Biden’s Legacy In Tatters As Departure Looms; Gun Control Hypocrisy Hurt

Joe Biden is leaving office next month with his gun control agenda rejected and his legacy in tatters. Joe Biden IMG whitehouse-gov

ANALYSIS—With a month remaining before history and the 2025 calendar sweep him out of office, President Joe Biden will leave the White House with his “legacy” in tatters; a testament to his career of bluster, dishonesty and gun control extremism made completely irrelevant by his pardon of his own son following convictions for gun crime violations.

Two new polls show Biden’s popularity at a low, and it could sink further following his reaction to the Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Madison, Wisconsin after which the president predictably called for actions by Congress which have no rational connection to the facts of the crime.

Fox News is reporting the results of a new Marquette Law School poll conducted Dec. 2-11 which show Biden has a 34 percent approval rating and a 66 percent disapproval, down four percentage points from October and the lowest showing for Biden in Marquette polling since he took office.

A new Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Dec. 18 shows Biden with a 45 percent approval rating for his job performance, but a 53 percent disapproval, which has been virtually unchanged for weeks. According to Rasmussen, only 23 percent “strongly approve” of Biden’s job performance while 40 percent “strongly disapprove.”

Biden may leave office having done more damage to his gun control crusade than he might possibly imagine. Writing for the National Review, Charles C.W. Cooke observed, “I do not think that President Biden and his friends appreciate the extent to which this act has damaged their calls for stricter gun control. Unlike the case in Wisconsin, Hunter Biden’s behavior actually was connected to one of the policies that his father demands every time he speaks on the issue. In President Biden’s estimation, one of the major problems with America’s gun laws is that the federal background check process is insufficiently extensive. And yet, less than a month ago, President Biden pardoned his own son for lying on the form that sits at the heart of that process.”

Cooke’s remarks were being published about the same time Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, released a scathing reaction to Biden’s “crass exploitation” of the Wisconsin school tragedy, which appears at AmmoLand here. Perhaps the most memorable remark in Gottlieb’s condemnation was this: “Biden, and his fellow gun prohibitionists all know the incident in Madison would not have been prevented, even if all of the laws he now wants passed had already been in effect. It is dishonest to suggest otherwise, but, of course, honesty has hardly been the earmark of the Biden administration.”

Eric Friday, counsel for Florida Carry, was quoted by TheGunMag.com noting, “There is no excuse for continuing to regulate law-abiding citizens. There is no excuse for denying parents, teachers, and staff, the ability to defend our schools with the same guns they carry every day in other locations to protect themselves and their families.”

For more than 50 years, Joe Biden has been leading the charge for gun control, working with other notorious Capitol Hill gun prohibitionists such as Senators Chuck Schumer, Chris Murphy, Richard Blumenthal and the late Dianne Feinstein and their elitist allies at Everytown for Gun Safety. While calling himself “a Second Amendment guy” because he owns a shotgun, Biden has championed every anti-gun-rights bill he could. He defended every restriction now on the books…right up to the moment he signed that pardon for his son, taking elitist Beltway hypocrisy to a new low, according to critics.

When Biden leaves office Jan. 20, Second Amendment advocates are hoping returning President Donald Trump will immediately dissolve Biden’s White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a mini-bureaucracy created last year for the sole purpose of lobbying for Biden’s extremist gun control agenda at taxpayer expense.

And now, on the eve of Trump’s return to the Oval Office, a new McLaughlin poll released this week has some startlingly bad news for Biden and his fellow anti-gunners.

The Second Amendment Foundation commissioned the poll, which reveals a majority of American voters believe Trump and a Republican majority in Congress will better protect Second Amendment rights than Democrats.

Jim McLaughlin, CEO of the famous polling firm, detailed the results: “Americans continue to cherish their Second Amendment Rights as the results of our recent national survey clearly show. Overwhelming majorities of voters want their political leaders in Washington to defend Second Amendment rights (77%).  Furthermore, three out of four voters (76%) say it is important to nominate and confirm judges to the federal courts who will make it a priority to strictly follow the Second Amendment and nearly two-in-three voters (63%) think President Donald Trump will make it a priority to protect and defend the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners. It is safe to say that Americans are clearly excited about the results of the November elections and the rights of gun owners remain very important to voters.”

Revealing charts may be found here, here and here.

Translation: A majority of American voters put Trump and the GOP in charge for a reason. American gun owners are tired of being the collective whipping boy for Democrats who are determined to turn the right to keep and bear arms into a government-regulated privilege while attaching blame for crimes they did not commit and would never condone. The Madison mayhem allowed Biden one last opportunity to showcase just how detached from reality his gun control scheme has become.

Biden’s reaction to the Wisconsin school tragedy was predictable. Instead of offering some semblance of intelligent strategies to deal with the specific circumstances of the crime, the president offered what CCRKBA’s Gottlieb justifiably described as a “one-size-fits-all gun control wish list.”

As a result, the president is slowly headed for the door having been labeled by both Gottlieb and Cooke as “irrelevant,” a description which Biden will carry back to Delaware having been pushed aside months ago by his own party in its failed attempt to retain power.

It would be the ultimate irony if Joe Biden were to be remembered as the president who brought an end to his party’s gun prohibition addiction by demonstrating just how feeble and hypocritical it is, and likely always has been.

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About Dave Workman

Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.

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Trump’s Jan. 6 Political-Prisoner Pardons Could Address Some Real Injustices ~ VIDEO

Opinion

On his first day in office, President-elect Donald Trump promises, he will pardon at least some of the 1,500 or so people who have been charged with crimes in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

He notes that most of those defendants were not violent and that they faced a lot of pressure to plead guilty, as about 1,000 have done so far.

Trump’s most vociferous critics are apt to view any pardons in these cases as an outrageous and self-interested attempt to excuse the behavior of “insurrectionists” who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. But even though Trump himself is largely to blame for the riot, which was inspired by his unfounded insistence that then-President-elect Joe Biden had stolen the election, [we shall see about that] he raises some valid points about prosecutorial power, which can lead to unjust results that might be remedied by the prudent use of presidential clemency.

