Category: Anti-Gun Nannies

Get Busy

Anti-Gun Nannies, Politics, Rights, The Gun Thing

Here’s something I can only describe as a wake-up call:

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R) is leading a coalition of GOP House members urging President Donald Trump to pick an Attorney-General who will “immediately” wipe away Biden-era ATF gun controls.  Clyde and 32 other House members signed an April 21, 2026, letter, asking Trump to choose and A-G who will “immediately cease enforcement of Biden-era gun rules and secure permanent – not temporary – relief.”

Yes, yes, and again yes.

I’m getting heartily sick of a Department of [alleged] Justice which pays lip service to the Constitution — and especially to the Second Amendment — but either fails to redress wrongs through inaction or by continuing to slavishly enforce older regulations which tramp all over the Founding Document.

Clyde and his colleagues also ask Trump to choose an A-G who will reform and clean house at the ATF. They view this task as including:

    • Purging the ATF of gun-grabbing bureaucrats;
    • Opposing any effort to create, operate, or maintain a federal firearms registry in any form;
    • Stopping the ATF’s release of sensitive firearm trace data in violation of the Tiahrt Amendment*;
    • Shutting down and deleting the ATF’s illegal, searchable gun registry known as the Out-of-Business Records Imaging System (OBRIS); and
    • Reducing NFA application processing times.

That “purging the ATF of gun-grabbing bureaucrats” should only be a precursor to moving the A and T part back to the Treasury (where it belongs), and a complete deletion of the F, because fuck them.

Clyde and his colleagues pointed to the support Trump received from gun owners during the November 2024 elections, suggesting he should now support them as they supported him: “Mr. President, American gun owners have been some of your most loyal and enthusiastic voters. They delivered for you at the ballot box, and they deserve to see their constitutional rights respected in return.

“The roadmap above requires no new legislation – it only requires leadership, will-power, and a Department of Justice that is genuinely committed to your agenda rather than protecting its own institutional inaction.”

Clearly, ex-AG Blondie wasn’t up to the job.  If I were Trump, I’d make Alan Gottlieb (of the Second Amendment Foundation) the AG, let him clean the place out for (say) two years, and then let him get back to doing his proper job at SAF.

Frankly, I don’t actually care what Trump does.  What I want is for the DOfuckingJ to stop harassing gun owners and go after the real criminals.  And to do it quickly.  If DJT can achieve that with his choice of Blondie’s replacement, so much the better.

*The Tiahrt Amendment is a provision of the U.S. Department of Justice 2003 appropriations bill that prohibits the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from releasing information from its firearms trace database to anyone other than a law enforcement agency or prosecutor in connection with a criminal investigation. This precludes gun trace data from being used in academic research of gun use in crime.  Additionally, the law blocks any data legally released from being admissible in civil lawsuits against gun sellers or manufacturers.

Kicking His (Gr)Ass Blue

Anti-Gun Nannies, Resistance, The Gun Thing

Let’s hear it for the Kentucky state legislature:

When Democrat Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear recently vetoed two pro-gun measures, lawful gun owners in the Bluegrass State were hopeful that pro-gun lawmakers in the state legislature could garner enough votes for an override.

Gov. Beshear vetoed House Bill 78, which would provide critical liability protections for firearm industry members against third-party misuse of the products they manufacture and sell, and House Bill 312, which would create a provisional concealed carry permit for lawful young adults ages 18, 19, and 20.

On April 14, the state legislature convened for a veto override session and successfully overrode both measures. The override vote totals for HB 78 were 80-19 in the House and 31-6 in the Senate, while HB 312 was overridden by 81-to-18 and 28-to-9 margins.

I still can’t understand how the Bluegrass State ever came to elect a Democrat governor in the first place, but as long as the voters keep the legislature in line with solid conservative majorities, we should be okay.  (“We” in this case being Kentucky gun owners, with whom I share a deep and lasting bond through my Readers.)

Would that all states could be this way:  as a country, we’d be in far better shape.  (And by “we”, in this case, I mean everybody and not just gun owners)

“Bannings”

Anti-Gun Nannies, Rights

Ran into this little A.I. video SOTI, and while none of it concerns me — yet — I think there are a couple of things worth noting.

The “12 Guns Being Banned in 2026” are interesting, although none of them fall within my “I Want This Thing In My Gun Safe” parameters, mostly because they are chambered in calibers that don’t interest me (although that new Zastava M70…hmmm), too expensive (e.g. Daniel Defense) or else I’m just not interested in that type of gun (e.g. Tavor 12ga multi-tube shotgun).

However, what does interest me is that the GFW state legislators — all the usual suspects, plus Vermont (!!! WTF?) — have decided that if they can’t ban a gun just because it’s a gun, they’re going to ban it because it’s “military-specific” (like that matters), “common sporting purposes” (ditto), “concealable” (ditto) or, more worryingly, because of various features that they don’t like.  In other words, the guns are becoming too efficient and reliable, and only the military should have access to these features (again, bullshit, but it’s what they’re running with).

