All Eyes on the Courts

. SCOTUS has granted cert to two "assault weapons" ban cases concerning Illinois and Connecticut, but can John Roberts be trusted to do the right thing?

. In a major procedural defeat for the ATF, a federal judge has refused their request for dismissal of a federal wrongful death lawsuit brought against them by Marie Malinowski, the surviving widow of Bryan Malinowski, after ATF agents shot and killed him in his own home, even though they had no arrest warrant for him.

. Rep. James Comer (R-KY) is demanding information regarding collusion between the ATF and "Everytown", a rabid anti-rights group that pushes for civilian disarmament.

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country's founders made a bold stance 250 years ago. A position of opposition to the overbearing
restrictions placed upon them. They put their lives, their reputations,
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were listed and penned specifically to announce our freedoms and liberties.
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The issue pertaining here is specifically for overzealous states crippling our rights.
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citizens. Thank you, CMMG, and I hope all the other manufacturers out there will read that and
become emboldened to do the same, because that's exactly what needs to happen.
I'm sick to death of carve-outs being made for police. when citizens are treated like they're
second class and they're beneath the police somehow and can't be trusted with those same arms.
We all know that's a big steaming pile of bull fertilizer. Yeah. Moving on now.
This, what we're about to read, has the potential to either set forth a major win for the Second
Amendment or just another... hyper egregious violation thereof.
We'll see because the Supreme Court is about to hear challenges to assault weapons ban in Illinois
and Connecticut, and they've kind of lumped them both under one review, and they've granted them
cert, and so we're going to see what happens. Now, the Supreme Court, we would assume, is pretty
much hemmed in by their own Bruin decision and the Bruin principles that were set forth,
but unfortunately... with weak-kneed, spineless turncoats like Roberts,
and I'm not real sure about Kavanaugh. I already know that Sotomayor and Jackson are a couple of
airheaded Democrat boobs and don't know the first thing about the Constitution,
so I don't expect much from them. But Roberts, he's been a disappointment since he ruled that the
Affordable Care Act was a tax, and therefore Obama could,
you know, go ahead and enforce it. Yeah, how has that worked out for us then?
Well, I stumbled across an article in the Gateway Pundit,
and the title of it is this, Chief Justice Roberts is good pals with Trump-hating deep state
leader Norm Eisen. and vacationed at his palace in the Czech Republic for a week.
If you don't know who Norm Eisen is, he was behind much of the lawfare aimed at President Trump.
Yes, and he's good buddies with Justice Roberts, and Justice Roberts is good buddies with him
apparently. This is something to pay attention to, and this very well could.
come into play during this case. We will see. You watch Roberts very closely.
You cannot trust him anymore. I stopped trusting him a long time ago,
but when he ruled sensibly or put his opinion forth sensibly in the Bruin case,
I thought maybe he'd unscrewed himself, but it remains to be seen,
that's for sure. But here's an article by Tom Knighton about the Supreme Court getting ready to
hear a challenge to assault weapons bans in Illinois and Connecticut. And here's the article.
For years, we've wanted the Supreme Court to agree and hear and to hear a case on bans of so
-called assault weapons. They've continually kicked the can down the road. Yes, they have.
And Roberts was behind that. And that's been a significant problem for the gun rights community.
Let's just call them human rights community. How about that? Guns don't have rights.
Anyway. However, everything is about to change. In the court's list of cases,
two in particular came up that deal with assault weapons bans. They're hearing cases involving
those bans in Illinois and Connecticut. Viramontes versus Cook County,
that's where Chicago is, and Grant versus Higgins, the latter of which is tied with National
Association for Gun Rights versus Lamont, both, or should I say all,
revolve around the concept of an assault weapons ban. And as of today,
that is the date of this case, of this article, which is June 30th, As of today,
the Supreme Court has merged the two cases into one and granted cert on them.
In short, they're going to hear about assault weapons and unless something very strange happens
during this case, it's likely to cause them to be overturned nationwide.
Yes, this has huge... potential for we the people.
Unfortunately, there's also huge potential for betrayal because you have people like Norm Eisen,
who have the ear of John Roberts, and you know he's going to be putting his nasty little communist
two cents into Justice Roberts' ears, and Lord only knows where that's going to go.