As of Nov. 6, the Justice Department reports, about 590 people had been charged with “assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement agents or officers or obstructing those officers” during the riot. They included 169 defendants “charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.”

More than 300 defendants had pleaded guilty to felonies, while 661 had pleaded guilty “only to misdemeanors.” Defendants who pleaded not guilty, by contrast, typically have been convicted of felonies.

Prosecutors had a bunch of potential charges to choose from, including misdemeanors such as demonstrating inside the Capitol, “disorderly or disruptive conduct,” and entering or remaining in a restricted building without authorization. The sentences in such cases ranged from probation to short jail terms. Even defendants who received relatively light sentences may have grounds to complain that the charges they faced were not deployed consistently.

According to a recent report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, four FBI informants “entered the Capitol during the riot,” while 13 “entered the restricted area around the Capitol.” [See “FBI had 26 informants at Jan. 6 Capitol riots — and most were involved, bombshell DOJ report confirms “.]

None of those informants has faced prosecution.

Although the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office claims that is consistent with its policy of “generally” not charging protesters who did not enter the Capitol itself, that does not explain why the four informants who admittedly entered the building got off scot-free.

The potential felony charges in the Capitol riot cases, which carry much more severe penalties, included violent crimes such as assaulting police officers. But they also included offenses that were not necessarily violent, such as obstructing “an official proceeding,” which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison under 18 USC 1512(c)(2).

Given the possibility of such charges, Trump said on “Meet the Press” this month, defendants who pleaded guilty “had no choice.” Because prosecutors can severely penalize defendants who insist on a trial, he added, the criminal justice system is “very corrupt” and “very nasty.”

The Section 1512 charge, which figures in a quarter of the Jan. 6 cases, illustrates that point. Although the Supreme Court ruled last June that the offense must involve attempts to conceal evidence, meaning it does not cover the conduct of the Capitol rioters, that seemingly important decision is expected to have little impact on the outcomes of these cases.

The Justice Department says “there are zero cases where a defendant was charged only for violating” Section 1512. And even in the 26 cases where defendants pleaded guilty to that charge alone, the agreements explicitly allow prosecutors to pursue other charges now that they can no longer rely on this statute.

When you combine that sort of discretion with the puzzling practice of imposing sentences after trial based on allegations that the prosecution failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, it is not hard to see why some Jan. 6 defendants may have received excessively severe penalties.

If Trump draws appropriate distinctions and uses his clemency powers carefully — a big “if” — he can mitigate those injustices.

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About Jacob Sullum

Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine. Follow him on Twitter: @JacobSullum. During two decades in journalism, he has relentlessly skewered authoritarians of the left and the right, making the case for shrinking the realm of politics and expanding the realm of individual choice. Jacobs’ work appears here at AmmoLand News through a license with Creators Syndicate.

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United Healthcare Assassination Puts New Spotlight on Ghost Guns

On December 4th, 2024, at 6:45 ET, an assassin killed United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson in New York City in front of the Hilton Hotel. Video of the assassination shows the assassin with what appears to be a pistol with a suppressor attached. The assassin fires at least two shots, possibly three, while manually working the action at least twice. This would leave two shell cases and a potentially loaded round or three shell cases at the crime scene.

On December 9th, 2024, a suspect was identified in a McDonald’s at about 0914 a.m. in Altoona, PA. Altoona police officers approached the suspect, who was wearing a mask and a beanie-type cap. The suspect, later identified as Luigi Magione, was seated at a table with a silver computer and a backpack. Officers asked Magione to pull down his medical mask. They recognized the suspect as matching images of the assassin in New York.

The officers asked if the suspect had been in New York City recently. The suspect became visibly nervous. The officers then asked for identification. The suspect offered a New Jersey Driver’s license bearing the name of Mark Rosario. When the officers attempted to validate the license, they could not do so. The suspect was told he was under investigation. If he lied to officers, he would be arrested. The suspect then identified himself as Luigi Mangione. Magione was placed under arrest for forgery and false identification to law enforcement.

Mangione’s backpack was searched as part of an inventory search when he was arrested. The search uncovered the “Ghost gun” and a silencer. Both of the items were described as 3D printed.

From the Altoona Pennsylvania police report:

During a search of the Defendant’s backpack, Officers located a black 3D-printed pistol and a black silencer. The pistol had a metal slide and a plastic handle with a metal threaded barrel. The pistol had one loaded Glock magazine with six nine-millimeter full metal jacket rounds. There was also one loose nine-millimeter hollow point round. The silencer was also 3D printed.

Image of “Ghost Gun” found with Luigi Mangione.

Luigi Magione was charged with five counts under Pennsylvania law in this order:

• Forgery PA 18 4101 A3
• Firearms not to be carried without a license PA 18 6106 A1
• Tampering with records or identification PA 18 4104 A
• Possessing an instrument of crime  PA 18 907 A
• False identification to law enforcement authorities  PA 18 4914 A

Magione was not charged with possessing an unregistered silencer/suppressor because Pennsylvania does not prohibit the possession of silencers/suppressors.

A statute, 18 908 (C), defines prohibited offensive weapons as “firearms specially made or adapted for concealment or silent discharge.” A typical silencer does not meet this definition because it is not a firearm under Pennsylvania state law and does not produce a silent discharge.

As reported on Reuters.com, Witness Christian Diaz heard shots from just outside the University Club. The assassination was in front of the New York Hilton Midtown. Using Google Maps, the University Club is over 300 yards from the front of the New York Hilton Midtown. Police were at the scene in seconds. The weapon used in the assassination was far from silent.

The fact that the “Ghost gun” had no serial number did not affect the investigation and arrest. The firearm was not found until the suspect was under arrest. If the firearm had been marked with a serial number, it would have made no difference in this case.

Before 1:59 p.m., December 11, 2024, AP reported the firearm found in Magione’s backpack matched shell casings found at the scene of the crime in NYC.  This is incredibly fast forensics work, worthy of a Hollywood television series. The suspect was arrested after 6:45 a.m. on December 9. The firearm was discovered a little later, say 6:59. In less than 55 hours, the suspect firearm was test-fired with similar ammunition. The cases were compared to determine extractor, ejector, and firing pin marks between different jurisdictions. This is unusually fast cooperation! No serial number was needed for this investigation.

