With election day on the horizon, early voting participation and the latest polling show the presidential election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris as a toss-up.

As of the end of October, 76 million Americans had already cast their vote in the 2024 general election. According to a report at NBC News, about 41% of early votes so far were cast by Republicans, 39% by Democrats and 20% by others.

That’s a great contrast to the early vote in the 2020 election when Democrats cast about 45% of the votes compared to Republicans’ 31%. Such a surge of early voting by Republicans might seem to give the former president and Republicans in tight U.S. House and Senate elections a small lead at this time.

However, the latest round of polling by major polling organizations shows a somewhat different story, according to a report at theepochtimes.com. The latest poll from NBC News shows a dead heat in head-to-head polling, with Trump and Harris both getting 49%, while an ABC News-Ipsos poll shows Harris with a 49% to 46% lead.

Of course, key battleground states will be what pushes one candidate or the other over the top on Election Day. While a poll from Atlas Intel showed Trump winning across the board in all seven swing states, with the margins ranging from 1 point in Wisconsin to as many as 6.5 points in Nevada, a New York Times/Sienna poll showed Harris ahead by 3 points in Nevada, 2 points in North Carolina, 2 points in Wisconsin and 1 point in Georgia. That poll also showed Trump leading Harris by 3 points in Arizona, and the two tied in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

What does this all mean for America’s lawful gun owners? In a nutshell, it means none of us can sit out this election and simply hope for the best.

Back in early October, the National Shooting Sports Foundation pointed out that more than 10 million hunters and Second Amendment supporters still had not registered to vote. That leaves those of us who are registered and haven’t yet cast our ballot to help pull the weight of those who didn’t get registered on time.

As we’ve reported here several times in the past, the two candidates for president have vastly different views concerning private gun ownership and the Second Amendment. Harris has never met a gun-control schemer she doesn’t like, while Trump was a solid gun rights supporter during his first four years in the White House. There is no question that if Second Amendment rights is a top concern of yours as a voter, Trump is the choice.

Nobody knows more about Harris’ records on guns and gun control than the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) since the Golden State is where Harris began her political career. From supporting a complete ban on handguns as San Francisco district attorney to pushing for confiscation of so-called “assault weapons” during the 2020 presidential race, Harris is a clear and present danger to gun owners. To see CRPA’s press guide on Harris’ gun control history, click here.

Trump, on the other hand, appointed dozens of pro-2A federal judges during his first term and could do so again, bolstering courts throughout the land with pro-rights judges. And he has promised to again support gun rights if elected.

“The NRA has stood with me from the very beginning, and with your vote I will stand strong for your rights and liberties,” he said at an NRA gathering in May. “In four more years in the White House, we’re going to do things like nobody can believe to turn our country around. We’re going to, quite simply, make America great again! We’re going to win this election at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.”

Even left-leaning publications, in trying to discredit Trump on the gun issue, have managed to tout his 2A credentials.

In the end, it’s likely that gun owners will be key to who holds the presidency for the next four years. Don’t miss your chance to practice another one of your critical rights—voting.

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32 COMMENTS

  1. My vote counts for quite little in ILLannoy. Nevertheless infanticide,mutilating children,allowing boys to compete against girls and of course 2A rights(among a litany of DIM evildoing)compels me to vote. I voted quite little when younger(against Nixon). Gun rights brought me back!

    • Did you notice how the tranz issue mostly went away from the public debate? When it’s an issue, a Republican can (and did) win Virginia. It was a mistake to be mostly silent on the issue.

      • Oh, and it was just confirmed that the Algerian Olympic boxer that Miner49er assured us had a v-a-g-i-n-a, actually has testicles. He also had normal testosterone levels before he began taking medication to lower it (because he wanted to fight girls). It turns out that Miner49er is either a chronic liar or never knows what he’s talking about. The International Olympic Committee is a joke.

        “Everything woke turns to shit.” -Trump

        • Once again, you display your abject ignorance regarding human sexuality.

          “Imane Khelif, Olympic gold medallist, identified as ‘man’ with internal testicles in leaked report

          “FP Sports
          November 5, 2024, 09:12:26 IST
          Imane Khelif’s medical report

          A medical report on Imane Khelif, which included an MRI and additional tests, indicated characteristics associated with a disorder of sexual development. The MRI allegedly showed that Khelif lacked a uterus, had internal testes, and had a “micropenis” resembling an enlarged clitoris.”

