While the mainstream media and others giddily touted how Donald Trump’s candidate lost in Alabama’s run-off election Tuesday, don’t be fooled. President Trump didn’t lose yesterday. He won. In fact, not only did Donald Trump win, but so too did gun owners – in a big way.
As a member of the Trump Second Amendment coalition team, I’ve met some great people and they have shared a lot of their political their insights. While we would like to implement major rollbacks of gun control, the Washington D.C. swamp has bogged down Team Trump reforms at every turn.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate President Mitch McConnell stand as the single biggest enemies of gun rights reform in Congress. While both talk a good game at election time, the truth is that neither could give a damn about gun rights or gun owners. Their priority remains protecting the fetid cesspool commonly known as the deep state.
Yes, Donald Trump endorsed and campaigned for Luther Strange in Alabama’s U.S. Senate run-off election. Sort of. In fact, Breitbart News described Trump’s endorsement as “tortured”. Indeed. Speaking last Friday in Huntsville, Trump said:
“We have to be loyal in life,” Trump said. “There is something called loyalty, and I might have made a mistake and I’ll be honest, I might have made a mistake.”
… “By the way, both good men and you know what, I told Luther … if his opponent wins, I’m going to be here campaigning like hell for him,”
As a former Senator might have said, President Trump doesn’t take a dump without a plan. Trump supported the “establishment” Republican guy in order to leverage their support for tax reform, Obamacare repeal and the border wall. When Trump’s initiatives failed to gain support of the establishment GOP (eGOP), Trump’s subsequent “I might have made a mistake” line makes a lot more sense. After all, Trump knows how to give a glowing endorsement when he wants to. And Trump’s rally for Luther Strange, if anything, showed just how to make a “tortured” endorsement.
In fact, President Trump might as well as have spoken directly to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in that speech. “Mitch, we have to be loyal in life. There’s something called loyalty, and I gave you mine. I might have made a mistake in giving you my loyalty, because you’re betraying me at every turn.”
McConnell spent dearly – $30 million worth – trying to help “Big Luther” over the finish line. In the end, that money bought only a stinging ten-point defeat. With the crushing loss of “his” candidate, McConnell’s power will diminish further after Roy Moore wins Alabama’s special election in December.
Elsewhere, Tennessee’s Senator Bob Corker has read the writing on the wall. He just announced his own retirement. From Jeff Bezos’ blog, the Washington Post:
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection next year, another blow to the Republican establishment on the same day the latest GOP effort to revamp the Affordable Care Act failed.
Corker and other Republican leaders in Congress have come under fire from President Trump and his supporters for not delivering in the early days of the administration.
Look for other “retirements” as well, according to Politico. Retiring incumbents would prove bad for both McConnell and his establishment Republicans. Democrats have their own set of problems aside from possible retirements. 2018’s elections will have Dems trying to defend ten of their U.S. Senate seats held in states Trump won. McConnell does not have $30M to throw at each of a dozen or more races to shore up his eGOP wing of the party.
Yesterday’s election result will increase the already growing pressure on Ryan and McConnell to stop dragging their feet on President Trump’s agenda, including gun rights reform. Ultimately, as the 2018 elections grow nearer, gun owners and others will demand action, not rhetoric.
Expect some movement on pro-gun legislation before the end of this year – specifically national reciprocity and suppressor regulation reform. Both will almost certainly pass the House before Christmas. Passage in the Senate will happen if McConnell decides he wants to throw some red meat to conservatives. He may need to in order to preserve some of his eGOP friends.
Either way, expect these and other gun rights legislation to become law ahead of the 2018 elections.
If next year’s vote follows the current trend, both Ryan and McConnell could lose their leadership posts. If that happens, buy stock in Depend undergarments. The good folks at The Trace and big daddy Bloomberg’s Everytown will need a lot of them.
Ain’t about recoil. It’s about sight lift. It is intended to increase one’s ability to track the front sight through recoil, not “taming the mighty 9mm”, funny guys.
Yeah,
I seem to remember everyone saying Trump would never get the Republican nomination. Or there is no path to 270 electoral votes.
NO: Moore barely squeaked through his last election.His opponent was a potted plant.
For this to be a win, Moore needs to win the general election. He is a kook and could be the next Todd Akin, but his opponent is a true blue health-care-for-all living wage progressive like Bernie Sanders. I really don’t envy people who have to vote. kook vs kookier.
I predict a low turnout election, where out-of-state consultants make millions making the electorate sick, and in the end only people with too much time on their hands go out to vote. Who actually wins in Dec is a tossup.
But if you want to be complacent and chalk up a pre-season victory, you have good company. The NRA seems to be taking a victory lap, while the do-nothing congress has done nothing.
