Read the full, anti-gun filing where @TheJusticeDept reveals its unconstitutional plans to hamstring ownership of forced reset triggers here,” GOA added, posting a copy of the “Statement of Interest of the United States of America” filed Monday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
That makes fair the question “Why?” since it’s not in the interests of the millions of gun owners who voted for a Trump administration based on promises he repeatedly made to roaring and adoring crowds:
“Right from the beginning, for four incredible years it was my honor to be the best friend gun owners have ever had in the White House, by far. Now I stand before you with a very simple promise: Your Second Amendment will always be safe with me as your president when I’m back in the Oval Office,” Trump promised to resulting exuberance. “No one will lay a finger on your firearms. It’s not going to happen…”
Inarguably the administration has been “better” on the Second Amendment than any in our lifetimes, as exemplified by positive actions like filing briefs against bans on so-called “assault weapons” and standard capacity magazines, repealing “zero tolerance” of minor FFL errors, reviewing rules including “engaged in business” restrictions, supporting challenges to Hawaii’s restrictive carry laws, investigating “pattern or practice” by the Los Angeles County Sheriff for “slow walking” concealed carry permits, working on rights restoration and working to defund grants and foreign aid for gun control advocacy groups.
But it then turns around and in a seemingly bipolar move does things like backing NFA registration of untaxed firearms (to the exploitative delight of anti-gun groups).
Every infringement also contradicts the promise made by AG Pam Bondi in her April 8 “all hands” memo from last year, where she pledged:
“For too long, the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms, has been treated as a second-class right. No more. It is the policy of this Department of Justice to use its full might to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”
The purpose of that memorandum was to introduce the Second Amendment Task Force – an idea that seemed to have great political value at the time, until it became apparent that no gun owner representation meant everything would be decided by careerists with political stakes in the game. One wonders how many infringements would be advanced if groups like GOA or Firearms Policy Coalition had advisory seats at the table to help caution against missteps before they are made. You don’t have to contradict yourself and backtrack too often before people begin to suspect you’re insincere and will only tell voters what they want to hear long enough to secure their votes.
At some point, that no longer works, and while most gun voters, aware of the Democrats’ prohibitionist agenda, will no doubt continue to vote Republican, it’s fair to wonder how often fire can be doused from bellies to where enough stay home on election day.
Like we just saw happen in Virginia, with the resulting and completely predictable feeding frenzy against guns as empowered Democrats gorge themselves.
“You gotta win the midterms ’cause, if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just gonna be – I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Reuters reported on President Trump speaking to Republican lawmakers. “I’ll get impeached.”
Hard left Democrats – and that’s the ascending wing in the party – won’t be satisfied with just that.
“Jennifer Welch to Jim Acosta: Dems must mass prosecute Trump, Musk, Republicans,” The Hill reports in its RISING program that focuses on emerging political and cultural trends. It would be a mistake to just dismiss this as “progressive” rantings. Trump’s statement shows the administration takes the threat seriously. And any Republican who does not realize that the struggle for America’s soul is anything short of existential has not been paying attention.
Simply put, the administration needs to stop with the infringements and rights advocates need to commit themselves to not just voting but doing everything in their power to recruit their fellow gun owners to understand the stakes. Short of that, the political results – and resulting vindictiveness – will be predictable.
The one factor that’s never been sufficiently impressed on institutional GOP thinking is that no matter who wins, there will be a core of gun owners who will not comply. Democrat Justice Department and Democrat-appointed federal judges, aided and abetted by media cheerleaders, will make sure such people are reviled as insurrectionists/domestic terrorists.
With defiance comes terrible individual risks as we see in the case of Indie Guns owner Lawrence Michael DeStefano. If you opt to go that route, just be mindful that you’ll basically be on your own: A GiveSendGo account established earlier this month to help him defend himself against a state with virtually unlimited resources has only managed to attract $490 at this writing out of $620,000 requested, despite hundreds of thousands of gun owners knowing about the story through detailed reporting by Lee “The Gun Writer” Williams, and on the popular Guns and Gadgets YouTube channel.
It sure makes voting seem the better alternative. And it would sure be nice if the administration stopped discouraging that.
ATF Intervenes in Forced Reset Trigger Patent Lawsuit for “Public Safety”
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Surprised? Not hardly, the ATF is not now or ever was a friend to legal owners of firearms. Here’s a fact, the government does not want you armed, AT ALL. Wake up and smell reality.
With notable members of the administration (including Trump) making some very anti-2A statements after the Pretti shooting, the DOJ fighting against the RKBA, virtually no charges for election rigging/representatives fleecing taxpayers/MN fraud, and failure to pass some laws (especially repeal of the NFA, GCA, and GFSZA) when the GOP controls all of the federal lawmaking apparatus — the GOP had better get its act quickly before it receives a beatdown in the midterms. A lot of gun owners are going to sit out the election because they think it won’t matter.
“For too long, the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms, has been treated as a second-class right. “ One would think that someone who has passed the bar exams, been a major “red” state’s AG (Florida) and now serves as the AG for the entire country, would be more familiar with US v Cruikshank which says: “The right there specified is that of “bearing arms for a lawful purpose.” This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.… Read more »
Just because RB sold it to someone doesn’t mean they still have it. The ATF wants to limit it to keep records for confiscation in the next administration but too much time has gone by.
If the GOP does not nuke the filibuster, the dems will absolutely kill it at their very next opportunity! Here’s what should happen ASAP: GOP nukes the filibuster rule and passes *AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AS FAST AS POSSIBLE*! Just ram it all through. Just before the majorities next change, the GOP (using the new filibuster-free rules) pass legislation that restores the filibuster rule, except this time as a *law* requiring a super majority to overturn. Yes, that’s not “fair play”. But is there any doubt the dems would do the same if they were in control? I firmly believe… Read more »
I am not happy with this administration’s lack of support in cases where the have nothing to lose anyway. Well, unless they are secretly anti 2nd Amendment. Then they would lose their control of the gun owners. You think they don’t trust us? Feel threatened by us? Do we trust them? Feel threatened by them?
HLB
POTUS :
“You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns.”
“I don’t like that he had a gun. I don’t like that he had two fully loaded magazines,” “That’s a lot of bad stuff.”“I don’t like the fact that he was carrying a gun that was fully loaded, and he had 2 magazines with him,” “That’s pretty unusual.”
The most friendliest admin to the 2A. I call BS.
Voting Dem because the Rep have not overturned the NFA is like a lefty voting Rep because a Dem didn’t back enough trans rights for their taste. If we believe our fellow voters will stay home and not vote or worse yet vote Dem to prove a point on a single NFA issue – then our side has already lost…..and deserves to if that is how we really think.
Rare Greed can go f-themselves with a rusty bayonet. I will never buy another Rare Greed product.
I’ll be buying some super safetys today and tomorrow.
FU Rare Greed.