What Anti-Gun Candidates Introduced: The Freedom from Assault Weapons Act

Democrat Joe Biden declared he would put anti-gun former Congressman Beto O’Rourke in as point man on guns during a Dallas rally. (Screen snip, YouTube, MSNBC)

United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- If there is one development from the 2020 presidential primaries that Second Amendment supporters should view with concern, it is the fact that confiscation of modern multi-purpose semiautomatic firearms was not an immediate non-starter for those running for national office. If anything, it is, if not embraced, tolerated among one of the major political parties in the United States.

The candidate responsible for this was Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA), whose presidential campaign didn’t even make it to Iowa. The idea of an Australia-style ban on modern multi-purpose semiautomatic firearms was picked up by Beto O’Rourke, now designated as Joe Biden’s gun-control czar should Biden win the White House, after the El Paso shooting.

His agenda went further than the ban, but he has backed up his campaign trail talk with the action of filing a bill, HR 2959, the Freedom from Assault Weapons Act. Swalwell began to push an Australia-style gun ban in 2018. However, he did not introduce legislation until the 116th Congress, which was controlled by Democrats.

That tactic is not unusual. Representative Bobby Rush has sporadically introduced the Blair Holt Firearm Owner Licensing and Record of Sale Act, usually when Democrats had control of at least one house of Congress. The only exception was in 2018, in the wake of the Parkland shooting.

Swalwell’s intentions may have been known, but the text of his legislation gives us an idea of how he intended to implement the ban. There is a lengthy list of firearms banned by name – and it goes far beyond the AR-15. Among the banned semiautomatics are copies of the famous Thompson submachine gun, Hi-Point’s affordable pistol-caliber carbines, and even Kel-Tec’s collapsible SUB-2000 rifle. Even if the semiauto in question is in .22 long rifle, it is banned.

In addition to the named firearms, there are generic characteristics that will put the firearm on the banned list. This is not like 1994 – if it even has one item on a list of features, you will have to turn it in if the bill becomes law and is upheld. A lot of standard-capacity magazines will also be banned if Swalwell’s bill is enacted.

Swalwell’s bill does list a number of firearms that are exempted – but it should be noted no handguns whatsoever are on that list. How generous of the Congressman, he’s not completely stripping away our rights.

Three months after the bill is enacted, BATF is to start a buyback program that will last for two years. At which point, you get back the retail price of the firearms you have to turn in. This is supposed to expiate the injustice of being punished for crimes and acts of madness Americans who exercised their Second Amendment rights did not commit.

Second Amendment supporters instinctively understand no amount of money can make such an injustice right. This is a bill that can only be opposed, and when they contact their Senators and Representative, Second Amendment supporters should politely but firmly impress upon them that this is one bill on which no compromise or middle ground exists. The only correct course is for this bill to be voted down, or filibustered.


 

About Harold Hutchison

Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.

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Cruiser

Shame on any Gun Owner who votes Democrat!

StWayne

Amen Brother! A vote for a democrat is a vote for socialism.

Deplorable Bill

I suppose it would be too much to ask the writers/legislators of their own treasonous laws show up at MY house first. They are going to keep on writing their treasonous laws and one day, maybe soon, it’s going to get bloody. I’m a vet, I fought terrorism, tyrants, dictators, socialists and communists. All of my work was overseas. Now the threats to humanity are in my country. Some of them are running for president. Many of them hold office. Some are judges, some are lawyers and many are law enforcers. These people have disavowed their oath to the nation,… Read more »

Will Flatt

You might never see these confiscators if you wait at home; there will be ten million pissed off Americans who are going to actively hunt down all the tyrants, traitors, and jack-booted thugs long before they likely get to you. You’ll only get the leavings.

Finnky

@WF – previous service to our great nation left @DB disabled. I read his post as willingness to serve again if called upon. However I also think he’s done his share, so it is only fair for the rest of us to take our turn. I doubt he would complain as long as the work get some done.

Will Flatt

Wow, thanks Finnky. I didn’t know DB was disabled. (Filing that away for future reference.) I’m disabled somewhat as well, but disability can run on a spectrum. Some being more than others. I’m just thankful I can walk nowadays. 8 years ago I was literally on heavy painkillers just to be able to tolerate simply being, and going to the can was an absolute nightmare. I still have chronic pain but I’ve regained some mobility so I’m very thankful. We’ll all do what we can when we can as best as we can.

