Month: March 2023

I’m buying a flame thrower

@bubbywithababy

Who would ever believe that a Rabbi with a blowtorch making a home kosher would go viral. Do not worry he is a trained professional, and just like you would not think twice about the guy who eats fire, juggles fire, jumps through fire, or is a stuntman in cars that blow up with fire , know that he trained with years of experience in Kosherizing kitchens and utensils. 28 years worth of experience in Koshering Kitchens including commercial kitchens, hotels, vacation homes and newly purchased homes. The only home that does not need ro be made kosher is one with a brand new kitchen that has not yet been touched by other food. This is obviously a several hour process and this reel was after everything was complete. It just touches upon the absolute “coolness” in going Kosher. #rabbis #rabbisoftiktok #rabbisofinstagram #kosher #kosherfood #viral #myhusband

♬ original sound – Tzippy

 

I had to meme him

The Tweet:

My meme:

Court Case Timelines

We are the children of the “right now” age. I am old. I remember my mother going to the Grayhound bus depot and paying them to deliver two huge boxes to her hometown in the midwest. This was the only way to get a package that big that far in a reasonable amount of time.

Reasonable amount of time? About a week or so. At which point my grandparents would go to the bus depot to get pick up the packages.

When I was a child working on motorcycles I would create a parts list and then once a month we would go into the big city and I could purchase parts at the motorcycle dealership(s).

We would dig through our Scholastic book pamphlet and pick out the books we wanted. Three or four weeks later our books would arrive. We’d look though the Sear’s catalog and place an order. A few weeks later it would arrive.

The other day I needed replacement “Plackers”. I spent less than two minutes online to locate what I wanted, purchased more for much less than I could locally and they were delivered as soon as we had cleared our driveway.

Everything today happens quickly. I can send an email around the world in less time than it takes to print that same letter. I can have a response back before I close my email program.

My introduction to The Internet was when I noticed that if we dropped UUCP messages in one node in Michigan it would show up in California with a timestamp only seconds different than the arrival time.

We are spoiled. Everything should be moving as fast as online shopping and online communications.

Not everything is fast

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ADL professor is a chicken-shit moron

I saw this and it made the blood pound in my ears.

 

According to his bio, he’s a historian and senior fellow with the ADL.

He’s also a fucking moron and a chicken-shit coward.

Yes, in 1942 the Wermacht had roughly eight million troops.

So the fuck what.

By 1942 the Wermacht was getting it’s frozen balls shot off in Russia, sandblasted in North Africa, fighting in France, and was occupying Poland and Czechoslovakia.

It was stretched thin on a three front war.

The Wermacht was not killing Jews.

That job fell on the German Order Police, the Ordnungspolizei.

The Order Police were mainly middle-class, middle-aged men who were not fit for frontline combat.

The Holocaust was mainly carried out by Order Police reservists.  Rounding up and shooting unarmed Jews was considered such a low risk job, far from combat that the men sent to do it were not combat troops.

The Order Police battalions that conducted the Holocaust numbered at most 95,000 men.

That’s less than half the Jews in Germany and much less than the 3.3 million Jews in Poland.

So it wouldn’t have been 200,000 Jews versus eight million Wermacht combat troops.

It would have been 3.5 million armed Jews versus 95,000 poorly trained police reservists who just want to get back to their kids at home.

I’m going to quote the Gulag Archipelago:

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

Now do the math.

What would have happened if the Jews of Germany and Poland had been armed, and every time the reserve Order Police went to liquidate a Jewish village, five or six were killed?

How many times would that have to happen before these men just fucked off and refused to search homes for Jews?

Could the Holocaust been ground to a halt?

Could it have been slowed down a little?

How many Jewish lives could have been spared?

A good historian should understand this.

The problem is that the ADL has become a Leftist shill organization and would rather push gun control.

Fuck the ADL and fuck this guy.

I’m gonna keep my guns and teach my children how to stage and ambush with intersecting fields of fire.

House Committee: ATF’s Assault on the 2A, When is Enough Enough

The following is taken from an announcement from the SAF
H/T to B.Zh


SAF SCHOLAR TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS THURSDAY ABOUT ATF ABUSES

When the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability convenes Thursday to discuss alleged abuses by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), one of the people offering testimony will be attorney Matthew Larosiere, who serves as an adjunct scholar of law and policy for the Second Amendment Foundation.

The hearing may be watched here, beginning at 10 a.m. (EDT) / 7 a.m. (PDT) Thursday. It is headlined, “ATF’s Assault on the Second Amendment: When is Enough Enough?”

“We’re proud to have Matt offering insight to the House committee,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Under Joe Biden, the ATF has been weaponized against law-abiding citizens, and his new budget proposal includes $1.9 billion for the agency to expand operations and increase regulation of the firearms industry.”

Larosiere will offer testimony regarding the threat ATF’s overreach poses to the American people. He will also focus on the ATF’s dramatic change in policy about pistol stabilizing braces, owned by countless law-abiding citizens including many disabled military veterans who have suddenly found themselves facing possible legal action for owning a shooting accessory, which is not a firearm, that the agency previously said was perfectly acceptable.

