After resisting the far-left wing of her party for months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that the House will initiate a “formal impeachment inquiry” against President Donald Trump. Whatever the motivation or justification for the House’s move — or its political effects — the announcement amounts to a declaration of all-out war by Dems … Read more
It seems that Attorney General William Barr isn’t having an easy go of trying to sell President Trump’s trial balloon proposal on background checks and “registration” or record-keeping requirements to Republicans on Capitol Hill. As The Hill reported this morning, A proposal floated by Attorney General William Barr to dramatically expand background checks for gun sales is … Read more
Yesterday, a purported “idea” document reportedly being circulated among Republican senators and congressmen was leaked to the media. The document, entitled “Idea for New Unlicensed-Commercial-Sale Background Checks”, is both frighteningly vague and callous in its disregard for the Second and Fourth Amendments, as well as the federalist principles that animate the Commerce Clause. The document … Read more
Robert Francis O’Rourke isn’t having a very good week. The culturally appropriating former Congressman from west Texas took a gamble and adopted the Swalwell Strategy, holing to resuscitate his flagging presidential campaign by advocating radical new limits on Americans’ gun rights. But Beto apparently didn’t take into account the fact that the Swalwell Strategy didn’t … Read more
All of Washington’s greatest minds are apparently laser-focused on background checks, in order to “come up with something that’s acceptable to everybody.” If that doesn’t give you the warm fuzzies, nothing will. Check out the video below. On guns and background checks, President Trump says he’s working on coming up with “something that’s acceptable to … Read more
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. The NRA and the President Both Have Phones, Apparently Last week saw a host of reporting on the NRA’s chief executive having chats with one of the few people in the world embroiled in more controversy … Read more
Repeat after me…it’s not what he says, it’s what he does. This is from the AP . . . By Jill Colvin and Laurie Kellman President Donald Trump on Wednesday once again backed tighter background checks for gun purchases, but said he wants to be careful that closing what he calls “loopholes” doesn’t clear the … Read more
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it yet again because so few people have caught on. Don’t pay attention to what President Trump says about gun control (or any other subject, really). Pay attention to what he does. Yet what he said yesterday has the congressional civilian disarmament caucus — led by Senate Minority … Read more
Given his stated support for red flag laws and “strong background checks,” many who support gun rights are getting understandably nervous that the President will go wobbly on gun control, striking a deal with Congressional Democrats. It should be plain to him and anyone else who’s paying attention that if he does, he won’t get … Read more
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