#  @fourboxesdiner Mark W. Smith/#2A Scholar
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"The key component of the Bruen decision is historical analogy. Since laws like Maryland's handgun licensing law didn't exist during our early American history such laws going forward should not stick. It will be interesting to see how this case shapes up https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/10/fourth-circuit-amicus-brief-on-maryland-handgun-licensing-law/ https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/10/fourth-circuit-amicus-brief-on-maryland-handgun-licensing-law/"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1557834256340107265) 2022-08-11T21:00Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
".@JCNSeverino makes great points. The Supreme Courts draft opinion seems to have been leaked to alter the Courts decision-making in Dobbs and perhaps beyond. The occurrence of the leak alone sets a terrible precedent for our justice system. WATCH NOW: https://youtu.be/fwvZ8Vyt_as https://youtu.be/fwvZ8Vyt_as"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1559553725441744896) 2022-08-16T14:52Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
"$1.50 poll tax declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court in Harper v. Board of Elections case in [----]. Why You cannot tax constitutional rights. So how is the below different re fundamental right to bear arms Everyone who claims voter ID laws are racist but is silent on this is an irredeemable hypocrite. Livescan fee is usually another $100 and the class will be at least $150. So over $500 to exercise a constitutional right. Everyone who claims voter ID laws are racist but is silent on this is an irredeemable hypocrite. Livescan fee is usually another $100 and the class will be at least"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1577430493007466496) 2022-10-04T22:48Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
"2A SUPREME COURT WIN: Terrible Anti-Gun Decision THROWN OUT. 100k views in [--] hours you don't want to miss this one: https://youtu.be/3w2tNxGWO88 https://youtu.be/3w2tNxGWO88"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1577729476296937490) 2022-10-05T18:36Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
"MY LATEST ON FOX NEWS: Election lawsuits could delay Midterm results because Democrats use a strategy called Sue Until Blue"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1590744012696485889) 2022-11-10T16:31Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements
""President Joe Biden is once again carrying on the despicable Democratic Party tradition of standing on the corpses of young gunshot victims to promote gun control proposals that have nothing to do with their deaths." @ZacharyFaria doesn't hold back https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-stands-on-corpses-to-promote-gun-control-again https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-stands-on-corpses-to-promote-gun-control-again"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1593700570744819712) 2022-11-18T20:20Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
"#2A Team Question: I have a big presentation today for students and faculty etc. at the prestigious University of Virginia (UVA) Law School about the 2nd Amendment NYSRPA v. Bruen and originalism. Any suggestions about key points to mention"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1639258133058002945) 2023-03-24T13:29Z 21.9K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING SUPREME COURT #2A NEWS IN AR-15/MAGAZINE BAN CASE. Federal Court issued a major order today seeking to avoid an angry reaction from SCOTUS. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video breaks down what this means for SCOTUS and the "Assault Weapon" ban cases https://youtu.be/piLW0qT-Vkg https://youtu.be/piLW0qT-Vkg"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1657133749329444864) 2023-05-12T21:20Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A and Federal Judge Diane Wood's Dissent: My thought: "I can explain it to her but I cannot understand it for her." The following language is seriously from 7th Circuit Judge Diane Wood's dissent in today's 2A case. Judge Wood wrote this about the "in common use" test in gun ban cases. "The Courts reference to historical tradition indicates that the relevant time for the common use inquiry is WHEN THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS ADOPTED not when the current lawsuit arose." Well is Judge Wood correct about this Let's go the record. To begin perhaps Judge Wood is unfamiliar with the work of an"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1671373067736498176) 2023-06-21T04:22Z 28.3K followers, 19.8K engagements
"State says that M-16s are virtually identical to semi-automatic "assault rifles". State says semi-automatic rifles are "weapons are war" and can be banned. The state and federal government can ban M-16 and because semi-automatic rifles are "essentially like M-16s" they can be"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1674427122977492994) 2023-06-29T21:12Z 11.1K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Court trying to get 2A attorney to admit that "some weapons" are NOT for private individuals. But this is not relevant. [----] million number keeps getting discussed. How many owned by law enforcement How many in hand criminal gangs How many in lawabiding Court wants to"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1674436298759712769) 2023-06-30T00:52Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Court asking "why is a stinger missile" not protected The court is desperately trying to avoid talking about the actually semi-automatic rifles and magazines. The ONLY reason why a court wants to talk about grenades stinger missiles etc. is simple--- they seem to understand"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1674443028138713088) 2023-06-29T22:03Z 11.5K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Judge Easterbrook is now talking about the "rifle that made the West" and said it would have a magazine of some number of rounds. It was the AR-15 of the day so is that protected State said some regulations were around then but that's different than a complete a ban. Judge"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1674447019950104578) 2023-06-30T00:24Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS re "ASSAULT WEAPON" BANS: US Court of Appeals for 7th Circuit heard arguments today in consolidated cases about whether Illinois AR-15/magazines bans are unconstitutional under the 2nd Amendment. #2A #bruenresistance Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks it all"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1674518968432771072) 2023-06-29T20:46Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements
"FOR NEWS MEDIA ALERT: Look forward to appearing on @FoxBusiness with @BrianBrenberg @JackieDeAngelis tomorrow (Friday) 1pm Eastern time talking US Supreme Court term"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1674574208611893249) 2023-06-30T00:22Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements
"#2A NOTE: If the ONLY guy allowed to have a gun on a school campus will not be held accountable for failing (by mistake or otherwise) to protect the children victims then the teachers/school administrators should have the right to carry guns there. #guns #2A"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1674602270837678080) 2023-06-30T02:14Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The #2A will lose every single case in the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the First Circuit out of Boston because that court is literally awful on the right to bear arms"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1677835658168090624) 2023-07-09T00:39Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"SHOCKING: DOJ slowing down their response time to respond to records requested in Hunter Biden case too. Sound familiar Why are all these government officials refusing to turn over to the public the information upon which they (the government) are making major policy and legal"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1678492083038875654) 2023-07-13T00:45Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A WARNING: DO NOT ALLOW FOR A CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY. This will allow government to control your money so if "you misbehave" in any way the government disapproves they cut you off from your money This will force you to "do as they say" and you will become a SERF or"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1678783630313930752) 2023-07-11T16:36Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #SCOTUS The Left Hates Clarence Thomas because he applies the US Constitution as written. The Left is using all their resources to attack Justice Thomas and all conservatives. Luckily we have some smart people on the right who know how to read and analyze assertions. For"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1679183265297465357) 2023-07-12T18:40Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: U.S. Court of Appeals for Eleventh Circuit (FL GA & Alabama) issued order vacating an anti-2A panel decision which had upheld a Florida law banning the purchase of firearms by 18-20 year olds. Full 11th Circuit will hear case EN BANC. Mark Smith Four Boxes"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1680327581801799682) 2023-07-20T00:29Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING: In federal court for the District of Colorado @RMGOColorado Rocky Mountain Gun Owners organization filed major document relying on the favorable 2A ruling in the US Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit. #bruenresistance Mark Smith explains the connection in this"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1680723643716837377) 2023-07-17T16:53Z 13.7K followers, 10.6K engagements
"#2A #guns Excellent title but you needed to add a little *** asterisk at the end of the title that reads "Except for the [---] million privately-owned firearms and ammo that Americans will STILL OWN""
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1681310956562055168) 2023-07-18T15:56Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns GREAT MUSIC VIDEO HERE OPPOSING MOB VIOLENCE. If you support 2nd Amendment and our Constitution while Opposing Mob Violence (which is another form of tyranny) this is a must watch This music video is more persuasive than all my geeky talks about the dangers of Mob"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1681677345353003008) 2023-07-20T01:29Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Guns do NOT guarantee any outcome. They just give you a chance and an opportunity. If a bad guy gets the draw on you or shoots you from a distance (sniper) well nothing you can do about that"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1681692307727196161) 2023-07-19T19:12Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: Illinois State Court Judge Finds that Illinois FOID (Firearms Owner ID) Law is Constitutional under the 2nd Amendment. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks down the opinion in this video"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1681696133599358976) 2023-07-19T23:09Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A MILITIA: The Supreme Court in Heller said "well regulated" just means trained or effective. Nothing exotic. They wrote "the adjective well-regulated implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training. See Johnson [----] (Regulate: To adjust by"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1681697874982076424) 2023-07-19T18:54Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns No. Might be a good idea but it should not be mandated by government. We do NOT mandate any testing for people to express their First Amendment opinions or exercise a religion or requiring any education etc to exercise their right to vote. Why would #2A rights be"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1681700562180403201) 2023-07-19T17:41Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Home School and private school kids will learn more about the Constitution from @fourboxesdiner on YouTube than most could ever learn from a law school class (of course I don't teach deeply non-#2A aspects of the Constitution on the channel but I could) I think online"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1681716107059576833) 2023-07-19T17:42Z 13.7K followers, 16.5K engagements
"#2A NEWS: This is how the anti-gunners will try to destroy public supporters of the 2nd Amendment (conservative) movement down the road if they can. They will make day-to-day economic life such as banking impossible to do. This @Nigel_Farage story should be a WARNING to us all"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1681824949864898560) 2023-07-20T01:00Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: MASSIVE VICTORY FOR @gunpolicy AND 2ND AMENDMENT IN PISTOL BRACE RULE FIGHT. FEDERAL APPEALS COURT FINDS BIDEN GUN CONTROL TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND ILLEGAL. FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO COMING SOON. @2Aupdates OPINION HERE"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1686484763962413056) 2023-08-01T21:11Z 13.7K followers, 18.2K engagements
"#2A BREAKING PISTOL BRACES: Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video on today's huge 2A victory where U.S. Court of Appeals for 5th Circuit finds Biden's pistol-brace rule likely unconstitutional and thus approves preliminary injunction. Congratulations to @gunpolicy @2Aupdates"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1686505323832479745) 2023-08-01T22:32Z 13.7K followers, 11.5K engagements
"#2A #guns BREAKING SUPREME COURT NEWS: ATF PANICKING: DOJ Files "Whiny" Brief to Supreme Court Begging it to Overlook Federal Law. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video breaks the news from the road (See how much we love you #2A supporters) @gunpolicy @2AFDN @2Aupdates"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1687231658213195776) 2023-08-03T22:40Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS re "Assault Weapon" Ban: U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton (79-year old Clinton appointee) upheld Connecticut's "assault weapon" ban by misapplying clear Supreme Court precedent. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner flags a just a few mistakes in the opinion"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1687312129462808576) 2023-08-04T22:41Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns I do have AK(s). However I do not like to state publicly my firearm preferences because I don't want any #2A gun folks or gun companies etc. to feel I am picking one brand/model/company/organization over another"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1687602126803877888) 2023-08-04T23:11Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Left works hard to ensure that Americans know nothing about their proud and heroic American history. Luckily #2A supporters and gun owners have outlets such as @fourboxesdiner on YouTube to learn the history their left-wing (or just plain dumb) teachers conveniently "forget" to teach them"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1687689899984433152) 2023-08-05T05:00Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns: 2A and gun law is NOT confusing. The appearance of confusion is arising because of Mass Resistance by some lower courts who refuse to apply the straight-forward methodology of Heller/Bruen. Apparently taking "how to" lessons about SCOTUS resistance from the late (pro-segregationist) George Wallace a number of obviously anti-gun judges are bitter that the Supreme Court took away their power to "balance away" the private right to bear arms in the name of some generic "governmental interest" masquerading as a "public interest." SCOTUS told the lower courts to apply the law and treat"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1687853357627482112) 2023-08-05T15:49Z 13.8K followers, 11.7K engagements
"#2A Dumb: Under Supreme Court precedents of: [----] Minneapolis Star case and 1960s Harper v. VA Board of Elections case a targeted tax on a constitutional right such as the right to vote and the right to free speech/free press is unconstitutional. So too would a targeted tax on ammunition or firearms. @TheDemocrats just introduced legislation on Friday to make guns for the rich only. How dies a 1000% excise tax sound to you @GunOwners @fourboxesdiner @Guns_Gadgets @gunpolicy @MrColionNoir @AWRHawkins. https://t.co/W0HWLNQhmm @TheDemocrats just introduced legislation on Friday to make guns for"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1688003711581175808) 2023-08-06T01:47Z 21.1K followers, 21.5K engagements
"#2A #NFA: If any of the items within the NFA are protected "arms" under 2A then the tax as applied to those specific arms is likely illegal. For now none of the "arms" within the NFA have been declared by a court to be protected "arms" under 2A; thus the NFA tax has not been lined up properly for a legal challenge. But I suspect this will change soon"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1688005314430324736) 2023-08-06T01:53Z [--] followers, 12.7K engagements
"#2a In the [----] US Supreme Court case of Harper v. Board of Election a $1.50 poll tax on voting was struck down as unconstitutional"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1688028056676368384) 2023-08-06T03:23Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A and TYRANNY: To be precise the pre-existing Right to Bear Arms as codified by the 2nd Amendment is about thwarting ALL FORMS OF TYRANNY whether that tyranny be in the form of a street criminal a wild animal a mob a rogue government a foreign invader etc. Do NOT forget that philosopher John Locke (the Founders loved him) notes that when anyone/anything threatens your life then you are in a "STATE OF WAR" with that thing/person. That thing/person could be a criminal animal government mob etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1688263565587755008) 2023-08-06T18:59Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEW FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO: Insane Anti-gunner Logic: Arsonist Kills [--] People So We Should BAN FIRE America's Founding Fathers Loved the criminologist Cesare Beccaria as they drafted the 2nd Amendment. Beccaria's views on "Fire Violence" and "Water Violence""
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1688282417470050305) 2023-08-06T20:14Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS--MAJOR 2A VICTORY TODAY: US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit declared that Hawaii's butterfly-knife ban violates the 2nd Amendment. Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video here"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1688643647242223617) 2023-08-07T20:09Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: ANOTHER MAJOR 2A VICTORY IN FEDERAL COURT: US District Court in the District of Colorado enters preliminary injunction against Colorado's laws infringing on Young Adults right to Acquire Firearms. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks it down"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1688922922289913859) 2023-08-08T14:39Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BAD NEWS: In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court granted the emergency stay request in favor of Joe Biden/Garland's DOJ on the "ghost gun" regulations ATF made up. This means the law is effective and the lower court's decisions against the regulations are stayed (paused) pending the outcome of the rest of that appeal. CJ Roberts and J. Barrett sided with the liberal justices and Thomas Alito Kavanaugh and Gorsuch would have denied DOJ's stay request. Order is here. Four Boxes Diner video coming later today"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1688967821240221696) 2023-08-08T17:38Z 13.7K followers, 27.4K engagements
"TERRIBLE #2A #guns NEWS: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Biden's "Ghost Gun" Regulation to go into Effect. In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court granted a stay in favor of the Biden Department of Justice's new "ghost gun" regulations. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video breaks it down"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1689005058107600896) 2023-08-08T20:06Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns #Bruenresistance I dont see this idea working for many reasons. Off the top of my head: First this idea could only work up until the moment that the courts expressly hold that it is unconstitutional to simply seize guns from people. Once that occurred the law would be clearly established and any violation thereof would be sufficient to defeat a qualified immunity defense. Second I think government actors such as the cops just taking guns would already (today) violate clearly established Fourth Amendment law involving unlawful searches and seizures. Third as a practical matter how"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1689417541775491072) 2023-08-09T23:25Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A FYI: To @JohnCornyn and those Republicans who voted for Gun Control in June [----] as SCOTUS was issuing #2A victory in Bruen. This is what happens when you "reach across the aisle" to the Democrats. Sinema Manchin rebuke Biden admin's attack on school archery hunting programs: 'gross misinterpretation' #FoxNews"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1689489587331022849) 2023-08-10T04:11Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns I just shot a video on this. DOJ's arguments are weak and based on what I can tell DOJ should lose this argument for multiple reasons. PRO TIP: If DOJ has concerns about notoriety involving the Matthew Hoover criminal case then perhaps they should not brag about it on the DOJ website. See"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1689700148425674752) 2023-08-10T18:08Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns MATT HOOVER CASE: DOJ TRYING TO HIDE CRITICAL INFORMATION ABOUT NFA "MACHINE-GUN" CASE. U.S. Department of Justice files major motion seeking to block the public from reviewing the Pre-sentencing Report in the Matthew Hoover auto-key card case. This presents a major fight over the First Amendment the right for public to access court information and more. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner offer detailed break down. @Stambo2A @johncrump21 @AmmoLand @2Aupdates @BearingArmsCom @guntruth"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1689746206170189824) 2023-08-10T21:11Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#DOJ What is going on with DOJ You tracked this guy for FIVE MONTHS. Are you telling me DOJ could not arrest this old guy at church at the store or driving down the street I don't condone breaking the law but DOJ needs to have some common sense and judgment in enforcing the law. NOTE: DOJ started tracking this guy in MARCH [----]. "The FBI became aware of threats made against Mr. Bragg .in March.On March [--] two agents surveilled a Provo residence at which they believed Mr. Robertson lived. They witnessed a white male around [--] to [--] years old exiting the home and entering a vehicle registered"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1689853523100377088) 2023-08-11T04:17Z 13.8K followers, 41.1K engagements
"#2A #guns @BillLeeTN How can you have a hearing about anything involving the Nashville shooting WITHOUT FIRST providing the public a copy of the shooter's manifesto How can anyone know what you are supposed to legislate about without first looking at the manifesto Why is the government HIDING the manifesto THERE SHOULD BE NO SPECIAL SESSION UNTIL THE MANIFESTO IS RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. @GunGadget @gunpolicy @2Aupdates @ArmedAttorneys @Iraqveteran8888 @Timcast @philthatremains Tennessee governor outlines agenda for special session in wake of Nashville school shooting"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690005516980727808) 2023-08-11T14:21Z 13.8K followers, 11.4K engagements
"#2A #Guns NO SURPRISE HERE: In 4-3 decision the Illinois State Supreme Court upheld the recently-enacted "assault weapon" ban in that state concluding that it did not violate the Illinois state constitution. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video breaks down the opinions here"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690133523410141184) 2023-08-11T22:50Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns [--] U.S.C. 930: Today's Hunter Biden news triggered all sorts of work today and I have @foxnews tomorrow. So I am behind on everything. @avsterbone @MorosKostas @TheWizardofLawz @MichOpenCarry With that said I don't think there is a perfect answer to your question because I don't think this statute has been fully tested post-Bruen. But for now you may wish to check out US v. de la Cruz-Bancroft (D.N.M. Jan. [--] 2010) (By its express terms the statute demands inquiry into defendants purpose in bringing the firearm to a Federal facility. In other words the possession of the firearm must"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690198817314951168) 2023-08-12T03:09Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns #matthoover MATT HOOVER SCORES A VICTORY. As I predicted in Thursday's video about DOJ's absurd GAG Order Motion (an obvious violation of the First Amendment): the Federal Judge scolded DOJ prompting DOJ to withdraw their motion to GAG @crumpyss. @guntruth has the story. UPDATE: AUSA Laura Cofer Taylor Withdraws Her Motion to Gag a Journalist Reporting on Her AutoKeyCard Prosecution via @The Truth About Guns"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690367406688882688) 2023-08-12T14:19Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"FOX NEWS MEDIA: Great time chatting with Anchor @MollyLineFNC today about Hunter Bider DOJ and President Trump"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690508605420679168) 2023-08-12T23:40Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns LOL. Actually it goes "first find all the guns then make sure people cannot make new guns and then try to take the existing firearms without being found to have violated the 4th Amendment (unlawful searches and seizures) the 5th Amendment (right not to self incrimination) and of course the 2nd Amendment's right to bear arms.""
