New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado: Battlegrounds For Liberty

NEW JERSEY:  Recent updates in the 3rd Circuit Court ruling against NJ's "assault weapons" ban and how it has been suspended by petition of the NJ AG, pending SCOTUS review.

VIRGINIA: The State of Virginia also petitioned the Washington Circuit Court to allow their "assault weapons" ban to be implemented until further judicial review, but the court in this case said "NO".

COLORADO: Colorado's Senate Bill 25-003 went into effect August 1, and the licensing requirements to purchase any "Specified Semi-automatic Firearm" (or SSF's, all of which are in the tactical weapons category like AR-15's, AK-47's, etc.), are laborious, costly and fatiguing, designed to dissuade citizens from purchasing them, much like the NFA does. You won't believe the number of applications, courses and fees that are now required to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights in Colorado.

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Let's dive right on into things. And speaking of people reaching out,
Henry in New Jersey reached out to me, I think it was yesterday, and advised me that the Third
Circuit has allowed the stay.
of their decision and their ruling that shot down the New Jersey assault weapons ban.
And you know what? This is a lot of confusion in our court system, to take a little sidebar here.
And there's so much confusion in our court system today, largely because the final authority,
which is our Constitution, has been largely ignored, especially when it comes to the Bill of
Rights. And we have many glaring instances of that in many states here within our union.
That's one of the reasons I'm very pleased, but yet, what should I say,
not entirely optimistic that the Bruin decision was handed down.
That produced a standard for all the lower courts to follow. Since many of those lower courts,
especially situated in the left side of our court system, they hold the supreme law in contempt
because it tells them they're not allowed to do things they want to do. And it's hardly any wonder
that they ignore the text and history standard in the Bruin decision. If they despise the
Constitution, they're going to despise any objective standards associated therewith.
And that again points to our bifurcated court system. We have one that steers to the left and the
other that steers to the right. And that creates a lot of confusion and confusing rulings.
And the people are left having to figure out what's what.
they don't know if they're going to run afoul of a law doing the slightest little thing anymore,
especially in relation to the Second Amendment. Now, like I said, the Third Circuit...
They did follow the standard, the Bruins standard, when they came to the correct decision that
struck down the New Jersey assault weapon and large capacity magazine ban. But of course,
the totalitarians began to panic at their sudden loss of power. And so they went and then
petitioned the Third Circuit to stay the enforcement of their decision and stay that mandate.
And now the Third Circuit has granted New Jersey their little Marxist motion. And thank you,
Henry, for giving me that heads up. You got me that information before any of my other channels
could. So, brother, I appreciate you, man. Appreciate you being a watchdog and keeping an eye on
things there in your home state. But I want to know why the Third Circuit granted this motion for a
stay. I want to know, how did New Jersey... give evidence that they might win in an appeal.
I don't know how they could, especially if they're going to, again, reapply the Bruins standard and
decision. There's nowhere in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or in the history of America
that New Jersey could point to and say, we point to that as our standard.
Why don't you just point to the standard itself? That's the Constitution, and that's the Bill of
Rights. So Attorney General Davenport filed for a stay of the mandate while the state appeals its
loss of power, and they appeal to the Supreme Court. I'm not sure what she said to persuade them.
Who knows?
It reads thusly,
of this court's mandate shall remain in place pending the Supreme Court's final disposition on the
merits. So it seems at best the earliest all of you keepers and bearers there in New Jersey will be
able to, quote unquote, legally purchase firearms and magazines that were banned there will be late
October. because the state's deadline to file their cert petition with the Supreme Court is October
15th. But according to some sources, Attorney General Davenport will more than likely request a 60
-day extension from the Supreme Court justice assigned, who's been assigned to handle these kind of
things, these emergency and administrative matters from the Third Circuit. Well, here's the flipper
on that. That particular Supreme Court justice is none other than Samuel Alito.
Yes, he is a staunch constitutionalist. So that presumptively or assumably doesn't work in New
Jersey's communist favor. But, you know, one never knows. The bottom line is the good people of New
Jersey and the free exercise of their rights are still being held in a contemptuous limbo while the
court systems grind things out, which could take several months, unfortunately.
