If you’re preparing to survive the worst the world can throw at you, it’s almost certain guns play a role in your planning. It’s certainly possible to survive without guns, but it’s a lot harder.
Firearms are the ultimate hunting tool, and they’re also the key to defending yourself and your possessions. Without a gun you’re going to have a hard time stopping looters from taking what they want from you.
Americans have always had the advantage of the Second Amendment, which protects our right to bear arms, but that right has been under attack from politicians for almost a century.
From the 1934 National Firearms Act, which imposed confusing rules on many weapons and introduced tax stamps to the Clinton-era “assault weapons” ban that so many legislators would love to bring back.
There’s steady pressure to restrict who can own guns, what sort of guns they can own and where they can carry them. It’s been a while since any major new restrictions were brought in, and recently courts have done a lot to restore carry rights, but the Biden administration isn’t giving up.
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If it can’t actually pass laws to take away our rights, it’ll try to find some other way of doing it.
Gun Banning
When he was campaigning for election President Biden claimed he wasn’t anti-gun. That was actually true at the beginning of his Senate career – in 1986 he voted for Reagan’s Firearm Owner’s Protection Act, and even told the Senate, “I have never believed that additional gun control or federal registration of guns would reduce crime” – but it hasn’t been for a long time.
For more than 30 years Biden has been pushing for restrictions on Second Amendment rights. In 1994 he helped guide the Brady Bill – which brought in mandatory background checks and waiting periods – through the Senate.
The same year he was a major supporter of the federal “assault weapon” ban, which banned dozens of popular rifles for a decade because of cosmetic features they were fitted with. That law lapsed in 2004 because the only way Democrats could get it through Congress was to add a sunset provision, but ever since they’ve dreamed of reinstating it.
After the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, then-Vice President Biden was the man President Obama chose to spearhead a renewed drive to crack down on gun ownership.
He didn’t manage to pass any new anti-gun laws during Obama’s second term, but in 2021 he found himself in the Oval Office – and, despite his claims during the election campaign, he wasted no time in returning to the subject of gun control.
In June 2022 he signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which toughened up background checks for under-21s, banned anyone convicted of domestic violence from owning a gun for five years, tightens the law on “straw purchases” (buying a gun for someone who can’t legally own one) and made funding available for states that want to introduce “red flag” laws to remove guns from people with mental health problems.
When Biden signed the 2022 act it was hailed as the most significant piece of gun control legislation since 1994 – but in fact many liberals, apparently including Biden, were disappointed with it.
They’d wanted a law that went much further; the Democrat majority in the House passed a bill that would have mandated safe storage of guns so children can’t get at them as well as banning so-called “large capacity” magazines.
However, to get it through the Senate it needed to be made bipartisan, and the original bill was seriously watered down.
Getting Round Congress
It’s no surprise Biden was disappointed by the 2022 Act; he’d tried to bring in a new “assault weapon” ban during the Obama administration, but it died in the Senate.
Now, since the 2022 midterm elections saw the GOP take back control of the House, he has no chance of getting significant new gun restrictions through Congress.
That’s the way it works in a democracy; the people elect the legislators they want, and if they want pro-Second Amendment ones the president doesn’t get to pass anti-gun laws.
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On September 22, 2023 Biden announced the creation of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which will be overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris. The actual chief of the office will be Stefanie Feldman, the White House Staff Secretary. She’ll be backed up by a pair of long-time gun control activists, Greg Jackson and Rob Wilcox.
At the same time as he announced the new office Biden restated that he’s still pushing Congress to bring in tougher anti-gun laws. He can’t do that for now, because he just doesn’t have the votes, but now he has another weapon he can use against the Second Amendment in the meantime.
He says the new team will “implement and expand upon key executive and legislative action,” and specifically mentioned the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. What that means is the office will look for ways to interpret existing laws and executive orders in the strictest way possible – and our legal system is very open to that. Laws get rigidly enforced even when they don’t make any sense.
Do you know why you have to do endless paperwork and pay $200 for a tax stamp when you get a “short barreled rifle”? It’s because the 1934 National Firearms Act was originally supposed to ban pistols, and the SBR category was created to prevent people cutting rifles down into handguns.
