[TheHill] A federal judge blocked a federal law on Wednesday that prohibits the possession of a firearm with an “altered, obliterated or removed” serial number in light of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling expanding gun rights earlier this year.
Good.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin ruled that no historical standard exists to demonstrate that firearms without a serial number are more dangerous or unusual than firearms with a serial number, so the law is unconstitutional.
He said in his ruling that he is abiding by the Supreme Court’s June decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, in which the court struck down a New York law placing additional limits on who can carry a firearm outside the home.
The court ruled that the state’s requirement that applicants demonstrate a “special need” to carry a firearm outside the home beyond self-defense violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion that the regulations on firearms should be “consistent” with historical patterns of regulating firearms.
Goodwin said in his ruling that a firearm without a serial number, in 1791, was not considered more dangerous or unusual than other firearms because serial numbers were not commonly used at the time.
The Second Amendment was ratified as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791.
The government argued that the regulation is constitutional because it is a “commercial regulation” that does not infringe on the right to keep and bear arms.
But Goodwin, who was appointed to the Southern District of West Virginia by former President Clinton,
...appointer is not destiny...
ruled that the law is not a commercial regulation because it criminalizes the possession of firearms without a serial number, regardless of whether it is sold.
The case arose from charges filed against a man named Randy Price for violating the regulation prohibiting the possession of firearms without serial numbers and one prohibiting felons from possessing firearms.
At a traffic stop in Charleston, W.Va., police found a pistol without a serial number in Price’s possession. At the time officers allegedly found the pistol, Price had been convicted in Ohio of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery, making him a felon.
Price had challenged both on constitutional grounds. Goodwin upheld the restriction on felons possessing firearms.
[RedState] The White Coat Waste Project has uncovered that the head of the NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci, edited papers regarding bat-virus research conducted in Wuhan in January 2020, just weeks after the initial outbreak of the virus in China.
Throughout the author’s time investigating the COVID origins, the White Coat Waste Project has been an invaluable resource, aiding my efforts to investigate the role that individuals and funding from government organizations may have played in the creation and release of a deadly virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Aside from the very clear question that continues to go unanswered (namely, why we are funding US viral research at a Chinese military lab in the first place), it now appears that additional questions have risen about the oversight of funding awarded to EcoHealth Alliance (EHA).
From the White Coat Waste Project:
According to a paper published in late 2020—well after the pandemic began and EHA was under the microscope for its role in funding risky animal experiments at the Wuhan Animal Lab—Fauci himself edited and approved a study co-authored by Daszak that described how EHA traveled to Bangladesh to collect the highly-deadly Nipah virus from wild bats. Not only did Fauci review, edit and approve Daszak’s paper for the journal, he funded the study as well.
This, of course, comes on the heels of an August revelation that EHA was in violation of the terms of the grant used to fund research on bat coronaviruses. This violation earned the organization a termination of the funding for that grant.
From August 25, 2022:
In an August 19th letter to Congressman James Comer, The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced the suspension of the sub-grants awarded to EcoHealth Alliance to study bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The funding was originally to determine which of the bat-borne coronaviruses were likely to make the jump from animal to humans and the likelihood that those viruses could mutate into deadly potential pandemic pathogens. During the 2018-2019 grant period, EcoHealth Alliance failed to report the creation of a deadly, more virulent virus that infected humanized cells with ACE2 receptors in laboratory mice, a violation of the terms of their grant.
Those ACE2 receptors are the same receptors utilized by SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak) to infect humans, though the NIH states that experiments were never conducted on viruses with any genetic similarities to SARS-CoV-2
My 84-year-old father taught me a lot of things, most notably that "non-disclosure of a material fact is a form of misrepresentation." In other words, Fauci’s lack of mentioning anything regarding the editing of reports or papers on behalf of EcoHealth Alliance, was in fact, a misrepresentation. During Fauci’s now half-dozen or more congressional hearings on the origins of COVID-19, during which Fauci was under oath, never once did Fauci have the intellectual honesty to mention that he has been responsible for editing papers by the same organization and the same lab, which are under that same congressional microscope. Fauci never determined that he was under any moral or ethical requirement to disclose that he had approved funding on a grant on which he was also participating, a misrepresentation (see: lie) about funding research on bat viruses at the WIV.
Throughout the last two years of investigations into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak, I have characterized Peter Daszak, the President of the EcoHealth Alliance as the “Bond Villain” in this story. It seemed that everywhere you turned in this story you found Daszak. Daszak organized the opposition to the lab-leak theory, later published in The Lancet scientific journal. Daszak later headed The Lancet‘s own COVID Origins committee, which was later disbanded because of Daszak’s conflict of interest. Daszak was used as a propaganda puppet by the CCP to discount the lab leak theory. Daszak also snaked his way onto the WHO’s investigation team, which later spent only four of the over three-hundred-page report considering the lab-leak theory. Daszak and EHA were also allowed by the NIH and NIAID to define their own research, which allowed the semantic side-step of the US Government bans on Gain-of-Function viral research. The White Coat Waste Project also pointed out, as has also been previously reported here at RedState, that Daszak heaped praise upon NIAID Director Anthony Fauci in the days after the initial outbreak of COVID-19, for denying the potential of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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The minute it was discovered that Fauci signed off on research grants to Wuhan he should have been fired. Whether it was illegal or not, it should have been. If Congress wasn't loaded with Democrats and RINOs it would be and Fauci would be in federal prison.
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Hey, come on, you know how hard it is to fire a civil servant. /sarc
[NYPOST] Mayor Eric Adams faces a crisis that could break his mayoralty, and Gov. Kathy Hochul just told him she won’t lift a finger to help.
