Mark W. Smith/#2A Scholar
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Former Trump Media Surrogate/Transition Team. 2A Scholar, Four Boxes Diner YouTube. Opinions my own. Posts are not legal advice Retweet/Follow/Like≠Endorsement
Joined September 2021
2A Breaking: Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner is a finalist for Top Voices of the Second Amendment. A great honor and congratulations to the other 2A finalists @GunWashington @GundieAwards @thereal_SnS @ArmedAttorneys @MrColionNoir
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@DavidM_Friedman True. Bring him before Congress and grill Hunter about the "Big Guy", Ukraine and the like. And, if Hunter were to commit perjury before Congress, he could be prosecuted for perjury because the crime will have occurred post-pardon.
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2A Major Breaking News. Trump issues Executive Order on 2nd Amendment. All laws and regulations are to be assessed for constitutionality under 2A. The ball is rolling folks.
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@OversightPR @TheJusticeDept Someone joked last week: "The only people with a busier schedule now than President-elect Donald Trump are the folks in the deep state shredding documents." I got a chuckle out of that.
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@EricLDaugh No. @VivekGRamaswamy too valuable on domestic policies for this job. He needs to focus on draining the domestic swamp.
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@RonWyden Jog my memory but didn’t the IRS or some other governmental agency leak all the Trump supporters’ tax information to the press a few years ago?.
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#2A TERRIBLE ERROR BY ANTI-GUN SCOTUS JUSTICES. Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake. In today's Cargill/bump stock opinion, the below statement from Sotomayor/Kagan/Jackson will have major implications for AR-15 ban cases. Their dissent reads: "Within a.
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BREAKING 2A NEWS: The Supreme Court has distributed the Snope ("assault weapon" ban) & Ocean State Tactical (magazine ban) cases for conference on January 10, 2025, which is the same day that Grey v. Jennings (2A injunction standards) is conferenced. The ball is rolling now. .
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@Malinowski Americans should NOT be borrowing money from China with our Treasury bonds and then giving those borrowed funds away to foreigners/foreign nations. That's just crazy.
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@briantylercohen The Senate has had this stand alone pediatric cancer bill for many months and Schumer choose to hold it to extort concessions from Republicans now. These games don't work anymore thanks to X and transparency.
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#2A So, let me get this straight. Assuming that the bulletin below is authentic, then according to the Maine government, the alleged Maine shooter WORKED for the Government and was apparently known BY THE GOVERNMENT to be having major mental health issues including THREATENING.
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2A BREAKING NEWS: President Trump's DOJ is submitting requests to DELAY ongoing ATF/2A court fights on the grounds that DOJ may be altering their legal positions to be more favorable to 2A. This is great news for 2A.
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#2A HUGE 2A WIN just now. As predicted, Federal Judge Stephen MCGlynn declares Illinois bans on semi-automatic rifles and magazines to be unconstitutional under 2A. The Court wrote, “Most importantly, considering all of the evidence presented, the Court holds that the provisions.
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@LeadingReport The House should literally do nothing until January. Just recess and go home.
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@RepMcGovern No. This was perfect b/c the musical Les Miserables is about a overzealous, nutty prosecutor pursuing a single-man (who is good, honest and reformed) for years. The prosecutor himself realizes he messed up and jumps off a bridge. I think Les Mis is a metaphor for the unjust.
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@JackPosobiec Good idea. @JDVance needs to be aggressive on the Senate leadership vote. Take charge @JDVance.
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@PamelaApostolo1 Now do “defense spending,” and you’ll see the disparity and the issue. It’s easy to be big spenders on domestic stuff when your defense is subsidized by the US. Sort of like mom and dad paying for your rent—lots of extra $$ for beer and pizza.
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@GlobeEyeNews They better be careful or we will rename the English Channel the Channel of America.
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@SenatorDurbin Funny how you didn’t care about this when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago and harassed Trump supporters.
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@EricLDaugh “Health care is a right” means I get to enslave doctors or enslave my neighbor to pay for my doctors. Free speech does not require me to enslave anyone.
