Both Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are proponents of gun control. They're vocally so.

That's not a matter of debate. Yes, so-called fact-checkers might be trying to run cover on things they've said in the past, arguing that they don't want to do them now despite no evidence they've changed their views, but even they acknowledge that both of them want gun control.

Yet that's kind of the issue, isn't it? People are saying they don't want to do things they've explicitly called for in the past, arguing they have "other priorities" now, but that doesn't mean they don't want to do them. They're just lower on the list.

And some of that, as The Gun Writer's Lee Williams notes, is downright terrifying.

Based on what the candidates have done in the past, and what they’ve been quoted saying — when the corporate media actually did their job and held them accountable — here’s what you can actually expect from the Harris-Walz administration.

AR-15 confiscation

Tim Walz and the AR-15 have one thing in common: Neither has ever been to war. Still, Walz likes to conflate the semi-automatic AR-15 with the select-fire M4, which the documented valor thief falsely claims to have carried into battle. Harris has said numerous times she wants a “mandatory buyback” of ARs, which is nothing more than a smokescreen for mandatory confiscation. Don’t think these two will stop at ARs. Expect a host of other weapons to be added to their confiscation list, including many popular rifles, shotguns and handguns.  

Criminalization of the ATF

During the pandemic, Gov. Walz ordered police to keep Minnesotans indoors. If officers encountered folks outside their homes, either on their porch or in their yard, he ordered police to shoot them with paintballs. To be clear, if a civilian did the same, they would face aggravated battery charges. To no one’s surprise, some officers complied with Walz’s illegal order. This proves Walz has no compunction with ordering law enforcement to break the law and violate civil rights. If elected, the Harris-Walz administration will find a group of federal officers more than willing to carry out their illegal orders — the ATF. Like Walz, ATF agents have proven they do not care about civil rights or breaking state law. Expect a massive surge in unconstitutional “knock & talks” — home invasions conducted under the guise of what the ATF calls “consensual encounters.” Once unleashed, the ATF will target law-abiding gun owners and federally licensed gun dealers with a frequency and a ferocity never seen before.

Go and read the whole thing. Just don't do it before bed because, frankly, you'll probably lose some sleep.

The truth of the matter is that these are entirely plausible.

For example, we know that Harris wanted mandatory buybacks on AR-15s. She campaigned for president on just that four years ago. Nothing she has said since then has given anyone any reason to believe that she feels differently now. It's just this issue that fact-checkers have tried to pretend that because she's focused on other bits of gun control, there's no validity to the claim that she does, in fact, want to take our guns from us.

But I'm not buying it.

Couple that with what we saw from Walz during the 2020 riots in Minneapolis--people standing on their own porches being shot at with paintballs by police for the crime of staying on their own property--versus some of the stuff we've seen from the ATF of late and we've got a recipe for disaster.

We darn sure won't get Walz arguing for ATF restraint, now will we?

If these two get into office, we'd better pray that Congress looks very different than they'd like for it to look. Even then, though, we have no reason to believe executive action wouldn't be used, especially since Harris was there as Biden did a lot of that. The death of the Chevron deference and the ATF losing Cargill won't dissuade them, so the only real hope we have is to keep them out of office.