Grewal and the Ghosts

April 6, 2021

Nothing in all that letter-writing seemed to incline the Supreme Court to bail out Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, from his little Texan predicament with Defense Distributed. As I told Law360, the General has under color of law deprived the American public of information protected by the First and Second Amendments. He will be judged by a Texas court.

That probably stings for him to contemplate. He has said it is unfair for a Texas court to interpret New Jersey’s very important, not at all illegal, gun laws. Mr. Grewal, it’s as fair as when a second-generation Asian immigrant with no background in half a millennium of Anglo-American political philosophy acts to criminalize free speech in Texas.

In other news, we’re told the President, who is demented, is definitely signing an executive order to “do something” about 3D gun plans. He’s also directed his ATF to expand the definition of firearm receivers.

Just a word about this new epoch of *additional* firearm receivers. Sixty years of ATF determination letters and industry guidance has baked in how firearms are made in this country. It doesn’t matter how many lawyers, how many moms and lispy activists you throw at the problem. There are already so many laws and practices in the supply and production of firearms in this country that to add this smallest, newest wrinkle, this tiniest of additional serialization requirements, would explode production and administrative costs so totally that no one but a blind Everytown progressive could believe it might have a chance of happening.

Nick Kristof has added his august voice in support of the (demented) President’s brave stand against the Ghost Gun menace, and once again the Ghost Gunner makes the pages of The New York Times. Between us, Nick, your copy is really killer advertisement that I’m unable to buy any other way. Don’t risk losing the newsroom over selling so many of our ghost gun machines with your carelessness! We don’t want to see you exiled to Medium like your bud Donald McNeil, writing about the “G-word” or something.

Dominica will be giving brief remarks at BANB on April 10 in Austin.

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