This becomes especially important as more and more jurisdictions look at not just assault weapons
bans, but bans on other guns as well. Several have banned Glocks,
and not because of the weapons itself, but because you can put an illegal device on it and do
illegal things with it. While that's not the question in these cases, it's not impossible that the
Supreme Court decides on hardware bans in such a way that it also impacts the Glock bans.
Well, very true. That is absolutely a possibility.
So pay attention to that. We'll see where it's going. And that was an article by Tom Knighton, by
the way.
A civil lawsuit, a federal lawsuit, I'm sorry, not civil, brought against the ATF for the murder of
Brian Malinowski. Brian's widow has filed a lawsuit and the judge has refused now to toss most of
the claims in that raid, in that fatal raid that took the life of Brian Malinowski.
ATF wanted... A lot of things tossed out of it, and the judge said no. And that bodes well for Mrs.
Malinowski. And this is an article I'll be reading from Ammoland editor Duncan Johnson.
By the way, you should follow Ammoland online. It's a great publication.
They've got some great Second Amendment articles, and I think you'll get a lot out of it just like
I do. So here's the article by Mr. Johnson. A federal judge has refused to let the government
escape most of the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Maria Malinowski after ATF agents fatally shot
her husband, Brian. during a pre-dawn raid at their Little Rock, Arkansas home.
The ruling is not a final judgment against the ATF or the United States, but it is a major
procedural defeat for the government. Yep, that's significant. The government asked the court to
dismiss all nine Federal Tort Claims Act claims. Judge Lee P.
Rudolfsky said no to most of that. Now,
I don't know if you just caught that. The government, not the ATF,
the government, the federal government, that is the DOJ,
obviously, they're the ones that asked the court to dismiss all nine of those tort claims.
Let that just sink on in deep there for a minute.
I'll let the implications reveal themselves. How about that?
In his June 17th order in Malinowski v. USA et al.,
the judge allowed claims for wrongful death, assault and battery, negligence, intentional
infliction of emotional distress, manslaughter, negligent homicide under Arkansas's crime victim
statute, battery, aggravated assault, and criminal mischief to move forward.
Now, that's quite a smorgasbord of claims and charges, and I hope every last one of them sticks.
The court dismissed only the FTCA false imprisonment claim without prejudice and removed ATF itself
as a named defendant because FTCA claims proceed against the United States.
and not the agency directly. Well, I think that's wrong, but whatever. The ATF is under the same
banner as the DOJ, the same banner that the FBI is under and the DEA and all the other criminal
organizations. Anyway, back to the article. The government wanted this case stopped. before
Discovery could dig deeper into the planning, timing, body camera failures,
that is, they didn't wear any, or they didn't have them on, I'm not sure which, and execution of
the raid. Instead, most of Maria Malinowski's claims have survived.
And they were touting this as a routine warrant, but this routine warrant ended in a man's death,
and it didn't have to happen, especially since there was no crime. that they had charged him with.
There was no warrant for Mr. Malinowski's death. I mean, I'm sorry, arrest. It definitely wasn't
one for his death either, but that's how it ended up. There was no warrant for his arrest.
And to this day, the ATF has failed to provide any information about what he actually did wrong
that prompted this raid. Back to the article. The court described the warrant as a fairly routine
search warrant for a fairly routine crime. Okay, what crime? What was the crime?
Other than the Biden zero tolerance policy. That alleged crime was dealing in firearms without a
license and unlawful acquisition of firearms. But there's no way that's going to stick.
That line alone should make every gun owner in America sit up straight. Brian Malinowski was not
accused of murder, terrorism, armed robbery, or being part of a cartel hit squad.
He was suspected of buying and selling firearms without the government's preferred paperwork.
ATF had a search warrant, but not an arrest warrant. Yet.
Agents chose a pre-dawn tactical entry into the home of a man they knew had no criminal history
and no history of violence. Ammo Land has covered this case from the beginning,
including the fatal raid, the missing body cameras, the congressional grilling of then-ATF
director, little Stevie Dettelbot. the federal lawsuit, and the recent push by Arkansas lawmakers
for a Trump DOJ investigation. Well, unfortunately, the DOJ is the one that apparently tried to get
all this shut down. According to the order, ATF initiated the operation at about 6.02 a.m.
Agents knocked and shouted for about 19 seconds, waited roughly nine more seconds,
and then began forcing entry. The court treated 28 seconds as the relevant wait time for agents
before agents started breaking into the home. The judge found that taking Maria Malinowski's
allegations as true at this stage, she plausibly alleged that ATF violated the Fourth Amendment.
