The Gibson Girls and KK join us for this episode of Warrior Wednesday as they walk us through Youth Advocacy, Competitions, and Hunting. How can you be involved? The best practices? Highs and lows? Tune in to learn more from some “been there, done that” women heroes!
Mental Preparedness on this week’s IFC Warrior Wednesday. IFC visits with Lance Shay about a recent reminder on being prepared to offer first aid, recall, and administer the basics, and beyond in Episode 80.
The Biden-Harris Administration has overreached its authority again, and even more FBI lies have been exposed.
Many of you know I was the President of the Iowa Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI) for four years before I later served as your IFC president. SCI is now calling out the Biden-Harris
Administration for its anti-hunting/anti-gun overreach on Federal Lands. From SCI:
Safari Club International Opposes Biden-Harris Administration’s Bears Ears National Monument Resource Management Plan
Today, Safari Club International (SCI) voiced its strong opposition to the recently announced Bears Ears National Monument Resource Management Plan.
“In promulgating this proposal, the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture have exceeded their regulatory authorities by closing off these public lands to responsible recreational activities, thereby threatening vital conservation funding.
The plan also imposes severe restrictions on vehicle access and establishes a total ban on recreational shooting on the entirety of Bears Ears National Monument’s (BENM) 1.3 MILLION acres, a move that will have substantial economic and conservation consequences.
“This policy doesn’t just hurt sportsmen and women—it undermines the entire ecosystem of conservation funding,” said SCI CEO W. Laird Hamberlin. “By shutting down recreational shooting, the plan takes a sledgehammer to a critical funding source for conservation projects and disregards the public’s right to access the lands they help sustain. SCI is proud to oppose this proposed resource management plan as part of our longstanding mission to be First for Hunters.””
You can follow this link to read the SCI press release.
Just over two weeks ago, the FBI corrected its previous year’s crime data, clearly trying to protect the Biden-Harris Administration’s election chances this November. Special thanks to America’s crime data guru Dr. John Lott and his Crime Prevention Research Center for highlighting this data “revision”. From Dr. Lott:
A week and a half ago, the FBI released its final crime data for 2023. However, the news media completely missed how the FBI had revised its “final” crime data for previous years. For a year, the media claimed that violent crime fell in 2022. Oops! What had originally been a 2.1% drop in reported violent crime was actually a 4.5% increase. By the way, that increase in 2022 was bigger than the claimed 3.5% drop in 2023. I have previously discussed the problems with the FBI’s measure of reported crime, but you would think that after a year of using the 2022 crime data to claim that crime was falling, someone in the media would mention they were wrong. I wrote an op-ed in the New York Post that goes through these points and explains why even these amazing numbers are an underestimate. I will make one other startling point: the FBI’s 2022 “final” crime data somehow missed [a] 1,699 increase in murders in 2022.
When Federal Agencies are repeatedly politicized they become slaves to the narrative. In this case, it’s the FBI, but we also saw the new job numbers revised downward by over one million just a short time ago by another Federal Agency. Between the BATFE’s war on law-abiding citizens, the COVID mess, and now FEMA showing us how utterly corrupt and incompetent it is in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, how can we ever trust our Federal Government on anything ever again?
We cannot survive as a nation with these loony toons dangerous quacks in power. Please get out and help pro-freedom candidates across Iowa and America today! Register and vote!
Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by donating to IFC-PAC today. Those small recurring monthly donations of $10, $25, or $100 make a huge difference in our ability to get the message of freedom out there.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition
The 2024 IFC-PAC State Legislative Endorsements are the focus for this week’s blog. With the election in just over 30 days, and early voting in Iowa starting October 16th, we will skip the news this week. I’m sorry that as a bi-partisan organization, unlike in years past, we do not have a single Democrat Party member or candidate that has earned our support.
*To also see NRA Ratings, click on this link to the IFC-PAC website.
