I forgot to mention, just in case you hadn't seen, there was no appeal during that 7 days

and, in that district at least, 
Did you feel that last night? The Earth moved a little as history was made in Austin, Texas at a little past midnight when two people legally bought suppressors without any National Firearms Act registration or paperwork.

Which is good.  However,
Though the Department of Justice declined to ask a federal judge to extend the stay on his decision that the NFA's registration scheme is unlawful when it comes to now-untaxed items, allowing his injunction to take effect as of today, the department still has nearly two months to decide whether or not to appeal that decision to the Fifth Circuit.

Not asking for the stay to remain in place is a very good sign, but a statement that DOJ does not plan to appeal would be even better. Unfortunately, when given the option to do so earlier today, the agency pointedly took a pass.
So there are questions, and a lot of places aren't selling until they get something on paper from DoJ/ATF saying they can.  Which I can't blame them for.

Lots of other questions: Do people who already own a suppressor need to keep the federal paperwork, or can it be destroyed?  Can we trust the feds to destroy the registration lists they already have?  Etc.

So I'd hold off on building a SBR, things like that, until we have those answers, just to be safe.

And there's the mid-term elections coming, with most of the Democrats playing 'Kiss the Socialist Ass' for votes, and their current frontrunner for the next Presidential election with a solid record of wanting to destoy the 2nd Amendment..

As Kim notes, we'll see if Mr. Trump is truly on our side in this

Borrowing from his link,

Don’t go out and assemble that SBR yet, though. Judge Hendrix put a seven-day hold on his ruling so the Department of Justice can appeal. And the ruling will only apply to the plaintiffs and their members.

But, here’s the part you might not know: The DOJ doesn’t actually have to defend the NFA. They’re under no obligation at all to appeal the ruling.

Sure, career government lawyers usually file appeals automatically to defend federal laws. They see it as their job. But, the DOJ is part of the executive branch, and President Trump is the guy at the top. He’s the one who signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law that zeroed out the tax in the first place. Just as President Obama chose to have his DOJ decline to defend laws banning gay marriage, Trump can just as easily leave the NFA out in the legal cold and let it starve to death.

All it takes is one phone call to the (acting) Attorney General telling the DOJ to stand down and decline to appeal. In a week, if you’re a member or customer of one of the plaintiffs, you can order a suppressor or build that SBR or SBS. In two months, the ruling will become permanent and future administrations can’t appeal.

You may be thinking about what happens down the road. If the NFA only died because the tax is zero, couldn’t a future anti-gun president just bring it back? Wouldn’t charging even a dollar for transfers raise it from the dead?

Which he then covers.  

I'm very much hoping for word from our new AG saying "No, we're not going to appeal."  Which would both horribly frustrate the usual suspects, and give great relief to many people.  We'll see how it goes.

Every piece of crap in the 'Justice' Department who was part of this

should be fired, as a start.
The new report is based on a review of over 700,000 internal records, claiming that the Biden-era Justice Department coordinated with abortion-rights groups to track activists, seek harsher sentences for pro-life defendants and in some cases, withhold evidence ...

The report noted multiple cases, including one involving pro-life activist Mark Houck, who was originally charged with two felony violations of the FACE Act ...

Despite being later acquitted, the report revealed that prosecutors denied a request for him to self-surrender and instead authorized an FBI arrest at his home.
"Hey, the ninja suit guys haven't been given an excuse to show off for CNN in a while, so let's have a raid!"
I include any door-kicker who said "No problem!" to this bullshit in the firing category.


Speaking of people really needing firing,
Auditors just dropped BOMBSHELLs with @RepTimBurchett on why welfare fraud explodes so often.

Agency bosses alllegedly told workers that checking eligibility "is not that big of a deal" and "low priority." Self-attestation remains the "bane of any auditor."

When I first read about that idiot sneaking hippos into Colombia, and them getting loose, I wondered how long it would take for them to hit the point of "We have to start shooting them."

Well, they're there.  Take a critter that size, very territorial and aggressive, and turn it loose where it has no predators...  it's going to get messy.

Speaking of messy, Nuk'em Swalwell is out of office(I think he still gets to collect money for the government), but what about all the other politicians who've used our money to pay off people they've molested/assaulted?  You know, all the ones the people condemning Swalwell voted to keep secret?  Put ALL that out in public.  Because too much of this crap has gone on for decades

A collection of things

It seems the prison known as 'the Gulag' has been slow-rolling/refusing to release some of the J6 people Trump pardoned.  
Just before I put this up there was some word that they were 'now' releasing them.  
There needs to be some serious questions and investigation from people those asshats know can put them in a call.  And will do it if called for.


