Click here to see Senator J.D. Vance\u2019s Record<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Click here to see Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 Record<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Click here to see Governor Tim Walz\u2019 Record<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n If President Trump is elected, he promised<\/a> gun owners that all of President Biden\u2019s gun control executive orders will \u201cget ripped up and torn out my first week.\u201d And despite two assassination attempts, President Trump has repeatedly affirmed<\/a> his support for the individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense during the 2024 election cycle. When asked a tough question at a recent townhall, President Trump stated<\/a>:<\/p>\n We have a Second Amendment and right to bear arms\u2026 People need that for security. They need it for entertainment and for sport, and other things but they also in many cases need it for protection.<\/p>\n Speaking to GOA members<\/a> at our first inaugural convention, GOALS, President Trump also stated:<\/p>\n Hello, Gun Owners of America! I’m so proud of your work defending our constitutional rights, especially our always-under-siege Second Amendment\u2026 When I’m president, I will always listen to Gun Owners of America. I want to congratulate all of you, because you’ve really come a long way in a short period of time. You are strong on guns and that’s the way we want it.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n At Gun Owners of America\u2019s inaugural Advocacy and Leadership Summit, President Donald Trump virtually addressed the crowd of attendees with both words of encouragement and a warning about the siege facing Second Amendment rights in the lead up to the November election.<\/em><\/p>\n On the campaign trail, President Trump has also repeatedly noted<\/a> that Chicago has some of the toughest and most unconstitutional gun control restrictions in the United States and yet it also has some of the worst violent crime rates.<\/p>\n It is also worth remembering that gun owners scored several notable victories<\/a> under the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedom. This treaty threatened your [\u2026] rights. [\u2026] Under my administration, we will never surrender American sovereignty to anyone.<\/p>\n Instead of facing vehement and unrelenting assault by a Hillary Administration, gun owners were handed a couple losses and this series of public political victories over four years of President Trump.<\/p>\n No, we did not get Concealed Carry Reciprocity or pass the Hearing Protection Act, but we also have not sent the majority of pro-gun elected representatives we needed to Washington D.C. And President Trump renewed<\/a> his promise to sign Concealed Carry Reciprocity: \u201cI will support such legislation. If it comes across my desk, I will sign it.\u201d<\/p>\n Gun owners also suffered two notable setbacks over GOA\u2019s strong objections during Presidency of Donald J. Trump, namely \u201cFix\u201d NICS<\/a> and Bump Stocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n To his credit, President Trump did listen to GOA\u2019s hard-hitting criticisms of Fix NICS and eventually redefined<\/a> the prohibited person category, \u201cfugitive from justice.\u201d This resulted in the successful elimination<\/a> of tens of thousands of names from the NICS background check system and outraged anti-gun Democrats. The Trump Administration wasn\u2019t perfect on the Second Amendment, but gun owners were far better off than if Hillary Clinton had won the election and it resulted in a bunch of victories for the Second Amendment too.<\/p>\n On this episode<\/a> of the Minuteman Moment, Ben reviews Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance’s voting record.<\/em><\/p>\n President Trump also chose an outstanding running mate to be his nominee for Vice President. Senator JD Vance has publicly stated that he wants to abolish the ATF and we love to hear it!<\/p>\n As a gun owner himself, Senator Vance is alarmed that his own name likely appears in the Biden ATF\u2019s secret gun owner database \u2013 a story which was first revealed by GOA in November 2021.