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690509659331768320) 2023-08-12T23:44Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: Big Win for 1st and 2nd Amendments in Matthew Hoover case as per @guntruth Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video here discusses the victory for journalist @crumpyss and super-2A attorney @Stambo2A but also flags a potential sentencing risk for Matthew Hoover"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690517411907170304) 2023-08-13T00:15Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A TEACHING MOMENT: The US became a country because the British decided to impose GUN CONTROL on Americans. So "gun extremists" have been fighting for gun rights since before we were a country. Here is my special July 4th Four Boxes Diner video explaining how the American Revolution was started over gun control"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690540438850015232) 2023-08-13T01:47Z 12.9K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS IN CONGRESS: 2A Advocate Branden Herrera @TheAKGuy is running for Congress in TX apparently against Tony Gonzales (R) @RepTonyGonzales in 23rd Congressional District. I usually do NOT like Republicans running against R. incumbents. However Gonzales voted FOR the [----] Biden gun control bill "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act" giving Biden a gun control win while the 2A movement was winning a massive 2A victory in SCOTUS with NYSPRA v. Bruen. This might open door for Branden Herrera. #guns"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690752843118989312) 2023-08-13T15:51Z 13.7K followers, 25.3K engagements
"#2A LESSON: Notice the video in the middle of this story showing Chicago PD carrying AR-15s with [--] rounds magazines. I thought these were "weapons of war" with no place on American streets There Was Pandemonium At The United Center Last Night Over A False Report Of An Active Shooter"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690754255492153344) 2023-08-13T15:56Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#TRUMP Yes I recall very little push back against Trump in [----]. He only defeated the strongest field ever of Republican POTUS candidates including Jeb Bush to win nomination and then defeated the Clinton Political Machine. Christie: GOP Made a Mistake in [----] Not Going After Trump via @BreitbartNews https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/13/christie-gop-made-a-mistake-in-2016-not-going-after-trump/ https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/13/christie-gop-made-a-mistake-in-2016-not-going-after-trump/"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690758753967022080) 2023-08-13T16:14Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LESSON: New Hampshire Governor the late Meldrim Thomsom took the position that the state National Guard should have its own nuclear weapons"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690808011894259712) 2023-08-13T19:30Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A AMERICAN HISTORY POINT AND FOREIGN POLICE ON AMERICAN SOIL: The Declaration of Independence specifically objected to the English King George deploying non-Americans ("foreign mercenaries") to police and harass the American colonists. The Declaration provided "the King is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death desolation and tyranny already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.""
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690808885303513088) 2023-08-13T19:33Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"ATF EXPERT: #2A #guns ATTORNEY STEPHEN HALBROOK Talks SCOTUS decision about the Biden "Ghost Gun" rules frames/receivers and "weapons parts Kits". As one of the few attorneys to defeat the ATF before the Supreme Court Halbrook offers keen insights on the Court's recent decision and more. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video is here"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1690830653762211840) 2023-08-13T21:00Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Guns CRITICAL LESSON: Call "red flag" or "extreme protection" orders exactly what they really are: FIREARM REMOVAL LAWS. This means you too @BillLeeTN Do NOT allow anti-gunners to deploy their political propaganda terms such as "Extreme Protection Orders" which they love to do. Call these laws" FIREARMS REMOVAL LAWS." Also has the government released the Nashville Shooter's Manifesto If not then there is nothing to discuss about "solutions" to prevent another "Nashville Shooter" situation"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690843227551625216) 2023-08-13T21:50Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump received [--] million votes in [----] Republicans controls [--] Governor Houses and the U.S. House of Representatives and have [--] states with permitless #2A carry of concealed firearms. Yet the GOP is not "mainstream" LOL Brazile says GOP may never be ‘mainstream’ again"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1690925941348827136) 2023-08-14T03:18Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"There is no deadline by which a federal court must issue a decision so we have no way to know when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit will issue its ruling on the Illinois assault weapon ban"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691129692563165203) 2023-08-14T16:48Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING: MARK SMITH FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO about Legal Challenge to Firearms Owner Identification Cards (FOID). FOID Legal Fight Moving Forward in Illinois State Courts @2AFDN"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691148785328525312) 2023-08-14T18:04Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"LATE NIGHT BREAKING #2A SUPREME COURT NEWS: In USA v. Rahimi in Supreme Court the Biden Department of Justice filed its massive 67-page brief (and more) defending the constitutionality of [--] USC 922g concerning Prohibited Persons i.e. those individuals who may not possess firearms. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video breaks down this late nigh filing to SCOTUS by Biden Administration"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691312361552961537) 2023-08-15T04:54Z 13.8K followers, 31.4K engagements
"FOX NEWS MEDIA ALERT: Great time speaking on @FoxNewsFirst with the wonderful duo of @ToddPiro & @CarleyShimkus about the Trump indictment in Georgia. Video here: Constitutional attorney Mark Smith reacts to Trump indictment in Georgia: 'Really bewildering' #FoxNews"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691477884433477632) 2023-08-15T15:52Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements
"#2A #Rahimi #BruenResistance I have reviewed more carefully the DOJ brief in the Rahimi SCOTUS 2A case. I have found some obvious legal problems with the DOJ brief. Four Boxes Diner Video coming shortly. FYI: I am just getting started breaking down DOJ Brief. I spent most of the last [--] hours on the Trump Georgia Indictment issue. #guns"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691565742892761263) 2023-08-15T21:41Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: 2nd Amendment in Grave Danger in Supreme Court. #Bruenresistance DOJ legal brief in #2A US v. Rahimi case raises serious legal dangers to the individual right to bear arms. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video provides a further analysis of Biden's gun control arguments before SCOTUS"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691571335153983990) 2023-08-15T22:03Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns VIDEO: AMERICAN GUN OWNERS ARE THE LARGEST ARMY IN THE WORLD. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video makes the point here"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691664221509972288) 2023-08-16T04:12Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #NFA A REAL-WORLD PLAN TO KILL THE NFA: To answer your question it is premature to try such a direct legal attack. However this Four Boxes Diner video sets forth a Real World 2nd Amendment Strategy for ATTACKING the NFA"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691664791977206247) 2023-08-16T04:14Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Bruenresistance The 2A is not in grave danger "from the court." But if the Supreme Court adopts the DOJ legal view of the 2nd Amendment as set forth in the DOJ legal brief then the 2A and gun rights will be in grave danger from anti-gun legislatures (Congress/state lawmakers) and from regulators (ATF) who will be able to enact gun control laws with impunity"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691666037677146579) 2023-08-16T04:19Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Guns You are Your Own First Responder. You cannot Depend on Government to protect you. According to this @zerohedge story Hawaii is experiencing social break down Rioting Lootings and Rapes"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691670348951851416) 2023-08-16T04:36Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements
"#2A #guns LESSON: Notice how CNN is now lumping together "children AND teens." DOJ states that the average age a "child" joins a gang is [--]. So how many of these deaths referenced are acts of criminal violence and/or gang-related violence in places like Chicago "Children AND TEENS are more likely to die by guns than any other way a grim cause that surpassed car accidents in [----]. Firearms accounted for nearly 19% of deaths in [----] of children ages [--] to [--] according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER database.""
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691837265167687934) 2023-08-16T15:40Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns #bruenresistance @Cernovich Your analysis is not unreasonable but there is a necessary first step that wanna-be totalitarians skipped when it comes to the USA. In my opinion they erred by revealing prematurely their intentions i.e. BEFORE they disarmed Americans. You CANNOT go genocidal on an armed population; the American population is fully armed and (given what we know now) the American population will never be disarmed. See my Four Boxes Diner video on American gun owners being the largest army in the world here. NOTE: From my point of view attempts to disarm Americans (see"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691866465383707071) 2023-08-16T17:36Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A TOUCHDOWN: Could NFL Player charged with violating Massachusetts Gun Laws use the 2nd Amendment to save the day for himself and America Massachusetts doesn't have the legal leverage with its suspect gun laws that it might think it does. Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video discusses the legal case of New England Patriots Jack Jones. @jerrythornton1"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1691988938192249166) 2023-08-17T01:42Z 12.9K followers, 28.5K engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS IN NEW JERSEY: NJ's New CCW Training Requirements are so CRAZY (and likely unconstitutional) that even John Wick might fail them. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video talks about a new story discussing these crazy NJ training rules. @HT_GunWriter @2AFDN @2Aupdates #guns #bruenresistance"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1692209513527488683) 2023-08-17T16:19Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns @Guns4Defense makes the very argument that our Founding Fathers supported. Our Founders embraced the views of 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria who said "False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take FIRE from men because it burns and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature." I wrote about this in scholarly article here"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1692213643721552370) 2023-08-17T16:35Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"100% yes And Thomas Jefferson and John Adams BOTH LOVED Beccaria and wrote down his lessons in their common books"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1692306861096104142) 2023-08-17T22:46Z 11.8K followers, [----] engagements
"DEAR #2A #guns SUPPORTERS IN TENNESSEE: Gun Confiscation Laws (anti-gunners call them "red flag laws") are expected to be debated by the Tennessee legislature thanks to the Republican Governor Bill Lee. Adopting so-called "Extreme Risk Protection Laws" are unnecessary and implicate no fewer than [--] separate provisions (1A 2A 4A & 5A) of the Bill of Rights. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video explains all and also asks (again) "Where is the Nashville Shooter's Manifesto""
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1692371026271707254) 2023-08-18T03:01Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Guns After I released my video on the Tennessee situation today a friend sent me the below. $5000 offered for leaked Nashville manifesto via @YouTube"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1692378756306915521) 2023-08-18T03:31Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #bruenresistance Biden's Department of Justice has made a important Supreme Court concession in defending the federal gun control law (18 USC 922(g)(8)). DOJ is refusing to embrace historical analogue laws with racist underpinnings. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner explains why this is a victory for gun rights"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693073507570057274) 2023-08-20T01:32Z 13.8K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Big fan of @GunWashington and we need to do something together"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1693299411688767542) 2023-08-20T16:30Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"#HUNTERBIDEN Hunter is likely swapping out his "plea deal lawyers" for the lawyers who he will use to actually try the case. Some lawyers are better suited for "cutting deals" with DOJ to win plea deals and others are better suited for trying cases to juries when necessary. My guess: I suspect part of the move here by Hunter is transferring from a "plea deal" mode to a "trial" mode. Of course at the end of the day does any of this matter if his dad can just pardon him"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693487134580117640) 2023-08-21T04:56Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"MAJOR #2A SUPREME COURT NEWS. The California Legislative Women's Caucus has filed a major legal brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in the Rahimi 2nd Amendment case which translates into support of the U.S. Government and in favor of gun control. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video analyzes their arguments here. #bruenresistance"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693742924364668992) 2023-08-21T21:52Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A YES Four Boxes Diner video being released later tonight on the MASS decision. A great win for the 2nd Amendment"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693743568551080268) 2023-08-21T21:55Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#MEDIA TEACHING MOMENT. I do not think it is a "LEAKED" talking point if the Super PAC publicly disclosed their advice on the INTERNET to DeSantis and others. DeSantis Repeats Super PACs Leaked Talking Point About Chris Christie: Im Not Running To Be a Contributor on Cable News' via @mediaite"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693811618512003188) 2023-08-22T02:25Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: Has a precedent been set for Nationwide Concealed Carry A Massachusetts state court judge dismissed criminal charges brought by the State against a lawabiding New Hampshire resident for allegedly failing to having a license to carry before bringing a firearm into Massachusetts. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video addresses this decision here #guns #bruenresistance"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693818448852193687) 2023-08-22T02:52Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Bruenresistance The Supreme Court indicated that for now they are assuming that "shall issue" carry permitting regimes are constitutional but they did NOT decide that issue because it was unnecessary. In other words their discussion of that issue was DICTA. This Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video here explains what I think was really occurring at SCOTUS"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693823739215950328) 2023-08-22T03:13Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A SUPREME COURT NEWS TONIGHT: It appears approximately [--] legal briefs (probably about [----] single-spaced pages) have been submitted in favor of the GOVERNMENT in the US v. Rahimi 2nd Amendment case. But do not fear. the Four Boxes Diner is here-- to dissect them all. #guns"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693824870734299603) 2023-08-22T03:18Z 13.7K followers, 10.6K engagements
"#2A Supreme Court: The pro-2A briefs will be submitted in a month. I suspect every point made in these briefs will be addressed then"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693832241590177810) 2023-08-22T03:47Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A With all those protestors and advocates showing up in Nashville how come none of them has received/ released a copy of the Nashville School Shooter's manifesto. Without this critical information how can anyone possibly discuss potential solutions. Does someone NOT trust "We the People" with the truth @GunWashington @ArmedAttorneys Special session for public safety begins for Tennessee lawmakers activists in Nashville via @ABC24Memphis"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693834337731407931) 2023-08-22T03:55Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns #TREES SACRIFICED FOR NO PURPOSE: I skimmed this brief. Katten is a good law firm and Jon Lowy is a perfectly nice person. However if the goal of this brief is to persuade SCOTUS in some way then I suspect many trees made the ultimate sacrifice for literally nothing. @2Aupdates @FPCAction NOTE: to make matters worse the brief's reliance on Corpus Linguistics seems to smack of desperation given my massive take down of that doctrine as applied to #2A case in my scholarly article here: Mark W. Smith et al. BIG DATA COMES FOR TEXTUALISM: THE USE AND ABUSE OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS IN SECOND"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693837567425155395) 2023-08-22T04:08Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LEGAL PRECEDENT LESSON: Never forget that it was a single woman (Jamie Caetano) who was convicted of possessing a stun gun in a small Massachusetts state trial court--- that gave rise to the SCOTUS decision of CAETANO v. MASS which reaffirmed that modern arms that did not exist at the Founding were protected under #2A AND that non-firearms (stun guns) can be protected arms (not just firearms)"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1693992825757818995) 2023-08-22T14:25Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING SUPREME COURT NEWS: A MASSIVE ATTACK LAUNCHED ON 2A RIGHTS IN SUPREME COURT: Dozens of Anti-gunner Briefs Attack the 2nd Amendment. Approximately [--] legal briefs were submitted (mostly) against the 2nd Amendment's right to bear arms before the United States Supreme Court in the US v. Rahimi case. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video discusses the initial arguments many of these briefs have in common"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1694048552945614851) 2023-08-22T18:07Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Give it time. I suspect SCOTUS will clean up the Rahimi case and then they will look to clean up Young Adult (18-20 year old) gun ban cases and then so-called assault weapon bans and probably "sensitive places." My guess is that SCOTUS in their Rahimi decision will "clean up" some lower court screws up about how to apply the Heller/Bruen methodology"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1694050165529759867) 2023-08-22T18:13Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #dicks I generally do not do schadenfreude but because of Dick's political activism against the right to keep and bear arms. I am smiling today It is ironic that CRIMINALS are the cause of Dick's financials going into the sewer. After all Dick's donations suggest that they want to deny Americans their constitutional right to defend themselves against violent criminals. Today Is The Worst Day Ever For Dick's And Their CEO Has Blamed It On Shoplifting"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1694232490158731467) 2023-08-23T06:17Z 13.8K followers, 10.6K engagements
"#2A #bruenresistance A handgun roster law is a GUN BAN which means you simply apply Heller's "in common use" and knock it down. The definition of a "handgun roster" means that there are some guns allowed onto the roster and other modern firearms are BANNED. This triggers Heller and because the BANNED firearms are "in common use" the handgun roster law must be declared to be unconstitutional"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1694398911627096481) 2023-08-23T17:19Z 13.8K followers, 11.8K engagements
"#2A BREAKING SUPREME COURT NEWS: Major Amicus Briefs Submitted in Favor of More Gun Control cite to historical analogue laws that have racist and other offensive underpinnings. Mark Smith discusses these sorts of arguments in this Four Boxes Diner video"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1694475464868298972) 2023-08-23T22:23Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Guns #Bruenrestistance: Having reviewed the [--] legal briefs submitted in the US Supreme Court case of US v. Rahimi---briefs that supported or were sympathetic to the Biden Administration's position on the 2nd Amendment Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner has some important observations to make about these submissions and what they mean for your right to bear arms"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1694829860659622335) 2023-08-24T21:51Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#Trump #NoGoZones. @realDonaldTrump has taught us many things including the importance of conservatives staying out of these terrible jurisdictions controlled by the Left. Do NOT go to Washington DC; do NOT go to New York; do NOT go to Atlanta. Stay away from the jurisdictions that these people control. You would NOT travel to North Korea or Moscow today; these deep blue jurisdictions should be treated by American conservatives the same way we treat North Korea and Moscow. NO GO ZONES"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1694940289729737065) 2023-08-25T05:10Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#1A Perhaps now would be a good time to mention the Supreme Court's decision in TINKER v. Des Moines re the first amendment rights of high school students (in Tinker to protest the Vietnam War) Student Refuses Schools Order to Remove American Flags from Truck Switches to Homeschooling via @BreitbartNews"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1694959021671792826) 2023-08-25T06:24Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A I wrote an entire book explain in extreme detail how the anti-gunners intend to take away out gun rights (doesn't mean they will succeed). And as an attorney I am trained to look at all angles including angles that are undesirable (all in an attempt to stop bad things from happening). See Mark Smith First They Came for the Gun Owners"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1694961483614953953) 2023-08-25T06:34Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #GUNS "CHILDREN AND GUNS" OR NOT The "children" dying of gun-related homicides are likely GANG MEMBERS. Note that the US National Gang Center/DOJ study states "The most common age that youth join a gang is around [--] but the early adolescent years (1214 years of age) are a crucial time when youth are exposed to gangs and may consider joining a gang.""
