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"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."


Much ado about nothing has been made of the first stanza of the 2nd Amendment by anti-gun people.
A well regulated (well trained and well armed) militia (every man and or woman who is physically able and also a citizen), being necessary to to the security of a free state, (the right to protect your freedoms, your property, your safety, your rights, state's rights), the right of the people to keep and bear arms, (notice it says the right of the PEOPLE, not the militia), shall NOT be infringed. (not by the Federal Government, not by State's Government, not by ANYONE unless convicted of a felonious crime by a court of law).

"No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." (Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution)
"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms." (Richard Henry Lee)
"...to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." (George Mason)
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, The Federalist Papers #46 at 243-244)

This is also confirmed in the Freedman's Act of 1866, where Congress affirmed that newly freed slaves'  right to keep and bear arms could not be infringed by the several states.  If Americans did not have the right to keep and bear arms, and if this did not include the states, why would Congress confirm that ex-slaves' rights could not be infringed by the states in the Freedman's Act?

Which arms can the People own?   According to both George Mason and James Madison;
"The People shall have arms equivalent to that of what any infantryman can carry on his person."
CA Gun Laws Summary
What Are the Gun Laws in California? (May not be completely accurate)
 

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One of the foremost defenders of Second Amendment rights
 
 
What is the  Second Amendment Committee?

find out: http://libertygunrights.com/aboutus.html

 

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As we enter the home stretch of this year's critically important election, two things are certain: First, the winner of the election will have a profound effect on your Second Amendment rights, and second, it's crucial that you know where the candidates stand on the Second Amendment so that you can make the right choice.

One thing we do know: Barack Obama continues to be a serious threat to gun owners. When it comes to Obama's stance on our Second Amendment rights, you need to be fully informed about what he has said and done during his entire political career.

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FAX COVER LETTER  --July 4, 2013

 

CITIZENS’ DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

 

ATTENTION TO ALL CONGRESSMEN---BE AWARE OF YOUR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS, OFFICERS AND AGENTS OF THE PUBLIC TRUST

YOU ARE “COMMERCIALLY LIABLETO “WE THE PEOPLE” FOR ALL OF YOUR ACTIONS

 

The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

 

All UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ex rel Officials, Officers and Agents of the Public Trust, Plaintiffs with Commercial Liability, Saddled with the Burden of Proof, who fail or refuse to properly identify themselves by providing a Certified copy of their Oath to Support and Defend the Constitution for the United States of America against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, or who fail or refuse to provide their Bonding Information and/or their Public Official Liability Insurance Information as a guarantee of their Commercial Liability, shall be considered to be committing “Fraud” against the Nation, its Constitution and the America People.

 

PRINCIPLES

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

(Declaration of Independence--1776)

 

In the following Text, the word Constitution”, shall refer to the “Constitution for the United States of America”.

 

>1.  ”This constitution, shall be the Supreme Law of the Land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.” (U.S. Constitution, Article VI, paragraph 2.)

 

>2.  Article IV section I: “Full Faith and Credit Clause”

“Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.”; Meaning that Public Officials, Officers and Agents of the government, must provide Proof of their Authority to act, must Authenticate their Authority to act, must provide for Commercial Liability coverage for their acts to guarantee their Faithful performance of Duties and Responsibilities to We the People. Therefore, their acts must be signed Affidavits sworn to be true, correct, materially complete and not misleading under their own Commercial Liability and Notarized for Authenticity. Anything less shall be construed to be Deliberately Evasionary and Fraud on their part against the Nation, its Constitution and the American People.

>3.  Article 1 section 10 of the Constitution: “No State shall… pass any… law impairing the obligation of contracts.” Nor shall any Union of the States or the Government of the United States passes any law impairing the Obligation of Contracts.

 

>4.  Article 6 of the Constitution:

All lawmakers, court officials, and enforcement officers are bound by oath to the Constitution.

All judges are bound by oath to support the Constitution.

14th Amendment of the Constitution:

Due Process of Law and Equal Protection of the Law

5th Amendment of the Constitution:

Just Compensation”… “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation”. Therefore, there shall be Just Compensation for Taxes prepaid for Service, not Disservice.

Consensual Commercial Consequence: Disservice Mandates Public Commercial Liens against the Government Treasury to Rebate Taxes to the Public under the Public’s Control.

