Ukraine/United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- Anti-Second Amendment extremists have been having a lousy year, give or take. Why might that be said, given the fact that Joe Biden is in the White House, anti-Second Amendment extremists hold the key leadership positions in the House and Senate, and they are about to replace Associate Justice Stephen Breyer with another anti-Second Amendment extremist?
Well, a lot of this come from what they haven’t been able to do. They didn’t manage to pass their election and campaign finance “reform” agenda, nor did they wipe out the legislative filibuster. Millions of new gun owners have opened up a massive opportunity for Second Amendment supporters, NYSRPA v. Bruen is likely to deal a death blow to “may issue” carry permit laws, and the wave of violent crime is likely to cause more defections from anti-Second Amendment extremism.
Now, of course, we have Ukraine. If you haven’t seen what Defiant Ls posted, check it out. The mental gymnastics that will be required to justify future semiauto bans will be much more difficult to navigate and execute well. Ukraine handed out real assault rifles – weapons capable of either firing either on semi-automatic or full-automatic – to their citizens.
Here is the real problem anti-Second Amendment extremists now face: If they celebrate Ukraine, then they also have to acknowledge the Ukrainian government’s decision to hand out the real Kalashnikov assault rifles. This is a massive opening for Second Amendment supporters.
We’re not only talking about eroding the logic of the semiauto bans that Eric Swalwell and Beto O’Rourke have been pushing (a significant victory in and of itself), but we’re also now in a situation where the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1986 Hughes Amendment have been undermined, and that undermining was celebrated by the same folks who want to take guns away from Americans.
The big question is whether we can seize this opportunity to start chipping away on these onerous provisions. There is a case to be made to repeal the 1986 Hughes Amendment, pass the Hearing Protection Act and the Home Defense and Competitive Shooting Act, and perhaps even make the procedure for what’s felt under the NFA much less onerous. All we have to do is ask people one question: “Do you think Americans are less deserving of rights than Ukrainians?”
If they say, “Yes,” they’re going to alienate a lot of American voters. If they say, “No,” then they are vulnerable to a follow-up question: “Why do you support an Australia-style gun ban?”
The pressure can even be increased by pointing to the unacceptable situation on our southern border or pointing out that Alaska isn’t that far from Russia.
Second Amendment supporters won’t have an automatic win on this, though. We must avoid Biden’s blunders, be aware of how we come across to our fellow Americans, and use the proper approach. But if we do those things, there is a very good chance we can defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists via the ballot box.
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.
“Ukraine Is Yet Another Setback For Gun Control”
Ya think so?
I think it will make them REALLY fear a well armed citizenry far more after seeing what a well armed citizenry is really capable of. They will feel a panicked desperate need to disarm the citizenry of AR15 type semi-autos and standard capacity magazines. Look for another deep state black op like Vegas, but far worse, to justify the confiscation attempt.
PS – (To john below):
The presidential vote in the USA is shrouded in mystery.
There is absolutely NOTHING good going to come out of this Ukraine bulls#$t! If Trump was still in the White House this crap would have never happened. If we go poking the bear – best remember – the cage ain’t locked!
Ukraine is not a land of saints. It has corruption at every level, kind of like all the past USSR republics. That said, I prefer aiding them in putting a stop to new Russian expansion. Let it go and watch Moldova follow. Then the real test will come. Would Putin try to reclaim the Baltic states? That would bring one of two things, more chicken shit, or WWIII. What a choice! If Finland joins NATO, what then? Stop the Russians now, or “we ain’t seen nothin’ yet”.
Sure, the Ukrainian government handed out AK assault rifles, but don’t think that they didn’t get the iD of everyone getting one , along with the serial numbers, so they will be turned back in when whatever power prevails. The government givith and taketh away!
The presidential vote in Ukraine is shrouded with mystery.
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I wonder what the Ukraine police were doing with all those ak’s at their police stations, did they have something in mind before Putin decided to do a take over? No news media has discussed that, would never happen in the U.S. we have too many anti-gun idiots.
I am concerned that Ukraine is a NWO member and we are supporting one enemy over another enemy . If that’s the case then we have no interest in Ukraine and we can see why Joe Biden does . It’s been him and Hunters golden goose ! Supporting a country that turns on us like Afghanistan and Osama bin laden did is not in our best interest . Then we have to go back and deal with this after the fact because they turn on America . Are we setting up this situation again in Ukraine ?
You are hardly a source of wisdom as to either the correct approach or how we should come across.
Please go away, Harold.
“The mental gymnastics that will be required to justify future semiauto bans will be much more difficult to navigate and execute well.”
No. If it survives, Ukraine’s corrupt anti-gun gvt will confiscate soon as the war’s over. They’ll say it was an emergency measure and the emergency’s over. “Western” media/social media oligarchs will suppress any other line, which will only exist in conservative/”Libertarian” echo chambers.