This correspondent wonders if the Altoona Police Department might have an agreement with U.S. Immigrations, Customs and Enforcement (ICE), which has a sophisticated ballistics laboratory in Altoona, PA.

Some have claimed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare is “greedy.” Brian Thompson’s salary was one million dollars a year. With stock options, which are not guaranteed, the total compensation has been estimated at 10 million dollars a year. The number of people covered by UnitedHealthcare is 49 million. The compensation of Brian Thompson amounts to between 2 cents and 20 cents per year per person covered by UnitedHelathcare.

The total income of the portfolio of UnitedHealthcare managed by Thompson was 74 billion in the last quarter, or about 296 billion annually. Thompson’s share was about 1/3 of 1/100 of 1 percent of the income he managed (.0000338).

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About Dean Weingarten:

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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Gun Violence: It’s Time Black Americans Reevaluating Their Political Allegiance

Opinion

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Let’s get real about the crisis: handgun violence is devastating Black communities, especially hitting young Black men like a freight train. In Konstadinos Moros’s eye-opening article, “The Racial Disparity In Gun-Related Homicide: A Problem That Must Be Discussed So It Can Be Solved,” he lays out the brutal truth that’s been overlooked for too long.

It’s time to question how generational political allegiances are impacting the very survival of Black communities.

The Deadly Toll of Failed Policies

All statistical data in this article accessed via the CDC Wonder tool: https://ift.tt/JxAgl2Z

Here are the hard facts: Black Americans are facing gun-related homicides at a rate of 24.6 per 100,000, while White Americans have a rate of only 1.8. Young Black men aged 15-24 are seeing rates as high as 100 per 100,000.

Moros makes it clear, “Frankly, any discussion of gun-related violent crime that does not put the plight of the Black community front and center is a fundamentally ignorant or dishonest discussion.”

Yet, what do we get? Silence or suppression from those who use race as a shield or weapon to stop any honest discussion. Who’s in charge in these high-crime areas? Democrats, under whose leadership cities have languished with soaring homicide rates despite strict gun laws that obviously aren’t working.

Democratic Leadership: A Legacy of Death

Democratic control in America’s most violent cities has long been touted as a path toward greater safety and justice for Black communities. Yet, the reality on the ground paints a starkly different picture.

As Konstadinos Moros points out, “The sky-high homicide rates suffered by Black Americans are an indictment of the failed leadership of the Democrats.”

These areas, under uninterrupted Democratic rule for decades, continue to suffer rates of gun violence that dwarf those of their suburban and rural counterparts. This is not just a failure of policy but a failure of a promise—a promise of safety, prosperity, and equality.

Cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and Detroit have become case studies in how stringent gun control laws, coupled with Democratic governance, have continued to deliver increases in gun violence and death. These failed policies have left law-abiding citizens more vulnerable to crime, unable to defend themselves effectively under restrictive gun laws that criminals blatantly ignore.

The repeated pattern raises a critical question: If decades of Democratic policies have left Black communities more exposed to violence, isn’t it time to demand accountability and consider alternatives? This is not about switching political allegiance for the sake of change alone but about seeking effective solutions where current strategies have palpably failed. It’s about empowering communities to demand more from their leaders and to critically evaluate whether their long-held loyalties are being rewarded with real, tangible improvements in their daily lives.

A Call for Political Change

The need for a new direction is clear. We must open the door to new ideas, new leaders, and new approaches that more closely align with the priorities of safety and community empowerment. Whether this means supporting moderate Democrats who are willing to challenge the status quo, backing Republicans who offer viable anti-crime & pro-family initiatives, or even considering independent candidates, the goal must be to foster a political environment where policies are judged by their effectiveness, not their ideological origins.

It’s about survival, not just loyalty. Moros argues for a laser focus on solutions that directly impact young Black men who are disproportionately victims of gun violence. We need leaders who will implement real, effective crime solutions, not just recycle failed policies and rhetoric.

What’s crucial is their commitment to genuine safety measures, not just gun control that leaves law-abiding citizens defenseless.

It’s Your Community

Our political loyalty should be earned, not assumed. Black Americans must lead the change, speaking out and voting for policies that actually make a difference. It’s time to break the cycle of violence and death with bold actions and new alliances.

As Moros urges, “The Black community will need to be the first to speak up for itself and break the cycle.” Let’s redefine our political engagement based on results, not traditions.

The Racial Disparity In Gun-Related Homicide: A Problem That Must Be Discussed So It Can Be Solved

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About Tred Law

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NBC Falsely Claims Magazine Disconnects Increase Safety

Fake News Media Biased

Around 11 people are killed each year because their handguns lacked a magazine disconnect, according to a massive 4,600-word special report by NBC News, which was released Friday.

The story’s title tells you all you need to know about the content: “A simple device could help curb accidental gun deaths, but most firearms don’t have it.”

“Since 2000, at least 277 people have been killed in gun accidents in which the shooter believed the weapon was unloaded because the magazine had been dislodged or removed, an NBC News investigation found. That total – based on federal data collected from states, as well as media reports, lawsuits and public records – is likely a significant undercount since many states only recently began reporting their data, and information on the cases may be incomplete. NBC News found 41 cases that weren’t captured in the data,” the story claims.

Most of the story focuses on those allegedly killed by a handgun that was improperly used – pointed at an innocent person and the trigger pulled.

“In Kansas, a college football player lost his leg after a teammate fired a weapon in 2018 that he thought was unloaded. In Michigan, a pregnant woman was accidentally shot and wounded by her husband, an Army soldier. And earlier this year, a customer inside a crowded Florida gun show was shot in the foot when another man unwittingly fired off a live round,” the story states.

While any firearm-related accident is horrific, the story makes a lot of its numbers, but by comparison, dogs kill nearly three times as many people per year, around 400 die annually from accidental electrocutions, and texting while driving kills thousands more people every year.

