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Oleg Volk sure takes damned good photos.

But besides making me look badass, the photo gives you details of the DP28 worth looking. For example, note the front sight; originally the gun was shooting a bit left and since the rear sight is fixed for drift, it is the front one that gets adjusted which was literally done with a mallet. Then you have the ejection port that sends the brass down rather than sideways. And lastly and most interesting is the gas system: If you look right in front of the bipod, you can see that is more like an exhaust pipe coming out of the barrel and sending gases into the bolt down that tube.  The gun is stupidly simple, but that is full auto for you.

NEW: TikToker is going viral by telling illegal immigrants how to "invade" homes in America thanks to progressive squatting laws

Remarkable.

"We can invade a house in the USA, what do you think about this new law?" a video from one TikTok user read.

The man said he has African… pic.twitter.com/b92DT9fYq7

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 20, 2024

Moment TikToker tells followers how to ‘invade’ American homes

A TikTok influencer is advising his followers on how to ‘invade’ American homes and invoke squatter’s rights, making it difficult for them to be removed from properties.

Leonel Moreno, who goes by @leitooficial_25 online and appears to be a Venezuelan migrant, has told his followers that under US law, ‘if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it’.

He is referring to squatter’s rights, or adverse possession laws – a common law principle that allows an illegal inhabitant to acquire ownership of a property based on continuous occupation without the legal owner’s consent.

Moreno, alleging he has friends who ‘have already taken about seven homes’, argued the only way for migrants to not live in the streets or be a ‘public burden’ is to ‘seize’ and ‘invade’ abandoned properties.

If you read American news, you will learn that he’s not that far off from right.

Fed-up homeowner arrested after tense standoff with squatters ‘stealing’ $1M house she inherited from parents

A New York City property owner recently ended up in handcuffs following a fiery standoff with alleged squatters who she has been trying to boot from her family’s home, tense footage shows.

Adele Andaloro, 47, was nabbed after changing the locks last month on the $1 million home in Flushing, Queens, that she says she inherited from her parents when they died, ABC’s Eyewitness News reported.

Andaloro claims the ordeal erupted when she started the process of trying to sell the home last month but realized squatters had moved in — and brazenly replaced the entire front door and locks.

She said she got fed up, and went to her family’s home on 160th Street — with the local TV outlet in tow — on Feb. 29 and called a locksmith to change the locks for her.

In New York City, a person can claim “squatter’s rights” after just 30 days of living at a property.

Andaloro was ultimately given an unlawful eviction charge because she had changed the locks and hadn’t provided a new key to the person staying there, the NYPD confirmed to The Post.

According to the law, squatters must treat the property they are occupying as their home, such as doing maintenance.

In reality, squatters usually destroy the property they are squatting in, and homeowners insurance won’t cover property damage from squatters.

Given both the extreme cost of housing and the principle of the matter, I absolutely and unequivocally believe that a home owner should have the right to use lethal force in the removal of squatters.

If someone breaks into a home that is not theirs, and tries to live there, the home owner should have the right to go in tell the squatter to leave, and if the squatter doesn’t, the home owner can shoot the squatter and drag his body to the curb.

This won’t happen in Blue states, but Red states need to make this the law.

?: Chaos breaks out at the University of Memphis after BLM protesters chased down @TPUSA people who were leaving the Kyle Rittenhouse event. Police had to prevent the hostile crowd from physically attacking them.@FrontlinesTPUSA pic.twitter.com/PFr8Ccqr0n

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 21, 2024

That answers the questions about Guns On Campus having a chilling effect on the free exchange of ideas.

Just the opposite. Ain’t that something?

In June 2020, Heriberto Carbajal-Flores was found in possession of a handgun in Little Village, a neighborhood of Chicago.

As an illegal alien, he was charged under 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(5), possession of a firearm by an alien who is illegally or unlawfully in the United States.

In her December 2022 order, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman but it this way:

In her order, she talks about citizenship status and noncitizen. This is a strange way of putting it, but acceptable.

