From Bearing Arms:

Virginia Democrats have introduced a revised ban on so-called “assault weapons” that requires existing gun owners to register their firearms with the state, and also bans outright the possession of magazines that can hold more than ten rounds as well as a ban on suppressors and “trigger activators”.

According to the legislative summary by Delegate Mark Levine, HB 961:

The bill makes it a Class 6 felony to import, sell, transfer, manufacture, purchase, possess, or transport large-capacity firearm magazines, silencers, and trigger activators, all defined in the bill. Any person who legally owns an assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator on July 1, 2020, may retain possession until January 1, 2021. During that time, such person shall (i) render the assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator inoperable; (ii) remove the assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator from the Commonwealth; (iii) transfer the assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator to a person outside the Commonwealth who is not prohibited from possessing it; or (iv) surrender the assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator to a state or local law-enforcement agency.

Under the terms of this bill, every ammunition magazine in the state of Virginia that can accept more than ten rounds would have to be permanently modified to only hold ten rounds, destroyed, turned over, or removed from the state. This language is very similar to the language of New Jersey’s magazine ban, which is currently being challenged by residents in court.

Suppressors would have to be turned in, destroyed, or removed from the state of Virginia as well. No compensated confiscation here, just “Mr.-and-Mrs.-Virginia turn them all in.”

As Governor Ralph Northam promised, the revised gun ban contains a grandfather clause that “allows” Virginians to maintain possession of the firearms they legally own, but at a cost.

A. Any person who legally owns an assault firearm on July 1, 2020, may apply for a permit to possess such assault firearm. The application shall be on a form prescribed by the Department of State Police and shall include a certification statement to be signed by the applicant under penalty of perjury certifying that the applicant is the lawful owner of the assault firearm and that the information presented on the application is true and correct. Upon receipt of a complete application for a permit, the Superintendent of State Police or his designee shall issue a permit to the applicant. The Department of State Police may charge a fee not to exceed $50 to cover the cost of the issuance of the permit.

B. The permit shall contain the name, address, date of birth, gender, height, weight, and color of hair of the applicant and a description of the assault firearm, including the make, model, caliber, and serial number of the assault firearm and any other information as required by the Department of State Police. Except as provided in subsection E, the permit shall not be transferable to another person. The permit shall remain valid as long as the applicant issued the permit remains the owner of the assault firearm unless during the time of ownership the applicant is found not to be in compliance with the conditions set forth in subsection D or the applicant no longer satisfies the requirements for the issuance of a permit. A person issued a permit shall notify the Department of State Police of any change in the person’s address on a form provided by the Department of State Police within 30 days from the date of the change in address. Upon receipt of such notification, the Department of State Police shall issue a replacement permit to the person.

This bill is a whole bunch of anti-gun horse-shit, borrowed from the NY SAFE Act and California, with some homegrown bullshit thrown in as well, like bans on lead-free ammo.  Seriously.

This is par for the course for Democrats with monopoly control.

What stuck out is this, the bill was drafted by Mark Lavine.  According to his biography, he was a Nazi hunter and Jewish historian.  You’d think that he would have figured out that big government and disarmament is bad for the Jews.  That’s a universal rule.  It doesn’t matter where in the world that happened, disarmed Jews end up dead or expelled.

Nope.  The conclusion that he came to is the same as ever college socialist who says that “real socialism has never been tried.”  That the problem isn’t endemic to big government, it’s that he has never been in charge of big government.

Of course, that is a load of shit.  A guy who hunted Nazis should have an aversion to creating a list of names of citizens with undesirable traits, but that is what Progressivism always does.

If you think the lesson of history is that the problem with big government tyrants is that other big government tyrants were wrong and you can do it better, you are an asshole and need to study history better.

Mark Lavine is most definitely an asshole, a Progressive one at that, and has learned nothing good from his experience studying history.

A buddy sent this to me:

Police: Attack on Trump supporter sparked active shooter scare at mall

A dispute over a man’s open support for President Donald Trump led to last week’s active shooter scare at the Wyoming Valley Mall in Wilkes-Barre Twp.

Police say a Trump supporter wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat pulled a gun on a man who threatened to assault him and then swatted at him to knock the hat off his head.

After the Trump supporter pulled the gun, the suspect fled, police said.

I think this is the first recorded case of an anti-Trumper trying to get violent with an armed Trump supporter.

News of the incident, which caused mall patrons to panic and flee as well, spread quickly online and sparked fears of a mass shooter at the shopping complex.

Not good.