According to their story, the NBC reporters tried to ask more than a dozen firearm manufacturers about whether they would incorporate a magazine disconnect in their modern handguns. None replied to their questions, other than Larry Keane, general counsel and chief lobbyist of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

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“If the magazine gets dislodged or damaged and you can’t function a firearm in a life-or-death situation, using a firearm for self-defense — that’s a significant problem,” he told the NBC reporters.

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Keane is correct, of course. Besides, whether or not a firearm has a magazine disconnect, no one would have been harmed had the accidental shooters assumed that every gun was loaded and kept the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.

Gun Violence Archive

In their second-to-the-last paragraph, the NBC reporters admit where they got much of their data for the story, from the Gun Violence Archive, or GVA.

According to GVA’s executive director Mark Bryant, every day his researchers consult “a mass of about 7,500 sources. They are law enforcement Twitter, law enforcement Facebook, law enforcement police blotters and then we have media sources. The easiest is to grab media sources. Law enforcement is clinical. The media looks more subjectively at an incident.”

The bottom line: GVA’s data is extremely suspect.

Gun Violence Archive executive director Mark Bryant. (Photo courtesy Mark Bryant).

Using the GVA data debunks any serious point the NBC journalists were trying to make, because anytime four or more people are shot and even slightly wounded, the small but influential nonprofit labels it as a mass shooting, and politicians, gun control advocates and the mainstream media treat their reports as if they’re gospel even if their data is wildly inaccurate.

For example, according to Bryant’s all-inclusive definition, there were 417 mass shootings in 2019. The FBI says there were 30, because it uses a much narrower and more realistic definition.

While the GVA collects and publishes several different types of shooting data – mass murders, number of children and teens killed or injured, officer-involved shootings, defenses gun usages and more – it is their inflated mass shooting numbers that are cited most often by the mainstream media, given its penchant for sensational headlines.

In a 2021 interview with the Second Amendment Foundation, Bryant defended his broader definition, and the higher body count it yields.

“It doesn’t parse,” he said three years ago. “It gives an accurate picture of the number of times more than four people were shot, whether in a drive-by or a shooting at a rap concert or a country music concert.”

In the interview, Bryant deflected blame for the media’s overhyping and misuse of his data.

“If the numbers are misleading, the journalist didn’t do their homework, you could make that argument. The media zeroes in on it, not us. At one point we wanted to take mass shootings out of the loop, but the phone started ringing on a daily basis. It’s important to me that we’re not misinterpreted. We’re not anti-gun. Look at our staff, over half are gun owners. I intentionally do not hire from the (Gun Violence Prevention) community. I want researchers – period. We wanted to have an honest set of data, and you can use it how you want,” Bryant said.

Bryant’s database is being used by anti-gun politicians, the gun-control crowd and their supporters in the mainstream media. Keep in mind they cite GVA’s data as proof that our rights need some infringing. If Bryant honestly believes in an individual’s right to keep and bear arms, he’d shutter the GVA.

New design

Fabrique Nationale’s new 21^st Century High Powers lack magazine disconnects, which says all most shooters need to know about the old-fashioned disconnects.

“One component removed from the reboot is its antediluvian magazine-disconnect safety, meaning that the hammer can be dropped and the gun fired with its magazine removed,” NRA’s senior executive editor Kelly Young wrote in a review of the new High Powers.

Antediluvian means “belonging to the time before the biblical flood, or ridiculously old-fashioned.”

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About Lee Williams

Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.

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NBC ‘Magazine Disconnect’ Story Attempts to Cheerlead Gun Bans and Lawsuits

They make it look so easy, doable, and especially inarguable. That’s because they’re hiding what they really want. (NBC News/X.com)

“A simple device could help curb accidental gun deaths, but most firearms don’t have it,” NBC News “reported” Friday.  The story opens with three anecdotes: A 13-year-old finds his father’s gun, shows it to his friend and pulls the trigger; two “former” Marines are handling a Christmas gun during a football game; a 64-year-old is cleaning his gun and pointing it toward the wall with his grandson’s friend on the other side.

The stage is set for revealing the tragedy that will result. And for setting the stage for holding manufacturers accountable to add disabling devices to their products or be held financially accountable for deaths resulting from negligent discharges.

The “solution” offered is a magazine disconnect, a device that will prevent a semiautomatic firearm from discharging a round left in the chamber after a magazine is removed. To give their case historical gravitas, the “real reporters” introduce the readers to a device patented over 100 years ago by John Moses Browning, revered as a “patron saint” by gun owners who honor the man’s innovative contributions to firearms technology and design.

It’s true that he did. It’s also true that he did not incorporate it into all of his designs, a good indicator that he recognized there are no “one size fits all” solutions for all gun owners and circumstances, and that he intended it to be a consumer choice due to pros and cons for any modification that inhibits a firearm’s ability to perform its primary task to fire.  The problem with that, of course, is anti-gun governments get involved and make disabling and other devices mandatory.

Cases in point, from this correspondent in 2001:

“New Orleans Aims Lawsuit at Gun Makers,” declares the CNN.com headline. “We seek to recover damages…from the…sale of guns that are not safe,” postures the Big Easy’s mayor, Mark Morial. [Also] In their lawsuit, backed by CPHV … the chamber indicator was inadequate because the gun was not inscribed with a warning as well.

And currently, from USA Carry:

“California is the only state that requires handguns to have both a chamber load indicator and a magazine disconnect feature. California also requires that all new semi-automatic pistols be equipped with costly and not technically proven microstamping technology. Massachusetts, Maryland, and California require childproofing technology for pistols in 2024.”

And as we saw with the introduction of so-called “smart guns,” New Jersey was quick to jump on that bandwagon with “a now-repealed law that would restrict the sale of handguns … to smart guns that ‘can only be fired by an authorized or recognized user; and would take effect three years after the technology is available for retail purposes.”  (Fun fact: The primary sponsor of New Jersey’s efforts was “Republican” State Senator Joseph A. Palaia, a career politician with absolutely no knowledge of firearms design who idiotically opined for the press, “I really can’t believe that it would take more than a couple of years to make a smart gun prototype. It’s a matter of putting their minds to it.” )

The NBC News hit piece — and that’s what it really is — is a thinly disguised propaganda appeal to mandate adding such disablers to all semiautos and exploiting their absence as a workaround to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), using the deceptive assertion that all it would take is adding a simple little low-cost modification. If it means saving lives, who but a gun fanatic could object?

