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Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is spending the weekend reading Icelandic haiku and eschewing hemp.
As American leftists become ever more unhinged and violent, their desire to gut the Second Amendment intensifies. Democrats don't like fair fights, so they prefer that their lawlessness not be hindered by law-abiding citizens who can defend themselves. They blather on about wanting to fight injustice and inequality, but when they gain majority power in a state, the first thing they do is go after legal gun owners.
Because everything the Democrats do is fueled by hate-based emotion rather than intellect, their legal efforts to strip the Second Amendment down for parts frequently don't fare well in the courts. On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed Second Amendment advocates a big win, which my good friend and new-ish colleague Jennifer Rust covered:
Can citizens who have been trained and have concealed carry licenses actually carry concealed in shops or other private property open to the public without being given express permission by the property owner?
Or, like a vampire in the teen hit Vampire Diaries, will the license holder have to have an invitation to enter?
That’s the question the Supreme Court was asked to consider in Wolford v. Lopez, which was argued before the court in January 2026.
In a 6-3 decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that a Hawaii law banning concealed carry at businesses and other types of private property that is open to the public is unconstitutional. In the court's opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that Hawaii's "regime hobbles what the Second Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives."
Hawaii is a very restrictive state when it comes to gun rights, so it's encouraging to see one of its insane overreaches get smacked down. It is, however, a bit unsettling that this made it all the way to the Supreme Court and wasn't nuked from orbit by a lower court.
For most of the time that I lived in California, the gun laws weren't horrible. As an Arizona native, I find the gun laws in most other states to be a bit restrictive, but the Golden State didn't go full anti-gun looney tunes until the Democrats got a super majority in Sacramento. They quickly passed several anti-2A bills. This was when Jerry Brown had just become governor again, and he didn't sign all of the bills. California Dems kept at it, though, and eventually wore him down.
The Gavin Newsom Democrats in Sacramento have been hyperactive with Draconian gun legislation in recent years, but many of their efforts haven't survived legal scrutiny.
When the Democrats returned to power in Virginia this year, Governor Abigail Spanberger and her colleagues in the legislature didn't even warm up their seats before getting aggressive with their assaults on Second Amendment rights. They were more interested in feverish overreach than legal merit, and have been hitting walls in some lower courts. Comradess Spanberger and her Commonwealth Stasi took another hit yesterday, which my RedState colleague Teri Christoph wrote about:
Things went from bad to worse for Democrats on Thursday afternoon after a judge in Virginia issued a preliminary injunction on the "assault firearms" and high-capacity magazine ban that was set to go into effect in the Commonwealth on July 1. The judge from Lancaster County, located in the Northern Neck of Virginia, ruled that the Virginia State Police (VSP) cannot enforce the bans through December 31, 2026 or until a final order is issued.
There is a lot of talk about whether the deep political divisions in the United States will lead to violence spilling out into the streets everywhere. Right now, Democrats and their energetic youth rioters prefer to get out of control only in deep blue cities, where the locals tend not to be armed, and the police are often hamstrung by anti-law enforcement progressive laws. Democrats are obviously trying to make the cities and states that they control less safe for people who obey the law. In their grandest dreams, the brand of anti-gun madness we see in California and Virginia will go nationwide, and the Second Amendment will eventually be repealed.
Thankfully, we're not there yet. I live in one of the aforementioned deep blue cities, and everybody here has guns. I truly believe that's why things didn't get too loud or weird here during the George Floyd Summer of Riotous Love. An armed society is a polite society.
The Democrats will not slow down their efforts to take away our gun rights, of course. That means that we are still in buy guns and ammo mode. If they do ever have the Constitution-gutting success that they're after, the boating accidents are going to be epic.
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