          “The report further states that Khelif suffers from 5-alpha reductase deficiency, a sexual development disorder found in genetic males. The leaked medical reports were reportedly drafted in June of 2023 via a collaboration between the Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital in Paris, France, and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Hospital in Algiers, Algeria.“

          • You tell me that I’m displaying ignorance when I call you out on your lie, then you go on to prove me right. Wow. Thanks? It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

          • Miner, I want you to recall the conversation we had about this. What did I say? Like a patient parent explaining the birds and the bees to a confused child, I clearly and gently informed you that having deformed or underdeveloped genitalia does NOT alter your sex. Then I gave an example. Remember the lesson? I said that you can pay someone to chop off your p-e-n-i-s and carve out a pocket in your groin. That is NOT a v-a-g-i-n-a. You are still NOT a woman. Sure, maybe an inexperienced person might be fooled if they squint real hard. That still doesn’t make it a reality.

            We knew from the beginning that this particular boxer had a test that confirmed XY chromosomes. That’s fifth grade level science, Miner. For the record, I don’t think you’re too stupid to understand this. I think you’re a devout left wing follower. You have proven, over and over again, that you will follow your leaders off the proverbial cliff without question. You never learn anything because you choose not to. Sad!

  2. Vote, watch the polls for fraud, report/investigate/sue as needed. Going to be a lot of schennagans regardless of results and may as well get to cleaning up whatever we can while we still can.

    • Safe,

      You are absolutely correct!!

      We (my wife and I) have our work cut out for us tomorrow. We are the only 2 Republican poll- watchers for our precinct. We have to cover 2 shifts from 6:30 AM to 8:30 PM. B12 ( the vitamin, not the airplane) is going to be our best friend.

      • Everyone I know ]PROUDLY VOTED TRUMP/VANCE 2024 without any ifs, ands, butts, apologies, excuses, etc. 🇺🇸😊🇺🇸🫡🇺🇸

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    • But if you don’t vote, don’t complain about the result.

      You had your chance and chose to sit on the fence.

  3. “…. more than 10 million hunters and Second Amendment supporters still had not registered to vote. ”

    I guess a special blend of lazy and stupid.

  4. They shouldn’t but plenty will. Especially the religious ones who think everything is God’s will and welcome the eschaton however forced its arrival may be.

    If they think Harris will leave guns alone just know that her campaign made a custom Fortnite map as a PR stunt and they banned guns from that. If theyre so ideologically driven they’ll ban virtual guns from a shooting video game of course they’ll come for the real thing.

    Good news is on a game played by tens of millions of people fewer than 400 actually played that map.

    • … still far too great of a chance that we’ll end up with both a President and Vice President who both have an extra lung where their brains should be located.

  5. Well, I’ve voted in every election since I was eighteen. That was a long time ago. I was at the Supervisor of Elections office this morning. Finally moved my vote to my “new” precinct after 10+ years. Used to drive the poll workers crazy that my DL address didn’t match my voting precinct. But, there I was in full uniform. No doubt I was a citizen of the United States of America.

  7. Trump wins we delay the inevitable, Harris wins we get a 2nd civil war sooner, and maybe WW3
    America can’t and won’t survive long or even medium term
    Simple as
    so pick your poison
    not that it matters

  8. I didn’t bother to vote for President as my vote wouldn’t count for anything anyway. The Democrats have a lock on California by a 2 to 1 margin, much to my chagrin. Heck, the state Republican Committee doesn’t even bother funding campaigning.

    • Wild how NY has a remote chance of being close before the ballot printers and illegals get involved this time around.

      • Trump did not win the popular vote in 2016, but he won the electoral college. We do not have one man, one vote. Only the electoral college matters. If I cannot sway the election in California, which with such a small minority of conservative voters is statistically impossible, there is no point in voting for Trump.

        • I wasn’t saying vote to win Cali. I was saying vote to make a point. They’re always making a point about the popular vote. How many people sit at home in CA because they know dems will carry the state? A million?

    • All you do is prove resistance is futile.

      They know there is no resistance, they’ll do more and more.

  9. Gun collectors with many assault style weapons should be happy that KH is going to win.
    The price of those assualt style weapons will skyrocket and since America is all about capitalistism, all those wanting to make money (every red blooded American ), off of the lost Freedoms or someone’s misfortunes, should be over-joy-ed.
    I don’t get it?

    • Not after KH declares them to be contraband and orders their forfeiture they won’t. Just because your MSR is not an “assault weapon” today doesn’t mean it won’t be tomorrow. California has been trying for several decades to outlaw them, and every time the law changes, you have to change the configuration of your rifle to stay legal. The ATF has been trying to do exactly the same thing under Obama and OBiden, and we must assume that the same will continue under her reign of terror.

    • Speaking of Reason’s reporters, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire after endorsing Trump posted a poll to their X.

      Trump and all of Reason’s reporters are tied to a trolley line, you can save one. Trump has the very clear majority.

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