June 14th, 2019

President Donald Trump claimed Friday that 106,000 people have requested tickets to see his re-election launch next week at a 20,000-seat Florida arena. Hours later his campaign announced that a carnival atmosphere will greet the overflow crowd outside the Amway Center in Orlando, complete with food and entertainment. The '45 Fest' will start 10 hours before the 8:00 p.m. rally, and will include food trucks, jumbo TV screens for the overflow crowd and live music. Should 106,000 Trump fans show up, the mass of MAGA humanity would be nearly twice the size of an average day's attendance at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, a half-hour drive away.

From the Daily Caller, written by Michael Hammond, the legislative counsel for Gun Owners of America, a gun rights organization representing more than two million gun owners:

First, Attorney General William Barr announced the creation of a working group to consider ways to enforce the Lautenberg misdemeanor gun ban...

Secondly, additionally, at the request of the Justice Department, the Supreme Court turned down a petition to review whether suppressors are protected by the Second Amendment...

Also at the behest of the Trump administration, roughly 500,000 bump stock owners continue to be outlaws, while challenges to their ex post facto regulatory ban continue to drag on through the courts.

Lastly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi loaded the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization with reams of gun control — and Republicans may sign off on it... Now, we are being told that some Senate Republican offices would like to negotiate with Democrats — deleting some gun control provisions but keeping others. And all of this happens while Donald Trump, in a public love-fest with Piers Morgan, publicly muses about how he could eliminate NFA-regulated suppressors...

And — oh, yes — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is still holding up the possibility of cutting a deal with anti-gun Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to encourage the use of gun confiscation orders in all 50 states...

While neither of these groups are monolithic, the voters in these categories who hate Trump are not going to flip because of his support for gun control.
And, while I’m not suggesting that gun owners will vote for Joe Biden, they could stay home. Or sit on their hands. If Trump loses the western tier of counties in Pennsylvania, plus Macomb County, Michigan and Florida’s “Redneck Riviera,” then he probably loses the presidency...

But betting against the Second Amendment has never been a winning strategy — for Democrats or Republicans.

Good article, but here's something that needs to be said in regards to the bump-stocks and suppressors.

Bump stocks are not covered explicitly by any law in USC ergo the ATF can reclassify them as they see fit (to a degree) due to several reasons. The bump stock reclassification is actually something Trump might actually have the power to do pending SCOTUS results.

However, something Trump, i.e. POTUS, doesn't have the power to do is rewrite congressional law with a wave of his had. This is what he would have to do in order to ban the possession of suppressors as they are explicitly covered by US law, specifically the 1934 NFA.

...the proposed RAM cell deploys a monolithically integrated...

It's a single thing.

...InP optical Flip-Flop...

It can store 0 or 1 and changed with light.

...and a Semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach–Zehnder Interferometer...

It uses a laser beam. The laser beam is split into two. One beam goes through the memory cell. By combining the two beams again, you can see if the light has been affected (phase shifted) by going through the memory cell and thus whether it was storing 0 or 1.

The Space Corps amendment was offered by the HASC Strategic Forces subcommittee leaders Chairman Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Mike Rogers (R-Ala.)... Like the Marine Corps, the Space Corps would be led by a four-star Commandant who would be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The HASC amendment will have to be reconciled with the language in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2020 NDAA, which authorizes a U.S. Space Force led by a four-star Commander.

U.S. appeals court handed President Donald Trump a victory in his effort to ban most transgender people from the military, ordering a judge to reconsider her ruling against the policy, which the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to take effect. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday set aside a ruling by U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove.

ICE agents last conducted a raid across Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin that resulted in the arrest of 140 illegal aliens, five of whom were women and the other 135 of whom were men. Almost a third of the illegal aliens arrested in the raid, 42 in total, had prior criminal records and convictions but continued to live illegally in the U.S. after serving time. Those criminal records include convictions for crimes such as domestic violence, drunk driving, drug trafficking, identity theft, and causing hit-and-run accidents.

The full extradition hearing to decide whether Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be sent to the United States to face accusations including spying charges will take place in February next year, a London court ruled on Friday... Assange, dressed in a grey T-shirt and wearing black-framed glasses, appeared by videolink for the short hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. As Ben Brandon, the lawyer representing the United States, ran through a summary of the accusations against him including that he had cracked a U.S. defense network password, Assange said: “I didn’t break any password whatsoever”.