Okay, if that's true, every last agent belongs in prison for life at a minimum.
Yes, I said at a minimum, because frankly, they should all get the death penalty. For their rank
violations, there's conspiracy to violate this man's rights under color of law,
because that's exactly what they did when they planned this raid. The court noted that ATF knew
several important facts before the raid. They knew that the home was very large, it was dark,
and they knew that the Malinowskis were likely asleep. had covered the doorbell camera.
Oh, that's obstruction if you ask me. And the police siren that they claimed before they went in
actually only chirped for about 1.5 seconds. So it wasn't this major announcement that they were
there as they are claiming. The judge noted, he said,
28 seconds was not enough time to reasonably suggest to law enforcement that the Malinowskis were
refusing them entry.
Because that's what they were going on. That's what they were giving themselves the excuse to bust
the door in. Yeah, well, they're not answering. Let's go in. Well,
how fast are they supposed to get up and figure out who's beating on their dadgum door? And you
only chirp a siren for one and a half seconds from the local Arkansas state police.
Yeah, I'm sorry. That was Little Rock police. Yeah. How's he supposed to know? How's anybody
supposed to know that you guys are outside waiting to come in because you think he broke the law?
And how is he supposed to know any of this stuff?
They said, well, there's guns in the home. That's why we had to breach the door. And the judge
said, that's not an excuse. Oh, I like that. The government argued that officer safety.
which is an absolutely overused and abused doctrine, justified the fast forced entry because agents
believed firearms were inside the home. Judge Rodofsky said he did not buy that as enough.
I like that. The court wrote, the fact that Mr. Malinowski had guns doesn't make it reasonable.
to assume that he would use them violently. Well, the ATF certainly planned on using theirs
violently, didn't they? The court wrote, citing Eighth Circuit precedent,
that the suspected presence of firearms alone does not justify his otherwise unlawful entry.
Conversely, the fact that ATF agents had guns does make it reasonable to assume they will always
use them violently. Yes, that's my two cents. That's not the article. Yeah.
Qualifying immunity also played a large part in the agents' thinking as they were forming the plan
for this raid. I absolutely assure you that. I mean, after all, they've gotten away with murder and
so many other crimes so many times before. They more than likely assumed that they were
untouchable. And they assumed that when they got news they were being sued, too. They thought,
wow, no, no, well, we had every reason to go in there and do what we did. No, you didn't.
Shut up. The court also rejected the idea that evidence destruction justified the fast breach.
The judge said, unlike drugs, firearms cannot be flushed down a commode in a matter of seconds.
If the mere presence of firearms in a home were enough to justify rushed forced entry,
then the Fourth Amendment would mean less for gun owners than for everyone. I like that reasoning.
The initial aggressor question cuts against the government. The government also argued that
Arkansas law immunized the agents because Brian fired first. The court said that the argument reads
too much into the complaint. The complaint alleges Brian fired a shot that hit an agent in the boot
sole, but the court said that it's plausible that the agents were the initial aggressors if they,
under the cover of darkness and without identifying themselves, unconstitutionally forced their way
into the home with guns drawn. The court put it bluntly. They said, objectively speaking,
An unidentified party that unlawfully barges into another's house in the dark with guns drawn,
get this, is the initial aggressor.
And it's at this point, and forgive me, Lord, but I only wish that Mr.
Malinowski would have popped a couple of them in the head before they got him. So, what happens
next? The case is now very much alive in a very meaningful way for Ms. Maria Malinowski,
that's for sure. The government may try and give another stab at summary judgment after all this
discovery process. The judge did make it clear that Maria Malinowski will not be able to rely on
her complaint forever, but for now, the government failed to shut down most of that case with their
discovery arguments.
It's looking pretty good for Mrs. Malinowski, and I pray she prevails. No amount of money will ever
bring her husband back to her. No amount of money will ever undo that hellish night,
those scumbags. from the Alpha Tango Foxtrot did what they did to her husband and to her also.
And if you're unsure of what I'm talking about, what they did to her, read the case. Just Google
it. You'll find it. They treated her just absolutely demonically.
Maybe that's the word. They wouldn't let her out. They wouldn't let her out of the back of the
squad car to use the bathroom for five hours. Five.
Hours. They wouldn't let her go next door to use the neighbor's restroom. And she was in a
nightgown in very cold weather in the back of that car. That is absolutely brutal treatment.
