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Times are good and possibly getting even better for those who value guns, gun rights and the Second Amendment.
The changes brought by President Donald Trump are simply stunning. In just one year we went from an ATF that targeted individual gun owners for imaginary crimes to one that’s focused on arresting real bad guys with illegal guns.
Constitutional Carry, known by the other side as permitless carry, is growing. Today, 29 states allow law-abiding adults to carry firearms without a state permit, and the number is expected to grow.
So, it’s understandable that those who want to restrict and subvert the Second Amendment are getting desperate. In fact, they’re willing to try almost anything to restrict access to firearms while President Trump is in office. It’s as if they never even heard of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
Enter the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
These egg-headed goons want to roll back the clock to the late 1980s. Their just-released “Public Carry Permitting: Model Policy Guide” is pretty much what some states offered decades ago. It’s laughable—a trip back in time. Nowadays, it’s likely too restrictive for even the bluest of blue states.
Of course, the Center begins their report with lies—absolute deception—about guns, gun owners and gun rights.
Lee Williams
May 5, 2026
Fearing Expanding Gun Rights, Anti-Gun Group Creates Absurd Concealed-Carry Policy – TheGunMag
The media is not supporting the anti-gun groups like they have in the past. Hence, we see John Hopkins, Everytown, etc. as doing their usual thing and it appears to out of touch when they don’t have major media support.
Even the DOJ lawsuits against existing law do not yield a “Blood in the streets!” response. CNN is essentially just reporting the facts”. The same tone is seen with the New York Times and Washington Post articles on the same lawsuits. I would expect them to frame it as the fascist Hitler forcing freedom on innocent people or some such nonsense.
I don’t know what to make of this. Grok has this to say:
The constitutional framing of the Second Amendment as protecting an individual civil right is now unavoidable in serious legal reporting—Heller/Bruen made it binding precedent, and the current DOJ is enforcing it. This doesn’t mean these outlets have become pro-gun or neutral overall; their opinion sections and long-term editorial stance still favor stricter controls, and they highlight gun-control group perspectives in other contexts (e.g., mass shootings or state wins). But in straight-news coverage of these DOJ suits, the tone is more balanced and less advocacy-heavy than it was 15–20 years ago. Your pro-gun-rights feeds make the contrast sharper because they celebrate every development as a win while noting the relative downplaying in MSM.
If you’re seeing mostly silence or isolation of the old advocacy groups, it’s because the national legal story has moved on to court battles where the rights framework now has the upper hand federally. The groups are still fighting hard—just more at the state level and in response mode right now.
I would like to think they are becoming more accepting of gun ownership as a civil right. But they may just be grumbling to themselves about how times have changed or biding their time for a more favorable atmosphere to spread their lies.
The gun control organizations have taken over at least a dozen states, including yours. They don’t need control when the political authorities self-activate and the courts fiddle-fart around for years. There is no way that Seattle isn’t going to maintain totalitarian control over WA and no way that citizen owned guns are going to deter them. The solution is for E. WA to secede and oh by the way charge them market rates for power.
Your spot on.
The communist powers that be are just shifting their money into more profitable places/people.
Who needs to blow money convincing only brainwashed idiots to keep it up? When you already control all the government you need. And imported the army to destroy it all.
“The changes brought by President Donald Trump are simply stunning.”
Sorry Lee.
If DJT doing something that only kinda rolls back (but truly only sets the stage up for worst to be replaced by the next communist infiltrator.) impresses you?
It’s no wonder we are, where we are in this world.
So far, DJT’s changes are as permanent as Herbert Hoover’s “jawboned” measures to “soften” the fall of the 1929 crash would only have lasted through his term if a Republican had succeeded him. Sadly, Roosevelt was elected instead, and because of his political victories over the Supreme Court, Hoover’s voluntary measures became ten times bigger and permanent.
We have to be eternally vigilant, but with so many people like my brothers who are Democrat party members, their Stalinist wives, as well as many of my associates, all about as Left as Bernie Sanders, and they all vote by brand as reflexively as some people drink only Coca Cola, I hold no hope of any victory in the near term.
As others have pointed out:
The changes brought by President Donald Trump are simply stunning.
Partially agree. I like the general direction the Trump Administration is going; it’s certainly a breath of fresh air compared to the last several administrations. However, all of the substantive changes are due to administrative policy, not law. As welcome as they are, they are not permanent and we shouldn’t be celebrating as if they are.
Why does nobody — on either side — grok that the pendulum swings both ways? That any political victory that’s not set in black-and-white law is temporary at best, or that any legal tool or weapon you give yourself will eventually be turned against you when your opponents re-take power (because they WILL eventually re-take power)?
Is that seriously so difficult to understand?
In just one year we went from an ATF that targeted individual gun owners for imaginary crimes to one that’s focused on arresting real bad guys with illegal guns.
And in a little less than three years, it’s highly likely that the next President will reverse all of those positive changes and re-instate prior Presidents’ policy preferences, and we’ll be back to where we were under Clinton, Bush (1 & 2), Obama, and Biden. Such is the way with administrative policy.
Our only real victories have been at SCOTUS, and as I’ve pointed out, it wasn’t an actual victory; Bruen was mostly a restatement of Heller. Unless you live in New York City (where the transport law was struck down) or another urban enclave with similar transportation laws (to my knowledge, none were so draconian), no new or previously-ceded ground was broken or won back. For the rest of us, it’s a restatement of the previous status quo from 2008 — which itself was restated from the historical common-language understanding of the 2nd Amendment.
Constitutional Carry, known by the other side as permitless carry, is growing. Today, 29 states allow law-abiding adults to carry firearms without a state permit, and the number is expected to grow.
And Blue states which do require permits are trending toward making them harder and/or more expensive to get, and placing further restrictions on where guns may be legally carried. The courts have said states must allow the carry of firearms; the courts have not said states must make it cheap or easy, nor have the courts prohibited the creation of a patchwork of Gun Free Zones that make carrying a firearm legally and logistically onerous.
So, it’s understandable that those who want to restrict and subvert the Second Amendment are getting desperate. In fact, they’re willing to try almost anything to restrict access to firearms while President Trump is in office.
Business as usual, regardless of who is in office.
It’s as if they never even heard of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
Oh, they’ve heard of it. Just like they heard of Heller before it. They don’t care; it’s well-known that a court challenge takes years or decades, and while the challenge is percolating the law is nearly always left active and enforceable. They’ll accept the temporary ‘W’.
A more accurate statement would be, it’s as if they never heard of negative consequences for enacting unconstitutional laws that later get struck down.
Oh, wait….
Yes…things have improved for 2A rights recently. But as long as the criminal communist left is allowed to exist our Rights…ALL of them…will remain in peril. The left NEVER quits, gives up or goes away.