I'm not at all optimistic about it. I think it's likely that we get Patriot Act 2.0, a semi auto ban and a national registry, 7 day waiting periods and the whole bit. The only way I can think of to avoid that is to expand the number of people who consider 2A when voting. There are 5M new gun...
The local politicians they've voted for and their families vote for and their friends vote for all are anti gun. It's habit, culture and social convention. They went and bought a handgun or shotgun in June because there was looting and violence near their house or apartment or they saw it on TV...
This well said but it's even more fundamental than that. Lot's of new, dyed in the blue, Dem gun owners not only don't think of themselves as gun owners, they don't even think of them selves as exercising s right that's under attack -- they're just thinking of personal security and self defense...
There is no right reason, as long as it's a lawful one.
It's a right, just like speech. There is no right or wrong reason for me to exercise the 1A as long as it's lawful, same with 2A.
More importantly, without getting some people from the left hand side of the political aisle to start understanding that 2A is an unalienable, civil right, the 2A as we know it is doomed.
Stopped at bass pro yesterday. Ammo limit of 4 boxes / 1 bulk pack (250 rds or more) applied to all ammo including shotshells.
Only rimfires on the shelf as 22lr shotshells. No pistol ammo. Handful of obscure rifle cartridges.
Shotgun was pretty much all turkey/bird hunting loads in subgauges.
Greenwald is one of the bravest men alive. He risked an extremely cushy existence to go to war with the US govt and then again with the Brazilian govt.
He's a hard lefty, but he's maybe the strongest proponent of free speech alive. Glad to see him getting shared here. He's as good as we've got...
Funny, I though about snapping a pic but didn't.
I think it was 31xxx. Barrel assembly was darker blue than receiver but didn't look like a full recent reblue or anything.
Fore grip is what I think of as the "old style" model 12 cornhusker where it isn't really wider than the mag tube /...
Blythe's in Valpo had a winchester model 42 on the wall today -- really cool never seen one in the flesh before.
Handful of ARs still, including some braced pistols. Most of the handguns are gone and ammo was basically nonexistent.
*All the HM2 you could carry, but not a single round of 22lr.
Yeah, Trump isn't and never was an existential threat to the DNC. He is and always was to the RNC.
Pelosi and crew should be / probably are crapping themselves over how well he did with Latinos generally and black men. That was unexpected and is going to force them to look at things a bit...
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That was interesting -- growing up in Chicago we always said "Northwest Indiana", "Gary" or "the Dunes." We'd come to the dunes park in the summer a fair bit, but I never heard "da region" before moving here.