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By Larry Keane

Election day is less than a week away. This is the time to ensure the #GUNVOTE is heard at the ballot box.

More than 70 million Americans have already cast their ballot through early or mail-in voting. Campaign advertising is blanketing the airwaves and special interest groups, including gun control billionaire Michael Bloomberg, are pouring last-minute millions to nudge his agenda across the finish line.

Now, more than ever, American gun owners, including the over 6.2 million first-time gun buyers in 2020, need to plan to turn out to their polling place and vote to protect their rights. Who you vote for is your choice as an American. But, for me, voters have never faced a starker difference of what’s at stake. It’s a choice of preserving Second Amendment rights, gun ownership and the industry that provides the means to exercise those rights.

What’s at stake in this election? Nothing short of the Second Amendment, I told Outdoor Life’s Andrew McKean. This can’t be overstated. It’s not hyperbole or breathless crowing. It’s a fact.

What’s at Stake in this Election

President Donald Trump has fought, delivered and promised to continue to defend Second Amendment rights. This year alone, more than 15.4 million Americans purchased firearms, more than all of 2019 and within striking distance of surpassing the all-time record of 2016, when 15.7 million background checks were conducted for the sale of firearms.

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In 2016, Americans rejected Hillary Clinton’s radical antigun agenda of re-enacting the failed 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and ramming through a national Universal Background Check law, which won’t work without a national firearm registry

The contrast is even greater this time. Former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) propose the most strident antigun agenda voters have ever seen. Among their proposals are the confiscation of nearly 20 million lawfully purchased (after a background check) modern sporting rifles that are in circulation today and a ban on the manufacture and sale of these popular rifles in the future.

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Those who want to keep those rifles would be forced to register them with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) under the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA). That would require submission of photos, fingerprints, duplicate background checks and a $200 tax on the privilege of keeping what is already lawfully owned. It would also require a months-long waiting period to get that paperwork processed.

Biden’s Threats

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That’s not all. The Biden-Harris agenda includes banning standard magazines for both rifles and pistols – more than half of all magazines in existence. They’d institute a national one-gun-a-month gun rationing scheme.

There would be a mandated state-by-state licensing requirement just to be able to exercise the right to purchase a firearm. No other fundamental right requires a fee to exercise the right. They’d also have an unlimited window in which the government could delay a background check for a firearm purchase, putting gun buyers in a perpetual limbo.

Internet-based sales for firearms (which can only be transferred in person at a licensed dealer after a background check) and ammunition would go the way of the dodo, too. Along with them would be the sale of firearm parts that hobbyist and gunsmiths require to build and repair their own firearms. Those parts would be regulated as a completed firearm, requiring background checks for purchase.

So-called “red flag” laws that trample on Due Process and Second Amendment rights would proliferate. Federal law would mandate how gun owners must store their firearms in their home, taking away their right to decide which method works best for them. If a gun is lost or stolen, the Biden administration would punish that gun owner if it isn’t reported promptly, even if you didn’t know it was stolen.

Any gun bought under a Biden administration would be required to include so-called “smart gun” technology, that the National Institutes of Justice has already determined isn’t even ready for prototype testing. Biden also promised to confiscate firearms from Social Security beneficiaries if they use a fiduciary, or someone to assist them with their financial affairs.

Biden and Sen. Harris have also promised to weaponize the ATF against firearm retailers, threatening to shutter them for even a single minor administration inspection violation. They’d also repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) to invite a new torrent of frivolous lawsuits against manufacturers and retailers for the crimes committed by individuals instead of holding the actual criminal responsible.

Don’t Risk Your Rights

To make sure his Second Amendment squelch sticks, Biden would upend the Judiciary. He’s flirting with packing the courts, restructuring lifetime appointments for federal judges to rotate them from court-to-court, all in an effort to stack the Judicial Branch with judges who will overlook the Constitution and put an end to gun ownership in America.

President Trump on the other hand has been the most pro-Second Amendment, pro-hunting and pro-industry president in the history of the United States.

The contrast is stark. The choice is yours. On Election Day, Don’t Risk Your Rights, #GUNVOTE.

 

Larry Keane is SVP for Government and Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

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65 COMMENTS

    • Good News my comrades,all you Democratics, Liberals, Progressives, Leftists, Socialists, Communists, and my favorite Fascists and Marxists; just remember to avoid seeing all of those Trump voters on election day, we have been granted by the courts a late vote day on November 4th.