It's not that this is a bleak day for you fine people of New Jersey.
It's just that it's another unnecessary delay, another unnecessary hiccup,
and it all stems from the contempt of the state of New Jersey towards the Constitution,
the Bill of Rights, and the citizens of New Jersey. They hold the Supreme Law in contempt because
it tells them they're not allowed to do the things that they have been doing. for almost 40 years
now. They don't like that. They're losing political power, and they're panicking,
and that's what that petition is really all about. Now, it was different for Virginia,
and we'll talk about that in just a minute, but I kind of want to set the stage there.
We're going to talk about how Virginia basically wanted a stay also, but they were denied.
But how much do you want to bet that if the Third Circuit decision stands as ruled?
I'm going to make a wager right now because I know how these communists think and I know how they
act. I'm going to bet you that New Jersey will say, okay, y'all can have them,
but you're going to need a license to buy them. How much do you want to lay a dollar against a
donut on that? I bet you. You know why?
power, and they know disarming the people grants the state an overbalance of power.
They don't like that. They want it back. Yeah, kind of like Gollum wanted his ring back,
you know? That's a pretty good analogy. I like that. I think I'll use that again in future
references. Anyway, now, Virginia, to whom I...
referred to as vermont in the last episode my apologies my trigeminal neuralgia was off the charts
and it still is today but they um there's a court that um stays here's the article by mark chestnut
i mean before i butcher it by trying to quote things a court stays in our race assault weapon ban
challenge keeping statewide injunction in full effect so on the opposing side of things first you
got new jersey they were granted their motion and said okay you can keep your illegal law in place
as opposed to here with virginia no you may not keep that illegal law in place i i this shows that
we operate under a bifurcated court system. One side ignores the Supreme law.
The other does its seeming best to adhere there too. So here's an article I'll be heavily
referencing by Mark Chestnut. It says, in the ongoing saga of Virginia anti-gun,
I call them anti-rights, lawmakers ban on common semi-automatic firearms.
and standard capacity gun magazines, the good guys continue winning. I'm glad to hear that.
For background, on June 29th, the Washington Circuit Court granted a preliminary injunction
preventing enforcement of Virginia's newly enacted assault firearm and magazine bans,
finding that the plaintiffs demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on their claim that the
bans violate Article 1, Section 13 of the Virginia Constitution.
I think it should also violate Article 2 and 14 of the federal Constitution,
but that's just me. Then, on July 7th,
the court issued an opinion clarifying that the preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of
the bans applies statewide. And they had to do that because Jay Jones,
that filthy, godless Bolshevik, said, well, you guys in the municipal areas,
you can still enforce it. And the court came back and said, no, you can't. Shut up.
So now he says fast forward and the winds keep on coming. On July 29th,
the court in Santola v. Katz entered an order memorializing the party's agreement to stay the case
until after the U.S. Supreme Court issues its decision in two pending assault weapon ban cases
titled Vera Montez v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins.
It says the stay ensures that the statewide preliminary injunction the NRA obtained,
which bars the enforcement of Virginia's assault firearm and magazine bans anywhere in the
Commonwealth, will remain in effect until after the Supreme Court issues its decision, which is
expected in June of 2027. If the Supreme Court holds that the assault weapons bans violate the
Second Amendment, Virginia's ban, likewise, cannot stand. In that event,
the NRA's preliminary injunction will prevent Virginia's ban from ever taking effect.
And good. I'm glad to see the NRA is actually back in the fight. And this ban does not ever need to
take any effect because one took effect in New Jersey back in 1990,
and look how many years it's taken to uproot that.
So, in New Jersey, the state's motion was granted. In Virginia, it was denied.
Again, does this not clearly and glaringly exhibit our bifurcated...
or parallel court systems. Absolutely. In the most recent order,
the judge wrote, quote, excuse me, on June 30th, 2026,
the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide the federal constitutional question at issue in this
matter is consolidated cases, Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v.
Higgins. The U.S. Supreme Court proceedings are already underway, making the defendant's requested
stay a limited postponement of this matter.
A stay of this matter supports judicial economy and will conserve substantial resources of the
parties. A stay of this matter does not prejudice either party at this point in the proceedings.