 

>5.  Article 1 section 9 of the Constitution: “No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States”.

Article 1 section 10 of the Constitution: “No State shall…  grant titles of nobility”.

 

>6.  14th Amendment section 3: No person shall hold office if he rebels against, or violates the Constitution.

Article 3 section 1 of the Constitution: “The Judges, both of the Supreme and of the inferior Courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour,…”

Article 1 section 2 of the Constitution:

“The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment…”

Article 1 section 3 of the Constitution:

“The Senate shall have the sole power to try impeachments,” and the power to Judge Impeachments, and the power to convict on an Impeachments.

 

Therefore, Congress, the House and Senate, shall impeach anyone who rebels against or violates the Constitution.

The Congress has the Duty, the Professional Responsibility, the “Commercial Liability”, and the Power to police the Judges and hold them accountable, by impeachment, indictment, trial/prosecution, judgment/conviction, and punishment according to law, including imprisonment or death, for their Criminal Behavior.

 

>7.  18 USC § 2 – Principals

(a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.

(b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.

 

>8.  18 USC § 3: Accessory after the fact: Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.

 

>9.  18 USC § 4 Misprision of Felony: Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

 

>10.  18 USC § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority* of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

 

 

Randall David Due aka Randy Due, Public Minister; Ex. Military (Civil Rights Advocate) acting as a Non-union Lawyer (not a member of the bar association) pursuant to 42 USC § 1986 (acting with Reasonable Diligence) & 18 USC § 4 (Mandate to act), 18 USC §§ 241 & 242 (Protection of the Nation, its Constitution and Civil Rights)

Public Minister pursuant to and protected by Public Law 94-583, Oct. 21, 1976 Stat. 2891 [Codified in Title 28 U.S.C § 1602 et esq.]; and Public Law 1790, 1 Stat. At L. 117, Ch 9 [Codified in 22 U.S.C. § 252]; Public Law 1948, Ch 645, 62 Stat. 688 [Codified in Title 18 U.S.C § 112] and Public Law 1871, Ch 22, § 6, 17 Stat. 15; [Codified in 42 U.S.C. § 1986]

 

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Phone: (229) 294-6112;         FAX: (229) 294-4594                            duze24@bellsouth.net

 

By Randall David Due --July 4, 2013

 

Subject: Fwd: Why Grandpa Carried a Gun. . .A Must Read

 

*    I realize Obama is trying to get rid of our guns and he will blame it

on the United Nations, this paragraph is from George Washington*

*

"A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should

have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence

from any who might attempt to abuse them which would include their own

government"* - *George Washington, President of the United States. A REAL

President.**

 

Why my Grandpa carries a gun;

Please take time to read this and pay particular attention to "A Little Gun

History" about half way down. PEOPLE ASK WHY? Why Carry a Gun?

 

My old grandpa said to me "Son, there comes a time in every man's life when

he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and usually it's when he

becomes too old and fragile to take a whippin.' I'm too old to fight and

too slow to run so that only leaves me ONE viable option.*

 

*

I don't carry a gun to kill people.

I carry a gun to keep from being killed, it’s called an equalizer for an

old man.*

 

*I don't carry a gun to scare people.**

I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.*

 

*I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.**

I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.*

 

*I don't carry a gun because I'm evil.**

I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

*

 

*I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.**

I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.*

 

*I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.**

I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating

myself for failing to be prepared.*

 

*I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.**

I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on

a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.*

 

*I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.**

I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.*

 

*I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man.**

I carry a gun because MEN know how to take care of themselves and the ones

they love.*

 

*I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. *

*I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am

inadequate.*

 

*I don't carry a gun because I love it.**

I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to

me.*

 

*Police protection is an oxymoron.**

Free citizens must protect themselves.

Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the

crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.*

*I carry a gun because God gave me the Right to do so, and the

responsibility to protect my loved ones; it is inalienable.*

 

*Remember, when seconds count, the Police are only minutes away!*

 

 

*A LITTLE GUN HISTORY**

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about

20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and

exterminated.

 

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million

Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

 

Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of

13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were

rounded up and exterminated.

 

China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million

political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and

exterminated.

 

Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan

Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

 

Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000

Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

 

Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million

educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and

exterminated.

 

Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because

of gun control: 56 million.