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1695279107716555173) 2023-08-26T03:36Z 13.8K followers, 16.6K engagements
"#2A #guns MISSION CRITICAL VIDEO FOR 2ND AMENDMENT MOVEMENT TO WATCH AND UNDERSTAND EXPOSED: The Anti-Gunners Insidious Plan to Ban Guns in America. In the U.S. Supreme Court we can see from some of the legal briefs that certain elites want to disarm Americans. This Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video explains in detail the legal strategy and the HISTORICAL PRECEDENT that the Left will deploy to try to accomplish their disarmament goals. @RenoMayGuns @TheAKGuy @MrColionNoir @DLoesch @TheReloadSite"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1695518042556424466) 2023-08-26T19:26Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#INFLATION #Bidenomics To be fair @stclairashley the problem is NOT that McDonald's food prices are going up it is that the value (purchasing power) of the dollars in our pockets is GOING DOWN thanks to Joe Biden-generated INFLATION. Not to be so dramatic over McDonalds but they have taken it too far. A McChicken or a cheeseburger at McDonalds used to be a $1 McDonalds along with every other major corporation has been price gouging EVERYTHING Americans consume They tell you its because everything https://t.co/owcUoZpqIb Not to be so dramatic over McDonalds but they have taken it too far. A"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1695626894887043284) 2023-08-27T02:38Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Well it sounds like we should allow people to bring their own firearms as a means of self-defense to these venues yes Obviously the police cannot/will not adequately protect attendees. As the Italian Enlightenment criminologist Cesare Beccaria taught our Founding Fathers criminals who refuse to respect and follow our most sacred laws against murder robbery etc. will NEVER follow any trivial laws banning possessing/carrying firearms"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1695643787450593661) 2023-08-27T03:45Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A ALWAYS vote on #2A 2nd Amendment rights and the right to bear arms ahead of all other issues (assuming a conflict between your views) because without an armed citizenry ALL AMERICANS of all political stripes become serfs/subject and cease to be CITIZENS"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1696353334033023249) 2023-08-29T02:45Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns Government CANNOT buy back what it did NOT sell in the first place. If I sold you a gun I could buy it back. But since government did NOT sell me any guns it cannot BUY BACK any guns from me. HOW HARD IS THIS Democrat Eric Swalwell Calls for Buyback of All AR-15s via @BreitbartNews"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1696365183235399956) 2023-08-29T03:32Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #schools Perhaps the Four Boxes Diner should do a video about wearing pro-2A (aka pro-Bill of Rights) messages to school Either way all parents who choose to send their kids to public school (rather than home school them) should be familiar with: "Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Systems(1969) which was a Supreme Court case famous as a foundational case on protecting first amendment rights of students at publicly funded schools. The case arose when school administrators expelled five students for wearing black armbands to school that at the time symbolized opposition to"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1696559569399435677) 2023-08-29T16:24Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A this number is likely low given the language about "produced for the American market in 2021." That language speaks to commercial sales and presumably does not include Did-It-Yourself firearms which have become very popular"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1696562379511812302) 2023-08-29T16:36Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#TRUMP So the government has been preparing its anti-Trump criminal prosecution for TWO YEARS i.e. starting on January [--] [----] and charged Trump in [----]. In other words the DOJ has spent TWO-PLUS YEARS preparing its case against Trump and NOW they are giving Trump's lawyers approximately [--] months to prepare a defense Sure that's sound fair---NOT. Report: Judge Chutkan Compares January [--] to 9/11 Attacks Boston Marathon Bombing via @BreitbartNews"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1696575474783187395) 2023-08-29T17:28Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"FYI The RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL is an individual Right belonging to the criminal defendant and NOT a right of the government. As we discuss repeatedly on Four Boxes Diner 2nd Amendment YouTube channel. individuals have RIGHTS while Governments have Powers and Authority"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1696577019134275960) 2023-08-29T17:34Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#TRUMP If President Trump's legal argument about the role of Vice President Pence in counting electoral votes was so "weak" and frivolous then please explain why Congress subsequently decided to amend the relevant statute (the Electoral Count Act) to clarify i.e. limit the VP's role in that process If the law was so clear that Trump's arguments were frivolous to the point of criminality then why did Congress believe that amending that statute was needed when they passed that amendment 2022"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1696646693826007390) 2023-08-29T22:11Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#2A The 2nd Amendment is very important but it does NOT exist in a vacuum. It is one component of a series of checks and balances provided for by our constitutional system of government which ultimately protects individual freedoms against various threats such as a tyranny of the majority (mob rule) foreign invasions etc. You can debate the good/bad of President Trump and his policy choices etc. but watching government actors in "blue jurisdictions" ganging up on Trump in such an unprecedented manner should concern all who love individual freedom and liberty"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1696654784579670511) 2023-08-29T22:43Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING: Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video puts the lie to the US Department of Justice arguments that it is mission critical to uphold federal gun control law [--] USC 922(g)8 which is the subject of the US v. Rahimi #2A SCOTUS case. Despite DOJ's allegations that about a "million acts of domestic violence" it turns out that 922(g)8 is virtually NEVER USED. Check out the stunning data in this Professor Smith video. #bruenresistance"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1697001233641340972) 2023-08-30T21:39Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: "Don't Tread on Me" Flag Wins the Day in Colorado Free Speech Fight. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video discusses this First Amendment free speech controversy and discusses the relevant First Amendment precedents as well as the HISTORY associated with the 2nd Amendment and attempts by some to claim #2A was about protecting Slavery. #guns"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1697279142943703190) 2023-08-31T16:04Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LOL. Gun Control-supporting "VOLUNTEERS" What happened Did the anti-gun billionaires have a bad year in the stock market #guns"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1697639691997102372) 2023-09-01T15:56Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LATE 19TH CENTURY GUN CONTROL LAWS DON'T MATTER: Post-Civil War 19th century gun control laws cannot serve to cut back on the [----] understanding of the 2nd Amendment. The Supreme Court has repeatedly said this (as did Kavanaugh dissenting in Heller [--] in DC Court of Appeals)-- that post-Civil War 19th century laws can only serve as a CONFIRMATORY TRADITION but they cannot contradict the text or [----] history of #2A. Here is an excellent scholarly article in @HarvardJLPP by a handsome #2A YouTuber laying this Supreme Court jurisprudence out in an easy-to-understand manner"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1697643040171593994) 2023-09-01T16:10Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A IMPORTANT HISTORY POINT ABOUT 19TH CENTURY: @MorosKostas @2Aupdates As further proof that the Supreme Court has NO interest in using post-Civil War history to cut back on the Bill of Rights let's look at SCOTUS in [----] in the Espinoza v. Montana case. Espinoza rejected as IRRELEVANT [--] state laws (that's [--] STATE LAWS) enacted in 19th century as being TOO LATE IN TIME to establish a tradition of cutting back on First Amendment's religious freedom clauses. Here is what Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the Supreme Court: "The Government argues that a tradition against state support for"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1697658249607024699) 2023-09-01T17:10Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #SupremeCourt SCOTUS in Heller said that using never-accepted draft proposals of constitutional amendments to interpret the final #2A text was a "dubious" (read: unreliable) exercise. Justice Scalia in Heller wrote "Justice Stevens relies on the drafting history of the Second Amendmentthe various proposals in the state conventions and the debates in Congress. It is DUBIOUS TO RELY on such history to interpret a text that was widely understood to codify a pre-existing right rather than to fashion a new one. But even assuming that this legislative history is relevant Justice Stevens flatly"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1697779039316980030) 2023-09-02T01:10Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements
"ANTI-#2A FOOL'S ERRAND: GUN CONTROL-SUPPORTING "VOLUNTEERS" ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EXIST. Volunteers from Moms Demand Action are looking for Founding Era gun control laws but this effort is likely a big waste-of-time. Mark Smith breaks down the story in this Four Boxes Diner video"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1697782253470781814) 2023-09-02T01:23Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#History. September [--] [----] is the start of what was then known as the German-Polish War. It grew into something much bigger over the next [--] years. Never forget: the History of the Future has yet to be written"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1697818296446251454) 2023-09-02T03:46Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A SUPREME COURT NEWS: "2nd Amendment Scholars" Seek to Erode the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Want the Supreme Court to adopt a legal standard making it easier to BAN GUNS such as the popular AR-15 rifle. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video breaks down their arguments found in their SCOTUS amicus brief in US v. Rahimi"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698057891444342963) 2023-09-02T19:38Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"FOX NEWS ALERT: Looking forward to speaking on Sunday with @MikeEmanuelFox about many topics including Hunter Biden President Trump and President Biden on @FoxNews @foxnewspolitics"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698197971299422226) 2023-09-03T04:55Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements
"SHOCKINGLY GREAT 2A NEWS: Biden Administration (with help of NRA NSSF and others) Scores a BIG WIN for 2nd Amendment. Congratulations to @NRA @NRAILA @NSSF @lkeane The Biden Administration's Forest Service defeated a lawsuit seeking to require the regulations/ban of the use of lead-based ammunition in the Kaibab National Forest near the Grand Canyon. Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks it down in this video"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698393742451884270) 2023-09-03T17:53Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A The phrase "Universal Background Check" is a Euphemism for a Gun Registration by the Government whereby the Government uses required Background Checks to track any and all guns that change hands from one person to another---even where those transfers involve only transfers between family members friends colleagues neighbors etc. Today when someone sells their friend a firearm for example such a transfer is usually referred to as a "private transfer" of a firearm which in most states does not involve a formal background check or the involvement of a Federal Firearms Licensee or FFL."
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698570720366743662) 2023-09-04T05:36Z 13.8K followers, 18.6K engagements
"#2A Class Actions in 2nd Amendment Context: Generally speaking I do NOT like the idea of using Class Actions to litigate 2nd Amendment issues. Usually a 2A plaintiff just wants a court to declare a modern-day gun control law to be unconstitutional and then enter an order enjoining the law from being enforced by the government in the future. Thus the 2A movement mostly does NOT need a class action to accomplish its goal of knocking out unconstitutional gun control laws. Furthermore class actions require a whole stand-alone litigation to resolve a whole host of questions unrelated to the 2nd"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698574637813076122) 2023-09-04T05:52Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A YOUNG ADULT CASES. #2A challenges to gun bans/gun sale bans that prevent young adults 18-20 years of age from acquiring firearms should NOT be deemed MOOT even if the plaintiffs turn [--]. Conceptually it is the same exception to the mootness doctrine that is used by courts when dealing with legal challenges to abortion restrictions. Lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions become moot (obviously) after [--] months but the law still allows such constitutional lawsuits to continue forward"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698721870613279090) 2023-09-04T15:37Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #bumpstocks @michaeldcargill The Supreme Court will hold their "long conference" in September where they will decide the bulk of the cases they will hear during their 2023-2024 term. We will know more about how SCOTUS intends to handle their Administrative Law/Bumpstock/APA-type cases after that conference"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698722527755870594) 2023-09-04T15:39Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #schoolshootings Do not forget that some anti-gunners define "school shootings" include shootings arising from criminal activities by gangs/drug dealers in close proximity to schools and which often occur late at night i.e. long after the school is closed for the day. This helps the anti-gunners puff up the numbers of "school shootings" to then feed to the mostly gun-illiterate Blue-city-based media. THINK: a gang-banger shoots another gang-banger at 1am in a drug deal that goes bad on the same block as a NYC public school (some would call that a "school shooting). LIKEWISE a late-night"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698724075869184280) 2023-09-04T15:45Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #FEDERALCOURTS The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (Maryland/VA) is 100% terrible on 2nd Amendment issues. Although it is possible to get a decent three-judge panel in the 4th Circuit in a 2A case the overall 4th Circuit is awful on 2A issues and highly-partisan. NOTE: you can get some okay district court judges within the 4th Circuit but the Court of Appeals itself is no good on #2A In my view the only federal appeals court that is worse on #2A issues than the 4th Circuit is the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit out of Boston--I do NOT think there is any combination of"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698735012298768528) 2023-09-04T16:29Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A MOOTNESS DOCTRINE: This is a good point but as I noted in another post today the Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit is absolutely terrible on #2A issues. So my speculation is that there was an internal "understanding" within the 4th Circuit that give rise to: the 4th Circuit three-judge panel's favorable 2A ruling would vacated as MOOT which would thereby eliminate the inevitability of the 4th Circuit in its entirety taking the case en banc and reversing"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698737392625078570) 2023-09-04T16:38Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Anti-gunner Strategies: Yes you have to be very very careful with the anti-gunner statistics AND DEFINITIONS. Remember when they included the Boston Marathon bomber (who was killed by the police after the bombing) in a list of GUN VIOLENCE VICTIMS a few years ago SIDE NOTE DIGRESSION about Boston Marathon Bombing: Remember how an ordinary dude found the second Boston Marathon bomber in his boat in his backyard That's right. despite a massive government/police dragnet and effort an ordinary dude finds the bad guy NEVER FORGET--"YOU ARE YOUR OWN FIRST RESPONDER.""
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698743697507062019) 2023-09-04T17:03Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A The key is to look carefully at the data and definitions when statistics are cited. The definitions of "mass shootings" "shooters" "school shootings" "children" "victims of gun violence" etc. can all vary from study to study. But to illustrate the importance of clear and precise terms (see the use of "during school hours") in discussing statistical comparisons etc. check out the below scholarly piece by @CrimeResearch1 and @JohnRLottJr"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698747208512717230) 2023-09-04T17:17Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #judges. In my view that's the plan of a bunch of anti-gunner courts i.e. to delay and delay 2nd Amendment cases hoping that Joe Biden can pick a replacement for Justice Alito or Justice Thomas. Recall: President Obama called SCOTUS nominee the now-AG Merrick Garland a "moderate." And President Biden's SCOTUS pick Justice Brown Jackson could not define a "woman" in her confirmation hearing. So that's the sort of justice the left wants on the bench instead of Alito/Thomas"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698749439421120705) 2023-09-04T17:26Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has denied a request to hear en banc a 2nd Amendment case involving a defendant charged with violating [--] USC 922(g)1 i.e. the ban on felons in possession of firearms law. However four judges (all appointed to bench by President Trump) issued a vigorous dissent in which they called into question the constitutionality of 922(g)1. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks it down here in this video"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698766965039391045) 2023-09-04T18:36Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#DOLLAR #INFLATION We are going to destroy the US Dollar by this spending. It will cost a $1 million for a ranch house in middle-America before too long. It will be $25 for a coffee soon. All because the government has decided to punish savers and the prudent by wiping out the value of the US Dollar"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1698905413926727901) 2023-09-05T03:46Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Second Amendment Court Dates Flagged and Why They Matter to YOUR RIGHTS. Professor Smith identifies the key upcoming Court Hearing dates that you MUST KNOW to be in the loop on the big fights over the 2nd Amendment. Professor Smith Four Boxes Diner Video is here"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699211881452310597) 2023-09-06T00:04Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A @Patriots JACK JONES CASE: Please allow me to pat myself on the back with my accurate (yet again) prediction that Massachusetts was going to run away like little skool children from trying to prosecute Patriots football star Jack Jones. No chance Mass would go toe-to-toe with the 2nd Amendment's #RKBA here. A good start to the @patriots season the Constitution and another story for Patriots media to talk about @stoolpresidente @jerrythornton1 @barstoolsports @MikeReiss @McCannSportsLaw @WEEI @scottzolak The Four Boxes Diner 2nd Amendment's channel's video laying out the powerful #2A"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699213038933397728) 2023-09-06T00:08Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A GREAT IDEA: A no brainer law. This will help harden schools and prevent bad people from doing bad things to good people. Italian Enlightenment criminologist Cesare Beccaria (whom our Founders loved) would highly approve because as Beccaria taught in [----] "gun control"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699241936895324209) 2023-09-06T02:03Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LICENSING: Unless and until someone in Massachusetts is arrested without a license and then that defendant asserts the "Jack Jones precedent" against the state"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699255523336388793) 2023-09-06T02:57Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in #2A USA v. Rahimi case on November [--] [----]. @2Aupdates @CamEdwards @HT_GunWriter See Supreme Court Monthly Argument Calendar November 2023"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699434064661328181) 2023-09-06T14:47Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW YORK CARRY LAW. I do not know when the 2nd Circuit will issue these carry decisions. What's irritating (and this is super-inside baseball) is that the judges likely "turned over" their law clerks in the last month and thus the judges are now likely working with a new set of law clerks. The judges should have issued their NY Carry opinions while their then-current law clerks (who prepared the bench memos and attended oral arguments) were still employed by those judges. My comment assumes that these clerkships were one-year long which they almost always are"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699443855467102459) 2023-09-06T15:26Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #AR15 I think the only real path to a SCOTUS "semi-auto/mag ban" case in the 2023-2024 term would be a decision in the next month or two by the Seventh Circuit (Frank Easterbrook and company) and then a cert request from that. It is not a perfect vehicle because the Seventh Circuit decision will be based on an Interlocutory Appeal (an appeal during the middle of a case as opposed to an appeal from a Final Judgment). SCOTUS generally does not like to handle interlocutory appeals but this could be an exception since a semi-auto ban seems so out of line with the Heller precedent. NOTE: The"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699445938329182592) 2023-09-06T15:34Z 12.9K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A This is correct. The only issue will be would SCOTUS be willing to do this on an Interlocutory Appeal after the 7th Circuit rules OR will they insist on waiting for a Final Judgment. Note: SCOTUS issued Caetano decision only after Ms. Caetano exhausted all of her lower court appeals"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699478264148857255) 2023-09-06T17:42Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostgun Argument. Should I live-tweet the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals argument tomorrow (Thursday) morning It is technically not a 2nd Amendment issue but an ATF regulatory overreach issue. #guns"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699500609412407449) 2023-09-06T19:11Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BIDEN "GHOST GUN"--FRAME/RECEIVER RULE ORAL ARGUMENT TOMORROW (Thursday) at [--] Eastern time. US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit will hear this case. Professor Mark Smith @fourboxesdiner will be live-tweeting the oral argument. This argument could get very technical and super-geeky very fast depending on where the three-judge panel goes with their questions"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699588267509780560) 2023-09-07T00:59Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A GHOST GUN FRAME/RECEIVER UPDATE: A GREAT THREE-JUDGE PANEL for 2nd Amendment for tomorrow's [--] am (eastern) oral argument. Panel is JUDGES DON R. WILLETT KURT D. ENGELHARDT AND ANDREW S. OLDHAM. Very powerful pro-constitution panel. Watch for Judge Oldham to make some waves; Judge Oldham will be a short-lister for