2nd Amendment Wins

[icp4life162005]

Luke. 22:36

[Lexington]

Luke. 22:36

Yep. Firearms are the modern day sword and spear.

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from a post by Alpacaheat.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/0...lth-court.html

Suit against Harrisburg gun control ordinances can proceed: Pa. Commonwealth Court

A suit challenging the legality of a batch of Harrisburg gun control ordinances - and maybe other similar challenges across Pennsylvania - gained new life with the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Thursday.

In a new ruling, the court found that a gun owners’ group and several individual members that are fighting the city regulations do have standing to challenge most of the ordinances. That is a reversal of a 2018 decision by Dauphin County Judge Andrew Dowling.

The court’s 7-0 ruling also reverses its own past decisions that have shielded some local gun ordinances from similar lawsuits under the argument that plaintiffs had not been prosecuted under their terms and therefore could show no harm.

Writing for the majority, Judge Kevin Brobson noted that the appellants here "have no real alternative to address their grievance. They can curb their conduct to conform to the ordinances’ mandates or they can willfully violate the law and face criminal prosecution...

“It makes little sense to wait for appellants to break the law, which we presume they do not want to do, before they can challenge it,” Brobson concluded.

The new ruling permits the Harrisburg lawsuit to proceed on ordinances that:

*Bar anyone under the age of 18 from carrying a gun in public unless they are accompanied by an adult.
*Prohibiting the shooting of any guns by the public within the city limits for any purpose other than self-defense.
*Require gun owners to report to police any loss or theft of a gun within 48 hours of discovery.
*Bar the possession or firing of guns in city parks.

The ordinances are not new; all date back to 2009 or earlier, according to court filings. But Mayor Eric Papenfuse has ordered Harrisburg police to enforce them as a way to show residents that city leaders are hearing their concerns about gun violence.

Most of the penalties in the ordinances are far less than anyone committing a gun crime would already face - as summary citations, punishments would be capped at 90 days in prison and fines ranging from $50 to $1,000.

But advocates for gun owners’ rights here and elsewhere have been on a crusade to stamp out the local ordinances across the state, arguing in part that they stand in violation of a 1995 law that reserves regulation of guns in Pennsylvania to the state government.

The Harrisburg suit was brought by the state chapter of Firearm Owners Against Crime, as well as Josh First, a city resident, and Howard Bullock, who commutes into Harrisburg daily for work. Both First and Bullock are members of Firearm Owners Against Crime.

The case will now be remanded to Dauphin County for argument on the merits, though both sides also have the ability to ask the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to review Thursday’s decision.

Attempts to reach attorneys for the city were not immediately successful.

Joshua Prince, who is representing FOAC, First and Bullock, said “this is a very large decision" for gun owners, because the court as a whole has stated that standing in contesting these ordinances no longer relies on proof of a prior prosecution.

Prince said should help his clients’ causes in battles here and in other places, like Pittsburgh, where a similar challenge is playing out against local gun ordinances passed in the wake of last year’s shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in the city.

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https://www.pressherald.com/2019/10/...ial-customers/

Ford dealership giving away guns, Bibles to lure in potential customers
Carolina Ford’s 'God Guns and America!' runs through November.

Derrick Hughes and his team will do whatever it takes to sell trucks and cars during the slow months of deer hunting season, so they’re giving away guns along with Bibles and flags at their Ford dealership in tiny Honea Path, S.C.

“It’s crazy,” Hughes told the Detroit Free Press on Wednesday. “We’ve had multiple people take advantage of the promotion. You don’t need to buy a $50,000 truck. It’s for anything on our lot, used or new. We’ve sold Ecosport, Escape, new F-150s, used F-250s, a couple Dodge trucks.”

The idea came from staff brainstorming how to generate shopper traffic during October and November, which are just crickets at the dealership, Hughes explained. Carolina Ford’s “God Guns and America!” campaign started Oct. 1 and runs through November.

Hughes, a 38-year-old hunter himself, said the Smith & Wesson AR rifle that’s included with any vehicle purchase, pending a background check, is great for shooting wild hogs, which infest the region and destroy property.

“We are not taking a political stance in any way, shape or form,” he told WYFF News 4, the NBC affiliate in Greenville earlier this week. “We are all country folk, God-fearing people. We are very patriotic people, believe in our country and salute our military.”

Since most hunters already own shotguns, and many others own pistols for self defense, the lightweight AR 99 rifle seemed like the next best idea. Please, Hughes noted, people need to understand that “AR does not stand for assault rifle.”

The latest gun giveaway comes nearly four months after a Ford dealer in Alabama said Ford asked him to end a shotgun giveaway after three people died during a shooting at a Ford dealership in the San Francisco Bay Area.

“So it’s done. They’ve ended our promotion. I’m very disappointed,” Colin Ward, general manager of Chatom Ford in Chatom, Alabama, said in June 2019. “Ford said we can fulfill our commitments to the customers that we’ve made up till now, but we have to cease it going forward.”