Speaking of the Do'J', In an executive order signed Monday evening, Trump has directed his own government to investigate the agency for its misconduct in the aftermath of the January 6th events.
This should include what needs to be the new standard warning "If you lie to us, you WILL be charged and jailed for lying under oath."


'Nobody was fired.'   Reason why I hadn't really considered, for some reason.


The people running LA and Californicated are assholes beyond compare.


The people directing Biden and lying to protect him are truly loathsome. 


CDR Salamander has been talking about the lack of guns on combat ships for a while, and presents more evidence here.  Summation:
Never forget—you’ve heard me say it 1,000 times over a couple of decades—when war at sea starts one thing becomes very clear, very fast: you don’t have enough guns, and those you have are a size smaller than you really need.

Why shouldn't the FBI be in charge of the investigation?

Because people like this would be involved.
Report: FBI employee who works in background-check division jokes about Trump getting shot, takes aim at "2nd-Amendment loving hillbillies"
Yeah.  That really helps.  Second City Cop also notes
UPDATE: Stop with the "He was a registered Republican" trope being circulated by the lame-stream media as a cover. Remember what the dems were doing prior to the Pennsylvania primary? They TOLD their voters to register as Republicans to be able to pick Biden's opponent. This assassin was twenty and had just registered to vote for this election cycle. His political contribution went to a far left organization and he was recorded on someone's social media having a Trump freak out.
Which is something they've done before, but I didn't think of that.

In today's dose of "How dare you!",

our AG says "You're damaging our democracy when you criticize my agency, let alone try to do anything about us!"
https://www.dailywire.com/news/merrick-garland-pens-op-ed-declaring-criticism-of-his-doj-dangerous

Ignoring the usual Democrat 'our democracy!' stuff, let's see...
"Judicial Watch announced today it received 54 pages of records from the Department of Justice in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit which show the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Office of Congressional Affairs (OCA) provided a Democrat staffer with information on FBI whistleblowers who detailed the bureau’s targeting of political opponents and retaliation for their testifying at a May 18, 2023, hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

A May 23, 2023, email from Damon Marx, senior counsel in the office of New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman, shows that the FBI provided documents apparently pertaining to the whistleblowers that were “very helpful” to Goldman."
No, nothing political about that, not at all.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/information-on-whistleblowers/?

Then we have
"The memos show that agents for the FBI’s Security Division asked at least three witnesses in spring 2022 whether the employee, whose name and job title was redacted from the memos, had been known to “vocalize support for President Trump” or “vocalize objections to Covid-19 vaccination.” Agents ascertained from at least one witness that the worker, in fact, had declined to get the coronavirus inoculation.

The latter questions about the vaccine were asked in spring 2022, a few months after the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down vaccine mandates in corporate workplaces and a separate federal court had issued an injunction on federal employee vaccine mandates.

The agents also asked witnesses whether the FBI worker had “attended the Richmond Lobby Day event” in January 2021, a rally for supporters of the Second Amendment in Virginia. The agents’ notes referred to the colleague they were vetting as a “gun nut” but who in engaged in “no promotion of violence.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/06/11/fbi-tried-to-unmask-employee-as-trump-supporter-n4929784

Hey, Garland, know what would help?  If you weren't so politicized while you're yelling about being called a politicized agency.

A bit of gathering, starting with "That sounds kind of insurrectioney,

I wonder if our Do'J' will be searching for and arresting all these- oops, that's right, they're the wrong kind of insurrectionist for our AG to bother with.  Just like all the other leftist attacks on 'our democracy'.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-pro-palestinian-protesters-surround-white-house-clash-with-police?utm_campaign=64470

The Cascadia Subduction Zone has been known for quite a while, I don't know as exactly what part is the most likely to break first makes much difference, but nice to know.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/scientists-finally-think-know-where-211535016.html


Speaking of 'top of the food chain', there's always sharks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/back-back-shark-bite-incidents-021514353.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jdXJyZW50bHkuYXR0LnlhaG9vLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAI4Bf3CBJ3VmwkvZiQbTzIEpMULm9c64dHeFs3Icj1Xh2iVdYx-gy2D7F_GAOvoLc_VNIbnYYiySolbgHlQzi3k_BW7Y3w4hKEY_OvjSdou3_4WcblT3_p2k9iXWrmAvV46kAG3fHYfCrKxejjaOrJ1VGe7UrtrTfqvoLbQXs5nI


And I'm out of time

Our Dept. of 'Justice' at work:

"The Department of Justice has indicted Dr. Eithan Haim, a little-known surgeon who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital for secretly conducting transgender surgeries and treatments on minors, on four felony counts related to his alleged violation of a medical-records law.

