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The same resistance should be used when any standing army, including when the police, try to take your guns.
“…this constitutional right to keep arms implies the constitutional right to use them, if need be, for the defence of one’s liberty or life.” — Lysander Spooner
In 1775, British troops marched toward Concord, Massachusetts, to seize the colonists’ weapons and ammunition. The result was armed resistance, bloodshed, and the beginning of the American Revolution.
The colonists had learned a hard lesson. When a government fears its people, one of the first things it may try to do is take away their ability to resist.
When the Founders wrote the Second Amendment, they had lived through that struggle. They understood the danger of placing all the power in the hands of the government.
The Second Amendment was shaped by a fight for freedom and by the determination that the American people would never again have to depend entirely on the government to protect their rights.
It holds the line between tyranny and freedom.
Montgomery v. Louisiana is clear: a conviction under an unconstitutional law is illegal and void. Courts have no authority to leave such convictions or their disabilities in place. There is no grandfather clause for punishments the Constitution forbids.
That rule applies to the Second Amendment. When a gun law fails Bruen—or exceeds an enumerated power—the convictions and ongoing disarmament under it are void.
NICS denials, registration schemes, and state bans do not survive the holding. Enforce the Constitution.
A right delayed is a right denied. This is a violation of their civil rights. @AAGDhillon
You have a moral duty to resist an officer engaging in an unconstitutional act.
“An officer of the government is an officer of the law only when he is proceeding according to law. The moment he steps beyond the law, he, like other men, forfeits its protection, and may be resisted like any other trespasser.
An unconstitutional statute is no law, in the view of the constitution. It is void, and confers no authority on any one; and whoever attempts to execute it, does so at his peril. His holding a commission is no legal protection for him.
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Lysander Spooner, A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (Boston, 1850).
Defy the law and print a gun.
Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., emphasized that courts “can’t go out and just reach out and get cases” but must wait for “a genuine case or controversy between litigants that have standing.” Defiance isn’t just drama; it’s the spark that turns theory into testable law.
Gun laws deserve to be broken — Even Hamilton had it right.
“There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.” ~Alexander Hamilton
"An act against the Constitution is void: an act against natural equity is void: and if an act of parliament should be made, in the very words of this petition, it would be void. The executive courts must pass such acts into disuse." — James Otis Jr. — Writs of Assistance case and related pamphlets / speeches (1761–1770s), 1761
My permission slip is the end of the barrel of my gun.
Not only is Tennessee not a "constitutional carry" state, it criminalizes the carrying of firearms by default, and places the burden on the citizen to establish the exception. The @TNGOP has not reversed this.
"Instead, a permit is a “defense” to the crime of carrying with intent to go armed and once again the burden to raise the defense is on the citizen."
Learn more on this topic from our state gun rights group @TennFirearms 👇
tennesseefirearms.com/2022/0…
A Surety Was Never a Gun Seizure
After Rahimi, prosecutors wave the surety laws around like a confiscation warrant. Read the American statutes. A complaint. A hearing. A bond. Not one of them took the gun.
From 1795 on, the American answer to a man who frightened his neighbors was a hearing and a bond. It was never an open-ended order taking his gun.
Good people break bad laws. Carry anyway.
I should go to this to see how Sasha Renee Perez feels about all of the rights, including the right to keep and bear arms.
“The defense of oneself, justly called the primary law of nature, is not, nor can it be abrogated by any regulation of municipal law. “ — James Wilson
PSA Reminder: Stand your ground against gun control enforcers. It is your duty.
As Lysander Spooner reminds us --
"An officer of the government is an officer of the law only when he is proceeding according to law. The moment he steps beyond the law, he, like other men, forfeits its protection, and may be resisted like any other trespasser. An unconstitutional statute is no law, in the view of the constitution. It is void, and confers no authority on any one; and whoever attempts to execute it, does so at his peril. His holding a commission is no legal protection for him."
Your client is charged under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The prior is old. It wasn't a crime against anyone's body. Everything since the sentence ended is clean.
How do you argue it when the circuits don't ask the same question? 🧵
Illegitimate authority deserves no obedience.
An act against the Constitution is void — James Otis.
Lysander Spooner: To say an unconstitutional law must be obeyed until it is repealed is to treat it as equally obligatory as a constitutional one. That abolishes the Constitution and grants government unlimited power.
The right to resist is absolute and unqualified from the moment the law is enacted.
Treat usurpation as void. Noncompliance is the duty of free people.
Rights don’t require permission.
“If such a proceeding is a breach of the law of nature, no law of society can make it just.” — James Otis Jr., 1764
People v. Polymaker LLC.
San Diego County sued a spool of plastic. Giffords signed on, because of course they did. The crime is marketing. The filament worked, printers noticed, and nobody asked Gabby’s nonprofit for permission.
They want an injunction, fines, and the profits. Not a win. A bill big enough that the next company shuts up.
Giffords can’t repeal the First Amendment by calling nylon a ghost gun. Plastic doesn’t become a firearm because a press shop had a bad week. Now go print a gun.
Time to throw a few bucks to Polymaker. Ordering more filament. COME AND MAKE IT
San Diego County is suing filament maker Polymaker, alleging its "Come and Make It" marketing made 3D-printer filament a regulated "firearm precursor part." It seeks up to $2,500 per violation; the complaint says it doesn't seek to ban filament sales.
youtu.be/edT9_PhWLeQ