Chatom Ford’s advertising offered a shotgun, a Bible and an American flag with a car purchase. The offer drew hundreds of calls from across the country, including Michigan, from people wanting to buy cars to get the shotgun.

Since June, Americans have again debated gun policy as a result of mass shootings in Odessa, Texas, that left seven dead; Dayton, Ohio, with nine dead; and El Paso, Texas, with 22 people killed.

Ford headquarters has no plans to disrupt the South Carolina promotion, spokesman Said Deep said Wednesday.

“Our dealers are independent businesses. This is a local promotion, not something directed by Ford,” Deep said. “We understand customers are given gift certificates they can apply to a range of sporting goods. Obviously, promotions have to be lawful – as this one is.”

He said the Alabama dealer was not told by the company to stop that promotion.

When a vehicle purchase is made in South Carolina, buyers are given a voucher with background check paperwork to take to a sporting goods store in nearby Abbeville. If the consumer fails to pass the federal background check or chooses to buy something else, that voucher may be used on any item in the store.

While the Alabama gun promotion made national news, Hughes said word hadn’t reached Honea Path. And while the gun voucher valued at $400 seems to be generating interest, Hughes said he plans to switch to a promotion tied to a family friendly video game theme in December – along with Bibles and flags.

“October is a weird month in the car business. It’s like the calm-before-the-storm type month. You’ve got to have something going. October is the slowest and November is the second slowest,” Hughes said.

The promotion appeared to be working. A woman answering the phones at Carolina Ford on Wednesday said that the dealership was overwhelmed with calls, both positive and negative. The campaign has appealed to both men and women, ranging in age from 18 to 79.

“We’ve had some really excited women in here,” said the woman, who works as the dealership’s digital manager and asked that her name not be used. “A cute little nurse just bought a pretty preowned F-150. And she couldn’t wait to add another gun to her collection.”

Calls have come from Texas, Oregon, Missouri, Michigan and as far as Winnipeg, Manitoba. A man from California called to say he wished he could get to South Carolina for the deal and hoped Ford would run such a campaign nationwide.

Ford F-150 owner Mark Stevens of Jeddo, Michigan, an avid hunter, said hunters all over the country use the AR for coyotes, deer and prairie dogs. He includes an AR rifle in his gun collection.

“It’s so accurate,” Stevens told the Free Press. “I would buy an F-150 because I love it and I would buy a gun because, well, I want a gun. But they do all sorts of things to promote cars. Didn’t they used to give away turkeys at Thanksgiving back in the day?”

The AR rifle has grown in popularity because it’s versatile, Stevens said. “It’s just a handy rifle.”

The strategy seemed like a no-brainer for a car dealer the Deep South.

“I do want to be very clear that the dealership itself does not have guns in the backroom handing them out like free samples. The person that purchases the vehicle will, however, leave the dealership with their American flag and Bible in hand,” Hughes said. Incidentally, the business is at 103 Church St. in Honea Path.

“Also, the person that bought the vehicle has to be the one to fill out the paperwork and have a copy of a state ID and a copy of the bill of sale before they can leave with the gun. By doing this we make sure there isn’t any straw purchases of the weapon. Forxample, a father can’t give the voucher to his son to redeem. If the person does fail the background check they will be issued store credit to purchase whatever it is they want … new fishing tackle or maybe even a crossbow.”

[CherokeeChief]

https://blog.princelaw.com/2019/08/0...ms-disability/

This firm has won 3 benchmark lawsuits in the state of Pennsylvania which have started to pave the way for people to have their rights restored after mental health "commitments". Unfortunately the removal of such individuals from the banned list is not being automatically done even though the PA Supreme Court has now ruled on several cases that 302 cases do not qualify being on the list as a doctor does not constitute a legal authority. This continues to be an uphill battle for Pennsylvanianians!!

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from a post by Alpacaheat.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/0...lth-court.html

Suit against Harrisburg gun control ordinances can proceed: Pa. Commonwealth Court

A suit challenging the legality of a batch of Harrisburg gun control ordinances - and maybe other similar challenges across Pennsylvania - gained new life with the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Thursday.

In a new ruling, the court found that a gun owners* group and several individual members that are fighting the city regulations do have standing to challenge most of the ordinances. That is a reversal of a 2018 decision by Dauphin County Judge Andrew Dowling.

The court*s 7-0 ruling also reverses its own past decisions that have shielded some local gun ordinances from similar lawsuits under the argument that plaintiffs had not been prosecuted under their terms and therefore could show no harm.

Writing for the majority, Judge Kevin Brobson noted that the appellants here "have no real alternative to address their grievance. They can curb their conduct to conform to the ordinances* mandates or they can willfully violate the law and face criminal prosecution...

*It makes little sense to wait for appellants to break the law, which we presume they do not want to do, before they can challenge it,* Brobson concluded.

The new ruling permits the Harrisburg lawsuit to proceed on ordinances that:

*Bar anyone under the age of 18 from carrying a gun in public unless they are accompanied by an adult.
*Prohibiting the shooting of any guns by the public within the city limits for any purpose other than self-defense.
*Require gun owners to report to police any loss or theft of a gun within 48 hours of discovery.
*Bar the possession or firing of guns in city parks.