the Supreme Court if a Republican POTUS wins in 2024"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699591732608803057) 2023-09-07T01:13Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Constitution. Yes. Judge Oldham would be an excellent SCOTUS Justice for those who support the idea of originalism i.e. the idea that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted as it is written and as it was understood by our Founding Fathers"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699617170001363402) 2023-09-07T02:54Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns AFT: I will be live-tweeting the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals oral argument in the case challenging ATF/Biden "ghost gun" regulations starting at 10am Eastern time here. @fourboxesdiner"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699782498761462190) 2023-09-07T13:51Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"VanDerStock #2A ATF is already under attack. Court pushing on why ATF is using [--] year old precedent about a case involving [--] hours to convert a gun into a machine gun. ATF on its heels"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699785906457325923) 2023-09-07T14:05Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok: Court asks about 8-factor balancing test. Court notes that AR-15s can convert into machine guns but simply changing the sear. "If AR-15 semiautomatic rifle readily convertable to a machine gun" POWERFUL QUESTION FROM COURT. Almost right from @fourboxesdiner point about where ATF is going with banning AR-15s. ATF trying to avoid answer this question. Court does not appear impressed"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699786607694651853) 2023-09-07T14:08Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok: ATF trying to avoid answering specific questions about specific scenarios claiming that "this is just a facial challenge" case. Court pushes against ATF by stating "you cannot tell me" about various questions being posed about frames and the like. Big discussion about what "readily convertable" means. Court seems skeptical about ATF's arguments and their 8-factor text found within the regulation"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699787062852067450) 2023-09-07T14:09Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Court asking tough questions to ATF counsel. Court seems perplexed by ATF's arguments about the request to import "readily convertable" language into the "frame and receiver" section of the federal statute defining "firearm." Court asks. Subsection A talks about weapons "readily convertable." But there is NO such "readily convertable" language in Subsection B that mentions "frames and receivers." Court asks ATF "are we to import the words "reaadily convertable" into subsection B even though those words are not present in subsection B" Courts ask that isn't this Congress's job to add this"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699788847364882652) 2023-09-07T14:16Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok #ghostguns: 2A attorney hammering ATF arguments. Points out that if a "weapons parts kit" includes an actual "frame or receiver" then it is not an issue because the inclusion of an actual "framer or receiver" means that it is already a FIREARM under the federal statute. But #2A attorney argues DOJ is trying to regulate "parts" over which Congress did not authorize or cover with their statute"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699790593344540840) 2023-09-07T14:23Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Court asks whether vacatur can be applied ONLY to the named plaintiffs in this case as opposed to make the rule null and void NATIONWIDE. 2A attorney drawing distinctions between an Injunction vs. Vacatur. Arguing in favor of vacatur which would be better for gun owners because the remedy of knocking down the ghost gun regulation would be nationwide and apply to all Americans. 2A movement should be cheering for vacatur"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699791249581232556) 2023-09-07T14:26Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok. Ghost Guns: 2A attorney essentially arguing that ATF Ghost Gun rule is so vague that Americans cannot understand how to comply with the regulation. Court seems to agree that ATF arguments are confusing based on questions"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699792185636610151) 2023-09-07T14:30Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns DOJ attorney is back at the podium. #2A attorney done. DOJ argues ATF has the legal authority to regulate "partially complete frames and receivers". ATF argues that this is the question presented to the court and that a "partially complete frames and receiver" can be regulated by ATF. ATF claims that ATF has authority to regulate objects that can be "readily convertable" into a frame or receiver. However Court and 2A attorney had already flagged the idea of the statue of David is not the statue of David just because an artist has a big block of rock/granite in front of him"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699793472134533551) 2023-09-07T14:35Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok #ghostguns: Oral argument is over. I do not see a way that ATF can win this case in the Fifth Circuit on the merits. I think that ATF might be able to narrow the scope of the remedy via the debate about whether vacatur vs. an injunction is the most appropriate remedy but that's ATF's best hope for somewhat of a victory"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699794020048978082) 2023-09-07T14:37Z 11.3K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #VanDerstok #ghostguns. @fourboxesdiner summary of argument this morning: It seems that the DOJ/ATF is going to lose on their ghost gun regulation which is their attempt to regulate "weapons parts kids" and "partially complete frames and receivers." The Court was clearly (but politely) hostile to the ATF attorney about the DOJ's legal arguments. DOJ/ATF attorney tried hard to save the day for the government but it seemed clear that this wasn't working"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699795651553566898) 2023-09-07T14:43Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns #VanDerStok Summary: As I see it there are three key questions to this case. I think the Fifth Circuit seems to be favoring the pro-2A view on each which would make sense since the Fifth Circuit already agreed with the district court's decision to vacate the ATF ghost gun rule a few months ago. First (on the merits) whether ATF had statutory/legal authority to regulate "partially completed" frames or receivers Second (on the merits) whether ATF had the statutory/legal authority to regulate "weapons parts kids" that do NOT include a frame or receiver. Third (as to the potential"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1699797309494800435) 2023-09-07T14:50Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns #vanderstok. Although not mentioned by name I think a concern raised previously on the @fourboxesdiner was made front and center during today's argument. Specifically I have said to my viewers on my #2A YouTube channel that the anti-gunners are moving toward arguing that "because a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle" can be "readily converted" to a machine gun all AR-15s should be registered as NFA items. Today the court raised this exact concern about how loose ATF/DOJ was with their "readily convertable" language and how it could be applied to my very scenario about AR-15 semi-auto"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699801664830804057) 2023-09-07T15:07Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns #VanDerStok. Oral Argument summary continued: The ATF's attempt to include "weapons part kits" in the federal statute allowing ATF to regulate them looks like a loser too. Fifth Circuit asked several questions about "why does including a jig" somehow have legal relevance "How does including a jig change the nature of a piece of metal" and where does Congress give ATF authority over something by virtue of the inclusion of a jig Court seemed to be driving at the arbitrary and vague definitions in these Biden ghost gun regulations and seemed to be suggesting that ordinary"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699802860983070794) 2023-09-07T15:12Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns #VanDerStok: Fifth Circuit Oral Argument Summary as to possible remedy against ATF. The remedy question can be a bit tricky and I will explain this in detail on Four Boxes Diner channel later. Basically there are two possible remedies against ATF if the Fifth Circuit rules against ATF here (I think ATF is going to be destroyed in the court opinion once released but we will see). Remedy 1: Under the federal Administrative Procedure Act if a court finds that a regulation by an administrative agency (ATF EPA FDA etc.) is unlawful then the court set aside the rule with what is"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699809931803668704) 2023-09-07T15:40Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: WILL A NEW ATF RULE REQUIRE THE ANNUAL REPORTING OF SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION #GUNS Some 2A supporters are worried about a new ATF regulation that would supposedly require the regulation and registration of ammo black powder and the like. This Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video explains that in his view this rule is NOT a reason to panic because of the statutory exceptions found in federal statute [--] U.S.C. 845"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699833836496990631) 2023-09-07T17:15Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: MARK SMITH FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO about today's Terrible Day for the ATF in the Federal Appeals court concerning the Biden Ghost Gun Rules. The US Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit heard arguments today in the Vanderstok lawsuit to the Biden Ghost Gun regulations. Mark Smith"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1699929921777176798) 2023-09-07T23:37Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A I just found video footage of @JohnCornyn and Senate Republicans enacting federal gun control in June [----] while SCOTUS was literally issuing the NYSRPA v. Bruen decision. Yes the Republicans are in Red in this video @TheReloadSite @TheAKGuy @DLoesch"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700097755773829250) 2023-09-08T10:44Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Five Years in Federal Prison for a victimless malum prohibitum crime @crumpyss AutoKey Card: Matthew Hoover and Kristopher Justin Ervin Sentenced to [--] Years in Federal Prison - via @Ammoland"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700105691120165370) 2023-09-08T11:15Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A @JohnRLottJr An targeted tax on constitutional rights is illegal under at least two modern Supreme Court precedents. SCOTUS's [----] decision in Minneapolis Star held that a tax on ink violated First Amendment freedom of press. In Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966) SCOTUS held $1.50 poll tax was unconstitutional"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700113218532790423) 2023-09-08T11:45Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #LibertySafe @libertysafeinc Your "subpoena" policy as articulated in this notice is inadequate in my view. It is not enough that your company requires a subpoena to respond to law enforcement concerning a request about a customer. That is NECESSARY but it should NOT be sufficient. In my view your policy should be that once you receive a subpoena about a customer you will notify that customer that you have received a subpoena concerning them/their account/their safe and that you intend to comply with that subpoena in [--] business days (excluding weekends) UNLESS a court orders you to do"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700118148907716813) 2023-09-08T12:05Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Another example of Armed Self Defense shown here. Where are the cops Nowhere to be found. So Never Forget: YOU ARE YOUR OWN FIRST RESPONDER ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE Dont you just love it when they run like cowards This story would have had another sad ending if he wast loaded. #SouthAfricanCrime https://t.co/jcAMgz0IEc Dont you just love it when they run like cowards This story would have had another sad ending if he wast loaded. #SouthAfricanCrime https://t.co/jcAMgz0IEc"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700131343420608545) 2023-09-08T12:57Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #AR15s So why do these federal law enforcement agents need all those AR rifles (are those M4s) with [--] round magazines in a shopping plaza in America What's the point of these "weapons of war" If law enforcement needs those Personal Protection Devices on America's streets then so do I. since I walk down the same streets that these FBI agents do"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1700136150835302442) 2023-09-08T13:17Z [--] followers, 17.1K engagements
"#2A #guns The question whether 18-20 year old young adults are part of the people is a question of LAW and not a question of FACT. Regardless the Supreme Court in Heller already said that ALL AMERICANS fall within the textual meaning of "the People" as found in 2A so that obviously includes 18-20 year old Americans. This ain't rocket science. SCOTUS in Heller wrote: "Nowhere else in the Constitution does a right attributed to the people refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention the people the term unambiguously"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700152866395074615) 2023-09-08T14:23Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LIBERTY SAFE CONTROVERSY: Liberty Safe's response to a request from law enforcement has generated much controversy. In this Four Boxes Diner video attorney Mark Smith discusses an apparent change to Liberty Safe's law enforcement requests/subpoena policy"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700247248108491162) 2023-09-08T20:38Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"EXTREME #2A DANGER: ATF Legal Strategy Suggests that DOJ is Moving Towards Requiring the Registration of AR-15s as NFA Items. DOJ's reliance upon NFA and GCA authorities to justify Biden's Ghost Gun Regulations in the VanDerStok case is unlikely a mere coincidence. Instead the blending of these authorities suggests a looming danger to AR-15s and all semi-automatic firearms. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video explains here"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700313598789050813) 2023-09-09T01:02Z 11.3K followers, 12.4K engagements
"#2A #Bruenresistance NM Anti-Carry Order is Blatantly unconstitutional. Governor probably doesn't care because this is basically a publicity stunt and thanks to the 11th Amendment a state actor (like the NM Governor) cannot be personally sued for money damages in federal court for #2A violations. So she gets to issue this unconstitutional order have liberal media outlets talk about her and ultimately will pay no price for it----even if she loses in court. A few obvious points: First SCOTUS in Bruen made clear that the 2nd Amendment (like the rest of the Constitution) applies to cities as much"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700325357620986131) 2023-09-09T01:48Z 11.8K followers, 18.2K engagements
"#2A For the purposes of gun bans on 18-20 year olds and on non-violent felons etc. I usually use the shorthand of "American Citizens" because there is NO doubt that all American Citizens are part of the "People" covered by #2A as a textual matter. But yes I do think the language SCOTUS used in Heller to define "the People" could very well include some non-Americans such as Green Card Holders"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700326825157685559) 2023-09-09T01:54Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: New Mexicos Governor Enters INSANE Executive Order SUSPENDING 2nd Amendment. In a blatantly unconstitutional act New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an emergency executive order declaring gun violence to be a public health emergency and then ordered the suspension of any and all carrying of firearms in Albuquerque by non-law enforcement. The governor signed this order despite the 2nd Amendment "right to bear arms" and the Supreme Court's clear precedent NYSPRA v. Bruen. Professor Mark Smith in this Four Boxes Diner video outlines the most obvious reasons why"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700515990012932099) 2023-09-09T14:26Z 13.7K followers, 13.3K engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO: MISSION CRITICAL: PLEASE READ IF YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH 2A FIGHT IN NEW MEXICO RE GOVERNOR EXECUTIVE ORDER: Check out this New Mexico court decision stating that under the NM constitution you cannot deny people the right to carry firearms in public. "Such gun control ordinances do not deprive citizens of the right to bear arms; their effect is only to regulate the right. As applied to arms other than those concealed the ordinance under consideration purports to completely prohibit the right to bear arms. It is our opinion that an ordinance MAY NOT DENY THE PEOPLE the"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700545832741736692) 2023-09-09T16:24Z 13.8K followers, 20.2K engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR ISSUE: If I were a police officer I would NOT consider enforcing the Governor's unconstitutional executive order banning the carrying of guns. POLICE OFFICERS have to contend with PERSONAL LIABILITY under the Supreme Court's BIVENS precedent. If you KNOW you are violating a clear constitutional right a cop can be PERSONALLY held liable under the Bivens doctrine"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700666606995534160) 2023-09-10T00:24Z 11.3K followers, 21.8K engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO. The NM Governor needs somethink other than an alleged "extraordinary justification." She needs to show at the time of our Founding in [----] there was a historical analogue law (more than one fyi) that would allow a governor to suspend the right to bear arms. The BURDEN is on the Governor to justify her order and she must use HISTORICAL ANALOGUE LAWS to show that this sort of order is part of our nation's history of gun regulations. She won't be able to do this"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700667218592240084) 2023-09-10T00:27Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO AND MOOTNESS ARGUMENT. I don't think the Governor will be able to dodge claims by claiming "mootness" i.e. the order will expire before judicial review. HERE IS THE BASIC EXCEPTION TO THE MOOTNESS DOCTRINE which applies if a case presents issues or disputes that are "capable of repetition yet evading review." This exception to the mootness doctrine applies in which the challenged action is in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to cessation or expiration. THINK: a challenge to abortion law which will always be moot by a pregnant woman in [--] months or less. Here in"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700668954656547182) 2023-09-10T00:34Z 13.8K followers, 11.5K engagements
"#2A EMERGENCY LAWSUIT FILED JUST NOW (TONIGHT). Major #2A Gun Rights Group Sues New Mexico Governor. Tonight in federal court in New Mexico the National Association for Gun Rights @NatlGunRights has sued New Mexicos Governor Grisham over her Executive Order banning the carrying of firearms in major parts of that state. Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner is covering the matter and this 4BD video discusses this new lawsuit and some related legal issues surrounding this important 2nd Amendment case"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700721742254067836) 2023-09-10T04:03Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO: What more do you need A ban on carrying guns clearly implicates the TEXT of the 2nd Amendment because it bans the "right to bear arms" which SCOTUS interprets as the right to carry guns in public for all lawful purposes such as self defense. This shifts the legal burden to the NM Governor to demonstrate a longstanding historical tradition in the USA going back to the Founding era where a governor/ state official has been able to wave a magic wand and thereby ban Americans from carrying guns in public. I am unaware of any such historical analogue that could save the Governor in"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700726828111917430) 2023-09-10T04:24Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO: I would NOT recommend that anyone try to be arrested or that anyone get arrested. There is NO need for this sort of conduct in order to establish standing to sue to challenge the NM Governor's order. In #2A cases Plaintiffs can bring what is known as a pre-enforcement lawsuit that here would challenge the constitutionality of the NM governor's order. There should be NO NEED for anyone in NM to place themselves in legal jeopardy in order to challenge the executive order. I am sure there are NM attorneys already suing and/or preparing to challenge this executive order. If anyone"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1700736088141090937) 2023-09-10T05:00Z 12.4K followers, 59.3K engagements
"#2A BREAKING JUST NOW: [--] Lawsuits Filed Again New Mexico's Anti-2A Law. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video provides a quick summary here"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1701333995445789071) 2023-09-11T20:36Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO UPDATE: Although it is too soon to know I would agree that (on balance) a federal district court judge postponing a TRO hearing does NOT look good for 2A Plaintiffs. Why would he postpone the hearing if were going to rule in favor of the Constitution against a rogue government actor But again we will need to let this play out a few days to see what happens. NOTE: New Mexico is politically a DEEP BLUE STATE so my working assumption is that the federal district court judges there have been handpicked by leftist politicians to ensure left-wing judicial results. Still it will be"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1701438414514511928) 2023-09-12T03:31Z [--] followers, 23.1K engagements
"#2A LESSON: Leftists 100% want to disarm American citizens and convert us into serfs/subjects. When Beto O'Rourke says he wants to take our AR-15s and the entire left-wing crowd cheers believe them And yes when a Democratic Governor decides to suspend the 2nd Amendment that is exactly what they want to do i.e. cancel the #2A. See below and here is the Four Boxes Diner video entitled "BELIEVE THEM". AZ House Democrats Praise NM Governors Concealed Carry Ban via @BreitbartNews"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1701442669891768323) 2023-09-12T03:48Z 20.1K followers, 16.7K engagements
"#2A A GREAT START IN NEW MEXICO. BUT MORE TO COME #2A has them on the run. Let's see if the Governor will hire outside lawyers or perhaps will try to get an anti-gunner organization and/or fancy lawyers from New York City to show up and defend pro bono her executive order. Or maybe the Governor will just surrender and apologize"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1701697284541432308) 2023-09-12T20:40Z 12K followers, 25.3K engagements
"#2A SHOCKING GREAT 2A NEWS: NEW MEXICO'S ATTORNEY GENERAL REFUSES TO ENFORCE ILLEGAL GUN BAN. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video explains"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1701742006492377451) 2023-09-12T23:38Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO: Federal Judge has just entered a TRO against the gun-related sections of Governor's Executive Order. Finds Bruen's holding of right to carry guns outside home for self defense is binding on court and applies here. FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO FORTHCOMING. @TheReloadSite @2Aupdates @gunpolicy @2AFDN"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1702062393465983250) 2023-09-13T20:51Z 13.8K followers, 17.4K engagements
