Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights

This Week In The News

• Jeff Dowdle • Episode 233

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Welcome to the Lift Sheet podcast. My name is Jeff Dole and I've been a licensed farm dealer for the last 17 years. In this podcast, talk about all things related to the second amendment, as well as anything else going on in the world or a sports story or anything else that I might find interesting. So happy new year and welcome to 2025. I hope it's gotten off to a great start for you. It has for me. So far anyway, and I apologize if you're, I don't know if I'll be able to eliminate this, but this, a storm is moving in or a cold front. It was 67 this morning when I went to run and the temperature is supposed to drop down into the twenties over the next few hours and the wind had really kicked up here. So it is crazy, but you know, one thing I do, I'm an FFL and, you know, I've talked about this before I do transfers. I don't sell. Um, you know, online or, you know, I don't have a storefront or anything like that. I just help facilitate online transfers and things like that. It's a side gig. Another thing I put out is I put out a weekly newsletter. In this newsletter, I typically, you know, put three or four stories that I thought were interesting. From a variety of different perspectives. Probably usually include a video. Sometimes it's a lighthearted video. Sometimes it's a breakdown of a recent supreme court ruling. Not my me doing the video, but of some of the other influencers out there that I follow. It's just really for me to, you know, grab the information and send it out to people that don't have time every day to, you know, look for all this stuff. And so I thought today I would just go over a couple stories, you know, go through a couple, two or three stories that I'm going to be putting in my newsletter that'll go out tomorrow and just kind of give you a sense of that. So the first story that's going to be going is, and this is probably the big one, is from the Reload. And that's one of my favorite sites. Transcripts provided by Transcription Outsourcing, LLC. In the heading, the headline is ATF Confirms Director to Resign on January 18th. And the article says ATF Director Steven Dettelbach plans to resign just days before Donald Trump retakes office. On Thursday, the ATF told the Reload that Dettelbach submitted his resignation to President Joe Biden with an effective date of January 18th, 2025. That is the first official confirmation of Dettelbach's plans since he told the New York Times he planned to step down before the end of Biden's term. The agency did not say who would replace Heldbach in the interim, but described his resignation as a normal part of the transition between presidential administrations. His resignation Also marks the official end of Biden's attempt to use the ATF as the primary body for enacting new gun restrictions. He couldn't get through Congress when Biden nominated Doldebach as a more muted alternative to his failed initial nominees. He still shared many of Biden's policy preferences on guns. And aggressively pursued the rules, restricting pistol braces, home built gun building, and used and used gun sales handed down by the president. In his resignation letter Delbox says it was an honor. It was the honor of my professional career. to serve at ATF in your administration. As you said when nominating me to the ATF Director, the mission of this agency isn't controversial, it's public safety. I have not seen the brave and talented people at ATF live out your words for years and we have realized results. He claimed the ATF helped to eliminate a historic spike in crime. As I leave the ATF, the country has experienced two years of historic decreases in the violent crime rate, including drops in firearm related crimes. That progress did not occur by accident. The heroic, talented, and hard working people at ATF, along with our many partners, fought hard and risked everything to gain that ground. And Americans are better for it. Gun rights advocates rejected that characterization, though. Alan Gottlieb Care chairman of the citizens committee for the right to keep and bear arms painted Delbox tenure as one that further politicized the agency. Since that's one less person that we'll have to fire after he takes office, meaning Trump, who backed Trump and then consulted in the transition at Mar a Lago. And it is one less gun prohibition, prohibition lobby on the government payroll. So. Dettelbach is resigning and the article goes on. I'm just going to summarize some of these articles but I found it interesting that he said that they reduce crime because my next article that I'm pulling is from ammo land, I believe, yes. And his headline is, is if 2024 proved anything, it was gun control still fails. So the past 12 months have taught us. Anything as a nation, it would have to be that gun control has actually failed in its purported mission of preventing criminals from getting guns and that proponents of the restricted gun laws are both delusional and living in denial when they claim otherwise. This is while the number of homicides decreased in 2023 by more than 11 percent according to the most recent available data estimates from the FBI, the use of firearms in those killings remain high. This is In the article it says, according to the popular website hijackass, excuse my French, dot com, so far this year Chicago has seen 606 homicides of which 536 involved firearms, another 2, 414 people have been wounded by gunfire. California's strict gun laws, touted by every town in the USA today, Report haven't stopped homicides in the Golden State. One look at Sacramento's blight past six few months, just Google Sacramento, just Google Sacramento homicides, tells the tale of a state's capital, and that's just one city. Despite a 14 percent decline in homicides last year, California still seems to rack up more slayings than any other state. 