Wilkes-Barre Twp. police were quick to post on social media that there was no active shooter and the Trump supporter, who holds a concealed carry permit, appeared justified in pulling his gun in self defense.

Given the details below, it seems that the cops were being both open-minded and generous with the Trump supporter.

Chief Will Clark on Tuesday indicated the Trump supporter was the victim and police are still looking for the person who attempted to assault him.

“The individual was wearing a hat in support of Donald Trump,” Clark said. “Apparently, the man told him to take the hat off. He refused. The individual threatened to assault him. The actor then took a swipe at the hat to knock it off his head. At that point, the victim backed up and drew his weapon and pointed it at the ground. The guy took off.”

The bolded text is why I said the shoot was dubious in the title and that the cops were being generous.

This was a DGU that ended without a shot fired because the attacker saw the gun and ran.

My issue is that the man backed up and pointed the gun at the ground.  That seems a lot less like he was in immediate danger and more like brandishing.  The police could have easily come down on the Trump supporter harder than the guy that took a swing at him.

In my personal opinion, I think that anti-brandishing laws are stupid.  The law should make more room for, lack of better phrasing, “defensive gun displays.”  I come down on the side of Michael Strickland.  He was being stalked by a group of aggressive protesters and masked Antifa back to he car as he was trying to leave a political protest and he drew he gun and told the people stalking him to back off.  Given the previous violent history of Antifa, his fears were justified.

To me, it’s like the rattle of a rattlesnake.  A warning that if the aggressor doesn’t back down and fast, it won’t end well for him. A law-abiding citizen shouldn’t have to wait until the last second before he can rely on a gun to save himself, considering how quickly some of these punks turn tail at the sight of a gun.  When a group of punks surrounds you and menaces you, it’s already too late, the law shouldn’t make you keep it holstered until they take a swing at your head  

BUT…

The law doesn’t allow that so carry permit holders need to be double sure what they do is legal and on the up-and-up.

Wilkes-Barre Township is in Luzerne County, which went 58% for Trump, so is probably a little more gun-friendly, and given the situation more likely to side with the permit holder over the attacker.  Had this happened in Philadelphia, I’m sure the guy in the MAGA hat would be going to jail for this.

Still, we got very close to a punk with TDS catching a bullet for attacking a Trump supporter.  I’m sure it will happen before the election.

Be careful out there, and be sure that if you have to draw, you do it according to the law.

Two stories from the New York Post:

Serial slugger arrested again hours after release under bail reform law

The homeless man cut loose without bail despite a history of unprovoked street attacks has been busted again — just a few hours after his release, police said Saturday.

Eugene Webb, 26, was arrested Friday night for aggressive panhandling near a bank entrance in Greenwich Village, just one day after he was hauled in for allegedly slugging a 23-year-old woman in the face so hard that two of her teeth were knocked out.

Webb, who police say is homeless, also attacked a second woman near Grand Central Terminal just hours after the Wednesday attack, punching the 35-year-old and kicking the back of her head, prosecutors said.

But despite a long rap sheet of at least four other arrests, Judge Ann Thompson cut the serial slugger loose under the state’s new bail reform regulations at his Friday morning arraignment.

At his arraignment Friday, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Ashlyn Rich told the judge there was, “clear and convincing evidence that the defendant is fully capable of moving around Manhattan, at will,” and asked that Webb be held on $10,000 cash bail— but he was freed on supervised release.

So this guy is a vagrant who has attacked multiple women, and each time has been arrested and released without bail.

Note that he punched one woman so hard he knocked out some of her teeth, and kicked another woman in the back of the head.

Now for story number two:

‘One-punch killer’s’ charges upgraded from misdemeanor to felony

An alleged gang member initially charged with a misdemeanor assault for killing a man on a Brooklyn sidewalk with a single punch is now facing a felony, The Post has learned. 

Prosecutors presented the upgraded second-degree assault charge to a grand jury sometime last month after The Post reported on the “one-punch loophole” that led to Joshua Hernandez’s initial misdemeanor rap. He was indicted on the more serious charge Dec. 19, court records show.

The Brooklyn DA’s office said it upgraded the charge “based on additional evidence that was recovered.

“We still believe, however, that a legislative fix is needed to address assaults such as this that result in death,” a spokesman said, noting prosecutors’ previous calls for legislation to eliminate the “one-punch loophole.”

Hernandez’s new charge comes with a maximum penalty of seven years behind bars, while the misdemeanor charge carried a one-year max.

Rodriguez suffered the mortal blow on Nov. 17, when Hernandez, a 25-year-old alleged Latin Kings gang member with a rap sheet that includes assaulting a cop, punched him on a Brooklyn sidewalk, police said.

