Posted on 07/11/2024 5:54:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Over 10 million American gun owners have abstained from registering to vote in the upcoming presidential election—a move that could significantly benefit President Joe Biden if left unaddressed.
Gun owners of America, unite—or lose your right to own guns for good.
A stunning 10 million gun owners and hunters are not registered to vote in 2024, according to the grassroots organization Vote4America—a potentially dire statistic for the Republican vote overall.
Such a large voter bloc could easily secure former President Donald Trump a landslide victory—and defend the Second Amendment for years to come from the radical left—but gun owners have a sad history of being vocally active on social media and quiet at the polls.
“You know, it’s an amazing thing. People that have guns, people that legitimately have guns, they love guns and they use guns for the right purpose, but they tend to vote very little and yet they have to vote for us,” Trump said in May, and he’s right.
“If we could convert 2 percent of all licensed hunters and get them to vote, GOP would win in a landslide,” said Baker Leavitt, an adviser to Vote4America on the District of Conservation podcast.
In recent years, numerous gun control initiatives at both state and federal levels have left law-abiding gun owners vulnerable. Biden’s federal government has been relentless in its overreach, while fear-driven legislation from Democrat lawmakers in blue states has put gun owners in a precarious position.
Fortunately, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority—a boon from Trump’s first four years in office—has consistently supported the rights of law-abiding, gun-owning Americans, further highlighting the importance for gun owners to elect a president who will appoint conservative justices committed to upholding constitutional rights.
“Millions of everyday people who love America aren’t registered to vote because they either believe their vote doesn’t count or the system is rigged. Our goal is to make sure these people know that voting matters. The issues people worry about—attacks on personal freedoms, our crime problem, skyrocketing inflation—are all impacted by the people we put in office,” Stephen Aaron, Founder of Perspective Strategies and partner of Vote4America, told Restoration News.
Key States in 2024
An analysis of voter data reveals significant gaps in voter registration across several key states.
Pennsylvania has 515,277 unregistered gun owners, while Michigan and North Carolina each have 370,000. Georgia has 350,000 unregistered gun owners, and Wisconsin has 338,000.
If gun owners begin voting, the numbers would undoubtedly favor Republicans.
https://x.com/Women4GunRights/status/1805279869971861703
Data on gun ownership by political affiliation shows that most gun owners are Republicans. Among Republicans, 48 percent own a gun and 66 percent live in a household with a gun. In contrast, only 20 percent of Democrats report owning a gun.
Trump, aware of the significant gap between gun owners and voters, urged gun owners to vote after receiving an endorsement from the National Rifle Association (NRA) in May.
“We’ve got to get gun owners to vote,” Trump said in Minnesota. “I think you’re a rebellious bunch. But let’s be rebellious and vote this time.”
The U.S. Concealed Carry Association for Saving Lives Action Fund (USCCA-FSL Action Fund) is also sounding the alarm to alert potential voters that their rights are not safe.
“One sizable voter bloc that can and should significantly impact the elections is law-abiding gun owners,” said USCCA-FSL Action Fund Chairman of the Board & Executive Director Katie Pointer Baney. “The gap between Second Amendment advocates and detractors is growing wider by the day.”
Baney also pointed out the surge in new gun owners from all walks of life as a signifier that U.S. voters “want to see their fundamental rights protected.”
If Biden is reelected, his continued siege on gun owners will undoubtedly endure.
Automatic Voter Registration
Since 2008, the Left has strategically implemented numerous 501(c)(3) charities to identify and register tens of millions of new Democrat voters across the country.
Restoration News estimates this organized web of groups have access to upwards of $500 million each year to register new Democrats based on demographics. So why not do the same for gun owners?
In Virginia, Democrats enacted an automatic voter registration (AVR) law in 2019—allowing residents to opt into voting while changing their license or completing any other ordinary activity at the DMV. But other states have more malicious approaches.