Of course the pistol ban never happened, but the SBR law was kept anyway – and now people use modified pistols to get round the restriction on SBRs. It makes no sense at all – it’s actually doing the exact opposite of what the law was written to achieve – and yet the BATF enforces it in meticulous detail.
You can bet Biden’s new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention will be scrutinizing every gun law in the country, finding every little clause that can be used to inconvenience law-abiding citizens and make it harder to own a gun, then encouraging people to enforce them to the letter.
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It is funny how those in power don’t care what the lower pions do to protect themselves of violent conditions they have created on our nation.
We have people who are selling out our country to the world for a few silver dollars as Judas did to Jesus Christ.
The Second Amendment will be under attack until freedom loving Americans purge our political and legal corrupt systems of the anti-gun sellouts.
Liberal misery loves company that hate America.
Your second amendment is not under attack. I know the right wing loves those talking points because it gets your underwear in a twist, but it’s not happening. You talk about freedom loving Americans, all while your party is taking away basic American freedoms like voting rights, women’s rights to make their own decision on family planning or to even save their own lives, and not to mention the taking away the freedom of speech because bible thumping breeder decided some books were nasty because it was written by a gay person or a black person. Your freedom only means a lot to you when your party is trying to remove other Americans freedoms. So, it’s not the liberals hating America and Americans, it’s the right.
Hell, your own party voted against protecting women from domestic violence, stalking and rape. Good job, you are on the same page with republicans, how embarrassing for you. I hope you don’t have a daughter that will be stalked, raped, killed and then no laws were in place to bring the creep to justice.
You people are vile, so godly. Barf.
Lisa, Why do you continue to be on this forum. What you said is exactly what DEM’s do. Obviously you are so blinded by what you hear and read but It Doesn’t make it so. If you want to kill your babies Go ahead but I don’t want to pay for it. Why should my morality be compormised for lack of planning by others. I should not have to pay for things I don’t want. Especially when the benefit is not for all.
As for voting rights, We don’t want to take any ones voting rights. We just want voting fair without cheating. That goes for both sides.
You say we are trying to take away your freedom of speech. that is exactly what the WOKE agenda has tried to do to us. Can you say hypocrite.
Books are published but not all reading material is acceptable for all age groups. I don’t care if you want to read that material go ahead. But children should not be subjected to it until they are old enough to understand the content . Ok if you want a compromise use a system similar to the movie industry E, PG, R, X
As an adult you can read whatever you want. Children SHOULD NOT.
As far as not passing laws to protect women you must blame both sides. However, (Just a thought) why should women be more protected then men. The DEM’s say men and women are the same. Haven’t you heard men saying they are women competing in Women sports and winning. This is all nonsense. Men are men and women are women. Biology says It can’t be both ways.
MS Blake, Obviously, You have never read the constitution of the United States before. Furthermore, I doubt that you have never cracked open a bible in your life. Our nation was founded on Christian values and a desire to escape government tyranny. The whole purpose of the second amendment is to fight against what is going on in our government right now. The government should answer to the civilian population and not the reverse. This is why the federal government is trying so hard to do away with the second amendment. It is uninformed people like you that are the problem. You seem to believe everything that you hear and do not do your own research. I challenge you to keep an open mind and do a little research and you will see that much of what the right is saying is true. I am not a Republican, Democrat or Libertarian. I am a Christian Conservative Constitutionalist. I gave 22 years of my life to insure that you were able to voice your opinion to this post. We, (most of us) conservatives, welcome your thoughts and do not participate in “cancel culture”. We do not believe in censuring free speech. I believe in the pledge of allegiance to the flag for which it stands, One Nation Under God! MS Blake, when you open your mind and pray for clear decrement, things that you thought to be true, will change your way of thinking.
Your pagan hair sniffer dementia puppet president worships at the same anti-Second Amendment church you attend.
“F” Biden’s student loan debt relief to the graduates who will be in higher paid positions and be indentured to vote for Demoncrats.
What about us former student loans we have paid up and no credit given for previous paid loans?
What about the American taxpayers on the hook who did not go to college or take out a student loan?
2nd Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
I support our right to bear arms, but would point out the writer’s words, “Firearms are the ultimate hunting tool, and they’re also the key to defending yourself and your possessions. Without a gun you’re going to have a hard time stopping looters from taking what they want from you.”
