Gun Owners of America (GOA) is decrying the latest push from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for bump stock gun control, contending that part of the solution is to defund the ATF altogether.

The GOA’s statements come after the DOJ announced that the ATF is weighing whether to redefine the term “machinegun,” so as to include accessories that do not convert semiautomatic firearms into automatic ones. This would place firearm accessories like bump stocks on par with actually firearm conversion devices, therefore bringing an entire new category of firearm accessories under the auspices of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). Placing such accessories under the purview of the NFA would require bump stock owners to pass a background check, be fingerprinted, photographed, and pay a $200 tax to the federal government.

GOA executive director Erich Pratt told Breitbart News, “Gun Owners of America will rally its members in opposition to any proposed restrictions on bump stocks by the ATF.  GOA holds that any such limitations are unconstitutional and would open the door to additional regulations, even while doing nothing to stop evil people from committing heinous acts.”

GOA’s Larry Pratt concurred, adding that the ATF ought to be defunded and disbanded in the name of liberty:

We don’t need any opinion from the ATF to tell us what “shall not be infringed” means. It means, among other things, there should be no ATF.  We don’t have a Bureau of Speech and Thought Control because that would be as unconstitutional as the ATF. Every day that agency exists is another day the federal government violates the Constitution.

Larry added, “We should stop funding both the ATF and the U.N. and use the money to build a border wall. That would be a constitutional way to lower crime.”

strong>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at http://ift.tt/2AC36Vm.

On Friday morning President Trump sent a message to Chuck and Nancy that both of the leading Democrats should have received loud and clear.

In reemphasizing his commitment to immigration reform, Trump advised the Dems that there would be no deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the illegal alien “Dreamers” unless there was a border wall included.

The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017

The Dems are not in a positive negotiating position having just gotten creamed on tax reform which not only passed with ZERO Democrat votes but also included the opening of the ANWR Wildlife Reserve to oil drilling but also did away with the fascistic Obamacare mandate.

Without the blue jackass party’s fixation on Russia, Resistance and Regurgitated sexual misconduct allegations it would have likely been impossible to get that baby passed. It was a serious blow to their radical tree-hugger base to have ANWR opened after years of obstructing progress. Nice job Chuck!

Now, only a short time after Nancy Pelosi promised Latino activists that the year wouldn’t end without a deal on DACA, the weasel queen is left holding a flaming bag of dogshit that isn’t likely to sit well with that particular demographic.

Trump: Democrats know there will be no DACA deal without the border wall https://t.co/7c6hc7kFhm http://pic.twitter.com/u39IhKZl5N

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 29, 2017

Via The Washington Examiner “Trump: Democrats know there will be no DACA deal without the border wall”:

President Trump on Friday said that Democrats have been fully informed that the border wall must be built for consideration around an immigration deal to take place.

Trump also slammed the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program” and “chain migration,” reiterating his call for the two immigration programs to come to an end.

“The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost,” Trump tweeted.

In addition to the border wall, Trump also blasted “chain migration” which lets recent immigrants obtain visas for relatives and the “visa lottery system” aka the “diversity visa lottery” which provides for those from underrepresented countries to enter the U.S.

During the last months of 2017, Trump has vehemently pushed for an end to the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program” and “chain migration” after multiple terror attacks in New York City were performed by individuals who were able to enter the country through those programs.

In September, Trump ended an Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that allowed roughly 800,000 immigrants who came here illegally as children to remain in the country, which had never been approved by Congress.

The “diversity lottery” has come under fire recently – especially from Trump – after a terrorist from Uzbekistan rented a truck and then proceeded to mow down people in New York City who were on a bike path, killing eight. The soldier of ISIS was in the USA thanks to a diversity visa.

Even though Democrats have been making noise about holding the American people hostage by engineering a government shutdown over DACA, it’s clear that Trump is holding all the cards at the table and Chuck and Nancy are sitting there in their underwear.

A federal appeals court judge blocked Arizona’s ban on Mexican-American studies Wednesday, ruling that the state cannot even “audit” districts to see if they are complying with the ban.

The ban on Mexican-American studies was passed in 2010.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Judge Wallace Tashima ruled that the passage of the studies ban was a violation of the constitution. He said the ban was “not for a legitimate educational purpose, but for an invidious discriminatory racial purpose and a politically partisan purpose.”

He also ruled that the state could not withhold funding for school districts that refused to uphold the ban. (It was the threat of losing $14 million in state funds that led a Tucson district to drop its Mexican-American studies in 2012.)

