Independence Day SITREP
July 3, 2025
Just in time to celebrate that civil war we won in the 1770s to reject Hanoverian imperialism, NPR warns us that ghost guns may not be so dead. They may even be doing that whole revenant thing which, in fairness, ghosts are known to do.
Just a word about the two legal strategies reported above. SAF and Gottlieb have elected to take Trump and Bondi at their word that the administration will most likely eliminate the Biden “frame or receiver” rule with which we’ve contended since 2021. This is not an insane strategy.
But the Defense Distributed strategy was and is to see what the Trump DOJ would do about this rule in federal court, since actions are much stronger signals than task forces and talk. And what the Trump DOJ has signaled to O’Connor about the frame and receiver rule is not good:
Did you catch that? In Bondiland, the Second Amendment isn’t infringed if it’s impinged. Read it yourself.
In my experience, such outrageous trash can only be compared to Judge Lasnick’s 2018 declaration that any First Amendment right of 3D gun printers “is currently abridged, but has not been abrogated.”
A reminder this Fourth that gun violence trumps verbalism. The Second Amendment enshrines this political recourse.
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