Trump Shakes Up ATF, Creates New Task Force

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The tides have officially turned in Washington, and for once, they’re shifting in favor of the Second Amendment.

In two major moves this week, the Trump administration made clear it’s not playing defense when it comes to your right to keep and bear arms—it’s going on offense.

Driscoll Tapped to Lead ATF, Ending Era of Weaponized Bureaucracy

President Trump has appointed Daniel P. Driscoll as Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), signaling a dramatic course correction for the agency that’s spent the past four years under fire for overreach.

Driscoll, who also serves as Secretary of the Army, steps in following Acting Director Kash Patel’s short but impactful tenure.

Lawrence Keane, Senior VP and General Counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), called the appointment “indicative of [Trump’s] resolve to bring reform to the ATF and protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”

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That’s music to the ears of gun owners still reeling from Biden-era rules, like the “zero-tolerance” policy that punished FFLs for minor paperwork errors and the infamous brace ban that tried to criminalize millions overnight.

The NSSF emphasized that the firearm industry is ready to work with Driscoll to do what the ATF should’ve been doing all along: focusing on violent crime and illegal trafficking—not harassing lawful gun owners and retailers.

DOJ’s Gloves Are Off: Bondi Forms Second Amendment Task Force

But that’s not all. In a memo that’s already making waves, Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced the creation of a new Second Amendment Task Force inside the Department of Justice. And this isn’t just a feel-good PR stunt.

Bondi’s memo flat-out states:

“For too long, the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms, has been treated as a second-class right. No more… President Trump has made protecting the Second Amendment rights a priority for this administration.”

Alan Gottlieb, Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), called it “the news we’ve been waiting for.”

“It’s great to have a Department of Justice defending Second Amendment rights,” he added, “instead of attacking them.”

The task force will be chaired by Bondi herself and include reps from the FBI, ATF, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Division, and others.

Its mission? To advance and defend the Second Amendment through litigation, policy, and compliance enforcement.

A New Day for the Second Amendment

Between Driscoll’s appointment and the launch of the DOJ’s 2A Task Force, the message is clear: this administration isn’t just restoring your rights—it’s reinforcing them.

After four years of bureaucratic chokeholds, firearm owners now have real backing in D.C.

The war on gun owners didn’t start overnight, and it won’t end with one press release. But if these moves are any indication, the Trump administration isn’t just reversing course—it’s clearing a new path.

And for those of us who’ve been on the frontlines of this fight, that path finally looks like progress. What say you?

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  • Nobody1 April 15, 2025, 8:00 am

    Hmm must have polled New York! Here in the south we own a few more firearms than polled.

  • Norm April 14, 2025, 6:56 pm

    I would recommend that representatives from major manufacturing companies be included with the task force. Why? Feedback. If a policy, regulation or concern with new manufacturing of firearms or accessories, as will happen with new products, let the reps from the companies debate the usefulness, and give an opinion. Not all LOE are experts understanding new products and how the public responds to their use.

  • Kevin Stich April 14, 2025, 12:05 pm

    I hope Pam Bondi makes Governor Ferguson and the Democrats in Washington State suffer punishment.

  • Higherview April 14, 2025, 8:59 am

    This seems nice, but so far only window dressings and empty words. I am impatiently waiting for suppressors and short barreled weapons to be removed from the NFA – better yet scrap the NFA al together, but I’m not holding my breath for that one. Any director of the ATF can declare a tax holiday or suspension of the tax immediately without legislation, ifs been done before and could be done today, it could be made permanent pending legislation. I’m hopeful that there are things going on behind the scenes toward meaningful change but I’m growing weary with waiting and hearing of platitudes, memos, EOs and task forces.

  • Higherview April 14, 2025, 8:45 am

    This seems nice, but so far only window dressings and empty words. I am impatiently waiting for suppressors and short barreled weapons to be removed from the NFA – better yet scrap the NFA al together, but I’m not holding my breath for that one. Any director of the ATF can declare a tax holiday or suspension of the tax immediately without legislation, ifs been don before and could be done today, it couple be made permanent pending legislation. I’m hopeful that there are things going on behind the scenes toward meaningful change but I’m growing weary with waiting and hearing of platitudes, memos, EOs and task forces.

  • Frank April 13, 2025, 10:14 pm

    Just when we get a short reprieve from Blue Balls, this “dacian” nut-job starts an illiterate rant. Guess he’s one of the 27% who approve of the dumbassocrats.

