The Second Amendment is Not Up For Debate

The Democrat Party is hell-bent on trying to strip away our Second Amendment rights state-by-state.

The Republican Party is trying to protect those rights. 

Congressman Jason Smith has an opinion piece posted in the Wayne County Journal Banner on this subject.

He begins it with:

The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It is a constitutional right enshrined into law by our Founding Fathers, but Democrats across the nation have made it their mission to strip that right away.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just signed legislation making it illegal to sell, purchase, or manufacture certain types of firearms in her state — without question infringing on citizens’ constitutional rights. If Democrats had their way, Missouri and the rest of the country would follow suit. This is not just a Virginia problem. This is the Democrat agenda: strip law-abiding Americans of their right to defend themselves, one state at a time.

To read the full article, go here. Pass it on, too! 

DOJ Sues Denver Over Unconstitutional Weapons Bans

Colorado was once a red state (i.e., Republican), but Democrat liberals have moved into this state and now are inflicting their ideology on the people there.

The Second Amendment rights of Colorado's citizens are under attack. Now, the Denver city council is trying to ban so-called assault weapons and now are being sued by the Trump Department of Justice.

From Justice.gov:

Today, the Justice Department filed suit against the City of Denver, Colorado alleging that the City unconstitutionally bans certain constitutionally protected semi-automatic rifles. These laws unconstitutionally infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms in common use for lawful purposes.

As the complaint explains, the City enforces an ordinance that makes it a crime to possess so-called “assault weapons.” But that the City’s ban includes AR-15-style rifles, which are the most popular rifles in America. Law-abiding Americans own tens of millions of rifles like those banned by the City.  

“The Constitution is not a suggestion and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Denver's ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles directly violates the right to bear arms. This Department of Justice will vigorously defend the liberties of law-abiding citizens nationwide.”

To read more, go here. 

Top 7 Tactical Lever-Action Rifles That Will Survive ANY Gun Ban!

Top 7 Tactical Lever-Action Rifles That Will Survive ANY Gun Ban! video by Gun Tactician.

Summary:

When the political climate shifts and semi-automatics face extreme legislative pressure, your home defense strategy needs a legally unassailable backup. In this video, we break down the Top 7 Tactical Lever-Action Rifles that are purpose-built to survive any gun ban while delivering devastating stopping power.

Unlike gas-operated platforms, these Tactical Lever-Action Rifles offer relentless mechanical reliability in the harshest survival conditions. From the suppressor-ready Henry X Model to the precision-engineered Browning BLR, we explore why Tactical Lever-Action Rifles are no longer just historical relics, but the ultimate modern loophole. If you want to keep your family safe without landing on a government registry, discover why these Tactical Lever-Action Rifles are the smartest investment you can make in 2026.

 

Conservatives, Liberals Unite On SCOTUS Gun Case

It has been said that "politics makes strange bedfellows" over the years.

But a Supreme Court case involving a pot-user's Second Amendment rights is now before the court. It appears that the justices might side with marijuana users. Conservatives and liberals seem united in defending a weed-smoker's Second Amendment rights.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported:

A Texas man’s case illustrates the potential for common ground between right-leaning critics of gun control and left-leaning critics of the war on drugs.

Under federal law, millions of Americans are committing felonies right now because they own guns and use marijuana, even if they live in states that have legalized the drug. There is nothing unconstitutional about that baffling situation, a Trump administration lawyer assured the Supreme Court on Monday, because cannabis consumers are analogous to “habitual drunkards,” who historically could be confined to workhouses or mental institutions.

Most of the justices, including both Republican and Democratic appointees, seemed skeptical of that claim. Their agreement reflected the trans-partisan alliances inspired by this case, which illustrates the potential for common ground between right-leaning critics of gun control and left-leaning critics of the war on drugs.

The case, which sits at the intersection of those two policies, involves Ali Hemani, a Texas man who was charged with illegal gun possession in 2023 after an FBI search of his home discovered a Glock 19 pistol, about 2 ounces of marijuana, and less than a gram of cocaine. Hemani admitted that the gun was his, and that he smoked marijuana a few times a week, which would have been enough to convict him.

To read the full article, go here. 

Liberals Taking More Interest In Gun Training

"Politics makes strange bedfellows," it has been said over the years.

Right now, another example of strange bedfellows is that liberals are now taking firearms training in higher numbers, according to gun trainers.

Recent ICE incidents have dawned on liberals that the Second Amendment civil right belongs to them too. 

NBC News reported:

The federal government’s recent messaging around gun holders has created a deluge of unlikely Second Amendment advocates — including those previously opposed to or disinterested in gun ownership.