 

You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians

disseminating this information. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save

lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the

law-abiding citizens.

 

Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late! The next time someone

talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.

 

With guns, we are 'citizens'. Without them, we are 'subjects'. During WW II

the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans

were ARMED!

 

If you value your freedom, please spread this anti- gun - control message

to all of your friends. The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no

possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield,

and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain.

 

All else is supplemental.

 

SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!

SWITZERLAND'S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.

SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY

IN THE WORLD!

IT'S A NO BRAINER!

 

DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO

MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.

 

I'm a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment! If you are too, please forward.

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from

too much government." Thomas Jefferson*

Chuck Michel's Op-ed regarding California's APPS program.

California’s APPS Program – Successful Strategy or Mere Artifice?
- By C.D. Chuck Michel

While the goal behind California’s APPS (Armed & Prohibited Persons Program) gun confiscation program is not in dispute, the manner in which the automated system is utilized to enforce the program has generated concerns regarding the accuracy of the list and the resulting civil rights violations that have occurred to those placed wrongly on the list, and to those placed on the list without their prior knowledge.

The automated system has demonstrated the same deficiencies inherent in most software programs – the inability to integrate context or review individual circumstance. This part of due process that has become a mainstay of our legal system has been removed from this program without proper consideration for the resulting impact on state residents and their civil rights. As a result, there have been numerous cases of individuals who have had their firearms seized who either are not on the list, or who do not belong on this list.

You could make the argument that the state would be far better served in realizing the intent of the APPS program and succeed in removing far greater numbers of illegally possessed firearms, if they properly notified by mail & publication, the members of the list who are in violation of the program. This would first, deliver effective prior notice, (many members of this list are unaware that they are in violation of the program) and second, create the opportunity for members of the list to voluntarily turn in their firearms or to apply for status review if they have been improperly assigned to the list. 

While the APPS program may appear to sound like a successful strategy in concept, in reality, it has only been responsible for an alarmingly small number of confiscations. In 2012, DOJ agents seized just 1,963 firearms for the entire year. To place that into perspective, the City of Los Angeles removed 1,000 guns from the streets during one weekend in March of 2013 through a standard Police Buyback Program. 

While incorporating due process into the program may not generate the type of publicity for the State Attorney General’s office that midnight raids executed by a half dozen armed agents without a warrant have achieved, the $24 million in annual cost savings to fund the APPS program and the significant increase in the volume of surrendered firearms realized from prior notice, would far outweigh the benefits of a few photo ops, not to mention, remove the inherent risk to agents sent to homes in the middle of the night without the protection of a warrant or prudent strategy.
Chuck Michel's Op-ed regarding California's APPS program. California’s APPS Program – Successful Strategy or Mere Artifice? - By C.D. Chuck Michel While the goal behind California’s APPS (Armed & Prohibited Persons Program) gun confiscation program is not in dispute, the manner in which the automated system is utilized to enforce the program has generated concerns regarding the accuracy of the list and the resulting civil rights violations that have occurred to those placed wrongly on the list, and to those placed on the list without their prior knowledge. The automated system has demonstrated the same deficiencies inherent in most software programs – the inability to integrate context or review individual circumstance. This part of due process that has become a mainstay of our legal system has been removed from this program without proper consideration for the resulting impact on state residents and their civil rights. As a result, there have been numerous cases of individuals who have had their firearms seized who either are not on the list, or who do not belong on this list. You could make the argument that the state would be far better served in realizing the intent of the APPS program and succeed in removing far greater numbers of illegally possessed firearms, if they properly notified by mail & publication, the members of the list who are in violation of the program. This would first, deliver effective prior notice, (many members of this list are unaware that they are in violation of the program) and second, create the opportunity for members of the list to voluntarily turn in their firearms or to apply for status review if they have been improperly assigned to the list. While the APPS program may appear to sound like a successful strategy in concept, in reality, it has only been responsible for an alarmingly small number of confiscations. In 2012, DOJ agents seized just 1,963 firearms for the entire year. To place that into perspective, the City of Los Angeles removed 1,000 guns from the streets during one weekend in March of 2013 through a standard Police Buyback Program. While incorporating due process into the program may not generate the type of publicity for the State Attorney General’s office that midnight raids executed by a half dozen armed agents without a warrant have achieved, the $24 million in annual cost savings to fund the APPS program and the significant increase in the volume of surrendered firearms realized from prior notice, would far outweigh the benefits of a few photo ops, not to mention, remove the inherent risk to agents sent to homes in the middle of the night without the protection of a warrant or prudent strategy.
Chuck Michel's Op-ed regarding California's APPS program.