  • Paul Hindenburg April 11, 2025, 9:57 pm

    If you wish to see what will happen to the 2nd if the commiecrats get their way look no further than the Communist utopia of Colorado. The most draconian gun bill ever presented or rather fostered onto the people of Colorado. Pure 100% Marxist nonsense. Crafted by the tiny little billionaire Bloomberg and probably cofounded by Soros. It totally ignores the 2nd and grinds the ownership of firearms into the dirt. Look it up and see what just may be coming your way courtesy of the democrat party. Sadly, the commiecrats say there is more coming. Pray that these communists fail in the long run. Do away with computers in elections if you want the Constitution to survive.

  • Danny Phillips April 11, 2025, 5:06 pm

    I want whoever wrote off on the killing of Bryan Malinowski to be prosecuted along with the agents that were at his house. The ATF hits quad needs to be prosecuted also for the murder of Bryan Malinowski. I think the whole agency needs to be defunded and disbanded. Also Patrick (Tate) Adamiak needs a presidential pardon immediately.

  • Edgar W Tommasino April 11, 2025, 12:41 pm

    Dacian, you’re welcome to your distorted view of gun ownership, although you want to be careful with your quotes: ” Surveys show the “majority” of firearms are owned by only 3% of the population which are the Far Right Paranoid Paramilitary Lunatic Fringe that wants to overthrow the government,” You lose all credibility with far out propaganda. Get your head out of your fanny and find some reliable information regarding the 2nd amendment.
    Fast Eddie, collector of the Winchester Model 42 and the M1 Carbine.

    • Danny Phillips April 11, 2025, 5:08 pm

      The only Government we want to overthrow is a Demonrat government,

      • dacian April 12, 2025, 4:26 pm

        To Danny Phillips
        quote——————The only Government we want to overthrow is a Demonrat government,———–quote

        You just proved my point and everything I stated in my posts. The American people have no wish to live under an Autocracy headed by Herr Hauptmann Donald Drumpf (Original German family name).

    • dacian April 11, 2025, 8:49 pm

      To Tommasino

      I stand corrected but only slightly because the point I made is still very valid which is the majority of the weapons in the U.S. are owned by a small minority of Far Right Lunatics. Most people I know personally that have stockpiled large amounts of ammo and guns are indeed hoping someday to overthrow the government.

      Nearly Half Of Guns In U.S. Owned By 3 Percent Of Population, Study Finds

      https://www.npr.org/2016/09/20/494765559/nearly-half-of-guns-in-u-s-owned-by-3-percent-of-population-study-finds

      Like a child who plays with fire you got burned Tommasino.

      • Edgar W Tommasino April 11, 2025, 9:47 pm

        Dacian, you missed the point Mr. fireman. While I don’t agree or disagree with the 3%, that’s not what I’m challenging, it’s your characterization that the 3% are “Far Right Paranoid Paramilitary Lunatic Fringe that wants to overthrow the government,”. A typical lefty slander with no evidence to support it. I represent the responsible gun owners that collect guns, hunt, shoot competitively, organize safe shooting programs for kids, (SCTP is an example Scholastic Clay Target Program), contribute to our community with gun safety programs and other positive activity. If there are Far Right Paranoid Paramilitary Lunatic Fringe that wants to overthrow the government, it must be very very very small group. So small, that in all my experience as a responsible gun owner I’ve never met one that I can tell. I’m not one of them, and if they do break the law, they should be accountable.
        There are two gun groups that I’m aware of, the criminals and the law-abiding responsible citizens. By the way, your study was conducted by NPR, known to be left of center.
        You’re way over your head little fireman!

        • dacian April 12, 2025, 4:30 pm

          To Tommasino

          NPR was only one study, I did not quote others which came to the same conclusions. And unlike Foxy News NPR has won many news awards while Foxy has won zero news awards. Foxy even admitted in court (when they were sued) that they were not an accredited News organization but an entertainment program.

        • dacian April 12, 2025, 4:41 pm

          To Tommasino

          You certainly either do not watch accredited News Outlets or you simply and totally ignore them because when Herr Drumpf (The Donald) attempted to overthrow the Government on Jan. 6th and establish a Dictatorship it was done with the Far Right Paramilitary Lunatic Fringe the “Proud Boys” backed up with other lunatics like the “Oath Keepers”. In fact not 1 but 2 Hotel rooms were seized by the FBI stacked to the sealing with ammo and assault weapons to be used on that day and 2 live bombs were found. Other Far Right Lunatics that day were arrested that were armed.