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2A BREAKING SCOTUS: SCOTUS just added Snope v. Brown (AR-15 ban) and Ocean State Tactical (Mag ban) to its 2/21/25 Conference. While ordinarily being relisted more than twice is considered a negative, that SCOTUS is now looking to grant cert in cases for the Fall term should give.
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@LibertyCappy The cameraman understands his job is to report the news. and not serve as a propaganda tool for those in power.
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2A BREAKING: Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner WON the 2025 Gundies Award for Top Voice of the 2A. Thank you to the entire 2nd Amendment community for supporting my work. It is a great honor to receive this from @GundieAwards and I applaud my fellow finalists @GunWashington.
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@SenMarkKelly That’s not what the 14th Amendment says. That’s what deep state actors have said without the benefit of a serious, informed scholarly legal analysis. That will change very soon.
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@FistedFoucault And yet we “stupid people” rule the world. So how dumb do you have to be to be ruled by stupid people?.
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@maziehirono Why did you omit the key 14A language about that they also have to be “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”? There are TWO conditions that must be met to be a citizen.
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2A BREAKING NEWS: US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, finds suppressors are NOT "arms" under 2A in US v. Peterson. Court rejects criminal defendant's challenge to NFA conviction re possessing unregistered suppressor. Weak tea opinion with multiple analytical errors. Four Boxes.
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@matt_vanswol The four boxes of American Liberty are the cartridge box (guns), ballot box (voting), jury box (rule of law) and soap box (free speech). You need all four to be a full citizen.
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@GenMhayden You do realize that Jack Smith already released his best "anti-Trump" information with his October filing in DC Federal Court? That landed like a THUD.
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@EricLDaugh Justice served except it was NOT. It was 100% terrible for a nutty NYC DA to put Daniel Penny through this ordeal for protecting NYers. So, I am happy but still unhappy.
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#2A Hunter Biden's Pardon just helped American gun owners. Biden's discussion of malum prohibitum (in essence) gun crimes as an excuse to pardon Hunter is the sort of statement by anti-gunner Joe that we can use down the road against the ATF and against the anti-gunners.
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@DocStrangelove2 I’m pretty sure that New York City does not allow open carry, so why am I guessing that’s not New York Manhattan?.
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@MacFarlaneNews Yes. Catholics attending Latin Masses are scary. Christians protesting abortion are scary. Gun owners who have committed only malum prohibitum crimes are scary. Invading Mar-a-Lago and rifling through Melania's closet was absolutely heroic. We are lucky to have you on the.
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@CollinRugg Terrible. No excuse for not protecting that spot with vehicle barriers in my opinion. An obvious vulnerability.
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@RepSummerLee Self-defense is different than being a vigilante. Daniel Penny engaged in self-defense of himself and others. A vigilante takes justice into his own hands and punishes someone without seeking recourse in the justice system. Totally different.
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#2A #Uvalde AG Garland reaches the absolute WRONG CONCLUSION here. The entire Report states that Government/police failed to protect Americans so Garland thinks we should disarm Americans and TRUST THE POLICE to protect us. You are Your Own First Responder. Government will not.
AG GARLAND ON UVALDE SHOOTING: "Our children deserve better than to grow up in a country where an 18-year-old has easy access to a weapon that belongs on the battlefield, not in a classroom.".
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#2A So now Kamala wants to walk into our HOMES to inspect our guns.
Kamala: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible.”
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@TomBevanRCP Jimmy Carter was an “America Last” president before the label even existed. I recall my father appreciating sitting in those Jimmy Carter gas lines in the 1970s. And I recall the families of the US Embassy hostages appreciating Carter presidency for 444 days. And giving away the.
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@julie_kelly2 NO. Trump does NOT want this motion granted WITHOUT Prejudice. He should oppose the motion unless it is granted WITH PREJUDICE. “Without prejudice” means it can be brought again later.
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#2A The antigunner strategy of delaying 2A cases in the lower “inferior” courts while hoping Biden could flip the Justice Thomas and Justice Alito seats has failed. Even worse (for the antis), the delay may actually have helped the 2A because now you might have a US Department of.
