California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed the long-anticipated “Responsible Gun Manufacturing Act,” Assembly Bill 1127, a law that may now trigger a major challenge under the Second Amendment. The law banned the Glock semi-automatic handguns that are a favorite of American gun owners, including former Vice President Kamala Harris.
The law constitutes one of the most ambitious gun bans since the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) that gun ownership is an individual right. At the time, Justice Antonin Scalia stressed that the Second Amendment protects all types of firearms “in common use at the time” for “lawful purposes like self-defense.”
Gun control advocates have been chipping away at this concept by arguing that a variety of popular weapons, such as the AR-15, cannot be considered “in common use at the time” of the ratification.
Scalia, however, joined Justice Clarence Thomas in 2015 in a dissent in the denial of certiorari in Friedman v. Highland Park, involving a local ban on semi-automatic firearms. Thomas wrote that “several Courts of Appeals… have upheld categorical bans on firearms that millions of Americans commonly own for lawful purposes” and that such rulings are “noncompliance with our Second Amendment precedents.”
Thomas noted that such rulings suggested that states could ban “AR-style semiautomatic rifles” even though an “overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes, including self-defense and target shooting. Under our precedents, that is all that is needed for citizens to have a right under the Second Amendment to keep such weapons.”
In the case of the AR-15, an estimated one in 20 Americans own such weapons. The Glock is even more popular. In 2021 alone, industry data shows that Glock produced 581,944 handguns with another 465,117 in 2022. It is also the weapon of choice for an estimated over 65 percent of law enforcement agencies.
Notably, we previously discussed how Vice President Kamala Harris made a less-than-convincing pitch to gun owners during her presidential run after years of calling for gun bans. She hailed her Glock as a cherished companion. As it became apparent that Harris was losing men generally, the campaign made ham-handed efforts to reinvent Harris. In a softball interview with Oprah, Harris declared that she is a gun owner and “if somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot.”
When liberals like CBS’s Bill Whitaker expressed shock at her new gun-toting persona on the campaign trail, he asked if she actually fired it. Harris then did her best Rooster Cogburn, who noted “Well a gun that ain’t loaded, ain’t much good for nuthin.”
When she was the San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris was one of the signatories on the District Attorneys’ amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller, in support of the handgun ban.
It convinced no one.
The California law will now take effect on July 1, 2026, “[banning] the sale of new Glock-brand pistols and Glock-style clones.” In my view, it is unconstitutional under prior Supreme Court precedent.
Democrats previously called for banning “Glock switches” that can be affixed to the rear of a Glock slide to make the pistol shoot full auto. However, such switches are already unlawful. They are now going after the gun itself, confirming the objections of gun rights groups that such early bans were moves to lay the foundation to ban semiautomatic weapons generally.
That seems borne out by the language of the bill. The text of AB 1127 says:
“A ‘machinegun-convertible pistol’ as any semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be readily converted by hand or with common household tools into a machinegun by the installation or attachment of a pistol converter, as specified, and “pistol converter” as any device or instrument that, when installed in or attached to the rear of the slide of a semiautomatic pistol, replaces the backplate and interferes with the trigger mechanism and thereby enables the pistol to shoot automatically more than one shot by a single function of the trigger.”
The legislation makes repeated reference to any weapon that can be “equipped with a pistol converter.” Thus, even though the Glock switches are unlawful, criminals still use them and thus the gun itself falls under this category as a “machine-gun convertible” weapon.
The Supreme Court has fueled these laws by repeatedly turning down review of bans. States like Illinois outlawed some of the most commonly used rifles and magazines in America. In Bevis v. City of Naperville, the Seventh Circuit overturned the district court’s preliminary injunction against enforcement of the ban on the basis that the plaintiffs were unlikely to prevail.
While various Supreme Court Justices have expressed disagreement with Bevis, the Court refused to take up the case. However, Justice Kavanaugh said that the Court is likely to grant certiorari “in the next Term or two.”
California may have just filled that pledge.
I never go anywhere without my Glock attached to my hip including Sunday Mass.
Obviously you feel the need to compensate for your exceptionally small hands,
Estovir,
Good on you! In this day and age of lawless Democrats, promoting or even passing no cash bail, releasing multiple violent offenders or the mentally ill back out on the streets of America to assault, rape, or even commit murder, one has to be vigilant for their and even others self protection.