Deplorable Bill

Guys, I aint dead yet. There are MANY who are worse off than I and they are not standing down, so…. The people calling themselves democrats are socialists/communists/progressive, left leaning despots in very thin disguise. The two communists in the photo have already stated their willingness and zeal to disarm any/every American citizen who has or may have any semi automatic firearm namely AR-15’s and AK-47’s (for now). I expect when they actually get around to trying it, they will do so piece meal using the batfe or the fbi to start with. The day will come when they run… Read more »

Will Flatt

DB, nobody’s accusing you of putting one foot in the graveside, LOL. Yeah keep your kit handy and the tendies close by. Things are gonna get sporty in short order.

Deplorable Bill

@W.F. I know. I absolutely believe things are very likely to go sideways. Basic food stores are drying up. Ammo for sale is difficult to find. There are entire states on lock down. I hope everybody already has a good supply of beans, beacon and bullets. I saw guys out on the range who had obviously never held a firearm in their life. I was able to help a late stage 3 guy qualify for the security detail. He used a 380 Smith believe it or not.

Arm up, carry on.

Dave in Fairfax

DB, Maybe I’m wrong, but I figured that most of us had “park where you feel like” stickers on their cars.

Will Flatt

@DiF – Yeah I had one of those when I was a strapping young man. It said “POLICE – OFFICIAL BUSINESS” on it and I’d throw it on the dash whenever I had to pull up somewhere and duck inside for something. To be honest, I can’t say I miss it.

Dave in Fairfax

WF, Now I’m jealous. %-) Mine just says, “Gimp”.

Will Flatt

That’s what I have now, since I was hurt line-of-duty and put off work for good. I’ll take what I can get. But before that, I had the “gold card” and a “company car”. 😉

Doszap

I am down, been preparing for years, sighted in four smoke poles(semi’s) and have a LR Bolt set up for the NEVER knew where it came from shots.More mag loading today.

StWayne

Finnky-

I too, am a disabled vet from Desert Storm. Like DB, I am willing to serve again if called upon. Will probably be leading the charge. This, just as sure as I served on President Trump’s security team on 10 OCT 2019 at the Target Center in Minneapolis, MN. All night long ANTIFA this and ANTIFA that.

Death doesn’t scare me, I’ve faced it down many times in my life. What scares me is not being able to confront these left wing assholes with the ferocity they deserve. Stay frosty.

Cruiser

I remember my U.S. History and I’m not “doomed to repeat it.”

Will Flatt

Great!! See you at the Liberty Tree. Stay frosty.

Finnky

@DB – unfortunately they would never show up in person. They will send a coordinated squad when you least expect it. Could almost feel sorry for the mislead goons – but too many have expressed excitement at being given legal cover for their murderous desires.

Best of luck. I give thanks for those of you with skill and fortitude and give thanks for your service – past, present, and future.

StWayne

From what I can tell, you Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

Doszap

DB I am in your AO, know any trustworthy like minded Patriots?,we can team up.
Have everything to gain by NON COMPLIANCE.Everything to lose by KISSING their RING.

Dave in Fairfax

Finnky, AO is Area of Operations.

Major Tom

This is actually good news for the President and anyone that supports the 2A. I can’t wait to see just how many of the left will wind up voting for Trump due to this BS.

Wild Bill

@MJ Tom, Thank you for your service and welcome to this site.

Oldman

@MJ Tom, Biden is obviously going to be the candidate, which means, of course a return to Obamasalama. Been reading Gregg Jarret’s book, “Witchhunt”. Biden was in on the meeting in the whitehouse with Comey, Brennan, et al right after the election in 2016. This was a conspiracy from the very top down to rewrite the election. Does anyone in their right mind believe that Trump has no reason to be upset with the liberal state run news? It was a HOAX!

Country Boy

NAZI Eric Swalwell wants you now to turn in your AR15/semiauto rifles/handguns. last time he wanted to nuke us I believe Nazi Swalwell is a mental deficient and should thus be removed/impeached from office for failing to uphold the US Constitution and Bill of Rights,

Molon Labe, if ya come for mine ya better bring yours.

