The amicus briefs submitted in NYSRPA v. Bruen were revealing. The mask was off, if it was ever on to begin with. To the unfamiliar reader, the NYSRPA v. Bruen lawsuit challenged New York City’s century-old gun infringement — the Sullivan Act — that allowed the police total discretion on who may or may not carry a handgun. New York City’s laws also require permitting for the mere possession of any rifle or shotgun. Again, these permits were at the complete discretion of the NYPD.
Gun control groups lie and dissemble about their true position. You can discern a pattern in the court filings and arguments they make to legislators.
When a state wants to go to Constitutional Carry from Shall-Issue, they claim that shall-issue is fantastic, and Constitutional Carry will allow anyone to carry “concealed, loaded handguns” in public.
When gun owners challenge discretionary May-Issue permitting laws to move to a Shall-Issue system, as they did in New York State, gun control groups pretend that Shall-Issue will be armageddon.
The truth is obvious to anyone paying attention. They seemingly lack consistency in what they support, but that’s because they are consistent in their support of infringements. I’m not strawmanning anything there: they want the government to have total discretion over who gets to own guns. That discretion, when translated into reality, means no one (with the exception of the rich and politically connected) gets to own guns. Again, this is all borne out by evidence from who was issued permits (e.g., Donald Trump, Bloomberg’s bodyguards) and who wasn’t (ordinary proles). There was also clear-cut bribery involved in the NY permitting scheme.
Setting aside their lies and dissembling for a minute, let’s look at two recent examples of the sort of cops that gun control groups would be perfectly happy to give complete control over.
Chicago cop used his badge to buy guns for Mexican smuggler: feds (Archived link)
Federal prosecutors are accusing a Chicago cop of using his status as a law enforcement officer to buy guns for an accomplice who funneled them to Mexico.
In a newly unsealed indictment, a grand jury charges Officer Kevin Rodriguez and his co-defendant, Diego Valdez, with running an illegal gun pipeline between September and December 2024.
Prosecutors say Rodriguez abused his position as a cop to acquire AR-style rifles and pistols not available to private citizens under Illinois law.
The indictment alleges Rodriguez used his CPD credentials to buy restricted weapons in Illinois and Indiana, then falsely claimed on federal paperwork that he was the “actual buyer.” Investigators say Valdez was the real customer.
He allegedly transferred thousands of dollars to Rodriguez via Zelle for the purchases, then smuggled the guns to Mexico.
4 New Mexico deputies fired in wake of viral video showing smiling cop chucking baby rabbit at cruiser (Archived link)
Four New Mexico deputies captured in a viral video loafing around on taxpayers’ dime and entertaining themselves by terrorizing a baby bunny were all fired last week following a year-long investigation.
Deputy Alejandro Gomez, the 28-year-old star of the video captured threatening his coworker with a taser before fatally chucking the poor rabbit at their patrol cruiser, was axed alongside three of his unidentified colleagues heard speaking in the video, Grant County Sheriff Raul Villanueva said. [...]
The video, which resurfaced in July, showed the four men passing around a baby rabbit hardly bigger than a grapefruit that they found on the road.
Two men who don’t appear on camera can be heard cackling all the while as a deputy cradling the bunny moves to release it on the ground.
Gomez, though, didn’t want the fun to end so soon.
He stepped in and pointed his taser at his colleague, demanding the rabbit be handed over to him.
His colleagues were skeptical and asked multiple times if Gomez was going to hurt it, while the deputy just smirked.
The deputy holding the rabbit tried to walk away, but Gomez followed as the others kept insisting to “let him hold it.”
“Don’t f–king kill it,” the deputy tried to order before handing the doomed bunny over.
Gomez immediately pivoted to grin at the camera before reeling his arm back and launching the rabbit at the side of their cruiser. [...]
After the horrific video came to light, Gomez was placed on leave and charged with four counts of assault on a police officer, and one count of extreme cruelty toward animals in February.
The other three weren’t placed on leave, but have now all lost their jobs, including the one who reported the matter in the first place.
Not all cops are corrupt or evil psychopaths, but enough of them are that they should never have any discretion or veto power whatsoever on who gets to own guns.
In the world of fiction and entertainment, Training Day and Serpico are good movies that show how bad cops can be. If you’re interested in foreign films, Mirch Masala (Hindi) and Das Leben der Anderen (German) have stories that aren't too different from reality.
Gun control groups will pretend that none of this matters. They will keep demanding governmental discretion, exploiting every tragedy to rush their talking points out the door before any details of what happened become clear.
It’s our duty and responsibility as Second Amendment advocates to apply constant and unwavering pressure on lawmakers so they don’t cave in bad circumstances such as the aftermath of a tragedy.
Editor’s Note: The gun control lobby will stop at nothing to enact their radical agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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