California’s APPS Program – Successful Strategy or Mere Artifice?
- By C.D. Chuck Michel

While the goal behind California’s APPS (Armed & Prohibited Persons Program) gun confiscation program is not in dispute, the manner in which the automated system is utilized to enforce the program has generated concerns regarding the accuracy of the list and the resulting civil rights violations that have occurred to those placed wrongly on the list, and to those placed on the list without their prior knowledge.

The automated system has demonstrated the same deficiencies inherent in most software programs – the inability to integrate context or review individual circumstance. This part of due process that has become a mainstay of our legal system has been removed from this program without proper consideration for the resulting impact on state residents and their civil rights. As a result, there have been numerous cases of individuals who have had their firearms seized who either are not on the list, or who do not belong on this list.

You could make the argument that the state would be far better served in realizing the intent of the APPS program and succeed in removing far greater numbers of illegally possessed firearms, if they properly notified by mail & publication, the members of the list who are in violation of the program. This would first, deliver effective prior notice, (many members of this list are unaware that they are in violation of the program) and second, create the opportunity for members of the list to voluntarily turn in their firearms or to apply for status review if they have been improperly assigned to the list. 

While the APPS program may appear to sound like a successful strategy in concept, in reality, it has only been responsible for an alarmingly small number of confiscations. In 2012, DOJ agents seized just 1,963 firearms for the entire year. To place that into perspective, the City of Los Angeles removed 1,000 guns from the streets during one weekend in March of 2013 through a standard Police Buyback Program. 

While incorporating due process into the program may not generate the type of publicity for the State Attorney General’s office that midnight raids executed by a half dozen armed agents without a warrant have achieved, the $24 million in annual cost savings to fund the APPS program and the significant increase in the volume of surrendered firearms realized from prior notice, would far outweigh the benefits of a few photo ops, not to mention, remove the inherent risk to agents sent to homes in the middle of the night without the protection of a warrant or prudent strategy.

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Anyone who thinks the motivation for this program is good might be smoking dope.  To begin with, look at the timing. This bill was quickly rammed through, misappropriating money from the registration program, as about 50 mostly unconstitutional gun control bills were passing through  the Sacramento sausage-making machine, better known as the CA legislature.

Guns to be confiscated won’t be just from hardened criminals, but from people who naively believe that “shall not be infringed” in the Second Amendment actually means what it says. Since a great number of new constitutional activities/possessions will be criminalized, these teams will be raiding people who are following the Constitution.   The likes of Jeff Gorell and Scott Wilke, along with the Democrat Progressive Socialists, voted for what they characterized as “not a gun bill, but a public safety bill.” Liars, fools or both.

Evolution...

From:

Dr. Ignatius Piazza
Founder and Director
Front Sight Firearms Training Institute
http://www.frontsight.com
1.800.987.7719

You know I am no fan of Obama.

Nothing infuriates me more than hearing a politician utter the ridiculous cliche, “If we can save just one child…” as reason to strip gun rights from hundreds of millions of responsible citizens.

Obama stood with children after the Connecticut shooting, capitalizing on the emotions of the moment and played the worn out, “If we can save one child…” card as justification for signing an Executive Order, issuing a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

Obama is so out of touch with American values and so clueless regarding the real issues of gun violence in our country, he must have believed the research he was ordering American taxpayers to pay for, would support his efforts to disarm us all.

Well, Obama shot himself in the foot because the study, he ordered, revealed the following:

  1. Suicides, not violent encounters with guns, represent over 60% of all gun related deaths. Take the suicides out of the statistical analysis and the US has one of the lowest per capita death by guns statistics in the world. (Get rid of psych drugs and you will immediately lower the suicide rate and the mass shootings as well.)
  2. Those using a gun to defend the themselves have consistently and significantly LOWER injures in violent encounters than those without a gun to defend themselves. This throws cold water on the gun grabbers claims that a gun in YOUR hand or in YOUR home is likely to be used against you by a criminal in a violent encounter.
  3. Defensive use of guns are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of citizens using guns to defend themselves more than 3 million times per year! So the next time you hear Obama, Biden, Bloomberg, Feinstein or any gun grabbing moron cry, “If we can just save one child…” get in their face and ask, “Why are you asking the American people to sacrifice 3 million responsible citizens EVERY YEAR to save one child?”
  4. Overall, gun related deaths are declining, during the same period that gun ownership has soared.

