2026-09-20 · originalism
The Founders did not say a State may pick a manner of carry and extinguish the other. Concealment-as-such is not a 1791 category. When the early republic later regulated manner — starting in 1813 — it regulated secrecy and left open carry standing. Chandler and Nunn are that analogue, not a State menu.
2026-09-18 · originalism
Blackstone’s offense was going armed to the terror of the people. Heller named a tradition of carrying. They turned it into a catalog of banned rifles. That’s not history. That’s a swap.
2026-09-04 · originalism
The Solicitor General told the Court Cook County’s AR-15 ban falls. That sentence is true. Forty States are not the test.
2026-09-03 · originalism
California now runs a spare barrel through a dealer like a new pistol. The founding right was never a snapshot of whatever gun you already have in the safe.
2026-08-26 · originalism
Prosecutors treat “in common use” as if the founding wrote it into the Second Amendment. They did not. The phrase is a modern judicial construct — drawn from an incomplete-record line in Miller and adapted in Heller — not original meaning.
2026-08-04 · originalism
Prosecutors and the ATF stretch United States v. Miller far beyond what the Court held. Miller was a failure-of-proof decision — not a permanent exclusion of short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, or suppressors from the Second Amendment.
2026-08-01 · principles
Officials who swore an oath to support the Constitution are not merely permitted to refuse unconstitutional gun laws — they are required to oppose them. Enforcement is a violation of the oath.
2026-08-01 · originalism
Hamilton recognized that when representatives betray their constituents, the people retain an original right of self-defense that is paramount to all positive forms of government.
2026-08-01 · originalism
Free Americans in the founding era did not ask the government for permission to keep and bear arms. The Second Amendment was written to forbid the government from requiring it.
2026-08-01 · originalism
An officer who attempts to enforce an unconstitutional statute acts without legal authority and may be resisted like any other trespasser. His commission is no protection.
2026-08-01 · originalism
In 1793 Thomas Jefferson affirmed that American citizens had always been free to manufacture, sell, and export arms — and that the government had no authority to suppress that calling merely because a foreign war existed.
2026-07-15 · principles
The American tradition of refusing to obey void and unconstitutional acts is not rebellion against lawful authority — it is fidelity to the higher law.
