If you’re planning tyranny, at least don’t put it in writing. That seems to be the guiding principle behind the Harris-Walz administration’s 2024 Democratic Party Platform. In terms of gun control, their once radical ideas are now missing or appear watered down.
The campaign finally released the platform Monday night, including its gun control plans called “Protecting Communities & Tackling the Scourge of Gun Violence.”
According to the platform, the Democrats want:
- Universal background checks.
- “Assault weapon” and standard-capacity magazine bans
- Mandatory safe-storage laws
- Repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
- Increased red-flag laws
- Increased funding for the ATF
- Increased funding for the FBI, to conduct more background checks
- Increased funding for the CDC, “because the gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis.”
Most of these ideas are unconstitutional, and all have been floated before. They’re bad enough, but the real issue is what was not included in the platform, because if Harris and Walz told voters their true intent, they’d never get elected.
Based on what the candidates have done in the past, and what they’ve been quoted saying – when the corporate media actually did their job and held them accountable – here’s what you can actually expect from the Harris-Walz administration.
AR-15 Confiscation
Tim Walz and the AR-15 have one thing in common: Neither has ever been to war. Still, Walz likes to conflate the semi-automatic AR-15 with the select-fire M4, which the documented valor thief falsely claims to have carried into battle. Harris has said numerous times she wants a “mandatory buyback” of ARs, which is nothing more than a smokescreen for mandatory confiscation. Don’t think these two will stop at ARs. Expect a host of other weapons to be added to their confiscation list, including many popular rifles, shotguns and handguns.
Criminalization of the ATF
During the pandemic, Gov. Walz ordered police to keep Minnesotans indoors. If officers encountered folks outside their homes, either on their porch or in their yard, he ordered police to shoot them with paintballs. To be clear, if a civilian did the same, they would face aggravated battery charges. To no one’s surprise, some officers complied with Walz’s illegal order. This proves Walz has no compunction with ordering law enforcement to break the law and violate civil rights. If elected, the Harris-Walz administration will find a group of federal officers more than willing to carry out their illegal orders – the ATF. Like Walz, ATF agents have proven they do not care about civil rights or breaking state law. Expect a massive surge in unconstitutional “knock & talks” – home invasions conducted under the guise of what the ATF calls “consensual encounters.” Once unleashed, the ATF will target law-abiding gun owners and federally licensed gun dealers with a frequency and a ferocity never seen before.
Total Civilian Disarmament
Both Harris and Walz harbor radical political views. Walz has visited communist China dozens of times and has lauded their oppressive regime for actions that would clearly violate the U.S. Constitution. Harris, when asked how she plans to lower consumer prices, immediately defaulted to Soviet-style price controls, which did not work in the Soviet Union and would not work here. There is little doubt that either Walz or Harris would miss one of the first rules in the radicals’ playbook – ban civilian firearm possession. Total civilian disarmament has always been their true goal, regardless of what’s codified in their party platform.
Unconstitutional State Laws
Last year, at the insistence of Barack Obama, Joe Biden put Harris in charge of the new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which Biden said would “centralize, accelerate, and intensify our work to save more lives more quickly.” The Office has no website. Its budget has never been made public. Its staffing levels are not known. It operates in secret, without oversight and wields tremendous power. Only three staffers were identified. One has a long association with Obama.
Almost immediately, it became clear that the Office was an incubator and a clearinghouse for anti-gun policy that it pushed out to blue states.
After overseeing the office, Harris’ anti-gun rhetoric has sharpened, she’s better at gaslighting the public, and it is clear what she has in store for law-abiding gun owners if she replaces Biden on a permanent basis – more unconstitutional state laws, each one of which needs to be challenged in court. This is lawfare, pure and simple.
Unconstitutional Executive Orders
Joe Biden has issued nearly 40 anti-gun executive orders, including one that bans homemade firearms, which the administration calls “ghost guns.” Harris will likely issue more, since she has witnessed little pushback to Biden’s orders, even those that were patently unconstitutional. She will have plenty of help at this. Harris has known Barack Obama for more than 20 years. He has been her mentor, and Obama has been the driving force behind many of the current administration’s gun control schemes.
When it comes to gun control, the Harris-Walz administration will likely devolve into nothing more than Obama’s fourth term.
This story is courtesy of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to support pro-gun stories like this at SAF.
Why doesn’t some red state AG arrest and indict Obama?? Even better question, why hasn’t it been done already??
Because Republicans are WAPs.
First things First johnnyboy…Why don’t bigoted Gun Talking blowbags like you define Gun Control for Gun Control History illiterate America? Because bigots like you see nothing wrong with the bigotry inherent with Gun Control.
I’m not coming to Debbie’s aid, nor do I believe everyone (or anyone) has to take some sort of oath or allegiance concerning “where gun control came from”. None of that is helpful to those of us working actively to preserve The Constitution.
What would make some real sense would be for keyboard warriors like LeBlanc, or anyone else who snipes and complains about realities, as they exist at this moment, to offer some real solutions that would have a chance of meeting wide-spread public approval concerning criminals with illegal-to-them weapons, wanton violence, justice, and the entire scope of returning to a society that might honor what our Founders provided us with. That, of course, requires time, effort and deep thought which has become a rare commodity in the 2024 United States.