Gun groups across the country are seeing skyrocketing requests for firearm training from women, people of color and liberals, according to national gun coalitions and local trainers who spoke with NBC News in recent weeks.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has shot 13 people during immigration enforcement operations since September. But January’s high-profile killings of Minneapolis residents Alex Pretti and Renee Good, both U.S. citizens, have stoked renewed fears nationwide about federal violations of constitutional rights.

 To read more, go here.

NSSF: Canadian-Style Gun Grab Is Happening Here

Do you think that Canadian-style gun grabbing can't happen in the United States where we have the Second Amendment? 

Think again, it is happening and pro-Second Amendment groups are fighting radical politicians to preserve our Second Amendment rights.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) posted the following:

There’s a self-soothing notion that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution keeps the excesses of an overreaching government away from the gun safes of law-abiding gun owners. That notion is just that. It’s veneer-thin, just a wisp away from the shifting political winds that are already blowing across several states that could usher in Canadian-style gun confiscation to the United States.

The fact is that the Second Amendment requires constant vigilance against politicians who would disarm Americans “for their own safety.” That’s why NSSF is battling proposed bans — and even illegal dispossession — of lawfully-owned firearms and magazines in states like Virginia and New Mexico. Legislators there would join California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington and the District of Columbia in banning Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs), the most popular selling centerfire rifle in America. There are over 32 million MSRs in circulation today.

The popularity of these commonly owned and typically possessed firearms and standard capacity magazines doesn’t matter much to politicians bent on banning them. The popularity of these rifles and magazines does matter to the Second Amendment, however.

Those like Virginia’s Democratic Delegate Dan Helmer claim that AR-15-style rifles are “weapons of war — similar to the ones I carried in in Afghanistan.”

But they are not. They’re simply semiautomatic rifles that operate in the same manner as a duck-hunting shotgun. The rifle Delegate Helmer carried in Afghanistan was a machinegun capable of firing automatically, a feature that’s been heavily regulated since 1937 and prohibited for sale in new firearms since 1986.

Delegate Helmer claims the bill he’s sponsoring in Virginia is about preventing violence, saving lives and putting public safety first. Meanwhile, New Mexico’s Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the proposed MSR ban in her state, “will save lives and make our state a better place to raise a family.”

But this is a false narrative. Banning MSRs and magazines is in the name of “preventing violence, saving lives and putting public safety first” will only disarm law-abiding citizens, it will nothing to disarm criminals who are the real problem and who will ignore these laws.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and other leftist politicians are full of shit as usual. The current fight in New Mexico is over SB 17, a gun grab bill if there ever was one.

To read more, go here. 

NM: Senate Committee Passes Sweeping Gun Control Bill

The wacko leftist Democrats in the New Mexico senate passed a bad gun control bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Much of the bill, Senate Bill 17, is seen as already unconstitutional, but that doesn't stop the Democrats from passing it anyway. A lawsuit is guaranteed if it is passed and signed into law.

From the NRA-ILA: 

Last night, the New Mexico Senate Judiciary Committee passed Senate Bill 17, an omnibus gun control package that would severely undermine the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding New Mexicans and threaten the viability of local firearm retailers. SB 17 could come up for a floor vote in the Senate at any time! Use the Take Action link below to contact your Senator and express your strong opposition to SB 17.

Senate Bill 17, introduced by Senators Micaelita Debbie O’Malley, Andrea Romero, and Heather Berghmans, would unconstitutionally strip law-abiding New Mexicans of their Second Amendment rights by banning common gas-operated semiautomatic firearms, .50 caliber rifles, and magazines holding more than ten rounds under the guise of labeling them as “extremely dangerous weapons.”

The bill further targets the firearms industry by imposing excessive and costly bureaucratic mandates on local firearm dealers, including invasive “site hardening” security requirements and unrealistic 24-hour response deadlines for law enforcement trace requests.

The article has a widget for people who oppose the bill to take action.

To read the full article, go here. 

Democrats Reintroduce ‘Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act’

Above, a typical ammo online ad by Bass Prop Shops.

Those bastards never give up.

The House Democrats reintroduced a stupid bill that, if passed, would ban online ammunition sales. 

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported: 

House Democrats have introduced H.R. 7166, a bill that would effectively end direct-to-consumer online ammunition sales nationwide by forcing so-called “face-to-face” identity verification for internet purchases.

While supporters brand it as “common sense,” it is not. Unconstitutional in design, unethical in intent and absurd in its real-world consequences, the proposal doesn’t target criminals. The “Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act” targets law-abiding Americans who buy ammunition for self-defense, training, hunting, pest control and competitive shooting.

To read more, go here.