She then goes on to state the Heller methodology, as affirmed by Bruen correctly. Text, History, and Tradition.

The state argued that Carbajal-Flores was not part of The People because he was not a “law-abiding” resident of the United States. In turn, Carbajal-Flores argued that because the Seventh Circuit held that the Second Amendment protects an illegal alien’s right to keep and bear arms.

That rabbit hole leads to US v. Meza-Rodrigues. This is an opinion issued by a three judge merits panel for the Seventh Circuit court. That panel included the infamous judge Easterbrook and Judge Wood. They are infamous for finding that some firearms aren’t really arms under the plain text of the Second Amendment.

But as this case was about an illegal alien, or as Judge Wood put it whom we will call “unauthorized aliens”—United States V. Mariano a. Meza-Rodriguez, 798 F.3d 664 (7th Cir. 2015), they had to twist differently than when it is actual law-abiding citizens.

Judge Wood expressed her grave concerns: The consequences of Meza-Rodriguez’s conviction are not theoretical; his right ever to reenter the United States hangs in the balance. —id. at 6.

Yeah, you or me having our rights denied, no big deal, having an illegal alien have to stay in Mexico? That’s a gigantic deal.

Judge Flaum, concurred, saying:

I don’t understand why Carbajal-Flores would cite to the concurring opinion, it doesn’t feel as strong as what Judge Wood wrote. Regardless, in Meza-Rodriguez the Seventh Circuit found that illegal aliens are part of “The People”.

What did Heller actually say?

The Seventh Circuit got it right in Meza-Rodriguez when they found that he was a person[s] who [is] part of a national community or who have otherwise developed sufficient connection with this country to be considered part of that community.—id.. He was smuggled into the US by his parents when he was less than 5 years of age. He had been a part of the community for an extend period of time.

I do not know enough about him to know if he was a “good guy” or a “bad guy”. Regardless, he met the criteria.

On the other hand, Carbajal-Flores does not meet that criteria. He was a bad person, doing bad things, got caught doing it, was deported and should stay deported.

The state argued that he was not part of The People because he was not “law-abiding”. This is a losing argument. It should be a losing argument every time.

I don’t lose my Fifth Amendment protected rights because I did something considered “unlawful.” Nor do I lose my Fourth Amendment protected rights to be secure in my person and papers, just because the state says I am not “law-abiding”.

In 2022, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman found that Carbajal-Flores was not part of “The People” and thus was not protected under the plain text of the Second Amendment. Carbajal-Flores filed a motion for reconsideration. This time, Judge Coleman found that he was a member of The People and entitled to Second Amendment Protections.

Having found that the plain text was implicated, the state bore the burden of proof to prove that there were regulations from the founding era banning the possession of arms to “non-citizens”.

The state failed. Judge Coleman found The noncitizen possession statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), violates the Second Amendment as applied to Carbajal-Flores. Thus, the Court grants Carbajal-Flores’ motion to dismiss—United State of America v. Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, No. 20-cr-00613, slip op. at 7 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 8, 2024)

Of note, this is an “as applied” finding. It does not extend to any other illegal alien. It only applies to Carbajal-Flores. The order can be cited in other cases but is not binding on any other court, nor does it affect §922(g).

Whether Judge Coleman was playing games, she was just about locked into this finding. As an inferior court to the Seventh, she should be following their rules, no matter how bad.

Nothing in this case screams that it is a violation of Heller or Seventh Circuit case law.

As an absolutist regarding the Constitution, I have to say anything that chips away at §922 or the NFA is a positive outcome.

So it stands like this, to me:

18 U.S.C. §922 is unconstitutional. Being an illegal alien is grounds for deportation.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The brother of the Little Rock airport executive shot by federal agents serving a search warrant says he is fearful his brother may not survive and questions the timing of the incident.

Bryan Malinowski, 53, was injured in a shootout with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at his west Little Rock home Tuesday morning.