          Investigations also revealed the Proud Boys were in close touch with the Republicans who knew in advance what the Proud boys were going to do that day, cheering them on and hoping for a Drumpf Autocracy as the result of the all out assault on the Capitol.

      • brian April 12, 2025, 8:52 am

        Democrats seem to love surveys and say that 1000 people speak for the whole of the US. Surveys done by any website are disingenuous. I can word a survey in a way to get the desired results I want:

        When you are going out to eat, what would you choose to do?
        1: Get kicked in the crotch by an NFL kicker
        2: Get punched in the face by an MMA fighter
        3: Get shocked by a police taser
        4: Get sprayed in the face by police grade pepper spray
        5: Eat a large plate of chocolate chip cookies

        Using the above example, the majority of people who take the survey is likely going to choose eating cookies for dinner. And, using that result, my survey would then be used to say “Americans choose to eat cookies for dinner, this is why our country is so fat”

  • Brian Anderson April 11, 2025, 12:03 pm

    “Bondi is set to serve as chair of the special unit while Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was appointed to serve as vice chair”. Not sure why people are celebrating having Red Flag, 2nd and 4th Amendment denying Bondi involved with anything 2A. She established that in FLA after Parkland. She will do it again, just federally. Not good.

  • webbed April 11, 2025, 10:42 am

    Well, it sure didn’t take long for a ‘Paranoid Far Left Nutbag Lunatic’ aka democrat party operative, to chime in with the full kitchen sink of their usual (and predictable) drivel. (‘insidenous’???). Go back to your basement lair and blog with your Bolshevist echo chamber.

  • Paul Walder April 11, 2025, 10:34 am

    I sure do hope this happen!
    I live in Colorado and our democratic governor just past into law this crazy gun package. Now I follow the rules and regulations the best I can. After August 1st certain guns can only fire one shot at a time this applies to King Polis state. Now that messes up all 2nd amendments rights. Now if I want to protect my property I ony get one shot even with my shotgun. I don’t know if the government can help or not, I’m afraid the NRA or STATE gun rights group have enough pull to get these stupid laws thrown out. Thank you!

  • dacian April 11, 2025, 9:52 am

    In reality the pistol brace was a slick, disingenuous, and insidenous way around the Federal ban on short barreled rifles and the ATF darn well knew it from the beginning. The Far Right Paranoid Paramilitary Nut Cases who influence the NRA who in turn bribe the Republicans made crime, homicides and mass murder now far more deadly than they ever were before as short barreled rifles are far more lethal than even the high capacity pistols that were formerly used by criminals, gang bangers and lunatics. The short barreled rifles’ are now their weapon of choice for mass murder and mayhem, they have no legitimate civilian use, none.

    As Usual the Far Right Paramilitary Lunatic Fringe hurt gun ownership by legalizing pistol stock braces because the more sensational mass murders we have will inevitably result in an outraged American Public demanding far more draconian gun bans and restrictions and even the gangster criminal Republicans fear the ballet box. All this is lost on the sick and twisted minds of the racist Paranoid Jackbooted Stormtroopers of the Far Right.

    The average gun owner owns only a few guns, usually a shotgun for hunting and a .22 rifle for weekend tin can plinking and they comprise the majority of gun owners and they are all very well aware that something has to be done about America’s out of control gun problem that results in 45,000 needless gun deaths a year of which 1,600 of them are innocent children, often toddlers. The Far Right simply writes off 1,600 childrens deaths a year as a necessary sacrifice on the depraved altar of zero gun control. The entire rest of the civilized world does not have this outrageous amount of mass murder and mayhem because of strict gun laws that keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them and has safe storage laws which save huge numbers of children’s lives every year.

    Surveys show the “majority” of firearms are owned by only 3% of the population which are the Far Right Paranoid Paramilitary Lunatic Fringe that wants to overthrow the government, do away with taxes, and establish a Far Right Dictatorship much to the delight of the minority Republican Party who has stated their goal is to destroy the 1st Amendment and destroy what little Democracy the U,S currently has so they can establish a Dictatorship along with a Christian Caliphate that will mirror the various Islamic Caliphates of the Near East.