Only in America would wanting everyone to have healthcare make you a “kook”. Holy hell.
I’d love for everyone to have healthcare.
I just don’t want to pay for yours as well as mine.
You already do pay for others, that’s what insurance is. So that logic doesn’t fly.
Not how insurance works Jim. Nice try though.
Universal healthcare isn’t free you dunce, it’s paid with taxes. See? You really don’t know anything.
Wow, you really love taxes then huh? I know you’re a fascist and all, but geez!
Free healthcare for all paid for by the govt means the govt gets to decide your care. Since we live in a Democracy, we all get a vote.
Given that, I move that we pull the plug on Jim. All in favor? Opposed?
The ayes have it!
McCoy says: Your dead, Jim.
If I have to cough up the cash, so do worthless commies like you Jim. Flat tax. Going to happen.
1. That board and I have a legally binding contractual relationship.
2. If I don’t like them, I can pick another board or just bypass them entirely.
Funny how that kid in the U.K. literally died because option #2 wasn’t available. Great plan there broseph.
Car insurance in the U.S. is mandatory, except for New Hampshire.
Health Care is also universal in America, EMTALA, if you are ill or injured, Hospitals are required to treat you, if they take Medicare, which is fundamentally all of them. The issue in the U.S. is funding healthcare. I specifically work in insurance as an actuarial data scientist, the entire point of the private insurance is to socialize risk into a cost pool, the opposite of how people talk about it, that ensures the pool produces a positive fiduciary result.
We’ve gotten completely out of healthcare, not because we can’t make it profitable, but because we can’t define the risk pool with ever changing regulations. If the ACA had been a program that the risks could be mitigated in the short term by the subsidy, we’d have the data to define the risk pools over a 3-5 year period, but with the ever present risk of changes to qualifications, states being in/out year by year the risk pools in a geography aren’t well defined. In Kentucky, they’ve had a relatively stable system for a long time, so pools were both predictable, and reliable, but Arizona has been all over the place, so you get places where the cost curve went down, as well as others that went up.
Part of the problem is definitely that state borders artificially limit options, but most folks who want cross border pools, also don’t want federal regulation, which go hand in hand. At this point our execs firmly believe that single payer is only solution, specifically because of the lack of will to either completely free the market, or completely regulate it.
I can 100% say that in a quasi-regulated market, the person getting hosed is going to be the 59 YO, old enough to have lots of risks, but not old enough to do much about it, and hasn’t failed over to medicare yet, no one wants them in the pool. Insurance is a shared risk/shared cost, if you can’t get a bunch of 20 somethings in paying $100 a month but not using it, there’s no way to get a 59 YO with cancer at $100k a month covered.
Personally, I’m for federal catastrophic coverage, that starts at something like $12k-$20k a year, then you can have private insurance for the gap, the data says that works, basically how lots of the Nordics work now. If you’re lucky enough to be able to afford over the top coverage, then you could pay for private hospital coverage.
So, everyone in America gets healthcare if they need it, not preventative, but symptom treatment, mostly after the fact, we have decent health outcomes for exorbitant cost, worse than any other developed nation. So define the problem, then define what success looks like. Everyone seems to agree that it’s too expensive, but no one is even talking about what success looks like. Don’t get me started about drug coverage, just allowing a more free market for drug pricing and negotiation across the board would shave 25% off the top of heath care costs.
You will be paying for others healthcare if you ever spend any time in a hospital.
Somebody has to pick up the tab for all that indigent care.
Sorry Jim, I don’t want to pay for your sex reassignment surgery and your boyfriend’s mammogram.
Aw that’s cute, bigoted insults that don’t even work. Try harder.
I think that nookie is the single most critical human right.
So where are my Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders?
Hold on, they said they need to check their schedule.
If the government provided free cheerleaders, you’d get Jerry Jones in a skirt.
1. Oh, I guess that contract protects you from denial of services does it? Wait…actually that required government laws to stop things like pre-existing conditions and jacking up rates once people got sick! Free market didn’t work I guess?
2. You can still have health insurance even in nations with national healthcare, durr. You just seem selfish, you want yours and screw everyone else. Greedy little man you are!
More specifically, screw you. It’s not my job to pay for your vasectomy. Though I would gladly do so, if the doctor would operate with a chainsaw.
Oh, and yes, contracts DO protect me from denial of service because my healthcare isn’t garbage. I’m simply a more productive individual than you are.
Oh wow, you want me to get attacked with a chainsaw? You really a violence loving fascist, ain’t ya boy?!
This song’s for you Jimbo.
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https://youtu.be/1r2jQHqYVZI
Will it smell like corn on the cob when my AR heats up?
