By Mark Oliva, NSSF
Vice President Kamala Harris is giving up the commerce secrets and techniques. If she will get elected, she wouldn’t change factor. She laid it out in a single soft-pitch interview and when requested in a later made-for-television occasion, she went mum. Guess meaning she thinks issues are simply effective.
“There’s not a factor that involves thoughts. I’ve been part of a lot of the selections which have had affect,” Vice President Harris instructed Sonny Hostin, when the co-host of The View, requested if she would do something totally different than President Joe Biden.
As if that weren’t sufficient, later the identical day, Vice President Harris doubled-down on her “extra of the identical” agenda when Late Present host Stephen Colbert requested, “You’re a member of the current administration, however below a Harris administration, what would the foremost modifications be, and what would keep the identical?”
Vice President Harris reply was her typical “phrase salad.” There was point out of “love of the American folks,” “aspirations” and “goals” and her still-to-be-defined “alternative economic system.”
What wasn’t included was any coverage modifications which might assist voters determine for whom to solid their poll. In different phrases – it was an entire dodge. That tells America – nothing will change. Similar reply as she gave The View. Nothing involves thoughts. If it did, she would have mentioned it.
Extra of the Similar
For the firearm business, extra of the identical is hardly a suitable reply. Extra of the identical is inviting extra coverage agendas pushed by special-interest donors that saddle the firearm business with punishing directives that do nothing to enhance neighborhood security. They do all the things, although, to decimate Second Modification rights and the business that makes exercising these rights doable.
Right here’s what “nothing involves thoughts” means for the firearm business. It means extra punishing “zero-tolerance” insurance policies by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The company tasked with regulating the business would as an alternative proceed for use as hammer to drive licensees out of enterprise. The Biden-Harris administration hasn’t hoped to do that. They’ve completed with dismaying outcomes. Earlier this 12 months, ATF printed knowledge that confirmed license revocations almost doubled in 2024 from a 12 months earlier than and 88 federal firearms licenses had been surrendered moderately than spending the time, effort, cash and authorized penalties of preventing the Washington, D.C., bureau.
“Extra of the identical” for the firearm business by Vice President Harris means allegations and dodging by The White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention after they get caught red-handed colluding with gun management billionaire Micheal Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Security to deliver frivolous lawsuits in opposition to firearm producers. The U.S. Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has been ready for what was billed as “clear administration” to show over paperwork for his investigation. The White Home refused and as an alternative hurled counteraccusations. Now, they face a subpoena.
Anticipate extra of that if Vice President Harris is elected. In any case, she’s President Joe Biden’s gun management czar.
Nothing New, Besides…
Anticipate extra assaults on Second Modification rights. Vice President Harris, for all her efforts to “reimagine” herself as a daily gun proprietor, is something however one. She would ban the most-popular promoting centerfire rifle in America – the Fashionable Sporting Rifle (MSR), and has supported confiscating them from law-abiding People. She assaults the AR-15-style rifle as an “assault weapon,” regardless of the very fact it’s semiautomatic. Meaning it operates the identical manner as her GLOCK – or her operating mate Wisconsin Gov. Tim Walz’s pheasant shotgun.
Vice President Harris’ “nothing involves thoughts” gun management agenda means she’s good with an administration that cranks out govt orders and churns out new guidelines to create prison regulation from skinny air and that stretch well-beyond the authority the Government Department was given by Congress.
Doubling down on what the Biden-Harris administration has already completed means the entire weaponization from the whole-of-government to hobble the firearm business and make it unattainable for American manufacturing to compete on the earth market. That may see an extension – or presumably extra stringent – throttling of U.S. firearm producers having the ability to export firearms and ammunition. The Biden-Harris crew hobbled these exports to keen consumers in international international locations within the title of worldwide safety, regardless of the ATF reporting that solely about 1 % of legally exported firearms recovered at abroad crime scenes are traced to a lawful U.S. export.
Examine that with the Biden-Harris administration that left behind over $7 billion of army gear in the course of the ill-fated and rushed exit from Afghanistan, together with 258,000 M-16/M-4 and AK-47 rifle variants, 56,000 machine weapons and 31,000 rocket propelled grenade launchers. That’s not together with the 1,845 mortar methods and hundreds of thousands of mortar rounds, and 224 122mm howitzer artillery methods. On prime of that, the “Service provider of Demise” Viktor Bout was handed again to Russia in a prisoner swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner. Griner is again on the courtroom and Bout is again to funneling weapons – now allegedly to Iranian-back Houthi terrorists.
A lot for worldwide arms management.
Vice President Harris can be utterly snug in repealing the bipartisan Safety of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). First, it could be the crown jewel for her huge cash special-interest, gun management donors. Second, it could flood the courts with frivolous lawsuits which were thrown out. To be honest, those self same claims had been thrown out earlier than PLCAA, however they had been by no means meant to achieve success. They had been meant to bleed the business by means of “demise by a thousand cuts,” in keeping with disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who mentioned as a lot when he was President Invoice Clinton’s Housing and City Growth Secretary. The “lawfare” was clear, make the business bend the knee to court-ordered settlements to impose gun management measures repeatedly rejected by Congress and state legislatures or bankrupt the business, whichever got here first.
Vice President Harris thinks “there’s nothing that involves thoughts” that she would do totally different. NSSF has a couple of concepts that begin with ending her assaults on People’ Second Modification rights. That’s why every gun proprietor should get registered, get energetic, deliver a good friend and #GUNVOTE on Nov. 5. Don’t Threat Your Rights.
