HAKE NEWS 07/15/21 Thu. Court Rules Against 1968 Handgun Sale Ban for Adults Under 21
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Hake News for The Jesse Lee Peterson Show, Thursday, July 15, 2021
End of Hour 1: Federal Court Rules That Ban on Handgun Sales for Under 21-Year-Olds Is Unconstitutional
End of Hour 2: Barr Denies Allegation He Pressured US Attorney Not to Investigate Possible Voter SHENANIGANS
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07/15/21 Thu. Hour 1
Federal Court Rules That Ban on Handgun Sales for Under 21-Year-Olds Is Unconstitutional
Federal Court Rules That Ban on Handgun Sales for Under 21-Year-Olds Is Unconstitutional
(The Epoch Times) A federal appeals court ruled July 13 an old federal law banning handgun sales to young adults is unconstitutional.
In a 2–1 vote, the three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a law Congress passed in 1968 that sets a minimum age of 21 for purchasing handguns violates the Second Amendment.
Both history and the Constitution show “18- to 20-year-olds have Second Amendment rights,” Judge Julius N. Richardson, a Trump appointee wrote.
“The militia laws … at the time of ratification uniformly required those 18 and older to join the militia and bring their own arms.”
Judge G. Steven Agee, a W. Bush appointee agreed Congress couldn’t justify passing the law in 1968.
“Congress used disproportionate crime rates to craft overinclusive laws that restrict the rights of overwhelmingly law-abiding citizens,” the majority opinion stated. “...Congress focused on purchases from licensed dealers without establishing those dealers as the source of the guns 18- to 20-year-olds use to commit crimes.”
“Despite the weighty interest in reducing crime and violence, we refuse to relegate either the Second Amendment or 18- to 20-year-olds to a second-class status. … Congress may not restrict the rights of an entire group of law-abiding adults because a minuscule portion of that group commits a disproportionate amount of gun violence.”
The ruling is a victory for Natalia Marshall from Virginia; in 2018 she sued the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) after she was denied a gun from a firearms dealer because she was 18.
Marshall wanted to buy the gun to protect herself from her SUPPOSEDLY “abusive” ex-boyfriend (OH GOSH), and other potential threats. …
This reverses a decision by apparently evil District Judge Glen E. Conrad, who’d dismissed the suit.
Only five states covered by the 4th Circuit—North and South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia—will be affected by the ruling.
Judge James A. Wynn Jr., an Obama appointee, dissented this new ruling.
“The majority’s decision to grant the gun lobby a victory in a fight it lost on Capitol Hill more than fifty years ago is not compelled by law [LIE]. Nor is it consistent with the proper role of the federal judiciary in our democratic system,” Wynn wrote. SCUMBAG
He noted other ways 18yos can get a gun legally, so he called opposition to this infringement “simply surreal.”
People over 18 years of age are permitted to buy a long gun, such as a rifle or a shotgun, from a licensed firearms dealer in most states. Select states, including California and Florida, have laws barring long gun sales to those under 21 years old.
07/15/21 Thu. Hour 2
Barr Denies Allegation He Pressured US Attorney Not to Investigate Possible Voter SHENANIGANS
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Barr Denies Allegation He Pressured US Attorney Not to Investigate Possible Voter SHENANIGANS
I mentioned this story yesterday. (The Epoch Times) Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr is denying the allegation that he pressured a U.S. attorney not to pursue a voter SHENANIGAN probe.
William McSwain, who was a U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania from 2018 until January this year, said he wanted to fully investigate SHENANIGAN allegations in the wake of 2020, but Barr “instructed me not to make any public statements or put out any press releases regarding possible election irregularities.”
Bill McSwain says Bill Barr also directed him “to pass along serious allegations to the State Attorney General for investigation—the same State Attorney General who had already declared that you could not win,” McSwain wrote in a recent letter, referring to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (SHAPIRO!), an anti-Christian Democrat who repeatedly posted anti-Trump statements (going on Joy Reid’s MSDNC show, and repeating the “Big Lie” lie).
Bill Barr, who was the so-called top law enforcement official for our real President Donald Trump for some years — Barr denied the allegations in interviews with several news outlets.
“Any suggestion that McSwain was told to stand down from investigating allegations of election [SHENANIGANS] is false. It’s just false,” Barr told The Washington COMPost.
Barr said McSwain’s allegation “appeared to have been made to mollify President Trump to gain his support for McSwain’s planned run for governor.”
Barr said he heard about the letter before it was published and called McSwain to talk about it. Barr claimed that McSwain conveyed to him that he couldn’t win an election if Trump attacked him.
McSWAIN RESPONDS
McSwain said on July 13 that he stood by his letter, which was sent to Trump last month and made public this week.
“I have a lifetime reputation for honesty that is beyond reproach. If Bill Barr wants to run to WaPo to complain about me telling the truth, that’s OK – it doesn’t bother me,” McSwain tweeted. WHOA. HMM.
REMEMBER
The back-and-forth comes about nine months after Barr told the far-left extremist anti-Trump Associated Press in late 2020, quote: “to date, we have not seen [shenanigans] on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
Trump accused Barr’s DOJ of not investigating!
“They haven’t looked very hard, which is a disappointment, to be honest,” Trump said.
A Department of Justice spokesman later sought to clarify what Barr meant when some news outlets FALSELY claimed he said the department concluded a [SHENANIGANS] probe and found no [SHENANIGANS] in the election.
“That is not what The Associated Press reported nor what the Attorney General stated,” the spokesman said. “The Department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of [SHENANIGANS] as expeditiously as possible.”
Sleepy Joe Biden this week called the 2020 election “the most examined” in history, A LIE, and smeared weak Republicans for as “insurrectionists” comparable to “Confederates” just for their feeble attempts to strengthen election integrity laws.
Evil scumbag Democrats complain about making it harder to vote, calling it “voter suppression,” even as they infringe on the Second Amendment rights to own and carry guns, which is an actual right (voting is not a right).
07/15/21 Thu. Hour 3
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