I used to carry a gun in my car. Back before I became home-bound. Once, I went to visit a farmer on business, and the dude had a rifle on his tractor out in the field where he was plowing. I respected that! I think that we live in a country more violent than when the hostile Indians were around and raiding and carrying off white women on a regular basis.
I want every democrat helping illegals in this country…ARRESTED!
Guns don’t kill people…people kill people!
I want all the management employing illegals to be arrested. Clean out the Fortune 500.
Let me guess… Gavin Newsom and many of the Democrats have full time security teams!
Do you really have to guess?
I re-wrote the meme poem, a little. The version on the T-shirts, posters and coffee cups just doesn’t scan properly, IMHO:
Now, I lay me down to sleep.
Beside my bed, a gun I keep.
If I wake up, and you’re inside,
Tonite will be the night you died.
(Here’s the meme version –
Now I lay me down to sleep, beside my bed a gun I keep. If I wake and You’re inside, A Coroner’s van will be your last ride.
You can get stuff like this at Amazon, and Etsy.
The Left will not stop until nobody can get their pistol out –
Somehow I get the feeling that the people on the left feel that whatever they want to accomplish, they better do it now. I’m wondering if they see the window closing on them and their BS.
Actually, I feel the opposite. The left is waiting out Trump and assuming that their own brand of Communist will take over the White House in 2028, a la Mamdani in NYC. It is the Trumpists who are in a big hurry because they think they will lose the House in the mid-terms.
Perhaps you should do a little less feeling and a lot more thinking. Einstein.
For handguns I always used Sig Sauer, Springfield armory, Colt, or Kendall. Never used a Glock. Oh and some advice, don’t drop the Sig Sauer.
An option would be to just buy about 6 flintlock pistols on a rope or leather straps and drap it over your shoulders under a stylish light coat. That should satisfy California till this gets reversed. You could even rifle them and still be compliant.
And all that makes you a potential mass murderer.
Oh to be a conservative in 2025!
In your feeble little opinion.
You have a car? That makes you a potential mass murderer.
I have a Dan Wesson 357 revolver with a six inch-ish barrel. I keep it beside the recliner, where I sleep. Sounds like a cannon, but very easy to use, and fairly accurate. I may try to get a semi-auto pistol one day, in case a gang breaks in.
” I may try to get a semi-auto pistol one day, in case a gang breaks in.”
I have several .357 Ruger revolvers, but my “in case a break in happens tonight” weapon is my Maverick 12 ga with 18″ barrel, folding stock, laser sight, pistol grip, and an adapter that allows me to use mini shells reliably (I have the slug/shot hybrid variety), so I can get 11 – 12 loaded. It’s pump, not semi-auto, but that is due to NJ’s nitwit logic that bans a semi-automatic shotgun equipped with more than 2 of their “magic features” as an assault weapon, but allows pretty much anything at all to be installed on a pump gun. I can cycle a pump gun pretty much as quickly as I could reliably shoot a semi, so that doesn’t much concern me. Anyway, unless a home invasion exceeded 3 – 4 thugs, I suspect my biggest issue might be the clean-up the following day…
HK, Ruger.
“don’t drop the Sig Sauer.”
From what I have read, the inadvertent discharge issue is confined to the P320 series. My preference has always been been revolvers; I have three Rugers in .357 mag/.38 Spc. I did get a semi-auto after I got my NJ Permit to Carry (an ordeal I won’t go into here). I bought an SCCY DVG-1 (striker-fired 9mm, made in US) in order to gain experience with that type without spending a lot of money. I spite of the low cost, and some controversy about the company and its firearms, I have had positive experiences with my DVG-1 at the range, and for daily carry, although the slide action is on the stiff side. I have been contemplating moving up to the Ruger 500 in 9mm; since SCCY filed for bankruptcy last May with no apparent intention to reorganize, I will probably follow though on that fairly soon. The DVG-1 will make a fine backup gun.
Since all it takes is four justices to grant cert, what accounts for the denials? Three of the six must vote to deny, even in cases where circuit courts appear to be disregarding applicable precedent.