This does not sound like a well regulated Militia keeping our State free. Hunting edible birds or animals is unavailable to most preppers, and all will disappear at the blast of an automatic weapon. During hard times, looters can best be stopped, not by bullets, but offering a can of beans. Let your Militia start with neighborhood picnics.
K. Dog adding explanation to last comment, “Let your Militia start with neighborhood picnics.” Start having neighborhood picnics and parties starting now. Get to know your neighbors and make friends before hard times. You can later organize in a neighborhood watch (or building watch) with mutual storage to keep them out of your pantry and gold. A good neighbor policy can be your best way forward. If you are a bad neighbor keep loaded weapons ready to prove you are righteous.
It actually means something you would be appalled by. Means well trained and armed even with military weapon options and thats only one portion.
I’d love to watch the discussion that K. Dog will have with the guy who intends to take his stuff. Good luck with that.
K. Dog lives in a neighborhood where the biggest complaint is the high cost of bazooka ammo. We will cover each other’s ass in hard times. The 2nd Amendment is covered by Jesus’ 2nd Commandment, love your neighbor as yourself. Interlopers beware.
I got my first .22 when I was 10 years old and have added a few. I’ve been a prepper for 40 years. Cameras will welcome you. The best policy for survival during hard times is friends with neighbors and extra food for poor planners.
If you hunker in a bunker you will be a Junker. That ain’t living.
Well Kum Dog, you sound like an antigun, antihunter vegetarian commie.
Keep your vegan religion cult to yourself, from under cheese, bean breath.
You even make me gag on your weak kumbaya hippie crapola.
Your brain is on drugs.
You need to look up the meaning of well regulated militia back in the period it was written. It does not mean what you think or imply it does here
Its called the National Guard, not some backyard group with a gun fetish.
George Mason, one of the authors of the Bill of Rights and the 2nd amendment, said the militia is composed of ALL the people. He added that the best way to enslave the people is to disarm them.
The old statement is STILL TRUE. “When they outlaw guns. Only outlaws will have guns”. Right now if an outlaw wants a gun or anything, he will go and steal it from whoever has whatever he wants. All the rules and regulations and laws don’t mean shit to an outlaw. They are considered an outlaw BECAUSE they REFUSE to follow the rules, regulations and laws. WOW! That sounds a lot like our POLITICIANS. Except the politicians just make up rules or bend the ones already in place. If they can’t do that, they bend those who are supposed to enforce the rules, regulations and laws. Our SELFSERVING system of government needs to be torn down all the way back to the Constitution, then rebuilt. Our government is no longer a government “OF, BY, and FOR the people”. It has become a government ” Of the government, By the government, and FOR the government” The solution is just like fumigating for Termites. GET ALL of them OUT, repair the damage they have done, and REBUILD with safeguards in place. Otherwise the damage continues to get worse and worse. Turning a blind eye or saying it is not so, or is not happening, is exactly how we got to where we are now. Hate me if you like, but that is the way I see it. L.W. McQueary /aka/ oldtroll57 at g mail dot com
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
Hunter S. Thompson
I think you are confusing the word “criminal” with “outlaw”.
Actually, regarding vaccines, many doctors are now saying there are no–NONE that are safe.
You guys need to cool it on the vaccine thing. The covid vaccine was a joke, just as all the hysteria around covid. But most childhood vaccines are fine. Polio is bad. Very bad. I’m glad there’s a vaccine for it. And now, no one has polio. Seems like a good thing.
Don’t throw out the good with the bad.
The open Southern border and anti-gun Bidenomics are forever known as the Biden BOHICA Act. Bring in the criminals, mentally ill, welfare piglets and Mexican drug cartels with their friends the MS13 lovely bunch of guys with machetes. I love you guys for the fentanyl I can sell to kids.
Bankrupt America, free stuff, absolve student Marxist loans for Demoncrat votes. Let the dumb bass American taxpayers foot the bills and our elected parasitic politicians laugh all the way to the bank while we Americans go bankrupt.
Hell take the guns away from the dummies here for the United Nations!!
And WE let is happen. We’re still letting it happen.