And every last one of those scumbags on scene, including the Little Rock, Arkansas cop.
Y'all need to be going to prison for life. Yes. And stuck in general population.
That's where you scumbags belong. Matter of fact, they need to go ahead and just write on your
docket that you're former agents for the ATF and see what the boys inside do to you.
I tell you what, that was just a hideous case. But anyway, let's take a brief commercial timeout
and let my blood pressure drop a little bit. When we come back, we're going to see how
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Before the break, I told you that we were going to look at how Representative James Comer,
I believe he's with Kentucky. Yeah, he's from Kentucky. He's a Republican from Kentucky.
And he is looking for some additional information on Biden's ATF and their collusion with anti-gun
groups. Yes, like the Everytown people and the Commie Mommies and all that, and Bloomberg and Brady
and all those other Constitution-hating, rights-hating scumbags. And toward the end of the Biden
administration, we were hearing rumblings on Capitol Hill and beyond that The ATF,
under Biden at the time, had been working literally hand in hand with all of those anti-rights
groups. And they were also working to try to get Glock handguns banned in cities like Chicago and
others. And apparently, Representative Comer, he now...
demanding this information. Now, how forthright they're going to be with it, that remains to be
seen. But he wants to determine exactly what that particular conspiracy consisted of and whether it
was indeed illegal. Well, I'll tell you right now, it's illegal according to 18 USC 241 and 242.
They're colluding, trying to deprive their fellow Americans.
of rights they were born with constitutionally protected rights the right to keep and bear arms i
mean to me that's a given that absolutely illegal so 18 usc 241 and 242 deprivation of rights under
color of law or 241 conspiracy to commit a deprivation of rights under color of law as far as i'm
concerned All of those commie mommies and all the ATF agents involved with that,
especially the ones at the top, like Stevie Weevy Dettelbach, all belong in a nice 6x10 cell.
Yeah, let them out one hour a day for a little bit of exercise. Oh, better yet, make them go out
and work in the blazing hot sun for 12 hours a day. Mm-hmm. Hard labor. Make them bust big rocks
into little rocks with big hammers. How about that? Now, Comer. Once the Biden ATF or the ATF
agents that were heading this under Biden, he wants those records that they refused to turn over.
He asked for them before and they said, no, ask yourself why. If it was so innocuous,
then if the relationship ATF had with those people, why would you refuse?
Well, I think we all know the answer to that. So I'm going to be referencing an article here by
Mark Chestnut from June 30th. And Representative James Comer,
Republican from Kentucky, is the chairman of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform. On June 24th, Comer sent a letter. to the new ATF director,
Robert Cicada, as part of a continuing investigation into the potential collusion between Biden
administration staff and the anti-Second Amendment group Everytown for Gun Safety.
It's funny. You know what? The White House, the Biden administration, their gun safety office,
their Office of Gun Violence Prevention or whatever it was, they met with...
Glock representatives, and then three months later, Chicago filed lawsuit against them.
Yeah.
Comer wrote in a letter, he said, on December 20th, 2023, the White House Office of Gun Violence
Prevention met privately with representatives from Glock, during which the Biden administration
requested that Glock change their pistol designs. Three months later, on March 19th,
2024, the city of Chicago filed suit in state court against Glock in conjunction with Everytown
Law. There you go. The litigation arm of Everytown,
listed as counsel for the plaintiff. That federal Chicago lawsuit was eventually withdrawn in a two
-sentence filing, but then Chicago and Everytown promptly refiled it in state court,
seeking a more favorable venue. The Biden ATF in every town actually shared personnel on this.
Yes, in this collusion, in this conspiracy. And Comer found out about it.
Now he says, I want those records. I want all those records of y'all's little intimate
conversations there. He wrote, Comer wrote, that the committee is aware.
that certain members of the Biden administration had a personal connection to Everytown. For
example, Comer wrote, Rob Wilcox, the former deputy director of the White House Office of Gun
Violence Prevention, worked at Everytown for nearly eight years prior to his employment in the
Biden administration. Wow, shocking. Additionally, immediately following her role as Associate
Assistant Director for the ATF, Marianna Mitchum was hired by Everytown to serve as Senior Firearms
Industry Advisor. And I've given her some rough treatment on this program before, and because she
deserved it. So, the Biden administration just simply ignored the original subpoena,
but now Comer. is going around them now. He doesn't have to worry about the Biden administration
right now, especially because Biden is not there anymore. Well, he wasn't there even during his
presidency, as we all know. So to investigate the concerns, the article continues,
on June 14, 2024, the committee sent a letter to the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
and to the ATF requesting documents and communications between their offices and Everytown
regarding their potential collaboration efforts. They refused to respond,
prompting the committee to subpoena both entities, which they also ignored. Comer wrote,
in the wake of the Biden administration's failure to comply with congressional subpoenas, the
committee seeks your assistance in acquiring these documents and communications in furtherance of
our investigation. Yeah, I've told you before, these communists are nothing but lawless.