    The FBI has stated that the biggest danger to America’s freedoms are the Far Right Paramilitary Lunatic Fringe who want a Dictatorship and a an all White Society and a Christian Caliphate. No other groups will have equal rights in their proposed All White Utopian State, especially ethnic and religious minorities who the Far Right regard as inevitable victims for their hoped for 21st Century “final solution”. There is no difference between their twisted ideology and racism and the twisted ideology and hate of the Germans’ that were led by A.H. who started WWII.

    The current revised downward amount of “legal” immigrants and refugees now being admitted to the U,S. again shows the parallels between the current Regime and the actions of Germany during the 30’s and 40’s.

    We are now witnessing the crumbling of the Constitution under the Current out of control Regime, backed by a corrupt Supreme Court who has no regard for the Constitutional Rights of the American people especially the American Worker who they regard as nothing more than a modern day version of the Colonial Plantation Slave, no right to a livable wage, no right to form a Union, no right to a pension, no right to any affordable medical care, and no right not to have his Social Security payments reduced to zero benefits and no right to complain that the filthy rich get away with not paying any taxes and the even further outrage that the Filthy Rich steal the workers tax dollars for their own use in the form of corrupt “Corporate Subsidies”.

    History is once again repeating itself to the drum beats and echos of Far Right goose stepping polished black Jackboots on cobblestone streets. He who does not know the past is condemned to relive it in the future as a “new” Political “Man God” has come forth to mesmerize his glazed eyed brainwashed followers and paraphrase A.H. when he claimed he would make Germany “Great Again”.

    By the way A.H. also relaxed Bismarck’s strict gun laws, contrary to what the Far Right believe in the U.S. The parallels between WWII Far Right Germany and the current Far Right U.S. Government are frightening.

    • T.C. April 11, 2025, 12:56 pm

      What a drama queen! Your imperfect view of firearms is run through the lefty gun hating prism. You conclusions and explanations are ridiculous. The pistol brace was created for the disabled Veterans who lost limbs protecting your freedoms, idiot. You can color it with any liberal paint brush you like. The ATF approved of them and there use, 15 years ago. I own 4 different caliber of AR-Pistols and there are of great use, especially home defense. A rifle with a 16 inch barrel is considered a carbine. They were shortened because long shots were becoming infrequent so the 26 inch barrel on my 1916 Winchester 1894 was not needed as often. Just like military weapons that shot thousands of yards in WWI, We shrunk down to 16 inches with the M4 in Vietnam. Unlike your neanderthal thinking, things change for a reason, and all things evolve. Are you still listening to 8-track tapes? I do not need a full size rifle to defend my home, especially if they are already inside. Less barrel length means more maneuverability and better chances of success. I will not have to make a 75 yard shot across my living room! You claim that short barreled rifles and AR-pistols are the weapon of choice for mass murders is typical lefty bullshit. Rifles(of any sort, all types of rifles) only account for being the cause of death 472 time a year! 328,000,000 million people in America with the last census(adjust that for the additional 42,000,000 illegal Immigrants current in the US, puts us at nearly 370 million people and rifles killed 472. 300 people a year get struck by lightning per year, why are your not screaming at them to never go outside?

      Then you ridiculously vomit up the far right lunatic fringe, is the huge endorsers of violence. Do some research and look who ARE the mass shooters?Crazy ass trans leftys and Dems who cannot get enough mood stabilizing drugs to satisfy they are losers and the haven’t got a participation trophy since High School! If the Gun fanatics were the problem brother you would not be here.