The firearms ban and magazine ban challenged in this lawsuit remain unenforceable during the
pendency of this stay. Excuse me. The judge concluded by saying it is further ordered that the
preliminary injunction previously entered by this court by order. on July 7,
2026, shall remain in full effect, and the firearms ban and magazine ban are not enforceable until
further order of this court, or no later than 60 days after the Supreme Court issues a decision in
Viramontes and Grant, whichever occurs. Hmm, very interesting.
Now, Philip Van Cleve, who is the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League,
he has already said that things are starting to return to normal somewhat there in Virginia.
And he said that most gun stores are back to selling tactical style rifles and they're back to
selling standard capacity magazines, which of course the state says is a high capacity magazine.
So it's quite interesting to watch these two parallels between these two states that are literally
fighting over constitutional principle. Now, the article finishes here by Mark Chestnut,
says while it is likely the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the Viramontes case before the end
of the year, court observers say a ruling is unlikely before the end of June of 2027.
Well, that's sad. is that bodes well for the people of Virginia, but not for those in New Jersey.
Why? Thanks to our bifurcated parallel court system,
one that veers to the left and one that stays on course. We'll be right back after this brief
commercial timeout, and we're going to look at a law that went into effect in Colorado and what
that entails for the citizens there, because it's no better than what's trying to be pushed on
citizens in Virginia and what has been imposed upon the citizens for 36 years in New Jersey.
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We were first looking at New Jersey and Virginia in the first part of the program.
And now we're going to take a look at Colorado, who is dealing with the same situation,
only it's being infringed. Their right to own these weapons is being infringed through a licensing
scheme. I'm going to say this again. Government licenses are infringements.
I don't care. You don't get to tell me, well, it's only a minor burden of the free exercise. No
state and the federal government, too. has any right to put any burden on the free exercise of any
of our God-given rights. Licensing schemes here in the United States, unfortunately,
have been prevalent since the NFA and the GCA, where they started demanding that sellers of
firearms have special government licenses. And those became infringements on the industry itself.
And those are going to be harder to overcome than the state infringements against the citizens,
I promise you.
Licensing is essentially when the government, rather than tell you flat out,
you can't own that, they come in and say, well, you have to have a license to own it.
Yeah. That's where they interject. They interpose themselves between the citizen and the free
exercise of their rights. They put an unconstitutional requirement upon them just to get their
permission in the form of a license just to freely exercise rights you were born with for which no
license is allowed to be required, especially when you look at famous cases.
like the 1943 case of Murdoch v. Pennsylvania, and the principle in that that no state shall
convert liberty into a license and charge a fee, therefore, that's rooted in the Supreme Court's
interpretation of individual rights, especially as opposed to state authority.
Basically, the state has no authority to demand licensure. just to freely exercise their rights,
the people's rights. So that concept was definitely articulated in that case,
Murdoch v. Pennsylvania. The court ruled that requiring a license for religious solicitation
essentially constituted an unconstitutional tax.
on the exercise of a fundamental, constitutionally enumerated and protected right.
And the court basically stated, and I quote, the state cannot and does not have the power to
license nor tax a right guaranteed to the people.
Well, that's interesting. How many states have...
schemes for gun ownership. I can name a couple right off the top of my head.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Chicago,
Illinois, Washington State, Oregon, California. We can go on.
And unfortunately now Colorado. But the implications of this ruling was number one,
the protection of the citizens' rights. It also established a good legal precedent because in
another case in 1963, Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham, they basically said if the state
converts a right into a privilege and imposes a fee for it, that the citizens can essentially
ignore that license and engage in their rights without penalty.
Now, what does that mean? Exactly what it says. But yet how many of us citizens have been cowed
into gaining the state's permission, leasing the state's permission in the form of a perishable
permit for the right to keep and bear arms? How many?
There is no way that any state can justify such a scheme.
Just so people can exercise their rights. And usually with licensure is the back door to a
registration, by the way. Yes, it absolutely is. So now we go to Colorado because the law went into
effect August 1st there. It was SB 25-003.
And I want to know who granted. the elitist swine there in Colorado,
the right to presume themselves to have the authority to craft this licensing scheme just so people
could own one of these assault weapons. Yeah. Who or what do they believe granted them this
authority? Because a dadgum sure is not the Constitution. There are multiple precedents defying
that, multiple precedents telling them you're not allowed to do this, and yet they did it anyway.
