“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”
— Thomas Sowell
May 15, 2026
I spent 9 years as a leftist. I protested. I made crazy demands. I accepted no responsibility. No accountability.
But then I turned 10.
— French Ironman Éric (@RickJoh44846997) May 14, 2026
In its amended complaint against Washington DC's "assault weapon" ban, the US DOJ has now added a claim that the District's total ban on suppressors is also unconstitutional. pic.twitter.com/diptits9Zv
— SAF (@2AFDN) May 14, 2026
‘Unprecedented Threat’: IED Discovered Near Dam Considered Critical National Infrastructure
On Tuesday, during routine repair and maintenance at the Converse Reservoir dam in Mobile, Alabama, the divers assessing the dam discovered an improvised explosive device (IED). This is serious and should have gotten more attention than it is currently receiving.
The multi-agency effort included the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, FBI Bomb Squad, Mobile Police Department Explosive Ordinance Detail, ALEA Bomb Squad and the Daphne Search and Rescue Team.
The Converse Reservoir dam at Big Creek Lake is the municipal reservoir for the County of Mobile. It is the sole water supply for the region, and the main source of drinking water for the city of Mobile and other municipalities. According to the Partners for Environmental Progress, the reservoir provides approximately 60 million gallons of water per day.
The fact that the threat was an IED — something engineered for a specific level of detonation and damage — indicates planning and specific targeting. With the recent IED attacks in New York and the rise of threatened and attempted domestic terrorism incidents across the nation, the fact that an IED was placed in the midst of critical infrastructure is concerning.
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Five federal and local agencies is a great deal of manpower deployed for one explosive device. The fact that not much information is being given indicates there may well be more to this story than is being revealed. From what the director of Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS) is saying, they are treating this unprecedented threat seriously.
“Our top priority is keeping your drinking water safe,” said Bud McCrory, MAWSS director. “This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals. We are grateful for the professionalism and competency of our law enforcement partners – as well as the quick thinking of our contractors and divers – in identifying this device and safely destroying it.”
The reservoir and dam are federally designated critical infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been made aware of the incident.
There have been legal battles going on with MAWSS and fishermen, citizens, and advocacy groups over public access to this waterway. Dependent upon the level placed on this threat and what an investigation uncovers, this could weigh in the direction of restricting the public from the reservoir area. Either way, one hopes that Homeland Security and federal infrastructure security officials are addressing this unprecedented threat and reassessing protections for similar sites nationwide. My first thought is drone surveillance and more consistent security sweeps of the dam’s infrastructure.
Makes you wonder how much of ‘rising medical costs’ is just fraud, is just people stealing money. https://t.co/WtdZQE5Xkq
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) May 14, 2026
New Jersey may have slipped up while defending its ammo ban
Attorneys for the state of New Jersey may have made a significant error while trying to fend off a Second Amendment challenge to the state’s ban on civilian possession of hollow-point ammunition in most circumstances.
The state prohibited civilians from carrying the rounds, which are almost universally used by law enforcement, in public as part of a 1978 overhaul of its criminal code, the only state to maintain such a restriction. In a lawsuit filed in February 2025 by Gun Owners of America (GOA) and other pro-Second Amendment organizations on behalf of Heidi Bergmann-Schoch in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the groups sought to have that prohibition thrown out as a violation of the Second Amendment.
“New Jersey must show a broad and enduring historical tradition, circa 1791, denying Americans’ right to carry a firearm, loaded with ammunition used by all other Americans in other states, outside the home for self-defense,” the initial complaint said. “Because New Jersey cannot make such a showing, the challenged restrictions violate the Second Amendment.”
“By invoking the international law of war and the practices of the U.S. military, Defendants hoist themselves with their own petard,” a reply brief filed Thursday adds. “Defendants’ sources prove that HPBs do not cause ‘unnecessary suffering,’ nor are they restricted for use in warfare. Rather, HPBs were originally developed for hunting, and are widely used by military and police units, and tens of millions of American citizens – nationwide.”
Hollow-point ammunition has been widely used by law enforcement and civilians for personal protection and other lawful purposes for decades. In a 1994 video interview, Massad Ayoob, a police officer who was an expert witness in the use of lethal force in self-defense, explained why hollow-point rounds were preferred for personal protection.
“I think the history both of military battle and police gunfight shows us that hard ball round that is, jacketed round nose, for jacketed round nose round, the nine-millimeter is justly infamous as an impotent man stopper and the .45 [ACP] is justly famous as, eh, being a pretty good man stopper,” Ayoob said in the interview, going on to note that both rounds tended to “perforate” – that is to exit the body of the target and potentially harm bystanders.
Muskets like those from 1776 are mostly exempt from today’s gun laws
HALIFAX, N.C. (AP) — With 165 grains of black powder in the barrel, a .75-caliber Brown Bess flintlock musket like the ones the redcoats carried in 1776 can hurl a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet (305 meters) per second.
Imagine what that can do to a human body. Now, imagine that it’s almost completely exempt from gun regulations.
How can that be? Well, under federal and most state laws, many antique or replica guns aren’t technically considered firearms. In most places, even convicted felons can own them.
“I suspect the average judge would be surprised to find that out,” says Second Amendment scholar and gun-rights attorney Dave Hardy, himself the proud owner of two Civil War-era long guns.
Socialism… pic.twitter.com/8ejyrkXk2k
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 14, 2026
Rep. @rosadelauro points out these “nonpartisan" anti-gun groups like @NewtownAction could lose their taxpayer funding.
