“Polis might think he’s scoring points with the anti-gun crowd, but as far as we’re concerned, he has just handed us a rallying cry. … This fight is far from over, and we’re playing for keeps.”
For decades anti-gun legislators have enacted ever more gun control laws thinking the next one will be the panacea that will solve the problem of criminals misusing guns. Except history shows – and Americans know – that it never has and it never will.
The modern gun control industry relies on the free or reduced cost legal labor, called pro bono work, that firms provide to advocacy groups and individual plaintiffs. Trump’s actions against Big Law are threatening that pipeline.
I imagine if Trump (or any other President for that matter) ignores SCOTUS after a Snope denial, the response from much of the pro-2A side will be, “Good. They wouldn’t defend our rights, why should we give a shit about them being ignored?”
Much the same as anti-gun extremists in the U.S. invent terms to mischaracterize firearms they wish to ban—like “assault weapon,” “Saturday night special,” and “ghost gun”—in the UK, a similar strategy is often used when trying to ban edged weapons.
Since Bruen, radical gun prohibitionists have only doubled down in their culture war against law-abiding gun owners and the 2A. Their efforts amount to deprivation of rights under color of law, and this scenario cannot be allowed to continue.
Colorado’s allegedly libertarian-ish Governor, Jared Polis, tried hard to keep what he was doing on the down low, but when you’re signing one of the most unconstitutional gun control bills in America into law, people tend to notice.
The Biden Administration sought to press its anti-gun agenda, in part, through overly aggressive rule-making and enforcement by the federal firearm regulatory bureaucracy that you and I call ATF.
On April 7, the Trump Administration formally revoked the Biden-Harris Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy for inspections of federal firearm licensees (FFLs). The
Nowadays, journalists talk constantly about the accuracy of their reporting. However, when they write anti-gun stories, the normal journalism standards are gone, and the editing is a complete joke.
