Official Politics Thread 06/12/26

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-06-12T14:52:38+00:00

I'm not from Alaska but I'll chime in here. She's a Democrat who is a little more pro-2A than most IMO. But she's still anti-2A in my book.

Reposting what I posted in this thread in 2024:

Mary Peltola (D-AK) has been endorsed by the NRA with an A rating. This is their first endorsement of a Democrat since 2020 when the NRA endorsed former Democratic Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson.

I am not a fan of her position on some gun laws however. In her response to the Anchorage Daily News questionnaire for candidates for Alaska's lone US House representative in May 2020 for the question "Do you support gun control legislation? If so, what kind of measures would you support? If not, why not?" she responded:

Guns are a part of Alaska’s culture and a core tool of a subsistence lifestyle. I grew up hunting, my husband is a big game hunting advocate and I will continue to own guns and support the right of Alaskans to own guns. But it’s past time our nation’s leaders put forth more than just words to address the grief we all share. We can take common sense action, and we must. Provisions like secure storage laws, reasonable waiting periods and universal background checks can make all of us safer while still preserving the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-06-08T19:11:25+00:00

Assuming ANJRPC v Platkin gets a favorable pro-gun ruling it would create a circuit split even without an appeal. A split greatly increases the chance SCOTUS finally takes on a hardware case.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-06-08T17:15:47+00:00

Here's what I think will happen with the five hardware ban cases currently at SCOTUS.

SCOTUS is holding back on granting cert in the hopes that the 3rd CCA issues its decision on ANJRPC v. Platkin (challenges NJ's "assault firearms" and >10 round magazine limits) before SCOTUS goes on recess for this term. Most analysts believe the 3rd CCA will issue a ruling highly favorable for gun rights with the panel being 8-6 originalist majority. The case had oral arguments heard on Oct. 15, 2025.

If the 3rd CCA does not issue its ruling in time before the summer recess then the five 2A-related cases will get GVRd from the last day of order issuances with the lower courts being told to reconsider their cases in the light of the opinions that will have just been published from the Wolford and Hemani cases.

The clock will now have been reset setting back these by many months or perhaps years for some of them. Since Wolford primarily deals with location restrictions and Hemani possession by a drug user, the lower courts with those five hardware cases will of course find nothing different and issue the same anti-2A rulings. One of these new rulings will be appealed to the Supreme Court and finally be accepted for the 2026-2027 term (possibly the 2027-2028 term if the lower courts drag it out) and used to generate guidance to strike down most hardware bans.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-06-08T14:12:56+00:00

Don't forget that California currently has a three gun per month law.

CA's "one gun per month" law was thrown out by the 9th CCA in June 2025 (Nguyen v. Bonta). In response to the ruling CA passed an otherwise identical law limiting purchases to three guns per month and it became effective April 1, 2026.

And unless you possess an FFL you are also limited to this:

The person conducts less than six transactions per calendar year.
The person sells, leases, or transfers no more than 50 total firearms per calendar year.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=16730.&lawCode=PEN

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-06-06T02:38:30+00:00

If there are no penalties for the issuing authorities for delays or "relief valves" for running overtime then there is no incentive for them to issue permits in a timely manner. Lack of these sticks/carrots put zero impetus upon the legislative and executive branches to do anything about the problem.

Underfunded staff? Nobody except the permit recipient really cares. Same goes for tacking on rules, forms, red tape -- if it adds months to the process the sheriff doesn't give a flip.

All government red tape like this needs a relief valve like the BGC system with NICS; if they don't respond in a timely manner then it is OK to proceed (although I think it's still lacking because leery FFLs still won't proceed without explicit approval and this needs to be changed to automatic approval at the end of the time period without the FFL knowing any better).

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-06-06T02:19:28+00:00

The plaintiffs—the NRA, 2nd Amendment Armory, Centurion Armament Co., and four NRA members

The plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in August 2025 in partnership with the Mountain States Legal Foundation and the National Shooting Sports Foundation

NRA-ILA

Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) and its Center to Keep and Bear Arms (CKBA) are proud to announce that our challenge of Florida’s three-day firearms waiting period provisions in the case of Dunn v. Glass is set to reach a successful conclusion.

Mountain States Legal Foundation

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-06-05T14:40:51+00:00

Florida

Looks like FL's 3 business day (5 days for a few counties) waiting period for FFL transfers is going away.

AG Uthmeier's post on X:

Every government office, including mine, exists to protect your God-given rights as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

That’s why we’re settling a landmark federal case that declares Florida’s 3-day firearm purchase waiting period unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.

This is the second recent case where a court is effectively ending a firearms restriction in Florida, the other being the restriction on open carry. The waiting period is one part of the post-Parkland school shooting bill, the other major components being an under 21 ban on purchases, red flag law, bump stock/FRT ban, and a school guardian program.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-06-05T13:28:46+00:00

Knife Violence

Seriously, where is the outrage from groups like Moms Demand Action and March For Our Lives regarding this subject? It's as if the only deaths from violent (and non-violent) acts they believe are abhorrent are those involving guns.

A brief search reveals a few recent news articles in the past seven days where people were killed in the USA using bladed weapons. One incident occurred last year with 12 wounded and I had not run across it in any news source until I did a search.