How can a reasonable person live in a state that perpetually attacks their constitutional rights like necrotizing fasciitis? One would think after a time they’d elect representatives that believed in and would support their constitutional rights.
“How can a reasonable person live in a state that perpetually attacks their constitutional rights. . .”
I think that the answer is in the question. They are not reasonable persons.
“I think that the answer is in the question. They are not reasonable persons.”
I have considered moving out of NJ for quite some time, but have not, for several reasons. I have a lot of friends and family here. I also have a continuous line of ancestors who first arrived here in 1654, and I take that kind of tradition seriously. Moving out feels like conceding that the @$$h013$ have won, and I guess I’m too damned stubborn to do that. I do have some off-grid property in a more rational state (doesn’t narrow it down much, eh?) that I could flee to if things go totally belly-up.
I think that the answer is in the question. They are not reasonable persons.
Floyd, that’s actually a very ignorant opinion. There are a plethora of reasons I live in California. It’s easy to say, ‘Just move.’ But our founders didn’t walk away from their homes when their rights were threatened—they stood and defended them. The Constitution was written to endure testing times like these, not to be protected only in easy places. For those of us who love both our state and our country, staying isn’t unreasonable—it’s responsible. If we abandon the field, liberty has no defenders left on it.
An IGNORANT opinion??? Maybe, although in fairness to me, I would prefer the terms “misguided” or “reactionary” or “not well-thought-out.”
I understand and appreciate the various reasons why one might stay in a deteriorating situation. Perhaps you have a good job, or all your family is in the area, or you own a business. Perhaps one is just old, and thinks, “Heck, I will be dead and in the ground before everything goes to pieces.” Or maybe they just can’t afford to leave, or they love their home. But I think the most likely reason is, that one lives in a localized area that is still nice and civilized, and that things have not yet gotten to the point where one’s very survival is threatened.
But sometimes being unreasonable is the answer as to why one might stay. Just like staying in a bad marriage, way past the point where you should have packed your bags and left. Imagine that you are 25 years old, making less than it takes to live well. Do you stay in California, or do you head to Texas or Iowa? Remember back when the Soviet Union dissolved? It was people leaving that caused that. People who just got fed up with the communist crap, and the 8 hour waits to buy toothpaste.
“Maybe, although in fairness to me, I would prefer the terms “misguided” or “reactionary” or “not well-thought-out.””
No; it is more than fair to point out you are irreversibly and abysmally ignorant. Trying to justify your Democrat level intolerance doesn’t save you.
If your intolerant Cat Lady ass had any children, who unlike you served in the military and were were posted states like New Jersey or California, we’re supposed to believe you’d tell them they must throw away their careers otherwise you would condemn them as not being “reasonable persons”?
Like yourself for example as a reasonable person? That’s a big fail at saving yourself and your Democrat level intolerance, Cat Lady Floyd.
I’m a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer. I could move anywhere, even another country, and live an easier life—but I didn’t wear the uniform to walk away when things get hard. I didn’t stay because I wanted a fight; the fight came to me. As Trotsky said, ‘You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.’ This battle isn’t just about one state—it’s global, and it’s eroding freedom through mass migration, failed assimilation, and cultural decay. If every conservative retreats to ‘safe’ states, that same cancer will eventually spread everywhere. I stay because freedom only survives when those who value it refuse to walk away.
“I stay because freedom only survives when those who value it refuse to walk away.”
When we open the doors to those who want freedom, we are at least in part closing the doors of that country to ever becoming free.
That’s a fair point, brother. If I understand you correctly, someone has to stand guard where freedom still lives. If everyone who values liberty walks away, tyranny isn’t defeated — it just advances. None of us chose this fight, but it’s here, and we either stand together or lose it everywhere.
Yes. I recall those stories of Jefferson and Adams moving from cover to cover with flintlocks at the ready.
The Constitution was written to protect the slave owners and disenfranchise women and Black Americans and to steal land. The big compromise was to only have 3/5ths of the right to representation that was stolen from slaves rather than all 5/5ths.
There is a wide open door
Several relatives and friends serving this country in uniform have been posted to New Jersey. For babbling civilians incapable of reasonable thought, here’s where three of them are currently posted:
Fort Dix: a Blackhawk pilot assigned to ASA Fort Dix Aviation Operations.