Except they’re not just talking about making magazine disconnects the standard going forward. Look deep into their text and we find the rueful declaration, “Unlike virtually every other consumer product, firearms can’t be subject to mandatory recalls or regulated by federal product safety officials.”

What good does it do to ignore the estimated 70.1 million semiautomatic firearms, “17.7 million modern sporting rifles” (I hate that term and you should too) and  “52.4 million” pistols, and only impose changes on what’s going forward, especially when the word “recall” has been clearly telegraphed? How would that work without universal registration and a mandate with penalties for noncompliance? And as an aside, if the principle established in Haynes v. United States applies (and it will), criminals, the population most inclined to be substance abusers and ignore “gun safety” rules, will be exempt because requiring their compliance would violate their Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.

But the prohibitionists disguised as journalists have an agenda that doesn’t need to admit any of that, as a look at their go-to guy for a legal read demonstrates:

“There are pressure points to change the industry and get them to make the product safer,” said Jonathan Lowy, founder and president of Global Action on Gun Violence, who has represented dozens of shooting victims. The federal liability shield “took away a pressure point, and that stopped some of the progress that we were seeing.”

What kind of pressure points?

Lowy, former Chief Counsel and VP Legal for Brady, “filed papers … under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to provide legal and consulting services to the government of Mexico and plans to work with other nations on similar efforts,” Time reported in 2022. “Lowy has already worked with the government of Mexico and lawyers in Canada to file three lawsuits against U.S. gunmakers in the last four years.” (The Mexican government argued that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) does not extend to damages caused in Mexican territory and tiled an appeal after its $10B complaint was dismissed in a Boston federal court last year).

He was just getting warmed up:

Joaquin Oliver v USA was filed in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an independent legal body of the Organization of American States. The lawsuit was filed by long time gun violence prevention lawyer Jonathan Lowy, president of Global Action on Gun Violence (GAGV), and Arturo Carrillo, director of the George Washington University Law School’s Civil and Human Rights Clinic, who represent the Oliver family.

They want the world to sue gunmakers. The net effect, if successful, would be to make guns so expensive that only governments and the well-off will be able to afford them.

But magazine disconnects will be just a simple, inexpensive add-on, right?

And now we come back to the anecdotes NBC News tugged at our heartstrings with, starting with  the 13-year-old was the son of a cop who left his unsecured gun out. Not to “Bash the Blue” or anything, but law enforcement, which enjoys firearms exemptions denied to We the People, has higher suicide rates and are less “law-abiding” than concealed carry permit holders (and no, permitless carry does not give criminals any more of a pass than they already give themselves) . Do I really need to link to the “Only Ones” Files here? If you want to talk to me about magazine disconnects, talk to “highly trained” Lee Paige and imitators first. And don’t get me started on these idiots.

As for the Marines, there is no excuse. The same goes for the grandfather, who at his age, ought to have known better.

What NBC News is doing here by this cherry-picking is making the threat seem uniformly distributed throughout society to “justify” blanket prohibitions. Anti-gunners do the same thing with homicides, hiding the fact that “Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a small set of urban areas…”

“As for the risk posed by a seemingly unloaded weapon, industry groups and firearms experts say these accidents are relatively rare and happen only after people have violated the cardinal rules of gun safety: that all guns should be treated as if they are loaded and should never be pointed at someone the user doesn’t intend to shoot,” NBC News admits but then walks back. “Safety advocates argue it’s not realistic to expect that that will always happen.”

Which “safety advocates”? Gun-grabbers who oppose training children and discourage armed women? The same ones who offer inducements to turn in guns to “buybacks” that encourage people who don’t know the first thing about safe gun handling or making sure they’re completely unloaded to pick them up and transport them? The same ones who make excuses for willful ignorance and blame gunmakers for criminal and moronic abuse of their products by people forbidden by law to have them?

And not to minimize “If it saves one life” unless what’s being proposed won’t do that and will cause an avalanche of other problems, let’s just do some basic math.

The NBC News subhead tells us “At least 277 people have been killed since 2000 by shooters who believed the gun in their hands was unloaded because the magazine was removed.” To put it in perspective, out of the estimated 70.1 million semiautos in this country, the problem manifested itself in, well see for yourself…

For this they want to rope in 100%? Does anyone who fully understands the issue and the motivations for pushing it really believe this is about safety?

Per attorney Dave Kopel:

As Harvard’s Kip Viscusi has detailed, federal laws requiring “childproof” safety caps appear to have led to a documented increase in child poisonings. Lulled by the presence of the federally-approved safety device on medicine bottles, many adults have been leaving dangerous medicines within easy reach of children. Although the caps may be “childproof” to some three year old, they can never be completely childproof. The cap may be put on improperly by the consumer, or the child can simply break open the bottle, or cut through a plastic bottle with a knife.

A quote by author Douglas Adams comes to mind.

The same holds true with guns, where the greatest safety is not mechanical, but the operator’s brain. Why should those who know this be deprived of choices backed by their experience because of gun prohibitionists exploiting the laziness and incompetence of people who can’t be bothered with four simple rules? And do you think the NBC  flacks would know what a tactical reload is without looking it up, and how what they’re pushing could take that choice away and cost lives at the most critical of times?

Look for this NBC News hype to get played up though, with a much wider reach than refutations like this one that will be limited to a Second Amendment readership. And not that they’ll ever answer, but there is one tangentially related question I’d like to ask them:

Don’t you people have a GM truck to blow up?

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.

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Former Police Officer Says No Way to Ban ‘Ghost Guns’ Now

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In an article by whyy.org, the National Public Radio station quotes retired police officer Randy Sutton, who says banning “Ghost guns” will not stop people from getting them. The reporter added interesting commentary to the quotes by Sutton.

Sutton added that because ghost guns are not regulated, making them go away outright is unrealistic.