Former Tucson teacher Curtis Acosta celebrated the ruling by tweeting:

This! Happy New Year, mi gente! #InLakEch https://t.co/wgsiSFX91W

— Curtis Acosta (@CurtisAcostaLLP) December 27, 2017

In August Tashima had ruled that the ban was unconstitutional but had not taken any steps to halt its enforcement. The new ruling blocks the ban.

While handing down the ruling Tashima was critical of John Huppenthal and Tom Horne, both of whom pushed for the ban as Arizona state superintendents of public instruction.

Tashima claimed Huppenthal and Horne “were pursuing these discriminatory ends in order to make political gains.” He wrote, “Horne and Huppenthal repeatedly pointed to their efforts against the [Mexican American studies] program in their respective 2011 political campaigns, including in speeches and radio advertisements. The issue was a political boon to the candidates.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at http://ift.tt/2AC36Vm.

Donald Trump owns liberals and lives rent free in all of their heads. Like Pavlov’s dogs, he can trigger a hysterical reaction with a simple tweet. Today he rang their bell by pointing out that the extreme cold weather in the Northeast runs contradictory to the liberal narrative that the planet is getting warmer because humans drive cars and eat meat.

Here’s what the President tweeted:

In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017

This becomes funny because liberals insist that everything, warm cold or the same, means global warming is real. Hell, Hillary Clinton once claimed that snow proved man-made global warming was a proven science. And speaking of idiots, here’s how liberals were triggered by Trump’s tweet. First we get a sampling of CNN talking heads, trying to prove they aren’t as fake news as their network:

Climate change is about the long-term changing of our climate — and increasing unpredictability in it. Not about a cold spell. https://t.co/mbqtOpp0xS

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) December 29, 2017

This is a jaw-dropping misunderstanding of what climate change is… https://t.co/aa0wATPjea

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) December 29, 2017

A reminder that President Trump’s tweets are to be treated as official White House statements… so the official White House position is that global warming could be a good thing. https://t.co/HPkt8kQmXY

— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) December 29, 2017

Looks like our President still fundamentally misunderstands what global warming is. Or is misleading those who don’t understand the science. https://t.co/wXTA3qeq25

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) December 29, 2017

Buy a drink for the climate experts at @NOAA, @NASA, @EPA, @NSF, @Smithsonian, @DeptofDefense, @USDA.

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 29, 2017

Then we get Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald who watches porno on the Internet with his kids:

This statement shows we are idiocracy. “It’s really cold outside today” is not about climate. And while people who laugh at science wont get it, yes, global warming can lead to mass freezing. Today, however, is just weather. But the least informed will keep laughing the loudest. https://t.co/KOlNUaNhU4

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) December 29, 2017

And finally here’s some democrats from Congress with their expert take on things:

Either @realDonaldTrump doesn’t understand the science behind climate change, or he is intentionally misleading the American people. Also, Merry Christmas (even though today is Dec 28) because the President says we can say that again (even though we have always been saying it). https://t.co/8KwaxdbvzB

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) December 29, 2017

I’m going to say something really crazy: I believe in science. Climate change is real and we have a moral obligation to protect this Earth for our children and grandchildren.

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) December 29, 2017

Hey, DNA testing is science. Does Elizabeth Warren believe in taking one in order to prove that she’s actually a Native American princess?

Just for the record, man-made global warming is not science. It’s a theory that has no hard scientific data to back it up. There isn’t a person on the planet who can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the planet is getting warmer or that man is causing this warming they can’t prove is real. The “science” of climate change is based on computer models with subjective input and fudged data and that’s the complete opposite science.

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If you thought President Donald Trump was great in 2017, you ain’t seen nothing yet: wait until Trump 2018, a report from Axios’s Mike Allen on Friday morning argues.

Citing multiple sources who have met or spoken recently with the president, Allen reports that those in the know in Washington should expect the “full Trump” in 2018—the president’s upcoming second year.

“If you ask some close to President Trump what worries them most about 2018, it’s not Robert Mueller’s probe,” Allen writes under a headline saying to expect Trump to be “unchained” in 2018. “It’s that establishment guardrails of 2017 come down — and Trump’s actual instincts take over.”

“Next year will bring ‘full Trump,’ said one person who recently talked to the president,” Allen adds.

Allen notes that most of Trump’s major 2017 achievements could have been made by any old traditional Republican, from the tax cuts plan to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and cutting regulations.