Multiple state governments have unfortunately done this. But Colorado is the one that's...
front and center right now, because we're going to talk about this. Like I said, this law went into
effect August 1st, as the date of this recording, four days ago.
And this law basically prohibits the purchase or transfer of what they call specified semi
-automatic firearms, and you know which ones they specified. Excuse me, unless the buyer or the
transfer recipient completes the appropriate firearm safety course.
Now, how many of you go to church out there? You don't have to answer. It's a rhetorical question,
and I can't see you raise your hands anyway. How many of you had to take a course before you
started attending church? Maybe some religions you did, but I mean, we're historically Baptists in
my family. You just show up as you are, and you don't have to take any kind of a class or a course.
You do need to be born again if you really want to get anything out of the messages and the
teachings there, but that's a requirement put on you by God and not man. But for the state,
come along and say, You have to complete a firearm safety course.
And in this, you're going to find you have to complete more than one course. Who are they to say
that? Who are they to say, you know, before you can speak freely, you have to take a class,
a state approved class at that. Yeah, you see where I'm going.
This law, of course, does not affect users who already own.
these type of firearms. But don't worry, that's coming. But you got to ask yourself,
why did they let this grandfathering thing happen? Why did they let people who still own these
guns, who previously owned these guns, own them without going through all of these restrictions and
jumping through these hoops? I mean, if these guns are so dangerous that...
citizens cannot be trusted with them without the state's approval and without the state putting
them through a rigorous examination, how is it you can claim out of the other side of your face
that, oh, you guys can keep these? All of you that have them now, you don't have to worry about
this.
Doesn't that pretty much nullify their allegations that these guns are So dangerous that lowly
peon, average Joe and Jane citizen cannot be trusted with them? So why allow existing owners to
keep them? Well, there is a reason. And I will tell you this right now. If they come out with this
licensing scheme and said, all of you that previously owned these guns that now own these guns,
you have to meet these qualifications too or you have to turn your guns in. What do you think would
happen? Yeah, that's right. The powers that be know there would be an immediate rebellion by the
citizenry if they were told to turn them in if they didn't meet the qualifications. That's right.
I guarantee you they will eventually demand either the surrender of those grandfathered arms or
they will demand licensure to keep them. But this is just the first step to get their evil
totalitarian feet in your door. That's what's going on here.
It does affect the date. It affects those who wish to purchase or transfer one of these rifles on
or after August 1st. Now, here's the transfer exemptions,
okay? And you love how the state always carves out exemptions for them and their enforcers,
yeah? I'm going to read this verbatim. Recipients of the following types of...
let's just call them assault weapons transactions, do not need to undergo the eligibility and
training process outlined below, transfers to out-of-state residents.
In other words, if a dealer in Colorado wants to sell to a resident in another state by shipping
that firearm to their FFL in their state, that doesn't apply. Well,
I want to know why. If the state of Colorado claims that these things are so dadgum dangerous,
are they not dangerous for the residents of other states?
I mean, if you're going to be true to the principle that you're espousing here,
why would you even allow that? It also does not apply to transfers.
to a federally licensed firearms dealer. It also does not apply to transfers by operation of law or
to heirs or beneficiaries upon the owner's death or transfers to law enforcement agencies,
military forces, gunsmiths, or historical societies because apparently those people may be trusted
without the government's intervention.
without having to lease their right back from the state. But all the rest of you low-life peons
out there, you need to get licensed by the state in order to give the state assurance that you're
qualified and eligible to freely exercise a right that you were born with.
Excuse me. I'm going to read this from the Colorado Parks and Wildlife webpage.
It's cpw.state.co.us.
And here's the five-step criteria that you need to satisfy.
You've got to go through five different steps in order to freely exercise this right of yours.
Step one, you have to get an application. You have to go to their website and get an application
and fill that application out. Step two, you got to get with your local sheriff's department and
you have to. provide a government-issued photo ID to your local sheriff.
You have to contact them for information regarding the name-based background checks and everything
else you're going to have to go through, and they're going to collect $52 from you just for taking
care of that. Excuse me. Step three, the sheriff has to review your Eligibility card issuance.