Sutton’s words might be interpreted in such a manner. It seems clear Sutton meant the guns would not “go away outright” whether they were banned or not, whether they were regulated or not. Here is a quote from Sutton in the article.

“There’s not a chance in the world we’re going to ban these weapons. It’s impossible,” Sutton said. “You can make them illegal to possess. But the techno barn door has already been opened.”

The article includes this graphic from the Philadelphia police department. It shows a declining percentage of privately made firearms in the last two years.

Sutton understands the reality, including the political reality. The technology to make guns without a factory has always existed in the United States, as has the legal right to do so.

Most guns were made in small shops during the Revolutionary era. Manufacturing was rapidly changing at the time of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. In a few decades, interchangeable parts would become a common technique. The first successful attempt at interchangeable parts for firearms was in France in 1785. Thomas Jefferson witnessed the demonstration. The French Revolution destroyed the workshop where the demonstration happened and even the memory of its success.

Thomas Jefferson took the concept to America. The United States pushed for interchangeable parts in its military small arms. In 1824, at Harpers Ferry Armory, the attempt succeeded.

In most cases, firearms continued to be made by hand, assembled from a collection of basic units, and hand-fitted to work, mostly by individual craftsmen, well after the Harpers Ferry success story. Individuals would often purchase a barrel or make one, purchase a stock or make one, then most often purchase a lock, and fit them all together to make them work.

No license was required to do this. The potential of serial numbers was known. They were not required. They were seldom used outside of the military. As firearms moved into factories, some manufacturers used serial numbers, but most did not.

Individuals have always been able to make firearms for themselves. Even relatively complex firearms such as revolvers were and have been made by individuals up to the present. Items such as bombs and grenades were and are much easier to make than firearms.

As precise metal working machines became cheaper and as metal shapes, such as steel tubes, became standardized and mass-produced, it became easier and easier for individuals to make their own firearms. Firearms are commonly produced in small jungle workshops around the world. They have commonly been produced in the United States by hobbyists. Where people are forbidden from legally obtaining firearms, the number of homemade firearms increases to meet demand. In the United States, in restrictive jurisdictions, the number of homemade firearms has always been higher than where firearms are easily and legally obtained.

Semi-automatic pistols made in a small shop in India

In the United States, in one of the most highly restricted jurisdictions, the District of Columbia, in 1977, 20% of the guns seized by police were homemade.

In 2010, 12% of the firearms in DC and Prince George’s had no serial numbers. As seen in the Philadelphia PD chart, personally made firearms are a lower percentage there than they were in DC 48 years ago or in DC and Prince George’s 14 years ago.  These numbers are far from precise. The strong possibility of selection bias exists. The numbers show the percentage of homemade guns is not necessarily increasing and may even be dropping. This makes sense as Second Amendment rights are being restored across much of the United States.

In a nation with over 500 million firearms in private hands, it is usually easier for people who desire an untraceable firearm to purchase one on the unregulated market, have another person purchase one in the regulated market, or steal one than to make your own. Hundreds of millions of guns in the United States are unregistered and untraceable.

A few thousand or a few million “Ghost guns” will not make a measurable difference. 

Analysis: Homemade firearms have always existed. The right to make your own firearm has always been part of the Second Amendment. The push to require government permission to make your own firearm is part of the Progressive ideology to ignore or destroy limits on government power. It has very little, if any, effect on criminals. It has a significant effect on law-abiding citizens. The desire to require serial numbers on homemade guns stems from the desire to impose universal registration of guns on the population of the United States. The ability to make your own gun defeats the idea of Universal Registration. Registration of Guns is, in effect, confiscation of guns.

The right to make and have your own guns, independent of government permission, is embodied in the ability to make and keep “ghost guns.” 

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About Dean Weingarten:

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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Henry 22 Mag Lever-Action Rifle Great for the Family

The actor Matthew McConaughey starred as the lead male role in the 2016 movie “The Free State of Jones.” He played the real-life Confederate soldier Newt Knight, who, after deserting the failing Confederate army, returned to his home in Jones County, Mississippi. War widows and orphans were trying to survive without husbands and fathers, and now the local Confederate state militias were seizing (stealing) the food, supplies, and anything else not nailed down to allegedly support the dying cause of the South.

In one scene, Newt Knight is checking on a neighboring farm wife/widow only to discover that the local food-stealing militia is on its way to rob the woman and her children. McConaughey’s character, Newt Knight, organizes the desperate farm family into an impromptu resistance fighting force. When the looters in uniform showed up, everyone on the farm was standing in the front yard waiting for them with a firearm in their hands. Including the youngest daughter, who could barely raise a single shot pistol, but she held her ground until the uniformed bandit trash left in fear of their lives. Of course, they threatened to return better-manned and better-armed to force the potentially starving family to comply.

Never underestimate the power of a family-size group of people, all armed with rifles pointing in the same direction, supporting the cause of defense and resistance to evil.

Anthony Imperato, owner of Henry, and Pete Hegseth formally of Fox News who is now the nomination for the Secretary of Defense and four of his children at the Henry Rifle factory in Rice Lake, Wisconsin.

There are a lot of Americans who are not gun people. They have no interest in hunting, and they do not want to own and shoot firearms just for the sake of shooting. And there are some who truly do not believe in the private ownership of firearms. Those are the ones who get to their cell phones the fastest to call for armed help to demand instant response in times of crisis and need.

I suggest there needs to be another group of armed Americans. The American family unit that may never hunt or own firearms to just shoot, but the American family that organizes all family members to have a rifle in waiting to defend their home in case destructive evil shows up at their front door.

If every adult and child over the age of ten has a rifle assigned to them and practices loading and shooting that rifle, you have created a family-friendly home defense force. Teach the more responsible younger children how to reload.

The major suggestion is to standardize the make, type of rifle, and caliber of the cartridge.

This column is not for the current gun owners of America. Those of you who have lots of “Black Rifles” hi-capacity handguns and pump action fighting shotguns are not really going to get much out of this concept. This column is for the non-gun owners who want to remain on the “surface of society” as non-gun owners but want to be somewhat ready for the day evil arrives suddenly and 911 is not working that day.