It’s a long video and both boring and/or irritating (#A.I.narration), but like I said, what it reveals is the ways with which the GFWs are targeting guns.  And my Virginia Readers should pay special attention because that’s the direction your state is heading if it’s not there already (ditto Colorado, a.k.a. Eastern California).

Of course, the Second Amendment Foundation will get involved at some point, and maybe a few of these abuses will reach the Supreme Court to have their pee-pees whacked;  but that’s leaving our fate in the hands of lawyers, which is always a risky proposition.

However, there may come a time when some guy (or guys) will get sick of all this bullshit and say “Come and get them” to which the state will reply “Challenge accepted” and the whole thing will end in tears.  I should point out that this is precisely the outcome these totalitarian bastards are hoping for.

Be careful out there, buy more ammo, and practice a lot.  And now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the range.

Afterthought:  I think it’s time I should look at one of those FRT (forced recoil trigger) thingies, just because I suspect that they will soon be a definite target for the GFWs.  Which is why I should get one, most probably for the FrankenPoodleShooter.

Likewise, as soon as I can buy a moderator (“silencer”) over the counter without paperwork, that too will be added to the above.  Not because I especially want one, but because they don’t want me to have one.

That Gun Registration Thing

Anti-Gun Nannies, The Gun Thing

Reader Clarence R. offers a mild correction to my earlier rant about gun confiscation in Canuckistan:

Kim:
In Canada not all guns are registered, only (legally owned) restricted and prohibited firearms are in the RCMP database and cannot be sold without notifying the RCMP. Hunting rifles and shotguns are non-restricted and therefore not registered to the owner and can be sold to other PAL holders without notifying the RCMP.
In 2022 the govt created a list of 2,500 rifle models that were previously unrestricted, declared them prohibited and now wants owners to self report that they possess them so they can be confiscated. Those who report first may receive financial compensation if the money doesn’t run out first.
I have an M1 Carbine which was restricted when I purchased it because one bank robber in Montreal in the ’60s had the habit of concealing a paratrooper M1 under his parka. As of 2022 it is a prohibited weapon, I can’t sell it or take it to a gun range.
I chose to self report because I knew that the RCMP database listed my M1. If the Liberals were to win the next provincial election and wanted to “take guns off the streets” it would be a simple matter of comparing two datasets, the restricted firearm database and the list of self reported firearms. My name would pop up and I would be guilty of a firearms-related crime. At this point the police would have cause to arrest me and confiscate all my guns after which the govt would show all my rifles and pistols (I think I have [lots more]) spread out on some tables and falsely claim the streets were safer. So I made the decision to give up one low powered gun in order to not risk losing all my guns.
When I went to the govt website and punched in my RPAL (Restricted Possession and Acquisition Licence) it immediately brought up my M1 complete with serial number and a buy-back value of $650Cdn.
Needless to say I didn’t volunteer any information about any other guns in my possession that may or may not be on the list of “assault style rifles”. The general consensus at the local gun shop counter is that no one is reporting “assault style rifles” that the RCMP doesn’t know about.

Thankee for the clarification [sic].  (Yeah, I took out the actual number of guns he owns because Good Reasons, given the Canucki gummint’s penchant for spying on their  citizens  subjects.

Just the very fact of the RPAL’s existence sets my teeth on edge.

As for my U.S. Readers:  never forget that the above rigmarole is precisely what our local Socialists want to do to us… or worse.

Collection

Anti-Gun Nannies, Government Thugs, Mocking Furriners

So… it looks very much as though the Canucki government wants to go on a gun-confiscation expedition:

Then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation known as C-21 to freeze handgun purchases and a “buy back” of military-style semi-automatic firearms in May 2022, with the bill receiving Royal Assent in December 2023. Conservative Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd of Alberta questioned Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree about the apparent large-scale refusal to comply from gun owners.

“Minister, the declaration period for firearms owners is scheduled to end next week. So far, only 2.5 percent of the estimated two million effected firearms have been declared and 98 percent [of] firearms owners haven’t made a declaration,” Lloyd said. “So, if they’re not declaring by next week, what’s your plan, Minister?”

And the response:

“The plan we have is as of March 31st, the time to complete the enrollment, will be, will be done and then the RCMP and other agencies will be available throughout the spring and the summer to do the collection.”

Remind me again how they know where to do these  collections  confiscations, and from whom?

Oh yeah, that’s right:  guns and gun owners are “registered” up there in the Great White Empty Space.

So the next time some Leftoid asswipe suggests registering guns and gun owners here in the U.S., please remember the above proposed action by the Canucki gummint.

Afterthought:  Canuckis being the milder version of the North American tribe, I’m kinda curious to see to what degree they’ll resist this foul confiscation drive.  I’m also very curious to see how many Mounties (active or retired) will actually show up to perform it.