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Judge to Hear Arguments Today in NRA Suit vs. New York Gov. Cuomo

September 10, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

In the (not so) olden days, we had Operation Choke Point. That was the Obama Justice Department’s 2013 effort to squeeze firearms-related firms by threatening banks and other financial institutions that dared to do business with them. That legal and financial intimidation finally ended in 2017 with the change of administrations. Now that the federal government’s … Read more

NRA and ACLU Together At Last, Alabama Stand Your Ground and More Leftist Threats — TTAG Daily Digest

August 26, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

ACLU Sticks Up for the NRA?! First the California bill and now this. There are apparently a few vestiges of intellectual honesty left within the ACLU . . . The official view of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) remains that the Second Amendment protects a “collective right rather than an individual right.” But the … Read more

ACLU Finally Finds a Gun Control Bill It Can Oppose

August 25, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

The forces of gun control never rest in the Golden State. There are always more taxes, more regulations, more restrictions that can and must be enacted in order to further limit Californians’ right to keep and bear arms. Along those lines, the Sacramento Bee has published a list of five pending gun control bills to … Read more

ACLU and Orwell: Gun Control Laws Enhance Liberty and Freedom

July 19, 2018 by TTAG Contributor

By John D. Dingell III The American Civil Liberties Union is now claiming that Americans are promoting government repression by exercising their gun rights. The ACLU has never recognized firearms ownership and their use as a fundamental right. In a March position statement, they let it be known that there are few if any restrictions on … Read more

The ACLU Tosses Free Speech, Designers Demand Action and More #FakeNews – TTAG Daily Digest

June 22, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

Leaked Internal Memo Reveals the ACLU Is Wavering on Free Speech Add one more Amendment to the list that the ACLU finds politically inconvenient . . . It’s hard to see this as anything other than a cowardly retreat from a full-throated defense of the First Amendment. Moving forward, when deciding whether to take a … Read more

TTAG Daily Digest MAC’s T-Shirts, Monitored Purchases and The ACLU Hearts the NRA

May 5, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

Ahead Of Annual NRA Convention, A Member Says It’s Sacrificing His Rights Tim’s an NRA life member, but he’s not happy . . . The National Rifle Association’s annual meeting begins Friday in Dallas, and some members of the organization plan to voice their discontent with the positions the NRA has taken in the past … Read more

Guns Trump Speech: ACLU Won’t Defend Protestors Who Carry Firearms

August 18, 2017 by Dan Zimmerman

Newsweek (yes, that’s still a thing) opens a piece this morning with this gem: “Since its founding during a period of anti-communist paranoia in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has served as a reliable line of defense for those who find their constitutional freedoms under threat.” What they somehow fail to mention is that … Read more

TTAG’s Johannes Paulsen: Why I’m Quitting the ACLU

December 9, 2015 by Johannes Paulsen

The American Civil Liberties Union has made it clear in the past that it’s a fair-weather friend to the Second Amendment. Only it’s always cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms outside of their New York City headquarters. So I was far from surprised when I saw the following by Reason‘s Robby Soave . . .

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