The Henry 22 mag rifle is my recommendation for arming in mass the currently unarmed American family. These rifles are lighter than their counterpart lever actions chambered in centerfire cartridges. Most hold 10 or more rounds of ammo and a 22mag round coming out of a rifle barrel will ruin a four legged deer or a two legged “walker’s” day.

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	Henry Golden Boy 22 WMR (22 Mag) Brasslite Blued Lever Action Rifle - 20in - Brown	Sportsman's Warehouse	$ 599.99
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	Henry H001TM Frontier 22 Mag 12+1 20 Black American Walnut Lever Action Rifle	BattleHawk Armory	$ 636.00 $ 478.58
	Henry Classic 22 WMR (22 Mag) Blued Lever Action Rifle - 19.25in - Brown	Sportsman's Warehouse	$ 519.99

Small-framed adults and older children can easily raise and fire the Henry 22mag. Even the little farm daughter in “The Free State of Jones” could have laid a Henry 22mag lever gun across a window sill and presented a menacing presence while delivering suppression fire to support the family in their home defense needs.

You can buy and shoot for training a lot more 22mag ammo over any centerfire cartridge. A box of 50 rounds of 22mag weighs much less than 50 rounds of 30-30 or 357 mag. If you have to shoot and move and keep moving to survive than 22mag ammo is easier to carry on the run.

The Henry 22 mag Mare’s Leg is a great back up piece. Not really a handgun but much smaller than a rifle. The enclosed 12.5 inch barrel greatly enhances the velocity of the 22mag over the same round fired out of a revolver.

If every member of your family has a Henry lever action 22 mag rifle assigned to them and they know how and when to use the rifle, your family’s chances of survival in time of crisis just went up by a multiple factor.

Envision the concept of multiple Henry Golden Boy lever action rifles chambered in 22mag in the hands of Jewish-American Families in time of crisis. Gives enhanced meaning to the term “Never-Again.”

There are other guns and other cartridges that can and should be used to Protect and Provide for your family if the world becomes an ugly place. Most people do not really think that will happen on “their watch”. I hope they are correct. These people do not tend to prepare for the unexpected or want anyone to know they may even be concerned about a “crisis”.

This is where picking one firearm and one cartridge that a non-gun person can handle with limited training and then plus-up their family’s ability to contribute to the defense of the home front with their own Henry rifle in 22mag. This means you are serious about getting ready and staying ready. Doing this and not being intimidated by your “tool” of preparedness–your family’s collective group of the one rifle and one cartridge concept to defend the day.

Windage and Elevation, Mrs Langdon….windage and elevation, said John Wayne in the 1969 movie “The Undefeated,” during a scene where women and children fought alongside their men folk against outnumbering odds of evil.

Protect and Provide with a little family coordination.

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About Major Van Harl USAF Ret.:

Major Van E. Harl USAF Ret., a career Police Officer in the U.S. Air Force, was born in Burlington, Iowa, USA, in 1955. He was the Deputy Chief of police at two Air Force Bases and the Commander of Law Enforcement Operations at another. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Infantry School.  A retired Colorado Ranger and currently is an Auxiliary Police Officer with the Cudahy PD in Milwaukee County, WI.  His efforts now are directed at church campus safely and security training.  He believes “evil hates organization.”  vanharl@aol.com

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Media Hit Piece on “Ghost Guns” Uses Scare Tactics

Media Hit Piece on “Ghost Guns” Uses Scare Tactics

On December 12, 2024, USA Today published a hit piece on “ghost guns” attempting to use the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as a reason to impose unconstitutional restrictions on homemade firearms.

It appears Brian Thompson was assassinated with a homemade firearm. However, the manufacture of the firearm did not interfere with the investigation of his murder. The suspect was arrested without any assistance from gun tracing data, as is the case with virtually all violent crimes. Gun tracing has no measurable effect on solving violent crimes. It is difficult to find any violent crime that was solved with gun trace data. The USA Today article misleads from the first paragraph:

For decades, America’s detectives have made breakthroughs in crime using gun traces. A homicide investigator typically uses ballistics and serial numbers of weapons checked via a vast network of gun shop records, manufacturer IDs and crime databases.

The unstated conflation is from crimes of possession or illegal gun sales to homicide. Homicides that are solved by the use of trace data seem to be non-existent. It may have happened, but this correspondent has not found documented examples. If there were examples, they would be shouted out by the ATF and those who want a disarmed population. They are not. The USA Today article does not cite a single violent crime solved by using trace data.

Canada has required all handguns to be registered since 1934.  The Canadian handgun registration is far more effective and intrusive than the United States gun trace system.  In 1995, when the Canadian handgun registry had been in use for over 60 years, the Canadian Department of Justice could not identify a single instance where handgun registration helped to solve a crime. From publicsafety.gc.ca:

Department of Justice officials admitted that they could not identify a single instance where handgun registration helped solved a crime (Hansard, 1995, p. 12,259)

Gun registration is not an effective way to solve violent crimes. Gun tracing in the USA is far less effective than gun registration.

The USA Today article uses the scare tactic of citing increasing numbers of homemade guns found by law enforcement agencies. It is an irrelevant number. Most firearms in the United States are unregistered and untraceable. A few thousand, or a few million more, given the over 500 million firearms in private hands in the United States, is not going to make a significant difference.

This is the scare tactic used to demand legislation no matter how minimum or irrational the actual threat is. A person who is shot with a manufactured gun is no more or less injured or killed than a person shot with a homemade gun. Manufactured guns will always outnumber homemade guns by thousands to one.

The article spends considerable time considering how people make illegal devices to circumvent federal and state laws. So… what is the point? The devices are already illegal to make. Making them double or triple illegal will not change anything.

In the end, the article gives a realistic assessment, quoting a gun control advocate from the Giffords Law Center. More laws will not stop people from making their own guns.

 “The genie is out of the bottle,” he said.