He has to review your application and see if you're actually eligible.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, were you born in the United States? You're eligible. Are you over
the legal age? Then you're eligible. Step four, you have to take a course and an exam.
Oh, not just one course, though. I'll explain that in just a minute.
you have to go to your local FFL dealer and they have to confirm your eligibility number in a state
database. Isn't that comforting knowing there's going to be a state database of all these gun
owners? Now, gee, what could possibly go wrong there? And right now I want to ask all of you law
enforcement there in Colorado, where are you Oath Keepers at?
Where are you that swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution? Where are you in all of
this? Where are some of you so-called constitutional sheriffs? How come you're not standing up and
saying, I'm not going to be part of this crap? You can pound sand, state. Yeah.
Here's an example from the... Clear Creek County in Colorado. And it says for detailed guidance,
please visit the Colorado Parks and Wildlife SSF information page.
That's Specified Semiautomatic Firearms. That's what SSF stands for. Yeah,
they didn't want to use the term assault weapons. They crafted a new term and new terminology.
Specified Semiautomatic Firearm or SSF. To purchase or transfer a specified semi-automatic
firearm, the following steps must be completed by the buyer or transfer recipient.
Here you go.
You have to complete the Colorado Parks and Wildlife online application,
and they give the website there. After completing the application, you will receive an application
number, and that... you and makes you eligible to proceed to step two.
Oh, here's step two.
And Clear Creek Sheriff's Office online application and required documents.
Now you fill out a second application at your Sheriff's Office.
You can do that. They give the link here for Clear Creek County. is that you will need to provide
the CPW application number on the sheriff's office application.
So you filled out one application to get a number, and now you take that number,
proving you filled out the first application, and you use that to fill out another application,
double applications, just to get to step three now. And Clear Creek says you must provide the
following documents to the sheriff's office. Here we go. In person, Monday through Thursday,
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oh, they're closed from noon to 1 for lunch and all,
of course. That would be probably when most people would want to go down there so they don't have
to use PTO or if they have any PTO.
Oh, yeah. So you have to take time off work to go down to the sheriff's office with your ID and
with your CPW number just to continue with the rest of this.
The sheriff's office is located at 405 Argentine Street, Georgetown,
Colorado. You will need a government-issued photo ID. you will need to get a background check.
The background check must be completed by a third-party vendor. Isn't that nice?
Well, you're already paying $52 to the sheriff, but now the background check is going to be
completed by a third-party vendor. You think they're going to do that for free? The vendor must
provide attestation from them that the background check was performed by them.
The background check must include national and Colorado public criminal history and judicial
databases. For a list of statutorily compliant background check vendors,
please visit the Colorado Bureau of Investigations website. Okay, so that means there's going to be
only a few. of these vendors that are statutorily compliant with the state to perform these
background checks. Oh, but they give a website you can click on and you can see a list of them.
Isn't that nice of them? So you have to take time off work. which is also going to cost you time
and money. You have to fill out two applications and you got to pay $52 plus whatever the vendor
wants you to pay to perform your background check. And you're not even to step three yet. Oh,
here we are. We arrived at step three. The sheriff's office is going to review their,
they give their review and eligibility card eligibility. That means you have to go to your sheriff.
And he has to declare by, I guess, his mighty decree that you are eligible to proceed to step four.
The sheriff's office reviews your documentation, ensures the background check meets statutory
requirements, and verifies eligibility. Once approved,
in other words, once the sheriff has bestowed upon you his gracious and magnanimous blessing,
Once the sheriff issues the eligibility card and inputs your eligibility information into the state
database. Did you catch that? You caught that,
right?
You are going to be entered into a state database just to purchase.
No, not even to purchase. You haven't even finished the entire process yet. This is you. They're
going to have a list of everybody that is attempting to buy these guns. Now,
listen to me. If you think that's just, oh.
happenstantial byproduct of this law, I beg to differ. This was absolutely probably one of the main
things they wanted to do was establish a database of everybody that owns these weapons or that want
to buy them. Oh, but Royce, the other people that own them already are grandfathered in.