"BREAKING #2A #guns NEWS: A US District Court (Biden-appointed) judge entered a temporary restraining order enjoining the enforcement of NM Governor Grisham's CCW gun carrying ban. Preliminary Injunction hearing scheduled for October [--] [----]. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video breaks down this huge 2A Victory"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1702082646237409574) 2023-09-13T22:11Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Yes. A review of the NM Governor's Executive Order concerning the public carrying of firearms shows that it is obviously illegal. In Heller SCOTUS noted that the requirement of trigger locks makes the firearm inoperable for its intended lawful purpose of being available for use if the need for armed self defense were to arise. SCOTUS wrote "We must also address the DC's requirement (as applied to respondents handgun) that firearms in the home be rendered and kept inoperable at all times. This makes it impossible for citizens to use them for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1702135973008527442) 2023-09-14T01:43Z 11.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A MAJOR BREAKING NEWS IN VANDERSTOK "GHOST GUN" FRAME/RECEIVER LITIGATION. Just now US District Court Judge Reed O'Connor in Northern District of Texas has granted a motion for an INJUNCTION pending appeal filed by some of the intervenors in the VanDerStok case. Intervenor-Plaintiffs Defense Distributed and BlackHawk Manufacturing Group Inc. d/b/a [--] Percent Arms has secured an emergency injunction against DOJ and ATF pending appeal. Professor Smith Four Boxes Diner Video forthcoming. @2Aupdates @gunpolicy @MorosKostas @TheReloadSite @CamEdwards"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1702323242244157843) 2023-09-14T14:07Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING 2A NEWS: Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks down today's BIG WIN In VanDerStok Ghost Gun case against ATF. This video gets super geeky about the differences in remedies of an an injunction versus the remedy of vacatur"
[X Link](https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1702388254526546321) 2023-09-14T18:26Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
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"The key component of the Bruen decision is historical analogy. Since laws like Maryland's handgun licensing law didn't exist during our early American history such laws going forward should not stick. It will be interesting to see how this case shapes up https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/10/fourth-circuit-amicus-brief-on-maryland-handgun-licensing-law/ https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/10/fourth-circuit-amicus-brief-on-maryland-handgun-licensing-law/"
X Link 2022-08-11T21:00Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
".@JCNSeverino makes great points. The Supreme Courts draft opinion seems to have been leaked to alter the Courts decision-making in Dobbs and perhaps beyond. The occurrence of the leak alone sets a terrible precedent for our justice system. WATCH NOW: https://youtu.be/fwvZ8Vyt_as https://youtu.be/fwvZ8Vyt_as"
X Link 2022-08-16T14:52Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
"$1.50 poll tax declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court in Harper v. Board of Elections case in [----]. Why You cannot tax constitutional rights. So how is the below different re fundamental right to bear arms Everyone who claims voter ID laws are racist but is silent on this is an irredeemable hypocrite. Livescan fee is usually another $100 and the class will be at least $150. So over $500 to exercise a constitutional right. Everyone who claims voter ID laws are racist but is silent on this is an irredeemable hypocrite. Livescan fee is usually another $100 and the class will be at least"
X Link 2022-10-04T22:48Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
"2A SUPREME COURT WIN: Terrible Anti-Gun Decision THROWN OUT. 100k views in [--] hours you don't want to miss this one: https://youtu.be/3w2tNxGWO88 https://youtu.be/3w2tNxGWO88"
X Link 2022-10-05T18:36Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
"MY LATEST ON FOX NEWS: Election lawsuits could delay Midterm results because Democrats use a strategy called Sue Until Blue"
X Link 2022-11-10T16:31Z 18.6K followers, [---] engagements
""President Joe Biden is once again carrying on the despicable Democratic Party tradition of standing on the corpses of young gunshot victims to promote gun control proposals that have nothing to do with their deaths." @ZacharyFaria doesn't hold back https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-stands-on-corpses-to-promote-gun-control-again https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-stands-on-corpses-to-promote-gun-control-again"
X Link 2022-11-18T20:20Z 18.6K followers, [--] engagements
"#2A Team Question: I have a big presentation today for students and faculty etc. at the prestigious University of Virginia (UVA) Law School about the 2nd Amendment NYSRPA v. Bruen and originalism. Any suggestions about key points to mention"
X Link 2023-03-24T13:29Z 21.9K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING SUPREME COURT #2A NEWS IN AR-15/MAGAZINE BAN CASE. Federal Court issued a major order today seeking to avoid an angry reaction from SCOTUS. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video breaks down what this means for SCOTUS and the "Assault Weapon" ban cases https://youtu.be/piLW0qT-Vkg https://youtu.be/piLW0qT-Vkg"
X Link 2023-05-12T21:20Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A and Federal Judge Diane Wood's Dissent: My thought: "I can explain it to her but I cannot understand it for her." The following language is seriously from 7th Circuit Judge Diane Wood's dissent in today's 2A case. Judge Wood wrote this about the "in common use" test in gun ban cases. "The Courts reference to historical tradition indicates that the relevant time for the common use inquiry is WHEN THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS ADOPTED not when the current lawsuit arose." Well is Judge Wood correct about this Let's go the record. To begin perhaps Judge Wood is unfamiliar with the work of an"
X Link 2023-06-21T04:22Z 28.3K followers, 19.8K engagements
"State says that M-16s are virtually identical to semi-automatic "assault rifles". State says semi-automatic rifles are "weapons are war" and can be banned. The state and federal government can ban M-16 and because semi-automatic rifles are "essentially like M-16s" they can be"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:12Z 11.1K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Court trying to get 2A attorney to admit that "some weapons" are NOT for private individuals. But this is not relevant. [----] million number keeps getting discussed. How many owned by law enforcement How many in hand criminal gangs How many in lawabiding Court wants to"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:52Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Court asking "why is a stinger missile" not protected The court is desperately trying to avoid talking about the actually semi-automatic rifles and magazines. The ONLY reason why a court wants to talk about grenades stinger missiles etc. is simple--- they seem to understand"
X Link 2023-06-29T22:03Z 11.5K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Judge Easterbrook is now talking about the "rifle that made the West" and said it would have a magazine of some number of rounds. It was the AR-15 of the day so is that protected State said some regulations were around then but that's different than a complete a ban. Judge"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:24Z 12.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS re "ASSAULT WEAPON" BANS: US Court of Appeals for 7th Circuit heard arguments today in consolidated cases about whether Illinois AR-15/magazines bans are unconstitutional under the 2nd Amendment. #2A #bruenresistance Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks it all"
X Link 2023-06-29T20:46Z 11.2K followers, [----] engagements
"FOR NEWS MEDIA ALERT: Look forward to appearing on @FoxBusiness with @BrianBrenberg @JackieDeAngelis tomorrow (Friday) 1pm Eastern time talking US Supreme Court term"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:22Z 13.8K followers, [--] engagements
"#2A NOTE: If the ONLY guy allowed to have a gun on a school campus will not be held accountable for failing (by mistake or otherwise) to protect the children victims then the teachers/school administrators should have the right to carry guns there. #guns #2A"
X Link 2023-06-30T02:14Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The #2A will lose every single case in the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the First Circuit out of Boston because that court is literally awful on the right to bear arms"
X Link 2023-07-09T00:39Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"SHOCKING: DOJ slowing down their response time to respond to records requested in Hunter Biden case too. Sound familiar Why are all these government officials refusing to turn over to the public the information upon which they (the government) are making major policy and legal"
X Link 2023-07-13T00:45Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A WARNING: DO NOT ALLOW FOR A CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY. This will allow government to control your money so if "you misbehave" in any way the government disapproves they cut you off from your money This will force you to "do as they say" and you will become a SERF or"
X Link 2023-07-11T16:36Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #SCOTUS The Left Hates Clarence Thomas because he applies the US Constitution as written. The Left is using all their resources to attack Justice Thomas and all conservatives. Luckily we have some smart people on the right who know how to read and analyze assertions. For"
X Link 2023-07-12T18:40Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: U.S. Court of Appeals for Eleventh Circuit (FL GA & Alabama) issued order vacating an anti-2A panel decision which had upheld a Florida law banning the purchase of firearms by 18-20 year olds. Full 11th Circuit will hear case EN BANC. Mark Smith Four Boxes"
X Link 2023-07-20T00:29Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING: In federal court for the District of Colorado @RMGOColorado Rocky Mountain Gun Owners organization filed major document relying on the favorable 2A ruling in the US Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit. #bruenresistance Mark Smith explains the connection in this"
X Link 2023-07-17T16:53Z 13.7K followers, 10.6K engagements
"#2A #guns Excellent title but you needed to add a little *** asterisk at the end of the title that reads "Except for the [---] million privately-owned firearms and ammo that Americans will STILL OWN""
X Link 2023-07-18T15:56Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns GREAT MUSIC VIDEO HERE OPPOSING MOB VIOLENCE. If you support 2nd Amendment and our Constitution while Opposing Mob Violence (which is another form of tyranny) this is a must watch This music video is more persuasive than all my geeky talks about the dangers of Mob"
X Link 2023-07-20T01:29Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Guns do NOT guarantee any outcome. They just give you a chance and an opportunity. If a bad guy gets the draw on you or shoots you from a distance (sniper) well nothing you can do about that"
X Link 2023-07-19T19:12Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: Illinois State Court Judge Finds that Illinois FOID (Firearms Owner ID) Law is Constitutional under the 2nd Amendment. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks down the opinion in this video"
X Link 2023-07-19T23:09Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A MILITIA: The Supreme Court in Heller said "well regulated" just means trained or effective. Nothing exotic. They wrote "the adjective well-regulated implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training. See Johnson [----] (Regulate: To adjust by"
X Link 2023-07-19T18:54Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns No. Might be a good idea but it should not be mandated by government. We do NOT mandate any testing for people to express their First Amendment opinions or exercise a religion or requiring any education etc to exercise their right to vote. Why would #2A rights be"
X Link 2023-07-19T17:41Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Home School and private school kids will learn more about the Constitution from @fourboxesdiner on YouTube than most could ever learn from a law school class (of course I don't teach deeply non-#2A aspects of the Constitution on the channel but I could) I think online"
X Link 2023-07-19T17:42Z 13.7K followers, 16.5K engagements
"#2A NEWS: This is how the anti-gunners will try to destroy public supporters of the 2nd Amendment (conservative) movement down the road if they can. They will make day-to-day economic life such as banking impossible to do. This @Nigel_Farage story should be a WARNING to us all"
X Link 2023-07-20T01:00Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: MASSIVE VICTORY FOR @gunpolicy AND 2ND AMENDMENT IN PISTOL BRACE RULE FIGHT. FEDERAL APPEALS COURT FINDS BIDEN GUN CONTROL TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND ILLEGAL. FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO COMING SOON. @2Aupdates OPINION HERE"
X Link 2023-08-01T21:11Z 13.7K followers, 18.2K engagements
"#2A BREAKING PISTOL BRACES: Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video on today's huge 2A victory where U.S. Court of Appeals for 5th Circuit finds Biden's pistol-brace rule likely unconstitutional and thus approves preliminary injunction. Congratulations to @gunpolicy @2Aupdates"
X Link 2023-08-01T22:32Z 13.7K followers, 11.5K engagements
"#2A #guns BREAKING SUPREME COURT NEWS: ATF PANICKING: DOJ Files "Whiny" Brief to Supreme Court Begging it to Overlook Federal Law. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video breaks the news from the road (See how much we love you #2A supporters) @gunpolicy @2AFDN @2Aupdates"
X Link 2023-08-03T22:40Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS re "Assault Weapon" Ban: U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton (79-year old Clinton appointee) upheld Connecticut's "assault weapon" ban by misapplying clear Supreme Court precedent. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner flags a just a few mistakes in the opinion"
X Link 2023-08-04T22:41Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns I do have AK(s). However I do not like to state publicly my firearm preferences because I don't want any #2A gun folks or gun companies etc. to feel I am picking one brand/model/company/organization over another"
X Link 2023-08-04T23:11Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Left works hard to ensure that Americans know nothing about their proud and heroic American history. Luckily #2A supporters and gun owners have outlets such as @fourboxesdiner on YouTube to learn the history their left-wing (or just plain dumb) teachers conveniently "forget" to teach them"
X Link 2023-08-05T05:00Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns: 2A and gun law is NOT confusing. The appearance of confusion is arising because of Mass Resistance by some lower courts who refuse to apply the straight-forward methodology of Heller/Bruen. Apparently taking "how to" lessons about SCOTUS resistance from the late (pro-segregationist) George Wallace a number of obviously anti-gun judges are bitter that the Supreme Court took away their power to "balance away" the private right to bear arms in the name of some generic "governmental interest" masquerading as a "public interest." SCOTUS told the lower courts to apply the law and treat"
X Link 2023-08-05T15:49Z 13.8K followers, 11.7K engagements
"#2A Dumb: Under Supreme Court precedents of: [----] Minneapolis Star case and 1960s Harper v. VA Board of Elections case a targeted tax on a constitutional right such as the right to vote and the right to free speech/free press is unconstitutional. So too would a targeted tax on ammunition or firearms. @TheDemocrats just introduced legislation on Friday to make guns for the rich only. How dies a 1000% excise tax sound to you @GunOwners @fourboxesdiner @Guns_Gadgets @gunpolicy @MrColionNoir @AWRHawkins. https://t.co/W0HWLNQhmm @TheDemocrats just introduced legislation on Friday to make guns for"
X Link 2023-08-06T01:47Z 21.1K followers, 21.5K engagements
"#2A #NFA: If any of the items within the NFA are protected "arms" under 2A then the tax as applied to those specific arms is likely illegal. For now none of the "arms" within the NFA have been declared by a court to be protected "arms" under 2A; thus the NFA tax has not been lined up properly for a legal challenge. But I suspect this will change soon"
X Link 2023-08-06T01:53Z [--] followers, 12.7K engagements
"#2a In the [----] US Supreme Court case of Harper v. Board of Election a $1.50 poll tax on voting was struck down as unconstitutional"
X Link 2023-08-06T03:23Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A and TYRANNY: To be precise the pre-existing Right to Bear Arms as codified by the 2nd Amendment is about thwarting ALL FORMS OF TYRANNY whether that tyranny be in the form of a street criminal a wild animal a mob a rogue government a foreign invader etc. Do NOT forget that philosopher John Locke (the Founders loved him) notes that when anyone/anything threatens your life then you are in a "STATE OF WAR" with that thing/person. That thing/person could be a criminal animal government mob etc"
X Link 2023-08-06T18:59Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEW FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO: Insane Anti-gunner Logic: Arsonist Kills [--] People So We Should BAN FIRE America's Founding Fathers Loved the criminologist Cesare Beccaria as they drafted the 2nd Amendment. Beccaria's views on "Fire Violence" and "Water Violence""
X Link 2023-08-06T20:14Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS--MAJOR 2A VICTORY TODAY: US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit declared that Hawaii's butterfly-knife ban violates the 2nd Amendment. Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video here"
X Link 2023-08-07T20:09Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: ANOTHER MAJOR 2A VICTORY IN FEDERAL COURT: US District Court in the District of Colorado enters preliminary injunction against Colorado's laws infringing on Young Adults right to Acquire Firearms. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks it down"
X Link 2023-08-08T14:39Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BAD NEWS: In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court granted the emergency stay request in favor of Joe Biden/Garland's DOJ on the "ghost gun" regulations ATF made up. This means the law is effective and the lower court's decisions against the regulations are stayed (paused) pending the outcome of the rest of that appeal. CJ Roberts and J. Barrett sided with the liberal justices and Thomas Alito Kavanaugh and Gorsuch would have denied DOJ's stay request. Order is here. Four Boxes Diner video coming later today"
X Link 2023-08-08T17:38Z 13.7K followers, 27.4K engagements
"TERRIBLE #2A #guns NEWS: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Biden's "Ghost Gun" Regulation to go into Effect. In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court granted a stay in favor of the Biden Department of Justice's new "ghost gun" regulations. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video breaks it down"
X Link 2023-08-08T20:06Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns #Bruenresistance I dont see this idea working for many reasons. Off the top of my head: First this idea could only work up until the moment that the courts expressly hold that it is unconstitutional to simply seize guns from people. Once that occurred the law would be clearly established and any violation thereof would be sufficient to defeat a qualified immunity defense. Second I think government actors such as the cops just taking guns would already (today) violate clearly established Fourth Amendment law involving unlawful searches and seizures. Third as a practical matter how"
X Link 2023-08-09T23:25Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A FYI: To @JohnCornyn and those Republicans who voted for Gun Control in June [----] as SCOTUS was issuing #2A victory in Bruen. This is what happens when you "reach across the aisle" to the Democrats. Sinema Manchin rebuke Biden admin's attack on school archery hunting programs: 'gross misinterpretation' #FoxNews"
X Link 2023-08-10T04:11Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns I just shot a video on this. DOJ's arguments are weak and based on what I can tell DOJ should lose this argument for multiple reasons. PRO TIP: If DOJ has concerns about notoriety involving the Matthew Hoover criminal case then perhaps they should not brag about it on the DOJ website. See"
X Link 2023-08-10T18:08Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns MATT HOOVER CASE: DOJ TRYING TO HIDE CRITICAL INFORMATION ABOUT NFA "MACHINE-GUN" CASE. U.S. Department of Justice files major motion seeking to block the public from reviewing the Pre-sentencing Report in the Matthew Hoover auto-key card case. This presents a major fight over the First Amendment the right for public to access court information and more. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner offer detailed break down. @Stambo2A @johncrump21 @AmmoLand @2Aupdates @BearingArmsCom @guntruth"
X Link 2023-08-10T21:11Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#DOJ What is going on with DOJ You tracked this guy for FIVE MONTHS. Are you telling me DOJ could not arrest this old guy at church at the store or driving down the street I don't condone breaking the law but DOJ needs to have some common sense and judgment in enforcing the law. NOTE: DOJ started tracking this guy in MARCH [----]. "The FBI became aware of threats made against Mr. Bragg .in March.On March [--] two agents surveilled a Provo residence at which they believed Mr. Robertson lived. They witnessed a white male around [--] to [--] years old exiting the home and entering a vehicle registered"
X Link 2023-08-11T04:17Z 13.8K followers, 41.1K engagements
"#2A #guns @BillLeeTN How can you have a hearing about anything involving the Nashville shooting WITHOUT FIRST providing the public a copy of the shooter's manifesto How can anyone know what you are supposed to legislate about without first looking at the manifesto Why is the government HIDING the manifesto THERE SHOULD BE NO SPECIAL SESSION UNTIL THE MANIFESTO IS RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. @GunGadget @gunpolicy @2Aupdates @ArmedAttorneys @Iraqveteran8888 @Timcast @philthatremains Tennessee governor outlines agenda for special session in wake of Nashville school shooting"
X Link 2023-08-11T14:21Z 13.8K followers, 11.4K engagements
"#2A #Guns NO SURPRISE HERE: In 4-3 decision the Illinois State Supreme Court upheld the recently-enacted "assault weapon" ban in that state concluding that it did not violate the Illinois state constitution. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video breaks down the opinions here"
X Link 2023-08-11T22:50Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns [--] U.S.C. 930: Today's Hunter Biden news triggered all sorts of work today and I have @foxnews tomorrow. So I am behind on everything. @avsterbone @MorosKostas @TheWizardofLawz @MichOpenCarry With that said I don't think there is a perfect answer to your question because I don't think this statute has been fully tested post-Bruen. But for now you may wish to check out US v. de la Cruz-Bancroft (D.N.M. Jan. [--] 2010) (By its express terms the statute demands inquiry into defendants purpose in bringing the firearm to a Federal facility. In other words the possession of the firearm must"
X Link 2023-08-12T03:09Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns #matthoover MATT HOOVER SCORES A VICTORY. As I predicted in Thursday's video about DOJ's absurd GAG Order Motion (an obvious violation of the First Amendment): the Federal Judge scolded DOJ prompting DOJ to withdraw their motion to GAG @crumpyss. @guntruth has the story. UPDATE: AUSA Laura Cofer Taylor Withdraws Her Motion to Gag a Journalist Reporting on Her AutoKeyCard Prosecution via @The Truth About Guns"
X Link 2023-08-12T14:19Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"FOX NEWS MEDIA: Great time chatting with Anchor @MollyLineFNC today about Hunter Bider DOJ and President Trump"
X Link 2023-08-12T23:40Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns LOL. Actually it goes "first find all the guns then make sure people cannot make new guns and then try to take the existing firearms without being found to have violated the 4th Amendment (unlawful searches and seizures) the 5th Amendment (right not to self incrimination) and of course the 2nd Amendment's right to bear arms.""