We did not need to waste taxpayers’ dollars to prove what we, as gun owners, already knew.

It is simple, school yard common sense that when guns are taken from responsible citizens it shifts the balance of power into the hands of the criminals on the street and the criminals in our government. Obama, Biden, Feinstein, Bloomberg and their ilk don’t give a crap about saving one child. They want to disarm the American public because they fear us. They are willing to use children in the most heinous, public relations scheme to accomplish their goal of disarming us. Shame on them.

Obama and his gun grabbing zealots got what they deserved. They shot themselves in the foot! Now they are attempting to keep the study under wraps, BUT DON’T LET THEM DO IT. Forward this e-mail to everyone you know and ask them to do the same.

And remember, the only thing the gun grabbers can’t take from you is your ability and willingness to use the guns you have to defend yourself against all enemies, foreign and domestic so make sure YOU ARE TRAINED.

source: http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2013/07/08/front-sights-...

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The Calguns Foundation

Mehl v. Blanas: An Important Decision
In A Now-Irrelevant Handgun Carry Case


Ninth Circuit - Pasadena CourthouseWe at CGF are working hard to have the right to carry a firearm recognized in California through various legal actions and other efforts, not the least of which is our Second Amendment lawsuit on carry outside the home [now] entitled Richards v. Prieto. That case is particularly notable not only because it was the first of its kind, filed in 2009 (pre-McDonald v. Chicago, thanks to the Second Amendment’s incorporation [for a time] in the Ninth Circuit through an April 2009 decision in the Nordyke v. King case and, previously, 2008′s landmark victory in D.C. v. Heller), but also because it has the unique characteristic of challenging both the “good cause” and “good moral character” components of the California statutes on carry licensing and Yolo Sheriff Ed Prieto’s policy “as applied”. Alan Gura, the lead attorney on Richards, argued the case before a panel of Ninth Circuit judges on December 6, 2012, after which it was submitted for decision (which, we hope, comes soon – more on this below).

However, as some of you are aware, there are those who don’t have the full breadth of resources and capabilities to bring well-considered Second Amendment litigation. Unfortunately [for all of us], those deficits do not dissuade them from bringing their lawsuits anyway.

One such instance was the case of Mehl v. Blanas, brought by attorney Gary Gorski against a much earlier sheriff of Sacramento County (Lou Blanas). Mr. Gorski is somewhat notorious for being on the wrong end of the Dunning–Kruger effect regarding firearms litigation. (On a related note, Second Amendment scholar Dave Kopel published his email interview with Mr. Gorski here.) We’ll refrain from throwing too many stones as some people have accused us of the same from time to time; we think CGF’s totality of wins and advancements for the actual, practical ability of Californians to own firearms (and, in many jurisdictions where it was previously impossible — like Sacramento County — carry them) speak to our success. Mr. Gorski’s “gun rights claim to fame” to date has been that he effectively disarmed retired law enforcement officers of their semi-automatic rifles (like AR-15s) while otherwise losing an assault weapons case at the Ninth Circuit. Going back to the long-running and voluminous Mehl case, Mr. Gorski’s earlier lawsuit that challenged Sheriff Blanas’ carry license policies and practices in Sacramento County, we should contrast the results there against the clearly positive outcome that was secured by us in just months when CGF and our litigation partners (and individual plaintiffs) sued then-Sacramento Sheriff John McGinness and came to a mutually-acceptable settlement which changed Sacramento County from..., but one that has seen record and newsworthy growth of handgun carry licensees since (see this July 2011 CBS Sacramento report and this February 2012 ABC News 10 report, just two of many such news items on this subject).

