AP Poll Shows Dems Not As Worried About Threat to Gun Rights They Don’t Value

California:

• Banned the sale of GLOCK pistols
• Required sale/transfer records to include purchaser acknowledgment of confirming possession of all owned firearms in the last 30 days
• Expanded definition of “firearm” for lost or stolen reporting to include frames, receivers, and parts
• Required annual training (with exam) for licensed gun dealers and employees handling firearms
• Required dealers to provide a state-designed pamphlet on the risks of gun ownership

Colorado:

• “Assault weapons” ban

Illinois:

• Safe gun storage mandate and
• Penalties for failing to report lost or stolen guns within 48 hours

Rhode Island:

• Signed an “assault weapons” ban into law

New York:

• Mandated “censorware” for 3D printers to prevent printing guns
• Criminalized possession of 3D-printed gun files

Washington:

• Mandated new permit to purchase a firearm requirement with mandated safety training and fingerprinting
• Enacted a series of requirements on gun retailers including annual reporting, liability insurance minimums and security system mandates including 24/7 monitoring

Oregon:

• Bump stock ban
• Expanded “sensitive places” carry ban locations

Virginia:

• “Assault weapons” ban
• “High capacity” magazine ban
• Safe storage mandate
• Gun industry “nuisance” law liability
• Universal background checks
• Expanded “sensitive places” carry ban

• Enacted red flag confiscation law

Massachusetts:

• New firearm registration mandate

That’s only a partial list of what’s become law in the last year or so and doesn’t include bills in process such as…more 3D printer censorware mandates, weakening the PLCAA, GLOCK bans, “assault weapons” confiscation and suppressor bans. Oh, and there’s also a (likely doomed) move by Democrats at the federal level to ban the sale of suppressors, too.

So despite an administration that has made some important strides in rolling back regulations and advancing gun rights in the last two-plus years and a Supreme Court that takes an expansive view of individuals’ Second Amendment rights, it shouldn’t really be a mystery why that AP-NORC poll found Republicans more worried about threats to their gun rights than Democrats. Same as it ever was.