“Most of those in his current decision-making circle — even if they’re not mainstream Republicans — are defending mainstream Republican principles like free trade and an internationalist view of foreign policy,” Allen writes. “But top officials paint a different portrait of Trump when it comes to what he really wants on trade, immigration and North Korea — but has been tamped down by skeptical staff and Cabinet officials.”

Privately, Trump is throwing down entirely with the economic nationalist roots of his presidency.

“Trump keeps asking for tariffs — on steel and aluminum, in particular,” Allen writes. “He wants a trade war, and has for many years. His economic and diplomatic advisers persuaded him to delay trade actions in 2017.”

And while 2017 was defined by behind-the-scenes who’s up, who’s down power struggles in the administration and West Wing over which policies would win out, Allen notes that 2018 seems to be heading in the direction of a place where it doesn’t matter which measly globalist advisers are riding high at any given moment.

“Those advisers recognize that the day of reckoning will come in 2018, regardless of whether economic adviser Gary Cohn and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — who advocated restraint — stay or go,” Allen writes.

Allen specifically pointed to a couple of recent Trump comments—one via Twitter and the other via his New York Times interview—on China, where the president ripped China on trade and North Korea.

“China’s hurting us very badly on trade, but I have been soft on China because the only thing more important to me than trade is war. O.K.?” Trump told the New York Times.

On Twitter, he wrote:

Caught RED HANDED – very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea. There will never be a friendly solution to the North Korea problem if this continues to happen!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2017

Allen says that Trump has trade actions planned next month, too, something that other reports indicate are splitting Trump from GOP leaders. A recent headline in the Hill newspaper read, “GOP frustration rises with Trump on trade.”

The piece from Alex Bolton quotes several Senate Republicans, including Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), who raise concerns with President Trump and his administration’s efforts to put America first on trade.

But Allen notes that while Trump may have delayed acting on some of his economic nationalist instincts in 2017 to appease advisers’ demands, expect him to move forward with or without the useless advisers in 2018.

“Look for Trump to take action on trade in the next month. It probably won’t be next week, so as not to disrupt the afterglow of the tax cut. But nothing is final,” Allen writes, adding, “Trump still wants his wall, and tighter restrictions on legal immigration. He’s a true believer on this stuff, and knows intuitively that it keeps his base stoked.”

The year 2016 was a deadly one for police officers in the United States. It was so deadly, that according to Breitbart News, 2016 “saw more deaths than in the five previous years.” It was also President Obama’s last year in office.

Then Donald Trump became president, and everything changed.

The year Trump took office, 2017, police deaths on duty neared a 50-year low.

According to a report by USA Today, preliminary numbers show that there were 128 deaths in the line a duty; 2013 was the only year with fewer deaths, coming in at 116.

Traffic accidents made up the bulk of the deaths, with 47 in 2017. That’s a 15 percent decline from 2016.

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There’s a lot of speculation regarding the “whys” behind the decline, but the police advocacy group Blue Lives Matter attributes it to a “greater awareness of officer safety.” Blue Lives Matter spokesman Randy Sutton told USA Today that the focus on safety includes “change in how officers approach arrests because of the controversial high-profile shootings over the years.”

In essence, officers are more aware of the potential dangers as they approach dangerous situations.

Breitbart reports that National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund President and Chief Executive Craig Floyd said, “In my 33 years doing this, I’ve never seen (this) amount of awareness given to officer safety and wellness.”

“I think that’s definitely been paying off and will continue to help make law enforcement a significantly safer profession.”

One can’t help but ask, though, does part of the decline have to do with the way police are treated from national leadership? As leadership guru John Maxwell says, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.”

When you compare the leadership of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, you can’t help but notice the stark difference in their attitudes toward police officers.

Remember, Ferguson, Missouri, Michael Brown, and “Hands up don’t shoot” back in 2014? Obama immediately took to his podium and teleprompter then to criticize law enforcement.

The Washington Times reports him saying, “In too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement. Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement — guilty of walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness.”

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The result?

Rising numbers of police officers “feloniously killed” — up to 66 in 2016. That was “the highest single-year figure since 1997,” according to Breitbart.

Contrast this to just a few days ago, where President Trump paid for the Christmas meals of the military and law enforcement personnel charged with protecting him over the holidays.

Numbers don’t lie, and the truth is, police officers’ deaths have fallen dramatically this last year. As stated earlier, there are a number of factors, but you can’t deny that Trump’s pro-police, and pro-military actions have surely helped this number.

Hopefully, we’ll be able to see this number continue to drop in the coming years, because one police officer death in the line of duty is one too many.

H/T Breitbart

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