act of 1968. In 1977, Second Amendment supporters took control of the NRA in the Revolt in Cincinnati, where NRA life members voted in Second Amendment supporters and outed the old guard. The NRA would become powerful and rich with its rearguard actions in Washington, DC. Second Amendment supporters wanted more. They wanted to win.
From the perspective of July of 2026, what happened seems miraculous. Second Amendment supporters organized from the ground up. Powerful voices such as Neil Knox educated those on the ground. (Neil was kicked out of the NRA in 1982). Newsletters and telephone trees were fashioned to educate on local politics. The NRA had a significant role in opposing anti-Second Amendment legislation. The Second Amendment became an important item for politicians who wished to be elected. The Second Amendment Foundation was established. Gun Owners of America was established. Academics and intellectuals started writing about the Second Amendment from a historical instead of a Progressive perspective. In 1979, Don B. Kates, Jr. published "Restricting Handguns, The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out. In 1982, with Ronald Reagan in office, the Senate issued a Report on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, confirming it as an individual right. In 1987, the NRA and local Florida groups were able to pass a "shall issue" concealed carry bill.
By 1989, Sanford Levinson felt compelled to write "The Embarrassing Second Amendment" in the Yale Law Journal. The grass roots had made the Second Amendment so prominent in national politics, left wing academics were forced to mention it. In 1996, the Supreme Court struck down the Gun Free School Zone Act as exceeding the power of Congress under the Interstate Commerce Clause (USA v Lopez). Justice Clarence Thomas declared he would like to see a Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court.
The Shall Issue revolt against Second Amendment infringements was well underway. Those who sought to restore the right incrementally were shown to have the more effective tactics. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled the Second Amendment was an individual right which must be respected in the Heller decision. In 2010, the Supreme Court confirmed the Second Amendment applied to the states, not just the federal government, in the McDonald case.
These things did not happen in a vacuum. The organizational ability of grass roots Second Amendment supporters was magnified by talk radio. It found a favorable medium in the early Internet. It became clear the problem was primarily one of an oppositional national Media more than who was elected to Congress, because the Media were the gatekeepers to Congress and the Presidency. In 2016 a loud mouthed New York billionaire upset the apple-cart by supporting the Second Amendment and being elected President. We had entered the Trump era.
The old Media could not control the narrative. President Trump appointed three originalists and textualists to the Supreme Court. For the first time in 80 years, the Supreme Court had a reliable originalist and textualist majority. Last week, the Supreme Court removed more infringements on Second Amendment rights. They agreed to hear cases involving semi-automatic rifles. Those rifles will be ruled to be protected by the Second Amendment. The states which are defying the Supreme Court are having their fingers slapped. The requirements for courts on how to handle Second Amendment cases are being made more stringent and precise, all in favor of the Second Amendment. 29 states have permitless carry.
All of the above appeared to be fantasy unobtainium in 1976. To get where we are today took billions of hours of work by millions of activists and Second Amendment supporters. It took billions of dollars of money. Much was wasted. Much had significant effects.
The Second Amendment can be read by anyone who can read English. It was, and is our lodestar. Along the way, we found we needed the whole Constitution to protect the Bill of Rights, and the Bill of Rights to protect the Constitution. We learned most politicians are more concerned with holding office than with protecting us. We learned to lobby and pressure and persist.
More than half the country has learned with us. The Donald Trump administration is the most pro-Second Amendment administration in the history of the United States since before 1860. To all Second Amendment supporters out there; these victories belong to you. The future belongs to you. We are winning. We are not finished. Keep fighting. Keep lobbying. Keep pushing. The future looks much brighter than it did in 1976.
God bless America. God bless the Constitution. God bless the Second Amendment.
©2026 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.
Gun Watch
Aubele said Vernon began following a man home after this incident.
When the victim got home, Vernon fired multiple shots into his house and nearly hit a woman who was showering inside, Aubele said. Neighboring homes were also endangered.
The victim returned fire in self-defense. Aubele said he will not be charged.