      So my friends avoid being triggered by all of those deplorables shouting MAGA and vote on *****OUR DESIGNATED SAFE DAY OF NOVEMBER 4TH*****.

      For your safety no non-masking wearing Trumpers will be at the polls that day.

      Remember Progressives, avoid Trumpets, and Vote on our day November 4th!

      Harris/biden 2020

      • Right on! Right on! Right on!

        Power to the people!

        Don’t forget to sweep that fascist Trump out of office on Nov 4!

        • “Don’t forget to sweep that fascist Trump out of office on Nov 4!”

          It’s looking more likely you’re in for a very unpleasant surprise.

          And it’s your own hubris that may doom you.

          4 years of your off-the-charts bat-shit-crazy reaction to Trump may have so frightened his supporters that you just motivated them to turn out in record numbers to vote.

          Check these out, ‘boy’ :

          We have two news stories of interest to POTG. And if true, is encouraging for us :

          1 – “‘We’ve got to stop the bleeding’: Democrats sound alarm in Miami”

          “MIAMI — Democrats are sounding the alarm about weak voter turnout rates in Florida’s biggest county, Miami-Dade, where a strong Republican showing is endangering Joe Biden’s chances in the nation’s biggest swing state.

          No Democrat can win Florida without a huge turnout and big winning margins here to offset losses elsewhere in the state. But Democrats are turning out at lower rates than Republicans and at lower rates than at this point in 2016, when Hillary Clinton won by 29 percentage points here and still lost the state to Donald Trump.”

          “To date, Republicans have turned out 59 percent of their voters in Miami-Dade and Democrats have turned out 53 percent, a 6-point margin. That’s twice the margin Republicans had at this point in 2016.

          Among Hispanic voters, who make up nearly 70 percent of the county’s population, the deficit is even bigger — 9 points.

          “Democrats have a big turnout issue in the Hispanic community in Miami-Dade,” said Florida-based Democratic data analyst Matt Isbell. “Hispanic Democrat turnout is only 48% while the Republican Hispanics are at 57%. This large of a gap doesn’t exist in Broward or Orange. It is a Miami problem.””

          https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/29/miami-voter-turnout-democrats-433643#431

          2 – “Biden Advisers Sound Red Alert Over Black, Latino Turnout”

          “Despite record early-vote turnout around the country, there are warning signs for Biden. In Arizona, two-thirds of Latino registered voters have not yet cast a ballot. In Florida, half of Latino and Black registered voters have not yet voted but more than half of White voters have cast ballots, according to data from Catalist, a Democratic data firm. In Pennsylvania, nearly 75% of registered Black voters have not yet voted, the data shows.”

          https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-campaign-red-alert-over-black-latino-turnout

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      • Many of us appreciate you Miner! We are taking over America. Even this blog is becoming a liberal chat room lmfao we own them.

        • There’s gonna be laughing widdle ‘raz’, but it’s gonna be us laughing at *you*… 🙂

      • Funny you post that, my congresscritter Greg Steube sent this out today.

        Next week, Americans have the opportunity to come together and exercise our right to vote on November 4th. Here are some resources about election day from the Florida Division of Elections:
        The polls are open on Election Day, November 4th, from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. (local time) Any voters waiting in line at 7:00 p.m. will have the opportunity to cast a ballot.
        To find your precinct or polling location, visit your Supervisor of Elections’ website. You can also use the Voter Information Lookup page from the Florida Department of State.

        Wonder how many will show up on Wednesday?

      • “And you’re going to cry in a few days”

        I fully agree, there’s gonna be a *lot* of crying.

        To bad you won’t dare to show your face in here after Trump wins… 😉

      • Heck, I’ve been crying for awhile now…no ammo, no primers, no hulls, no parts (I have multiple spares of everything but still)

        NSSF is predicting late 2021 until supply chain restocks to pre-covid levels.

        So yeah, the good thing is next week I get to see people lose their bloody minds when President Trump is reelected.

  2. “Those who want to keep those rifles would be forced to register them with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) under the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA). That would require submission of photos, fingerprints, duplicate background checks and a $200 tax on the privilege of keeping what is already lawfully owned.”