Last year, Haim anonymously leaked evidence of the child sex-change procedures to conservative journalist Christopher Rufo. The documents revealed that Texas Children’s Hospital had continued running its transgender program, despite announcing that the program had been discontinued in accordance with Governor Greg Abbott’s 2022 directive equating such medical interventions with child abuse.
...
Assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas Tina Ansari, whose office is leading the criminal investigation, argues Haim had no right to share the medical records of minor patients with the public.

However, she neglected to mention that the documents disclosed were not patient charts, were redacted to protect sensitive patient information, and complied with HIPAA, which permits anonymized information to be disclosed generally, and even protected information can be publicized if it’s used to stop egregious medical misconduct."
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/doj-indicts-whistleblowing-surgeon-for-exposing-transgender-procedures-at-texas-childrens-hospital/

"Why don't you trust the system/courts/FBI(or other appropriate agency)?"

The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced it has reached a $138.7 million settlement deal with victims of the disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to resolve their claims of wrongdoing against the FBI in its failures to investigate allegations of sexual abuse.
...
Once finalized, the settlement will resolve 139 tort claims filed against the DOJ and the FBI in 2022 by the long list of athletes and patients who reported abuse by Nassar, including Maggie Nichols, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.
Bad enough, right?  Now add this in:
The claims, which in total sought roughly $1 billion in damages, were filed after the department said it was declining to pursue criminal charges against agents whom the DOJ's inspector general found failed to properly investigate allegations of abuse by Nassar.

The watchdog report found the FBI was notified of Nassar's behavior but failed to act for more than 14 months, a period where Nassar is alleged to have abused at least 40 more girls and women.
At this point someone will have to come up with a reason to trust the Do'J' and FBI about ANYTHING...

My, I wonder why this rather big news isn't getting much attention

from our Professional Journalists?

Full post here

'Equal Justice'

We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.
Holy. Effing. Shit.

Our Do'J' is so corrupt I don't know if it can be fixed.

'Equal Justice' my ass, Part 46

Former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn, who stole and helped publicize the confidential tax records of Donald Trump and an estimated 7,500 other wealthy Americans, could face little or no jail time when he's sentenced later this month, because the DOJ allowed him to plead guilty to a single felony count.

In a new court filing, prosecutors acknowledge the plea deal “does not account for the fact that he leaked thousands of individuals’ tax returns. His [sentencing] range would be the same today if he had leaked only a single return.”

But instead of seeking prison time for each of his offenses – or even for the two separate mass thefts he committed, one in 2019 and another in 2020 – the DOJ is asking a federal judge to sentence Littlejohn to just 60 months, the maximum for a single offense under the statute. Some political leaders angry over the plea deal say he should get 60 years, not months, for his crime – the biggest heist of IRS taxpayer data in history.

'Equal Justice' my ass

Many of President Donald Trump’s supporters called him an undercover fed on January 5 when Epps encouraged a crowd to hit the Capitol the following day.

Well, what a way to strengthen the conspiracy theories! Those who did not commit any violent acts received years in prison. Their lives are ruined.

Epps received one-year probation, 100 hours of community hours, and has to pay a $500 fine.
Speaking of people who need to be fired, and the lawyers disbarred, the Dept. of 'Justice' is full of them.

The Dept. of 'Justice' doesn't care that we know they're corrupt

While most federal employees shy away from any sort of political activity because of how it could erode credibility and violate the Hatch Act, Anne Donohue has run openly as a Democrat for the At-Large seat on Loudoun County’s school board.On October 13, Donohue advertised a political event saying, “Are you tired of the so-called ‘Parents’ Rights’ extremists attacking our kids and public education? You’re not alone. Virginia moms have had enough.”
...
The DOJ did not return a request for comment about why it had permitted Donohue to run for America’s most politicized school board, and why Americans should be confident that its top National Security Division officials are not partisan.
Just wonderful.

I guess it's because it's so close to DC, that district has been the most corrupt, anti-parent place in the country(if not 'the', it's right up at the top of the list).  And either careless or trying to set someone up:
Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools disclosed tens of thousands of sensitive, confidential student records, apparently by accident, to a parent advocate who has been an outspoken critic of its data privacy record.

The documents identify current and former special education students by name and include letter grades, disability status and mental health data. In one particularly sensitive disclosure, a counselor identified over 60 students who’ve struggled with issues like depression, including those who have engaged in self-harm or been hospitalized.
You've only got two choices: the clowns in charge of this are horribly incompetent, or they thought "If we release this to her, maybe we can claim she's illegally obtained the information and charge her to shut her up!"
No, that doesn't make much sense.  These are the clowns who've done so much that doesn't make sense, that it could be.  

Lord, what a pile of crap in one place.

And this was all ok'd by the asshat Garland illegally appointed Special Counsel

In October 2022, reports surfaced that federal prosecutors felt they had enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden over a false statement related to buying a gun, according to Politico, citing internal communications between Hunter’s legal team and the DOJ. Hunter Biden’s attorney Chris Clark wrote in a 32-page letter to U.S. Attorney David Weiss, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, arguing that the leak was “illegal,” and any charges brought would violate the Second Amendment and be viewed as a partisan attack.