WATCH: Supporters of Julian Assange demonstrate outside the Wikileaks founder's hearing...

The measure requires that local law enforcement agencies cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Jails holding illegal immigrants subject to deportation must now comply with requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold the migrants so that agents can pick them up. Local officials who fail to cooperate face potential removal and possible litigation by the state attorney general...

the third member of the department to commit suicide this month, sources told The Post. The officer was found inside of a vehicle on Wilcox St., behind the 121st Precinct with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound just before 4 p.m., the sources said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Sources described the cop as a domestic violence officer with 7 years on the job. He was off duty when he took his life.

“Today, the General Counsels of several major banks met with Attorney General Barr and leadership of the newly formed Transnational Elder Justice Strike Force to discuss the growing problem of elder fraud. The conversation centered on how financial institutions can better collaborate with the Department to apply successful programs and protocols to identify and prevent international criminals from targeting senior Americans at home...

ICE has recorded cases of either mumps or chicken pox in 39 immigrant detention centers nationwide, an ICE official tells CNN. Of the 5,200 detainees in quarantine across those centers, around 4,200 are for exposure to mumps. Around 800 were exposed to chicken pox and 100 have been exposed to both.

These companies include major financial organizations like Visa and Mastercard, and internet darlings like PayPal, Uber, Stripe, and Booking.com. Each will invest around $10 million to fund development of the currency, and will become part of the Libra Association, an independent consortium that will govern the digital coin independently of Facebook...

The cryptocurrency, which will reportedly be called Libra, will be unveiled on June 18th, according to TechCrunch, with a full release planned for 2020. It’s expected to function as a “stablecoin,” meaning it will be pegged to a basket of government-issued currencies in order to limit the volatility typically associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin...

A new Sikorsky Presidential VH-92A (future Marine One) helicopter takes off from the South Lawn of the White House this afternoon after a practice run... pic.twitter.com/MmAoXP2XYI

— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸 (@Scavino45) June 14, 2019

Longtime aviation enthusiast President Donald Trump toured the new Presidential VH 92 helicopter on the White House South Lawn Friday. The VH 92 helicopter, which will be placed in service in 2020, made a practice landing on the South Lawn Friday morning. The tour was closed to press, the helicopter departing White House grounds toward the Washington Monument and past the Jefferson Memorial later Friday.Earlier this week, the Navy awarded a $542 million contract for six new helicopters to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company. The contract also includes interim contractor support, initial spares, support equipment and system parts replenishment, according to the Defense Department.

The Trump administration has already taken significant steps to help, and Thursday we took another one. A new Trump administration rule will provide an estimated 800,000 businesses a better way to offer coverage and millions of workers a better way to obtain coverage, through the expansion of Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs). HRAs are employer-funded arrangements that workers use to pay for medical expenses... Starting on January 1, 2020, employers will be able to offer their workers HRAs to buy individual market coverage for themselves and their families.

Valery Plotnikov, a top researcher at the local branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said the animal belonged to an ancient subspecies of wolf that lived at the same time as the mammoths and became extinct alongside them. Scientists said it was an adult, about 25% bigger than today's wolves, but did not say whether it was male or female...

After Mr. Schuette left office in January and was replaced by Dana Nessel, a Democrat, there were signs of a change in course. Todd Flood, the lead prosecutor appointed by Mr. Schuette, was dismissed. New prosecutors assigned by Ms. Nessel expressed concern about evidence collection and seized Mr. Snyder’s phone. Then Ms. Nessel’s team dropped all charges on Thursday and pledged to investigate more, saying “all evidence was not pursued”...

The prosecutors overseeing the case, Fadwa Hammoud and Kym Worthy, blamed missteps by the previous prosecution team for their decision. They said they would continue investigating the water crisis...

“Legitimate criminal prosecutions require complete investigations. Upon assuming responsibility of this case, our team of career prosecutors and investigators had immediate and grave concerns about the investigative approach and legal theories,” Ms. Hammoud and Ms. Worthy said in a statement.