Analysis: This scare tactic is used to promote the idea of government control of firearms. Fortunately, most people realize this is an area where government will control law abiding people, but criminals, government agents, or criminal government agents will always be able to obtain firearms.  The use of a few cases and bogus or non-existent statistics has been a favorite way of passing bad laws for much of American history. A good example is the ban on switchblade knives. Short barreled rifles were banned because of a stupid, ignorant, or Machiavellian representative from Minnesota in 1933.

Laws restricting the freedom to have and carry (keep and bear) firearms do not reduce homicides or suicides. Gun registration does not reduce crime or suicides. Registration is gun confiscation stretched over time, perhaps generations. Homemade guns fall outside of gun registration schemes. Americans have always had the legal right to make their own guns. The courts should recognize this inalienable right.

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About Dean Weingarten:

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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Canada Announces New Gun Bans, More Gun Control on the Horizon

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Canada is confiscating guns again. IMG NRA-ILA

On December 5, at a late afternoon press conference in Ottawa, Canada’s federal Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced that 324 additional makes and variants of rifles would be added to the 2020 list of over 1,500 so-called “assault-style firearms,” being semiautomatic guns that Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his officials had dramatically and disingenuously described as “military grade assault weapons.”

These added guns, said LeBlanc via video-link at the press conference, “are made for battlefields, not for hunting.”

As was the case when the initial ban was announced in May 2020, the ban takes effect “immediately.” These firearms may no longer be lawfully used, sold, or imported into Canada, and may only be transported or transferred “under extremely limited circumstances.” (Prohibited firearms previously classified as non-restricted may be used for hunting pursuant to an aboriginal or treaty right, or for sustenance hunting or trapping pending a compliant replacement firearm being acquired.)

In what has become a characteristic of the slapdash way that the Trudeau government has dealt with its bans, a reporter at the December 5 event noted that a list of the newly illegal guns was not available or included in their materials. “None of us have seen the list…Can somebody please give us an indication of which specific makes and models are now banned…?” RCMP Deputy Commissioner Bryan Larkin responded that “the list will be circulated very shortly.” (A commenter on the X account of the Canadian gun rights site TheGunBlog.ca observed that the RCMP website on gun transfers was, however, shut down for “maintenance” at the same time that the press conference began.)

LeBlanc indicated the new list had been compiled after “robust consultation with experts from the RCMP.” The list has since been posted online by LeBlanc’s department, Public Safety Canada, and includes several .22 caliber rimfire rifles (so much for the RCMP’s “expertise” on what constitutes “battlefield” ready).

The amnesty period, due to expire on October 30, 2025, and the mandatory surrender and compensation (“buyback”) that governs guns on the 2020 list will apply to the newly-added firearms as well.

LeBlanc also stated that the first phase of the so-called “buyback,” for firearm businesses, has moved forward. According to the government, the first phase “has already begun with a few businesses for testing and will be open to all firearms businesses across the country in the next few days.” LeBlanc outlined a new development in this respect – that as “part of that process, the government has committed to the Ukrainian government to identify whether some of these guns could be donated to support the fight for democracy in Ukraine.” Minister of National Defense Bill Blair added that the “Department of National Defense would begin working with the Canadian companies that have weapons that Ukraine needs and which are already eligible for the assault-style compensation program in order to get these weapons out of Canada and into the hands of the Ukrainians.” The participation is apparently optional, as the companies that “choose to participate in this initiative” are eligible for the same amount of government compensation as other businesses participating in the “buyback.”

“Our work isn’t finished,” LeBlanc said. New regulations would be offered on December 13 “to ensure that no firearm can come into Canada or be sold in Canada without first being approved by the RCMP,” an “evergreen” way of imposing firearm bans in the future. Further, a panel of experts would be created “to support the RCMP…who would look at the classification of firearms that are not a part of the models that are currently prohibited…and we will take additional measures in order to further restrict access to those firearms.”

The government statement accompanying the list of newly banned guns advises that the “Government also continues to act to fully implement former Bill C-21, with remaining provisions to come into force early in the new year. In particular, no later than January 2025, the Government intends to table measures in Parliament to address the rates of gun violence in situations of gender-based and intimate partner violence. Regulations to implement the new yellow flag laws will also be introduced this Spring. In addition, the Government will also introduce regulations concerning large-capacity magazines in March 2025.”

All of this seems like desperate, performative posturing by a political party that is poised to lose big in the next federal election. Even without the new list, the implementation of the confiscation and compensation program for individual gun owners is already a massive boondoggle. The latest issue, a plan to have gun owners surrender their guns by shipping them using the post office, was stymied when Canada Post officials demurred on security and safety grounds; all that became completely moot once Canada Post employees went (and remain) on strike in November.

LeBlanc has consistently refrained from giving a start date for the individual “buyback” program, and that didn’t change with the December 5 event. As indicated, phase 1, the business confiscations, hasn’t yet “fully launched;” Minister of Public Services Jean-Yves Duclos said on December 5 that “a pilot program that has been running for the past month has collected and destroyed a ‘couple dozen’ guns.”

Conservative Member of Parliament Raquel Dancho (Kildonan-St.Paul), the Shadow Minister for Public Safety, responded to the ban. Under Trudeau’s Liberal government, she said, “[v]iolent crime has exploded over 50% and gun crime has surged 116%, but “[i]nstead of locking up criminals and reversing his laws that have contributed to the alarming explosion of crime in our country, Trudeau chose to attack lawful and vetted hunters, sport shooters, and Indigenous Peoples who safely and legally use firearms as they have done for generations.”

As we’ve noted time and again (here, here, here, here and here for instance), Trudeau’s government launched its gun ban and mandatory confiscation scheme with no implementation plan in place, with taxpayers facing an increasing and unwelcome price tag for enforcement and compensation that is likely to exceed billions of dollars. TheGunBlog.ca points out that the government has already missed all of its previous confiscation milestones, and twice delayed the amnesty deadline.

“They had hoped to complete it 2.5 years ago, and have yet to begin.” It predicts that affected “firearm owners have no intention or incentive to surrender their goods to a political regime that will almost certainly be out of office before the confiscation deadline of 30 October 2025.”

Trudeau’s Gun Ban is Withering on the Vine

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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess, and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org

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