X Link 2023-08-12T23:44Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: Big Win for 1st and 2nd Amendments in Matthew Hoover case as per @guntruth Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video here discusses the victory for journalist @crumpyss and super-2A attorney @Stambo2A but also flags a potential sentencing risk for Matthew Hoover"
X Link 2023-08-13T00:15Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A TEACHING MOMENT: The US became a country because the British decided to impose GUN CONTROL on Americans. So "gun extremists" have been fighting for gun rights since before we were a country. Here is my special July 4th Four Boxes Diner video explaining how the American Revolution was started over gun control"
X Link 2023-08-13T01:47Z 12.9K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS IN CONGRESS: 2A Advocate Branden Herrera @TheAKGuy is running for Congress in TX apparently against Tony Gonzales (R) @RepTonyGonzales in 23rd Congressional District. I usually do NOT like Republicans running against R. incumbents. However Gonzales voted FOR the [----] Biden gun control bill "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act" giving Biden a gun control win while the 2A movement was winning a massive 2A victory in SCOTUS with NYSPRA v. Bruen. This might open door for Branden Herrera. #guns"
X Link 2023-08-13T15:51Z 13.7K followers, 25.3K engagements
"#2A LESSON: Notice the video in the middle of this story showing Chicago PD carrying AR-15s with [--] rounds magazines. I thought these were "weapons of war" with no place on American streets There Was Pandemonium At The United Center Last Night Over A False Report Of An Active Shooter"
X Link 2023-08-13T15:56Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#TRUMP Yes I recall very little push back against Trump in [----]. He only defeated the strongest field ever of Republican POTUS candidates including Jeb Bush to win nomination and then defeated the Clinton Political Machine. Christie: GOP Made a Mistake in [----] Not Going After Trump via @BreitbartNews https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/13/christie-gop-made-a-mistake-in-2016-not-going-after-trump/ https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/13/christie-gop-made-a-mistake-in-2016-not-going-after-trump/"
X Link 2023-08-13T16:14Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LESSON: New Hampshire Governor the late Meldrim Thomsom took the position that the state National Guard should have its own nuclear weapons"
X Link 2023-08-13T19:30Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A AMERICAN HISTORY POINT AND FOREIGN POLICE ON AMERICAN SOIL: The Declaration of Independence specifically objected to the English King George deploying non-Americans ("foreign mercenaries") to police and harass the American colonists. The Declaration provided "the King is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death desolation and tyranny already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.""
X Link 2023-08-13T19:33Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"ATF EXPERT: #2A #guns ATTORNEY STEPHEN HALBROOK Talks SCOTUS decision about the Biden "Ghost Gun" rules frames/receivers and "weapons parts Kits". As one of the few attorneys to defeat the ATF before the Supreme Court Halbrook offers keen insights on the Court's recent decision and more. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video is here"
X Link 2023-08-13T21:00Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Guns CRITICAL LESSON: Call "red flag" or "extreme protection" orders exactly what they really are: FIREARM REMOVAL LAWS. This means you too @BillLeeTN Do NOT allow anti-gunners to deploy their political propaganda terms such as "Extreme Protection Orders" which they love to do. Call these laws" FIREARMS REMOVAL LAWS." Also has the government released the Nashville Shooter's Manifesto If not then there is nothing to discuss about "solutions" to prevent another "Nashville Shooter" situation"
X Link 2023-08-13T21:50Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump received [--] million votes in [----] Republicans controls [--] Governor Houses and the U.S. House of Representatives and have [--] states with permitless #2A carry of concealed firearms. Yet the GOP is not "mainstream" LOL Brazile says GOP may never be ‘mainstream’ again"
X Link 2023-08-14T03:18Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"There is no deadline by which a federal court must issue a decision so we have no way to know when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit will issue its ruling on the Illinois assault weapon ban"
X Link 2023-08-14T16:48Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING: MARK SMITH FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO about Legal Challenge to Firearms Owner Identification Cards (FOID). FOID Legal Fight Moving Forward in Illinois State Courts @2AFDN"
X Link 2023-08-14T18:04Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"LATE NIGHT BREAKING #2A SUPREME COURT NEWS: In USA v. Rahimi in Supreme Court the Biden Department of Justice filed its massive 67-page brief (and more) defending the constitutionality of [--] USC 922g concerning Prohibited Persons i.e. those individuals who may not possess firearms. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video breaks down this late nigh filing to SCOTUS by Biden Administration"
X Link 2023-08-15T04:54Z 13.8K followers, 31.4K engagements
"FOX NEWS MEDIA ALERT: Great time speaking on @FoxNewsFirst with the wonderful duo of @ToddPiro & @CarleyShimkus about the Trump indictment in Georgia. Video here: Constitutional attorney Mark Smith reacts to Trump indictment in Georgia: 'Really bewildering' #FoxNews"
X Link 2023-08-15T15:52Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements
"#2A #Rahimi #BruenResistance I have reviewed more carefully the DOJ brief in the Rahimi SCOTUS 2A case. I have found some obvious legal problems with the DOJ brief. Four Boxes Diner Video coming shortly. FYI: I am just getting started breaking down DOJ Brief. I spent most of the last [--] hours on the Trump Georgia Indictment issue. #guns"
X Link 2023-08-15T21:41Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: 2nd Amendment in Grave Danger in Supreme Court. #Bruenresistance DOJ legal brief in #2A US v. Rahimi case raises serious legal dangers to the individual right to bear arms. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video provides a further analysis of Biden's gun control arguments before SCOTUS"
X Link 2023-08-15T22:03Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns VIDEO: AMERICAN GUN OWNERS ARE THE LARGEST ARMY IN THE WORLD. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video makes the point here"
X Link 2023-08-16T04:12Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #NFA A REAL-WORLD PLAN TO KILL THE NFA: To answer your question it is premature to try such a direct legal attack. However this Four Boxes Diner video sets forth a Real World 2nd Amendment Strategy for ATTACKING the NFA"
X Link 2023-08-16T04:14Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Bruenresistance The 2A is not in grave danger "from the court." But if the Supreme Court adopts the DOJ legal view of the 2nd Amendment as set forth in the DOJ legal brief then the 2A and gun rights will be in grave danger from anti-gun legislatures (Congress/state lawmakers) and from regulators (ATF) who will be able to enact gun control laws with impunity"
X Link 2023-08-16T04:19Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Guns You are Your Own First Responder. You cannot Depend on Government to protect you. According to this @zerohedge story Hawaii is experiencing social break down Rioting Lootings and Rapes"
X Link 2023-08-16T04:36Z 13.7K followers, [---] engagements
"#2A #guns LESSON: Notice how CNN is now lumping together "children AND teens." DOJ states that the average age a "child" joins a gang is [--]. So how many of these deaths referenced are acts of criminal violence and/or gang-related violence in places like Chicago "Children AND TEENS are more likely to die by guns than any other way a grim cause that surpassed car accidents in [----]. Firearms accounted for nearly 19% of deaths in [----] of children ages [--] to [--] according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER database.""
X Link 2023-08-16T15:40Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns #bruenresistance @Cernovich Your analysis is not unreasonable but there is a necessary first step that wanna-be totalitarians skipped when it comes to the USA. In my opinion they erred by revealing prematurely their intentions i.e. BEFORE they disarmed Americans. You CANNOT go genocidal on an armed population; the American population is fully armed and (given what we know now) the American population will never be disarmed. See my Four Boxes Diner video on American gun owners being the largest army in the world here. NOTE: From my point of view attempts to disarm Americans (see"
X Link 2023-08-16T17:36Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A TOUCHDOWN: Could NFL Player charged with violating Massachusetts Gun Laws use the 2nd Amendment to save the day for himself and America Massachusetts doesn't have the legal leverage with its suspect gun laws that it might think it does. Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video discusses the legal case of New England Patriots Jack Jones. @jerrythornton1"
X Link 2023-08-17T01:42Z 12.9K followers, 28.5K engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS IN NEW JERSEY: NJ's New CCW Training Requirements are so CRAZY (and likely unconstitutional) that even John Wick might fail them. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video talks about a new story discussing these crazy NJ training rules. @HT_GunWriter @2AFDN @2Aupdates #guns #bruenresistance"
X Link 2023-08-17T16:19Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns @Guns4Defense makes the very argument that our Founding Fathers supported. Our Founders embraced the views of 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria who said "False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take FIRE from men because it burns and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature." I wrote about this in scholarly article here"
X Link 2023-08-17T16:35Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"100% yes And Thomas Jefferson and John Adams BOTH LOVED Beccaria and wrote down his lessons in their common books"
X Link 2023-08-17T22:46Z 11.8K followers, [----] engagements
"DEAR #2A #guns SUPPORTERS IN TENNESSEE: Gun Confiscation Laws (anti-gunners call them "red flag laws") are expected to be debated by the Tennessee legislature thanks to the Republican Governor Bill Lee. Adopting so-called "Extreme Risk Protection Laws" are unnecessary and implicate no fewer than [--] separate provisions (1A 2A 4A & 5A) of the Bill of Rights. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video explains all and also asks (again) "Where is the Nashville Shooter's Manifesto""
X Link 2023-08-18T03:01Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Guns After I released my video on the Tennessee situation today a friend sent me the below. $5000 offered for leaked Nashville manifesto via @YouTube"
X Link 2023-08-18T03:31Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #bruenresistance Biden's Department of Justice has made a important Supreme Court concession in defending the federal gun control law (18 USC 922(g)(8)). DOJ is refusing to embrace historical analogue laws with racist underpinnings. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner explains why this is a victory for gun rights"
X Link 2023-08-20T01:32Z 13.8K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Big fan of @GunWashington and we need to do something together"
X Link 2023-08-20T16:30Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"#HUNTERBIDEN Hunter is likely swapping out his "plea deal lawyers" for the lawyers who he will use to actually try the case. Some lawyers are better suited for "cutting deals" with DOJ to win plea deals and others are better suited for trying cases to juries when necessary. My guess: I suspect part of the move here by Hunter is transferring from a "plea deal" mode to a "trial" mode. Of course at the end of the day does any of this matter if his dad can just pardon him"
X Link 2023-08-21T04:56Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"MAJOR #2A SUPREME COURT NEWS. The California Legislative Women's Caucus has filed a major legal brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in the Rahimi 2nd Amendment case which translates into support of the U.S. Government and in favor of gun control. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video analyzes their arguments here. #bruenresistance"
X Link 2023-08-21T21:52Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A YES Four Boxes Diner video being released later tonight on the MASS decision. A great win for the 2nd Amendment"
X Link 2023-08-21T21:55Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#MEDIA TEACHING MOMENT. I do not think it is a "LEAKED" talking point if the Super PAC publicly disclosed their advice on the INTERNET to DeSantis and others. DeSantis Repeats Super PACs Leaked Talking Point About Chris Christie: Im Not Running To Be a Contributor on Cable News' via @mediaite"
X Link 2023-08-22T02:25Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: Has a precedent been set for Nationwide Concealed Carry A Massachusetts state court judge dismissed criminal charges brought by the State against a lawabiding New Hampshire resident for allegedly failing to having a license to carry before bringing a firearm into Massachusetts. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video addresses this decision here #guns #bruenresistance"
X Link 2023-08-22T02:52Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Bruenresistance The Supreme Court indicated that for now they are assuming that "shall issue" carry permitting regimes are constitutional but they did NOT decide that issue because it was unnecessary. In other words their discussion of that issue was DICTA. This Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video here explains what I think was really occurring at SCOTUS"
X Link 2023-08-22T03:13Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A SUPREME COURT NEWS TONIGHT: It appears approximately [--] legal briefs (probably about [----] single-spaced pages) have been submitted in favor of the GOVERNMENT in the US v. Rahimi 2nd Amendment case. But do not fear. the Four Boxes Diner is here-- to dissect them all. #guns"
X Link 2023-08-22T03:18Z 13.7K followers, 10.6K engagements
"#2A Supreme Court: The pro-2A briefs will be submitted in a month. I suspect every point made in these briefs will be addressed then"
X Link 2023-08-22T03:47Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A With all those protestors and advocates showing up in Nashville how come none of them has received/ released a copy of the Nashville School Shooter's manifesto. Without this critical information how can anyone possibly discuss potential solutions. Does someone NOT trust "We the People" with the truth @GunWashington @ArmedAttorneys Special session for public safety begins for Tennessee lawmakers activists in Nashville via @ABC24Memphis"
X Link 2023-08-22T03:55Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns #TREES SACRIFICED FOR NO PURPOSE: I skimmed this brief. Katten is a good law firm and Jon Lowy is a perfectly nice person. However if the goal of this brief is to persuade SCOTUS in some way then I suspect many trees made the ultimate sacrifice for literally nothing. @2Aupdates @FPCAction NOTE: to make matters worse the brief's reliance on Corpus Linguistics seems to smack of desperation given my massive take down of that doctrine as applied to #2A case in my scholarly article here: Mark W. Smith et al. BIG DATA COMES FOR TEXTUALISM: THE USE AND ABUSE OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS IN SECOND"
X Link 2023-08-22T04:08Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LEGAL PRECEDENT LESSON: Never forget that it was a single woman (Jamie Caetano) who was convicted of possessing a stun gun in a small Massachusetts state trial court--- that gave rise to the SCOTUS decision of CAETANO v. MASS which reaffirmed that modern arms that did not exist at the Founding were protected under #2A AND that non-firearms (stun guns) can be protected arms (not just firearms)"
X Link 2023-08-22T14:25Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING SUPREME COURT NEWS: A MASSIVE ATTACK LAUNCHED ON 2A RIGHTS IN SUPREME COURT: Dozens of Anti-gunner Briefs Attack the 2nd Amendment. Approximately [--] legal briefs were submitted (mostly) against the 2nd Amendment's right to bear arms before the United States Supreme Court in the US v. Rahimi case. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video discusses the initial arguments many of these briefs have in common"
X Link 2023-08-22T18:07Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Give it time. I suspect SCOTUS will clean up the Rahimi case and then they will look to clean up Young Adult (18-20 year old) gun ban cases and then so-called assault weapon bans and probably "sensitive places." My guess is that SCOTUS in their Rahimi decision will "clean up" some lower court screws up about how to apply the Heller/Bruen methodology"
X Link 2023-08-22T18:13Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #dicks I generally do not do schadenfreude but because of Dick's political activism against the right to keep and bear arms. I am smiling today It is ironic that CRIMINALS are the cause of Dick's financials going into the sewer. After all Dick's donations suggest that they want to deny Americans their constitutional right to defend themselves against violent criminals. Today Is The Worst Day Ever For Dick's And Their CEO Has Blamed It On Shoplifting"
X Link 2023-08-23T06:17Z 13.8K followers, 10.6K engagements
"#2A #bruenresistance A handgun roster law is a GUN BAN which means you simply apply Heller's "in common use" and knock it down. The definition of a "handgun roster" means that there are some guns allowed onto the roster and other modern firearms are BANNED. This triggers Heller and because the BANNED firearms are "in common use" the handgun roster law must be declared to be unconstitutional"
X Link 2023-08-23T17:19Z 13.8K followers, 11.8K engagements
"#2A BREAKING SUPREME COURT NEWS: Major Amicus Briefs Submitted in Favor of More Gun Control cite to historical analogue laws that have racist and other offensive underpinnings. Mark Smith discusses these sorts of arguments in this Four Boxes Diner video"
X Link 2023-08-23T22:23Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Guns #Bruenrestistance: Having reviewed the [--] legal briefs submitted in the US Supreme Court case of US v. Rahimi---briefs that supported or were sympathetic to the Biden Administration's position on the 2nd Amendment Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner has some important observations to make about these submissions and what they mean for your right to bear arms"
X Link 2023-08-24T21:51Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#Trump #NoGoZones. @realDonaldTrump has taught us many things including the importance of conservatives staying out of these terrible jurisdictions controlled by the Left. Do NOT go to Washington DC; do NOT go to New York; do NOT go to Atlanta. Stay away from the jurisdictions that these people control. You would NOT travel to North Korea or Moscow today; these deep blue jurisdictions should be treated by American conservatives the same way we treat North Korea and Moscow. NO GO ZONES"
X Link 2023-08-25T05:10Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#1A Perhaps now would be a good time to mention the Supreme Court's decision in TINKER v. Des Moines re the first amendment rights of high school students (in Tinker to protest the Vietnam War) Student Refuses Schools Order to Remove American Flags from Truck Switches to Homeschooling via @BreitbartNews"
X Link 2023-08-25T06:24Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A I wrote an entire book explain in extreme detail how the anti-gunners intend to take away out gun rights (doesn't mean they will succeed). And as an attorney I am trained to look at all angles including angles that are undesirable (all in an attempt to stop bad things from happening). See Mark Smith First They Came for the Gun Owners"
X Link 2023-08-25T06:34Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #GUNS "CHILDREN AND GUNS" OR NOT The "children" dying of gun-related homicides are likely GANG MEMBERS. Note that the US National Gang Center/DOJ study states "The most common age that youth join a gang is around [--] but the early adolescent years (1214 years of age) are a crucial time when youth are exposed to gangs and may consider joining a gang.""