Picatinny Arsenal Joint Center of Excellence for Lethality: a West Point graduate with a engineering degree, working on the improvement and development of military small arms.
USCG Air Station Atlantic City: another helicopter pilot, sent to that search and rescue base to fly search and rescue missions.
I think there’s at least a dozen Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard US military bases in New Jersey. All the Americans serving there in uniform are supposedly “not reasonable persons” according to your civilian definitions?
Floyd, I don’t think you know what a “reasonable person” actually is now – if you ever did.
Democrat level intolerant and sophomoric Cat Ladies like Margot and yourself should consider getting a hotel room to continue your romance and Democrat style ideology.
“I think there’s at least a dozen Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard US military bases in New Jersey. ”
This map and list seems reasonably accurate, with one exception: Atlantic City International Airport shouldn’t be listed: the airport is there, but the site is shared with the 177th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard:
Military Bases and Facilities in New Jersey
https://www.zipdatamaps.com/en/us/poi/military/state/new-jersey/military-bases
Keep in mind a majority voted for him and the platform. Its democracy as it should be. For some reason you can process that.
To imply they’re not reasonable in fact makes you the unreasonable one.
Maybe you and you gun touting conservatives should invade the state and setup government, implement marshal law.
It’s martial law, you illiterate and ahistorical imbecile.
A slight majority of those choosing to vote, voted for Trump; a 1% or so difference on the scales. It is treated as if it was a 100% vote of everyone to have that lunatic in office.
It was on the promise to cut prices. Are prices being cut?
OK Gigi, you’re the only one who believed Trump was going to cause deflation.
Margot, why would any reasonable person live in a country that’s constantly attacking their rights? Same logic. Because this is my country and my state. Abandoning either is not an option
@OLLY – Margot didn’t mention country, did she? Your state is constantly testing the constitution making life for its residents difficult. You want to be noble and hang in there go for it, I voted with my feet and have not regretted it. I left family, friends the whole megillah when the state I resided in began looking like the east coast California. I speak to family and friends regularly and all I hear are “taxes are too high, crime, illegals, schools and teachers suck.” Olly if you neighborhood turns to crime, drugs, random shootings, your family is unsafe what do you do, fly a flag I’m not leaving because of my principal? No you’ll leave and find safe harbor for them and yourself, your not “abandoning” anything your being reasonable. Oh I forgot Katie Porter will turn things around?
Margot didn’t mention country, did she?
You missed the point when I said, “Same logic.”
I get it — leaving can feel like the practical choice. But if every freedom-minded person flees, the people dismantling our rights win by default. That’s not being ‘reasonable,’ that’s surrendering the battlefield. The Constitution was never meant to be defended only in comfortable conditions. California’s demographics actually mirror the country — a few deep-blue population centers dominate the map, while the vast majority of this beautiful state is not. If we can’t stand for liberty here, we won’t stand anywhere. What lesson would I be teaching my son if I ran from the fight for our rights? I’m not staying out of stubbornness; I’m staying because freedom doesn’t protect itself.
@OLLY – In all due respect please don’t preach to me about liberty, fight and battlefield, I wake each day with those reminders. You stay in California, fight the good fight, for now my memory of California is Oakland harbor and a troop ship and thats enough. God Bless my friend, didn’t want to get into a P contest.
“How can a reasonable person live in a state that perpetually attacks their constitutional rights like necrotizing fasciitis?”
You have to be as eagerly willfully blind as a Democrat to make such a statement – the arrogance from your safe little space that there’s no justifiable reason for remaining in these Democrat states.
Aging parents needing care? No excuse.
The military posted you there? No excuse.
Your employer promoted you and transferred you there? No excuse.
There’s a long list of legitimate reasons an American may choose to remain in these states. Just like there are reasons that gun-hating Democrats may remain in states that allow their fellow citizens to carry anything, concealed or open, including fully automatic weapons without so much as a permit.
Moron level intolerance isn’t unanimously confined to infecting Democrats.
@anny
“Moron level intolerance isn’t unanimously confined to infecting Democrats.”
Thanks for your opinion Ms Porter.