@fourboxesdiner Mark, I sure hope that the appellate courts see that stalling these cases was a pointless task and get these AWB through.
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Where are the guns? Seriously.
MSNBC gushes over Walz doing a pheasant hunt photo op, attempting to appeal to men voters. This is embarrassing, even for MSNBC. Also: Guns are conspicuously nowhere to be seen.
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#2A No. The govt will not go “door to door” to confiscate guns. They will pick off gun owners one at a time in supermarkets, restaurants, etc. In my view, the January 6 round ups served as a dry run for how the govt would arrest gun owners. The Feds get cooperation from local.
GM. ☕️. Lots of people have been boldly calling for outright confiscation lately, but none seem to want to lead the stack. Remember to remind them that they are always welcome to put their money where their mouth is.
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@EricLDaugh Judicial immunity applies to conduct inside the courtroom as she oversees a case. She allegedly helped an illegal alien escape capture by ICE. That conduct does not fall within the scope of judging anymore than drunk driving does not fall within the scope of judging. No immunity.
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#2A IMPORTANT. For those who say “the police won’t enforce gun bans and confiscate firearms because of 2A”, check out this story. Police raided a home and killed the animals for what? Likely because some bureaucrat told them to do so. Police will FOLLOW ORDERS no matter how dumb.
The fascist Democrats who run New York have now murdered P’Nut the squirrel and his raccoon friend, and put this family through hell.
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#2A Justice Barrett asking about whether lawfully owning an AR-15 can become readily convertable into a machine gun and, thus, owners of AR-15s are felons. Barrett wants DOJ to address this concern. DOJ disagrees with this concern. DOJ says that AR-15s are not regulated machine.
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#2A 2A BREAKING NEWS: WOW! US Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, three-judge panel for oral argument today in Viramontes (Cook County "assault weapon" ban) case is Judges Brennan, Sykes, and St. Eve. This is literally the best possible panel the 2A could hope for in 7th Circuit.
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@RodDMartin Time to remind State Department officials that their client is the UNITED STATES and not the world. .
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@gilmcgowan Jog my memory. Is it still easier to schedule and get an MRI in Canada if you are a pet than if you are a human?.
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@ANNELAMOTT LOL. Articulating left-wing talking points in deep-state DC is not resistance, but establishment pablum.
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BREAKING 2A NEWS JUST NOW: SCOTUS has rescheduled consideration of the Snope Cert Petition Conference re AR-15 ban case. Something is brewing among SCOTUS justices. Four Boxes Diner video coming.
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@LucFrieden Great. Your $$ and your army can help out Ukraine now. Time for Europe to put on their "big boy pants" and protect themselves with their own money and military. Daddy is cutting off your allowance.
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@SenJeffMerkley Nobody as a right to work for the federal government. Nobody has a right to a "dream job." I have no duty to pay for someone to have a job. People lose jobs all the time. Move on.
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2A This is correct. A magazine capacity ban is a FIREARMS BAN. Banning magazines that hold more than 10 rounds means you have banned an entire category of firearms, i.e., semi-automatic firearms capable of firearms over 10 rounds without having to be reloaded. And, don't forget,.
As Mark Smith from @fourboxesdiner says it’s very simple. A ban of magazines holding more than 10 rounds is an arms ban. It bans all firearms capable of firing more than 10 rounds without being manually reloaded. This is unconstitutional as they are ubiquitous.
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@GovKathyHochul @NYPDnews @MTAPD NYPD proves yet again that it’s greatest talent is drawing chalk lines around dead crime victims. But the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms will protect people from being murdered in the first place.
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2A Breaking News. Can we agree it is mission critical that Kash Patel be formally announced as acting ATF Director today given the 2 23 date?.
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@elonmusk @Smith_WessonInc @elonmusk Please create an AR-15 emoji since it is the most popular rifle in American history and doing so wil further advance our 2A right to bear arms. Politics flows downhill from culture.