    If they insist on calling them ‘Assault Weapons’ or “weapons of war”, I might be persuaded to register (some of mine) if that means I get the real-deal ‘giggle switch’… 🙂

    • A legitimate DGU with a select-fire Glock could be entertaining… 😉

    • An intriguing idea…

      — BTW, everyone should know by now that I’m not voting for Barney the Dinosaur.

  3. The flip side is if the penalty is the same for a simi-auto AR as a full-auto AR, why not make your own autosear? I doubt it is all that difficult to make since I have seen a Youtube video of one made with a couple of coat hanger wires twisted together.

    • If they do that, the unintended consequences could make them rue the day they thought that was a bright idea.

      Before it gets to that point, something tells me semi-auto rifles of all varieties and their magazines will be declared expressly constitutional, as ruled in the ‘Heller’ decisions, since they are clearly “in common use”…

    • I think that it is relatively easy on some AR designs, and more of a pain in the ass on others. In short, depending on which specific AR you own, it’s going to be more expensive than others to accomplish.

    • Ok Jimmy Bobby, don’t hurt yourself fighting that war from the trailer park. Stay safe and try not to impregnate your cousin again.

      • Razza. The left worships FDR. A man that put Americans into concentration camps based solely on race. And you know what else he did? He married his cousin.

        The trailer park is in the dna of the left.

        • As is the KKK, Jim Crow laws, Gun control laws, KKK SCOTUS judges, KKK Grand Wizards in our House of Reps.
          Lincoln allowed Union states to continue slavery during the Civil War. Abe also stated in personal letters if he saw a possible way to victory WITHOUT freeing the southern slaves, THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN FREED!
          After LBJ fired up all the social programs and removed the dads from the family unit, he openly stated that “this will keep the ni**ers voting demoKKKRat for the next 200 years.
          Wow, the leftards sure do idolize some horrible and racist monsters, don’t they.
          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United_States_politics
          Odd, all Dems. I wonder why!
          Hellary Clintoon idolized the biggest racist KKK grand wizard to EVER serve in the House of Reps, LOVES the writings of Saul Alinski too.
          What the F is wrong with dimtards?
          The leftards still can’t understand when THEY point the “racism” finger, three of their fingers are pointing back at them.
          Trump/Pence 2020

        • I had never seen that before, thanks.
          So slojoe admitted KKK Grand Wizard Byrd was his ”mentor and guide”.
          This MIGHT be why hunter started smoking crack.
          It must have been hard for hunter when his dad went from being a hero in his eyes, to being a totally reprehensible POS. 🤣
          Trump/Pence 2020

        • FDR married his fifth cousin, once removed. That is further that most of the royal houses in Europe did. I would bet that there are closer relationships in your own family, if you can trace it back 100 years and know who all the players wee. The reason we know is because they belonged to a higher class family and they did keep records.

          Even today, the major families in many Latin American countries intermarry, even 1/2 siblings and first cousins(which has caused problems), but even in the U.S., second cousins can marry, first cousins in some states.

          While I am not a big supporter of FDR, that fact is not relevant. You are judging 19th century morality with 21st century ideas.

  6. “President Donald Trump has fought, delivered and promised to continue to defend Second Amendment rights.”

    What a stupid statement.

    Biden’s a terrible option for gun owners and the worse option of the two, but you’d have to be a complete moron to think Trump is a good choice.

    • I’ll take comfort in his supreme court appointments. He s also not giving Beto and Bloomberg any time.

    • I’m in agreement with GS650G. Trump is neither our friend, nor our enemy, but he has made good, solid choices for Supreme Court Justices. The war against the progressives isn’t going to be fought in the White House, it’s going to be fought at the Supreme Court. All things considered, Trump has been good for 2A advocates.

  7. Wait a minute.
    2020/666=3.0330
    Text joe to 30330 is used to donate money to the slojoe/skankhoe campaign.
    Trump/Pence 2020.

  8. Voted. Trump has a solid lead where I live, so I voted 3rd party for Pres. Pick one at random – libertarians are the most dominant. Voted the incumbent Senator who has a good record on 2A issues. Voted AGAINST all remaining incumbents by simply not clicking on the box to do so. Aside from a couple of constitutional initiatives, that’s all that was on my ballot.

