Supreme Court takes up NRA coercion claim against former New York official

[Paladin]

Looks like we have a big win coming up:

Supreme Court takes up NRA coercion claim against former New York official

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the National Rifle Association's claim that a New York state official's alleged role in urging companies to end ties with the gun rights group constituted unlawful coercion.

The Anti-gunners are already racking this up as a loss... they just don't know how big of a loss yet:
A boneheaded state official may have just handed the NRA a big Supreme Court victory

[RoyGBiv]

I'm still trying to catch up on the part of that linked story that claims Carry Guard provided coverage for acts that were intentionally illegal...

Is this true?

[Paladin]

I'm still trying to catch up on the part of that linked story that claims Carry Guard provided coverage for acts that were intentionally illegal...

Is this true?

The radical left believes that having legal protection insurance which has a 100-year history is somehow illegal. Apparently it is for gun owners in certain states.

[Grayling813]

That was a very difficult article to read with such vile leftist propaganda being spewed by the author.

Of course the NRA-ILA article sounds much different.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/2023110 ... ree-speech

[philip964]

Looks like we have a big win coming up:

Supreme Court takes up NRA coercion claim against former New York official

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the National Rifle Association's claim that a New York state official's alleged role in urging companies to end ties with the gun rights group constituted unlawful coercion.

The Anti-gunners are already racking this up as a loss... they just don't know how big of a loss yet:
A boneheaded state official may have just handed the NRA a big Supreme Court victory

I searched and searched for the bonehead article. But Google wouldn’t find it for me. Thanks for posting. Wonder why Google couldn’t find it with all those algorithms and AI.

[Rafe]

I searched and searched for the bonehead article. But Google wouldn’t find it for me. Thanks for posting. Wonder why Google couldn’t find it with all those algorithms and AI.

It isn't just Google, but since most "search engine optimization" strategies focus on Google because it's the biggest, it's become pretty blatantly obvious that tons of useless stuff is showing up in search queries from Google even if you carefully structure the search strings. Here are a couple of relevant articles:

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/why ... se/472681/

https://www.theverge.com/features/23931 ... le-results

Google's advantage over something like DuckDuckGo isn't as apparent as it used to be, and I do more of my hunting around on DuckDuckGo.

[The Annoyed Man]

There’s a whole lot of pearl-clutching in that MSN article.

[Excaliber]

I searched and searched for the bonehead article. But Google wouldn’t find it for me. Thanks for posting. Wonder why Google couldn’t find it with all those algorithms and AI.

It isn't just Google, but since most "search engine optimization" strategies focus on Google because it's the biggest, it's become pretty blatantly obvious that tons of useless stuff is showing up in search queries from Google even if you carefully structure the search strings. Here are a couple of relevant articles:

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/why ... se/472681/

https://www.theverge.com/features/23931 ... le-results

Google's advantage over something like DuckDuckGo isn't as apparent as it used to be, and I do more of my hunting around on DuckDuckGo.

I've had good luck with the Brave search tool too.

[Rafe]

Yep; Brave is another. I know I steered this off-topic, and I promise I'll stop now. But as a real-world example I was working on a Microsoft Word document yesterday. The layout necessitated a non-breaking space before the number in a date, and I blanked on the shortcut to enter one. Went to Google. Tried three different search strings for something I thought would be very straightforward (BTW, I've found--I guess over the course of the past 6 or 8 months--that I always have to add "-youtube" to any queries because anything even potentially related to the search that's on YouTube gets shoved up near the top...’course, Alphabet Inc, Google's parent, also owns YouTube). Not a single, useful, first-page result returned by any of the three searches. Even specifying "microsoft word" still got me general Windows 10 and 11 keyboard shortcuts totally unrelated to the Office products. Just bizarre. But then, Google doesn't much like you searching for Microsoft stuff.

Went to DuckDuckGo. First search, first two items. Bingo; right there in the description summaries. Ctrl+Shift+Space.