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travelingthrulife
(3,470 posts)OK, gun humpers, time for you to fight fascism.
Biophilic
(6,148 posts)If they say one thing believe the opposite.
Tetrachloride
(9,138 posts)The gun owners know their fellow gun owners.
The gun manufacturers know their customers.
Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is power.
usonian
(21,339 posts)Right Wing is "blowing up real good"
Bondi DOJ Denies Universal Relief and Requests Gun Rights Group Private Membership List
https://www.news2a.com/national/bondi-doj-denies-universal-relief-and-requests-gun-rights-group-private-membership-list/
Pam Bondi Faces Conservative Backlash Over Alleged Gun Owner Registry
https://ogmnews.com/pam-bondi-faces-conservative-backlash-over-alleged/
Pam Bondi convinced the judge that the disclosure was necessary to ensure transparency and compliance within the groups financial and advocacy activities. According to Bondis legal team, the order was meant to investigate alleged irregularities in fundraising and membership operations, not to target individual gun owners. Despite these assurances, the optics of a conservative-led administration pushing for private data disclosure have raised deep concerns about privacy, government reach, and ideological consistency.
Pam Bondis role in pushing the case through federal court without congressional approval has ignited accusations of executive overreach. Many within the MAGA base who once viewed Bondi as a loyal defender of conservative causes now feel blindsided by what they call betrayal from within. For a movement that built its identity around resisting federal intrusion, the ruling feels like a reversal of principle. Gun rights activists are calling it the creation of a gun owner registry by stealth one that was never debated, voted on, or legislated.
Is Pam Bondi Creating A Gun Owners Registry In America? Heres What We Know
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/is-pam-bondi-creating-a-gun-owners-registry-in-america-heres-what-we-know-article-152984696
LET'S SEE HER WALK THIS ONE BACK!

Maru Kitteh
(30,801 posts)And MTG makes more sense than at least one sitting Democratic Senator?
Its the upside down.
usonian
(21,339 posts)


Dave Id
(188 posts)Republicans changing their tune about gun registration. They've come to realize since Charlie Kirk was murdered, they may not be safe from gun violence either.
sop
(16,402 posts)"A Judge in the case Reese v. ATF just ordered the Second Amendment Foundation and the Firearms Policy Coalition to turn over a verified list of their members to ATF to enforce a judgement in the case Reese v. ATF."
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Reese v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, No. 23-30033 (5th Cir. 2025)
Justia Opinion Summary
The case involves a challenge to the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(b)(1) and (c)(1), which prohibit Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) from selling handguns to individuals aged eighteen to twenty. The plaintiffs, including individuals in this age group and several nonprofit organizations, argue that these provisions infringe on their Second Amendment rights and deny them equal protection under the Fifth Amendment.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana found that the plaintiffs had standing but dismissed the case under Rule 12(b)(6). The district court assumed that the Second Amendment's plain text covered the purchase of firearms by eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds but concluded that the prohibition was consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation, relying on the framework established by the Supreme Court in New York Rifle & Pistol Assn, Inc. v. Bruen.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reviewed the case and concluded that the Second Amendment does cover the right of eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds to purchase firearms. The court found that the historical evidence presented by the government, including 19th-century laws, was insufficient to establish a tradition of restricting firearm rights for this age group in a manner similar to the contemporary federal handgun purchase ban. The court emphasized that the Second Amendment's protections extend to all law-abiding, adult citizens, including those aged eighteen to twenty.
The Fifth Circuit held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(b)(1) and (c)(1) and their attendant regulations are unconstitutional as they are inconsistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. The court reversed the district court's judgment and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with its opinion.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/23-30033/23-30033-2025-01-30.html
'DOJ Moves to Amend Court Judgment Demanding Membership Lists in Reese v. ATF'
"On October 10, the Department of Justice and plaintiffs in Reese v. ATF filed a joint motion to amend the judgment of a Louisiana District Court earlier this week, which compelled gun rights groups to turn over their membership lists by October 28."
"Gun rights groups came out aggressively against the District Court judgment, and there was some confusion in the community about the Department of Justices position on this ruling."
"In our earlier reporting, we overlooked and omitted this statement by the DOJ in their initial response brief:"
'To be sure, the organizational members may have a First Amendment right to decline to disclose the identity of their members to Defendants') "
https://www.news2a.com/national/doj-moves-to-amend-court-judgment-requesting-membership-lists-in-reese-v-atf/
Clouds Passing
(6,108 posts)Exp
(615 posts)The demand, critics say, amounts to a state-sponsored registry of gun rights activists. Gun Owners of America slammed the move on social media: This is just another illegal, unconstitutional registry of gun owners in the making, the group argued on Facebook. They directly accused Pam Bondi of orchestrating a gun registry by leveraging DOJ power.
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/is-pam-bondi-creating-a-gun-owners-registry-in-america-heres-what-we-know-article-152984696
enigmania
(374 posts)rubbersole
(10,701 posts)Oh, wait...
DFW
(59,126 posts)There are SOOOO many guns out there, and the people that have proven most eager to use them in recent years have been Republcians. Sure, there are many Democrats out there with guns, too, but it seems that the ranks of nut cases out there looking to kill other people with guns these days all come from the ranks of the Republicans. These JUST happen to be the ones most likely to resist any registration of their guns.
So, if Bondi really tries to do this, she shouldn't act surprised if she gets unexpected support from Democrats for her move, and unexpected assassination attempts from Republicans who put on "We're Not Gonna Take It!" from the Who (rock opera TOMMY) and then go playing Bondi Hunter. But Bondi is not totally stupid. When she sees she is getting support from more Democrats than Republicans for this initiative, she will sense very quickly that something is "off."
progressoid
(52,089 posts)