His older brother, Matthew Malinowski, told NBC News reporter Deon Hampton that the family was not sure if the Clinton National Airport executive director was “going to make it in the next 24 hours” while confirming his brother was shot in the head during the exchange of gunfire.
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“There’s something fishy here. The ATF went after him in the worst possible way,” he told NBC News reporter Deon Hampton. “There’s no reason why they couldn’t have arrested him at work at the airport.”
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Malinowski also said it seemed odd that his brother could be entangled with the law, noting that he made more than $250,000 a year in salary, lived in a nice suburb with collections of guns and coins and was well connected in the Natural State.

‘Something stinks to high hell;’ Brother of LIT director shot by ATF agent speaks out on shooting | KARK

The little beep of memory kept going off in my brain since yesterday and just earlier the data came through: This smells about the same as the Ken Ballew case where ATF raided his house for allegedly owning unregistered grenades. It turned out to be some plastic grenades and some practice ones which you could legally find (and probably still) at gun shows. Ballew got shot in the head, but survived and had a tough life after. He sued the Federal Government, but as usual for the times, the ATF could do no wrong in the eyes of a judge. Ballew was a fan of muzzle loaders and as such had black powder and caps in his home which the Feds and the judge used to excuse the warrant and the consequences under the nefarious “constructive possession” argument.

“This Court finds that several of the grenades seized by the federal agents on June 7, 1971 in Ballew’s apartment, in combination with components likewise seized, were firearms as defined in the National Firearms Act and had not been registered as required by law.”

Ballew v. United States, 389 F. Supp. 47 (D. Md. 1975) :: Justia

Everything Old is Back again?

Allow me to don my tinfoil hat and extrapolate the Carbajal-Flores decision to a potentially horrific end.

First, let me set the stage.

Chicago:

Officer Exodus: 1,000+ Chicago cops left the job last year

Last August, the number of sworn officers plunged to 11,611, its lowest level in years. The department was down 1,742 officers from its peak four years earlier.

“What we really started to notice over the last few years is we didn’t have the manpower to man the beat cars,” said recently retired Chicago police lieutenant John Garrido.

A deeper dive into the data by WGN Investigates found 35% of the officers who left the department last year resigned as opposed to retired.

“Those officers aren’t just quitting and staying home,” Garrido said. “I know many of them. They’re going to other law enforcement agencies.” Garrido attributes to the increase in resignations to what he labels as a toxic work environment in which officers don’t feel supported by police leaders, the mayor or the county’s top prosecutor.

Chicago police have expanded their recruitment efforts to try to fill their depleted ranks. Nine-hundred-and-fifty new officers were hired last year but that’s still short of the 1,046 who left.

New York City:

NYPD cops leave force in alarming rate — over 2,500 turned in badges so far in 2023

New York’s Finest continue to bolt from the job at an alarming rate, according to new data obtained by The Post — and some cops worry the exodus will only get worse because the city plans to cancel the next five Police Academy classes, shrinking the nation’s largest police force to the smallest its been in decades.

A total of 2,516 NYPD cops have left so far this year, the fourth highest number in the past decade and 43% more than the 1,750 who hightailed it in 2018, before the pandemic and crime spikes hit the city, NYPD pension data show.

The number of cops quitting before they reach the 20 years required to receive their full pensions also skyrocketed from 509 in 2020 to 1,040 so far this year — an alarming 104% increase, the data show.

The years of departures and lack of replacements are now taking a toll, forcing the cops who remain on the job to work “inhumane amounts of forced overtime,” Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said.

Los Angeles:

LAPD dwindles to smallest force since 1990s due to ‘anti-police rhetoric,’ police union says

Department struggling to hire new recruits amid challenges

The Los Angeles Police Department has shrunk to its smallest size since the 1990s as officers resign in droves and officer morale sinks to an all-time low.

The number of officers employed fell below 9,000 at the end of July, a figure estimated by the city’s largest police union, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL). They say the high cost of living and morale issues are making it impossible for the city to maintain its goal of maintaining 9,500 officers.

LAPD Chief Michel Moore told the Board of Police Commissioners that the incoming academy class only has 29 recruits.