I prefer modified Weaver stance. Isosceles stance just feels too rigid for me and I don’t feel like I could mobilize from it quite as easily as I could with Weaver. With a Weaver stance I shoot just as well, it’s more natural and more natural to fall into and get out from.
Alabama is going to elect a Republican no matter what. A candidate as unhinged as Moore only guarantees more Republican gridlock when his insane worldview comes in conflict with the establishment Republicans.
So thanks Bama for throwing another monkey wrench in the Trump/Republican agenda.
Roll Tide!
Where did you find your Trinity Force stuff? They have no brick & mortar dealers near me, and I couldn’t find them on Midway or Brownell’s. I’d be mighty interested in one of their stocks, if only I could find one…
Trinity Force sent me the parts and accessories I’ve been using and reviewing. It is a bit odd that they don’t have an online store of their own. A quick online search showed several places that carry their gear…Optics Planet, Cheaper than Dirt, and even a few things on Amazon. Best option is to call Trinity Force and ask for their guidance.
I thought that The National Corn Growers Association made tight shoes.
Amen on the whole eat it McConnell bit, and from your lips to God’s ears on the legislation being law before the mid terms.
If you’re wrong, I’ll vote against Cornyn in every primary from here on out. Not sure about Cruz.
I’m thinking that many football players like being on their knees and have been there before.
I’m disappointed that we were robbed of an opportunity to watch a political campaign go down in flames. If she run and lost big it might have shunted her off into irrelevancy and obscurity.
It’s your right as an American to not stand for the anthem. And it’s my right as an American to think you’re a piece of garbage for choosing that.
Shannon will go away right after Bloomberger drops.
No money, surely no Sharron.
Someday she might just look for a real job and just disappear into the woodwork. Never to be seen or heard from again.
Like all the other lies that come out of er mouth, I totally believe this one.
Tomorrow will be a different day, and a different lie.
As I have said before, anyone that do nothings McConnell and Ryan support is likely to be worthless at best and an obstructionist at worst. Their endorsement is the kiss of death as far as I am concerned.
Primary primary primary.
I’ll be interested to see how this all shakes out in the end. For now it’s mostly conjecture IMHO.
I’m not exactly sure how, if Moore wins the general, he will affect the current state of affairs in DC. I just hope that he doesn’t get sucked into the echo chamber like so many others.
The Truth About Guns just became The Spin About Trump.
That is some staggeringly strained revisionism. But, hey, if I were that emotionally invested, or had staked my professional credibility on having chosen Trump, I might grasp at straws, too.
Your boy Trump, taking precious time out of his twitter spats with millionaire, roided-up thugs to play political dilettante, just had his never-worked-a-day-in-his-life rear end handed to him by the GOP voters of Alabama.
In his own unpresidential, “locker room” parlance: HE GOT SCHLONGED!
Ha ha ha! Suck it, Trumpkins!
Kiddo, it was never about Trump the man. It was always about Trumpism the idea. Trumpism won and Trump is going to cash in some chips.
You wouldn’t happen to own a VALMET_M76 would you?
You Neo cons or Never Trumps just can not get over the fact we want less then nothing with your NWO nosecone.
You can’t spell DTOM without DOM.
Please NFL focus more on ball and tackling skills and less on making a statement. Please NRA focus more on those who attempt to restrict/rescind constitutional rights through gov policy rather than “rumble, stumble, bumble” your way into the flavor of the week way to express dissatisfaction with society. Credit to Chris Berman
For us old guys, it’s whatever doesn’t hurt so much right then.
I don’t drink coffee. But I get a kick out of the BRCC videos.
Seconded!
Who the heck is Jim?
She bought the clown suit 2 days before the murder, bought the flowers and balloons 90 minutes before the murder, detectives learned all of that shortly after the murder, store employees picked her out of a photo lineup, and they didn’t have probable cause to arrest her for 27 years?
Oh, well, at least her boyfriend got convicted of 43 counts of odometer tampering (yes, what they say about Florida used car dealers was true) after she killed his wife.
That’s just circumstantial evidence. If she came up with a semi plausible explanation for those purchases and what she did with them, she could likely walk. This sounds like pretty shoddy police work all around, though.
Keep that in mind. If police can be so inept that an alleged killer is free for 27 years, isn’t it possible that they might conceal their ineptitude in other cases where the accused is innocent and railroad someone?
When I’m on a jury, I don’t trust anyone; I don’t grant anyone’s testimony the benefit of the doubt. Nobody’s shiny badge and crisp uniform with knife sharp creases lines intimidates me. Likewise, nobody’s name appended with an alphabet soup of prestigious degrees impresses me. Just show me the facts and prove the case.
