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Has anyone checked on the NRA recently? They seem to have been pretty quiet since the tyrannical government that they've been warning us about for decades came to pass. I wonder if they're ok?
  • The TLDR version is that the old leadership was corrupted and misappropriating funds for personal uses. There were several lawsuits and the old leadership has been mostly ousted. The new leadership are trying to reform the organization to prevent abuse of the prior administration from returning.

    They are still around at a reduced role. Other groups have popped up like GOA (Gun owners of America) and FPC (Firearms Policy Coalition).

  • New York Bill Aims to Ban New Mega-Dairies
  • Nothing says new Dormant Commerce Clause jurisprudence like states regulation dairy.

  • LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It
  • Non-violent protests capable of dissuading hostile official intervention through MAD. Peaceable ≠ peaceful.

  • US supreme court sides with heterosexual woman in ‘reverse discrimination’ case
  • About 40% of the time they are unanimous. And it has been that way since at least when FDR appointed 8/9, probably longer. But people care about controversy more than consensus in their news.

    That is just dog bites man vs man bites dog.

  • The Supreme Court rejects a plea to block a copper mine on land in Arizona that's sacred to Apaches
  • I'm glad to help, headlines and sadly even the body of news articles rarely capture nuance. Law and Politics both have their controversies but they are not synonyms. When you peek behind the curtains of headlines, things start to make more sense, because, most everyone thinks that they're being rational. But most of us are simply viewing the matters from different perspectives. There are bad perspectives, but, unfortunately, there is not a best one.

  • The Supreme Court rejects a plea to block a copper mine on land in Arizona that's sacred to Apaches
  • The 5 judges were from the lower court's dissent. It wasn't 5 justices at the Supreme Court. It takes 4 Supreme Court justices to grant cert on a case and hear it. It sounds like only Gorsuch and Thomas voted to hear it.

    Gorsuch is arguably the most pro-Native American justice the court has ever seen. He started his majority opinion in McGirt v. Oklahoma with this sentence "On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise."

    Thomas and Gorsuch joined Alito in a 77 page dissent, in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia explicitly calling to overturn a prior case that infringed on Native American's religious liberties by denying benefits to a peyote user.

  • Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York
  • This happens all the time. The party out of the majority proposes moon-shot legislation knowing that it won't pass. Because they get to go home and complain about the bad (insert party name here)s who blocked the, probably unconstitutional, bill that they proposed. Then beg for donations so they can get a seat on an important committee.

  • Chief Justice Roberts says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president
  • Well it was Madison if you want to know who held the quill, but upon the consent and order of the Confederation Congress which our current Congress acts in the continuity of. See Art. XI Clause I (proclaiming the debts of the Confederation's Congress maybe held just as valid under the Constitution's Congress).

  • Chief Justice Roberts says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president
  • Your question is vague and it would be hard to give you an apt response, if you rephrase it with more clarity I'll get back to you.

    I was not talking about case law. I was talking about text. But if you want my thoughts on prior precedents let me know which ones.

  • Chief Justice Roberts says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president
  • Who do you think called for and commissioned the Constitutional Convention? Who do you think proposes amendments under Article V? Pick up a book.

  • Chief Justice Roberts says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president
  • In this thread people who haven't read one CJ Roberts opinion in its entirety. That fault lies square only Congress and ourselves. The role of the judiciary is not the draft bill or pen amendments to the Constitution. It is to decide cases based on the law Congress made.

  • Democrats vote against gun control in surprise move
  • That kind of regulation wouldn't even survive a 9th Circuit en banc. Existing law governing industry is not "supporting precedent" to force private citizens to waive one right just to enjoy another in their own home.

  • Democrats vote against gun control in surprise move
  • mandatory storage safety with inspections

    Here in the U.S. our Constitution prohibits the government from performing searches of people's homes with first having probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and a warrant to search their home that has been signed by a judge. Const. Amend. IV.

  • Congress Passes TAKE IT DOWN Act Despite Major Flaws
  • Congress is the combination of the House of Representatives and the Senate. America has a bicameral legislature. (Congress=House of Reps + Senate)

    Because this passed the Senate in Feb and the House recently it is correct to say that this bill has passed Congress.

