When former Navy SEAL turned podcaster Shawn Ryan offered California Gov. Gavin Newsom a handgun as a gift, Newsom acted excited by the gift. He made a point of how he wasn't anti-Second Amendment, that he valued the Second Amendment, and he was thrilled with the present.
Then we learned that he never brought that gift home.
As Newsom continues to assault the Second Amendment in his home state, all while pretending he really supports it, a lot of people can see what's plain in front of our faces.
And Frank Miniter, the editor of the NRA's America's First Freedom, has taken some time to call the governor out on his hypocrisy.
There is a stage in normal human development—it occurred for my son when he was three—when a child will tell you he did not eat the cookies even though he has crumbs all around his mouth. They grow out of it; if, that is, we laugh and tease them about how those funny cookie crumbs got there.
Some politicians though, particularly the ones in states or districts in which all the big media outlets are on their side, don’t grow out of this.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is an example of this sort of case of arrested development. Newsom went on to former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan’s podcast and claimed he is “not anti-gun at all” as he was being gifted a California-compliant SIG Sauer P365 X-Macro.
Newsom made it appear that he was accepting the gift by saying, “This is fabulous. You know what, the last thing people would expect is that I respect this gift.” He even added, “I’m also deeply mindful and respectful of the Second Amendment and peoples’ constitutional rights.”
But, off camera, something else happened.
A Fallbrook, Calif., news outlet called Village News told the story. They published an item from the office of California Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R) that said, “Newsom rejected the gift because of compliance rules and left the firearm behind in Tennessee. Newsom’s team has since admitted that the California anti-gun laws are so complicated that they have had to hire legal counsel to conduct a legal review.”
DeMaio then got a little cheeky by saying that it “would be an absolute shame if Governor Gavin Newsom inadvertently violated one of his own anti-gun laws, but the extraordinary hassle he now faces proves not only that he is a hypocrite but that the Draconian gun laws he imposed on regular Californians should be scrapped.”
Of course, Newsom is still pretending he can have his cake and eat it, too. He continues to push for ever-increasing infringements on our right to keep and bear arms, all while giving lip service to respecting it.
We all know this is him doing battlespace prep for a presidential run in 2028. He couldn't run last time because Biden stayed in the race until it was too late to actually launch a real campaign, and then the party did what it could to anoint Kamala Harris instead of having a real fight, so that means he's got to wait.
Everything he does outside of office, including his podcast, is really just an effort to make himself look like a reasonable Democrat so as to appeal to the masses in that campaign. He wants to look like a moderate so he can get into office and act like an extremist.
He's not pro-gun or pro-Second Amendment, and the fact that he--the governor of the state--ran into all of these issues while trying to accept a gift should have been a clue that maybe, just maybe, the state's gun control laws have gone way too far.
But he recognized no such clue.
Instead, he lashes out at pro-gun court legal decisions, pro-gun moves by the US Department of Justice, pro-gun moves by literally anyone, while his state continues to pass more and more of the regulations he's already found were virtually impossible to navigate.
Do not let him get away with lying to an ignorant electorate in 2028. Make sure everyone knows what kind of a lying snake he actually is.
Editor’s Note: Gavin Newsom's not the only politician masking their radical gun control agenda behind professed support for the Second Amendment.
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