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I see some comments on my new piece on Brian Fitzpatrick that I’m going to address here. I rarely add comments over at AmmoLand because I’ve had my say, it’s the readers’ turn, and I just don’t have the time to get drawn into debates. That and I can better handle things here when trolls attempt to disrupt and redirect by going off topic, or hijacking the conversation I’m inviting completely with insulting squabbles (see “Comment House Rules” in right sidebar).

Bucks county is the burbs of Philly, lots of wealthy liberal democrats. Getting a pro 2a to run much less win in that area is practically impossible.

The reality is, and I included a link in my article, Fitzpatrick won 56+% to 43+%. Republicans will win there. This defeatist presumption presupposes, without evidence to back up the assertion, that such Republicans must be overt gun-grabbers, spreads a “there’s nothing we can do about it” attitude that several readers upvoted and agreed with, and signals the GOP that Lee (“Who else are they going to vote for?”) Atwater was right and it can continue to ignore and even sabotage gun owner interests.

This is not the way we fight to win. But the Democrats love it.

https://foac-pac.org/ is the only 2A group I know of in PA. Residents should be a member.

2A is about more than “crime,” they only have 570 x.com followers and haven’t posted to it since 2023. They do somewhat better with 14K Facebook followers, which is still a head-scratcher considering the number of gun owners in PA (and is not the same as active organization membership), and haven’t posted anything this year but a “Happy New Year” message, with nothing about what is going on at the municpal, state, and federal level.

You could come up with similar dismal analyses for Pennsylvania Gun Rights, GOA-Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania Firearms Association, leading me to ask in my piece, “And for that matter, why is it so hard to find any information on any Pennsylvania pro-2A groups alerting their members to mobilize against Fitzpatrick?”

In fairness, such groups can only do so much with most gun owners not picking one and supporting it, and with (generously) 10% of the members doing 90% of the work.

Back to the first comment: It’s not that there’s nothing PA gun owners can do about it. Of course there is. It’s just that most won’t try.

My greatest failure as an armed citizens advocate is I’ve never figured out what to do about that.

New Bump Stock Ban: Fitzpatrick Gets Away with Gun Grabs Because Republicans Allow It

The GOP needs to understand, in no uncertain terms, that embedded Democrats are unacceptable, and the Party must do a better job of reining in politicos who want to go left. [More]

Donald Trump should instruct Party shakers and movers to find an acceptable replacement and give enemy-in-the-gates Fitzpatrick the boot.

DOJ Investigation into California Gun Law Patterns and Practices Should be Expanded

A new request for DOJ investigation has been filed detailing Second Amendment and civil rights violations inherent in Illinois’ Firearms Owner Identification card (FOID) requirement. [More]

They showed deliberate indifference to the first civil rights complaint. Perhaps an adjusted attitude will allow them to consider this one.

Do You Know Who I Am? Anti-Gun Mayor Busted for DUI

It’s not hyperbole to conclude this drunk’s “passion” includes denying her countrymen God-given rights enshrined in a document she swore an oath to uphold. [More]

Who wants to submit their rights to the control of elitist reprobates who can’t– or won’t — control themselves?

Mr. Trump, Tear Down These Bans

GOP Lawmakers Urge Commerce Secretary to Reverse Biden’s Gun Export Ban [More]

This one, right?

While they’re at it, why not end the Trump > 32-round magazine export ban?

And as long as we’re on the subject of what the president can do:

“President Trump doesn’t even need Congress to get rid of the unconstitutional 1989 “assault weapons” import ban, he just needs to order the BATFE to declare all imported semi-auto rifles as ‘sporting,’ which is what these same models are considered when domestically produced.” (True, “sporting use” is a term originated in a 1938 German gun control law, and “swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of an American,” but it will get the job done and we know why we want them.)

Democrat ‘Civil War’ Means Party and Its Demands on Guns Will Move Farther to the Left

While the country as a whole may not be ready for an AOC White House bid, a potential coalition builder like Wes Moore is another matter altogether. [More]

They’re looking for someone even the radicals won’t attack. And counting on Republicans to blow it in the midterms through to ’28…

Justice Department Punts on Complaint against Compromised Anti-Gun Judge

Yet despite clear evidence of bias, thanks to a U.S. Department of Justice official policy of deliberate indifference, such judges will remain on the bench. [More]

What’s that John F. Kennedy quote about making peaceful revolution impossible…?

Oregon Court Decision Sides Against Second Amendment and with Tyranny

If it were other civil rights being violated by a state, precedent has already been established that the U.S. Department of Justice would step in and put a stop to it. Gun owners should demand the same for the Second Amendment from an administration that literally owes its electoral victory to them, and our “gun rights leaders” should be the loudest voices making sure it can’t be ignored. [More]

Yo, AG Bondi: A little help here? Or will your DOJ continue being selective about which rights it will protect?

ATF Up to Old Tricks in Denying Attorney Fees on Bump Stock Case

If you want to fight for your rights against the unlimited power and treasure of the state, you’re on your own. That’s “the reasonableness of the government’s position.” [More]

We’re about to find out how different the new administration is from the old one when it comes to citizens being forced to fight for their rights.

