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August 7th, 2026

Is this DOJ really going to protect our 2A rights?

Recent court decision has strongly upheld your, mine, our “2A” (Second Amendment i.e. individual gun rights). Celebration time, right?

Fascinating case and even more fascinating, more exciting, outcome, because for a hundred years Americans have watched government chip away at your, mine, our rights, and all of a sudden the proverbial flood gates are opening up in the opposite direction, against the anti-freedom tide.

It appears that a whole host of long-time gun control rules and bits are going to be simply swept away. Like gone with the wind away, evaporated.

Things like suppressors (“silencers” for those silly people who get their ideas about guns from Hollywood movies) will no longer be considered a firearm, and will no longer be regulated as a firearm. Ditto for short barreled rifles and short shotguns, highly effective self defense items that have been used by anti-gun rights law enforcement to confuse and entrap way too many well intentioned and otherwise law-abiding Americans for way too long.

Now that the National Firearms Act is no longer a taxing law, courts are striking down all of its old tax-based gun regulations. And this tidal wave of regulatory relief is going to be a shock to the American political system. The genie will be coming out of the lamp, the cork will be coming out of the bottle, the river will be bursting through the dam, and there will be liberty proclaimed throughout The Land.

Or will there?

Because there is one not-so-small potential impediment remaining: President Trump’s very own Dept. of Justice. And so the question is Will The DOJ Let These Holdings Stand, or will it appeal them to the US Supreme Court?

I am a huge President Trump fan, have remained so through thick and thin. It is my hope that he not let his government appointees get involved, but will put his foot down, and block the remaining little anti-2A DOJ worms from appealing these decisions.

Huge test of the pro-2A commitments we have heard for so many years. Yes, I believe those commitments were meant when they were made, and yes, the Trump Administration has been fabulous on 2A freedom. But allowing this much freedom for this many citizens to happen this fast is really the acid test.

Mister President Trump, I hope that you will order your DOJ to stand down, and let these court holdings stand for themselves, and become the law of the land.

By Josh • Posted in Government Of the People... • No Comment
March 19th, 2025

Vote: NRA Board of Directors

The National Rifle Association board of directors election is happening right now, and your vote counts a lot. And a lot is at stake. The organization is recovering from decades of bureaucratic malaise and overspending, personal ego battles among leaders, and frankly, the overstayed-your-welcome of its longtime Executive VP, Wayne LaPierre. The more people asked Wayne LaPierre to step down, the more he clung to power, hogged public attention, and damaged the careers and lives of those NRA staff and associates whom he perceived to be less than groveling to him.

The NRA has had some rough times, no doubt, and other worthy groups like Gun Owners of America have seized the opportunity to grow their market share of the 2A crowd. But it is still a fact that the NRA is the best sheriff in town to take on the anti-freedom tyrants. Though NRA has had some internal drama (and so has GOA), no one does its job better. NRA still deserves your membership, your support, your donation when purchasing things at Midway.

Yes, Donald Trump is now president, and so no, the federal government is not presently at war with our 2A rights and the groups that protect them, like the NRA. But presidents come and go, and our advocates like NRA must be able to stay in the fight, during the good times and the bad.

Presently there is an internal contest going on at NRA, at the board level and amongst some of the staff, about Whither NRA. There is an effort to keep the “old regime” folks around, when what is needed is a complete overhaul, a housecleaning, an NRA 2.0. For that to happen, new voices and fresh faces have to be voted onto the board. I happen to know a few of the board members (spanning all positions on Whither NRA), and I have been asking them what their opinions are about some of the new faces and some of the old faces.

Couple of recommended NO votes: Larry “Bathroom Bud” Craig (for God’s sake, NRA, have you no shame?), Sandra Froman (been a board member for long enough now, thank you), Joel Friedman, a fantastic 2A stalwart who tied himself too closely to Wayne LaPierre and the old NRA establishment.

Recommended YES votes:

  1. Knox Williams of the American Suppressor Association. I do not own suppressors, nor am I interested in suppressors. My gun interests are in the circa 1775-1925 range. However, a lot of new gun owners are very into suppressors and the modern sporting rifles they connect to. Young people like Knox Williams speak this new language and are necessary for the NRA to walk effectively into the 21st century.
  2. Jonathan Goldstein, a well known Second Amendment attorney from here in Pennsylvania.
  3. Al Hammond, Mitzy McCorvey, Anthony Colandro, Charles Hiltunen, Isaac Demarest, Todd Ellis, and Jim Wallace are all fresh voices much needed on the NRA board.

Your official NRA ballot is due before April 6th, 2025, so get it in the mail, pronto.

 

 

By Josh • Posted in Fruit of Contemplation • No Comment