That’s a piss poor attempt to make a non sequitur into a metaphor… but you did your best, Karen.
Interesting to note that GLOCK has discontinued most of their product line.
Discontinued:
G17 – Gen4
G17 MOS – Gen4 | Gen5
G17L – Classic | Gen3
G17L MOS – Gen5
G19 – Gen4
G19 MOS – Gen4
G20 – Gen3 | Gen4
G21 – Gen3 | Gen4
G21SF
G22 – Gen3 | Gen4 | Gen5
G22 MOS – Gen5
G23 – Gen4
G24
G26 – Gen4
G27 – Gen3 | Gen 4 | Gen5
G29 – Gen3 | Gen 4 | Gen5
G29SF
G30 – Gen3 | Gen 4 | Gen5
G31 – Gen3 | Gen4
G32 – Gen3 | Gen4
G33 – Gen3 | Gen4
G34 – Gen3 | Gen4
G34 MOS – Gen4 | Gen5
G35 – Gen3 | Gen4
G35 MOS – Gen4
G36
G36 FGR
G37 – Gen3 | Gen4
G38
G39
G40 MOS – Gen4
G41 – Gen4
G41 MOS – Gen4
G49
They haven’t really. Glock is doing just fine. More of a streamlining to focus on the better selling guns. Some of those Gen4’s have a Gen5 they are now selling. Some of those reflect a move away from .40S&W and some are odd-ball proprietary calibers that weren’t selling very well.
Heck I love my .40
Been shooting this thing for 20 years
What’s interesting to note is people can create (or copy) a list of discontinued Glock pistols and at the same time completely fail to notice that Glock’s production of semiautomatic pistols for both citizens and sworn police officers has not diminished.
While Glocks are close to the bottom of the list of pistols I would choose to replace what I currently carry, Glock is in no danger of seeing their sales to either citizens or police collapse.
Which leads a sentient person to wonder what the OP was trying to say in creating/copying and pasting that list?
In Other News: “California Bans Glockenspiels Claiming The Instrument Can Be Converted to Play Gangsta Rap Music.”
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Califormia politicians voted to ban the sale of the glockenspiel musical instrument due to the fact that it could be misused to play “violence inciting gangsta rap music.”
Representative Whitey Pickett-Fence justified the law stating, “All a teenager has to do is hook a glockenspiel up to a synthesizer, adjust the modulation, the attack and decay envelope, and you have a rap music generating clarion that calls kids to violence. Even a toy glockenspiel, the ones having the wooden case with the rainbow keys, can be converted to play songs like Ice-T’s ‘Colors’. or Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’. And the next thing you know the kid commits a drive-by shooting.”
Gangsta’s Paradise is rap music???
As I have stated repeatedly, the willful and with malice violation of the Constitutional Rights of citizens by Courts, Government Agencies, Companies/Organizations/ and Individuals must be accompanied by Fines and/or Imprisonment. This is another case where it is clearly a malicious attempt to interfere with the “Right to bear arms “. Each legislator, the Governor that signed and any Court that upholds this attempt should be held liable if the SCOTUS or a Court finds this an unconstitutional overreach.
“the willful and with malice violation of the Constitutional Rights of citizens by Courts, Government Agencies, Companies/Organizations/ and Individuals must be accompanied by Fines and/or Imprisonment.”
That would require getting rid of the doctrine of “qualified immunity” for public employees. I am 100% in favor of that, how do we begin?
Yet Gavin Newsom is protected 24/7 by a heavily-armed security detail carrying weapons of war. Why doesn’t he give up his armed Praetorian Guard, if he feels so strongly about guns? We know why he never will. Because he wants to ban your guns, not his guns.
The average person hasn’t got some insane gun-loving stalker trying to get them.
Why does Trump not want 2nd Amendment lovers all carrying guns to his rallies?
Will Glocks be banned in neighboring states as well? Or in Mexico? This law will give rise to lots of smuggling; maybe it should be renamed the Cartel Enabling Act?
More virtue signaling for the 2028 race
Here’s something I don’t get…nobody in the gun rights movement is openly calling for changing the law to legalize machine guns. Instead, they toy with mechanical innovations to convert semi-automatics into virtual machine guns.
