Of Course: Gun Control Group, Bureaucrats Rally to Support ATF
If Giffords wants to defend the ATF, it should explain why the agency deserves to exist after a half-century of failure, abuse, and constitutional violations.
If Giffords wants to defend the ATF, it should explain why the agency deserves to exist after a half-century of failure, abuse, and constitutional violations.
To the Biden administration, the Second Amendment presented a dangerous loophole, an obstacle to be overcome in building the kind of society — one with increased “civic engagement” and “social cohesion” — they wanted to see America become.
Heinrich pushing his semi-auto gun ban again in this Congress demonstrates he’s only interested in placating the gun control activists at Brady, Giffords and Everytown and isn’t serious about actually keeping communities safe.
No less a gun control advocate than Joe Biden labeled his political opposition here as enemies of democracy and his administration even claimed that “domestic extremism” was among the greatest threats to national security.
“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.