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#2A MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: FEDERAL JUDGE FINDS NEW JERSEY AR-15 BAN TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Judge Sheridan writes, "The AR-15 Provision of the Assault Firearms Law is unconstitutional under Bruen and Heller as to the Colt AR-15 for use of self-defense within the home." Four Boxes.
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@JoJoFromJerz HISTORY LESSON: You do understand that the American Revolution was funded and run by the richest people in America such as John Hancock? Hancock's family was so rich and powerful that he literally attended King George III's coronation in London in 1761. So, in short: Yes, we.
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@DataRepublican Easy answer: after the financial crisis of 2008, Obama printed money and destroyed interest rates so that retired Americans could not longer live off CD interest payments …bank interest rates went to basically zero. This forced all older Americans to go Risk On and move assets.
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@BarbMcQuade Please keep these posts coming from left-wing/MSNBC attorneys and law professors about how no federal prosecutor would charge Hunter for these gun-related crimes. 2A attorneys will be handing a compilation of these statements and opinions to federal judges in future 2A challenges.
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@EricLDaugh Why? Matt Gaetz is not seeking a lifetime appointment as a federal judge. Regardless, I put as much stock in a House Ethics investigation as I do the House 1/6 Committee investigation. Are you going to use a bunch of allegations and information made by and/or acquired from.
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#2A NY Federal Judge Upholds 90-day wait period for acquiring additional firearms. This is wrong under Heller/Bruen methodology. By necessity, 2A protects the right to acquire firearms since you cannot keep and bear something you cannot first acquire. There is nothing in the 2A.
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2A I'm happy that more & more 2A supporters have become so sophisticated in the law that they track SCOTUS's Order Lists. The spread of this "geeky" knowledge bodes well for the future of 2A. The anti-gunners cannot sneak bad things past as as easily as in the past.
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#2A Actually, I don't think Everytown's lawyers would ever write anything this dumb and sloppy. Quoting HBO'S THE WIRE when applying a fundamental constitutional right? Bragging about how Hawaii was run by Monarchs (they would have loved King George III) and quoting long-form.
The Hawaii Supreme Court released a ruling that sounds like Everytown wrote it for them. They say Heller was wrongly decided, and talk about the historical tradition of the former Kingdom of Hawaii as if that is at all relevant. A lowlights thread.
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#2A GREAT NEWS. SCOTUS just denied MD’s request for a 30 day delay. Great sign SCOTUS is focused on the Snope “assault weapon” ban. See my video below from earlier today explaining the import of this ruling. @gunpolicy.
#2A BREAKING: MISSION CRITICAL BATTLE IN SCOTUS "ASSAULT WEAPON" CASE. A critical battle is being fought at SCOTUS today, which has likely flown under your radar screen. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video flags MD's new attempt to thwart our 2A Rights in the Bianchi/Snope case.
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@cwebbonline Honestly, the correct answer is to allow student loans to be dischargeable in bankruptcy proceedings and then have the universities that provided the degrees bear the $$ loss.
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@JackPosobiec Makes sense since I heard they are only inviting President Trump and Catholics.
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Great find. If I fly to California, I do NOT lose my right to worship at a church, attend a protest march, petition the government, or exercise my free speech rights. So, why should my #2A rights end at the border of my state?.
BREAKING: A state trial judge in Massachusetts has ruled the requirement that non-residents obtain a non-resident/temp MA LTC is UNCONSTITUTIONAL under the #2A. This is the first ruling of this kind in a post-Bruen America. @MorosKostas @2Aupdates @gunpolicy @fourboxesdiner
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2A SCOTUS BREAKING TODAY. Let me make this simple. If we do not get a cert grant by midnight tonight in Snope (AR-15 ban-MD) or Ocean State Tactical (Mag ban-RI), then the odds of SCOTUS hearing one of these cases this term will fall to almost zero.
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MAJOR BREAKING 2A WIN: The US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, just knocked out federal gun control law banning 18-20 years olds from acquiring handguns from FFLs. Major victory for 2A. Will be interesting to see if Trump Administration seeks cert or just lets the ruling stand.
