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There are days…

I accidentally deleted The Vine of Liberty k8s deployment. I’ll have to make some updates, but I’m working on it.

Sorry,
AWA

Ok, Ok, I know it’s not there yet. Thank you so much, everybody, for your support.

Base functionality is here. I’ve done no theming yet. I had all the security plugins up and running before the site opened. I’m working towards getting the rest configured.

• The site is supposed to have an edit option. I think there is an issue with the ingress configuration which is stopping that.
• There is no store yet.  There will be soon, donations will be available there and on the sidebar.
• I’m accepting images for the banner.  I am terrible at that sort of thing.  What I would like is something similar to the current American patriot with mask, tricorn hat, AR-15, defending a vine growing in a desolate location.
• I need to set up some cross blog feeds.  I am not sure how that works.
• I will be pulling the PDFs from GFZ and having a PDF here.  I will add my collection of FMs, and firearm blueprints.
• I will be pulling all of my past postings from GFZ and adding them here.
• Email is mostly working, except for mine.  *Sigh,* nothing is easy.
• There is likely to be some sidebar advertisements.  I get a few gun related ads regularly.  Putting something in the sidebar to help offset costs doesn’t sound horrible.  Please let me know your thoughts.
• I am soliciting articles.  The requirements are simple, you have to have registered on the site.  The article needs to be provided in a word type document (Word, LibreOffice, Google Doc, etc.). It cannot be a sales article. You have to answer, “What is your favorite cartridge?” in the submission.
• The subscriptions will be back as soon as I figure out how.
• The posting schedule is 0630 Eastern Time, USA for me, plus random postings.

Thank you again for being here.

For those of you coming from GunFreeZone.net,  thank you for following us here.

Miguel has kindly allowed us to forward GFZ to The Vine of Liberty.

The story of why GFZ shutdown is below the fold.

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Short of it,

Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion of the court.  It seems very narrowly crafted.  It is not a loss for the Second Amendment Community.

Held: When an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another, that individual  may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment

— Rahimi 602 U.S. ____ (2024)

Sotomayor filed a concurring opinion with Kagan.  Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Jackson filed concurring opinions. Thomas filed a dissenting opinion.

It has been a rocky end to the week.  GFZ is closing down.  I will be discussing with Miguel what goes, what stays, how long it is up, what might get archived elsewhere.

Currently, there are two official contributors to this site, Hagar and I. I will be posting under my given name moving forward to help separate the “this is an official blog business post” from “this is a person writing”.

We still have the Illinois PICA cases waiting for cert.  They went back to conference and were heard today.

I apologize for the UGLY site.  Hagar is out doing her reenacting this weekend, I am not the “pretty picture” dude.   We’ll get some pretty pictures up soon enough and the site will look better.

Thank you for coming along for the ride.

Please add a comment if you got this far.  I really need to know that it is worthwhile going forward.