The ordinances are not new; all date back to 2009 or earlier, according to court filings. But Mayor Eric Papenfuse has ordered Harrisburg police to enforce them as a way to show residents that city leaders are hearing their concerns about gun violence.

Most of the penalties in the ordinances are far less than anyone committing a gun crime would already face - as summary citations, punishments would be capped at 90 days in prison and fines ranging from $50 to $1,000.

But advocates for gun owners* rights here and elsewhere have been on a crusade to stamp out the local ordinances across the state, arguing in part that they stand in violation of a 1995 law that reserves regulation of guns in Pennsylvania to the state government.

The Harrisburg suit was brought by the state chapter of Firearm Owners Against Crime, as well as Josh First, a city resident, and Howard Bullock, who commutes into Harrisburg daily for work. Both First and Bullock are members of Firearm Owners Against Crime.

The case will now be remanded to Dauphin County for argument on the merits, though both sides also have the ability to ask the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to review Thursday*s decision.

Attempts to reach attorneys for the city were not immediately successful.

Joshua Prince, who is representing FOAC, First and Bullock, said *this is a very large decision" for gun owners, because the court as a whole has stated that standing in contesting these ordinances no longer relies on proof of a prior prosecution.

Prince said should help his clients* causes in battles here and in other places, like Pittsburgh, where a similar challenge is playing out against local gun ordinances passed in the wake of last year*s shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in the city.

How did I miss that?

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This brought a smile to my face.

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EXCLUSIVE--Lauren Boebert: 'I Will Carry a Firearm Each Day in D.C.'
AWR Hawkins
2-2 minutes
Incoming Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) spoke to Breitbart News Wednesday and made clear she will *carry a firearm each day in D.C.*

Breitbart News reported that Boebert asked Capitol Police about carrying a gun shortly after winning the November 3, 2020, election.

On December 8, 2020, Boebert tweeted, *I*ve always heard to *speak softly and carry a big stick.* I prefer to speak loudly and carry a Glock.*

Breitbart asked Boebert about her intentions upon taking office in January 2021 and she said, *I will carry a firearm each day in D.C.*

*I*ve already gone through the concealed carry firearm courses to obtain a Washington, DC, permit,* Boebert said.

She explained that as a representative, she will not be driven from her residence to the capitol *in an armored vehicle.* Rather, her safety will frequently be in her own hands.

*I am my security,* Boebert observed.

She added, *Washington, DC, like most Democrat-run cities, has a violent crime problem, so I certainly need a way to protect myself and I will be carrying each and every day.*

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Stolen from a post by PGHghostrider.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-carry-permit/

Montana Becomes 18th State to Abolish Concealed Carry Permit Requirement
AWR Hawkins18 Feb 2021
concealed carry gun holster
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Montana became the 18th state to end its concealed carry permit requirement when Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed House Bill 102 on Thursday.

The NRA-ILA reported that Gianforte signed HB102, which means Montanans can *carry a firearm for self-defense throughout the state without a government-mandated permit.*

Breitbart News reported that HB102 also removes a number of state government-mandated *gun-free zones* throughout the state.

On February 12, 2021, Breitbart News noted that Utah became the 17th state to abolish its concealed carry permit requirement.

Montana is now the 18th.

The other 16 states are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

[PocketProtector]

Let the exodus begin

The other 16 states are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.[/QUOTE]

[internet troll]

Having Lauren Boebert in Washington is a win in my book.



Lauren Boebert Trolls Democrats in Zoom Video with AR-15s in Background
AWR Hawkins19 Feb 2021
Owner Lauren Boebert poses for a portrait at Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado on April 24, 2018. - Lauren Boebert opened Shooters Grill in 2013 with her husband Jason in the small town of Rifle, Colorado, the only city in the United States named after a gun according to them. *
EMILY KASK/AFP via Getty
2:09

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) trolled Democrats Thursday by taking part in a Zoom video with AR-15 rifles and a shotgun visible on the bookshelves behind her.

The video was the medium for the House Natural Resources Committee meeting, and the guns were clearly visible just feet behind Boebert.

The Hill reports Democrats responded with criticism, alleging Boebert does not store firearms safely.

Fox example, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) said, *I always thought my dirty dishes piled up and accumulating bacteria were the most dangerous thing in a Zoom background*#SafeStorage.*

The HuffPost*s Matt Fuller noted Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) also reacted to the *gun shrine* behind Boebert:

Bobert responded to the criticism by tweeting a photo of the guns in the background and explaining, *Who said this is storage? These are ready for use.*

On December 23, 2020, Boebert told Breitbart News she was getting a Washington, DC, concealed carry permit so she could carry a gun daily in the city. Weeks later, on January 3, 2021, Boebert trolled Democrats in an Arsenal Media Group video which showed her walking through different parts of the city, showing how she would keep her Glock close-at-hand for self-defense.

On February 4, 2021, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee explained Boebert*s pursuit of permit had been successful, saying, *A concealed carry permit was issued in that case.*