44 MILLION AR-15s IN THE UNITED STATES?
Really? Yes, there are over 44 million AR-15s in the United States.
In an unusual twist to my weekly 2A Wrap-Up, I will highlight a video of David Thompson at the 2024 convention of The Federalist Society. Mr. Thompson is the managing partner at Cooper & Kirk and one of the nation’s foremost litigators who works closely with The Second Amendment Foundation and several other 2A groups.
Two points I’d like to highlight from David’s speech —
First: Anti-gun dangerous quacks claim that AR-15s are too lethal for civilians to own:
“The entire history of firearms is the relentless, continual search for more lethality and more accuracy,” he explained. “These are instruments that determine your life or your death, whether you live free or as a slave.”
Second: Those same anti-gun dangerous quacks want you to believe that the Framers could not envision modern firearms. They clearly could, and did in 1777 when a twenty-shot repeating firearm was made available for demonstration. As Justice Anthony Scalia quotes in Heller, and David Thompson points out in his video:
“The Constitution protects advancements in arms
as much as it protects advancements in speech or the press.”
Why this matters:
David Thompson makes the very reasoned argument that increased lethality is exactly what the Framers intended when they enshrined our God-given Right to Keep and Bear Arms in our Bill of Rights. Mark A. Smith of The Four Boxes Diner introduced Thompson’s powerful, short, ten-minute video. Watch it here, and bookmark it for future reference.
Hopefully, President Trump will clean out the nest of anti-gun dangerous quacks in the Federal Government starting promptly on January 20th.
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Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition
#2A4IA
Hopefully President Trump reigns-in “Madame Red Flag”, Pam Bondi after she’s confirmed. While I have no doubt she will, of her own free will, go after the deep state, she is a 2A wildcard!