      Then you go to act like you are speaking for the Average Gun owner! You have not got a clue as to what an “Average” gun owner is. Any gun owner is NOT going to share ANY information with anti gun idiots like you because you have decided, without any actual facts, that ALL firearms are DANGEROUS. So you will get no reliable information your extreme views could generate. Then you assume we have a “GUN PROBLEM” and everyone agrees with you. WRONG! Then here comes the twisted stats of the gun control crowd… 45,000 deaths. yep, seems like a lot! til you try math! 45,000 divided by 370,000,000 = .000121216% of our populations death by firearms. And that is ALL kinds of death, and all firearms. Let look at that. We KNOW that almost 50% of firearm deaths are suicides. Unfortunate, but, if someone wants to commit suicide, if you take away one option, they will find another. Ugly, I know, but truth sometimes is. So, we are down to 22,500 deaths. Let’s remove the justified shootings by law enforcement and justified self defense 4768, and we go to 17,732 actual homicide deaths. Seems like a lot, but is it? 17,732 divided by 370,000,000 = .000479243% chance of being shot and killed. in that number there were about 1200 kids killed( you used the number of children shot or wounded, not killed) This number includes children from age 1-19! 19? why 19, at 18 we are considered adults. The important age bracket of 12-19 is important. This is the gang banger death toll rage, these are children who have been recruited into gangs because they cannot be prosecuted for very much. This range account for much of that 1200. It also depends on where you live. If you live in
      Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, St. Louis, New York, Philidelphia, your chances just lowered by A LOT! remove these cities totals and we drop from 11 on gun death tolls for countries to 179! So, where you live means a whole lot! But not to you, you just quote numbers without definition of explanation. In Texas, where I live, 2278 people killed by firearms. that is all deaths. Our State Population is 32,000,000 without the illegal immigrants( add another 6 million), 2278 divided by 32,000,000 = .000711875 chance of being killed by firearm, and we know 50% are statistically suicides. So, do we really have a firearm PROBLEM? Or do just you have a problem with firearms?

      Then, you deludedly state only 3% of the lunatic fringe will take over and rule. idiot, gunowner are 71% of our population. We will never let that happen, even by your stupid and wrong beliefs. Then the laughable statement Biden claimed that the biggest threat to America was white supremacy! Thats because that guy was the biggest threat to our nation. The dems ran us into the sewer, while I imagine you were cheering!

      You are probably the most ignorant person I have ever read thinking that the solution to the illegal immigration problem is like the Germans in 1933! We are NOT removing people because of ideologic differences, we are removing INVADERS who illegal gained access to our nation. Aided and abetted by the left and the DEMS.

      Then you state we are having our country and constitution wrecked? It is being restored jackass! You lefties and Dems have eroded our freedoms and rights along with our jobs and our wealth. Just given way through lack of wisdom and leadership. New SHERRIFF in town brother. That time is over, America is back and we will be staunch defenders of everyone’s rights(not the ones the government selects) and we will lead the world as we should have been. Your ideas that we are moving to the Third Reich is ridiculous. The Nazis curtailed freedom, like the Dems tried to do, they wanted to outlaw firearms, like you Dems want to do, they wanted power and control and would NOT let anyone criticize them, just like the DEMS do. Dems do not lead, they control. Just listen to what every dems says when they seize on a narrative. Word for word, no independent thought, PARTY LINE. Look how easy they can make their heroes the villains. Elon Musk anyone? The first amendment protects ignorant people like you spouting your nonsense. Hope you enjoyed your rights, my is to disagree and place fact before fiction and call idiocy when it rears its ugly head.

      • dacian April 11, 2025, 4:06 pm

        To T.C.
        Your reading comprehension is at the 5th grade level. I never mentioned “illegal” immigrants but “legal” immigrants showing how racist the Republicans are and how you attempted to distort what I originally stated.

        I might add your “lame and laughable excuses” and attempt to justify short barreled rifles with the needs of handicapped people is again pure Far Right propaganda. For decades handicapped people have gone hunting and did not need short barreled rifles. Even the novice can watch hunting programs that span over 50 years showing the handicapped hunting with full size rifles or when legal pistols.

        I might add the current and past NFA laws allow handicapped people and non-handicapped people to purchase short barreled rifles but they have to be registered when bought and sold keeping them out of the hands of lunatics and criminals. The success of the NFA laws is irrefutable proof registration works and works very well. Sorry you failed big time when dealing with people who are knowledgeable about the subject of short barreled rifles and their history,. Over the counter sales of short barreled rifles have been a disaster as once the original owner (in many states) needs the money or gets bored with one they can be sold to “anyone” with no paperwork and they eventually end up in the hands of gang bangers and lunatics.

        Sorry TC , try again, you failed miserably in your uneducated rebuttal that ignored the history of U.S. gun laws and many times their lack thereof.

      • dacian April 11, 2025, 4:48 pm

        to TC

        I forgot to answer your distortion and Far Right propaganda about guns having little to do with U.S. suicide deaths and the U.S. High suicide rate.

        According to a Stanford University Study men who own handguns are eight times more likely to die of gun suicides than men who don’t own handguns, and women who own handguns are 35 times more likely than women who don’t.