  • Can you recommend history podcasts (or similar)?
  • Michael Troy has the uncreatively name American Revolution Podcast which is basically a full episode per event/battle between the French Indian War beyond the signing of the Constitution. Leans more history than entertainment but there's some deadpan humor in there.

  • Florida man caught on camera pinning down 11-year-old girl he thought was egging his home
  • 9.42(2)(B)'s last word "and" makes it clear to satisfy the statue one must:

    -Satisfy 9.41(1);

    -Satisfy either 9.41(2)(A) OR 9.41(2)(B); AND

    -Satisfy either 9.41(3)(A) OR 9.41(3)(B).

    That reading effectively reads the final requirement out of the text or presumes some extreme fact pattern that was not mentioned.

  • Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says
  • No problem. To add on being able to identify the way others view matters and the rational they employed to justify their actions allows us to identify logical reasons from their perspective for them to change their opinions.

    On point A, I suspect he self-radicalized at first and then entered his own bubble where he further leaned more into radicalization.

    On point B, I believe it does. It doesn't matter what the negative label is; viewing individuals as the caricatures that float in our minds when we hear words like "tankie" or other words that serve only, for us, to brand individuals as part of a incorrect collective encourages us to make these same un-empathic mistakes.

    We shouldn't like many of these people we brand as things like "Tankie"; but we should understand why they feel the ways they do.

  • Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says
  • why would a leftist who hates fascism go join the Russian army?

    Reminder that you are in a bubble. Do not shape your perception of reality based on what you see on this website. It is populated by posts from a relatively small amount of people who lean in the same political direction on many issues.

    Russia has been calling the Ukrainians Nazis for years. Putin pointed at AZOV and painted all of the nation in the same broad brush. De-nazification is how Putin labeled his actions. Fascism and Nazism are words that have lost all meaning at this point. The muddling and devaluation of those words is leading our world on a path to authoritarianism.

    When you view the matter from the lens adulterated by different propaganda the answer becomes obvious. To him the question was probably "How could a leftist not flee his capitalist homeland and father who is complicit to the oppression of the people's cause to join the successor of the USSR in their fight to restore the former Union's territory and drive the 'nazis' out of it."

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  • The federal rule of procedure don't allow such broad sweeping remedies that apply upon parties not before the courts.

  • How high are chicken meat prices in the us?
  • Whole Young Chicken: $1.69 / lb

    Chicken breast: $2.99 / lb

  • The great Canadian milk bag LIE [3:48]

    TLDW: Canadian bagged milk is an Ontario thing but the rest of Canada doesn't do that. (Also the video's maker doesn't like Ontario (also also the more you look at the word 'Ontario' the more the word looks like it was made up)).

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    Likely to be Enacted US Bill That'd be a Win for Sportsman and Outdoor Recreation Broadly | Explore Act

    Haven't seen much coverage on this so I figured I should share the word. The Explore Act has passed the House and the Senate with massive bipartisan support.

    The bill will benefit bikers, rock climbers, shooters, OHRV operators, & more. It has special provisions to encourage access to the outdoors among people with disabilities, veterans, and the youth.

    It seeks to establish new range access on federal lands, like national forests (see sec. 123). Ranges would have facilities for rifle and handgun shooting, and may include accommodations for archery and trap shooting.

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    Decorated Powder Horn (1775)

    This powder horn was property of John Calfe a Captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Calfe was from New Hampshire but this horn was from his time serving in what today is Vermont. He was stationed at Mt Independence across the lake from Fort Ticonderoga until July of 1777.

    It reads: "What I Contain Shall Freely Go: To Bring a Haughty Tyrant Low."

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    Daisy VL - A Caseless .22 (1968-69)

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    >The rifle resembled a typical spring-air rifle, but the 2000° hot, high-pressure air served not only to propel the projectile but also to ignite the propellant on the back of the V/L cartridge. The rifle uses a small, unique, and well designed part called an Obturator (obturator/ignitor) to compress the air as it is pushed through a tiny hole. This air is heated as it is pushed through the small hole enough to ignite the powder of the caseless round.

    >The V/L guns and ammunition were discontinued in 1969 after the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ruled that they constituted a firearm, and Daisy, which was not licensed to manufacture firearms, decided to discontinue manufacture rather than become a firearms manufacturer. About 23,000 of the rifles were made before production ceased.