<\/p>\n Not only that, JD 100% gets where this is headed. As he said to Tucker Carlson:<\/p>\n \u201cOnce you allow a gun registry, you effectively allow the disarming of your citizenry. This is ultimately about destroying the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n And J.D. Vance has actually promoted<\/a> a three-point plan to stop the disarmament of the American people with this illegal ATF gun registry:<\/p>\n GOA supports the next Vice President\u2019s plan to protect the Second Amendment, and we look forward to Inauguration Day 2025 so we can begin working with then-Vice President Vance to put it into motion. The ATF is terrorizing innocent Americans and depriving citizens of our constitutional rights and we can\u2019t afford to wait another four years or more.<\/p>\n But Senator Vance isn\u2019t all talk. Since taking office in 2023, Senator Vance has sponsored nine different pieces of pro-gun legislation and SCORED 100% when it comes to voting in line with the Second Amendment. Senator Vance correctly:<\/p>\n Only three other Senators share that perfect voting record this Congress \u2013 Senator Mike Braun, Senator Mike Lee, and Senator Rand Paul. Those are some great names to be associated with!<\/p>\n And, you can also judge him by the enemies he\u2019s made on the anti-gun Left. Michael Bloomberg\u2019s Everytown has published hit pieces on Senator Vance for his pro-2A stances.<\/p>\n Everytown\u2019s ad even features Senator Vance\u2019s plan to ABOLISH the ATF.<\/p>\n Senator J.D. Vance has earned an \u201cA+\u201d rating from Gun Owners of America for his record on gun rights.<\/p>\n On this episode<\/a> of the Minuteman Moment, Ben details Kamala Harris’ record. If elected to the Presidency, she might just surpass Joe Biden as the most anti-gun President ever.<\/em><\/p>\n On the other hand, a Kamala Harris presidency would be catastrophic for gun owners and the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n Ever since her days working as the District Attorney for San Francisco in 2004, Kamala Harris has always been anti-gun and is no friend to the Second Amendment, despite her attempt to appeal to the gun community with fake gun owner Tim Walz.<\/p>\n During her time as District Attorney, Kamala Harris pushed for increased penalties for concealed carrying and charged<\/a> anyone breaking California\u2019s unconstitutional \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban with a felony!<\/p>\n During Kamala\u2019s time as the Attorney General of California, she continued her enforcement of this ban on self-defense firearms and bragged<\/a> about confiscating ten thousand guns from those gun owners she deemed unworthy to exercise their Second Amendment.<\/p>\n She also called for the government to tyrannically and invasively inspect gun owners in their own homes when she said:<\/p>\n Just because you legally possess a gun in the safety of your locked home, doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.<\/p>\n And in her zeal to ban<\/a> as many AR-15s as possible, Kamala also pushed to \u201cclose\u201d the fake \u201cbullet button loophole\u201d to make owning a common home defense rifle even more difficult for Californians.<\/p>\n On this episode<\/a> of the Minuteman Moment, Ben takes a look at the history of Kamala’s record on firearms, and how that matches up with her newly revealed personal gun ownership.<\/em><\/p>\n Kamala Harris also claims to own a Glock for home defense. But she does not support your individual right to do so.<\/p>\n While serving as Attorney General for the State of California, Kamala Harris wrote an amicus brief against the individual right to keep and bear arms and in favor of a total ban on handguns in the D.C. v. Heller<\/em> Supreme Court decision. Then-Attorney General Harris argued<\/a> in the brief that, \u201cThe Second Amendment only provides for militia-related right to bear arms,\u201d and that handgun firearm laws allowed for the \u201cprohibiting of the carrying of concealed weapons\u2026 and sale of weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n Kamala Harris and the other Attorneys Generals who wrote the brief were actively arguing against your individual right to concealed carry and even own a handgun<\/a>, in what was arguably the most consequential (and clearly necessary) Supreme Court case on the Second Amendment in modern history.<\/p>\n After Kamala Harris\u2019s sudden rise from Attorney General of California to the United States Senate, her stance on the Second Amendment continued to worsen.