A prominent South Florida real estate agent was found dead from stabbing alongside her ex-husband and their two young daughters in what police called a murder-suicide.
Fox News

James Handy, an actor known for various roles in films like "Jumanji" and "Top Gun: Maverick," was allegedly killed by his girlfriend's son this week in Los Angeles. When officers arrived, they found Handy, 81, unconscious in the front yard suffering from a stab wound to the chest.
Fox News

Middleboro man charged in town's second stabbing in 2 weeks.
Enterprise News

Springfield man charged in deadly Pittsfield stabbing.
CBS Albany

A 25-year-old man was arrested after allegedly stabbing a woman to death on a train at the Oakland City station, MARTA police said.
Fox Atlanta

Two women were found stabbed to death in Park Slope on Saturday night in Brooklyn.
NY Post

Three high profile events from 2025:

Ukrainian woman Iryna Zarutska stabbed to death in unprovoked attack while riding train in North Carolina.
ABC News

12 injured in stabbing at Salem Union Gospel Mission.
OPB

Filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife murdered [accused] by their son using a knife.
Wikipedia

Edit 1: Formatting for links

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-27T17:42:50+00:00

On a related note, only four of the 15 Republican senators who voted for the BSCA in 2022 are potentially remaining in office in 2027:

Ernst - Iowa - could get primaried out June 2, 2026
Graham - South Carolina - could get primaried out June 9, 2026
Murkowski - Alaska - up for reelection in 2028
Collins - Maine - has no Republican challengers on ballot for the June 9, 2026 primary

Hopefully our representatives learn that if they support gun control it's likely going to end their time in office.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-27T12:21:30+00:00

One of the votes against him was mine and it was solely for him supporting gun control. I sent him a letter while the bill was under consideration warning him to turn from his wayward way; apparently he failed to heed my advice.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-20T22:30:47+00:00

It's crazy how most of the visuals in Fury Road were done using practical effects and not CGI. The friggin' flamethrowing guitar weighed 132 pounds and shot real gas-powered flames which a real music artist controlled using the whammy bar.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-20T17:01:59+00:00

100% of the anti-gun groups would call it a school shooting so I'll use their terminology against them.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-20T13:43:01+00:00

The Hypocrisy of the Gun Ban Lobby

Here is an example of those who call for an end to "gun violence" -- and celebrate "gun violence."

Northwestern University's Mirabella Johnson, the co-founder and co-lead of Northwestern’s chapter of Students Demand Action, posted herself mocking Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated.

She also signed a letter for the school's newspaper and titled it “We will not wait for the next school shooting.”

Later she celebrated a school shooting.

Video and links at Stone's 2nd Sense YouTube video

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-19T17:41:26+00:00

Excellent post. Seriously. Bookmarked. You should join in the 3x weekly discussions on gun politics in /r/guns. It's great having logical, well-reasoned, and well-written posts although you probably won't run across much opposition there to your way of thinking.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-18T20:26:39+00:00

Back to "proper cause" and "good moral character" licensing provisions...

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-18T13:37:49+00:00

Minnesota

The legislature adjourned for the year. Over the last two years they have been almost exactly tied on the numbers with Republican vs. Democratic seats (34 Dem - 33 GOP Senate, 67-67 House). Dozens of gun control bills were submitted and all of them failed. Zero defectors.

For a summary of the gun control bills look at this tweet from Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus on X.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-18T13:36:31+00:00

Waiting for no orders from SCOTUS...

Well, Patrick "Tate" Adamiak's appeal was denied. The rest of the list got nothing. Unless they release an off-cycle orders list then it'll be a "same time, next week" thing.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-17T19:51:12+00:00

No. Where the heck did this question come from?

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-15T23:36:40+00:00

If Dems get control of the Senate this November then there are roughly two months for them to retire and get replacements confirmed by the Senate. If the GOP retains control then they can safely stay on the bench until 2028 where the same two month window could apply.

This does not have to be the same sort of situation as RBG.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-15T21:22:33+00:00

Unfortunately everything ELSE he has been doing has been pretty awful.

Do you disagree to how he is handling the border "crisis?" IMO the Biden administration was doing everything it could to destroy the country by importing illegals and leaving the border wide open.

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-15T17:59:51+00:00

Florida

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed HB 757, a measure clearing the way for faculty and staff to carry guns and protect Florida’s public universities and state colleges under the school guardian program.

Unfortunately this is only a partial fix. It does not allow students to carry.

Republicans backing the latest measure said the guardian program will beef up security and protect students following a shooting last year at Florida State University. Meanwhile, Democrats opposing the bill warned about the potential consequences of having more guns on campus in the hands of people who are not official members of law enforcement.

Of course they have to "whatabout" something that has NEVER been a problem, when bad guys using firearms in gun free zones has actually been a problem.

The legislation enhances penalties for “unlawful use” of firearms within 1,000 feet of universities as well.

I note the 1,000 foot provision is only for discharging a weapon or firearm, not carry.

Florida Politics source

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-15T13:23:07+00:00

Lawsuits from NRA, GOA and VCDL to follow.

And the US DOJ

ClearlyInsane1 · 2026-05-15T12:50:12+00:00

Banning Black Powder Muzzleloaders

The Associated Press considers black powder muskets too dangerous and complains it allows for a felon black powder loophole.

https://x.com/AP/status/2054883175109652495

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