With just days remaining in Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency, which was marred by foreign policy blunders, an open border, the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and conviction on gun charges, the media is lamenting the return of Donald Trump to the White House, and reporting concerns of the gun prohibition lobby that he will enact policies strengthening the Second Amendment.
A report in The Guardian repeatedly refers to gun control advocates and the gun prohibition lobby as “gun safety groups.” The story quotes Emma Brown, executive director of Giffords, a gun control lobbying organization named for former Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords, who became a gun control advocate after being shot and seriously injured during a public appearance in Arizona several years ago.
The gun control crowd thinks Biden did their movement lots of good during his four-year term. However, a new Rasmussen survey released Monday shows a majority of voters say nothing he did during the past four years helped them. A 48 percent plurality of likely voters “think Biden will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in American history. Twenty-one percent (21%) say Biden will be remembered as one of America’s best presidents, while 27% consider his presidency about average.”
What’s more, 54 percent told Rasmussen that since Biden became president, “he has not enacted any policy that made their life better. Thirty-four percent (34%) say Biden’s policies have made their life better and 11% are not sure.” For the majority of survey respondents, Jan. 20 probably cannot arrive soon enough.
That feeling is definitely strong among American gun owners. Trump has already promised to sign national concealed carry reciprocity legislation if it arrives on his desk; a prospect that makes anti-gun Democrat governors cringe.
While the gun prohibition lobby is frustrated about Trump’s return, it is not throwing in the towel. Instead, according to Brown, the Giffords leader, they are doubling down their efforts and using state legislatures to carry on the fight, since Congress is now controlled by Republicans.
“I have every expectation that we will build on that progress in 2025, not lose it,” Brown reportedly stated. “We see states as the testing ground in a lot of ways for some of our most innovative solutions to this problem.”
Likewise, John Feinblatt, president of the billionaire-backed Everytown for Gun Safety, told The Guardian, “We’ve been at this rodeo before. But we’ve got the playbook from 2016, and in some ways, I think we’re in much better shape than we were in 2016.”
The Guardian acknowledged Trump will “almost certainly” shut down the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which has amounted to little more than a taxpayer-funded gun control lobbying group housed inside the White House, with oversight from Vice President Kamala Harris.
In a few days, Steve Dettelbach will be leaving his position as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in time to escape being fired by Trump. Second Amendment advocates have expressed hopes the returning president will replace Dettelbach with someone who more closely abides by the Constitution and is familiar with firearms.
Adding to the concerns of gun prohibitionists, the U.S. Supreme Court has distributed two gun rights cases for conference this Friday, Jan. 10, both involving challenges to restrictive gun laws, one in Biden’s home state of Delaware and the other in Maryland. They are known as Snope v. Brown and Gray v. Jennings, and both involved the Second Amendment Foundation along with other gun rights groups. These cases see to overturn bans on semi-auto rifles in both states, and full-capacity magazines in Delaware.