“ATF has been known for its institutional abuse of power throughout history,” said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut. “Now, more than ever, the agency is being weaponized as a means to punish peaceable gun owners and drive small businesses out of the marketplace by inventing creative statutory interpretations surpassing the agency’s authority and scrutinizing federal firearms licensees every actions in a ‘gotcha’ manner.

“With the directives from the Biden Administration,” Kraut added, “a simple mistake such as transposing a digit or placing required information in the wrong field results in license revocation, rather than a warning, under the guise of a ‘willful violation’ of the Gun Control Act. This overbearing approach does nothing to support the government’s interest in compliance and destroys livelihoods over innocent mistakes.”

“Clearly,” Gottlieb said, “President Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats have decided American gun owners are their enemy. They are scrambling to restrict the Second Amendment rights of tens of millions of citizens, and create problems for the firearms industry, and they’ve unleashed the ATF to make it all happen.”

Michel & Associates, PC – Updated

I reached out to Michael & Associates, PC for a short write up about their firm. They have been doing great work for the Second Amendment community for years. They are based out of California.

Thank you very much for their hard work supporting the Second Amendment.

This is what they sent:



Michel & Associates, PC is one of the nation’s most recognized and well-respected firearms law firms. Our attorneys are among the world’s most experienced successful Second Amendment advocates. Our extensive firearms law and litigation experience enables us to address increasingly complex issues to help our clients. Our attorneys have expertise in the mandates of federal and state firearm laws and regulations. We wrote the book on gun law in California: California Gun Laws, A Guide to State and Federal Firearms Regulations (www.calgunlawsbook.com).

Michel & Associates’ attorneys appear at agency and legislative rule-making proceedings that impact firearms owners’ interests, assist in drafting firearms legislation, represent clients in firearm licensing matters, represent firearms manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers in product liability litigation, defend against firearms-related criminal charges, and challenge ill-conceived or unconstitutional state laws and local ordinances in court.

We advise manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, clubs, ranges, and firearm owners on regulatory compliance requirements, defend against criminal or government agency regulatory enforcement actions, and represent various clients challenging gun control laws on Second Amendment and related grounds.

Our clients include non-profit associations, industry trade associations, gun show promoters, firearm importers, manufacturers, distributors, and retail dealers, indoor and outdoor shooting ranges, law enforcement agencies and officers, special-effects companies, prop houses, armories, pyrotechnicians, and individuals and companies facing firearms-related federal or state licensing and compliance issues or criminal charges.

Michel & Associates has challenged dozens of laws and regulations on Second Amendment grounds. Litigation and test cases moving through the courts today will establish the parameters of the right to keep and bear arms for future generations. We are proud to be on the front lines of the self-defense civil rights battle.

Update

CRPA Is the primary client and founder of our 2A litigation.
C.D. Michel – Private email

Please go visit the California Rifle and Pistol Association. Give them some love for all they are doing for the Second Amendment community.

Boland v. Bonta: Another District Court Win “UHA”


B.L.U.F. A big win out in California where parts of the Unsafe Handgun Act were enjoined. If this injunction stand it is possible that new handguns will be added to the California Roster for the first time since 2013. Side note, the say that there are some 800 handguns on the roster, this is misleading. A firearm can be on the roster multiple times because each sku is considered a different handgun. I.e. a changing the finish of a handgun makes it a different handgun in the eyes of the state.


The Question

On 2022-08-01 the plaintiffs(good guys) filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief in the Federal District Court of Central California. The complaint asks does the California Unsafe Handgun Act (UHA) violate the Second Amendment by denying The People of California access to new firearms in common use throughout the country? and does the UHA violate the Commerce Clause by interfering in interstate economic activities?

Or as the plaintiffs put it:

Here, Plaintiffs present a question very close to the question posed to the Supreme Court in Heller: what is the scope of the government’s ability to regulate the possession of handguns—the “quintessential” choice—for self-defense? More specifically, does the Second Amendment allow the state to significantly restrict the specific models of the “quintessential self-defense” weapon available to eligible citizens (i.e., the handgun)?
Boland v. Bonta — Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief at ¶ 73

and:

California’s UHA both unduly burdens and discriminates against interstate commerce because it allows intrastate private party transfer of an Off-Roster handgun but prohibits an out of state private party possessor of an Off-Roster handgun from transferring that firearm into the state to a California resident who wants to acquire it.
Id. at ¶ 81

On 2022-09-22 the parties agreed to drop the second question regarding discrimination against interstate commerce.

The defendant response consists of nearly 18 pages of the Attorney General denies each and every allegation unless they are admitting to a statement of law. In that case he still denies each and every allegation and denies even the quoted regulation if it is misstated. For other paragraphs he says he just doesn’t know.

In short the AG’s answer is “Nope.”

The state then claims affirmative defenses. An affirmative defense is when the other party is required to prove. The first is that the state claims that the plaintiffs failed to state facts sufficient to bring action against the state. Given that the state denies all the allegations this makes sense.

Then there is that old bugaboo. They claim that the plaintiffs lack standing and if they did they there are adequate remedies within the law for their complaint.

FOURTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE
The Complaint, and every cause of action therein, is barred by the equitable doctrines of estoppel, laches, unclean hands, and/or waiver.
Answer to Amended Complaint at P 16

The Stages

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