“President Biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial,” Clark wrote in the letter obtained by Politico. “This of all cases justifies neither the spectacle of a sitting President testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting Constitutional crisis.”
Your client's male parent being put on the stand would not be a 'Constitutional crisis', you lying bastard, just a horrible problem for he and your client.

And then we have this:
The Department of Justice (DOJ)’s original deal with Hunter Biden would not have required him to plead guilty, according to documents obtained by Politico, but was altered after whistleblowers came forward shedding light on the DOJ’s handling of the case.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers sent a draft deal to prosecutors in May that not only included a version of the promise of broad immunity for future charges that appeared in the final deal, but also that their client need not plead guilty — a detail the DOJ initially accepted, Politico reported. DOJ prosecutor Lesley Wolf then sent Hunter’s legal team a list of “must-haves” as part of negotiations, with a guilty plea not included in the list.

But days after IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley publicly stated in an interview with CBS News that the DOJ “slow-walked” the investigation, prosecutors said Hunter Biden would need to plead guilty to the two misdemeanor tax charges, sources told Politico.
You can just imagine how fair and unbiased Weiss would be as a Special Counsel.

Must be really nice to be a big Democrat campaign donor

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) informed a federal judge late Wednesday it did “not intend to proceed” with a campaign finance charge against disgraced FTX founder and Democrat super donor Sam Bankman-Fried.

Consultation with the Bahamas on the campaign finance charges in Bankman-Fried’s original extradition document last year were behind the decision as part of an effort to adhere to the legal obligations therein, Forbes reports.

The campaign finance violation charge was among eight counts present in the DOJ’s original indictment—which also includes wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering—in December

I doubt it needs be said that our 'Justice' Department needs cleaning out as badly as the EffingBI.

The idea that our Justice Department can indict someone, especially the sitting president’s main political rival, over speech that’s protected by the First Amendment is simply insane. It puts us firmly into banana republic territory, where tinpot dictators jail their political opponents ahead of election day to ensure their “reelection.”
Well, we've got the tinpot dictator wannabe, who's trying hard to make it.  And he's put the perfect corrupt dictator accessory in charge of said Do'J'.

Once more, can you say 'The fix was in'?

A prosecutor who signed off on the documents charging Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes previously worked with one of the First Son’s business partners, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Delaware US Attorney David Weiss officially filed charges against the president’s son last Tuesday after a near five-year probe into his alleged tax crimes and foreign financial dealings.

Weiss’s deputy, Assistant United States Attorney Derek Hines, signed off on the charging documents alongside his boss and two other assistant US attorneys – indicating he has a central role in Hunter’s criminal prosecution.

According to Hines’s LinkedIn account, he previously worked as Special Counsel to ex-FBI director Louis Freeh at his private company, Freeh Group International Solutions, a lobbying and ‘risk management’ consultancy that teamed up with Hunter on overseas business currently under scrutiny by lawmakers.
...
This story is just astonishing to me. Even if one is to assume that Hines’ connections to Hunter Biden didn’t influence the deal, is there really any excuse for the federal government to be this incestuous? Am I really to believe that the DOJ couldn’t manage to put a full team of prosecutors on such a contentious case without one of them having a connection to Hunter Biden’s business dealings? AG Merrick Garland could have appointed a special counsel years ago to ensure none of this was an issue, and for that matter, so could both of Donald Trump’s attorneys general.

No one did, though, because this is all seen as normal in Washington. Backslaps, winks, and nods are the name of the game.
I'll say it again: people need to be in cells for this.

As George Carlin said, "It's a club,

and you're not in it."

My, no wonder they're so pissed about people seeing the various security cam video

But if Pelosi’s soul was indeed offended, unseen footage released today by Just the News founder John Solomon suggests otherwise. Pelosi is seen cooly walking through the evacuation route on her way to a secure location at Fort McNair in Washington—with Alexandra just a few steps ahead, walking backwards, to capture the moment. Far from being under mortal threat by selfie-taking Americans in the Rotunda above, Pelosi is surrounded by her security detail as she is led to a chauffeured vehicle. Her daughter also traveled with her mother to the Army base located two miles from the Capitol.

And let's not forget "Public records? There are none when they inconvenience us!":
While Pelosi’s every physical move on January 6 is in the history books, her records related to January 6 are not. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the now-defunct select committee, said Pelosi and her office were “off limits” from the investigation. Pelosi has not produced a single document, email, or call log to detail what she did in the weeks before January 6, even though her office was primarily responsible for security.

"Just see what we want you to, peasants, it will be much easier that way."