NPR got its funding cut by the Trump administration, then by Congress, and then immediately went on about freedom of the press, because apparently, freedom of the press means public funding, but the right to keep and bear arms doesn't mean free machine guns.
Talk about unfair.
Anyway, despite years of NPR claiming the government funding was a tiny fraction of its income, it seems that wasn't the case, because it took them the better part of the week to realize the ramifications of the Jensen ruling and the DOJ's failure to file an appeal before the deadline.
Gun rights groups are celebrating a federal ruling that lifts restrictions on the purchase of silencers, used to lessen the sound of gunshots, and certain firearms.
Judge James Wesley Hendrix out of the Northern District of Texas invalidated key components of the nearly 100-year-old National Firearms Act (NFA) in more than a dozen states.
Hendrix gave the Justice Department one week to submit an emergency appeal before his decision went into effect. But the DOJ never did. The department has more than a month to submit a non-emergency appeal, but it's unlikely. The agency has made a wider push to restore gun rights to people with felony convictions, with exceptions, including violent offenses such as domestic violence and gang-related offenses, according to a final rule published Monday.
Under the Texas ruling, some Americans can now buy and sell those silencers and weapons without first registering them with the federal government or submitting photos of themselves or fingerprints.
Gun rights groups are hailing the ruling as a significant win.
"This is truly one of the greatest Second Amendment victories in the last 100 years," said Erich Pratt, the senior vice president of Gun Owners of America. "It's something that we have wanted since we were first incorporated in 1976."
Here's what we know so far.
They go on to explain all the things we already know and have written about for the last four days, along with the rest of pro-gun and conservative media.
On one hand, I guess I should applaud them for covering what it means — they did cover it on the 14th, when the ruling went into effect, but it took them four days to figure out what it means, even though that was pretty clear what it would mean when the ruling was issued.
In other words, NPR couldn't be bothered to do its homework until after the weekend.
Could it be that they needed taxpayer money more than they claimed? Could it be that they just absolutely proved why Trump and congressional Republicans were right to cut their funding?
Honestly, was the entire mainstream media hoping that the DOJ would trip over itself to file an appeal and request an injunction in the process?
In the meantime, this is still a glorious time, and it's well past the day when it should have happened.
Now, I need to save my pennies to get that short-barreled upper and suppressor for my AR-15, if for no other reason than to make brains explode simply because they don't think I should have any of it without government permission.
Unfortunately, we all know that the average NPR enjoyer is going to be part of that crowd.
Which, if I'm being honest, makes it all the more glorious that I can do it.
And you can, too, if you join one of the groups that was a plaintiff in the case, because the government doesn't get to see the membership lists of who joined when.
But they know who donated money to NPR.