There’s steady pressure to restrict who can own guns, NOT HANDING OVER ANY WEAPONS.
Yes, like former criminals, people with Domestic violence on their record and mentally unstable. But the republicans don’t care if some mentally whacked out guy stalks your wife or daughter and then kills her because the republicans voted against protecting women altogether. What a fucked-up party.
You must pay attention to their words. especially when they start saying things like “military style” or “military grade”. That all sounds good and well on the surface, most people would say that, no, you do not need a .50 cal. machine gun or an anti aircraft gun. That sounds sane and reasonable gun control to the majority of Americans.
But ask yourself, what is a “military grade” weapon? Again, most people automatically think heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, grenades, etc. However when i was in the Army the only time i was ever issued an M16 was basic training. My side arm was the M1911 .45 pistol. During my time in snipers used the M24 sniper system, a Remington 700 chambered in .308. Also at that time the Army used both a Remington and Mossberg 12 gauge shotgun.
So what are they saying when they tell us they want to ban “military style” weapons?
Note: I, as i am sure many here as well reading these articles, am not “most” people. I beleive that i should be able to own any weapon that the military uses becuase i have firm grasp on why we have the 2nd amendment and understand what “well regulated militia” means. When i say most i mean the American people at large.
I Second Amendment that! Thank God senator Feinstein is out of the picture.
The California dynasty clan has ruled on too many gun laws against the average American gun owner. Schiff, Harris, Newsom, Swalwell and others, might as well include New York officials hate gun owners. A shame they make antigun laws to put gun owners in jail and let the criminals go free.
These people will sell us out to the United Nations agenda in a heartbeat.
So should the rest of the RINO’s and DINO’s who call the AR15 an Assault weapon or a military style weapons are off kilter. Many have never shot a pistol or rifle in their life and keep their fear mongering going.
Former military personnel enlisted and officer grade should get a pass for a CCW as they have been vetted, trained and support the oath.
Many of these politicians have no clue or bypass their allegiance to the same oath. To defend the United States from foreign and domestic adversaries.
The differences between the veterans and the cheese dip elected LIB officials. Politicians have taxpayer’s supported armed security and make antigun laws against citizens. Veterans have lived and died to protect America from the enemies politics has created.
So let me get this straight you went straight into “SNIPER ” after basic training in the army lol…
I love stolen valor comments
Its that backyard militia thinking. Nothing more.
Ok stolen Valor
When the government says they want to take your guns … is when you know that you should not give up your guns. Do you question that statement? Ask the native Americans ….
This entire push to destroy the second amendment, and take guns from the citizens, is because, the government has plans where the people if armed will use those guns against the government. They know it, and constitutionalists know it.
But my favorite saying regarding the need to own guns, and a statement I use regularly is: “When seconds matter, the police are minutes away!” And with the building lawlessness in this country today … it will take police even longer to aid you. Get armed, practice … and be prepared.
Agree, people forget what happened to the Native Americans. Also those Jews back in the day, in Germany gave up their guns and guess what happened next.
Same thing can and will happen to America too.
We have gun buy back programs destroying plenty of usable gun parts metaled down or shredded. A free gift card for an expensive Starbucks coffee drink. A new twist on gun confiscation in America today any which way they can do it.
Guess who gives up guns, dumb asses and not criminals unless they are stolen and or worthless (defective). They also could be the democrat cult minions that walk wide eyed towards the whatever the lame stream media and/or the idiots in our country’s current administration tells them!
Lies are so easy to tell.
Having read all of the comments following the article, I’m kind of shocked that not one person has pointed out the obvious. Those of us who are gun owners legally in the state we live in should never have to worry about whether we have access to ammo or the right to own/use our choice of weapon if necessary, and the fairy tale of “gun control” should not have any effect on legally owned firearms of any description. The GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE!! People who illegally own guns are not going to comply with any new laws, They already have what they think they need. Millions of illegally gotten guns are already out there! How does the govt think they will find them and demand surrender? This is asinine. It’s not hard to find a gun to buy on the down low. I’m a woman of a certain age who was a professional plant lady and even I know where to look. More laws won’t accomplish a damn thing, only to piss people off, which is not what we need as a nation.
