Surveyed Voters To Biden: Hands Off Our Guns
America’s gun owners have a message for Creepy Uncle Joe Biden: We don’t want your paws on our guns any more than all the women he’s met wanted his paws on their bodies. In a recent poll run by the NSSF ,(National Shooting Sports Foundation), likely voters in 18 battleground states overwhelmingly said that yes, “gun control” is indeed very important to them this election…and by that, they mean using both hands. It’s a message that Washington–and the politicians on both sides of the aisle competing for our votes in 2020–should listen to carefully.
The first thing NSSF learned is that COVID-19 or not, voters intend to go to the polls this November. A full 94 percent surveyed are very likely to vote. Nearly three quarters responded they would be more likely to support a political candidate that supported true firearm safety programs. Nearly 60 percent believe a ban on semiautomatic Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) would not reduce crime in their community. More than half said law-abiding citizens should be able to choose the type of firearm and amount of legal ammunition for lawful use.
More than half believe self-defense is the most important reason to own a gun. Nearly half surveyed said magazine capacity limits for self-defense would have no effect on crime. On the other hand, 41% said enforcing existing laws would have an immediate impact on reducing criminal misuse of firearms.
The survey results can be found here, at NSSF’s website, but there shouldn’t be any surprises here. As we’ve noted many times here on Guns & Gadgets Daily and our sister site Freedom’s Lodge, there’s only one thing that can effectively persuade an anti-gunner to rethink gun rights. That thing is real, hands-on experience with a firearm. And as of right now, more Americans are getting real hands-on experience with a gun than ever before.
“The survey results are informative to both policy makers and the firearm industry. The results tell us Americans want their right to purchase the firearm of their choice, especially when it comes to their personal safety,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. “These results also tell us that enforcing existing laws is a better use of public resources than efforts to restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens.”
NSSF reported in December 2019 that more than 423 million firearms are in civilian ownership, according to data reported in the ATF’s Firearms Commerce Report in the United States 2019 report and including the preliminary 2018 Annual Firearms Manufacturing and Exportation Report (AFMER) figures and industry estimates. Approximately 17.7 million Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) were produced in the United States or imported between 1990-2017. The MSR is the most-popular selling centerfire rifle in America, accounting for nearly half of rifles produced.
Since January 2020, more than 10.3 million background checks have been conducted for the sale of a firearm and NSSF retailer surveys showed that between March and May, 2.5 million were first-time gun buyers.
Gun owners are in a bit of a bind here.. In order to protect our gun rights, we’re expected to vote for an incompetent megalomaniac who would like nothing better than to establish Russian-style crony dictatorship in the good old U.S. of A.
Lose your guns or lose your country — it’s an awful choice. If the Republican Party wants to stay politically viable, they had better drop The Donald before he destroys their brand just as he destroys everything he touches.
This is no doubt the biggest election for the second amendment and for the rights of law abiding gun owners, it’s with that thought that I pray to God that our President will be re-elected. I know in my heart that I will not give up my guns or my right to own them as I believe most others will also do, I hate to think of the outcome…….
Outlawing guns insures only outlaws will have guns.
Stop blaming the tools and start punishing the fools.
AMEN to that one! How many of those gun-grabbing fools have really seen a firearm actually do something WITHOUT being touched by HUMAN hands?
The Founding Fathers understood the need and the value of being armed and it is why they made the right to bear arms the 2nd Amendment!!!!
Not for the reason of hunting but primarily for self defense and to protect against a tyrannical Government from which they fought a war to get away from!
When one looks at history, every time a government has taken the guns away from the people that same government has trampled all over the rights and freedoms of the very citizens from which they stole the guns!
Pay attention to history folks, for if you do not learn from the past you will surely suffer the same fate in the future!
First comes the threats – turn in your guns and there will be jail time for those who do not. (EMPTY THREAT). Then there’s pronounced threat,- you can turn your guns in at designated centers without a problem – yeh. The only problem is them- the party that got in and wants COMPLETE CONTROL without any opposition whatsoever, that includes protesting by the way- there will not be any, period. This is exactly what EVERY TOLERATION LEADER has done in history throughout the world, divide, disarm, dismiss, control, period. Vote for SLEEPY JOE, you will be in for the ride of your life, literally! The rich, self serving democraps will live large with their families, continue to be re-elected and continue on, and us – well, we will just exist for them, something like SLAVERY, but they won’t call it that.
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My grandfather didn’t believe that a person actually needed more than one rifle, although he didn’t care that folks owned more. He was also the very model of a nice guy, but even he wouldn’t allow the fedgov to take his gun. He was a VERY good shot and, had he needed to, would have shown a few non-believers how far a .270 winchester will shoot accurately. Armor would have not helped.
Bull shit, Ronald Reagan and GW passed more gun laws then any other POTUS in history.
That may well be Scot, but at no other time, except for now, have the left wing powers in government and the anti-gun lobby been so intent on confiscation. Problem with that is that thousands upon thousands of gun owners across this country, including myself, have no intention on turning our weapons over to anyone!! No intention what so ever, regardless of the eventual outcome!!
And what have any gun restriction ” laws” done to keep guns out of the hands of the criminals that don’t care about following the “laws”. Only those who believe in freedom and law and order are affected by these restrictions. When will we be WOKE by this reality????
The president does not pass laws. I would like to know just what laws Regan and Bush passed or even signed that were anti-gun. I don’t remember any.