<\/p>\n During her three-and-a-half-year tenure in the United States Senate, she endorsed a staggering 21 anti-gun bills:<\/p>\n In 2020, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden won the election where ascending to the Vice Presidency it seems, made her more anti-gun.<\/p>\n Running the newly created unconstitutional White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, Vice President Harris has done as much to reduce crime as she has to close the border as our nation\u2019s border czar: nothing.<\/p>\n Vice President Harris\u2019s open border policy and inaction has led to countless heinous criminal acts committed against innocent American citizens, which she of course has used to justify restricting your Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n On this episode<\/a> of the Minuteman Moment, Ben reads between the lines of the new executive order to see how it affects law-abiding gun owners.<\/em><\/p>\n And as Vice President over the past four years, Kamala Harris is just as responsible as Joe Biden for all ATF\u2019s unconstitutional rules, including her:<\/p>\n The Harris-Biden Administration has taken incredible efforts to infringe upon the Second Amendment, including by:<\/p>\n Kamala Harris has finally released new information about her platform on her website and on this episode<\/a> of the Minuteman Moment, Ben breaks it all down.<\/em><\/p>\n Finally, if you needed any other indication that a President Harris Administration might surpass Joe Biden as being the most anti-gun administration in history, the moment Joe Biden decided against running for reelection, her candidacy was immediately endorsed by all notable anti-gun groups. Kamala Harris has earned an \u201cF-\u201d rating with Gun Owners of America for her tyrannical efforts to abuse public office to infringe on the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n On this episode<\/a> of the Minuteman Moment, Ben takes a look at political history of Kamala’s VP Pick Tim Walz.<\/em><\/p>\n Kamala Harris\u2019 Vice Presidential running mate is also no friend to the Second Amendment. Tim Walz built his career feigning support for the Second Amendment and fundraising as a \u201cpro-gun\u201d Democrat who backstabbed<\/a> gun owners nearly every chance he got.<\/p>\n Gun Owners of America first rated Tim Walz as a \u201cD.\u201d Later, GOA downgraded him to an F after a litany of anti-gun votes.<\/p>\n So why did he earn such poor marks from the only <\/em>No Compromise gun lobby in Washington D.C.?<\/p>\n Tim Walz was first elected to Congress in 2006 and, in his tenure up till 2018, he voted against gun owners consistently. In Congress, Tim Walz:<\/p>\n These votes caused Gun Owners of America to rightfully downgrade Walz from a \u201cD\u201d to an \u201cF.\u201d<\/p>\n During his career as a congressman, Tim Walz feigned support for the Second Amendment, even though his record showed otherwise.<\/p>\n But since becoming Governor of Minnesota, he has completely come out of the closet to reveal his true colors. Hiding behind his hunter and veteran \u201cstatus\u201d he supported:<\/p>\n Clearly, being a hunter or a veteran does not automatically make a politician pro-Second Amendment.<\/p>\n On this episode<\/a> of One in the Chamber, Tiffany breaks down this gamble by the Harris campaign to court hunters and gun owners with gun control.<\/em><\/p>\n But Governor Walz didn\u2019t just propose gun control, he actively infringed on the Second Amendment. As governor, Tim Walz:<\/p>\n These gun controls would never have infringed the rights of Minnesotans if Governor Walz had honored his oath to the Constitution.<\/p>\n Governor Tim Walz has earned an \u201cF\u201d rating with Gun Owners of America for his feigned support for the Second Amendment tyrannical efforts to abuse public office to infringe on our right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\nFormer President Donald Trump\u2019s Record<\/h2>\n