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    Non-Americans of Lemmy, what does your country do to protect the rights of criminal defendants?

    American law outlines a series of protections for those accused of crimes but not yet convicted. (Like the 4th-6th amendments)

    Does your country have any unique/novel protections of the rights of potentially innocent people accused but yet to be convicted?

    If not are there any protections you think should be in place?

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    Observances & Holidays 🎉 @midwest.social FireTower @lemmy.world
    [US] National Constitution Day / Citizenship Day (Sept 17th)

    >To honor the timeless principles enshrined in our Constitution, the Congress has, by joint resolution of February 29, 1952 (36 U.S.C. 106), designated September 17 as “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day” and authorized the President to issue a proclamation calling on United States officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day. By joint resolution of August 2, 1956 (36 U.S.C. 108), the Congress further requested that the President proclaim the week beginning September 17 and ending September 23 of each year as “Constitution Week.” >NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 17, 2024, as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, and September 17 through September 23 as Constitution Week. On this day and during this week, we celebrate our Constitution and the rights of citizenship that we enjoy together as the proud people of this Nation.

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    www.abc.net.au Police fear stolen museum guns could be made operational

    Police are investigating the alleged theft of dozens of historical handguns from a weapons museum in the NSW Central West. Despite their age, the weapons could be made operational.

    Police fear stolen museum guns could be made operational

    >... Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum on August 25 after three people wearing balaclavas allegedly stole 27 handguns worth an estimated $200,000.

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    Massachusetts high court strikes down switchblade ban

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19239048

    > >The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held, opens new tab that a 1957 law barring people from possessing spring-release pocketknives commonly known as "switchblades" violated the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. > > >The court reached that conclusion while dismissing a charge filed against David Canjura for unlawfully possessing a switchblade, which Boston police found when responding to a report of an altercation between Canjura and his girlfriend.

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    Massachusetts high court strikes down switchblade ban

    >The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held, opens new tab that a 1957 law barring people from possessing spring-release pocketknives commonly known as "switchblades" violated the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.

    >The court reached that conclusion while dismissing a charge filed against David Canjura for unlawfully possessing a switchblade, which Boston police found when responding to a report of an altercation between Canjura and his girlfriend.

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    thereload.com Fifth Circuit Tosses Gun Charges Against Another Marijuana User

    Another panel on the federal circuit that oversees Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana decided the Second Amendment protects the gun rights of those who smoke marijuana this week.

    Fifth Circuit Tosses Gun Charges Against Another Marijuana User
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    Alcoholic Ammo - Gurevich Revolver [1944]

    This 5 shot 7.62 caliber double action revolver is actually suppressed by its unique cartridge design.

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    When fired expanding gases from the gunpowder pushed a plug forward which inturn pushed the liquid solution (60% alcohol 40% glycerol). This incompressible solution pushed on the bullet to launch it out of the revolver's barrel. The gases were contained in the cartridge preventing the typical sound report of a gunshot. And the liquid would follow the subsonic bullet out of the barrel as well.

    https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Gurevich_silent_revolver

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    www.elpasotimes.com El Paso settles DOJ lawsuit after 176 soldiers' vehicles improperly auctioned

    Justice Department finds El Paso violations after U.S. Army officer in Afghanistan learned her truck was towed, impounded and sold at auction.

    El Paso settles DOJ lawsuit after 176 soldiers' vehicles improperly auctioned
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    Quiet's VA is doing a MGS1 Playthrough on YouTube

    Had this pop up in my YouTube feed less than 2k views on it but thought people here might be interested. (She talks more in the stream than she did in the game)

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    (Pistol) - Chinese Mauser C96

    This Chinese production C96 Broomhandle pistol is found in the collection of the UK's Royal Armouries. Curator Jonathan Ferguson showed it off recently in this video briefly.

    It notably the word pistol engraved on the side where it should say Mauser. Just in case you couldn't tell I suppose.

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    Benelli Now Marking Anti-Drone Variant of their M4 Shotgun

    https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/army-news-2024/benelli-introduce-new-rifle-as-solution-against-uav-during-battle

    While it seems to lack any really novel new features it definitely is interesting seeing major manufacturers pivoting with FPV drones taking over the modern battlefield.

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