    If Biden had a snowball’s chance in hell of winning where I live, I would have voted for Trump, but I was able to safely thumb my nose at the two party system one more time. F the Rs and F the Ds – they both suck. They both forget who they represent once they are in office.

    Who else has noticed that the poor little girl elected to the House 4 years ago, and couldn’t afford transportation to Washington, or rent for an apartment, is now wearing $14,000 outfits on the covers of magazines? They’re all corrupt.

    • That’s a very reasonable choice. (Not the $14k sellout, but the vote; well, maybe the graft, too…what good is being a filthy commie if they won’t pay you for it?)

      I did the same thing last time around (not the commie thing, the voting thing), but in a state that had a hard-on for Hillary. This time around, my useless but symbolic vote is for the guy who’s driving all the communists and corruptocrats crazy, and I’d be happy to cast that vote in a swing state, too.

      Trump is far from ideal, but after looking not at whatever meanie thing he said on Twitter, but at what he’s DONE — and just as importantly, *not* done — as president, I want another four years of it.

    • You could have just stayed home if you’re going to waste a vote. Maybe Kanye? At least be entertaining if your going to be an idiot.

      • Your vote doesn’t matter idiot as millions will be voting, so let the guy vote for whoever he wants to vote.

        • If you live in Ca, the winner gets all the marbles. We already know that Biden will win, so you might as well show your preference, so go ahead and vote 3rd party, it can’t hurt.

    • I’m afraid you wasted your vote Paul.

      You should look into which direction the libertarian party has been going about the last ~4~ years.

      It’s been marching to the left unfortunately. Why? My guess is to appeal to younger voters.

      The mistake there is the wrongful assumption that younger voters are overwhelmingly liberal, and remain so throughout their lives. This simply isn’t the case. It’s a fabricated talking point designed to demoralize conservatives.

    • I’ve voted third party before, so I get it. However, the democrats have lost their ever-loving minds. A message that would actually be heard would be for the democrats to lose the popular vote.

  9. Everyone get your family,friends,neighbors,coworkers etc. to get out & vote its that important….don’t assume ur state is safe…from antifreedom Biden/Harris.

  10. I’ll be in the booth Tuesday morning checking all the boxes on the right. Just as I have done every election since turning 18.

  12. The trumpets are trying to find some hope b it they know what’s coming full speed in their faces; put a mouth guard on so the Biden train doesn’t break all of those 10 teeth you have left!

    • Careful now, the votes have not been counted.
      And this train? Did you hear Michael Moore? He is worried.

      Four years ago we were told HRC was sure to win the election and the polls supported that. Same polls say the same now, do you believe them?

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  15. Democrats have the upper hand because they control the institutions. I live in a very red district within a red state. The local high school held a mock vote and Biden won. Dems are once again using (former) intelligence officials to lie about Russian influence. Dems that control 90% of the media are suppressing legitimate stories (even when they’re written by liberals!) of Joe Biden lying about involvement in influence peddling. Dem controlled Big Tech is censoring conservative speech, even when it’s about proven stories from legitimate outlets. Democrats are down with authoritarian style censorship and using intelligence officials to push false narratives. What other countries do that?

    Add to that the manufactured racial injustice outrage machine that they blame on the guy that’s been in government for four years. Don’t worry, the guy that’s been there for FIVE DECADES is promising to fix it. What kind of fool would believe that? Answer: the kind of fool that’s been fed nonstop propaganda from the left. Joe will also immediately end ALL deaths from Covid. Remember, Trump is responsible for EVERY death due to a global pandemic. What’s the miraculous problem solving answer? A mask mandate! We already have data on mask mandated areas vs non-mask mandated areas. There’s no discernible difference. There’s a sucker born every minute.

  16. I voted on Thursday. Not that it matters. The Irish mafia that controls Massivetwoshits is all Dem all the time. I wouldn’t consider voting for a Dem running for Dog Catcher, much less President.

    • Yeah, the walking/talking turd Murphy is part of that crime family.
      The citizens of New Jersastan got what they voted for, GOOD AND HARD!
      TRUMP/PENCE 2020…….the fact that most NJ residents HATE him is enough to let you know your voting for the RIGHT POTUS.

  17. What needs to happen is all Gun Manufacturers need to move their businesses to GUN FRIENDLY STATES.

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