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Independence Day SITREP
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. Bondiland Military Populism Just a word about the two legal […]
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07.03.25
06.09.25
DD-Day
Defense Distributed v. Bondi Last Friday Defense Distributed made its first filings in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s VanDerStok decision. Unlike the case’s other plaintiffs, we’ve maintained fully briefed Second and Fifth Amendment arguments that can now have their day. AG Bondi and the Trump DOJ asked for a sixty (60) day stay to […]
05.20.25
Trump’s DOJ and G80 Receivers
On Friday the Trump DOJ announced a settlement with Rare Breed Triggers, which in a significant way ends the public battle over Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs). This was broadcast by our government as a win for the Second Amendment: My opinion of this outcome is biased by our own (ongoing) DOJ settlement conversations in what’s […]
04.22.25
On Raids and Raiding
Last week ATF raided and arrested the moderators of a Discord server connected to the interstate development and sale of 3D NFA items. Though one of these moderators may have been a confidential informant, word is the raids were simply the result of an(other) anonymous tip. When a journalist asked me if this is the […]
04.01.25
All Fools’ Day
Reason has two excellent pieces on the takeaways from Bondi v. VanDerStok. Today’s is a survey of the judicial cowardice of the Court’s “Salerno rule” by professor Josh Blackman, a Defense Distributed attorney. The Salerno rule was how Judge Sutton of the Sixth Circuit saved Obamacare’s individual mandate back in 2011. It featured in Justice […]