Impact of Trump ‘Gender Ideology’ Order on Firearm Transactions to Be Determined

What this means is the Form 4473 will need to be revised again if ATF is to comply with the executive order. [More]

Don’t let this distract from a more basic argument.

Debate Over Nassau ‘Militia’ Focuses on Wrong Understanding of Founding Intent

It sounds more like reserve “Only Ones,” and Founding era thought leaders weren’t big on “select militias.” [More]

Letting those with an agenda redefine terms ignores the real argument.

Very Real Potential for ‘Existential’ EMP Attack Highlights Suicidal Short-Sightedness of Gun Banners

If only the Founders had conceived of a way that Americans could band together in times of existential threat and to provide for what was “necessary to the security of a free state…” [More]

Who thinks disarming before the collapse “top men” are preparing for is a good idea?

The Power of Suggestion

“Reason for Mexico Terror Threat Against U.S. Gunmakers Suggests Government in Pocket of Cartels”‘Suggests’???? You’re Kidding, Right? ‘Suggests’? [More]

No, I’m not kidding. I laid out some documented examples of corruption to build my argument, but if I was going to use the word “Proves” for the specific instance of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum being in league with the cartels, I’d need to provide more than circumstantial evidence. I’d need to produce documentation establishing that she’s in communication with, on the take, or under direct threat from specific cartels. Barring that, it’s the same reason why words like “alleged” are used.

The commentator, who “suggests” he was a CIA operative in Mexico who had a direct hand in getting DEA agents in and then out of the country with their captures, claims direct knowledge I confess I cannot. If he’d like to be a whistleblower and blow the lid off this, I can guarantee the same level of care Mike and I gave to our Fast and Furious sources– after vetting them .

Reason for Mexico Terror Threat Against U.S. Gunmakers Suggests Government in Pocket of Cartels

Top officials, in all branches of government, the police, and the military, are in the pockets of the cartels. [More]

Don’t think of them as partners. Think of them as conjoined twins.

Another Democrat Gun Grabber Calls for Political Violence, This Time with ‘Actual Weapons’

Why are they so desperately angry, ready to drop all pretenses of “friends across the aisle” civility and call for street violence? Against people they’re trying to disarm…? [More]

You’d think the “commonsense gun safety” groups would condemn this kind of talk and disassociate themselves from insurrectionists calling for weaponized political violence…

Giffords Propagandist Plays Word Games to Agitate for Magazine Ban

Not all of us have the high capacity for swallowing disinformation and utter hogwash we find in the average Giffords supporter. [More]

Them accusing us of Orwellian Newspeak shows all they’ve got is gaslighting.

Trump Order on Second Amendment Raises Hopes and Questions

Trump’s Second Amendment order is a good first step. It’s up to us to keep him on the path and walking in the right direction. [More]

There are things he can’t do and things he can. Let’s make sure the changes are meaningful.

Democrats Encouraging Violence & War Against MAGA Supporters

Left unsaid is how they intend to disarm those of us they want hanged by the neck until dead. [More]

Maniacs who want to kill us want our guns. There’s a surprise.

Justice Still Stonewalling on Its Authority to Create a New Class of Prohibited Person

What wasn’t included was where DOJ gets the authority to create a permanent entry to NICS without a conviction or other disqualifier as defined by law. They’re still not saying. [More]

Try stonewalling when they want information and see where that gets you.

‘Gun Researchers’ Have Only Themselves to Blame for Anticipated Funding Cutbacks

Rather than heeding reality, expect the junk science purveyors and their elitist-funded “independent” propagandists to continue whining and to resume their politically motivated perversions of medical science. [More]

Just like their demands for citizen disaramament, it can never be enough for them. The prohibitionists funded by the elites and their foundations want you to be forced to pay for their lies, too. Look up “bullet fee.”

Menendez ‘Hoist with His Own Petard’ on Gun Control

What that also means is that Menendez, a huge proponent of disarming law-abiding Americans, is designated a “prohibited person,” forbidden by federal (and New Jersey) law from owning a gun. [More]

A universal truth is that those who demand to control us can’t — or won’t –control themselves.

FOIA Request Issued on Merrick Garland’s ‘Tommy Gun’

Not lost on observers was the hypocrisy of the FBI Director, who arrests citizens on federal gun charges, “gifting” a “Tommy Gun” to an Attorney General who prosecutes them… [More]

Just making sure they dotted all their “i’s” and crossed all their “t’s”… whether it’s real or not.

WA Gun Insurance Bill Shows No Depths Are TOO LOW for Gun Hating Democrats

This is all obviously unconstitutional and will never stand up to the text, history, and tradition standards of Bruen… [More]

They’ll keep harassing until they’re made to stop.

Narrative Parroting Helps ‘Reasonable’ Tennessee Gun-grabbers Influence the Ignorant

Great. Well heeled Vichycons and Fudds are on board with throwing the rest of us under the bus. So, what’s new? [More]

The string pulling violence monopolists can always count on useful idiots, “real reporters,” and gunkapos (but I repeat myself) to do their bidding.

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