Ryan Busse, Corporate Hypocrite, Should Give Up His Guns First

By Mark Oliva

Who better to heed than someone who switches troughs?  (Giffords/Facebook)
Gun control shill Ryan Busse is at it again. Rules for thee, not for me. (Giffords/Facebook)

U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Gun control shill Ryan Busse is at it again. Rules for thee, not for me.

Busse’s latest lamentation is that America has too many guns and they should be regulated like cars. He made the comparison while a guest on the rarely-watched Ali Velshi’s MSNBC show. That’s the same Velshi who insanely tried to convince the American public that their eyes were lying to them in live footage of cities being burned and looted weren’t that at all.

“This, is uh, mostly a protest,” Velshi said as cities burned across the country in 2020. “It is not, generally speaking, unruly. But fires have been started.”

That same news host who told America not to believe what they witnessed live on television called on Busse, a Senior Advisor to Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, to pontificate over a Georgia provocateur who carried several firearms – legally – on his person while grocery shopping. This is where Busse exposed his hypocrisy – several times over.

Too Much Freedom

“The tragedy isn’t what’s illegal, the tragedy here is what is legal. And as you note, this guy didn’t need six loaded guns, including an AR and a tactical shotgun to go grocery shopping, right,” Busse said.

Let’s start there. There’s room for debate of whether it’s a good idea to be blatantly provocative by carrying several firearms to shop for groceries. Most gun owners prefer that others never know about the guns they carry. That’s why there are at least 22 million concealed carry permit holders carrying firearms legally every day. That doesn’t include those who exercise their right to carry concealed in states that don’t require permits.

Busse surrenders his arguments immediately by positing the debate as one of a matter of needs. The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms. That’s the end of the argument. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed as much not only in the Heller and McDonald decisions but again in the Bruen decision.

“The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees,’” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority Bruen decision. “We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need. That is not how the First Amendment works when it comes to unpopular speech or the free exercise of religion. It is not how the Sixth Amendment works when it comes to a defendant’s right to confront the witnesses against him. And it is not how the Second Amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense.”

No one needs to hear Busse bloviate about gun control in the liberal MSNBC echo chamber, but it is his right. In fact, it is encouraged so everyone can know of his hypocrisy.

Car Comparison

Busse doesn’t end there, though. He compares an enumerated right to a government privilege of operating a motor vehicle on public roads.

“I mean, I think Americans really need to think about it this way,” Busse attemped to explain. “We have about 270 million registered vehicles in the United States, and you don’t have to travel on many of our roads to know it seems pretty crowded. We have a lot of traffic laws, right? We’ve got lines on the road, we’ve got bumpers, we’ve got speed limits, we’ve got police that are patrolling everything.”

Sure, there are thousands upon thousands of traffic laws. There are also thousands upon thousands of gun control laws on the books, including federal, state and local laws. That doesn’t account for the hundreds of rules promulgated by both federal and state governments to produce, sell and own a firearm. The firearm industry is among the most regulated industries. Busse casually ignores that no one buying a car has to pass an FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) verification, like they do if they are buying a firearm.

‘I’m Fine. Others – Not So Much’

“We’ve got 415 million guns in the United States and we have the NRA and the NSSF and an irresponsible slice of the American gun consumers, of which I’m not one of those, I’m a proud gun owner, I hunted yesterday with my boys,” he added. Busse liked the car comparison so much he threw every responsible gun owner and the industry under the bus.

This is a naked attempt to smear NSSF. This isn’t new for Busse. Since he joined forces with Giffords gun control group, he’s targeted The Firearm Industry Trade Association. He says he’s not among the “slice” of irresponsible gun owners. He’s also not part of the solutions. NSSF campaigns on several firearm safety programs through Real Solutions. Safer Communities®, which includes initiatives that have been recognized by the National Safety Council’s Green Cross Awards and the Government Accountability Office for their efficacy.

NSSF led the way improving background checks for gun purchases. Bipartisan legislation led by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the FIX NICS Act, was named for NSSF’s Fix NICS® program that improves the FBI’s background check system. That bill had 78 Senate co-sponsors, including some of the most ardent gun control Democrats.

“But I’m not okay living in a country with 415 million guns where we’re reducing the amount of controls on ourself,” Busse continued. “That’s just insane. We wouldn’t roll back the laws on 270 million cars, right? You have more cars, you need more to control them so the people can stay safe. This is what we’re facing right now.”

If Busse sees gun ownership as a scourge on America, he should look no further than himself to blame. After all, the self-aggrandizing gun control mouthpiece, claimed in his book that he sold more .45-caliber 1911 handguns than John Browning – the gun’s inventor. That would have to be in the millions, especially considering the M1911 was the standard military-issue sidearm from 1911-1985. American troops carried this actual “weapon of war” in WWI, WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

Despite Busse’s boastful claims of being an “industry insider,” he’s been disavowed by his former employer Leslie Edleman, the CEO and Owner of Kimber USA.