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<\/strong>VICTORY #1<\/strong>. President Trump nominated and confirmed three generally pro-Second Amendment Supreme Court Justices and over 200 pro-Second Amendment Federal and Circuit court judges. The impact of this action cannot be overstated. Barring the Democrat\u2019s plan to pack the Supreme Court, the confirmation of these judges and justices will enshrine our right to keep and bear arms as our nation\u2019s precedent for generations to come. President Trump\u2019s work led directly to Supreme Court decisions such as NYSRPA v. Bruen<\/em> and Garland v. Cargill<\/em> in additions to lower court victories against the Harris-Biden ATF rules.<\/p>\n<\/strong>VICTORY #2<\/strong>. The Trump Administration worked closely with Gun Owners of America during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding<\/a> to a letter<\/a> from GOA, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo designating the firearms industry as \u201cessential business.\u201d Because many states directly referenced the DHS guidelines for \u201cessential business,\u201d many gun stores were immediately protected. In other states, this DHS designation became an essential tool for GOA when fighting<\/a> to overturn unconstitutional state shutdown orders.<\/p>\n<\/strong>VICTORY #3<\/strong>. President Trump directed<\/a> his administration to restore your right to keep and bear arms on over 400 lake and river projects, totaling over 11 million acres of public lands in 43 states which was blocked by the incoming Harris-Biden Administration.<\/p>\n<\/strong>VICTORY #4<\/strong>. President Trump kept his campaign promise by signing<\/a> House Joint Resolution 40 into law, which rejected a final anti-gun rule submitted by the Social Security Administration. Without the President\u2019s actions here, an estimated 75,000 otherwise law-abiding citizens would have had their names submitted to the NICS system as prohibited persons each year.<\/p>\n<\/strong>VICTORY #5<\/strong>. President Trump unsigned<\/a> the UN Arms Trade Treaty before thousands of gun owners, saying the following:<\/p>\n<\/strong>VICTORY #6<\/strong>. President Trump empowered his administration officials to repeatedly attempt to allow Second Amendment activists<\/em> to publish 3D printed gun files. While the Obama Administration began<\/a> this infringement, the Trump State Department settled<\/a> the lawsuit in 2018, allowing for \u201cunlimited release.\u201d Unfortunately, several states\u2019 attorneys general filed<\/a> a lawsuit and won<\/a> an injunction against the opposition<\/a> of the Trump Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<\/strong>VICTORY #7<\/strong>. President Trump\u2019s Department of Justice filed<\/a> an Amicus<\/em> Brief with the Supreme Court in the case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. New York City<\/em> in support of the defendants. While the high court dropped the ball with the case, the Administration\u2019s brief was a huge show of support for the individual right to keep arms.<\/p>\n<\/strong>VICTORY #8<\/strong>. President Trump\u2019s Administration successfully completed<\/a> a modernization of export control regulations on the American arms manufacturing industry. It also removed a regressive federal registration fee of $2,250 that small gunsmiths and firearm companies were forced to pay even if they did not manufacture, or export firearms or ammunition. This was a huge win for small gun businesses and the firearms industry.<\/p>\n![\"\u274c\"](\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/274c.png\")
STRIKE #1.<\/strong> Gun Owners of America sued the Trump Administration over the unconstitutional ban on bump stocks because it could have been weaponized into a total semiautomatic gun ban. It would take six years, a half dozen lawsuits, and a conservative majority on the Supreme Court to vindicate GOA in the case Garland v. Cargill<\/em> which ruled that President Trump\u2019s ban on bump stocks violated the law. This is one major strike against President Trump\u2019s record.<\/p>\n STRIKE #2.<\/strong> The second major setback that gun owners suffered under the Trump Administration was the enactment of the Fix NICS Act, which GOA opposed<\/a> start to finish. Fundamentally, Gun Owners of America disagrees with many Republicans on the constitutionality and efficacy of the FBI\u2019s broken NICS background check system\u2014and therefore we opposed expanding it. But the Fix NICS expansion was so broken that gun owners with unpaid out-of-state speeding tickets would be subject to a federal gun ban! Republican leadership in the House and Senate fought GOA\u2019s efforts to block the bill. Ultimately, congressional Republicans forced this onto President Trump\u2019s desk in an omnibus government funding bill, which he signed.<\/p>\nSenator J.D. Vance\u2019s Record<\/h2>\n
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STEP 1: End the illegal gun owner database;
\nSTEP 2: Figure out who authorized the illegal database; and