X Link 2023-08-26T03:36Z 13.8K followers, 16.6K engagements
"#2A #guns MISSION CRITICAL VIDEO FOR 2ND AMENDMENT MOVEMENT TO WATCH AND UNDERSTAND EXPOSED: The Anti-Gunners Insidious Plan to Ban Guns in America. In the U.S. Supreme Court we can see from some of the legal briefs that certain elites want to disarm Americans. This Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video explains in detail the legal strategy and the HISTORICAL PRECEDENT that the Left will deploy to try to accomplish their disarmament goals. @RenoMayGuns @TheAKGuy @MrColionNoir @DLoesch @TheReloadSite"
X Link 2023-08-26T19:26Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#INFLATION #Bidenomics To be fair @stclairashley the problem is NOT that McDonald's food prices are going up it is that the value (purchasing power) of the dollars in our pockets is GOING DOWN thanks to Joe Biden-generated INFLATION. Not to be so dramatic over McDonalds but they have taken it too far. A McChicken or a cheeseburger at McDonalds used to be a $1 McDonalds along with every other major corporation has been price gouging EVERYTHING Americans consume They tell you its because everything https://t.co/owcUoZpqIb Not to be so dramatic over McDonalds but they have taken it too far. A"
X Link 2023-08-27T02:38Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Well it sounds like we should allow people to bring their own firearms as a means of self-defense to these venues yes Obviously the police cannot/will not adequately protect attendees. As the Italian Enlightenment criminologist Cesare Beccaria taught our Founding Fathers criminals who refuse to respect and follow our most sacred laws against murder robbery etc. will NEVER follow any trivial laws banning possessing/carrying firearms"
X Link 2023-08-27T03:45Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A ALWAYS vote on #2A 2nd Amendment rights and the right to bear arms ahead of all other issues (assuming a conflict between your views) because without an armed citizenry ALL AMERICANS of all political stripes become serfs/subject and cease to be CITIZENS"
X Link 2023-08-29T02:45Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns Government CANNOT buy back what it did NOT sell in the first place. If I sold you a gun I could buy it back. But since government did NOT sell me any guns it cannot BUY BACK any guns from me. HOW HARD IS THIS Democrat Eric Swalwell Calls for Buyback of All AR-15s via @BreitbartNews"
X Link 2023-08-29T03:32Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #schools Perhaps the Four Boxes Diner should do a video about wearing pro-2A (aka pro-Bill of Rights) messages to school Either way all parents who choose to send their kids to public school (rather than home school them) should be familiar with: "Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Systems(1969) which was a Supreme Court case famous as a foundational case on protecting first amendment rights of students at publicly funded schools. The case arose when school administrators expelled five students for wearing black armbands to school that at the time symbolized opposition to"
X Link 2023-08-29T16:24Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A this number is likely low given the language about "produced for the American market in 2021." That language speaks to commercial sales and presumably does not include Did-It-Yourself firearms which have become very popular"
X Link 2023-08-29T16:36Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#TRUMP So the government has been preparing its anti-Trump criminal prosecution for TWO YEARS i.e. starting on January [--] [----] and charged Trump in [----]. In other words the DOJ has spent TWO-PLUS YEARS preparing its case against Trump and NOW they are giving Trump's lawyers approximately [--] months to prepare a defense Sure that's sound fair---NOT. Report: Judge Chutkan Compares January [--] to 9/11 Attacks Boston Marathon Bombing via @BreitbartNews"
X Link 2023-08-29T17:28Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"FYI The RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL is an individual Right belonging to the criminal defendant and NOT a right of the government. As we discuss repeatedly on Four Boxes Diner 2nd Amendment YouTube channel. individuals have RIGHTS while Governments have Powers and Authority"
X Link 2023-08-29T17:34Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#TRUMP If President Trump's legal argument about the role of Vice President Pence in counting electoral votes was so "weak" and frivolous then please explain why Congress subsequently decided to amend the relevant statute (the Electoral Count Act) to clarify i.e. limit the VP's role in that process If the law was so clear that Trump's arguments were frivolous to the point of criminality then why did Congress believe that amending that statute was needed when they passed that amendment 2022"
X Link 2023-08-29T22:11Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#2A The 2nd Amendment is very important but it does NOT exist in a vacuum. It is one component of a series of checks and balances provided for by our constitutional system of government which ultimately protects individual freedoms against various threats such as a tyranny of the majority (mob rule) foreign invasions etc. You can debate the good/bad of President Trump and his policy choices etc. but watching government actors in "blue jurisdictions" ganging up on Trump in such an unprecedented manner should concern all who love individual freedom and liberty"
X Link 2023-08-29T22:43Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING: Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video puts the lie to the US Department of Justice arguments that it is mission critical to uphold federal gun control law [--] USC 922(g)8 which is the subject of the US v. Rahimi #2A SCOTUS case. Despite DOJ's allegations that about a "million acts of domestic violence" it turns out that 922(g)8 is virtually NEVER USED. Check out the stunning data in this Professor Smith video. #bruenresistance"
X Link 2023-08-30T21:39Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: "Don't Tread on Me" Flag Wins the Day in Colorado Free Speech Fight. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video discusses this First Amendment free speech controversy and discusses the relevant First Amendment precedents as well as the HISTORY associated with the 2nd Amendment and attempts by some to claim #2A was about protecting Slavery. #guns"
X Link 2023-08-31T16:04Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LOL. Gun Control-supporting "VOLUNTEERS" What happened Did the anti-gun billionaires have a bad year in the stock market #guns"
X Link 2023-09-01T15:56Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LATE 19TH CENTURY GUN CONTROL LAWS DON'T MATTER: Post-Civil War 19th century gun control laws cannot serve to cut back on the [----] understanding of the 2nd Amendment. The Supreme Court has repeatedly said this (as did Kavanaugh dissenting in Heller [--] in DC Court of Appeals)-- that post-Civil War 19th century laws can only serve as a CONFIRMATORY TRADITION but they cannot contradict the text or [----] history of #2A. Here is an excellent scholarly article in @HarvardJLPP by a handsome #2A YouTuber laying this Supreme Court jurisprudence out in an easy-to-understand manner"
X Link 2023-09-01T16:10Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A IMPORTANT HISTORY POINT ABOUT 19TH CENTURY: @MorosKostas @2Aupdates As further proof that the Supreme Court has NO interest in using post-Civil War history to cut back on the Bill of Rights let's look at SCOTUS in [----] in the Espinoza v. Montana case. Espinoza rejected as IRRELEVANT [--] state laws (that's [--] STATE LAWS) enacted in 19th century as being TOO LATE IN TIME to establish a tradition of cutting back on First Amendment's religious freedom clauses. Here is what Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the Supreme Court: "The Government argues that a tradition against state support for"
X Link 2023-09-01T17:10Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #SupremeCourt SCOTUS in Heller said that using never-accepted draft proposals of constitutional amendments to interpret the final #2A text was a "dubious" (read: unreliable) exercise. Justice Scalia in Heller wrote "Justice Stevens relies on the drafting history of the Second Amendmentthe various proposals in the state conventions and the debates in Congress. It is DUBIOUS TO RELY on such history to interpret a text that was widely understood to codify a pre-existing right rather than to fashion a new one. But even assuming that this legislative history is relevant Justice Stevens flatly"
X Link 2023-09-02T01:10Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements
"ANTI-#2A FOOL'S ERRAND: GUN CONTROL-SUPPORTING "VOLUNTEERS" ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EXIST. Volunteers from Moms Demand Action are looking for Founding Era gun control laws but this effort is likely a big waste-of-time. Mark Smith breaks down the story in this Four Boxes Diner video"
X Link 2023-09-02T01:23Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#History. September [--] [----] is the start of what was then known as the German-Polish War. It grew into something much bigger over the next [--] years. Never forget: the History of the Future has yet to be written"
X Link 2023-09-02T03:46Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A SUPREME COURT NEWS: "2nd Amendment Scholars" Seek to Erode the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Want the Supreme Court to adopt a legal standard making it easier to BAN GUNS such as the popular AR-15 rifle. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video breaks down their arguments found in their SCOTUS amicus brief in US v. Rahimi"
X Link 2023-09-02T19:38Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"FOX NEWS ALERT: Looking forward to speaking on Sunday with @MikeEmanuelFox about many topics including Hunter Biden President Trump and President Biden on @FoxNews @foxnewspolitics"
X Link 2023-09-03T04:55Z 13.8K followers, [---] engagements
"SHOCKINGLY GREAT 2A NEWS: Biden Administration (with help of NRA NSSF and others) Scores a BIG WIN for 2nd Amendment. Congratulations to @NRA @NRAILA @NSSF @lkeane The Biden Administration's Forest Service defeated a lawsuit seeking to require the regulations/ban of the use of lead-based ammunition in the Kaibab National Forest near the Grand Canyon. Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks it down in this video"
X Link 2023-09-03T17:53Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A The phrase "Universal Background Check" is a Euphemism for a Gun Registration by the Government whereby the Government uses required Background Checks to track any and all guns that change hands from one person to another---even where those transfers involve only transfers between family members friends colleagues neighbors etc. Today when someone sells their friend a firearm for example such a transfer is usually referred to as a "private transfer" of a firearm which in most states does not involve a formal background check or the involvement of a Federal Firearms Licensee or FFL."
X Link 2023-09-04T05:36Z 13.8K followers, 18.6K engagements
"#2A Class Actions in 2nd Amendment Context: Generally speaking I do NOT like the idea of using Class Actions to litigate 2nd Amendment issues. Usually a 2A plaintiff just wants a court to declare a modern-day gun control law to be unconstitutional and then enter an order enjoining the law from being enforced by the government in the future. Thus the 2A movement mostly does NOT need a class action to accomplish its goal of knocking out unconstitutional gun control laws. Furthermore class actions require a whole stand-alone litigation to resolve a whole host of questions unrelated to the 2nd"
X Link 2023-09-04T05:52Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A YOUNG ADULT CASES. #2A challenges to gun bans/gun sale bans that prevent young adults 18-20 years of age from acquiring firearms should NOT be deemed MOOT even if the plaintiffs turn [--]. Conceptually it is the same exception to the mootness doctrine that is used by courts when dealing with legal challenges to abortion restrictions. Lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions become moot (obviously) after [--] months but the law still allows such constitutional lawsuits to continue forward"
X Link 2023-09-04T15:37Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #bumpstocks @michaeldcargill The Supreme Court will hold their "long conference" in September where they will decide the bulk of the cases they will hear during their 2023-2024 term. We will know more about how SCOTUS intends to handle their Administrative Law/Bumpstock/APA-type cases after that conference"
X Link 2023-09-04T15:39Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #schoolshootings Do not forget that some anti-gunners define "school shootings" include shootings arising from criminal activities by gangs/drug dealers in close proximity to schools and which often occur late at night i.e. long after the school is closed for the day. This helps the anti-gunners puff up the numbers of "school shootings" to then feed to the mostly gun-illiterate Blue-city-based media. THINK: a gang-banger shoots another gang-banger at 1am in a drug deal that goes bad on the same block as a NYC public school (some would call that a "school shooting). LIKEWISE a late-night"
X Link 2023-09-04T15:45Z 11.1K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #FEDERALCOURTS The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (Maryland/VA) is 100% terrible on 2nd Amendment issues. Although it is possible to get a decent three-judge panel in the 4th Circuit in a 2A case the overall 4th Circuit is awful on 2A issues and highly-partisan. NOTE: you can get some okay district court judges within the 4th Circuit but the Court of Appeals itself is no good on #2A In my view the only federal appeals court that is worse on #2A issues than the 4th Circuit is the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit out of Boston--I do NOT think there is any combination of"
X Link 2023-09-04T16:29Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A MOOTNESS DOCTRINE: This is a good point but as I noted in another post today the Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit is absolutely terrible on #2A issues. So my speculation is that there was an internal "understanding" within the 4th Circuit that give rise to: the 4th Circuit three-judge panel's favorable 2A ruling would vacated as MOOT which would thereby eliminate the inevitability of the 4th Circuit in its entirety taking the case en banc and reversing"
X Link 2023-09-04T16:38Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Anti-gunner Strategies: Yes you have to be very very careful with the anti-gunner statistics AND DEFINITIONS. Remember when they included the Boston Marathon bomber (who was killed by the police after the bombing) in a list of GUN VIOLENCE VICTIMS a few years ago SIDE NOTE DIGRESSION about Boston Marathon Bombing: Remember how an ordinary dude found the second Boston Marathon bomber in his boat in his backyard That's right. despite a massive government/police dragnet and effort an ordinary dude finds the bad guy NEVER FORGET--"YOU ARE YOUR OWN FIRST RESPONDER.""
X Link 2023-09-04T17:03Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A The key is to look carefully at the data and definitions when statistics are cited. The definitions of "mass shootings" "shooters" "school shootings" "children" "victims of gun violence" etc. can all vary from study to study. But to illustrate the importance of clear and precise terms (see the use of "during school hours") in discussing statistical comparisons etc. check out the below scholarly piece by @CrimeResearch1 and @JohnRLottJr"
X Link 2023-09-04T17:17Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #judges. In my view that's the plan of a bunch of anti-gunner courts i.e. to delay and delay 2nd Amendment cases hoping that Joe Biden can pick a replacement for Justice Alito or Justice Thomas. Recall: President Obama called SCOTUS nominee the now-AG Merrick Garland a "moderate." And President Biden's SCOTUS pick Justice Brown Jackson could not define a "woman" in her confirmation hearing. So that's the sort of justice the left wants on the bench instead of Alito/Thomas"
X Link 2023-09-04T17:26Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has denied a request to hear en banc a 2nd Amendment case involving a defendant charged with violating [--] USC 922(g)1 i.e. the ban on felons in possession of firearms law. However four judges (all appointed to bench by President Trump) issued a vigorous dissent in which they called into question the constitutionality of 922(g)1. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks it down here in this video"
X Link 2023-09-04T18:36Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#DOLLAR #INFLATION We are going to destroy the US Dollar by this spending. It will cost a $1 million for a ranch house in middle-America before too long. It will be $25 for a coffee soon. All because the government has decided to punish savers and the prudent by wiping out the value of the US Dollar"
X Link 2023-09-05T03:46Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Second Amendment Court Dates Flagged and Why They Matter to YOUR RIGHTS. Professor Smith identifies the key upcoming Court Hearing dates that you MUST KNOW to be in the loop on the big fights over the 2nd Amendment. Professor Smith Four Boxes Diner Video is here"
X Link 2023-09-06T00:04Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A @Patriots JACK JONES CASE: Please allow me to pat myself on the back with my accurate (yet again) prediction that Massachusetts was going to run away like little skool children from trying to prosecute Patriots football star Jack Jones. No chance Mass would go toe-to-toe with the 2nd Amendment's #RKBA here. A good start to the @patriots season the Constitution and another story for Patriots media to talk about @stoolpresidente @jerrythornton1 @barstoolsports @MikeReiss @McCannSportsLaw @WEEI @scottzolak The Four Boxes Diner 2nd Amendment's channel's video laying out the powerful #2A"
X Link 2023-09-06T00:08Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A GREAT IDEA: A no brainer law. This will help harden schools and prevent bad people from doing bad things to good people. Italian Enlightenment criminologist Cesare Beccaria (whom our Founders loved) would highly approve because as Beccaria taught in [----] "gun control"
X Link 2023-09-06T02:03Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LICENSING: Unless and until someone in Massachusetts is arrested without a license and then that defendant asserts the "Jack Jones precedent" against the state"
X Link 2023-09-06T02:57Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in #2A USA v. Rahimi case on November [--] [----]. @2Aupdates @CamEdwards @HT_GunWriter See Supreme Court Monthly Argument Calendar November 2023"
X Link 2023-09-06T14:47Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW YORK CARRY LAW. I do not know when the 2nd Circuit will issue these carry decisions. What's irritating (and this is super-inside baseball) is that the judges likely "turned over" their law clerks in the last month and thus the judges are now likely working with a new set of law clerks. The judges should have issued their NY Carry opinions while their then-current law clerks (who prepared the bench memos and attended oral arguments) were still employed by those judges. My comment assumes that these clerkships were one-year long which they almost always are"
X Link 2023-09-06T15:26Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #AR15 I think the only real path to a SCOTUS "semi-auto/mag ban" case in the 2023-2024 term would be a decision in the next month or two by the Seventh Circuit (Frank Easterbrook and company) and then a cert request from that. It is not a perfect vehicle because the Seventh Circuit decision will be based on an Interlocutory Appeal (an appeal during the middle of a case as opposed to an appeal from a Final Judgment). SCOTUS generally does not like to handle interlocutory appeals but this could be an exception since a semi-auto ban seems so out of line with the Heller precedent. NOTE: The"
X Link 2023-09-06T15:34Z 12.9K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A This is correct. The only issue will be would SCOTUS be willing to do this on an Interlocutory Appeal after the 7th Circuit rules OR will they insist on waiting for a Final Judgment. Note: SCOTUS issued Caetano decision only after Ms. Caetano exhausted all of her lower court appeals"
X Link 2023-09-06T17:42Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostgun Argument. Should I live-tweet the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals argument tomorrow (Thursday) morning It is technically not a 2nd Amendment issue but an ATF regulatory overreach issue. #guns"
X Link 2023-09-06T19:11Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BIDEN "GHOST GUN"--FRAME/RECEIVER RULE ORAL ARGUMENT TOMORROW (Thursday) at [--] Eastern time. US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit will hear this case. Professor Mark Smith @fourboxesdiner will be live-tweeting the oral argument. This argument could get very technical and super-geeky very fast depending on where the three-judge panel goes with their questions"
X Link 2023-09-07T00:59Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A GHOST GUN FRAME/RECEIVER UPDATE: A GREAT THREE-JUDGE PANEL for 2nd Amendment for tomorrow's [--] am (eastern) oral argument. Panel is JUDGES DON R. WILLETT KURT D. ENGELHARDT AND ANDREW S. OLDHAM. Very powerful pro-constitution panel. Watch for Judge Oldham to make some waves; Judge Oldham will be a short-lister for the Supreme Court if a Republican POTUS wins in 2024"
X Link 2023-09-07T01:13Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #Constitution. Yes. Judge Oldham would be an excellent SCOTUS Justice for those who support the idea of originalism i.e. the idea that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted as it is written and as it was understood by our Founding Fathers"
X Link 2023-09-07T02:54Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #guns AFT: I will be live-tweeting the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals oral argument in the case challenging ATF/Biden "ghost gun" regulations starting at 10am Eastern time here. @fourboxesdiner"