Cruiser

Something needs to be done with the Idiots who vote these scumbags into office in the first place. People,(Democrats) know who and what you are voting for.

Doszap

Swallow well is history, BETO OFART and DEMENTIA JOE are PUBLIC enemy #1and #2.Both fooked up COMMIE BASTARDS.

Doszap

If the Dems win they lose, they will start a REVOLUTION the minute Any DEM majority is sworn in.
Anyone in a uniform,or comes to confiscate, will be shot on sight.NO RED BLOODED AMERICAN Male or female will put up with this SHIT for one second.

Wild Bill

@Dos, If the Dems start a revolution the minute any DEM majority is sworn in, then the DEMs will have the logistics, command structure, secure comms, and organic wepps to win that REVOLUTION that you prognosticate.

Justista

Not necessarily. Smart determined people will find a way. I doubt very much it will be like the civil war where both sides get all their army and gear together and march headlong into each other.
I guess more like the revolutionary war or the war fought by the North Vietnamese (Who won by the way). Smart and sneaky

Wild Bill

@Jus, you better read up on how Giap transformed the war from Viet Cong into NVA regulars. Giap engineered the Tet Offensive to get rid of the Viet Cong, and after that slaughter, the war was asymmetrical only to a limited degree.
War is all about logistics.

Wild Bill

@OV, Yes, the press and Students for a Democratic Society, government infiltrators, libtards, and presidents Johnson through Nixon did what the VC never could do.

Finnky

@WB – They would be our best hope as well. A few bungled government raids in which they slaughter entire families or even neighborhoods in pursuit of previously peaceful gun owners who were well known and liked by many, would quickly turn public opinion against any policy. Anyone willing to volunteer their neighborhood is as tyrannical as any democrat. If public sees it that way – government could turn the table, blaming their murders on us and further vilifying gun owners. “Friends”, families and neighbors would likely race to turn you in as a suspected gun owner to save their… Read more »

Wild Bill

@Finnky, If you don’t flesh out your assertion (and decline pronouns), people are going to think that your corn bread is not done in the middle.

Tionico

“asymetrical” is the term. Impossible to defeat, worse than Wack-a-Mole at the county fair. Worse beause they won’t even have a board with a bunch of holes where another mole can pop up. Next one might pop upBEHIND them from 600 yards away. HOW will they see that one? Read about some of the “dangerous old men and women” of the day of Lexington an Concord. Many did not march out in formation, drop to their knees, and fire their muskets at the other precisely arayed line. Nope. Hezekiah Wyman, Samuel Wittemore, David Lamson, John Parker and his men from… Read more »

Finnky

@Tionico – Do you think LEO is entirely incapable of reading history? They’ve got decades of experience in urban warfare and obviously our political masters are skilled at public relations warfare. They would adjust quite quickly to any new “criminal” approach.

Many LEO are good people and (for most part) doing good work.

Really no point or benefit to surrendering morality through aggression directed at LEO. Focus on the head of the snake from which the poison flows.

Ansel Hazen

HANSOBS gentlemen, it will be HANSOBS. No organized government entity can effectively take on a completely decentralized response to tyranny. Especially when members of those organized government outfits become part of the citizens response.

Dave in Fairfax

Ansel, OK, I’ll bite, what’s HANSOBS mean?
I see that full term(abbreviation) thing didn’t last long.

Ansel Hazen

Heavily Armed Noncompliant Sons Of Bitch S

A term coined by Carl Bussjaeger who writes columns here, TTAG, and Zelman Partisans. It’s laid out near the end of this piece. Swift, Effective, and Decisive. No command structure required. I call it the local solution to a National problem.

https://bearbussjaeger.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/remedial-practical-civics-100-lesson-4-a-hunting-we-will-go/

Dave in Fairfax

Ansel, Thanks, i missed it.

Ansel Hazen

Shit I’m famous. 🙂

Interesting isn’t it that Bussjaegers ruminations don’t come up directly in goggle searches huh. I have to put the link in so it can be found.

In other news spent the afternoon with some HANSOBS in my area. I have a Trijicon rx06 mounted on my M&P15. I can hit a paper plate at 500 yards.

Dave in Fairfax

OV, I have no doubt that everything is archived. Back in the pre-Windows days, I’d turn off the X-Archive bit when I posted things.

Vern

Every time he said, “mah fellow Americans,” we dug in because orders came for us to not have a round in the chamber until we were fired on. Then the rockets and mortars would come in within two to three days. Yeah, LBJ was a real true commie/democrat, full American hater.

willyd

Vern; Also Lady Bird had controlling interest in BELL HELICOPTER at that time, who padded who’s pocket?

Vern

Vehicles owned by her construction companies in country were never fired on, only when we went through the same areas we were fire on. LBJ was not liked by those of us he was giving orders to, to defend his money making entities.

ShooterOne

Not without a fight. They will take my weapons when they pry it from my cold dead hands. I also have have a good aim so I will not be the first casualty.

ARM UP AND CARRY ON!!!

Oldman

@Dos, The problem is: We red blooded Americans are outnumbered at least four to one. This is what happens with the moral decay of Society. Lack of parental upbringing, lack of decent schooling, belief in oneself instead of Almighty God, I could go on but won’t. Saw a show on Fox a couple of months back and most of the younger generation that were interviewed on the streets didn’t even know what the Bill of Rights was or how it came into being.

ShooterOne

I have been saying the same thing for too many years now.

ARM UP AND CARRY ON

Finnky

@DZ – How will you know that someone in uniform is there for confiscation? Will you simply shot the mailman for wearing a uniform while making her rounds? How about paramedics called for your neighbor’s heart attack? If you follow through with your threats and wipe out the first group, will you be able to break out from second wave? Hope you have a plan and a loyal, dedicated network willing to put their (and their families’j lives on the line for you., you will need it.

What @WB said!

Will Flatt

Harold, your writing is improving. Keep it up. You stuck to the facts and didn’t pontificate. Good on you – Keep it up and don’t ever stop!! That being said, aint no way in hell that TENS OF MILLIONS will ever comply with that. They’ll do a helluva LOT more than “Not Comply”, but will wage insurgency on the tyrants anytime, anywhere, and without mercy. Yes, I mean “The Boogaloo”. And when that day comes, I hope these commie pukes keep in mind, THEY EARNED WHAT’S COMING TO THEM. Now this is where the trolls will chime in with ahole… Read more »

StWayne

WF —

I actually like what you had to say. I’ve said that very thing many times in the past myself. There is a day that will be coming–a day of reckoning–because the left is the one spoiling for this fight. It will once more, be the Patriots who take it to them. Stay frosty.

Doszap

To kill a RATTLESNAKE you CUT THE HEAD off, not the tail,I will make it my END of life mission to to take out COMMAND CENTRAL HEADS.

Will Flatt

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” – Henry David Thoreau.

By all means strike the root!! Also, consider the blog of Mike “III%” Vanderboegh where a fan with the USMC MOS for Scout/Sniper writes him, promising to collect “100 heads” if TPTB were to murder Vanderboegh. We should all have 100 heads in mind to collect.

StLPro2A

CAUTION!! Lefttard/Socialists are not stupid. They don’t want you to, but they know you have guns. Yeah, a very small number of you are well prepared preppers. But, they also know most 2Aers live paycheck to paycheck, have a wifey (and probably an ex- or two), several crumb crunchers needing braces and glasses and allergy shots and football registration, house mortgage, two car loans, boat and RV payments, big insurance payments, would be couch cushion diving to scrape up $400 for an emergency expense. real estate and personal property taxes are due, and have to be at work 7:00 AM… Read more »

Will Flatt

Shut up, doomer. Freedom will always be worth fighting for. You talk like you think you know something. Take away a man’s world and leave him nothing like you suggest, shutting off his ability to function in society, and then he’s got nothing left to live for. At which point you just turned him into an insurgent. No, if TPTB were really smart, they would keep everything running, keep you running on the mouse wheel, keep you plugged into their system, keep you pacified. You know nothing. Correction, you know LESS than nothing. You don’t even know what you don’t… Read more »

Gindy

WF – well said! There are far more, than realized, of people prepared, organized, dedicated, and unencumbered with debt. And God only knows how many preregistration firearms are still in capable hands!

Nuff said!

Will Flatt

And taxidermy dogs filled with tannerite…

Gindy

@OV……that’s the key right there! The entire foundation of it all!

Will Flatt

I’ve seen him before, several times in the past year. And I’m certain you’re right.

Gindy

One thing we all seem to forget is a tactic Hitler used very effectively. The snitches laced within communities and organizations were huge in providing information so that he could wisk out the possible threats before anything could possibly rise up. Don’t think for a minute that his tactic has been forgotten! Hitler wasn’t the first and won’t be the last to use it.

Being vigilant is very important! Make sure everybody in your boat is rowing and not drilling holes when you’re not looking! KNOW YOUR CIRCLE!!!!!!

Wild Bill

@G, And at this site, too.

Wild Bill

@USA, And don’t forget fed gov. LE agencies have programs that search the web for key words. The Fat Boy Institute has Carnavor, the Secret Service has Triggerfish, the NSA has Blarney and Stellar Wind, and that was just when I was in gov. All those agencies and more probably have even more thorough search programs by now.

Dave in Fairfax

USA & WB, As was pointed out to me by a relative who wouldn’t be more specific, “Given your history and what you’re doing on-line, assume that you’re being observed.” It came up because I mentioned that trade-craft was slipping. I came home after a long day of prearranged appts to find things subtly out of place and safe keys out of order. if I was paranoid, I’d think that someone took pictures so they’d know where things went, but didn’t notice how far back things were on shelves of other subtle differences.

Dave in Fairfax

USA, I don’t doubt it, actually. When I came home and looked for something and found that it was turned to the opposite handedness, I became very curious, I took a good look at things. My wife was skeptical until we went into the bedroom and she realized that things on her dresser weren’t “quite” right. That’s when I went and looked at my key ring and realized that it hadn’t been put back with the keys facing the right direction or the correct key on top. Yes, I checked to make sure firing pins were still in place, NOT… Read more »

Knute

Because it was a “sneak and peek” raid, and not a shoot and loot” type of raid. Hopefully, they found your place to be harmless and went off to harass someone else.

Dave in Fairfax

Knute, I guess time will tell. I don’t see anything added. I’m a bit disappointed in them though, this was sloppy the relative said it must have been a trainee.

Wild Bill

@DIF, Time for counter measures: shuffle the house numbers; discretely placed game camera pointing toward the house; decoy video cameras where they can be seen; mutual support agreements with neighbors; and think about moving your stuff offsite some night.

Knute

Like a certain project, named for a certain, four-letter color, and then the word “beam” after it? And why we have to talk in riddles some times? Like now? 🙂

Wild Bill

@DIF, I’m sure that it was just your insurance carrier, just trying to be helpful.

Dave in Fairfax

WB, I’m sure that’s what it was. One of my cameras was moved as well. I’ll let it go and just see what happens. If they wanted in, they’d have shown up already, I’m not going to sweat it. There’s nothing to see unless it’s planted, and I’m not breaking any laws, so it doesn’t make much sense to waste resources on me. Next subject…

Wild Bill

@DIF, You are right, of course, but then again DJT broke no laws, either.

Dave in Fairfax

WB, True Dat. But another RR or Waco wouldn’t help the image much, so I’m not worried. OTOH, if I go dark, you’ll know I was wrong. %-)

Knute

Like “Endeavour” which searches by context, whereas carnavor just ate everything, thus the name.

Gene Ralno

Pretty funny. Democrats want freedom from something they cannot yet define. Kinda’ like a bogeyman.

Will Flatt

“Trying to defeat a bogeyman with a strawman is no way to go through life, son.”
– Dean Wormer, Faber College (date unknown)

Arny

Good for you Harold. You’re seeing the light. Don’t give them a inch, for they will want a mile. And with who money will they use to buy back ? For mine is not for sale. They can pass all the laws they like. I for one will not abide to something I got no vote on. No one in DC represent me for I AM MAN.

TNJEWBOY

If we hand in our guns to the government either piecemeal or all at once what is going to protect us from the government?

Ej harbet

Unicorn fartz, of course im being fecesious.