Womp. Womp. If a group is lobbying for gun control, taxpayers should not be forced to fund it. https://t.co/D7q1oQsvkN pic.twitter.com/potp8Ksm47
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) May 13, 2026
If you don’t understand why the Electoral College exists, you are the reason the Electoral College exists.
May 14, 2026
FDA Doctors Linked Child Deaths to COVID Vaccines – Biden Admin Stayed Silent
While the Biden administration was telling parents the COVID vaccines were safe for their children, its own FDA doctors were quietly reviewing files on 96 dead kids and concluding that some of them had probably been killed by the shots.
They wrote it up. They classified it as new safety information under federal law. And they never told the public.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released the records this week, referenced in a May 11, 2026, letter directed to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge was first to report them.
“The key document is a December 5, 2025, FDA memorandum. It covers 96 pediatric deaths following COVID-19 vaccination reported to VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a federal database where patients and doctors report side effects following vaccination. FDA medical officers reviewed every case, including autopsy reports, death certificates, and medical records, and classified seven as “possibly” or “probably” related to the vaccine. Five of those seven deaths involved myocarditis.
The agency concluded those fatal cases constituted “new safety information” under federal law, information that was never added to the vaccine’s warning label. Not while the Biden administration was mandating the shots. Not while it was pressuring parents. Not while it was dismissing anyone who raised concerns as an anti-vaxxer.
The children were mostly boys. Median age: 13. Age range: 7 to 16. Every death occurred between 2021 and 2022, the height of the government’s vaccination campaign targeting children. All seven probable and possible cases involved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. These were not statistics. These were children with autopsy reports and death certificates that FDA doctors reviewed, flagged, and quietly shelved.
Those 96 deaths are almost certainly a fraction of the real toll. An HHS-commissioned Harvard study found that fewer than one percent of vaccine adverse events are ever reported to VAERS. As of March 2026, VAERS is reporting 39,077 deaths worldwide following COVID-19 vaccination. The FDA memo itself does not extrapolate from that figure, but the systematic underreporting it acknowledges means the true scope of pediatric harm may never be fully known.
The underreporting was only part of the problem. The system was also deliberately broken.
Why Does Capital One Consider Lawful Gun Sales to be a ‘Prohibited Industry’?
Capital One, the corporate banking giant, has an advertising tagline that asks, “What’s in your wallet?” For one Maryland gun shop, the answer to that question appears to be a banking giant that ignores a White House executive order and dismisses Treasury Department regulations that forbid banking discrimination.
Capital One Financial Corporation has been in business since 1994 and the McLean, Va., international banking giant with over $475 billion in assets boasts that it offers credit cards, auto loans, checking and savings accounts and commercial banking services. That is, unless the customer happens to be a firearm retailer.
Just ask Jonathan Bennett, owner of United Gun Shop in Rockville, Md. Bennett tried using Capital One’s payment platform, administered by Melio Payments, for business and billing transactions. The firearm retailer had previously used the payment platform without issue. That changed on April 11, 2025, when Bennett met with Capital One after services were cancelled without notice. That cost Bennett’s business $75,000 in damages and disrupted services.
According to reporting by The Daily Wire, Bennett was surprised to learn that his business — legally selling firearms to law-abiding citizens — was considered to be in a “prohibited industry” by the big bank.
Bennett’s not rolling over on the illegal de-banking. He’s making Capital One and Melio Payments answer in court. His lawsuit alleges the two banking service providers blocked United Gun Shop from “making future payments” before disabling the business from completing payment transactions.
Lord give me the confidence of Giffords being wrong about every prior prediction they've made, and yet still making more predictions https://t.co/kxyop9O2Dq
— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) May 13, 2026
Good Guy with Gun Helped Stop Cambridge Shooter
A former Marine “who was legally carrying a gun” helped Massachusetts State Police stop and apprehend a man shooting at cars in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday, according to Police1.
Breitbart News reported that the alleged attacker, 46-year-old Tyler Brown, opened fire on cars on Cambridge’s Memorial Drive around 1:30 p.m. CBS News noted that Brown was allegedly shooting at “passing cars” before being shot numerous times by a Massachusetts State Trooper.
On Tuesday, WHAS 11 pointed out that the officer did not act alone. They noted, “A State Trooper and a Marine veteran were nearby, jumping into action and shooting the suspect.”
NBC 10 observed that a witness said the former Marine came to her car at some point during the ordeal and shielded her so she could escape.
The witness said, “A man came, went around his car and pulled open my car door and made like a barricade. He had a gun and he told me to run, and I ran and then I just ran as fast as I could.”
Two individuals suffered life-threatening wounds from Monday’s attack.
Grassroots Judicial Report—May 13, 2026
By Tanya Metaksa
What’s New —SCOTUS—Patrick Tate Adamiak v. United States of America: Docket No. 25‑1190: Current certiorari petition before U.S. Supreme Court; Fourth Circuit’s ruling: The Fourth Circuit issued an unpublished per curiam opinion in United States v. Patrick Adamiak, No. 23‑4451 (4th Cir. 2025): U.S. District Court: Hawaii: Ninth District (United States District Court for the District of Hawaii); Justin Arnold, Bryan Garland, James Grell, Andrew White v. Hawaii County, non-residents can apply for Right-to-Carry permit in Hawaii.
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The U.S. Supreme Court meets on Thursday, May 14, to discuss cases. All 5 Second Amendment cases that have been relisted many times are on the list. Decisions will be announced on Monday, May 18, 2026.