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I figured it was time to write a weblog post breaking down the political and illogical farce of Trudeau's executive actions on firearms these last few years.

You probably won't see many posts like this from the far left, but as the saying goes: "When you go far enough left, you get your guns back."

Oh yeah, I should put a link instead of spending all of my time writing an alt-text on that free Tornado spud-gun advert that doesn't even link anywhere.

superhighwayman.com/2025/canad

#Canada #Guns #CanPoli #Politics #Firearms #SKS #I #Bet #Twitter #Has #More #AR15 #Hashtags #than #Mastodon #NFA #PeePee #polievre #Trudeau #Carney #BigBills #Blog #Tornado #Comic #Potato #TooManyHashtags #AI #Assisted #Weblog #NobodyReadsTheseAnyway #RamRanch #FreedumbConvoy #TimBitTaliban (I haven't used those for ages, I will stop now)

I went from going to #firearms ranges at least once a month to disliking almost all firearms. I'd never use a #handgun again. If I ever used any firearms again, it would be a #rifle & only out of genuine necessity - not 'just for fun'.

I abhor firearms for the most part now because of a few reasons. I disliked the misogynistic shit at ranges a lot. I disliked the racism/bigotry in many firearms addicted social communities. I didn't like the egos of many in those communities. I don't believe I need a firearm to actually defend myself against a home invader - which is the excuse many people use to obtain one or more guns. I don't like the environmental pollution that spent ammo leaves on the lands - most people don't pickup their casings at ranges or outside of ranges.

I can shoot several different firearms well. I have access to a few firearms. I just choose not to use any of them anymore.

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A unanimous panel of judges of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Boston, overturned that decision. They found that the lawsuit met the criteria for a part of the #law allowing for litigation in cases where knowing violations of #firearms laws are a direct cause of the plaintiff’s injuries.

#GunManufacturers asked #SCOTUS to hear the case, Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, No. 23-1141.

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Lawyers for #Mexico argue that US #GunManufacturers & gun dealers are complicit in what they call an “#IronRiver” of #firearms pouring into the country & arming #cartels. They point to strict controls on gun purchases in Mexico, where civilians are not allowed to purchase the types of rapid-fire, powerful military-style weapons favored by the cartels, as evidence that as many as half a million firearms are smuggled from the #UnitedStates into Mexico each year.

#law#SCOTUS#USpol

ProPublica: Targeted: How Cambridge Analytica Used Intimate Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives. “For years, some of America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on customers — without their knowledge or consent — to the gun industry’s main lobbying group. Political operatives then employed those details to rally firearms owners to elect pro-gun […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/28/targeted-how-cambridge-analytica-used-intimate-data-to-exploit-gun-owners-private-lives-propublica/

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3 weeks ago, the #DOJ was emphatic: #Trump may have pardoned Kentuckian Dan Wilson for #crimes he committed at the Capitol on #Jan6, but that #pardon did not extend to his unrelated conviction for illegally storing #firearms at his home.

Then, on Tues, the US atty in DC [#EdMartin] reversed course, saying it had “received further clarity” about Trump’s true intent, which included pardoning Wilson for the #gun case. Prosecutors did not explain how they arrived at this new “clarity.”

usatoday.com/story/news/nation

Jesus fucking H Christ people!!! Lock up your #firearms. It’s not that fucking hard. A #trigger #guard, small drawer #safe. Kids are curious, so keep guns away from them, unless and until your kids have take classes on gun #safety. And even then, don’t let your loaded firearms be unsupervised.

USA TODAY · Toddler accidentally shoots, kills 22-year-old mother; boyfriend arrested in caseBy , USA TODAY