        Handgun ownership associated with much higher suicide risk | News Center | Stanford Medicine

        I might add that after speaking myself to more than one “First Responder” they all said that they seldom were never to save a person who shot themselves in a suicide compared to people they saved who tried to slit their wrists, drown themselves or hang themselves or deliberately overdose on their medications. Yes, it’s just to easy to act on impulse with a firearm compared to the preparation that it takes with other methods of suicide which gives the suicidal person more time to think about the consequences of his actions, especially in regards to the effects they know will happen to their loved ones both in terms of mental anguish and the financial burdens that come when a loved one is lost.

        I might also add resisting a robbery has shown that the majority of people killed in a robbery were cheapskates that tried to shoot it out with the robber because the cheapskates placed a few pennies in their wallet over their own lives.

        Resisting an armed robber drastically increases the risk of death to the victim, according to results from a new study done at the University of Chicago. While victims actively resisted in only 7 percent of the robberies studied, those incidents accounted for 51 percent of the deaths.

        https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/11/science/don-t-resist-robbery-chicago-study-warns.html

        • Edgar W Tommasino April 14, 2025, 9:59 pm

          Brian, Danny, TC, Kane,
          I doubt any good will come from responding to Dacian’s comments. It’s clear he is an idiot.
          Ed Tommasino

    • paul I'll call you what I want/1st Amendment April 11, 2025, 1:54 pm

      surveys show you sir are a moron! 100% of villiage idiots like yourself will believe anything your masters say. polls show only 1% of anti gun experts have actually seen a gun outside of movies and tv. the cdc has proven that people who can read minds are dementially insane.

    • Kane April 11, 2025, 10:34 pm

      A tedious, insult ladened rant with the no discernable point by dacian, just the tired old Nazi fallback. Unfortunately, dacian never bothered to explain how they/them/theirs ended up on this MB. Does dacian own a firearm? If so, what firearms. They/them/theirs should explain how that works in they/them/theirs mind.

      Be advised that this is a they/them/theirs that has chosen a namesake based on a cruel Roman pagan Emperor. Emperor Decius tried to force Christians into denying their religious beliefs through all sorts of inhumane persecution including torture and death. Like to know why they/them/theirs chose this name if they/them/theirs has the fortitude to explain. Doubt it.

      Maybe they/them/theirs could explain if abortion is a Constitutional right and whether the over 1,000,000 abortions are “simply writes off.” Edify US.

      Maybe they/them/theirs could offer a perspective on the far-left war crimes of the Soviet Union and how those historical facts reflect on the vicious far left of today. Maybe dacian could focus on the left-wing Soviet policy of raping women throughout Europe in the age range of 8-year-old children up to 80-year-old women. Maybe, that’s why the far left-wing Democrats of today want to bring so many sex abusers into the US. Maybe that’s why the last one in the WH took showers with his own daughter Ashly Biden when she was a little girl. The Soviets raped 10’s of millions of women in Europe in the largest mass rape in history so no doubt the US far left wants the same thing to happen once again. Go ahead dacian and explain the type of logic you introduced, if you dare.

      • dacian April 12, 2025, 4:23 pm

        To Kane
        I usually do not respond to rants that border on the psychotic as your does but I must say in the last decades dating back to the 1950’s I have never once run across American Democrats that advocated or defended raping women, none. As a matter of fact when you pointed the finger at us you had 3 fingers pointed right back at the Far Right because it is they that have often and consistently made light of women being raped and even defended rapists ( White rich Conservative Kids) in court by claims such as “Do not get up set it was only a “mild rape” and that was even stated on the Political Show “Meet the Press” and done with a straight face by Republicans some decades ago.

        I might remind you ranting about what happened in WWII by the Russians in regards to what happened during the WWII has zero to do with how Democrats behave in America. If anything it was the Democrats that had to fight the Republicans to get Women the right to vote, the right to divorce, the right to seek employment in fields formerly occupied by men including occupations such as Engineering, Science and Medicine and of course the right to govern what goes on in their own bodies, while the Republicans have recently succeeded in making them into once again Medieval Sex Slaves. What’s next with the Republicans I ask you? Burning Women at the stake for being Witches.

        • Kane April 15, 2025, 2:14 pm

          Your record of not directly responding is still intact, you failed to explain why you chose the namesake of a persecutor of Christians, no respond to the point that millions of babies are killed by the ‘right to choose,” etc. Remember, you compared the US of today to that of Germany from 1933-WWII in more than one of your posts. You opened that door and I just switched those comparisons you made with comparisons of Soviet crimes from the same time period and the far left of the US today.