1929, 20, 22, 23, even Texas. Even of Texas, which had 1845 and 22, which is often cited by anti gunners for its lack of laws, and Florida, which had 1066, infamously dubbed the gun shined state by anti gunners. The Sacramento media reported earlier this year how guns are still overwhelming the most common weapon used to kill someone, so it might be interesting to ask Governor Gavin Newsom cheerleaders how all those restrictive gun control laws are working. According to Statista. com, the worst gun murder rate anywhere in the country is in Washington D. C. where it is still difficult to legally own a farm. The chart also shows, for example, Maryland with a higher murder rate and stricter gun rules than neighboring Virginia. It could be argued that these are apples to oranges comparisons. But wait, Illinois has a murder rate higher than neighboring Indiana, and Montana, the state with the highest percentage of gun users in the country, according to World View Population, has a far lower murder rate than Delaware, which is much smaller, but has a similar population of one million people. So, but none of this will stop murdering. Gun control proposed from Danny more long after more regulations and more erosion of our rights and they will either ignore or simply either argue that the data above is anecdotal if not irrelevant, which is why gun owners, especially in Democrat controlled states can expect more of the same in 2025. So that's from Emily and then the final article trying to, you know, link all these together is from jurist news and I've never I don't think I've ever had an article from them. But I'll, you know, different places always have different events and sometimes I will link things that are not necessarily, you know, on the conservative side, but, uh, hopefully that, you know, my readers can disseminate some of that and not think that I'm supporting that opinion. So this article is New Gun Laws Take Effect January 1. So, and this is from Juris News. It says, Gun laws across the U. S. states are undergoing changes in 2025 with many states strengthening gun safety laws, while others have expanded the rights of firearm owners, reflecting the popularization of the issue of gun control in the country. While new laws taking effect Wednesday in California, Colorado, New York, Delaware, and Minnesota have focused on increasing gun control in various ways, laws in New Hampshire and Kentucky have expanded in favor of strengthening the right to own and use firearms. Legislation enacted during 2024 in South Carolina and Louisiana that legalized open carry without permission. A permit further paints a picture of a country moving in two different directions. In California, several laws are taking effect, including AB 1483, AB 1598, and AB 2917. New rules including the strengthening of limitations pertaining to the permit. Purchase of handguns, including consumer warnings on firearm sales and creating guidance for courts when considering restraining orders related to gun violence. New York has enacted a similar law to California requiring consumer warnings when purchasing firearms. Colorado's new law requires gun owners who store their weapons in an unoccupied vehicle to do so in a locked, out of view, hard sided container. Colorado has also Increased training requirements for concealed carry permits while prohibiting particular misdemeanor offenders from obtaining the permits. The new concealed carry laws will go into effect in July. Meanwhile, New Hampshire's new gun laws for 2025 bar employers from preventing employee storage of firearms in locked vehicles. In 2022, President Reagan and Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Community Act, which represent The first comprehensive gun reform bill undertaken by Congress in 30 years. The bill expanded background checks and restrictions on who owned a gun, but fell short of the goals set by progressive lawmakers. Last year, the administration issued an executive order intended to reduce gun violence, and in July, the Department of Justice expanded firearm background checks requirements for gun dealers. With the pro Trump, pro gun Trump administration Republican majority. in Congress and in gun rights friendly U. S. Supreme Court that the country stands to face a potential reckoning over the widening gap in the treatment of gun violence and safety issues across the nations. So there is going to be a reckoning according to this article. So those are a couple articles, some articles that will be appearing in this week's newsletter. I haven't worked out the entire content yet. It goes out on Monday mornings. If you are interested in it. You can, in the notes of this podcast is the link to subscribe. And you can also get that as well as hear the podcast. Sometimes the newsletter, the content in the newsletter and the podcast overlap. Sometimes they're completely different. Sometimes I pull from the newsletter for the podcast, like I'm doing today. Sometimes I don't. But if you want to get more Firearm news, second amendment news that news, my newsletter is a great way to, to do that and not have to scour the different internet sites. Let me do a little of that work for you. So I appreciate you listening. Have a great day and have a great week. Talk to you later.

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