It’s time for all gun owners to repudiate this narcissistic hypocrite. He claims to speak for responsible gun owners. Except his version of responsible gun ownership is to deny the ability of everyone else to own firearms of their choice. As for his guns – he’s perfectly fine with them.


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 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

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Wass

I have no patience for hypocrites or phonies who pay only lip service to the Second Amendment. Not a one of them advocates for harsh punishment for criminals. Rather they go after you gun owners, that way they pretend to fight crime. As for the disparity between licensing vehicles and guns. Vehicles are on public roads and venues all the time, with potential danger therefrom. Nearly all guns spend their whole lives holstered, encased or carried concealed, never to be drawn and used in anger. Mostly they’re invisible. License all guns? There’s easily more than a third of a billion… Read more »

nrringlee

Progressives of all flavors can live in a world of strong delusion because they first deny the fact that our nation was founded upon the Natural Law Principle of equal justice for all. They deny equality before the law and instead propose a caste system of academics and ‘experts’ to run a bureaucracy who will in turn run you and me. Of course, the progressives all self-appoint them and theirs as members of the Mandarin caste who will run things. They deny our true source of Rights. God. They also reject the Natural Law based necessity to align human law… Read more »

Boz

Buck Fusse!

Montana454Casull

Maybe Ryan has 2 many guns , the rest of us don’t . So we need more guns and ammo , but the current economy under the clownshow Joe Biden has stifled our ability to purchase those items . FJB and Ryan Busse

Bubba

He’s just a little bitch..
When is America going to wake up and rid this country of Vermin?
If you don’t like our Constitution and Bill of Rights, show them the exit.
Send them to Australia, New Zeland or Canada… and take their passport along the way…

RicktheBear

Fortunately, I haven’t had to hear about him in a while.

He wore those socks in court. 30 days for improper attire.

gregs

there are many drivers/vehicles on the road without the required current drivers license, registration, and insurance; similar to the criminal element in public carrying “illegal” firearms. so, will the penalties for firearms violations be awarded to violating drivers? i think not. then, that is not equal protection under the law. what do gun control groups do other than call for disarmament of the law-abiding population? they offer no training or safety courses, maybe a cable lock which can be disabled in under two minutes. he is a member of “the only ones”, and we have seen how that works out… Read more »

Bubba

Just watch “On Patrol Live” on Reelz.
None of them have a Valid Drivers License, Registration, Insurance or working lights on their cars.
Those ass hats are way worse then a concealed carry holder buying groceries making the world a little bit safer…..
I feel much safe knowing others may also be carrying concealed while I am out in public.

The Crimson Pirate

That damn car analogy is a problem, because it is mistaken by our side as well as theirs, giving them credibility and ammunition. Travel is a right, not a privilege. Travel is so basic a right that no one in the founding generation even conceived of the need to enumerate it. They also expressed an apparently justified fear that codifying a bill of rights would give the impression that the rights such codified were the only ones that existed. Kind of a catch 22. If you don’t list people’s rights, tyrants will claim they don’t exist. If you do list… Read more »

RicktheBear

Just being devil’s advocate: does the right to travel include the means of transportation? You don’t need a car. You could walk.

Arny

When autos were brought about there was no registration & were driven freely without Govt. As a modern day horse. Were horses registered for travel ?

GomeznSA

That ‘car’ analogy keeps coming up. What the folks that use it always FAIL to address is that in spite of all the rules/regulations/requirements there are massive amounts of crimes either using them directly or to aide in the commission of crimes.
As with guns, the vast majority of car users are (reasonably) law abiding – and they Are NOT The Problem.

StLPro2A

Obviously, the example of the person open carrying multiple firearms during grocery shopping is merely an in-your-face response to the Busse Twit Syndrome. Carry On; Irritate Twits.

China Berry

I don’t need a lot of guns, just one more.

Laddyboy

THREE Basic LAWS must be passed. IF a person who is pounding/pushing/promoting for “gun control”, EVERYONE of these ANTI-CONSTITUTIONALISTS MUST TURN IN their guns – ALL OF THEM. PLUS — There MUST NOT be ANY Publicly paid for SECURITY of any kind provided for these HYPOCRITES!!!!!!! IF – at ANY TIME, these HYPOCRITES are found with ANY WEAPONS, regardless of ownership, around them, they will be PROSECUTED and have a MANDATORY JAIL SENTENCE of 50 YEARS!!

PistolGrip44

NSSF: Say hello to your industry partners, the ATF.

Arny

And as, they said, I quote “NSSF led the way improving background checks for gun purchases.”