Who are the RKBA folks on the Trump Transition Team?

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I'm hoping we can get some action of executive orders and regulations like 41T, rifle ammo being declared armor piercing handgun ammo, etc. However Christie and Giuliani are not among our friends. Is the RKBA going to be part of the first 100-day plan?

Mike
 
I'm wondering the same thing.... (RTKBA)

I do believe that the specter of a very young & very liberal (Anti 2A) Supreme Court pushed some to vote our way.

I pray for strong 2A justices, but a middle of the road Trump pick will be much better than anything that the Left would have put forward. (I need to go look at the list of 21, adds a little more importance to in now)
 
John Bock over at TTAG was just picked to be part of his transition team FWIW
 
Donald Jr. shoots F class rifle matches, a big hunter, reloads 100 different calibers, conceal carries and active with NRA. "I live that lifestyle and it is a great American tradition ... we have to stop people legislating laws that don't have a fundamental understanding ... that's something we have to do and act ... starting with conceal carry reciprocity."

He understands death by thousand cuts agenda by the antis and believes we must get political to guarantee the future of hunting/competitive shooting sports.

 
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Donald Jr. mentions in the video that suppressor is about safety. He hunted in Europe where guns were suppressed and we are behind the curve regarding hearing safety and mentions OSHA would go crazy with other industries with similar levels of hearing damaging sound levels.

I think we got the right RKBA person in the Trump transition team to fight for 2A and expand gun rights.
 
Yup, as Colorado says, Christie was dumped the other day so Pence could run things --a genuinely positive sign. The Gun Council is a nice idea, but they won't be doing anything until long after inauguration. Right now Pence is deciding who's getting hired (so maybe Trump will be able to keep his promise about hiring the best beautiful winners or whatever, after all)
 
Just to be clear I posted this in Activism not General as I did not think it was a firearm discussion. Now it looks like it was briefly in Legal before ending up here. I make an effort to post in the right places . . .
 
barnbwt said:
Yup, as Colorado says, Christie was dumped the other day so Pence could run things --a genuinely positive sign. The Gun Council is a nice idea, but they won't be doing anything until long after inauguration. Right now Pence is deciding who's getting hired (so maybe Trump will be able to keep his promise about hiring the best beautiful winners or whatever, after all)
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I would guess they will have a packet of proposed actions and legislation on President Trump's desk before the end of January. Then all that is left is twisting arms in Congress. Trump has already pretty much laid out what his vision is going forward with the Second Amendment.
 
Be aware that the Republicans will have 53 votes in the Senate, including closeted anti-gun Rinos. Under current rules it takes 60 votes to pass legislation through the Senate.

Realistically it will take swaying at least 10 Democrat senators to pass any pro gun legislation.
 
Radagast said:
Be aware that the Republicans will have 53 votes in the Senate, including closeted anti-gun Rinos. Under current rules it takes 60 votes to pass legislation through the Senate.

Realistically it will take swaying at least 10 Democrat senators to pass any pro gun legislation.
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Yes but 2018 is expected to be a Senate slaughter for Democrats defending their great year in 2012. It's 23(+2 liberal Independants) vs 8 including 5 Dems in the "ruby red" states of Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia. They are many likely converts if they know what's good for them. 7 of the 8 defending Republicans are in Trump States. History has not been kind to gun grabbers if off-year elections. If not we can try again in 2019.
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Also the Senate could do it under budget reconciliation rules that can't be filibustered (like Obamacare was done) There will be two chances to do a budget next year since we did not do a full budget this year. Also, someone could bring a "friendly lawsuit" (actually an anti-friendly lawsuit) and the AG or SG could either refuse to defend the existing law or do a poor job of it. This would have been unheard of recently but there are recent precedents.

We've been taught all kinds of neat new tricks the last 8 years . . .

Mike
 
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We've been taught all kinds of neat new tricks the last 8 years . . .
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Yup. Instapundit has made some good quips about the Dem's weaponizing the presidency then giving it to Trump.

Senators & Reps will be looking at the demographic vote break down in their states, then at the wishes of their big donors and bundlers, then at the wishes of their local party bosses, then of their local party organizers, then the local media and then the public who they only have to fool once every six and two years respectively. They are the most successful 635 politicians in the USA, out of a population well over 300,000,000. They will look to their re-election, first and last. The trick is to convince them that their reelection depends upon playing the game. Note that the Congress hasn't repealed anti gun legislation since 1986, for the mildly pro-gun its been less risky to maintain the status quo.

At this point in time it appears that Trump lost the popular vote, with fewer votes than Romney. Clinton was such a bad candidate that more Democrats refused to vote than Republicans and Trump won. This will not be seen as a huge mandate by Congress Critters who didn't want an outsider to win.

I'm not trying to sound depressing. In fact stopping Garland from becoming a member of SCOTUS was a huge benefit from this election, even if nothing else comes of it. Other judges hoping for promotion will realize that being anti gun is a career limiting move. Trump is excellent at moving the Overton Window by making an outrageous statement, letting people vent for a while then walking back his position a little to what becomes the new normal, well past the old one. I hope he will do that with 2nd amendment issues. I don't expect a shopping list of our pet peeves to be overturned in the first 100 days.
 
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I'm wondering the same thing.... (RTKBA)

I do believe that the specter of a very young & very liberal (Anti 2A) Supreme Court pushed some to vote our way.

I pray for strong 2A justices, but a middle of the road Trump pick will be much better than anything that the Left would have put forward. (I need to go look at the list of 21, adds a little more importance to in now)
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That's the most important thing. Bad presidents come and go, but we're stuck with supreme court justices for a lot longer and they are also our last chance in any appeal of unjust legislation.
 
I seen something regarding a possible cabinate post for Donald Jr. I wouldn't mind seeing him as head of the ATF
 
Bannon who is supposed to be their strategy guy, was involved in Brietbart which is strongly pro 2A, running pro gun stories almost daily. Him being named in such a key role is pretty positive.
 
Eh, kinda sleazy how the head of a news org was directly running the Trump campaign in secret since last year as BB was claiming to be impartial, while we all crowed about Dem wikileaks cooperation with mainstream media, but whatever. I guess it's not just libs that operate on double standards. As you say, at least he's friendly (if corrupt)
 
I don't think Brietbart ever claimed to be impartial considering he was one of the higher ups on Trumps election staff and they reported it. At least they were up front about it. MSNBC and CNN still actually claim they were impartial.
 
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Eh, kinda sleazy how the head of a news org was directly running the Trump campaign in secret since last year as BB was claiming to be impartial, while we all crowed about Dem wikileaks cooperation with mainstream media, but whatever. I guess it's not just libs that operate on double standards. As you say, at least he's friendly (if corrupt)
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Bannon quit BB to join the Trump campaign. He never worked both jobs. Ted Cruz got a lot of positive editorial coverage at BB during the primary.

They publicly identify as a conservative news outlet as well.

Mike
 
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