Rodriguez and his female companion had just left the Mezcaleria La Milagrosa before 5 a.m. when Hernandez and his two friends asked the pair for a cigarette. Rodriguez said he didn’t have a smoke and the group moved on, but minutes later Hernandez snuck up from behind, connecting his fist with Rodriguez’s skull, according to Rodriguez’s sister, Pamela Zambrano Gomez, who claimed to have spoken to a witness.

Rodriguez fell straight to the ground, cracking his cranium on the pavement.

The Venezuelan native and aspiring video game developer was rushed to emergency surgery at Bellevue Hospital, where he fell into a coma. He was on a ventilator for four days before Rodriguez’s family made the gut-wrenching decision to take him off of life support.

Legal experts say the misdemeanor is not an unlikely charge for a “one-punch” killing.

“What frightens me the most is the possibility of the system making him go to prison only a year,” Rodriguez’ father, José Zambrano, had told The Post. “Because of a one-punch law.”

So a guy out with his girlfriend gets sucker-punched by a gang member with a long and violent criminal history.

Like many cases I have reported on, he falls hard, hits his head on the concrete, cracks his skull, and as a result of the head trauma, his brain swells and he dies days later.  This is the pattern with one-punch kills.  It’s not the punch that’s generally lethal, it’s the fall and subsequent head injury from hitting the ground.

What makes it worse is that New York City seems to have a very lackadaisical attitude about punching someone to death.

Legal experts say that even if the alleged punch led to Rodriguez’ death, upgrading the assault charge to manslaughter would depend on the very difficult proposition of proving there was an intent to kill.

“Just because the result is something horrific and tragic, doesn’t mean you intended that outcome,” said criminal defense attorney and former Manhattan prosecutor Jeremy Saland.

So in New York City, if a criminal punches someone in the head hard enough for them to fall, crack their skull, and die, but didn’t intend to kill them it’s still only prosecuted as assault.

Gaelic football player Danny McGee died from a single blow outside a Queens bar almost a year to the day before Rodriguez was attacked.

Steven O’Brien pleaded guilty to third-degree misdemeanor assault on Nov. 21, the day Rodriguez died. He was sentenced to six months in jail.

Think about that for a second.  O’Brien killed a man with a punch, but as far as federal law is concerned, isn’t a prohibited person.

The case prompted the Queens District Attorney’s office to call for harsher punishments for one-punch killings.

“We believe that is an inadequate response by society to a death,” said Acting DA John Ryan. “We call upon the Legislature to pass a law making an intentional assault that results in death a felony.”

New York just decriminalized bank robbery, does anybody expect the legislature to actually pass a law that increases punishment for a crime?

Considering New York has bent over backward to ignore all the Jews getting beat up, does anybody think New York will pass a law that puts a minority kid in prison for punching a Jew who then falls down and dies?

No, I’m pretty sure, just like bail reform, a “one-punch kill loophole” is a way of enacting social justice by letting violent criminals go with minimum punishment.

For the rest of the law-abiding citizens of New York City, what it means is that vagrants can go around punching innocent bystanders to death and be let go to walk around without bail.

As long as you only murder people with your fists, the whole of New York City is your consequence free hunting ground.

What should happen is that New Yorkers should arm themselves, and when someone aggressively panhandles them or tries to bum a cigarette, New Yorkers should be ready to shoot to kill in case said asshole takes a swing.

But this is New York we are talking about, so that will never happen.  Instead, more New Yorkers will be punched to death and their attackers will be let go without bail.

Ilhan Omar couldn’t make it any clearer that while she is a member of the US House of Representatives, her constituents are radical Islamists.

At first, she criticized sanctions against Iran, which is trying to obtain a nuclear weapon, while defending sanctions against an allied nation.

Then she seemed to give Iran advice where to strike that would most hurt President Trump directly.

Trump needs to immediately divest from his businesses and comply with the emoluments clause. Iran could threaten Trump hotels *worldwide* and he could provoke war over the loss of revenue from skittish guests.

His business interests should not be driving military decisions.

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 6, 2020

Then, she admitted that it was her job to speak for the Iranian people in Congress.

I am a child of war. I know what the toll of it looks like. The trauma of war will never leave me.

If I don’t speak up for the children who would be displaced from conflict with Iran, who will? pic.twitter.com/W1GCExaFbT

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 11, 2020

It’s the job of the Iranian government, to consider the consequences of war with the US.

It should be Omar’s job to speak for the children of American service members killed with Iranian provided weapons.  But no, she’d rather do the job of an Iranian Member of Parliament than an American Representative.

