Stephen Gutowski
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Also, weird for Douthat to chide others' predictions about what Donald Trump will do. Isn't this his best known work at the Times?
I wonder if these fireworks are going to happen while it's still July 4th...
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.
"You better listen to this unhinged racist rant or else." No thanks. That's stupid.
Although, the fact that somebody apparently realized it didn't light up at night and decided to just drag a light with an extension cord and plop it on a planter makes the whole scene a bit less imposing.
They've put it everywhere else. Here it is on the DOJ building.
The ATF is proposing formally defining what counts as a "willful" violation of the Gun Control Act, especially for licensed gun dealers.
The ATF is shrinking how long licensed dealers have to store gun sales records to 20 or 30 years rather than the indefinite time the Biden Admin had boosted it to. The same would apply to ATF's storage of out-of-business dealer records.
The ATF is proposing officially allowing licensed gun dealers to use electronic records rather than paper ones.
The ATF is proposing making people select their "biological sex" on all ATF forms, and rejects "the concept of gender identity."
There are 34 new proposed rules or final rules in the package, which Acting AG Blanche calls the "most comprehensive" in the ATF's history. I'll give you a sampling of some that jump out to me. First is undoing two of the ATF rules the Biden Admin imposed.
There are representatives from every major gun-rights group here for the signing. NRA, NSSF, GOA, NAGR, and many more.
I'm at the ATF event @thereloadteam.bsky.social broke news about yesterday. Newly-confirmed ATF Director Robert Cekada is signing 34 final or proposed rules right now. Here's a list of summaries from the ATF: www.atf.gov/rules-and-re...
Governor Spanberger signed several gun-control bills yesterday, but what's more interesting is she didn't sign several others--including the "assault firearms" ban. It's not clear why. She has until Monday at midnight to sign or veto the other gun bills or they become law.
Today I'm doing another gun reporting class for the National Journalism Center. I teach a classroom section on the common issues reporters may encounter when covering guns as well as some common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Then we do a range portion where they're able to fire some common guns.
Epstein spent half of 2009 serving his prison sentence for soliciting sex from a minor. I mean, come on.
Yea, people who argue this have always just been pathetic cowards.
What are we doing here, man? This was the impenetrable prose they're using as the example?
You know we can all see the tattoo, right? What are you even talking about?