| NAME | CHAMBER | DISTRICT | INCUMBENT | PARTY | IFC-PAC ENDORSEMENT |
| Tim Kraayenbrink | Senate | 4 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Jason Schultz | Senate | 6 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Mark Costello | Senate | 8 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Dan Dawson | Senate | 10 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Amy Sinclair | Senate | 12 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Mark Hanson | Senate | 14 | No | R | Yes |
| Mike Pike | Senate | 20 | No | R | Yes |
| Brad Zaun | Senate | 22 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Jesse Green | Senate | 24 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Kara Warme | Senate | 26 | No | R | Yes |
| Dennis Guth | Senate | 28 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Doug Campbell | Senate | 30 | No | R | Yes |
| Mike Klimesh | Senate | 32 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Dan Zumbach | Senate | 34 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Dave Sires | Senate | 38 | No | R | Yes |
| Charlie McClintock | Senate | 42 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Adrian Dickey | Senate | 44 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Dawn Driscoll | Senate | 46 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Mark Lofgren | Senate | 48 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Jeff Reichman | Senate | 50 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Robert Henderson | House | 2 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Thomas Jeneary | House | 3 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Skyler Wheeler | House | 4 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Zachary Dieken | House | 5 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Megan Jones | House | 6 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Ann Meyer | House | 8 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Henry Stone | House | 9 | Yes | R | Yes |
| John Wills | House | 10 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Craig Williams | House | 11 | No | R | Yes |
| Steven Holt | House | 12 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Jacob Bossman | House | 14 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Matt Windschitl | House | 15 | Yes | R | Yes |
| David Sieck | House | 16 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Devon Wood | House | 17 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Thomas Moore | House | 18 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Brent Siegrist | House | 19 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Brooke Boden | House | 21 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Samantha Fett | House | 22 | No | R | Yes |
| Ray Sorensen | House | 23 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Sam Wengryn | House | 24 | No | R | Yes |
| Hans Wilz | House | 25 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Austin Harris | House | 26 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Oliver Bardwell | House | 27 | No | R | Yes |
| David Young | House | 28 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Barb McCulla | House | 37 | Yes | R | Yes |
| John Dunwell | House | 38 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Bill Gustoff | House | 40 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Ryan Weldon | House | 41 | No | R | Yes |
| Eddie Andrews | House | 43 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Dan Gehlback | House | 46 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Carter Nordman | House | 47 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Brett Barker | House | 51 | No | R | Yes |
| Dean Fisher | House | 53 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Joshua Meggers | House | 54 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Shannon Latham | House | 55 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Mark Thompson | House | 56 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Pat Grassley | House | 57 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Charley Thomson | House | 58 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Jane Bloomingdale | House | 60 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Michael Bergan | House | 63 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Jason Gearhart | House | 64 | No | R | Yes |
| Shannon Lundgren | House | 65 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Steven Bradley | House | 66 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Craig Johnson | House | 67 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Chad Ingels | House | 68 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Tom Determann | House | 69 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Jennifer Smith | House | 72 | No | R | Yes |
| Derek Wulf | House | 76 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Bobby Kaufmann | House | 82 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Cindy Golding | House | 83 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Thomas Gerhold | House | 84 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Jeff Shipley | House | 87 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Helena Hayes | House | 88 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Heather Hora | House | 92 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Taylor Collins | House | 95 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Mark Cisneros | House | 96 | Yes | R | Yes |
| Martin Graber | House | 100 | Yes | R | Yes |
Look into your county and city officials’ records and stances on 2A issues and vote accordingly. They are the party’s farm teams. We encourage you to bank your vote early this year so that the candidates can concentrate their efforts on those who have not yet voted.
Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by donating to IFC-PAC today. Those small recurring monthly donations of $10, $25, or $100 make a huge difference in our ability to get the message of freedom out there.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition
No Madam Vice-President, you can’t just do that — together with other musings from this week. Here we go folks! Hold onto your hats. Remember Joe Biden’s dumb-ass statement years ago that ‘Jill should just point the shotgun out the back door and fire a shot off if she feels threatened’? Well, that statement has just been topped by Heel’s-up-Harris!
The Babylon Bee ran a parody piece this week entitled “Oprah Releases Moving 1-Hour Special On Dangers Of Alcohol Abuse”. The Bee parody highlighted Heel’s-Up’s actual (botched) one-hour interview with The Oprah. During that interview, the sitting Vice-President stated, “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot,”. Without getting into the finer details about self-defense use of force, Castle Doctrine, or Stand Your Ground laws here, most adults understand that there are limits to the use of deadly force in our society. You would think a former prosecutor would.
It’s pretty clear that the VP just made the argument that she, like most Americans, has guns for self-defense. The old German word Zeitgeist comes to mind. Its meaning is the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. When both Harris and her totalitarian governor running mate are, or claim to be, gun owners, it becomes much harder to argue that the rest of us minions should not be. Kudos to Mark W. Smith at The Four Boxes Diner for this Zeitgeist reference.
AmmoLand.com senior editor F. Reihl wrote a great piece this week about recent history. He wondered aloud how things may have come out differently if Blacks in both East St. Louis and Tulsa had been armed during the race riots of 1917 and 1921. To quote Reihl’s opening paragraph:
The federal trial challenging Illinois’ gun and magazine ban took a poignant turn as U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn reflected on the tragic history of racial violence, questioning how events like the 1917 East St. Louis race riots and the 1921 Tulsa massacre might have unfolded differently if Black victims had access to the types of firearms now banned under the state’s Protect Illinois Communities Act.
I’d encourage you to read the entire article referenced above. It is about the litigation surrounding the 2023 law in Illinois that:
Based on current case law (Heller & Bruen), the Illinois law is clearly unconstitutional. Never forget that gun control in America has its racist roots in the post-Civil War Jim Crow South and the Democratic Party (whose military arm was the KKK). But then, world history is rife with examples of racism being the motivation for a monopoly on power by every despotic government.
You have heard me say before that we cannot survive as a nation with these loony toons dangerous
quacks in power. Now Governor “Tampon Tim” Waltz of Minnesota, agrees with me: He said at a rally the other day; “We can’t afford four more years of this!”
As Donald J Trump said as he stood up after he was shot: “Fight, Fight, Fight”.
Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by donating to IFC-PAC today. Those small recurring monthly donations of $10, $25, or $100 make a huge difference in our ability to get the message of freedom out there.
Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.
Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition
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