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Government should worry about following the rules the people made for it before worrying about making rules for the people.

[Colion Noir @MrColionNoir]

Dan Osborn is running for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, and his new “common sense” gun proposal should worry every gun owner.

He wants people who own so-called “assault-style” rifles — AR-15s, M16s, AKs, and anything he decides fits that category — to take a mental health exam every five years and re-register their guns just to keep what they already legally own.

But here’s the part that makes the entire proposal fall apart.

The shooting he keeps using to justify it was committed with a shotgun.

Not an AR-15. Not an AK. Not an M16. A shotgun.

So his plan wouldn’t have stopped the very tragedy he’s using to sell it.

That’s not policy. That’s emotion dressed up as “common sense.”

And it gets worse. Osborn says he checked with law enforcement and one gun owner who supposedly had no issue with the idea. One guy. A sample size of one. Meanwhile, the Nebraska Firearm Owners Association — with over 26,000 members — called the proposal an attack on individual liberty.

Because a right you have to renew every five years isn’t a right.

It’s a subscription.

And the government can cancel a subscription.

Today it’s AR-15s.

Tomorrow it’s shotguns.

Then five years becomes three.

Then the exam changes.

Then the people deciding whether you’re “mentally fit” to keep your rifle are the same people who never wanted you to have it in the first place.

This is how gun control works: pick the scary word, ignore the facts, call it common sense, and make law-abiding gun owners beg permission to keep what they already own.

Shop the “America” hat at:

https://t.co/YplOlyDFPM

[Firearms Policy Coalition @gunpolicy]

Ah yes, the Second Amendment, famously restricted by the local tavern's sales margins.

Under TX law, if a restaurant sells 50% burgers and 50% beer, you can protect yourself. If they sell 51% beer, you're an outlaw.

Our opening brief is due at the Fifth Circuit today in our Ziegenfuss v Martin TX Carry Ban Lawsuit. We’ll keep you posted!

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

When people say we need to find a balance between privacy and allowing law enforcement to do their job, I remind them that the 4th Amendment is that balance.

If you want access to someone's life, get a warrant.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

We Asked AI To Simulate What Would Happen If AOC Was Forced To Learn Economics

Made with @grok.

[Firearms Policy Coalition @gunpolicy]

Today, our reply brief is due at the Fifth Circuit in our Roberts v. ATF FPC-Backed NFA Lawsuit.

SBRs and suppressors are ordinary, common arms protected by the plain text of the Second Amendment. The state has exactly zero historical authority to gate keep them behind a national watchlist or administrative red tape.

[Tom Gresham @Guntalk]

@MZHemingway I’m halfway through Alito. Having made my living with the written and spoken word for 55 years I say say this is excellent writing! Well done!

[Garand Thumb @GarandThumb1]

Carnik Con creator arrested for discussing widely available/free information. Support him, the Feds are trying to take him down. The VA also will not be treating him for MS during this time. Support him and his family. He’s a awesome individual and doesn’t deserve this.

https://t.co/sD3u1SR2A3

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Dear United States Senators (all of you):

You are not royalty.

You are not the House of Lords.

You are politicians, meaning your profession enjoys a public reputation below Mafia lawyers and prostitutes.

You do not have an automatic lifetime tenure.

You work for us, the People. We don't work for you.

The sooner you figure all of this out the less painful it will be for you.

Love,
CP

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

"I have nothing to hide" is one of my least favorite sayings.

Just because you don't have anything smart to say, it's not a reason to abolish free speech.

Privacy is the foundation of a free society, and needs to be protected at all costs.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

How it is supposed to be

[Tom Gresham @Guntalk]

Never give up personal liberty to make the police department's job easier.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

The government doesn't need a warrant to track you. Your finances, movements, even whom you pray with, protest with, or sleep with — it can just be bought from data brokers.
It's because of the 3rd-Party Doctrine loophole. Here's how the loophole works, and how it can be closed.

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

Adamiak's petition denied. Shame on the Supreme Court.

He needs a pardon now.

No news on Duncan and the other hardware cases.

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.

That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.

Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.

A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

[U.S TROOPS🇺🇲 @Ustroopss]

Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests

I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system..

We will never forgot her ever

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

This is especially based because of the reasoning he uses.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

@GovernorVA Breaking: Virginia Democrats furious, that courts keep referring to some strange document that prevents them from doing whatever they want.

[Mark W. Smith/#2A Scholar @fourboxesdiner]

@AP Awesome. Thanks @ap for publishing this. Will be super helpful and likely be cited by SCOTUS when they rule AR-15s and semi-automatic rifles are protected by 2A and cannot be banned.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Such hypocrisy