In Alaska, any resident who applies for the Permanent Fund Dividend is automatically registered to vote. They must manually opt out if they are not interested.
Why not fight fire with fire? When a gun owner purchases a firearm, why isn’t there an option to register to vote?
Democrats are leading the charge on AVR and it’s about time Republicans fight back. Of the 24 states that allow AVR, 17 of them are the result of Democrat bills. Three of the states are the result of ballot initiatives backed by leftist “dark money” groups.
The left will fight against any initiative that allows gun owners to be automatically registered, as it plays against their goal of only registering voters who are Democrat. This was previously seen in West Virginia when a collection of Republican lawmakers introduced an AVR bill that added photo ID voting requirements.
To no surprise, Democrats shot the initiative down.
Even if Republicans aren’t playing into the Democrat-led initiative to allow AVR, it is important that voters know the significant impact they can have by registering to vote and heading to the polls.
If gun owners are able to step up their voting statistics, Trump will undoubtedly take Biden in November.
If votes counted.
“with one of the Supreme Court Justice’s absolute belief (sotomayor) “
She doesn’t believe that at all. She’s not stupid.
She is just another thug. As common as blackbirds throughout history.
Those 15+ million illegals are the reason we need to protect our 2A rights.
“They probably perceive registering Republican to be registering GOPe and find that distasteful.”
Ah, so they are gutless, and care more about what others think of them than anything else.
Worse, the “others” they are concerned about are the worst among us.
Huh. Wonder where the Americans that we all sing about went?
A LOT of churches are complicit in importing illegals. My mother’s church is one of them!
They’d register them as a big old ‘D’ and we don’t need any more of those. :(
That’s great!!
There are far more gun owners than 10,000,000.
I’ve seen estimates that suggest it is closer to 45,000,000.
There has not been a month in the past 8 years that new gun purchases were under 1,000,000 per month.
Texas is always ranked low on these polling data. Texans will never say how many they own.
It doesn’t matter if they are gutless or worried about appearances.
The only thing that matters is getting more numbers than the other side.
That doesn’t happen if you march out and watch Democrat lazy folk vote and adopt policy that does not ease the process for your own lazy folk.
It’s about numbers. It’s not about anything else.
Oops, wrong thread.
Gather numbers. Those numbers are Independents.
Independents are not between GOP and Dem. They care about entirely different issues than taxes or spending.
As long as registration drives are non-partisan, they are legal in churches (in most — maybe all — states).
“The IRS says church voter-registration
drives are legal, and even encouraged, as
long as they’re nonpartisan and don’t endorse
or oppose candidates.”
We registered voters at our church in CA back in the ‘90s. Also, our pastor handed out lawn signs, which definitely is a no-no. He did say that if he were to be arrested for it, he’s OK with that.
I think the 10 million number is the estimated number of gun owners who are not registered to vote.
With voters for President Trump, and counting babblin' biden's fraudulent
'20 votes, out of a USA population of 330 million citizens, there was only
160 million voters.
The other half of the USA need to get off their apathetic lazy asses and
vote for Mr. Trump.
yes, they are at every gun show. When I was running a friends campaign for congress I would bet 30% of those at gun shows said they do not vote and do not believe in the system.......trust me, the system they hate takes advantage of every one of them not exercising their rights
That number would balance out the illegal vote from Biden’s term
Except that illegal immigrants have been moved around by NGOs and registered in multiple swing states with the NGO shelter addresses as the address where the ballots will be mailed.
I was informed by a FReeper that conservatives don’t vote because they “want to be left alone.”
When the marxist democRATs win, that FReeper won’t be left alone.
The premise of gun rights being ironclad in Trump admin II is crazy. He ordered his atf to ban bump stocks without congressional law, and That is proof enough to show this premise to be false.
“they do not vote and do not believe in the system..”
Some day they’ll believe in the system. And it won’t be pretty.
That is happening in PA.
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