It is the bigoted and racist white progressive socialist, homosexuals, and atheist who created the Welfare Industrial Complex.
They never supported heterosexual marriage. They have preferred single mothers be “married” to the government.
And if you commit “adultery” against the government, by having sex with a boyfriend, they will put you in jail, take you benefits away, and then fine you as well. That is how this evil system has worked for decade’s.
Also they created the father hating court system. They love government when it gets into the bedrooms of straight people, as well as every other room in the house.
The three L’ s, Libertarians, Liberals, and the Left, will fight for sex toys in Alabama, as they did many years ago.
But they won’t fight of guns, or for the 1st amendment. Christian bakers????
The sermons of Christian pastor’s in Houston Texas????
The Dallas cowboys who wanted to honor murdered police officers, were denied, the free speech to do so by the NFL.
None of the three L’s came to their free speech defense.
I look forward to hearing the hypocrites complain and the free speech of Senator Moore.
Bravo Black Rifle Coffee! That’s a lot of coffee to give away. Just put my own black rifle on layaway(well it has fde furniture and MOE stock and accoutrements-Delton). Oh yeah CUBS win the central!
Many of these tech advances exist as a way to sanitize war. This helps western nations feel better and make more money selling new gear. Older school tech coupled with the acceptance of high numbers of civilian deaths helped the Syrian and Russian Air forces push back their enemies. The are numerous other examples as well. America’s problem for a while now is that it often tries to tech its way out of problems. Changing our theological/philosophical approach to war would be more advantageous than new gear and capabilities.
Hell of a review. Thank you Sir.
All hail and worship at the feet of Trump, even when he loses he wins if you accept him as your lord and personal savior. About politicians talking a big game and not following through, Trump is the cream of the crop.
As a ex-SWAT operator I shoot mostly Isosceles (Body Armor toward threat). I transition to CAR for CQB.
“Do You Fear The Government?”
Is this not like asking, “Do you support the sunrise?”
The review of the new book was helpful, entertaining and interesting. The title of this posting seems to illustrate someone “mailing it in”.
This is a rhetorical question, right?
Is this not like asking, “Do you support the sunrise?” ?
The book review was interesting, entertaining, informative.
The title of this posting seems to indicate someone “mailing it in”.
Thats funny. I’ve carried a 19C both a 3rd and 4th generation for about 8-9 years now as a duty gun. I’ve fired quals in the day and night. In a self defense shooting you will not notice the flash. At all. This is not only true with compensated handguns, but even with short barrels rifles at night. Most won’t even recall seeing their front sight. With 147 grain American Eagle training ammunition it is negligible. With 147 grain Federal HST duty ammunition it is very low with no meaningful FPS loss that would matter. As far as blast when shot in a protected position, such as a speed rock, you will not notice it in a defensive use of the weapon. In a range situation you just tilt the weapon further over and carry on. This a a training issue and one easily worked thru by a competent shooter. The compensated version of these guns are winners. Those sensitive to recoil, particularly with the torque of the 40 in a 23 platform, and making the gun track flatter and quicker on target is measurable and a real thing. Real life is slow to catch up with the competitive world and is about 10-15 years behind the curve. Compensation and red dot sights took over IPSC and USPSA for a reason. Split times, shot recovery and tracking are the reason. Things that are also important when you are trying to reverse which way most of the rounds are going in a gunfight.
I work for the government (Navy civ) and no, I don’t trust the government, having seen how it works from the inside. It’s not a government “of the people, for the people and by the people,” but something much different today. It is not the people’s friend.
Do I fear the government? Not yet, but as long as the government and some of its employees consider this an “us” vs. “them” situation with regard to the general population (i.e., “How do we control these people and make them do what we want?”), there is always the risk of the government using force, which is to be feared – and resisted, if able. And it wouldn’t take much for the government to do it.
Fortunately, from my observation point, there are still a LOT of government employees and bosses with principals who know where their power comes from and respect that base. Only when they’re gone or subdued will the government (at all levels) become something to be feared by the man in the street.
It’s RACISS…fify. I’m fine with the NRA too.
Hello. My first and only gun has been the C9. I have fired about 150 through it without a failure. The slide hasn’t even come anywhere near my hand as you have shown. It is heavy and I like it because it limits the amount of climb. I have always set my target at 25 feet and will get a baseball size shot grouping. My only complaint is associated with the weight but more due to my lower back injury and trying to haul that weight in a concealed carry. As I read your article, I thought I had missed something when you said you hadn’t hit the target at 9 feet. I have a really hard time believing that. Even if you were too close your eyes and aim in the general direction, you’d hit the target. Anyway, wouldn’t trade my C9.