JOHN LOTT LAYS OUT THE CASE AGAINST HARRIS

JOHN LOTT LAYS OUT THE CASE AGAINST HARRIS

JOHN LOTT LAYS OUT THE CASE AGAINST HARRIS

John Lott lays out the case against Harris in such a great way, that I’ve decided we should put the whole Real Clear Politics article here: 

First, Second, Fourth Amendments Endangered by Kamala Harris

COMMENTARY
By John R. Lott Jr.
November 02, 2024
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Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday, she argued that people need to vote for her to preserve the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments, that Trumpwants to terminate the Constitution”.

Yet, on the First Amendment, Harris previously called for governmentoversight or regulationof social media to stop what she calls misinformation. In 2022, her vice-presidential nominee, Gov. Tim Walz, claimed:There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.”

On gun ownership, Harris went so far as claiming:I am in favor of the Second Amendment, I don’t believe that we should be taking anyone’s guns away.”

Reassuring, but Harris’ emphatic past support for gun control is consistent and legion. Let’s look at her record. She claimed during her 2020 presidential campaign,I support a mandatory buyback program. When pressed about Joe Biden’s claim at the time that she couldn’t ban assault weapons with an executive order, Harris enthusiastically responded,Hey, Joe, rather than sayingNo, we can’t,let’s sayYes, we can.’”

But this is nothing new. Harris has strongly advocated for gun control for years. As San Francisco’s District Attorney, she declared,Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible.She even supports warrantless searches, raising concerns she also doesn’t want to be bothered by the Fourth Amendment.

In a 2008 amicus brief, Harris argued that a complete ban on all handguns is constitutional. She even said there is no individual right to self-defense.

The Biden-Harris administration has been the most anti-self defense administration to date, shutting down thousands of gun dealers by mid-2022 due to minor paperwork errors. They renewed Obama’s Operation Choke Point to cut off financial resources for gun manufacturers and dealers; the companies that remained had to grapple with increased costs. The Biden-Harris administration has also established a national gun registry.

If Kamala Harris becomes president, she will push for even more restrictions. The new Office of Gun Violence Prevention isoverseenby Harris, which coordinates the administration’s gun control initiatives. The office oversaw a recently released U.S. Surgeon General report that fails to mention a single benefit of gun ownership.

The OGVP was instrumental in implementing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, introducing complex rules that classify many gun owners as firearms dealers. If you sell a gun to a friend once and discuss selling a second one to anyone, you must first become a licensed dealer. If you sell one gun and keep a record of the transaction, you are also required to first become licensed.

Many BCSA rules are vague, giving the government discretion to arbitrarily label individuals as dealers.

Under Harris’ leadership, the OGVP pushed for lawsuits against gun makers and sellers whenever criminals use their guns. She also pushed to ban semi-automaticassaultweapons, and require background checks on all private gun transfers.

By early 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives had developed a digital database containing nearly a billion firearms transactions.

U.S. Reps. Jim Jordan and Thomas Massie found that Bank of America provided the FBI with credit card data for firearms purchases without even requiring a warrant or probable cause.

With a national gun registry in place, officials can now easily identify legal gun owners. Harris’ past threats to confiscate guns become much more likely to succeed.

Gun control has already taken center stage in Harris’ campaign. Harris made gun control a key topic in her first event in Wisconsin and again at a gathering of the American Federation of Teachers.

It isn’t just that Democrats want to regulate every part of our lives, but the real threat to the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments to the Bill of Rights are at risk from Harris. Those freedoms are endangered if she wins.

John R. Lott Jr. is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. He served as senior adviser for research and statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department.

Dr. Lott is, like Thomas Sowell, a national treasure. 

Those dangerous quacks want you disarmed, don’t let them win. 

Please stay Ready at All Times, and help us defend all of Iowa’s rights by joining IFC today.

Shoot Straight, Speak The Truth, and Never Surrender Our Liberties.

Dave Funk
Member, Board of Directors
Iowa Firearms Coalition
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The Gibson Girls and more on IFC Warrior Wednesday EP81

The Gibson Girls and more on IFC Warrior Wednesday EP81

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!

 

OVERREACH AGAIN, AND MORE FBI LIES

OVERREACH AGAIN, AND MORE FBI LIES

OVERREACH AGAIN, AND MORE FBI LIES

The Biden-Harris Administration has overreached its authority again, and even more FBI lies have been exposed.

OVERREACH AGAIN

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

FBI LIES AGAIN

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

2024 IFC-PAC STATE LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENTS

2024 IFC-PAC STATE LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENTS

2024 IFC-PAC STATE LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENTS

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. 

2024 Iowa House and Senate Endorsements*

*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