Not for long. Oh, no, no, no, not for long. Look at all the other states that have done crap like
this. That's only temporary. I assure you that.
He's going to put your eligibility information into the state database.
He'll give you an eligibility card, and if you want one printed, he'll do that for you too.
So now you're only declared eligible. To take the necessary course,
not to receive the license, you are eligible to take the course. Okay,
step four. You will need to find a state-approved instructor and enroll in the appropriate
firearms safety course. I did a little research on... How much those courses cost,
and they range anywhere from $200 to $400.
You haven't even bought the gun yet, and it's already costing you to exercise your right.
How does this square with Marbury versus Madison? How does this square with Shuttlesworth versus
Alabama? How does this square with the Constitution in the least? $200 to $400.
to take a state-approved course from a state-approved instructor who pretty much is going to
charge whatever he's going to charge you. And if you already have completed the Colorado Parks and
Wildlife Certified Hunter Education course, which costs $45, then you only need to take the basic
course. If not, you have to take two courses. So, one way or the other,
you're taking two courses. Either you're taking the hunter education course beforehand, before you
even apply, or you have to take two courses afterward if you don't have the hunter education
course. You have to take two courses and pay a couple of fees already,
three different fees, including two application fees and the class fee,
to apply for the right to purchase a firearm.
One of these firearms, the assault weapons. It says if you have never completed a certified hunter
education course, you have to complete the extended course. Within three days of course completion,
the instructor will update the state database. People,
this is a state registration base. That's all this is. They're registering gun owners.
They will register your gun also. I'm going to find out.
I didn't verify this, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that all assault weapons sold in Colorado
from henceforth will have to be the information of the purchaser and the serial number,
make and model and everything will have to be forwarded to this database. Don't doubt me on this.
I'm guessing, but it's a very educated guess.
You will receive an email at that time after you completed the course.
And then that makes you eligible to proceed to step five.
How do you like that? Wow. The Clear Creek Sheriff's Office does not have any certified
instructors. Okay. They say, however, each Colorado County that does.
have certified instructors should have a list of instructors available on their website.
Well, the translation for that, you're probably going to have to drive to another county if you
live in Clear Creek, spend an entire day there taking the necessary course or courses.
Spend whatever amount of money necessary for fuel and food, and God knows it might even be lodging
at this point, depending on which county it is in and how far away it is from you. Then drive back
to your home county just to satisfy the requirements of step four to where you can proceed to step
five. How do you feel about purchasing an assault weapon now? Yeah,
this is designed. to fatigue the people into compliance with the state's will.
That's all this is. Well, finally, we arrive at step five,
where the purchase and federal firearms license verification. The firearm safety course in step
four must be completed within five years of purchasing an SSF.
The firearm dealer will confirm your eligibility in the state database.
There it is again. And we'll begin the purchasing process. The process includes submitting an insta
check to the state of Colorado. So there's two background checks. How about that? This is the state
essentially saying, no, you do not possess the right to keep and bear arms,
certain arms, unless. You take two courses approved by us,
pay multiple sets of fees, undergo two background checks,
and jump through all the required hoops, all five of them. Then we will smile upon you with our
blessing because by then we've got the information all about you and your firearm anyway. We know
exactly where it is and where you live and where you keep it. This, to me, is a group of people.
in high places that seem to be begging for a date with the gallows. Yeah.
What constitutional authority does the state government of any state, much less Colorado,
what right do they have to craft and enforce this flagrantly constitutionally repugnant law?
What right do they have to place such unlawful impediments in the way of those seeking to simply
and freely exercise their God-given, blood-purchased rights. Now,
there has been a lawsuit filed against Colorado and this moronic law and against its enforcement,
so we'll see how this battle will now play out in conjunction with New Jersey and Virginia,
so it's an interesting time going on here in the States. But if that lawsuit doesn't work out...
My suggestion to the citizens of Colorado is that you daily send emails and letters to the
governor, to every legislator involved, every sheriff that's involved.
And you boldly and you plainly accuse them of rank treason,
because infringement is treason. Infringement of the right to keep and bear arms is an assault
against the security of our free state, because a well-regulated militia is necessary to the
security of that free state. And you tell them that. You are committing treason.