I am literally the Lorax this account is what I have to say.
Look you've clearly tried absolutely everything else so I'm going to say this one last time. Then I'm going to sleep.
A lot of you have finally come around to realize that the #oligarchs simply will never piss you out if you're on fire.
Some pretend to care more. Some couldn't pretend to care less. None of them care about you at all.
Who might care about you is you if you get around to it quickly enough.
In 2 months there is what I can only describe as a "Doom wave" that will hit.
The rest of it is up in the air due to the absolute chaos of mad men running an entire country. But one thing is certain and it is there will be an economic collapse and there will be a famine.
Those like myself are still here because the previous attempts on our lives throughout the years have failed every time.
I'm personally "notoriously hard to kill".
You can learn from this or you can surely perish.
You can do very little to help anyone if you are dead. This is something most realize sooner or later in their lives.
The Trump people have voted for their own disintegration. These people are not smart.
The old foggies and "middle class" or at least people that still think there is a middle class that just voted for this, will be hit the hardest at least at first.
This is because Donald Trump and his clown car posse will immediately implement destructive tariffs, cut social services, and disintegrate their entire voting base.
Social security, Medicaid, Medicare, pensions, welfare, probably public schools, public universities, maybe the IRS. Maybe the FBI who knows what will be left , because they're about to pull an Elon Musk and drop that kitchen sink like they did on Twitter dot com.
They will likely do this while deporting the people that actually grow our food. White people don't understand this because they apparently just have something wrong with them on a deep level from birth. I don't understand how this level of ignorance is possible. Somehow it skipped me and I'm grateful.
What they won't be doing is fucking picking avocados.
I assume they think Smurfs drop food from the sky into the supermarket.
They will die still not understanding the simple concept that their food comes from somewhere actually.
You don't have to go out in the first wave family. I say this because I'm still here after all these waves.
This mixed with climate change is going to decimate the food supply in the United States.
This mixed with the #tariffs and the ignorant. Shall we say "adjustments" to the #financial system will cost prices to skyrocket to astronomical levels very rapidly.
I'm running out of words here so I'm going to finish this part of it up. There's about to be a biblical collapse of the #economy while prices shoot up like like an algae bloom.
Here is what you can do.
Arm yourself. Learn to use #firearms. Learn to love firearms.
The #white people you're a terrified of are huge pussies. If they think fucking with you is going to result in getting shot in the face. Your odds of avoiding problems dramatically skyrockets.
If things go all the way south and they're just going to murder you anyway, make sure they pay for it every single time.
This is what stopped Hitler. It was Nazis getting shot in the face just fyi.
#Off-Grid anything you can every bill, if things hit the fan financially, will be a weight around your neck and dragging you under forever. You won't come back.
At the very least, set you up a room, a camper, a shack that is "Doom proof" as far as you can manage it.
Strive to acquire something that is basically free to maintain in case you need it someday because that day is today.
If nothing else a fortified camper. If you have it handled, set up a room in your house that is doomed resistant.
Learn to grow food immediately. Lentils, fava beans, and scarlet runners cover most of the US climate ranges. These also regenerate the soil that can be used as cover crops. The term for this is "green manure". The math says you should expect to become #vegan
Find out what grows locally. Find plants that want to be alive.
If it's fussy, you're wasting your time.
Look into #permaculture. Learn #composting immediately. Consider #solar power. Consider radiant insulation. Consider all this now while you can. You will be gone in 2 months if you don't.
Congratulations! You're now an #anarchist.
Help people if you can but remember well that you will help no one if you are dead.
#Anarchy #Millennial #Shitshow101

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#Virginia is one of many states that prohibits #firearms and #guns in a #polling place. I’m no lawyer so I don’t really know how long it’s been in its current form. It seems like this law has been on the books a long time (since 1950 with various amendment over the years).

This is the first year we have made much of a fuss about it. We have 2 prominent signs and we got a tiny bit of training on how to handle the situation. (Pretty much tell people the law, try to calmly persuade them to go away and come back to vote without it, and escalate anything serious to 911, who have been prepped for this.)

I’ve been doing this 20 years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a firearm in a polling place except an active duty police officer in uniform coming in to #vote.

#election2024 #electionday #uspol

law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/ti

#SCOTUS seems poised to uphold a major #GunRegulation imposed by the #Biden admin that requires #BackgroundChecks, #SerialNumbers & sales #records for the nearly untraceable #firearms known as #GhostGuns.

A majority of the justices seemed skeptical during oral argument on Tues of the position taken by gun owners, parts makers & #2A groups: that the govt exceeded its authority in 2022 when it imposed new rules for the weapons.

#law #GunControl #guns #GunViolence
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Citing omelets and chili, justices seem poised to uphold ghost gun rulesBy Justin Jouvenal

I'm always happy when one of the @medium articles I curate and recommend gets featured as a Staff Pick. This article on children and #GunSafety by F. Perry Wilson, associate professor of medicine and public health at Yale, is getting a lot of spirited debate.

(Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall)

medium.com/@fperrywilson/guns-

Medium · Guns and Kids: What is “Responsible Gun Ownership”?By F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE