U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) knows more than most about firearms and how they operate. That didn’t stop her, however, from joining Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts on Everytown for Gun Safety’s Veepstakes to peddle misstatements and untruths about guns. She’s trying out to be presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s running mate and Watts played along.
Sen. Duckworth started by negating a gun control myth that the country is awash in automatic guns. Automatic firearms are strictly controlled. Sen. Duckworth leaned on her military background to explain to Watts, “Even the military doesn’t provide our troops with fully automatic weapons.” Not quite, but not all troops carry belt-fed machine guns.
Sen. Duckworth also strayed from the gun control party line when she explained that safe firearm ownership and handling can be done with the right training and safety. She explained she learned firearm safety from her father, a top U.S. military marksman.
“At a young age, from that military experience and background, he taught us discipline,” she said. “Dad was very, very strict.”
Millions of law-abiding gun owners in America agree, but it doesn’t stop the senator from pushing a “do as I say, not as I do” mantra. It’s similar to what Everytown-funder and billionaire Michael Bloomberg got caught saying before he gave up his failed, billion-dollar presidential run.
Get Out of Jail
Sen. Duckworth admitted concern for personal safety from criminals is a driving factor for millions of Americans purchasing guns. Nearly 2.5 million first-time gun buyers from March to May. Sen. Duckworth said it’s obvious in Chicago and the rest of her home state of Illinois.
“In the Cook County jail, they’re releasing some pretty bad folks,” she said.
Instead of listening to that concern, Watts and Sen. Duckworth dismissed it. They demagogued Second Amendment supporters for “stoking fear” and “using racism and xenophobia” to keep gun stores open during the pandemic and subsequent riots and looting.
Sen. Duckworth’s priorities are the usual gun control talking points. She shared them with Watts, including ending illegal straw purchases, taking “combat style” weapons off the street, instituting universal background checks that would make felons out of law-abiding citizens, and even a nationwide fingerprint database to track firearm ownership.
Firearm Industry Leading with Real Solutions
Sen. Duckworth should have done her homework. The firearm industry is providing Real Solutions that already tackle the issues she believes can only be solved by seizing rights and passing gun control laws.
Project ChildSafe promotes safe firearm storage through partnerships with 15,000 local law enforcement agencies and providing more than 38 million free firearm safety kits, including locking devices. Operation Secure Store, a partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), educates and assists firearm retailers to voluntarily improve security at their stores to reduce theft and burglaries. A component of that program involves NSSF matching ATF reward offers to bring to justice the criminals that victimize firearm retailers and their communities. Through Don’t Lie for The Other Guy NSSF and ATF work together to stop illegal straw firearm purchases in their tracks and warn the public of the accompanying $250,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison for committing the felony. NSSF’s FixNICS campaign successfully changed the law in 16 states and in Congress to improve the submittal process of disqualifying adjudicated mental health records.
The firearm industry is serious about firearm safety and responsible gun ownership and will continue to educate voters ahead of November’s election with the #GUNVOTE online resource.
About The National Shooting Sports Foundation
NSSF is the trade association for the firearm industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of thousands of manufacturers, distributors, firearm retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers nationwide. For more information, visit nssf.org.
This is the very definition of a Wolf in sheep’s clothing. Not only has she violated her oath of office through her legislative actions. She has also violated her Oath as a former member of the military. That she is so willing to Tout. Because of her outright willingness to deny Americans of not only their 2nd Amendment Rights but also under PC Cancel Culture their 1st Amendment Rights. Now because she is supposedly on Creepy Joe’s short list for VP. She is trying to transform herself into a caring understanding person who fights for everyone’s Rights.
When you run into a legislator who has the intent to do harm to or outright destroy the construction, that IS TREASON and TYRANNY. There is a legal, righteous and a very final penalty that comes with it. We all know that the penalty for treason and tyranny is death. These people should be arrested, jailed without bail and tried in a court of law (if there are any left in America). If/when they are found guilty, they should be put to death. I would add a public tarring and feathering to be used as prison clothing until sentence is… Read more »
Just gonna leave this here.
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They don’t want the police,they don’t get any police, be careful what you ask for.
They should tell them what the chief of the Seattle Police Department told Seattle residents. “You’re on your own”.
Case in point. Progressives do not seek justice. They do not seek equal protection. They do not seek inalienable rights and standards under which those rights are defended for all. They seek power. Power over your life. Hubris is what drives them. Not love of country or people. Be very clear in your minds what progressives really believe. It will shock you.
Just another Commie Rat Bastard Democrat, why tell the truth when you can lie! These people will stop at nothing to seize power.
From everything I’m seeing, in my opinion if the Dems. get the White house, the Congress, and the Senate this country will be lost.
Will there be a civil war? I truly don’t know, I suppose it all depends on whether, or not the police, and the military take their oath seriously.
Duckworth is on the payroll of these anti-gun groups. Follow the money.
Everyone here is disgusted with this Senator posing as an American, but remember a majority of voters in her state put her in office. They are the treasonous underbelly of people like Duckworth and are to be held accountable.
How do you know when a useless Democrat is lying?
When their lips are not moving !!
But you had better not criticize this traitor !
Not surprising coming from a Marxist,Demanding Commie Mommy’s must be humored.
Duckworth isn’t a Natural Born US Citizen, she’ a Birthright US Citizen, therefore she cannot be President or Vice President under Article II of the US Constitution. Duckworth was born in Thailand, not on US Soil. Her father was a US Citizen (working for the UN), her mother was a Thai National. Because of the circumstances of her birth, she’s reached the highest office a Birthright Citizen may hold under the Constitution, that of a US Senator.
I guess you do not remember obama?
100% correct, born in Kenya (his own grandmother stated that FACT). Mom was just a drunk/druggie “receptacle”….
Dad, yeah, he was that drunk druggie….
GREAT pedigree for a bought and paid for SOROS “plant”………….. NOT !
And totally disproved. I’m no Obama fan but he is a legit citizen and so is Duckworth.
Not true.
A SOPHIST, read Thrasymachus for an understanding of these politicians!!
The least she could do is get it right about the military packing machine guns.
Dis one….. appears to hold a lot of weight in her face / jowls, and looks like she hasn’t missed a meal since she started getting paid by “the people”
Personal attacks are the refuge of the ignorant and diminish your position (whatever it is). Stick to the facts, she is anti gun!