You are assaulting our rights. You tell them that they're criminals and that they're unfit for
public office. Yes, be that bold. I'm tired of being nice to these people. I'm tired of people
telling me, Royce, you're a little too hard on these guys sometimes. Some of them just do it in
ignorance. I don't care. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for us average Joe citizens.
It's dadgum sure no excuse for those in authority, especially when they took an oath to uphold and
defend the supreme law. So you bombard their inboxes, you bombard their mailboxes,
you be relentless, I think once a week. All of you should have pre-typed letters to mail to them
or emails and send them and blow their inbox up. And yes, I mean figuratively.
Be relentless. Don't make threats of violence. You accuse them of what they're doing because they
are doing it. They are treasonous traitors of the Constitution. They are violating the Supreme Law.
They are violating Amendment 2 and Amendment 14 with impunity, and you tell them that.
Now, frankly, I would probably send them something along the lines of, and I typed this out just
for my own amusement more than anything, Dear Sir or Ma'am, Your actions in supporting and or
enforcing Senate Bill 25-003 are acts of treason.
You are strictly forbidden in our supreme law from infringing our right to keep and bear arms,
which includes licensing, and As a state within the Union,
you are forbidden from making or enforcing any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities
of citizens of the United States, which plainly includes the citizens within the state of Colorado.
You possess no constitutional authority to enact or enforce this illegal law.
The free exercise of no other constitutional right is subjected to such ridiculous,
onerous requirements prior to exercising them freely. This is obviously being done in an attempt to
fatigue American citizens in Colorado into relinquishing the free exercise of their right to keep
and bear arms, and is therefore a criminal act. It is a treasonous violation of the Supreme Law,
Amendments 2 and 14 in particular, to inhibit in any way the free exercise of our God-given right
to keep and bear arms, rights that were purchased with American blood. By your acts of willing,
forceful aggression against the Constitution and our rights, you are plainly declaring yourself to
be a traitor to the Supreme Law and to your oath to uphold and defend it. You are an enemy of the
people of Colorado and are unfit to hold any official title or position other than that of prison
inmate. In kind regards, John Q. Citizen. That's how I would do it.
Because until you forcefully accuse them with all the force that the people can muster and tell
them they are in rank violation of the Constitution, they're going to settle into a sense of,
okay, well, we've been doing it, we just keep on doing it. Just like New Jersey, just like
Massachusetts, just like Illinois, all those law enforcement officials in all of those states are
now acting as willing aggressors against the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
All of you so-called constitutional sheriffs in Colorado, if any of you exist,
How about you let your testicles drop and you straighten your spine and you stand up and point your
finger towards the state and say, we ain't doing this. This is bull fertilizer and we're not
required to do this just because you said so. We're going to uphold and defend the Supreme law,
the constitution. And it says that the right of the people to keep and bear arms, that means arms
for war. shall not be infringed, and this law is nothing but a steaming pile of such infringements.
That's what you do. You point your finger to them and you accuse them repeatedly. And you let them
know if you continue and force yourself along this path and continue to oppress us and violate our
rights, you're going to push us into dangerous territory. And then let the implication lie there
and simmer with them and let them figure out what you're talking about. That's how you handle these
kind of tyrants, because we cannot trust this bifurcated court system in America anymore to uphold
and do the right thing, especially the one that veers off to the left. You can't trust them and you
never know which court your case is going to end up in front of. So we do need to,
excuse me. not only be ready to defend ourselves on American streets at a moment's notice,
but we also need to be ready to defend ourselves against full-blown government aggression,
which could easily happen if we continue to, actually not if we continue,
but if we allow this stuff to stand without a fight. Right now,
the fight is in the court system. Okay, I do really hope it stays there. I don't want to have to
start crafting munitions and certain things against government forces.
I don't want to do that. I don't want Americans fighting Americans. But at the same time,
I am not required to sit back and accept infringements of my rights just because some
constitutionally illiterate jackass thought it was okay to craft them to grant them power over me.
Because that's the only reason anybody ever wants to disarm you in the first place, and that's to
make you weaker than them. So you stay in contact with your reps,
you stock up on beans, bullets, and bandages, and don't you ever forget, incoming rounds always
have the right of way. Royce out.