Because stupid stuff like this is hidden from view.

Dear Lord, let it be Airsoft.

Hat Tip Mad Ogre

From the Huffington Post:

Elizabeth Warren’s Skin Care Routine Has Created A Whole New Debate

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and her skin have been featured in thousands of up-close and personal selfies on the campaign trail. Glowing selfies have become a signature trait, alongside her robust energy and “can-do” attitude. But according to a new interview with Cosmo, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts apparently “never” washes her face.

Warren revealed her most controversial policy yet during Cosmo’s “Candidates Come to Cosmo” video series, in which Editor-in-Chief Jessica Pels grills presidential hopefuls on policy, pop culture, and the most burning topic of all, their skin care routines.

As Warren tells it, she “never” washes her face.  Instead, she bathes in human blood.  

“The way to stay vital is to consume the life force of others,” Warren said. 

“There are ancient incantations that allow you to suck the life energy out of a person.  By absorbing that energy during a ritual that involves soaking in the blood of a human sacrifice I am able to remain spry in my 70s, without concerns for diet or exercise.  I learned this from my great-grandmother who was part necromancer.”

Warren then explained, “children make the best victims for sacrifice, they are so full of life energy.” 

While many people might find that controversial, Warren was not worried about how that might affect her poll numbers.

“The children I consume are all the children of empowered single mothers who wanted to have a post-birth abortion.  I am helping to facilitate their right to choose.  This is a very Progressive position.”

When pressed on how she became so at ease with the idea of human sacrifice, Warren spoke about her time as “a lawyer on Wall Street” and getting use to the principle that “there was no amount of human suffering that would stop us from making a buck.”

Warren has apparently been a practitioner of the dark arts for a long time, giving it credit for much of her success. 

“How else could someone as cold and impersonal as myself become so rich and famous, let alone get elected to the Senate as a part-time Harvard professor?  That is the power of the supernatural forces of evil.”

While this might come shocking to many, this is not a secret in Democrat circles.  “Hillary also employed the forces of evil or a politician that unlikeable would have never gotten as far as she did.”

When asked why Hillary failed to get elected, Warren said that it was poor prioritization.  “Hillary tried to use the dark arts to both make herself rich and loved at the same time.  It’s almost impossible to conjure up $400 Million in personal wealth and get people to follow you unquestioningly simultaneously.  She was not strong enough to do it.”

When asked if she was going to do things differently than Hillary, as many people have compared the two politicians, she said she intends to emulate her hero.

“Barack Obama did it correctly.  He entranced the people by magically boosting his charisma.  He didn’t feel the need to make himself wealthy until his Presidency was over.”

Warren also said that President Obama had one advantage that others in her position did not.  “Obama had a Warlock servant, who posed as his wife Michelle.”  

When asked about the way some people might be hesitant to support a party that gains power with the force of evil, Warren’s position is that the cost of moderate voters who might be turned off by the use of dark magic is well worth the benefit to the politicians who use it.

“Democrats in California have used too much dark magic to gain monopoly control of the state that the land itself is cursed.  It’s always on fire, demons walk around freely, and there are feces on the street.”

Most voters in California believe that to be the product of global warming and capitalism.  Warren clarified “that’s what they have been enchanted to believe.  The reality is there is so much dark magic there is it literally raining brimstone and shit.”

Warren says that California is the future of the Democrat party.

“As unhappy as Californians are about the quality of life that comes with living on cursed ground, they still vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats.  If the California Democrats can do that, the concentrated efforts of the DNC should be able to accomplish that at the national level.”

Warren was asked about problems of party unity, which have seemed to plage the Democrats this election cycle, Warren answered “it takes years, decades really, of work to properly harness the dark arts.  Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful witch in the party, and she’s 179 years old.  Then we have to deal with young upstarts like Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez.  She’s passionate, and yes, she consorted with the devil once, but she lacks experience and it shows.  In 40 or 50 years, she might be ready to lead the party.”   

Despite all this, Warren said that Trump is still the biggest threat to the future of the Democrat party.

“We say that he is evil, but it’s really the Democrats that use the dark arts.  His charisma is real charisma, and very hard to enchant people away from that.”

Warren did say that there was still hope for the Democrats to have victory in 2020.

“By harnessing the power of death, we may be able to maledict victory.  We’ve been doing our best to maximize that by encouraging abortion, violent crime, and opioid overdose, and it seems to be working.”

While the debate about dark money in politics is has been acknowledged for years, there has been little mentioned about the use of dark magic in politics, and this has created a whole new debate.

I guess that explains a lot.