Asked Thursday about Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ...Machine non-entity selected to become the successor to Hillary Clinton as Senatrix-for-Life from Noo Yawk. She is running for the Dem presidential nomination in 2020. She has no observable principles, will apparently say anything to anyone, and seemingly lacks any personality of her own.... ’s idea of letting Upstate take some of the illegal migrants colonists overwhelming the city’s social services, the gov said, basically: Maybe after the election.
"When there becomes a legal path and work papers and a different dynamic, certainly there’ll be a lot of places that will want to embrace this community," is how she put it. The least of these — getting migrants colonists the papers to work legally — will take months.
(As for "legal path" and "different dynamic": Republicans are about to take control of the House, and maybe the Senate too. The dynamic’s not headed in any progressive direction.)
Naturally, Hochul pretended it’s all about caring for the poor asylum seekers (as Democrats prefer to call them), intoning about "how many more times these people have to be shuffled around."
No: It’s about what Queens Borough President Donovan Richards calls "a powder keg" and "a recipe for a social and economic disaster." And that’s with just 20,000 or so migrants colonists here so far, when they’re still coming into the country at over 2 million a year — with perhaps a fifth naming New York as where they’d rather be.
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Who declared your city a sanctuary zone for illegals? /rhet question
[NYPOST] President Biden brushed off $7-a-gallon gas in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, — saying "that’s always been the case"
...where always means at least for the last quarter hour...
and confusingly linking it to housing — after paying $60 for takeout Thursday at a Los Angeles taco shop.
Biden said without elaboration that "housing" was "the most important thing" for gas prices, which in California actually surged 39% over the past 12 months for an average of $6.20 per gallon, according to AAA.
"The inflation report is out. Have you seen gas prices around here in LA? It’s 7 bucks a gallon almost," a news hound said after Biden handed a cashier three $20 bills for a $16.45 order of six tacos and two quesadillas.
"Well, that’s always been the case here," Biden replied.
"You know, it’s not — what — nationwide, they came down about $1.35, and they’re still down over a dollar. But we’re going to work on — housing is the big — is the most important thing we have to do in terms of that."
It’s unclear if Biden, who turns 80 next month, intended to draw a closer link between the two subjects before his reply was cut off by a different news hound’s question, but his answer attracted attention after a series of recent gaffes.
James Gallagher, the Republican minority leader in the California Assembly, tweeted, "Bidenism at its finest in LA today. High gas prices is a housing problem?"
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Put this demented asshole back in his rubber room
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after Biden handed a cashier three $20 bills for a $1645 order of six tacos and two quesadillas.
Just can’t buy a vote, can you, Plugs?
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I bought gas yesterday @ $6 per gallon. I have paid as high as $7. Gas in California has always been higher than other parts of the country. But never, until Biden took office, has it been much over $5 and usually more like $4 per gallon.
By now, Biden's handlers should know better than to let him go off script. Maybe they could put one of those dog collars under his shirt that would give him a little electrical jolt whenever starts off into the weeds.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was interrupted by protesters at her Bronx town hall Wednesday over her vote to approve military aid to Ukraine
'I believed in you, and you became the very thing you sought to fight against. That's what you've become,' one protester yelled. 'You are the establishment'
Two men shouted down AOC during the question-and-answer period of the town hall, in which many of the seats remained unoccupied
'You originally ran as an outsider, yet you've been voting to start this war in Ukraine,' the other man said
The progressive left - which historically has held a more anti-war stance than their mainstream Democratic counterparts - has quietly backed the war effort
#1
There are three political parties in the US now. Democrat (party of Pelosi, AOC, Biden), Republican (party of Mitch McConnall), MAGA (party of Donald Trump).
McConnell and Graham and Romney and Cheney’s party is the Uniparty: the globalists, grifters, groomers and goons of the Deep State. These assholes are indistinguishable from Biden on the issues of the FBI’s outrageous lies and attacks and the Swamp’s pointless forever wars in shitholes where we have no vital interest.
Their opposition is the true Republican Party, the America First party that opposes the liberal globalists, the Swamp and its asinine forever wars.
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Ukraine / Russia war.
This should go down in history as the Best Investment based on Return On Investment.
What did it cost Ukraine a few $$ Million in the US LSD party leadership and their family members with a 1,999,900+% ROI?
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Our elites really would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
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But Nancy Pelosi's comment still stands. A glass of water with a D after its name could win election in that district.
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Phons Omert2327, you are right that there are three, and you are right about the divisions, but you are wrong in the naming. Mage is the GOP now.
Mitch McConnall and company are like that Japanese soldier on a pacific island who didn't know the war was lost. They will learn this without a shadow of a doubt in the Midterms and most will not re-run.
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McConnell and his ilk are becoming fewer and fewer. The future of the GOP is MAGA. A shift has taken place in which corporate big wigs and other uber wealthy types have deviated from traditional American, patriotic conservatism as we knew it when we were young in favor of globalism as witnessed in places like Davos. My theory is that this shift started with granting communist China most favored nation trading status and entry into WTO. Before Trump, middle American, patriotic, conservative voters had no say in the matter. But with Trump, their voices are now heard and it scares the hell out of Democrats and globalist McConnell/Romney/Graham/Bush type Republicans.
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I'm afraid your analysis is about 97% accurate Abu.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Machine non-entity selected to become the successor to Hillary Clinton as Senatrix-for-Life from Noo Yawk. She is running for the Dem presidential nomination in 2020. She has no observable principles, will apparently say anything to anyone, and seemingly lacks any personality of her own....
[NYPOST] President Biden brushed off $7-a-gallon gas in 