Many have worried, perhaps justifiably, that Mr. Gorski’s continuing case against a now virtually-”shall issue” agency would block (or worse) decisions in the superior Richards v. Prieto and Peruta v. Gore cases. Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit panel in Mehl issued a non-published and non-precedential opinion dismissing Mr. Gorski’... on standing grounds. The court found that because plaintiff Mehl didn’t file a complete application after being asked to re-apply he didn’t have standing to sue over the alleged policy issues. Of course, should Mr. Mehl apply today, he stands a very good chance of being issued his license to carry absent the Sacramento sheriff’s office finding some articulable reason to the contrary in their background check investigation.

There does remain one more case against Sacramento helmed by Mr. Gorski, a Racketeering Act/RICO lawsuit named Rothery v. Blanas centering on handgun carry license issuance. However, that case is stayed by the Court until the very end of Mehl or September 3, 2013. Additionally, it has not been fully briefed, argued, or submitted for decision — unlike Richards and Peruta. As such, we think Rothery is unlikely to affect how or when the Ninth Circuit will rule in Richards and Peruta.

We are certainly not guaranteed a positive result in Richards and Peruta but we are very encouraged that Mehl was disposed of on grounds that do not injure those critical cases or, most importantly, the precious civil rights and millions of law-abiding people they represent. As we live to watch the Seventh Circuit force handgun carry by non-prohibited people upon Illinois and anti-gun rights municipalities like Chicago, we believe that the ultimate outcome — up to, and potentially including, a United States Supreme Court decision — will respect and protect our right to keep and bear arms for self-defense outside the thresholds of our homes as the framers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights intended.

We now look forward to a decision from the Richards panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and whatever judicial “next steps” are required to vindicate Californians’ fundamental individual right to effective self defense in public.

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ILLINOIS ENACTS NATION'S FINAL CONCEALED-GUN LAW

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    FILE - In this July 2, 2013 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks during a news conference in Chicago after he used his amendatory veto power to tweak the concealed carry legislation sent to him after months of debate and negotiation over the measure. Quinn predicted a "showdown" in Springfield over his proposed changes to the legislation, but there was little indication from lawmakers and legislative leaders a day ahead of a Tuesday, July 9 vote that they'd do much more than reject his demands. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen, File)

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“consequently, that the ultimate right of the parties to the Constitution (i.e. the States), to judge whether the compact has been dangerously violated, must extend to violations by one delegated authority as well as by another--by the judiciary as well as by the executive, or the legislature.” Virginia Assembly Report 1800, James Madison. 

If a nation can't define its boundaries, who comes in and on what terms, then it can't sustain itself culturally, financially, politically, morally and with security.  It's not a nation.- G. Miller 

McCain remarks from inside the Egy territory to the W.Post insults the Egy sovereignty.we consider him persona non grata.an unwelcome person— Egyptian Cabinet (@Cabinet_eg) August 6, 2013

"A lawyer is a person who knows the law" (Black’s Law Dictionary & other.) "It is said that all persons are presumed to know the law, meaning that ignorance of the Law excuses no one." (16 AM JUR 2D Sec. 178, 256.) Therefore all persons are presumed to be Lawyers.- Randy Due (illegally klidnapped by FBI and detained) 

A federal government which does not derive its lawful and limited authority from the Constitution of the United States is by definition an occupation government and criminal regime.  It’s authority is null and void and no one is bound by any rule of law to obey it.  --Donald L. Cline

When Party Loyalty Demands You Support a Creep, It's Time to Walk Away-- Jim Geraghty

Everybody is still talking about the other baby, the royal baby. In fact, I saw that President Obama released a statement congratulating Prince William and Kate Middleton on the birth of their son. Then he said, “And whatever you do — hang on to that birth certificate.” - Jimmy Fallon

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”-- Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Bounel Soebarkah

"And if you didn't know, the only difference between socialism and communism is an AK-47 aimed at your head."-  Quang Nguyen

Solution to the problem in Egypt :

They want a new Muslim leader, Give them ours. 

The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth.

-          Roger Ailes, Fox News

When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could You please get that for me.

- unknown

"There are 27 amendments in the Constitution but only one says 'shall not be infringed,'" Steve Toth said. "The Second Amendment is the amendment that keeps the people free."

“The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.” – James Madison 

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred." - Niccolo Machiavelli

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” - "Obama", 2008

"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."

