Posted on 04/26/2026 7:58:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It’s bad enough when leftists lie. It’s worse when they openly tell the truth.
Leftists are no longer hiding their plans to take your guns if they ever gain power. That means it’s time to get activated in defending freedom.
The gun-grabber ghouls of the left have always played a little game incrementally demanding more control over a commonsense and constitutional civil right. Though they used to occasionally say the quiet part out loud, things have changed. They’ve never been as blatant about it as they are now.
In the past, the ghouls had the advantage that history had yet to be made in other Western countries, so they could brush off the very real accusations that they were ultimately out to confiscate guns. They could say we were being paranoid or toss off some variation of the infamous line that “no one is talking about taking your guns.”
But now guns have been confiscated around the world. Even worse, the facile promises of safety from these actions have failed to materialize. We now have the advantage of hindsight, to the point that the ghouls can no longer dismiss the gun confiscation accusation as “extreme.” We can now easily point to the U.K., Australia, and Canada, so they’ve changed their tactics.
The ghouls used to also wait for a “mass shooting” tragedy to advance their schemes, exploiting other people’s pain for their political gain. They are no longer even bothering to wait for those moments, but are simply pushing anti-liberty legislation as fast as they can write it. And so the gun-grabbing ghouls are seizing the moment — along with the property from innocent people.
Consider this sampling of anti-liberty legislation, starting with Colorado, where they want to impose even barrel controls. Redefining what a gun is will make it
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When they tell you what they plan to do, you should believe them.
The 2A is common sense. Gun control is not.
I devoutly wish they would ACTUALLY try direct confiscation of firearms from Americans. I want to watch how far down the FIRST block a deputy or police officer gets in that attempted gun roundup.
Why would a law enforcement officer want to die trying to take firearms away from law-abiding citizens who have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms?
Most cops want to go home after a shift and not end up in a body bag.
Yeah, I remember when a lot of gun owners got pissed at Bush #1, and decided to sit out the 1992 election “just to show him”. They sure “showed him” all right, and got the Clinton/Democrat assault weapon & magazine ban for their efforts. Hope history doesn’t repeat itself this year, but I’m seeing more than a few dunces on the gun forums talking about not voting this fall because “Trump did or didn’t [fill-in-the-blank]!!!”...
Come and Get It. I’ll be the one lying in a huge pile of brass.
Come and take it.
All they need to do to take our guns is to eliminate the filibuster.
Let’s eliminate the filibuster immediately!!!!!!
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Once leftists take your guns they own you and they will be well on there way to new world order/one world gov’t. That’s was geo. bush’s dream. Lefts must take your guns to succeed.
They won’t have to come for the guns, they’ll go after the ammunition, without the ammunition, guns are just paperweights.
Agreed, turn out is the deciding factor in Nov 2026. Big turnout is the result of a good ground game, especially when the office of President is not on the ballot.
I suggest a competition. MAGA in GA, PA, MI, WI, etc challenge each other to TURNOUT competition.
I know. I routinely ask people who are worried about the breakdown of society about how much ammo they have on hand. I am shocked by the number of times they reply that they have two or maybe three boxes and seem proud that they are so well prepared. That is just a short trip to the range to practice for me. And I try to have at least two firearms for each cartridge type I shoot because with a failure two is one and one is none.
That depends. The Second Amendment makes sense in an irrational world. Gun control makes sense in a rational one.
Guess which one we live in. But beyond that the Second Amendment certainly helps prod people to behave rationally. It has a civilizing effect. Gun control means irrational people can feel quite confident in ignoring the boundaries of civilized behavior. So gun control only makes sense if humans always behave in a rational, civilized manner making worries about being victim of crime unnecessary.
Gun control is part of the Left’s vision of Utopia. And that vision is what makes the Left so dangerous.
Some folks will give them the bullets first. One at a time.
There has never been a shortage of people who want to stick it to their fellow citizens in any tyranny, communist hell hole, etc. did the Milice back down from founding up and/or killing their fellow Frenchmen in WWII? No. Did the Kamer Rouge not kill thousands of their fellow citizens? They did. Did the Gestapo turn away from murdering millions. No. So don’t count on the police not to round up gun owners.
Democrats ARE the killers and criminals - check out the politics of any prison or jail... Time for Republicans to hire a few ‘poll takers’ - they can study the reality of democrat voters - all of ‘em - not just’ the elite’ primary voters.
We have known they were coming for the guns since 1962.
The lies we have been told over the years...
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns.” Rifles will not be affected!”
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! “ Rifles will not be affected!”
1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America (ABC) screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984, they came for the rifles.
1988,Josh Sugarmann, of the National Council to Ban Handguns tells how to ban rifles.
“Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over
fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons
—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine
gun— can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on
these weapons.”
– Josh Sugarmann
Gun owners now know that any time we negotiate with those who want to ban guns, we are up against a stacked deck.
How Nelson “Pete” Shields, (founder of Handgun control Inc) said to do it back in 1976! Now it is applied to rifles!
Promises from the past. I kept records.
From 1976.
Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.
“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.
Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.
So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.
My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — TOTALLY ILLEGAL.”
-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58
“Yes, I’m for an outright ban [on handguns].”{Now rifles and shotguns.}
-Pete Shields, Chairman emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc., 60 Minutes interview
HCI, around 1984, suddenly made a grab for the semi-auto rifles and shotguns, and missed But they showed their hand. As a result all gun owners know we are always up against a stacked deck.
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