Four-term congresswoman Haley Stevens has officially announced her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat from Michigan currently held by Democrat Gary Peters, and Politico claims the congresscritter is expected to "occupy a more centrist lane in the race as compared to her declared and expected competitors".

When it comes to gun control and the Second Amendment, however, Stevens has been anything but a moderating voice on the issue. In fact, she's so far out in left field she makes someone like Joe Manchin look like the second coming of Charlton Heston. 

This is the politician who did a town hall on gun control at a shooting range that devolved into her screaming at people for being too pro-gun https://t.co/fW5iBSKjqK

— Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) April 22, 2025

Not only did she scream at the gun owners in attendance at that 2019 event, the Democrats who organized their disastrous "town hall" apparently did so under false pretenses.

The goal was to find common ground on solutions to gun violence, but organizers found how wide the rift between some gun owners and pro-gun control advocates really is.

"This is why the NRA has got to go," shouted Rep. Haley Stevens (D-11th District). "The NRA has got to go."

Stevens, State House Democratic Leader Christine Greig and State Rep. Robert Wittenberg (D-Berkley) led the town hall at the conservation club where many of its members are gun owners.

The conversation, ironically, took place in the club's indoor gun range.

"I think they just snuck it in here," said Meshawn Maddock. "I can tell you that the members of this gun club are not happy about it."

Gun owners showed up to the town hall in droves, spurred on in part by GOP 11th Congressional District Chair Meshawn Maddock. 

"Somehow Fems for Dems booked this event using a different name," Maddock said. "The sweet woman I talked to said that it said Fems for Life on her calendar. We needed to show up here and tell Haley Stevens exactly what we think about her gun violence town hall behind held in a very Republican - this is a Republican stronghold."

Stevens has seemingly never met a gun control bill she hasn't liked. In addition to backing an outright ban on so-called assault weapons, she's sent out press releases touting her support for a wide variety of infringements on our right to keep and bear arms, including raising the age to purchase semi-automatic centerfire rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21, a federal gun storage law, and banning the manufacture, importation, and sale of ammunition magazines that can hold more than 15 rounds. 

As the gun control group Giffords notes on its webpage supporting her previous congressional campaign, "Representative Stevens has voted for every single piece of legislation aimed at reducing gun violence that has come to the House floor". Of course, what they call "legislation aimed at reducing gun violence" is all too often really aimed at turning lawful gun owners into criminals or forcing them to comply with infringements on a fundamental civil right. 

Gary Peters hasn't exactly been a friend to gun owners during his time in the Senate either, but Stevens would be an outright lapdog of the gun control lobby if she's elected to the upper chamber next year. The other Democrats vying to be their party's candidate in next year's election are also big fans of restricting our Second Amendment rights, but in a crowded field Stevens' hostility towards the right to keep and bear arms definitely stands out.