This country does not need to have a conversation about how many bullets should go in a clip. It does need to have a conversation about how many parents should go in a family. It needs to talk about the ghettos of Obamerica and have a serious conversation about broken families and generational dependency. It needs to have a conversation about funneling new immigrants from broken parts of the world into areas already suffering from high levels of unemployment and street violence.- Daniel Greenfield

Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants and debt is the money of slaves.- Traditional

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A federal government which does not derive its lawful and limited authority from the Constitution of the United States is by definition an occupation government and criminal regime.  It’s authority is null and void and no one is bound by any rule of law to obey it. --Donald L. Cline

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." -- Thomas Jefferson

“Disarmament of the populace is always the first step to depriving them of their civil rights and human rights…many African-Americans and women are actively assaulting the very document that first secured their own freedom... if you do not believe in the Bill of Rights, then you are not, at heart, an American.” – Mike Adams

Only in America could liberals talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

We need to demythologize guns before the liberal attempt to create a totemic fear of them succeeds. If the gun control mentality promoting fear of guns themselves becomes our national mentality, we would turn the clock back to the days when a warrior class ruled over the people because only they had the confidence and expertise to deploy the means of defense and coercion. The gun control agenda will turn us into a people too timid to defend themselves from our would-be masters. – Alan Keyes

So now that there is a new tragedy the president wants to have a “national conversation on guns”. Here’s the thing. Until this national conversation is willing to entertain allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons, then it isn’t a conversation at all, it is a lecture. – Larry Correia'

During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai Stevenson: Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person! Stevenson called back: That's not enough, madam, we need a majority.

The economy is so bad, MSNBC had to lay off 300 Obama spokesmen. - Jay Leno

'Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

“What we’re watching here today is the equivalent of Woodward and Bernstein helping Nixon cover up Watergate,” he said. “The mainstream media is Woodward and Bernstein. Watergate is Benghazi. Except this time, Woodward and Bernstein are helping Nixon cover it up.”-- Russ Limbaugh

Lets see if I have this straight...Former President Bill Clinton ... who lied to his own wife... was convicted of perjury ... disbarred from practicing law in his home state... an admitted philanderer ... who "Never had sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" ... Impeached by the US House of Representatives ... is giving testimonials for Barrack Obama's character and intentions!!!???  Is this a great country or what!?

 "Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonalds and thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger. It's the guy cooking the burger that should get the credit, not the clown."

referring to 10-3-12 debate: "Obama made a lot of good points tonight. Unfortunately, most of them were for Romney." - Bill Maher, million dollar Obama donor

How can we stand up to someone that creates a 100 dollar Federal Reserve (FR) note for 2 cents and uses the face value of the note of 100 dollars to buy a 100 dollar U.S. Security where the government has to pay them 4% in interest at the end of the year? A yearly cost of 4 FR notes where it only cost the FR 2 cents to print.

This is the biggest Conspiracy you may ever encounter and this started sometime around 1913. Yes, your parents and their parents had so much of their time stolen from them at a cost of 2 pennies. And the National Debt is one big fraud. And this is not just in the United States but the whole world.- Steven Pattison

“Can you imagine a nation founded on the principles of God is being taken over by a party that despises God, denies God’s existence and wants to stab Israel in the back in order to support the Islamists who would kill the Jews and drive them out of the Middle East?”- - Michael Savage

"WE own this country, and when someone doesn't do the job "we have to let them go."- Clint Eastwood at RNC

"If you've got a business -- you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen”- Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro

“Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through the process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are well known among our principal men who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.”
- President American Bankers Association, 1924

"I think it is wonderful that Eric holder is making sure that Mexicans' second amendment rights are preserved!" - Bobby Florenz 

“My father was a hardcore conservative and a straight line Republican voter before he died. Now he votes Democrat.” (-Unknown)

Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule.' Obama is under the mistaken impression that America's symbol is the bald ego." --The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto

 ‘In years to come there is going to be information that will come out that Obama was not the man who made the call. He can say he did and the people who really know what happened are inside the Pentagon, are in the military and the military isn’t allowed to speak out against the commander- in-chief so his secret is safe.’—Chris Kyle, former SEAL sniper

Remember just a few years ago when...

...the official unemployed was at 8.4 million instead of 12.4 million?

...the U.S. debt was at 9.5 trillion instead of 15.5 trillion?