They think they can just ignore subpoenas because that's what they do when they don't want to.
testify or whatever, they just ignore it. Just like Eric Holder did, and he was actually found in
contempt of Congress, and nothing happened to him, of course. We know how that works.
So now Comer is demanding these records, and the ones that he wants,
he believes, will tell the whole story of the Bloomberg-funded lawfare against the Second
Amendment. Back to the article. The latest letter requests that ATF Cicada,
that is Robert Cicada, provide the committee with all documents and communications between any
individual employed by the ATF, every town for gun safety, and every town law related to the
Protection of Lawful Commerce and Arms Act, Chicago litigation, Glock switches,
auto sears, conversion devices, gun control litigation, Illinois Firearm Industry Responsibility
Act, the IFIRA, the gun retailers, Smith & Wesson,
and Ruger. Comer wants it all. Good. Let's hope it doesn't just sit there and he put on a
theatrical show of scolding the ATF and scolding every town,
and then they all go their separate ways and nothing ever happens. The letter further requests...
documents and communications between then-ATF Director Stevie Weavey-Dettelbach and John
Feinblatt, who's the Everytown President, by the way, as well as all documents and communications
between any employee of Everytown for Gun Safety or Everytown Law and the following ATF staff.
Joseph Allen, Chief of Staff, Eric Epstein, Senior Policy Counsel,
Pam Hicks, Chief Counsel, and Marianna Mitchum, Associate Assistant Director.
Well, like I said, this all seems to be a very perfect example. of rank violations of 18 U.S.C.
241 and 242.
Comer said the following. He said this investigation may lead to new legislation.
He said these records will inform the committee as to whether the Biden administration in Everytown
colluded to attack private gun manufacturing companies through lawfare to circumvent Second
Amendment rights. Well... I don't know if you heard what I just read there.
He says that this may lead to new legislation, meaning nothing's going to happen to the
perpetrators. That's how I'm reading that.
He said they will also assist the committee in determining whether legislation is necessary to
ensure... that federal officials are not using their offices to obtain information or cooperation
from regulated third parties that is then improperly leaked for the benefit of outside groups or
individuals they are politically aligned with. I tell you what, Mr. Comer, there are already laws
in play here. First and foremost... the Second Amendment, which is part of the Supreme Law,
not to mention the ones I've just said several times, 18 U.S.C. 241 and 242.
How about start there? Why make new legislation? Why not hammer them to the wall with legislation
that is already in existence? Yeah, legislation is not necessary to ensure federal officials are
not using their offices for those purposes. Prosecution and heavy sentences are what's necessary.
Yeah. Yes. Like I said, you don't need new laws. There are already laws in play.
How about we use them? That's just simply common sense.
You leftists talk about common sense gun safety. How about common sense constitution safety?
Yeah, you guys have attacked that thing readily. As a matter of fact, that's the crux of your
entire existence as those anti-rights groups. You attack the rights of other people.
And when federal agents decide to get in bed with you and do the same thing and lend their
expertise, and you then lend your expertise to those federal agents,
that is a conspiracy. That is a conspiracy to violate the rights of people under the color of law
and authority. Now, Comer gave Director Cicada a deadline of July 8th,
and that's two days from the day of this recording, so... see how that goes.
Hopefully he'll submit the requested documents. So this is something we're going to have to stay
tuned on, just like we'll have to stay tuned on the Supreme Court granting cert to assault weapons
bans in Illinois and in Connecticut. Because if they do apply their Bruin standard,
as they kind of are forced to do, again, don't trust Roberts,
though. then that's going to shake things up across this entire country in a very quick way.
So you stay in contact with your reps. You stay stocked up on beans,
bullets, and bandages. You make sure you got plenty of ammo on hand. And you stay strapped every
time you walk out the door so you don't get clapped. And never forget, incoming rounds always have
the right of way. Royce out.