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@brianstelter @kaitlancollins Fantastic news. Elon cut 80% of X employees and nobody noticed. Let’s do the same with the federal government.
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BIRTHRIGHT. States lack Standing to Challenge Birthright citizen Executive Order. Trump should argue that states lack standing to advance legal attacks on this executive order. The states themselves are not "damaged." I suspect that only an illegal alien woman/and her just-born.
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@USTreasury Huge victory for freedom. Great political victory for a Trump. This is a BIG DEAL. Trump vetoed this first term. This was anti-American and constitutional. Hat tip to @DLoesch @ChrisLoesch for their relentless hammering on this issue.
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#2A Has this video been authenticated? If yes, then I believe it goes to my point that many police officers would violate our 2A rights if told to do so….
Kamala’s VP Tim Walz sent his tyrannical agents into Minnesota neighborhoods to shoot citizens with paintball guns during Covid. Do we really want someone like this running our country?
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@Everytown #2A Thank you Colorado for giving the 2A movement the cleanest case to knock out all targeted gun taxes at SCOTUS. I look forward to that powerful Justice VanDyke or Justice Ho opinion knocking out this law on 2A grounds.
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@charliekirk11 Bring back the Civil Service Exam that Jimmy Carter got rid of in the 1970s. We have the ASVAB test for the military so why not a standardized test for civil servants?.
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2A MAJOR BREAKING: Trump DOJ has allowed midnight deadline to pass to seek SCOTUS cert in the non-violent felon case of Bryan Range. Thus, this great pro-2A legal precedent in favor of non-violent felons not being disarmed for life will stand. This is a HUGE pro-2A development.
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#2A BREAKING: Federal Court declares Assault Weapon and Magazine Bans to be Unconstitutional under the 2nd Amendment. Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video explains how Judge McGlynn in Illinois got it right
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@Timcast This is an unserious opinion. Don’t say this again. Kills your credibility on other topics.
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@azsweetheart013 That because it turns out those various professions have become state-funded grifters in various ways while President Trump literally risk his life and fortune to save America. So, yes, I trust President Trump more than virtually anyone in those professions.
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@chrisdmowrey I don't recall "democracy" being in the US Constitution yet Article IV provides, "The US shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government. " The Federalist Papers teaches the Founders opposed democracy as dangerous "mob rule".
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@ChrisVanHollen You guys work for the WRONG branch of government. Are you next going to march into SCOTUS and demand to look at their draft opinions? You are Article I legislators and not Article II executive branch officials or Article III judicial branch workers.
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@maddenifico Essentially, this professor is revealing that he has never read the Federalist Papers, which discuss how to form a national government accounting for human nature & fallibilities. Our Founders understood that, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.".
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@stuartpstevens The opinion of a former W-2 employee of the federal government is entitled to no greater weight than the opinion of any other American.
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TEAM 2A QUESTION: Should I start posting short 1-minute videos on X about very specific 2A items or not worry about short videos?.
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BREAKING 2A SCOTUS: SCOTUS denied cert in Md Shall Issue (licensing issue) and Gray v. Jennings. However, looks like Snope (AR-15 ban) and Ocean State Tactical (magazine ban) will be relisted later today. This means semi-auto rifle ban issue is still alive & well so, on balance,.
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2A MAJOR BREAKING 2A VICTORY. US Court of Appeals for Third Circuit just ruled in favor of non-violent felons. The Court wrote, "[2A plaintiff] Bryan Range appeals the District Court’s summary judgment rejecting his claim that the federal “felon-in-possession” law—18 U.S.C. §.
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@Archuleta4CO If I don’t have the right to an armory of guns under 2A, then you don’t have a right to a library of books under 1A.
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@hannahhill_sc 2A MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump DOJ just asked SCOTUS to start taking MORE 2A cases. Solicitor General John Sauer and Office of Civil Rights, DOJ, head Harmeet Dhillon on the DOJ brief to SCOTUS. This is a huge sea change in favor of 2A.
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@ChrisDJackson Just think how awesome the Mexican economy will be when they all go back to Mexico.
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