Justine Bateman Goes Nuclear On Liberals

Justine Bateman went nuclear on liberals:

 

🚨 JUST IN: Filmmaker Justine Bateman just went NUCLEAR on liberals CELEBRATING Charlie Kirk’s death:@JustineBateman: “When you say things they disagree with, they react like the Wicked Witch of the West when you splash water on her. Or like a vampire when you hold up a cross.” pic.twitter.com/dlArT9iBNa

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) September 17, 2025

Why Won't Conservatives Give Up Their Guns?

 

Cracker Barrel Stock COLLAPSES 55%! (Video)

I would have posted this earlier, but after sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic for 45 minutes on Interstate 40 in the heat, I had to take a nap. 

Now that I am awake, I can post this. 

Cracker Barrel stock lost 55% in value since their woke wacko CEO Julie Felss Masino started destroying the Cracker Barrel brand.

This was easily predictable (just look at Bud Light's experience). 

Again, here's The Benny Show's new video (thanks to my Honorary Sister Diane for passing this along):

 

A lesson for other corporations: don't let liberal women become your CEOs!

GO WOKE, GO BROKE!

Newsom Announces November Election To Gerrymander Lopsided California

The state of California is already a one-party state, much like China and North Korea. Now Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to make it even more so through a special election on November 4.

The Daily Caller reported:

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that a special election will be held on Nov. 4, in which Californians will vote on the “Election Rigging Response Act,” a ballot measure to implement a new partisan gerrymander of the state’s House map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The governor announced the election at a press conference on Thursday, which he dubbed “Liberation Day” in an apparent attempt to mirror President Donald Trump’s April 2 tariff announcement of the same name. Newsom told reporters after the conference the new gerrymandered map will be released in the next few days, and it aims to “completely neuter and neutralize” Texas’ mid-decade redistricting efforts — from which the GOP is likely to gain five House seats.

California, unlike Texas and some other Republican states, is unable to hold special legislative sessions to redraw maps as its voters entrusted the task of redrawing the state’s House lines to its Citizens Redistricting Commission in 2010, via a ballot initiative. For this reason, California voters need to approve another ballot initiative in order to greenlight a new map mid-decade — something not required in the other aforementioned states.

Despite its current map being drawn by a commission, California still boasts an overwhelming Democratic House  delegation, with Republicans representing only nine — 17% — of its 52 seats.

To read the full article, go here. 

Sorority Video Goes Viral After Lib Women Lash Out

Sorority recruitment video that went viral after liberal women lashed out:

 

🚨BREAKING: This sorority recruitment video is going viral after liberal women lashed out. What do you notice? pic.twitter.com/I1aBqCdLDO

— USA NEWS 🇺🇸 (@usanewsreal) August 6, 2025

The Second Amendment Is A Civil Right

Believe it or not, the Second Amendment is a Civil Right. 

Democrats and others from the Left have not treated it as such and have gone to great lengths to undermine it. Thankfully, we have an administration who will vigorously defend the Second Amendment.

That is the topic of an article in America's 1st Freedom. They begin it with:

Harmeet Dhillon, the recently confirmed Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, a division within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), has announced a new focus: The protection of the Second Amendment against any state or local government that hopes to undermine it. “Prior Republican administrations haven’t paid a lot of attention to affirmatively doing that,” said Dhillon, with the result being that “city after city, state after state are eviscerating those rights” while “mocking the Supreme Court.” Henceforth, she concluded, that mockery will have consequences.

Dhillon suggested that the decision to make the Second Amendment “a focus of the Civil Rights Division” may come as a “surprise to many people on both sides.” And, given the way that the right to keep and bear arms has often been treated in the nation’s capital, she is probably right. As a historical matter, though, the move ought not to surprise anyone, for, instead of being an aberration or an innovation, ensuring that the Second Amendment was “affirmatively” extended to everyone was one of the first things that Dhillon’s agency ever did.

To read more, go here. 

Bill Maher Is Right

I've noticed this about lefties. One I know (a Godzilla movie historian) came out a few years ago and said to me in 2017:  "I don't break bread with Trump supporters." We haven't spoken since. 

I am sending this to him.

Bill Maher: "The stupidest thing the left does, and this dinner is a perfect example of it, is having this attitude toward the right that... 'We are so far above you that we won't even sit down at the same table with you!' ... Good luck..."pic.twitter.com/DdUhGYM21d

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) July 28, 2025

FIRE Act Introduced To End Magazine Capacity Restrictions

The radical left Democrats are going to scream bloody murder over this one, especially if it passes and is signed into law by President Trump.

A bill has been introduced in Congress banning federal, state, and local governments from restricting firearm magazine capacity.