          Every post I have read by you makes wide sweeping statements and vague accusations but with little or no substance. Constantly, you fail to use detailed, verifiable facts and thus your points are overwhelmingly illegitimate. I’m NOT going to blindly hang my hat on the Republican party, but you just did on the Democrat party, let’s see how your statement below holds up to some fact checking.

          “…I must say in the last decades dating back to the 1950’s I have never once run across American Democrats that advocated or defended raping women, none.” -dacian

          ‘In my world, you don’t abandon a guy over sex. You stick with him.”
          — James Carville, former adviser to President Bill Clinton, Stickin’: The Case for Loyalty (2000)

          “Drag a hundred dollars through a trailer park and there’s no telling what you’ll find.”
          -James Carville, about Paula Jones (1997)

          “bimbo eruptions” Reference to sexual abuse accusers of William Jefferson Clinton during the 1992 Presidential campaign.
          -George Stephanopoulos

          There are well over 32,000 unaccompanied children that illegally immigrated to the US that have NOT appeared in scheduled US court hearings. There are another 291,000 children that have NOT even been sent a court hearing as of May 2024 because the opened border was so reckless. Where are those children? Do you care? Are they “simply writes off”? In a Fusion study as reported by Huffpost, 80% of the woman and very young girls crossing into the US from Mexico are raped since the wide-open border under the Biden Administration. Why do Democrats like you support a policy were 80% of the women involved will be raped? Of course, the DNC in part supports the open border and the resulting rapes to grow the Democratic party but you should explain your individual thought process. What about the American citizens that are raped by the illegal immigrants, are they “simply writes off”?

          • dacian April 16, 2025, 10:28 pm

            Your racist statements about immigrants and rape are sickening. Anyone who has studied the stats knows that immigrant crime is very low compared to the crime committed by American Citizens. Immigrants know they have to keep a low profile or they will be deported. The majority of rapes are committed by American citizens no immigrants period.

            And when you mentioned immigrant children you fell head first right into the outhouse. It was the gangster criminal Republicans under the rabid southern racist Jeff Sessions that conjured up a Nazi reign of terror when they deliberately separated (stole) children from their parents to terrorize immigrants from coming here even when they were legally applying for asylum.

            Try again your Herr Hauptmann Kane, your Far Right nonsense is well known to any educated class of people.

        • Kane May 14, 2025, 9:56 am

          You are a tired act falling back on effort less accusations of racism while you ignore the FACT that rapes were common under the open border crisis and push racism in your posts. Guess you missed the “low profile” illegal aliens attacking LEO’s in NY or apartment buildings in Colorado. Guess the racist stereotypes you peddle on meek immigrants are a figment your limited imagination.

          I answered your lame challenges and then you fall back on some RACIST skit on Germans, can you really be this STUPID??? Look at the beginning and ending of your posts.

          “Your racist statements about..Try again your Herr Hauptmann Kane, your Far Right nonsense is well known to any educated class of people..” -dacian

          BTW, I am a Celt not and Anglo-Saxon. Guess that “educated class” is way overrated.

          You tipped your hand and showed you hate Christians and push hatred of Germans on your posts above.

          Get it now??? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

    • George April 12, 2025, 9:01 am

      Speaking of nut cases! You’re as dumb as the guns you blame for violent behavior.

    • DIYin STL April 14, 2025, 8:26 am

      You are in error calling WWII German government “Far Right.” N^ZIs were, literally, socialists. i.e. Left Wing as exemplified by centralization and strict control of the populace.

  • Richard Wayne April 11, 2025, 9:27 am

    They need to do away with the ATF barrel ban, the sporting clause and several other things that infringe on our 2A rights.

    • Bumper April 11, 2025, 1:09 pm

      And if in the process of doing away with politically motivated, draconian infringements, the batf is rebuilt from its foundation and/or absorbed into ICE, so much the better! That org simply employs FAR too many cowboys too full of themselves.

  • Robert B Gallagher April 11, 2025, 9:13 am

    He needs to come and directly refer to all the violations of the 2nd amendment in Washington state. You cant purchase an AR style rifle at all or a gun or anything associated with more than 10 in a magazine here !!!!!!!!!

  • me too April 11, 2025, 8:09 am

    I’ll take a wait and see attitude on this.