KenW

Eric Swalwell will be better remember as the one who farted on national TV during an interview that as a POTUS candidate. Swalwell doesn’t do anything without Adam Schiff’s permission, he is Schiff’s puppy. Back when Feinstein introduced her assault weapons ban the wording of semi-automatic could have been applied to any double barreled gun with a single trigger. you can bet there’s similar wording. Yes so much for keeping your shotgun and its only about AR’s. With this ChiComFlu for U epidemic and people waking up to the fact that “Hey the media is a bunch of lying bastards… Read more »

JoeUSooner

I will NOT comply. If that ridiculous piece of legislation passes… there will (not “might” or “may” or “could,” but will) be bloodshed. If those idiot Democrats want Civil War, THAT law is the perfect way to start it.

Will Flatt

We’re done asking nicely. These commie pukes can back the hell off, RFN, or we’ll unleash hell on them. Tens of millions of supremely pissed off Americans – “A rifle behind every blade of grass” – is one enemy you don’t wanna pick a fight with.

Finnky

@Joe – Suppose I might comply eventually, but I value life and freedom far to much to do so. My morals, though some might say squeamishness, would make complying virtually impossible for me even if I had the skills.

Not referring to the letter of the law, but to deeper requirements as it is really a call to assassinate supporting politicians.

Their death threats are no less offensive for being phrased as legalities.

SEMPAI

@Finnky
I might comply eventually? SAY IT ISN’T SO we need you in the fight against tyranny. Remember the Alamo

Finnky

@SEMPAI – I remain resistant to the subtext of these bills, which is the call for proactive violence. I remain committed to achieving political solutions while engaging in nonviolent opposition as long as necessary. I see these bills as a call to assassinate the bills authors, I won’t comply with that call. They push this in hope that freedom lovers will engage in active violence first as that would dramatically strengthen their hand – possibly allowing to unleash all governmental powers in their quest for tyranny. Swalwell was speaking for many when he expressed willingness to use nukes on Americans… Read more »

Dave in Fairfax

Finnky, I can appreciate your desire to maintain civil order and act through non-violent means to oppose the actions of unconstitutional laws and their makers. You are correct in your assessment of their actions as an attempt to instigate violence which they will then be justified in stamping out. I am sorry that you find yourself unable to stomach what may be needed if that bridge is reached. We all have our limitations, be they physical, emotional, mental or moral. Many of us, when reaching the end of our willingness to put up with the immoral actions of some legislators,… Read more »

Wild Bill

@Finnky, “… proactive action … beneficial … neatly … precision…” Why all that seriousness? We will just make it a National hobby. For example: see a politician and his family in the restaurant, kill as many of them as you can, on the spot, with a steak knife; see a politician out for his morning jog, run him down and cave in his head with a rock; recognize a politician on the GW bridge, use your truck to disable his car and your tire iron to beat him to death. See … just a hobby.

StWayne

But remember this: these hypocrites are armed!!!

Cruiser

Remember the “Golden Rule” because these politicians forgot. Try to use force on me, and you’ll get force in return. Don’t threaten me with confiscation. The Vietnam war taught me what to do and how to do it.

Finnky

@OV – I hope not. Just paranoid, and recognizing that I’m not likely to bring Grendel on a road trip to meet O’Rourke, Biden or bloomy. I suck with names and faces (well people in general ). Probably need to build portfolio listing names and actions along with photos. Hate for any of us to mistake an innocent for a politician as some things cannot be undone. Even with careful targeting – political fallout might not work as we hope. Consider reactions if antifa acted upon schiff’s call for violence against Supreme Court justices. Left can always use a few… Read more »

Doszap

Not a CIVIL WAR, a REVOLUTION.They will all be wiped out

Wild Bill

@Dos, Which “they” do you think will all be wiped out?

JIAZ

POTUS appoints SCOTUS, Trump 2020

Will Flatt

Tick tock, Ruthie.

Cruiser

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” That quote, attributed to Mark Twain.

Heed the Call-up

That is one scary, ugly pic. That is definitely on the top of my list of things I wish I hadn’t seen, and my list contains just one image.

Chuck

Democrats never remember or are unable to process that an extreme Left sided position on the 2nd Amendment is a recipe for defeat in a national election. Biden’ swing to an anti-gun stance and promise will cost him this election. He’s too stupid and senile to recognize this, and I’ll bet his handlers are Sh*tting themselves over this. Culo O’Dork had to withdraw from the 2020 race due to his extreme Left view on Gun Control (though he’s too ignorant as well to recognize that).