\nSTEP 3: Abolish the ATF.<\/p>\nVOTED FOR a GOA-backed resolution to invalidate the Harris-Biden pistol ban, which could have outlawed as many as 40,000,000 lawfully owned firearms such as AR-15s.<\/p>\n<\/strong>VOTED AGAINST a funding bill which GOA opposed because it permanently reauthorized archaic and unconstitutional gun control, the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/strong>VOTED FOR an amendment to stop Harris-Biden Administration bureaucrats from disarming an estimated 20,000 veterans per year, which would eventually be signed into law.<\/p>\n<\/strong>VOTED AGAINST a funding bill which GOA opposed due to the inclusion of tens of millions of dollars for anti-gun “research” at the Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health\u2014including radical new ideas like a “firearm retirement” age for confiscating guns from senior citizens.<\/p>\nVice President Kamala Harris\u2019 Record<\/h2>\n
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To ban 3D printed firearms;<\/p>\nTo weaponize domestic violence funding;<\/p>\nTo ban common home and self-defense rifles;<\/p>\nTo ban standard capacity magazines;<\/p>\nTo legalize gun confiscation;<\/p>\nTo make purchasing a firearm harder;<\/p>\nTo enable universal gun registration checks; and<\/p>\nTo ban semiautomatic weapons.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture5.jpg\")
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Ban on up to 40 million stabilizing-braced pistols;<\/p>\nBan on homemade firearms;<\/p>\nPermanent ATF Forms 4473 registration; and<\/p>\nBackdoor registration checks.<\/p>\n![\"\ud83d\udd8a\"](\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/1f58a.png\")
Signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act;<\/p>\nReauthorizing the Undetectable Firearms Act;<\/p>\nShutting down gun stores with \u201cZero Tolerance\u201d;<\/p>\nCensoring CDC\u2019s pro-gun statistics;<\/p>\nWeaponizing research to promote gun control;<\/p>\nUsing bureaucrats to disarm veterans;<\/p>\nExpanding the misdemeanor gun ban;<\/p>\nAllowing the Surgeon General to declare gun violence a \u201cpublic health crisis;\u201d<\/p>\nCreating mandatory wait periods for 18\u201320-year-old adults;<\/p>\nSupporting the ability of police, in Caniglia v. Strom<\/em>, to use \u201cwellness checks\u201d to confiscate firearms in the home; and,<\/p>\nOpposing the right to carry for self-defense in NYSRPA v. Bruen.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture6.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nGovernor Tim Walz\u2019 Record<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n VOTED FOR a national registry of concealed carry permit holders;<\/p>\n VOTED AGAINST the First and Second Amendments by attempting to force GOA to disclose our membership list (as a registry) to create a gun owner registry for the Federal Election Commission;<\/p>\n VOTED FOR exposing gun owners\u2019 personal medical history, leading to bans and confiscation;<\/p>\n VOTED FOR restricting the ability of Gun Owners and Hunters to use the Washington Rochambeau National Historic Trail area to create a 600 mile gun-free zone for sportsmen and hikers; and,<\/p>\n VOTED FOR banning the carrying firearms for self-defense in national parks.<\/p>\n![\"\ud83d\udc4e\"](\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/1f44e.png\")
Backdoor gun registration checks (by weaponizing background checks);<\/p>\nGun confiscation laws (with fake due process);<\/p>\nA \u201cno-fly, no-buy\u201d gun ban (with no due process);<\/p>\nEliminating concealed carry permit reciprocity between states (to infringe on self-defenders);
\nA backdoor semiautomatic firearms ban (with a fake \u201cbump stock ban);<\/p>\nBanning commonly owned self-defense firearms (with a so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban)<\/p>\nMandatory storage requirements (with criminal penalties for access to self-defense firearms);<\/p>\nBanning firearms on government lands (despite them being open to the public);<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture8.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n Created backdoor registration checks by signing Universal Background Checks;<\/p>\n Weaponized gun confiscation laws with no due process against at least <\/em>71 American citizens; and,<\/p>\n Banned lawful semiautomatic firearms with ATF-approved binary triggers.<\/p>\nThe Bottom Line<\/h2>\n
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