This is it – Election Day 2024. Millions of voters will head to the polls throughout the day and mark their ballot for president, several U.S. Senate races as well as all Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. All expectations point to toss-up races all over the country – including for president.
For anyone in the firearm and ammunition industry, those who support the Second Amendment and especially those among the more than 22.3 million new first-time gun owners since the last presidential election, the saying is truer than ever this year: Today’s election is the most critical election of our lifetime.
If there is one day in your life where you make a plan to vote and to bring your friends and relatives to the polls to vote too, make that day today. Don’t Risk Your Rights – #GUNOVTE!
President
The choices are distinct. Former President Donald Trump vows to protect Second Amendment rights should he return to The White House. That vote, too, means a firearm and ammunition industry that’s not under a whole-of government attack. A vote for Vice President Kamala Harris is an invitation for continued attacks on the firearm industry and denigration of Second Amendment rights. It’s a crystal clear binary choice, no matter how much gun control erasure the vice president has attempted during the campaign.
The Biden-Harris administration has been the most adversarial White House towards the firearm industry ever. It began with President Joe Biden deeming the lawful firearm industry “the enemy” from the debate stage in 2019 and only deteriorated from there. The Biden-Harris administration has gleefully suffocated the firearm industry through unprecedented executive actions, administrative overreach and promises to implement future unconstitutional gun control. Their record on attacking hunters and public land access is just as abysmal.
Vice President Harris has an undeniable history of loudly cheerleading the most severe and unconstitutional gun control policies out there, far outside what law-abiding citizens recognize as “reasonable.” Gun confiscation, national firearm registry, past support for handgun bans – that’s right, handguns – and even promoting unconstitutional search and seizure by law enforcement.
“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 proclaimed while San Fransisco district attorney.
Is it any wonder whether someone like that would respect and revere the Constitution from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office?
After President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed his vice president as the Democratic Party standard bearer, The Reload’s Stephen Gutowski summed up what could be expected from Vice President Kamala Harris on guns.
“In 2020, Harris ran to Biden’s left on guns,” Gutowski posted on social media. “President Biden had already been running a pretty aggressive campaign on gun control. Probably the most aggressive in 30 years, with an AR ban as his premier policy proposal. Harris could push things even further left.”
Gun owners, recreational target shooters and hunters, of all ages, man or woman, no matter what you race or background – get to the polls and #GUNVOTE.
Congress
During the Biden-Harris administration, a closely divided Congress has been the only backstop against many of The White House’s gun control plans. That includes the last two years where Republicans controlled the House of Representatives and used that power for oversight and accountability on the administration’s rampant overreach.
Banking services and lending discrimination against lawful firearm businesses; proposals for unconstitutional spying on law-abiding Americans’ lawful purchases; temporary forced closures of firearm businesses; and even the elimination of hunter education funding in schools – all of these were pursued by an administration looking to punish law-abiding gun owners and the businesses that support them at every chance they could. It was only because Republicans held a majority in the House for the past two years with a Senate deadlocked that many of these proposals did not become law.
To protect the lawful firearm industry, the ability of law-abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights presently and to protect and promote our rights and heritage in the future, #GUNVOTE for those who will return the fight and protect your Second Amendment rights in Washington, D.C.
Do not stand idly by and miss your chance to cast a vote. Don’t wait until results are announced and wish you had made the time to vote after all. Get to the polls today and #GUNVOTE.
Don’t Risk Your Rights.
Matt Manda is Manager, Public Affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
Famous Voting Messages:
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
~Jay Leno~
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~Henry Cate, VII~
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office
~Aesop
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow~
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton~
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
~Author unknown~
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer~
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
~Adlai Stevenson, 1952~
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~ Tex Guinan~
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle~
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson~
Some good ones there!