Charge Engen with falsification/obstruction, or don’t charge the rest of us if we’re caught lying to police. I don’t care how he is on guns, except for how being discredited invites attacks on all his positions, and what I read here makes me think he’s a squish who’s OK with taking a scalpel with a light touch to RKBA.
I spoke with him in detail a few days back and submitted the results of our talk to Firearms News. My editor tells me it will be online either today or tomorrow and has gotten in under the wire to make the print version, going to press Monday and should in subscriber mailboxes/on news stands for several days before the primary.
I didn’t really know that much about him or what to expect in terms of how deeply and sincerely he would walk the talk, but I gotta say, my conclusion is we’re dealing with the real deal, we’re dealing with someone who doesn’t need to put himself out there for all the crap he’ll have to put up with, and we’re dealing with someone we’ll be damn fortunate to have in office, especially after enduring the wretched likes of Kass-Itch and the bipolar Mike DeWine.
Add in Vivek Ramaswamy declaring ““The idea of a heritage American is about as loony as anything the woke left has actually put up” while working to bring in a demographic that is 83% anti-gun, and readers here know how I feel about that.
If you’re an Ohio (or any other state) gun owner who agrees with me, you’ve gotta see what’s in it for you by spreading the word, getting out the vote, and supporting his campaign with much-needed donations. (I just made out a check he’ll get next week because of the Win-Red processing fee. And in the interest of disclaimers/disclosures, I hadn’t made up my mind to do this until after I’d submitted the mag article for publication.)
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
I couldn’t help juxtaposing watching him handling those guns with this bit of Republican phoniness designed to suck in the gunrubes:
Democrat-led states threaten to sue Trump over voter database executive order [More]
If I were a Democrat and I knew that voter fraud claims are truly baseless, I’d want to let him walk into this self-made trap. What did Napoleon supposedly say…?
Governor’s adviser: 3 out of 4 days see New Mexico youth arrested with a firearm – The governor’s office and prosecutors told lawmakers that ‘repeat offenders’ are responsible for an outsized amount of violent crimes [More]
“NSSF-Supported ATF Director Nominee Cekada Questioned at Senate Hearing, Vows ‘Not to Burden Law-Abiding Gun Owners’” the National Shooting Sports Foundation effused… the American Suppressor Association weighed in. “If confirmed, he would be the first ever truly pro-Second Amendment nominee to head the agency.”
Shri’s also against guns, demands abolishing ICE, does the “No Kings” crap, and is an all around commie subversive. Who thinks his next generation’s gonna come around? Ranjit? Kostas…?
Some thoughts on “birthright citizenship” using the Bruen standard:
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black described Rep. John Bingham as “The Fourteenth Amendment’s James Madison.”
During ratification debates on the Fourteenth Amendment “Bingham argued that birthright citizenship should only extend to children born within the U.S. whose parents did not owe “allegiance to any foreign sovereignty.”
You can’t be said to OWE allegiance to this country until you take the oath and are granted citizenship. And by default, newborns are incapable of forming allegiances or incurring debts.