According to USA Carry:

WASHINGTON, DC — In a bold move to safeguard Second Amendment rights, Congressman Tony Wied (WI-08) introduced the Freedom from Improper Regulation and Enforcement (FIRE) Act on July 17, 2025. The proposed legislation would ban federal, state, and local governments from restricting firearm magazine capacity, effectively eliminating a patchwork of regulations that limit magazine size across different jurisdictions.

The FIRE Act prohibits any federal agency from implementing magazine capacity restrictions and blocks state and local governments from enacting or enforcing such laws. The bill has already gained support from several House Republicans, including original cosponsors Reps. Tom Tiffany (WI-07), Mike Collins (GA-10), Dave Taylor (OH-02), Sheri Biggs (SC-03), and Russ Fulcher (ID-01).

“For too long, the federal government has infringed on Americans’ Second Amendment rights while maintaining a confusing, inconsistent system that lacks a uniform national standard and invites legal disparity,” Wied stated. “The FIRE Act ensures that law-abiding gun owners can access magazines of any size, no matter where they are in the United States. It’s well past time we take the Founding Fathers’ words ‘shall not be infringed’ seriously.”

The bill is a direct response to a wave of state and local laws that restrict so-called “high-capacity” magazines, often defined as those holding more than 10 rounds. These laws vary by jurisdiction and firearm type, creating legal uncertainty for gun owners traveling across state lines.

To read more, go here. 

In-N-Out’s Billionaire Heiress Is Quitting California

Above, an In-N-Out Burger in Lake Havasu, Arizona. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

One thing I miss about California is In-N-Out Burger (Original Tommy's is another). Fortunately, plans are underway to open In-N-Out restaurants in the Albuquerque area.

In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder is leaving Commiefornia for redder pastures, namely, Tennessee.

Fortune reported:

Lynsi Snyder is a born and bred Californian, and makes no secret of her love for the state where her grandparents founded cult burger empire In-N-Out. But the CEO revealed she is leaving the Golden State for Tennessee, where the company is building a new eastern territory office, teasing a potential push to expand even further across the U.S.

Snyder took over the West Coast chain at the age of 27, following in the footsteps of her grandfather, father and uncle who led the business prior to her succession.

Having grown up in Northern California, Snyder recounted in a recent episode of the ‘Relatable’ podcast how she worked her way up the ranks of the business, from toiling away in stores to helping her grandmother with community work, to running the business’s merchandising branch.

Now at the helm of the business with a net worth of $7.3 billion, Snyder is expanding In-N-Out into new pastures and wants her family to benefit from the change too.

“There’s a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business is not easy here. The bulk of our stores are still going to be here in California, but it will be wonderful having an office … growing out there.”

You can thank the Democrat Party in Commiefornia for the exodus of businesses and people fleeing the state. I left before it really started getting bad there. 

To read more, go here.

Update On Canada's Big Ugly Gun Grab

Canada's dumb scheme to confiscate guns from its citizens is not faring too well. Five provinces are opposing it.

The NRA-ILA took a look at the program it finds that it is riddled with problems. Naturally, Canada's gun owners are resisting.

They begin with:

Canada’s Liberal government is pressing on with its harebrained gun ban and confiscation program for “assault style weapons,” but, true to form and precedents, it has been far from smooth sailing.

Canada’s National Post newspaper describes the government’s program as “not only severely behind schedule and over-budget, but a newly released internal report shows that Ottawa is doubtful of the plan ever actually working as announced.”

To read more, go here. 

Pete Townsend on Bruce Springsteen

 Pete's got it right! 

LMAO! https://t.co/E3VoXQ8cUH

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 21, 2025

Counter The Leftist Tesla Protests

Facebook user Becca Mari posted the following so that counter-protests by patriots can be organized:

The leftist lunatics are organizing a Tesla Takedown for this coming Saturday the 29th at Tesla dealerships all across the country.

Apparently, these people are in favor of wasteful government spending of your taxpayer dollars and government corruption. 

This is a call to action for all my patriot friends to show up at your local Tesla dealership and show your support for Elon Musk and DOGE.

If you are in the Albuquerque/Rio Rancho area in New Mexico, join me this Saturday from 9:30am-12noon with your signs and flags.

Here's the info I got from the lefty web site for the location near me.

Start:

Saturday, March 29, 2025

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10:00 AM

End:

Saturday, March 29, 2025

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12:00 PM

Location:

Tesla Bernalillo

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4200 NM-528, Rio Rancho, NM 87144

If you live somewhere else in the country, use this link to their site to find out where you can organize your own counter-protest against these lunitics.

STAND WITH AMERICA!

https://actionnetwork.org/events/tesla-takedown-nm-6