Since 2020, the LAPD has lost more than 1,000 officers. It’s a trend seen nationwide as big cities struggle to retain officers. On Tuesday, the Minneapolis police chief said the situation is “unsustainable” as the department is losing officers faster than it can hire them.

New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle are also experiencing severe staffing issues in the wake of the 2020 riots – which sparked from the death of George Floyd at the hands Minneapolis police officers – citing low morale among officers.

Across the country police are quitting.

A combination of political factors, including anti-police attitudes becoming mainstream among Democrat politicians and a lack of prosecution that makes policing effectively useless, have demoralized police.

Nobody wants to be a cop.

Let’s add a second layer to this shit cake.

LAPD WORKING TO ALLOW NON-CITIZEN DACA RECIPIENTS TURNED OFFICERS ABILITY TO CARRY FIREARM FULL-TIME

California passed a law that allows non-U.S. citizens to serve as police officers.

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said his department is working to allow non-citizen DACA recipients who are officers the ability to carry a firearm, full-time.

California passed a law that allows non-U.S. citizens to serve as police officers.

“We think the DACA-mented people have a dream of becoming full-fledged members of our society,” said Francisco Moreno of COFEM. “Their loyalty is proven, and they excel in many fields.”

However, there are federal restrictions regarding DACA recipients having guns. They could have police-issued weapons on duty, but wouldn’t be allowed to take them home like other officers.

Moore said the department is looking to see how to make off-duty hours part of their work.

Now let’s ice this shit cake and bring it all together.

Illinois judge rules illegal migrants can carry guns

A federal judge in Illinois appointed by President Barack Obama ruled that the Constitution protects the rights of noncitizens who enter the US illegally after a Mexican immigrant living in Chicago was found in possession of a handgun.

US District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled earlier this month that a federal ban on undocumented immigrants owning firearms is unconstitutional, and dismissed charges against Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, who was arrested in 2020 after violating a federal law that prohibits noncitizens from possessing guns.

Forget DACA and off-duty prohibitions, illegals can now have guns.

So what stops a progressive city from hiring illegals as police officers?

We’re constantly told that illegals will do the work Americans don’t want to do at pay less than what Americans will accept.

Typically, that has meant things like picking lettuce or tarring roofs.

Now that illegals can carry guns, that very well might mean being cops.

They will bring the corruption, brutality, and disregard for civil rights from the shit hole countries they come from to American policing.

That is a feature, not a bug.

These are the officers who will kick in your door and seize your guns on orders to do so.

They don’t respect your rights. They will not disobey an unconstitutional order.

They have no vulnerable family here that they fear reprisals against.

Thru are the perfect brute squad political enforcers, loyal to the party that pays them and keeps them in this country.

Of course, if this begins to happen, you know the cartels will send members to join US police departments to serve the cartels in uniform.

I know this might sound far fetched now, but explain to me where my logic is wrong.

The city of Chicago is suing Toyota, accusing the company that makes one of the most popular vehicles in America of “willfully” ignoring a design that allows users to install third-party modifications such as more powerful aftermarket engines.

These modifications make the vehicles more powerful. For example, a 2.5L Tacoma can be upgraded by a user to have a 4.0L engine.

According to the suit, these allow anyone to circumvent long-standing federal and state fuel efficiency regulations. These replacement engines are available for anybody to order over the Internet.

Such an engine replacement can substantially increase the horsepower available. This can lead to loss of control by driver/operators.

While Toyota does manufacture these engines, they are for other vehicles. Third-party vendors are creating the swap in capabilities.

However, the suit accuses Toyota of making a “willful decision to not take meaningful action to address this problem”. They claim that other manufactures have designs that make third-party engine swaps more difficult or expensive.

The city claims that they have confiscated many of these Toyota vehicles with overpowered engines in the last few years.

You guys can go read the article in full:

Chicago Sues Glock—Blaming Gun Design For City’s Gun Violence

The suit claims Glock made a “willfull decision” to avoid addressing a design that can let users illegally convert their handguns to automatic.