Micah Cope is with IFC this week from CopeWERX talking about edged weapons, EDCs, blade choices, steels, and more for Warrior Wednesday. See his reviews and learn more @CopeWERX and check out the blade buy/sell/swap page on FB too!
We at the Iowa Firearms Coalition all hope that you have a Happy New Year and that 2025 turns out to be a great year not just for you, but also for the expansion of our Second Amendment freedoms, and for America.
IFC has listened to its members and has been working on legislative language to address your concerns. Here is the legislative platform for 2025. Be sure to attend 2A Day to learn more about these bills and to encourage your legislators to support them!
2A LOBBY DAY AND THE IFC-PAC DINNERI’m looking forward to meeting you at 2A Day on February 18th at the State Capitol where you will have a chance to talk to your legislators about the need for these legislative changes. Also, don’t forget to get your tickets for the IFC-PAC BBQ Dinner that evening, with Iowa Hero, Major Jeff Streucker of Black Hawk Down Fame.
Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by renewing or joining IFC today.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition
#2A4IA
We all hear it every year: “Happy Holidays” — but I prefer to say Merry Christmas! After all, Christ is the reason for the season.
I’m making this week’s 2A Wrap Up message short. I just want to bring a few things to your attention. If you’ve been watching the news, you know that two really scary things have happened this last week.
The first one was on December 20th in Magdeburg, Germany where a man of Saudi Arabian descent drove a car into a crowd at a Christmas market. At least two people were killed, and 60-80 injured. This has happened before – in both Europe and the United States. I’ll point out that police officers with guns arrested the driver.
The second event was just as frightening when a sleeping woman was set afire in a New York City subway car on December 22nd. A Guatemalan immigrant was arrested. He had been detained briefly in Arizona in 2018 by the US Border Patrol, and then released into the interior of our country. Not surprisingly, as this attack was happening, the Governor of New York was patting herself on the back on X for how safe New York City’s subways have become under her leadership. Where was the next Daniel Penny when we needed him?
I bring these two attacks to light to remind everyone to stay alert during Christmas and remember why God sent his only son to save us from our sins.
Make sure you attend 2A Day on February 18th at the State Capitol and get your tickets for the IFC-PAC BBQ Dinner that evening with Iowa Hero, Major Jeff Struecker of Black Hawk Down Fame.
Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by renewing or joining IFC today.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition
#2A4IA
Jeff Struecker, IFC’s 2A Day (February 18th, 2025) featured speaker, leads the Unbeatable Army. He’s a decorated soldier who enlisted in the United States Army at age 18 and retired with almost 23 years of active federal service. In 2017, he was inducted into the US Army Ranger Hall of Fame.
He spent most of his Army career in the 75th Ranger Regiment. While serving in this unit, Jeff competed in and won the Best Ranger Competition in 1996. He then served at the University of Louisville, where he was recognized as the US Army ROTC, Noncommissioned Officer of the year. Jeff spent his final years in the US Army serving as a chaplain in Airborne and Ranger units.
Join us on 2A Day! If you’d like to listen to a passionate story in a more intimate setting, purchase a ticket and support the IFC-PAC later in the evening on February 18th, 2025 at our annual IFC-PAC Supper.
In the last few weeks, we have seen uninformed judges, a delay in the Snope case, and the NRA settles with the State of New York and lives on.
Federal Court judges can be downright ridiculous sometimes. I’ve used the term uninformed, but anyone with internet access can educate themselves in less than an hour on rifle action types and how powerful any given cartridge is relative to another.
Judge Harvey Wilkinson made this stupid statement in court:
Judge Wilkinson asked the appellants’ counsel Pete Patterson:
“Have you ever fired an M-16?” Counsel: “I have not your Honor.” Judge Wilkinson: “Well I have and we used them when I was in the Army Reserve. That was way back, way way back.” (He served in 1968-69.)
Judge Wilkinson went on to state:
“And when we took shots at the targets, wherever we hit, there was nothing left, the kick was so powerful that when the bullets hit the human beings, it splintered them into all sorts of little pieces, there was very little left of the human being, and that was a very earlier model of the M16, and since then it’s been perfected, and perfected, and perfected into an even more lethal weapon than the ones that I used.”
Fortunately, author Stephen Halbrook in a recent Reason Magazine article does a masterful job of explaining why the AR15 originally produced in 5.56 NATO, and these days in many other chamberings, is far less powerful than the cartridges used by millions of deer hunters across America.
In the Snope case, the question is whether the Constitution permits the State of Maryland to ban semiautomatic rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes, including the most popular rifle in America.
Major breaking news also last week was that the Supreme Court delayed scheduling its conferencing decision on Snope and the Ocean State Tactical v Rhode Island (OST) case.
The two questions in the OST case are 1) Whether a retrospective and confiscatory ban on the possession of ammunition feeding devices that are in common use violates the Second Amendment. 2) Whether a law dispossessing citizens without compensation of property that they lawfully acquired and long possessed without incident violates the Takings Clause.
The significance here is that multiple cases out of the blue states might be combined, and under Heller and Bruen, hopefully struck down in the Courts next term. Second Amendment defender Mark A. Smith at The Four Boxes Diner has a short video on his assessment here.
The National Rifle Association settled the lawsuit last week with the State of New York. Tom Knighton at BearingArms summed it up best with this comment:
“Letitia James declared a jihad against them. She spoke openly about how she wanted to destroy the organization. She likened NRA members to terrorists. She made it her mission to hurt the NRA.”
We all have opinions on how the NRA has been managed in recent years. The good news is that the legal expenses the membership has been enduring regarding this seem to be behind us now. As the NRA Official State Association, IFC proudly works closely with the NRA daily. I’m optimistic that the NRA will become stronger and better managed going forward.
Finally, America’s long ordeal with the Obama/Biden/Harris nightmare is coming to a close. Biden is still trying to re-write history about his pathetic legacy with the latest attempt in a press release on the twelfth anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting. From the press release:
“After four years under my administration, homicides are down, crime is falling, and we are seeing fewer mass shootings. This progress is no accident,” he continued. “Still, more must be done.”
Apparently, Biden’s minion who wrote this for him still believes the FBI-doctored crime numbers. The same ones his Administration has repeatedly revised upwards. That incredible press release was followed by another one by Biden’s minions on December 16th, touting how much better off the country is economically today than when he took office four years ago. Biden’s party has to rewrite history if they have any chance to win back power in the future.
We can’t be done with these dangerous quacks soon enough.
Make sure you attend 2A Day on February 18th at the State Capitol and get your tickets for the IFC-PAC BBQ Dinner that evening with Iowa Hero, Major Jeff Streucker of Black Hawk Down Fame.
Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by renewing or joining IFC today.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition
#2A4IA
6 time Olympian, Kim Rhode, is interviewed on this week’s Warrior Wednesday by Michael Ware! Daughter of Richard and Sharon Rhode; Her father, Richard, is her coach…Married to Mike Harryman…Has one son, Carter, with whom she was pregnant while competing at the London 2012 Olympic Games…Began shooting at age 10…Won the world championships at age 13 in skeet…Became the first American individual athlete to win a medal in five consecutive Olympic Games in 2012…Has a rich family history; her father’s side has relatives who fought in the infamous battle, Custer’s last stand, and her mother’s side had relations to Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code…NRA Board Member, Member of Safari Club International, and an honorary lifetime member of the NRA…Hobbies include collecting and restoring antique cars and first-edition children’s books.
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