Complaining or making snide remarks is juvenile and meaningless. Worse yet, comments like the WAP remark pushes sane people away from our cause rather than seek support.
The problem we occasionally come back to with some posters is a lack of content, critical thought, or ability to get past whatever contrived grievance they have when actual solutions large or small are proposed, discussed, or explored. Some areas are largely beyond hope barring outside intervention and/or catastrophic disruption of the status quo (seriously don’t bail out NY……. again……this decade). But little things like volunteering at polling stations to watch for fraudulent ballots, starting up high school trap shooting teams (yes we have several even here in NY) or setting up booths at the county fair can at least slow down the process hopefully long enough to see it reverse. There is no magic solution that will reset everything to perfection or even acceptable and we all have to be ready to work for things our great grandchildren might begin to see happen because otherwise we do little to nothing and generally get less back as a result.
It takes time along with the effort.
The real concentrated push for repealing the Second Amendment, banning private civilian ownership of firearms for any purpose, and the lawfare we encounter now began back around 1968. The democrats, like all communists, are patient and don’t allow little things like SCOTUS rulings against their core heresy bother them. They just try again using a different door.
On the 2A side, we are confronted with many who claim to be 2A proponents and even activists not being able to accept a similar amount of time to return to freedom. Is it right?
No, but is there a chance of a once-for-all-times solution and an end to all gun restriction laws and regulations?
Not a chance.
Slowly, and over time, we have been reclaiming our rights and liberties. There is now a wave that we should be learn to ride and cut the negativity and snide side remarks. Help out.
Oops see reply below.
“Why doesn’t some red state AG arrest and indict Obama??“
Because there’s no evidence or testimony he committed any crimes. Actually, no one from the Obama/Biden administration has been sent to prison, unlike Trump’s merry band of treasonous co-conspirators.
Here’s one now:
“Oath Keepers lawyer pleads guilty to ordering militia to destroy evidence after Capitol riot
Kellye SoRelle, of Texas, pleaded guilty to one felony count of obstruction of justice.
Author: Jordan Fischer
Published: 1:52 PM EDT August 21, 2024
Updated: 1:52 PM EDT August 21, 2024
WASHINGTON — A Texas woman who served as the former general counsel for the Oath Keepers pleaded guilty Wednesday to telling militia members to destroy potentially incriminating messages after the Capitol riot.
Kellye Sorelle, 43, of Junction, appeared before U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta on Wednesday to enter her plea of guilty to one felony count of obstruction of justice and one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted grounds”
If leaving your wife at home so you can suck off some stranger after sharing a crack pipe isn’t a crime, it should be.
Then they won’t have anything to fear from an objective and neutral investigation.
“objective and neutral investigation“
Already had quite a few of those, and the Republican/controlled congressional investigations have found diddly squat.
On the other hand, Trump’s co-conspirators are being rolled up, and sent off to prison:
“Ex-Trump attorney Jenna Ellis to cooperate in Arizona fake electors case, charges to be dropped
BY JACQUES BILLEAUD
Updated 6:45 PM EDT, August 5, 2024
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PHOENIX (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign attorney Jenna Ellis, who worked closely with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, will cooperate with Arizona prosecutors in exchange for charges being dropped against her in a fake electors case, the state attorney general’s office announced Monday.
“Her insights are invaluable and will greatly aid the State in proving its case in court,” Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. “As I stated when the initial charges were announced, I will not allow American democracy to be undermined — it is far too important. Today’s announcement is a win for the rule of law.”
Lol ok fake news fake justice and on to fake excuses for a fake candidate pushing a fake campaign with fake support white knighted by potentially fake feds. Is anything of yours real?
… bring a mop
SAF needs to stop using the enemy’s language. Instead of writing: “Harris has said numerous times she wants a “mandatory buyback” of ARs, which is nothing more than a smokescreen for mandatory confiscation.” They should write: “Harris has said numerous times she wants mandatory gun confiscation from law-abiding people.”
You want an uncivil war? Vote D. You may get one anyway if Trump wins. Dims guarantee it. Either way America is in for some “interesting times”.
I have made peace with that.
Guess what a Harris/Walz administration can expect from 100 million gun owners and 29 States?
Most of them will make excuses for themselves, this is one of the problem with the very comfortable lives we have.
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But it’s okay because they also want to sterilize mentally ill kids and destroy womens safe spaces.
oh please just try camel toe to “Come and take my guns,’
Dumb Box
PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order | Dr. Robert Malone.
There is a balance between helping out and mercilessly mocking loose cannons that do more harm than good until they shut up. After all no sense putting in effort if someone pisses it away by pushing useless narratives and unfortunately it is often hard to find the right balance. In person is a lot easier as unhinged people tend to come across as…..well unhinged. And for the most part that is where I focus my efforts, especially with more and more lower income democrats realizing bail reform+unchecked migration from third world shitholes can mean theirs neighborhoods are the ones impacted as they have the infrastructure to absorb a population increase.