Finnky

@ buck – Pray that you are correct. Majority of voter support are not single issue voters, and many consider gun rights to be a minor issue. With SARS-Cov-2019 dominating the news (because it is dominating viewers minds) election is a toss up. I suspect we’ll see landslides in many states, not clear where we’ll fall as a nation. SAF, FPC, and GOA will need to be well funded for legal battles if B wins, but let’s focus on the political battle first – then fallback to the courts if necessary. Hopefully it won’t reach third line of defense as… Read more »

Wild Bill

Good News: A congressman representing a San Francisco Bay Area district is in critical condition after he was hospitalized with pneumonia after he fractured a rib, his chief of staff said Saturday,

U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier was admitted to a hospital of March 13 after he fractured a rib when he fell while running, Betsy Arnold Marr said in a statement.

Wild Bill

@USA, That’d be good!

Wild Bill

@USA, Here is something that you may like: https://www.reddit.com/r/JusticeServed/comments/fmz4j6/caught_on_gun_camera_police_shootout_with_man/

And why are you deleting all of your comments?

Core

Interesting to see what these autocrats try to sneak through during this viral crisis?

StWayne

It’s not the left, so much as it is their ideology. Hey! Wait a minute.

jfrich

Good Luck with Enforcing that!

cav2108

Author’s name was too long. Didn’t read. Drop dead Harold, you moron.

Wass

I am all for confiscatory gun laws, better yet, include handguns, since they are used in crime more than rifles. But the legislation must read that it will be applied to known criminals first.

Will Flatt

If you’re all for confiscation, come start with me you commie sonofab!tch. Cuz I aint giving up d!ck. I’ll have my stuff ready for you and when you get here I’ll let you have it.

SEMPAI

@Wass
Your a puss, never been in a fight ,can’t change your own oil or fix a flat tire and I’m betting you have a man bun..so shut the hell up millenial queer
And just so you know more people died in knife attacks in 2019 than were killed by guns..just dropping you some knowledge MAN BUN

Dave in Fairfax

Wass, I’ll give you the benefit of a doubt, for the moment, as to whether you’re a troll or not.

Please explain to me whether you believe that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land.
If you do, tell me how any confiscatory or limiting law is constitutional.
If not tell me why it is not.

Then explain to me how restricting law-abiding citizens’ right to own and bear arms will, in any way, negatively impact the behavior of criminals.

Wild Bill

@Wuss, Did you ever stop to think that if “the government” can confiscate my firearm, then “the government” can confiscate anyone’s personal property? You better look around your room and see all the things that “the government” could confiscate from you. Having said that, I will not reply to you again, so as to add to your propagandist paycheck.

Arny

@Wass FU DUDE !

Wild Bill

@Arny, Most poetic.

Doszap

Then move MOTHERF*$%E%,not happening.

StWayne

You in the wrong country asshole.

jack mac

Wass: People who abuse the right to arms for personal gain are criminals. Criminals pose no threat to the authority of officials, citizens adhering to the purpose of the 2nd Amendment do. Citizens, who hold to this right, are being made into law violators, outlaws, then designated criminal by our public servants. A fate that you seem to desire bestowed upon us.
It is to wonder how many “anti-gun” people will violently defend their not having a right. Let us know if you are one of them.

RJL

Time to quote various authors on this subject! Hoplophobia Hoplophobia is a political neologism coined by retired American military officer Jeff Cooper as a pejorative to describe an “irrational aversion to weapons.” It is also used to describe the “fear of firearms” or the “fear of armed citizens.” HOPLOPHOBIA. (1966) From the Greek___(weapon) plus __ (terror). An unreasoning, obsessive neurotic fear of weapons as such, usually accompanied by an irrational feeling that weapons possess a will or consciousness for evil, apart from the will of their user. Not equivalent to normal apprehension in the presence of an armed enemy. Hoplon… Read more »

None

Wass I can kill you with a fork just as quick as a gun anytime you want to play Patriots and commie fags look me up in Tampa

Finnky

@Wass.- Think I understand what you are suggesting, but consider that most proposals criminalize gun ownership – thus they would only be going after criminals when they come for you. Got to think things through a bit further. Besides much of public does not view handguns as inherently evil – and positions are all about popularity rather than logic or making sense.