X Link 2023-09-07T13:51Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"VanDerStock #2A ATF is already under attack. Court pushing on why ATF is using [--] year old precedent about a case involving [--] hours to convert a gun into a machine gun. ATF on its heels"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:05Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok: Court asks about 8-factor balancing test. Court notes that AR-15s can convert into machine guns but simply changing the sear. "If AR-15 semiautomatic rifle readily convertable to a machine gun" POWERFUL QUESTION FROM COURT. Almost right from @fourboxesdiner point about where ATF is going with banning AR-15s. ATF trying to avoid answer this question. Court does not appear impressed"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:08Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok: ATF trying to avoid answering specific questions about specific scenarios claiming that "this is just a facial challenge" case. Court pushes against ATF by stating "you cannot tell me" about various questions being posed about frames and the like. Big discussion about what "readily convertable" means. Court seems skeptical about ATF's arguments and their 8-factor text found within the regulation"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:09Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Court asking tough questions to ATF counsel. Court seems perplexed by ATF's arguments about the request to import "readily convertable" language into the "frame and receiver" section of the federal statute defining "firearm." Court asks. Subsection A talks about weapons "readily convertable." But there is NO such "readily convertable" language in Subsection B that mentions "frames and receivers." Court asks ATF "are we to import the words "reaadily convertable" into subsection B even though those words are not present in subsection B" Courts ask that isn't this Congress's job to add this"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:16Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok #ghostguns: 2A attorney hammering ATF arguments. Points out that if a "weapons parts kit" includes an actual "frame or receiver" then it is not an issue because the inclusion of an actual "framer or receiver" means that it is already a FIREARM under the federal statute. But #2A attorney argues DOJ is trying to regulate "parts" over which Congress did not authorize or cover with their statute"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:23Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Court asks whether vacatur can be applied ONLY to the named plaintiffs in this case as opposed to make the rule null and void NATIONWIDE. 2A attorney drawing distinctions between an Injunction vs. Vacatur. Arguing in favor of vacatur which would be better for gun owners because the remedy of knocking down the ghost gun regulation would be nationwide and apply to all Americans. 2A movement should be cheering for vacatur"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:26Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok. Ghost Guns: 2A attorney essentially arguing that ATF Ghost Gun rule is so vague that Americans cannot understand how to comply with the regulation. Court seems to agree that ATF arguments are confusing based on questions"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:30Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns DOJ attorney is back at the podium. #2A attorney done. DOJ argues ATF has the legal authority to regulate "partially complete frames and receivers". ATF argues that this is the question presented to the court and that a "partially complete frames and receiver" can be regulated by ATF. ATF claims that ATF has authority to regulate objects that can be "readily convertable" into a frame or receiver. However Court and 2A attorney had already flagged the idea of the statue of David is not the statue of David just because an artist has a big block of rock/granite in front of him"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:35Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A VanDerStok #ghostguns: Oral argument is over. I do not see a way that ATF can win this case in the Fifth Circuit on the merits. I think that ATF might be able to narrow the scope of the remedy via the debate about whether vacatur vs. an injunction is the most appropriate remedy but that's ATF's best hope for somewhat of a victory"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:37Z 11.3K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #VanDerstok #ghostguns. @fourboxesdiner summary of argument this morning: It seems that the DOJ/ATF is going to lose on their ghost gun regulation which is their attempt to regulate "weapons parts kids" and "partially complete frames and receivers." The Court was clearly (but politely) hostile to the ATF attorney about the DOJ's legal arguments. DOJ/ATF attorney tried hard to save the day for the government but it seemed clear that this wasn't working"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:43Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns #VanDerStok Summary: As I see it there are three key questions to this case. I think the Fifth Circuit seems to be favoring the pro-2A view on each which would make sense since the Fifth Circuit already agreed with the district court's decision to vacate the ATF ghost gun rule a few months ago. First (on the merits) whether ATF had statutory/legal authority to regulate "partially completed" frames or receivers Second (on the merits) whether ATF had the statutory/legal authority to regulate "weapons parts kids" that do NOT include a frame or receiver. Third (as to the potential"
X Link 2023-09-07T14:50Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns #vanderstok. Although not mentioned by name I think a concern raised previously on the @fourboxesdiner was made front and center during today's argument. Specifically I have said to my viewers on my #2A YouTube channel that the anti-gunners are moving toward arguing that "because a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle" can be "readily converted" to a machine gun all AR-15s should be registered as NFA items. Today the court raised this exact concern about how loose ATF/DOJ was with their "readily convertable" language and how it could be applied to my very scenario about AR-15 semi-auto"
X Link 2023-09-07T15:07Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns #VanDerStok. Oral Argument summary continued: The ATF's attempt to include "weapons part kits" in the federal statute allowing ATF to regulate them looks like a loser too. Fifth Circuit asked several questions about "why does including a jig" somehow have legal relevance "How does including a jig change the nature of a piece of metal" and where does Congress give ATF authority over something by virtue of the inclusion of a jig Court seemed to be driving at the arbitrary and vague definitions in these Biden ghost gun regulations and seemed to be suggesting that ordinary"
X Link 2023-09-07T15:12Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #ghostguns #VanDerStok: Fifth Circuit Oral Argument Summary as to possible remedy against ATF. The remedy question can be a bit tricky and I will explain this in detail on Four Boxes Diner channel later. Basically there are two possible remedies against ATF if the Fifth Circuit rules against ATF here (I think ATF is going to be destroyed in the court opinion once released but we will see). Remedy 1: Under the federal Administrative Procedure Act if a court finds that a regulation by an administrative agency (ATF EPA FDA etc.) is unlawful then the court set aside the rule with what is"
X Link 2023-09-07T15:40Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: WILL A NEW ATF RULE REQUIRE THE ANNUAL REPORTING OF SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION #GUNS Some 2A supporters are worried about a new ATF regulation that would supposedly require the regulation and registration of ammo black powder and the like. This Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video explains that in his view this rule is NOT a reason to panic because of the statutory exceptions found in federal statute [--] U.S.C. 845"
X Link 2023-09-07T17:15Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING NEWS: MARK SMITH FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO about today's Terrible Day for the ATF in the Federal Appeals court concerning the Biden Ghost Gun Rules. The US Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit heard arguments today in the Vanderstok lawsuit to the Biden Ghost Gun regulations. Mark Smith"
X Link 2023-09-07T23:37Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A I just found video footage of @JohnCornyn and Senate Republicans enacting federal gun control in June [----] while SCOTUS was literally issuing the NYSRPA v. Bruen decision. Yes the Republicans are in Red in this video @TheReloadSite @TheAKGuy @DLoesch"
X Link 2023-09-08T10:44Z 12.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Five Years in Federal Prison for a victimless malum prohibitum crime @crumpyss AutoKey Card: Matthew Hoover and Kristopher Justin Ervin Sentenced to [--] Years in Federal Prison - via @Ammoland"
X Link 2023-09-08T11:15Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A @JohnRLottJr An targeted tax on constitutional rights is illegal under at least two modern Supreme Court precedents. SCOTUS's [----] decision in Minneapolis Star held that a tax on ink violated First Amendment freedom of press. In Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966) SCOTUS held $1.50 poll tax was unconstitutional"
X Link 2023-09-08T11:45Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #LibertySafe @libertysafeinc Your "subpoena" policy as articulated in this notice is inadequate in my view. It is not enough that your company requires a subpoena to respond to law enforcement concerning a request about a customer. That is NECESSARY but it should NOT be sufficient. In my view your policy should be that once you receive a subpoena about a customer you will notify that customer that you have received a subpoena concerning them/their account/their safe and that you intend to comply with that subpoena in [--] business days (excluding weekends) UNLESS a court orders you to do"
X Link 2023-09-08T12:05Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Another example of Armed Self Defense shown here. Where are the cops Nowhere to be found. So Never Forget: YOU ARE YOUR OWN FIRST RESPONDER ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE Dont you just love it when they run like cowards This story would have had another sad ending if he wast loaded. #SouthAfricanCrime https://t.co/jcAMgz0IEc Dont you just love it when they run like cowards This story would have had another sad ending if he wast loaded. #SouthAfricanCrime https://t.co/jcAMgz0IEc"
X Link 2023-09-08T12:57Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A #AR15s So why do these federal law enforcement agents need all those AR rifles (are those M4s) with [--] round magazines in a shopping plaza in America What's the point of these "weapons of war" If law enforcement needs those Personal Protection Devices on America's streets then so do I. since I walk down the same streets that these FBI agents do"
X Link 2023-09-08T13:17Z [--] followers, 17.1K engagements
"#2A #guns The question whether 18-20 year old young adults are part of the people is a question of LAW and not a question of FACT. Regardless the Supreme Court in Heller already said that ALL AMERICANS fall within the textual meaning of "the People" as found in 2A so that obviously includes 18-20 year old Americans. This ain't rocket science. SCOTUS in Heller wrote: "Nowhere else in the Constitution does a right attributed to the people refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention the people the term unambiguously"
X Link 2023-09-08T14:23Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A LIBERTY SAFE CONTROVERSY: Liberty Safe's response to a request from law enforcement has generated much controversy. In this Four Boxes Diner video attorney Mark Smith discusses an apparent change to Liberty Safe's law enforcement requests/subpoena policy"
X Link 2023-09-08T20:38Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"EXTREME #2A DANGER: ATF Legal Strategy Suggests that DOJ is Moving Towards Requiring the Registration of AR-15s as NFA Items. DOJ's reliance upon NFA and GCA authorities to justify Biden's Ghost Gun Regulations in the VanDerStok case is unlikely a mere coincidence. Instead the blending of these authorities suggests a looming danger to AR-15s and all semi-automatic firearms. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video explains here"
X Link 2023-09-09T01:02Z 11.3K followers, 12.4K engagements
"#2A #Bruenresistance NM Anti-Carry Order is Blatantly unconstitutional. Governor probably doesn't care because this is basically a publicity stunt and thanks to the 11th Amendment a state actor (like the NM Governor) cannot be personally sued for money damages in federal court for #2A violations. So she gets to issue this unconstitutional order have liberal media outlets talk about her and ultimately will pay no price for it----even if she loses in court. A few obvious points: First SCOTUS in Bruen made clear that the 2nd Amendment (like the rest of the Constitution) applies to cities as much"
X Link 2023-09-09T01:48Z 11.8K followers, 18.2K engagements
"#2A For the purposes of gun bans on 18-20 year olds and on non-violent felons etc. I usually use the shorthand of "American Citizens" because there is NO doubt that all American Citizens are part of the "People" covered by #2A as a textual matter. But yes I do think the language SCOTUS used in Heller to define "the People" could very well include some non-Americans such as Green Card Holders"
X Link 2023-09-09T01:54Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING #2A NEWS: New Mexicos Governor Enters INSANE Executive Order SUSPENDING 2nd Amendment. In a blatantly unconstitutional act New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an emergency executive order declaring gun violence to be a public health emergency and then ordered the suspension of any and all carrying of firearms in Albuquerque by non-law enforcement. The governor signed this order despite the 2nd Amendment "right to bear arms" and the Supreme Court's clear precedent NYSPRA v. Bruen. Professor Mark Smith in this Four Boxes Diner video outlines the most obvious reasons why"
X Link 2023-09-09T14:26Z 13.7K followers, 13.3K engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO: MISSION CRITICAL: PLEASE READ IF YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH 2A FIGHT IN NEW MEXICO RE GOVERNOR EXECUTIVE ORDER: Check out this New Mexico court decision stating that under the NM constitution you cannot deny people the right to carry firearms in public. "Such gun control ordinances do not deprive citizens of the right to bear arms; their effect is only to regulate the right. As applied to arms other than those concealed the ordinance under consideration purports to completely prohibit the right to bear arms. It is our opinion that an ordinance MAY NOT DENY THE PEOPLE the"
X Link 2023-09-09T16:24Z 13.8K followers, 20.2K engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR ISSUE: If I were a police officer I would NOT consider enforcing the Governor's unconstitutional executive order banning the carrying of guns. POLICE OFFICERS have to contend with PERSONAL LIABILITY under the Supreme Court's BIVENS precedent. If you KNOW you are violating a clear constitutional right a cop can be PERSONALLY held liable under the Bivens doctrine"
X Link 2023-09-10T00:24Z 11.3K followers, 21.8K engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO. The NM Governor needs somethink other than an alleged "extraordinary justification." She needs to show at the time of our Founding in [----] there was a historical analogue law (more than one fyi) that would allow a governor to suspend the right to bear arms. The BURDEN is on the Governor to justify her order and she must use HISTORICAL ANALOGUE LAWS to show that this sort of order is part of our nation's history of gun regulations. She won't be able to do this"
X Link 2023-09-10T00:27Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO AND MOOTNESS ARGUMENT. I don't think the Governor will be able to dodge claims by claiming "mootness" i.e. the order will expire before judicial review. HERE IS THE BASIC EXCEPTION TO THE MOOTNESS DOCTRINE which applies if a case presents issues or disputes that are "capable of repetition yet evading review." This exception to the mootness doctrine applies in which the challenged action is in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to cessation or expiration. THINK: a challenge to abortion law which will always be moot by a pregnant woman in [--] months or less. Here in"
X Link 2023-09-10T00:34Z 13.8K followers, 11.5K engagements
"#2A EMERGENCY LAWSUIT FILED JUST NOW (TONIGHT). Major #2A Gun Rights Group Sues New Mexico Governor. Tonight in federal court in New Mexico the National Association for Gun Rights @NatlGunRights has sued New Mexicos Governor Grisham over her Executive Order banning the carrying of firearms in major parts of that state. Professor Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner is covering the matter and this 4BD video discusses this new lawsuit and some related legal issues surrounding this important 2nd Amendment case"
X Link 2023-09-10T04:03Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO: What more do you need A ban on carrying guns clearly implicates the TEXT of the 2nd Amendment because it bans the "right to bear arms" which SCOTUS interprets as the right to carry guns in public for all lawful purposes such as self defense. This shifts the legal burden to the NM Governor to demonstrate a longstanding historical tradition in the USA going back to the Founding era where a governor/ state official has been able to wave a magic wand and thereby ban Americans from carrying guns in public. I am unaware of any such historical analogue that could save the Governor in"
X Link 2023-09-10T04:24Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO: I would NOT recommend that anyone try to be arrested or that anyone get arrested. There is NO need for this sort of conduct in order to establish standing to sue to challenge the NM Governor's order. In #2A cases Plaintiffs can bring what is known as a pre-enforcement lawsuit that here would challenge the constitutionality of the NM governor's order. There should be NO NEED for anyone in NM to place themselves in legal jeopardy in order to challenge the executive order. I am sure there are NM attorneys already suing and/or preparing to challenge this executive order. If anyone"
X Link 2023-09-10T05:00Z 12.4K followers, 59.3K engagements
"#2A BREAKING JUST NOW: [--] Lawsuits Filed Again New Mexico's Anti-2A Law. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video provides a quick summary here"
X Link 2023-09-11T20:36Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO UPDATE: Although it is too soon to know I would agree that (on balance) a federal district court judge postponing a TRO hearing does NOT look good for 2A Plaintiffs. Why would he postpone the hearing if were going to rule in favor of the Constitution against a rogue government actor But again we will need to let this play out a few days to see what happens. NOTE: New Mexico is politically a DEEP BLUE STATE so my working assumption is that the federal district court judges there have been handpicked by leftist politicians to ensure left-wing judicial results. Still it will be"
X Link 2023-09-12T03:31Z [--] followers, 23.1K engagements
"#2A LESSON: Leftists 100% want to disarm American citizens and convert us into serfs/subjects. When Beto O'Rourke says he wants to take our AR-15s and the entire left-wing crowd cheers believe them And yes when a Democratic Governor decides to suspend the 2nd Amendment that is exactly what they want to do i.e. cancel the #2A. See below and here is the Four Boxes Diner video entitled "BELIEVE THEM". AZ House Democrats Praise NM Governors Concealed Carry Ban via @BreitbartNews"
X Link 2023-09-12T03:48Z 20.1K followers, 16.7K engagements
"#2A A GREAT START IN NEW MEXICO. BUT MORE TO COME #2A has them on the run. Let's see if the Governor will hire outside lawyers or perhaps will try to get an anti-gunner organization and/or fancy lawyers from New York City to show up and defend pro bono her executive order. Or maybe the Governor will just surrender and apologize"
X Link 2023-09-12T20:40Z 12K followers, 25.3K engagements
"#2A SHOCKING GREAT 2A NEWS: NEW MEXICO'S ATTORNEY GENERAL REFUSES TO ENFORCE ILLEGAL GUN BAN. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner Video explains"
X Link 2023-09-12T23:38Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A NEW MEXICO: Federal Judge has just entered a TRO against the gun-related sections of Governor's Executive Order. Finds Bruen's holding of right to carry guns outside home for self defense is binding on court and applies here. FOUR BOXES DINER VIDEO FORTHCOMING. @TheReloadSite @2Aupdates @gunpolicy @2AFDN"
X Link 2023-09-13T20:51Z 13.8K followers, 17.4K engagements
"BREAKING #2A #guns NEWS: A US District Court (Biden-appointed) judge entered a temporary restraining order enjoining the enforcement of NM Governor Grisham's CCW gun carrying ban. Preliminary Injunction hearing scheduled for October [--] [----]. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner video breaks down this huge 2A Victory"
X Link 2023-09-13T22:11Z 13.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A Yes. A review of the NM Governor's Executive Order concerning the public carrying of firearms shows that it is obviously illegal. In Heller SCOTUS noted that the requirement of trigger locks makes the firearm inoperable for its intended lawful purpose of being available for use if the need for armed self defense were to arise. SCOTUS wrote "We must also address the DC's requirement (as applied to respondents handgun) that firearms in the home be rendered and kept inoperable at all times. This makes it impossible for citizens to use them for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is"
X Link 2023-09-14T01:43Z 11.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A MAJOR BREAKING NEWS IN VANDERSTOK "GHOST GUN" FRAME/RECEIVER LITIGATION. Just now US District Court Judge Reed O'Connor in Northern District of Texas has granted a motion for an INJUNCTION pending appeal filed by some of the intervenors in the VanDerStok case. Intervenor-Plaintiffs Defense Distributed and BlackHawk Manufacturing Group Inc. d/b/a [--] Percent Arms has secured an emergency injunction against DOJ and ATF pending appeal. Professor Smith Four Boxes Diner Video forthcoming. @2Aupdates @gunpolicy @MorosKostas @TheReloadSite @CamEdwards"
X Link 2023-09-14T14:07Z 12.2K followers, [----] engagements
"#2A BREAKING 2A NEWS: Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner breaks down today's BIG WIN In VanDerStok Ghost Gun case against ATF. This video gets super geeky about the differences in remedies of an an injunction versus the remedy of vacatur"
X Link 2023-09-14T18:26Z 13.7K followers, [----] engagements
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