Authorities responding to the scene found Jack Hutchings, 24, dead from gunshot wounds outside of his residence. An off-duty police officer was found at the same property with stab wounds, and was taken to the hospital, where he continues to receive medical treatment.
“The investigation is active and ongoing and includes whether the person who appeared to have shot Mr. Hutchings acted in self-defense,” the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office said Monday. “Additional information will be released as it becomes available while protecting the integrity of the investigation.”
An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday on Hutchings. The name of the off-duty police officer has not yet been released.
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If O'Reilley's had the parts yesterday, we would have been done yesterday. We got the parts this morning and started the job, only to discover that some Camrys are made in Japan and some in the US. We have a US car and O'Reilley sold us Jap parts.
Well, shit. We were able to get the US parts here at 2:15 and we were finished by 4:00. Zach's car is tight and right and it is out of my shop. He did 90 percent of the work and I am confident that he could do it again.
7/8/26 New York Times (behind a paywall; use Open in Private Window):
They told him that he was “the guy.”
Last July, in a small town in coastal Maine, a couple of progressive, self-styled recruiters of economic populists showed up at the blue-shingled house of Graham Platner, a little-known oyster farmer and Marine veteran who lived largely off government benefits.
They knew his name from local labor organizers and activists, and they had watched a video on the internet of him talking about oysters. Struck by his left-leaning ideology, his working-class affect and his gravelly voice, they became convinced that he could win a Senate seat in Maine — and quickly persuaded Mr. Platner of the same.
The initial headhunters, Dan Moraff and Leanne Fan, and then a third out-of-state operative they called up to Maine — Morris Katz — told Mr. Platner he was “the one,” a “hero of the movement,” “a historical figure” who could be “leading a revolution,” according to half a dozen people with knowledge of their conversations.
But a clutch of people who cared about Mr. Platner were telling him something else. They worried about his mental health, amid his ongoing efforts to heal from post-traumatic stress disorder after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. They feared this trio of out-of-state operatives was a dangerous combination of inexperienced and overconfident. The worst-case scenario, they thought, wasn’t running for Senate and losing — it was destroying the life he worked hard to build.
It is a very detailed, pull-no-punches account of the left picked and then stood by a Nazi-tattooed, misogynist, kinky (discussing how he would rape an intruder in a dominant, "not gay sort of way"), alleged rapist when any rational political party would have backed away and insisted that he was a Republican dirty trick.
My wife is helping me get everything bubble wrapped for safe transit.
Better than dry fire? Better than live-fire training? This isn't a toy, but is it a tool? Let's find out.
When I was a kid growing up, my favorite deer rifles were lever actions. Marlins and Winchesters. Later in life I got into Cowboy Action Shooting competition, and the lever gun I used there was a Marlin .357 Magnum carbine, loaded with .38 Special. One of the local clubs had a “lumber shoot” where heavy […]
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Zach got home from work about 10-ish and told me that he had brake problems. We went out to diagnose and found a big spot of brake fluid under the right rear tire. We got it into the shop and got it up on jack stands. Brake caliper had turned loose. Defunct.
It was originally my mother's ca. Dad bought it new for her in3004. We lost Dad in '07 and Mom drove it until 2018 when my sisters made her give up the keys. We gave it to Zach and he's driven it through his senior year of high school, and college, and he loves that car. It is a Toyota, but it is now over 2 years old.
We went to the parts house. No lock. We looked around, and found that O'Reilley's could get us one later this afternoon. So, we ordered it. We'll have it in the morning and we'll get Zach's car back on the road.
I will walk him through the process, teach him how to bleed brake, and put new pads on the rear. It's a good learning experience for the kid. PawPaw ain't gonna be around forever and he needs to learn what he can while I'm still here.
In the final analysis though, it is still a 20-year0old Toyota and he needs to think about that. We all loved our first car and we all know that it didn't last forever.
Background As many of my readers know, in early 2020 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. For more details about my initial diagnosis, you can read this article. To make a long story short, I didn’t like the long term consequences of the treatment options my doctor gave me. For me, being […]