With the election over and the Republicans appearing to have taken control of Congress, I’m wondering if there will ever be a greater chance to pass legislation that strengthens our 2nd Amendment rights. These would include reintroduction of the Hearing Protection Act, the Concealed National Reciprocity Act, and some statutory codification defining 80% lowers as not firearms (thereby repealing the ATF’s recent regulation classifying them as such) as examples. I’m guessing there are other legislative issues involving the protection of our 2nd Amendment rights, but those are the ones I can think of at the moment.
Unless action is taken soon, the opportunity to pass legislation protecting the 2nd Amendment may be harder to come by in the future. Right now, my guess is that the Republican agenda priorities don’t include strengthening 2nd Amendment rights, but instead include legislation granting corporate tax cuts, imposing import tariffs, banking deregulation, loosening environmental laws, etc. (I’m actually not a fan of much of that, and I realize I may be in the minority about that here, but at least most of us on here can agree that our 2nd Amendment needs protecting and strengthening). Anyway, all those other priorities take time, time that we as 2nd Amendment supporters don’t have much of. In two years, Congressional elections may flip one or both houses of congress, making 2nd Amendment legislation difficult if not impossible again (as what happened in the Trump Administration’s first term when Republicans briefly controlled both houses of congress). So if the 2nd Amendment isn’t made a priority at the outset (and it rarely is), then this opportunity will likely slip away, yet again. I think it’s incumbent upon us to urge our respective senators and congressional representatives to give the 2nd Amendment the importance it deserves and to make it a priority to strengthen it through legislation.
There’s a section with the D word, disarmament and to be fair also a section on self defense and defending the innocent, however, reading between the lines those two items seem to be geared towards a state authority rather than individual, and in less than between the lines
511Appropriate measures are necessary for the control of the production, sale, import and export of small arms and individual weapons,
That doesn’t leave much room for individuals as I see it
Our 2A rights are heavily trampled by the courts in individual cases I’d guess daily, no big groups to come save the day, those get left to defendants and their lawyers, meanwhile the youth simply do not know what rights they have to start with.
Trump spent his life in NY, the Empire State, he has no sense of firearms anything, he signed off on the bump stock ban as it was no skin off his nose.
Truth is we are vastly outnumbered and aging, we’re quickly traversing into a new world order and there is no room for John Wayne or Charlton Heston, there does seem to be filthy apes who can speak and the distinct likelihood this scene was prophetic if not in nuclear terms then in at least terms of losing national sovereignty
Sorry you asked yet?
I simply do not believe in politicians swooping in to save the day, more the opposite
He may not make this an immediate priority. More likely is the judiciary, specifically the supreme court replacing Alito and Thomas. That is if the GOP can take a lesson from the dems and act in concert together toward a future common goal. Historically, most republicans don’t keep a united front for long. Hakeem Jeffries may be a snake in the grass, but he rules with an iron fist and keeps his people in line.
It was introduced in 2017, back when the Republicans controlled both chambers. Unfortunately, it never passed.
I already have some ringing in my left ear, which I think came about when I stupidly forgot to put on my ear pro when I took a shot at a hog inside a blind. I know today’s medical technology can’t cure it, but if suppressors can help both my sons avoid the same fate and keep their hearing intact then I’m all for tearing down expensive red tape and making them readily available to the American public.
You are very correct there. And so far Trump’s only experience with semi-auto rifles has been having a couple pointed at him. I doubt he has much love for them. But the Senate and House likely won’t move on anything restrictive for two years or more.
I cant hear you 
