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James Harden got arrested in Houston because his gun was allegedly sitting in his car without a holster. In Texas. A constitutional carry state. Same gun. Same car. Same person. But if it’s in a holster, he drives home. If it’s sitting bare on the seat, he gets booked. That’s the kind of technicality that turns a law-abiding person into a criminal overnight. And here’s the part nobody wants to answer: Does a holster actually make him safer? Or does it just give the government one more box to check before they cuff you? Because the criminals carjacking people at 3 AM in Houston are not worried about holster laws. The only people these laws usually trap are the ones trying to follow the law in the first place. So be honest… Should James Harden have been arrested over this? Or is Texas pretending to be pro-2A while still letting tiny technicalities chip away at your rights? Drop your answer below. Shop America hat here: shop.mrcolionnoir.com/collec…
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Almost all platforms have gotten more fair towards gun content in the past few years. YouTube is the notable exception. It's the only platform that has gotten deliberately worse in the past few years.
Watching guntube has increasingly become obnoxious because of the stupid "code words" creators have to use to not offend the robot moderators. I regularly see videos where several seconds of the start are the creator essentially talking to the AI and promising they aren't doing anything illegal or directing viewers to gun seller websites (which isn't illegal!). And often they get unexplained strikes anyway, with no real way to appeal unless you are a huge channel. Entire channels can be wiped out this way, taking YEARS of irreplaceable content with them. @TeamYouTube are either antigunners themselves, or cowards who folded to the pressure of Michael Bloomberg to slowly kill off legal gun content. Either way, they are not true believers in free speech, and certainly not the right to keep and bear arms. Youtube should be ashamed of themselves. The rules should be rolled back to whatever they were ten years ago when guntube thrived. Only illegal content should be against the rules. (And if they don't want to allow firearms on livestreams - fine, I can understand that one) Everytown and friends correctly identified guntube as a threat in their war on gun culture, and have lobbied hard to destroy it. For now, they are winning that battle. I think eventually YouTube will use some mass shooting as an excuse to totally ban guntube, aside from maybe purely educational stuff e.g. Forgotten Weapons and channels that discuss court cases and such. I know we have already asked a lot of him, but I wish Elon could turn X into an actually viable video platform. Right now, you can upload videos but there's no real way to easily find them if they aren't very recent. Scum like Bloomberg know they are losing the culture war, and they can't hope to beat us in a grassroots way. So instead, they lean on corporate buddies and apply pressure to advertisers to force top-down change.
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On guns, Texas is a lot less Texas than people think.
James Harden was arrested for not having a holster. Legally owned gun. Legal to have it in his vehicle. No victim. Just a holster check at 4am. I fought to remove this exact language because it would be used to criminalize law-abiding Texans over a technicality that has nothing to do with public safety. They kept it anyway. Now a man with no criminal record is facing a Class A misdemeanor & bond conditions that strip him of his 2A rights while the case plays out. All because of where his gun was sitting. Told. You. So. @TXGunRights will fight.
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Open Source Defense retweeted
James Harden was arrested for not having a holster. Legally owned gun. Legal to have it in his vehicle. No victim. Just a holster check at 4am. I fought to remove this exact language because it would be used to criminalize law-abiding Texans over a technicality that has nothing to do with public safety. They kept it anyway. Now a man with no criminal record is facing a Class A misdemeanor & bond conditions that strip him of his 2A rights while the case plays out. All because of where his gun was sitting. Told. You. So. @TXGunRights will fight.
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Cleveland Cavaliers player James Harden was arrested on Saturday in Houston on a misdemeanor charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon in a motor vehicle, according to the Harris County District Clerk’s Office. cnn.it/4ooGexQ
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Banning gun possession for people who voluntarily seek mental health treatment is a great way to prevent people from seeking mental health treatment.
WaPo has a ridiculous new article out that reads as if it is written by gun control groups. It talks entirely about fringe dangers while ignoring the constitutional harms. In just one of many frustrating excerpts, Everytown insists that if you can't manage your finances, or *voluntarily* seek mental health treatment, you should lose your gun rights. The article also repeatedly and misleadingly references a line about how mass shootings could increase, which is included because they are supposed to say all possible outcomes even if unlikely. Several constitutional protections create some risk of harm. E.g., proper due process, habeas corpus, etc. That doesn't mean we should void them.
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Open Source Defense retweeted
So DUIs can stop you from having guns, but not from having alcohol.
Washington State Court Rules Two DUIs Should Result in Loss of Gun Rights bearingarms.com/tomknighton/…
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This is true gray man. You in your almost-FDE 5.11 pants with a totally-non-suspicious cordura sling bag has nothing on this guy with a 380 in his pocket.
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Police are exempt from ~all gun control laws, and that's typically pitched as being justified by their training. The actual reason it happens is just interest-group politics. The median police officer is actually surprisingly poorly trained. (Although shout out to the police who take training seriously. They usually end up having to do it on their own dime.)
I remember over three years ago at the Boland preliminary injunction hearing, CA argued that it wasn't hypocritical that its police used off-roster Glocks (which lack MDM, CLI, and of course microstamping), because cops have so much more training.
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This guy is working harder on improving himself than 99% of the people making fun of him.
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Open Source Defense retweeted
🚨 The Supreme Court left in place a Fifth Circuit ruling that the federal felon-in-possession firearm law cannot be applied to a Mississippi man whose only felony conviction was nonpayment of child support.
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New OSD podcast interview today, with Doug Ritter the founder of @KnifeRights. Based on pure results, they're one of the most effective advocacy groups out there. See how they've changed the path of knife laws in the US, with a tiny staff and budget. 0:00 - Introduction to Knife Rights 2:43 - The landscape of knife laws 5:52 - Bipartisan strategies in advocacy 8:47 - Legal challenges and court successes 11:40 - Building relationships with legislators 14:44 - Lessons from Knife Rights for other advocacy orgs 17:50 - The origins of Knife Rights 34:20 - The Federal Switchblade Act and its impact 39:05 - The origins of knife bans and their implications 44:09 - Legal battles and the future of Knife Rights 51:44 - Knives as tools and their role in self-defense 57:06 - The future of Knife Rights and advocacy
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Cool tech from a company we're proud investors in. This is the only way for 2A companies to use modern ad tech tools.
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They say never meet your heroes because you are bound to be disappointed, and I suppose that is true as a general rule. But I recently found out it is not always true. A mutual friend put me in touch with one of my 2A heroes, Robert Cottrol. Dr. Cottrol is a professor at George Washington Law, and he and his co-author Brannon Denning have written what, for my money, is one of the best books in the 2A space: “To Trust the People with Arms.” If you have not read To Trust, I recommend that you run, not walk, to the nearest computer and order it this minute. On second thought, you may want to wait until October when the new edition comes out. Anyway, I ventured over to GWL earlier this week to meet Dr. Cottrol. I sat down in his office and within minutes the two of us were happily geeking away on assorted 2A topics, mutual friends, and mutual foes. And before the meeting was over, Bob gave me the benefit of a brilliant idea. Before I tell you the idea, here’s some context: In various briefs I have written over the years, I have countered the whole “weapons of war” canard by noting that if “weapons of war” are not protected, the federal government distributes unprotected arms every time it sells a surplus Garand through the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Bob’s idea is this. In these arguments we should not focus on the Garand. Instead, we should focus on the M1 carbine. Why? Because M1 carbines have a detachable magazine AND a bayonet lug. That makes them official “assault weapons” under the “features” test in many of the statutes. The argument then becomes “How is it possibly the case that if I live in X state, I commit a serious crime when I purchase a firearm from my own government?” Like I said. Brilliant.
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