...gas was $1.89 a gallon?

...the U.S. was friends with Isreal?

...food Stamp Recipients was at 29 million instead of 46 million?

...U.S. Astronauts didn't have to travel with Russians to go into space?

...our country's credit rating was a Triple AAA rating?

"Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine."- David Burge

Rep. Randy Neugebauer put the burden into perspective: “It will take over 24 million man hours to comply with Dodd-Frank rules per year. It took only 20 million to build the Panama Canal.”

"Sixty-one percent of debt issued by the Treasury is bought by the Federal Reserve -- which is to say the left hand of the U.S. Government is lending money to the right hand of the US Government. ... Nonetheless, in a land where every mewling babe in the American nursery is born with a debt burden of just under $200,000, the president brags that only his party is 'compassionate' to have no plan whatsoever even to attempt to do anything about this, no way, no how, not now, not ever." --columnist Mark Steyn

Isn't it amazing how every facet of Sergeant Bales life,  high school, college, employment, why he left his employment, his brother’s employment, his wife’s employment, real estate holdings, a missed house payment , a missed promotion etc., is exposed within a week and the same fact finders can't find comparable info on the most powerful man in the world in three plus years ?

"We do not have a single document that proves Mr. Obama's birth in Hawaii or anywhere in the United States for that matter. The document is fake, the representation is fake.—Mike Zullo, Arpaio Posse Chief Investigator

" If they (SCOTUS destroy the Constitution, they will have destroyed that which created their positions." - Stewart Rhodes.

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, NOT to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Quick, name something that government does better than the private sector that doesn't involve detention, killing, or eliminating freedom." ----Bobby Florentz

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."---- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th US President


“The election of President Obama by the presidential electors, confirmed by Congress, makes the documents and testimony sought by plaintiff irrelevant,” Obama’s lawyer Jablonski said.

 

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
--Author Tom Clancy

 

But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. "  

- Thomas Paine.

 

"Look, the Taliban, per se, is not our enemy.”

- VP Joe Biden
December 2011

 

"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and for people, equally in war and peace, and it covers with its shield of protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of men that any of its great provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government."

– Ex Parte Milligan (1866)

 

Permit me to hint whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national government ; and to declare expressly that the command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on any but a natural born citizen.
I remain, dear sir,
Your faithful friend and servant,

John Jay. 

 

Calling Ron Paul "out of the mainstream" is a double-edged sword, because it also means he can’t possibly be responsible for the condition of the country today. 

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 A guy named Reggie Love leaving the White House to get a degree at the Wharton School of Business. I guess he realized you can't learn anything about economics in the Obama White House.

- Jay Leno

Laws and regulations which violate the Constitution are not obligatory upon any free man. 

(believed to be from George Washington.)

 

  “We’re at that awkward stage where it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”

- Claire Wolf

 

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".
-       The Telegraph (good job Barack!) 

 

Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent change inevitable     - Robert F. Kennedy

 

 "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein

  

The four boxes of LIBERTY:
1. soap
2. ballot
3. jury
4. ammo
.....in that order!

 

"The actual need for a service, its relevance and value is always subordinate to the bureaucracy. This is the difference from the private sector: you go into a shop, and the sales assistant asks, 'Can I be of assistance to you, sir?' You go into a government agency: 'Get to the back of the queue and wait until you are called!”'

-       Alistair Mcleod

 

 

 "Only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me. The blunt poetry of his words. His unadorned insistence on respect. He promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline."  

– Barack Hussein Obama 

 

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

-Oscar Wilde

 

“Anyone with an Obama 2012 Bumper Sticker is a Threat to the Gene Pool”

Congressman Allen West

 

“The Only People Who Don’t Want to Disclose the Truth are Those with Something to Hide."

- Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro

 

"If it takes a village to raise your kid, you’re in the wrong country."

-  Seen by Tim Clack II

  

"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."

-Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Soebarkah Bounel

  

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. " 

- Noam Chomsky

  

"Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself." -

- Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro (we are, Barry)

 

"…whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force…"

Thomas Jefferson, Federal v. Consolidated Government

 

“Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up”

Charles Krauthammer.

 

"Sublata causa, tollitur effectus" (Remove the  cause and the effect will cease)

 "Civilization and anarchy are only seven meals apart"                          

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