I agree with you … and though I don’t ‘suggest’ this, nor would I ever condone, or do this behavior myself … people that have firearms already … ‘may’ determine, that the only way to appropriate their personal firearms, is by taking it from their ‘dead hands’. Not that I would ever suggest that, condone it, or recommend it … and will admit, that I can not personally think of anyone who would participate in that behavior ….
wink wink ….
Those weapons left on the battlefield are for the taking when your assigned military weapon becomes useless. So no problem when patriots have fallen their legacy moves on with the freedom fighter using their weapon. Just don’t take a gun away from their hands if they are still living and breathing.
We maybe seeing it sooner than latter with Bidenomics open Southern border having to take out the illegals uprising. And those Chinese national military age males in the cities, on the Chinese American owned farmlands next to our military bases.
We can include all those Biden terrorists being transported all over America. Not a matter of if, but when.
TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP, DEPORT, DEPORT, DEPORT. DRILL BABY DRILL THAT OIL HERE. Open up the Coal fired electric plants.
Covid was a test of our gullibility to comply to the DEEP STATE.
Our America is going bankrupt supporting illegals and funding foreign aid to countries like the Ukraine War started by the Biden’s crime family.
Brady Bill was passed by Republicans under a Republican Prez Ragan in the 1980s . Clinton gat a ban on large capacity clips in 94.
Clips? You don’t know the difference between a clip and a magazine?
OH PLEASE. How incredibly ridiculous.
I’m a Desert Storm vet (Medic) and I literally own 15 firearms including 2 AR’s and 1 semi auto shoygun named Cuddles. I’m also a moderate Progressive, so I feel like I have a foot in both worlds on thie topic of gun control. I just want to remind everyone that many of our fellow Americans have for one reason or another, never been around guns and have zero exprience with them. All they know is that 100’s of people are being killed, slaughtered, every year is mass shootings and they are scared. From theyre point of view they have every right to be. America is the gun culture capital of the world, people that think the government is coming for our guns are overreacting in my opinion. As responsible gun owners, we should encourage education and sensible regulations to keep mentally ill people from getting access to firearms. Even if we dont all agree on every issue we are all Americans. That used to mean something and we should resist the us vs them mentallity.
Oh good the fudds are out…..
wow two AR 15’s thats amazing
“The massacre at Sandy Hook”…There was no massacre at Sandy Hook. I did a deep dive on it. It was an exercise that went live. The same as on 9/11…there were exercises going on simulating hijacked aircraft. That was to confuse everybody BY DESIGN.
You can thank Eric Holder for the Sandy Hook exercise that WENT LIVE. No children were harmed. The school had been closed for over 2 years. The internet traffic proves that. There was ZERO traffic for years before the “massacre”. There are literally another 100 “incidents” that prove Sandy Hook was a drill, like no HazMat team ever showed up to clean the place after the “massacre”….LOL
This is K. Dog and I don’t know how you used my name. You can’t even spell. It’s Gavin Nuisance. But glad you’re having fun.
oh call me shocked they remove the Reagan was a awful pres for the 2nd Amendment , much like Bush SR, JR and Trump.
Ya know? It all comes down to this…….
You can pass all the gun laws you want, and think that you are reducing gun violence in doing so. Every citizen in this country knows that if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. How are we going to protect our loved ones if we turned in our guns for Starbucks coupons?
For me, the discussion and bickering is over. I’m too old to worry endlessly about this issue. I have guns. I enjoy guns. I will KEEP guns. Try and take ’em from me? You’d better be a better marksman than me! I’ll die before I give them up!
Just bury me face down so my friends and family have a place to park their bicycles when they visit me.
They will just kill you
Every since I was young I have lived and acted by a simple belief. “Come to me or my door as a friend, and I will treat you as such”. On the other hand. “Come to me or my door as an enemy, then one of us ain’t walking away”. By Gun, By Knife, or By Barehand, if I am to go, I will take as many of my enemies with me as I can no matter what it takes.
I have held a newborn in my arms, seen the sunrise over the mountains, held love and let it go, survived yesterday and the day before. Having felt all those things, whenever that day may be, today is a good day to die. Bury me on a hillside, with my feet to the East. “Live and love, it is that simple”.