Nobody don;t need no suppressor for the guns they already don’t need. Just think of all the firearm-related stuff that isn’t needed for guns no one need. And averyone is immediately safer in their day-to-day lives. And all that stuff, including guns, means people have more money to spend on food, fuel, and shelter. Removing guns from society makes everyone wealthier. And besides, everyone who legally owns a gun is just showing off their good fortune to be able to have money in excess of the minimal needs to live and work.

iViva Gun Control!
IViva Zapata!
iViva Max!
iViva Las Vegas!

Trump is a lame duck president on day one. I noted the dearth of Representatives and Senators making nationwide declarations of affinity with Trump’s agenda. The Republicrat elites are really no different from the Dimwitocrat elites. Where are the House and Senate victory parties declaring Trump as the inspirational leader of either legislative body.? We have seen this movie before. The biggest issue/concern is who makes up the Republicrat “bench” of potential/likely candidates in 2028. Not to mention 2030 Census concerns.

2. There are a sufficent number of gun owners who are RTKBA stalwarts, single-issue voters, POTG, to have any real effect on state, local, and national elections. With an alleged 100mil gun owners, the Second Amendment should have no serious challengers.

There are some legit experts within the ATF. I’ve been saying to move them over to the FBI. Of course, the FBI is one of our most corrupt agencies. It’s all a mess. At a minimum, we have to eliminate redundancy among the agencies. We need a complete reorganization within the federal monstrosity.

We need to attack the tax stamp as unconstitutional, but they will just re-name it a ‘Processing Fee’ to cover the cost of the more extensive background check…

“Defund the ATF.”

And, what, hand those duties over to the FBI?

There’s no magic wand to wave and make the ATF disappear in a puff of double-base gunpowder, sadly…

“I recall around this same time in 2016 we were all told national reciprocity was all but guaranteed, suppressors off the NFA was low hanging fruit ripe for the picking followed by SBRs and SBSs and maybe even killing the NFA and GCA altogether.”

Had Trump won in 2020, he would have been a hobbled ‘lame duck’ for his second term with no control of the Senate.

It’s really better for us he lost in 2020, he’ll be more powerful now than then. I hope in the last 4 years he’s had a chance to think about how he could do it better this time.

If worst comes to worst, tie the ‘Hearing Protection Act’ to some must-pass legislation and ram it through…

I look at this another way as well. A significant factor in my decision to buy suppressors this summer was to increase the number of suppressors in the hands of lawful users and hence propel them ever closer to the nebulous threshold of, “in common use.” Thus, my purchase literally put suppressor manufactures on stronger footing if they take a lawsuit to the Supremes. (Additionally, I have urged three friends to purchase suppressors who are likely to do just that.) In other words I have already done my part. It is someone else’s turn to chip in.

Speaking of urging others to purchase suppressors:
I purchased my last suppressor in late September and ATF issued my tax stamp in four days.