Gun Control ATF Priorities? Zion Patriot, March 7, 2024March 7, 2024 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in the United States is tasked with enforcing federal laws and regulations concerning firearms, explosives, arson, alcohol, and tobacco. Among its primary duties are regulating firearms, investigating firearms crimes, overseeing explosives, preventing arson, and monitoring alcohol and tobacco industries. However, recent…
Gun Control What Prohibition Can Teach Us About Gun Control Zion Patriot, February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 Prohibition in the United States, which was enforced through the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act, lasted from 1920 to 1933. It aimed to ban the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Several factors contributed to the end of Prohibition: In response to these factors, the…
Guns are NOT the Number One Killer of Kids Zion Patriot, February 8, 2024 In a surprising fact check by the Washington Post of all places, The White House specifically has been called out for making false claims that “guns are the number one killer of children” The CDC data that was being cited included 18 and 19-year-olds. In the United States, 18 and…
18 USC 241: Conspiracy Against Rights Zion Patriot, November 8, 2023November 7, 2023 https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section241&num=0&edition=prelim If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his…
S. 3223 – AMMO Act of 2023 Zion Patriot, November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 A new bill, Dubbed the AMMO act (Ammunition Modernization & Monitoring Oversight), is being introduced by Sen Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that, based on the title, “seeks to amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent bulk sales of ammunition, promote recordkeeping and reporting about ammunition, end ammunition straw purchasing, and…
Harris Wants Gun Buybacks Zion Patriot, October 30, 2023 In her remarks delivered at a State Department luncheon earlier in the day with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Kamala Harris said, “As we gather details, we must continue to speak truth about the moment we are in, in our country today, the leading cause of death of American children…
Taking Away MY Guns Won’t Make YOU Safer Zion Patriot, October 26, 2023February 27, 2024 I am a responsible, law-abiding gun owner. My guns have never been nor will they ever be used to kill or injure an innocent person. My guns are used mostly for target practice and for self defense or hunting should the need arise. Taking away MY guns won’t make YOU…
Here We Go Again – Maine Shooting Zion Patriot, October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 Last night a gunman carried out a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. We don’t have a lot of details yet, and some of the early estimates of injured and killed have been revised downward. This situation is very fluid right now with the gunman still at large. In spite of…
New Speaker of the House Zion Patriot, October 25, 2023 Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana has been elected Speaker of the House in a 220 to 209 vote that followed party lines as expected. Speaker Johnson has a pretty strong history of 2A protection during his tenure as a congressman and seems to be well liked among his (Republican)…
Miller v. Bonta Decision – Oct 2023 Zion Patriot, October 25, 2023 Judge Benitez has ruled that California’s “Assault Weapon Ban” is unconstitutional. The decision is well worth a read – all 56 pages of it. I am posting a copy of it here just in case it is “memory holed” ala 1984.