Why be so evasive? Why not challenge lawmakers directly? Are we looking at some kind out outlaw mentality that poopoos rule-of-law? It wouldn’t be the first group of Americans who identify that way.
From your statements here alone, I can surmise there is much more unstated that you don’t get. Cognition isn’t a friend to you.
Why are Anonymous Soviet Democrats so evasive: just make banning all firearms the central theme of all your federal election campaigns!
That should be a sure winner with Americans if you were to do that, instead of trying to make the Second Amendment a dead letter due to the death of a thousand cuts like this fascist California law.
When you don’t get is pretty much anything to do with the Second Amendment, firearms owners, or machine guns. Which are currently very legal to own, BTW.
And lying that Second Amendment civil rights groups AREN’T challenging lawmakers to eliminate prohibitive existing laws concerning machine guns isn’t going to help you develop any credibility. Particularly when you usually whine that the NRA is buying politicians in order to eliminate existing prohibitive gun laws.
Same reason they don’t object to keeping guns from children and released convicts, two classes of people not specifically excluded by the 2nd amendment.
I think the worry is that since the 2nd Amendment was established to avoid the formation of a permanent US army and it was avoiding the formation that was the protection from government abuse. Now there is a permanent US army and private ownership of guns is neither necessary for the common defense nor enough to protect against government abuse.
With these facts there is no reasonable approach to continue support of the 2nd Amendment. It doesn’t make Americans safe from their government and it doesn’t make them safe from each other. The majority of gun related deaths are from close acquaintances and, about the rest, 1/3 of those killed by strangers are killed by police.
OK….
Time for a morning laugh.
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Democrat Mark Kelly did the Sunday morning ‘news’ circuit. It was the tired blaming of Republicans for the Schumer Shutdown of the federal government that we’ve heard hundreds of times over the past week and more. He did add that he thought a certain someone would be a great Democrat presidential candidate in 2028. Yet the laughing horse Camalla.
I am old enough to remember when ‘Saturday night specials’ where the left’s gun boogeyman and were being banned. For some of you younger readers:
Firearm Type Description:
Saturday Night Specials Low-cost, small-caliber handguns often considered poorly made. They are typically associated with high crime rates.
Reagan was lucky enough to get shot by a Saturday night special, if it had been a quality high caliber handgun he would have died instantly.
Saturday Night Specials. Cop Killer Bullets. Invisible Plastic Guns. It’s one false claim after another to chip away at peoples’ rights.
So, those things don’t exist?
They exist as euphemisms and tropes.
I am old enough to remember when Useful Idiots didn’t go so far as to claim that a bullet of any caliber fired from a “Saturday Night Special” had a reduced velocity and energy than a bullet of that same caliber fired from any firearm not designated as a “Saturday Night Special”. Or find and present specious “Firearms Type Descriptions” – invariably generated by people who know as little about firearms as they do of the number of violent crimes prevented/stopped by a handgun, where the violent felon had no idea whether the intended victim’s handgun was a “Saturday Night Special” or not.
The .22 rimfire cartridge used wouldn’t have done anything different if fired from a S&W Model 17 having the same barrel length. If he had been shot with a larger caliber firearm, whether “Saturday Night Special” or not, the outcome could indeed have been different.
Next….
That same gun was a good enough gun to also cripple James Brady. Had the gunman taken better aim, both would be dead with that poorly made gun.
If I was a cynical thinker, I would assume the Glock was selected because they refused to pay tribute to the Newsom presidential campaign. Such a silly law. Now people will purchase another model gun. Also, Glocks will be on the black market at even higher prices.
OMG
Typical brain dead dem-o-rats.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters rallying against the Trump administration in Portland put the city’s quirky and irreverent reputation on display Sunday by pedaling through the streets wearing absolutely nothing — or close to it — in an “emergency” edition of the annual World Naked Bike Ride.
Morons at best.
Another good reason to make sure they are never in power.
All this nonsense costs the taxpayers money. Would be nice if the courts could not be overburdened with stuff that is explicit in the Constitution and case precedent.
Ano
All this nonsense costs the taxpayers money.
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You think lib/dems care about the cost?
They want to remove your rights, but do nothing about bad guys.
Once your protection is removed. You are owned by the state. They are the real Nazis