For those who hate the Trump Administration...

[SiliconSorcerer]

I find it amazing that mid-east terrorists have killed nearly 1/4 million people, including 1,000's of Americans and people are more concerned over the price of gas vs finally ending this regime once and forall. 

[Quiet Observer]

On 5/27/2026 at 11:51 AM, roundkot said:

 

All this tells me is that the administration does not have any clue on how to extricate itself from this mess and declare a victory before the midterms.

I have a lot more respect for Ms.Gabbard, who wasn't afraid of giving an honest assessment to the Congress, and for Mr. Vance who reportedly was not on board with the war, which probably explains why Rubio is now in the limelight.

 

Regarding TDS... it manifests itself on both sides of political spectrum, and many opinions I see from Trump supporters are as devoid of any critical thinking as those from the radical left.  

"Regarding TDS... it manifests itself on both sides of political spectrum, and many opinions I see from Trump supporters are as devoid of any critical thinking as those from the radical left". 

 

Yes, disagree with President Trump and you are accused of having TDS. Of course, if we support secure borders the left accuses us of being bigots.

[Yeti]

As it relates to the 2A, since September 30, 2025, the DOJ has launched active Civil Rights Division lawsuits against LA County, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Colorado, and Denver for 2A restrictions.  Also, just before that ~ 7 month window of filings, the DOJ and Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon (likely for the first time in history) asked for time to speak against the “"assault weapons"” ban for our side (the majority of us on the forum who endorse the 2A) in the 7th Circuit on September 22, 2025.  I surely can’t predict the future as well as some of you can, but those don’t seem like short-term moves.

I understand the desire from perfect voters to elect perfect candidates and instantaneously undo all the damage caused by past voters but no one has yet named an administration that has done more to try to restore 2A rights or even a fraction of what was just listed above.  They may be only first steps but every journey starts that way.  Maybe I am naive but I’ll take the wins and keep cheering that we can claw back more over time. It sure beats the alternative of a Harris Administration.
 

 

 

[TRussell]

On 5/27/2026 at 9:06 PM, Yeti said:

As it relates to the 2A, since September 30, 2025, the DOJ has launched active Civil Rights Division lawsuits against LA County, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Colorado, and Denver for 2A restrictions.  Also, just before that ~ 7 month window of filings, the DOJ and Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon (likely for the first time in history) asked for time to speak against the “""assault weapons""” ban for our side (the majority of us on the forum who endorse the 2A) in the 7th Circuit on September 22, 2025.  I surely can’t predict the future as well as some of you can, but those don’t seem like short-term moves.

I understand the desire from perfect voters to elect perfect candidates and instantaneously undo all the damage caused by past voters but no one has yet named an administration that has done more to try to restore 2A rights or even a fraction of what was just listed above.  They may be only first steps but every journey starts that way.  Maybe I am naive but I’ll take the wins and keep cheering that we can claw back more over time. It sure beats the alternative of a Harris Administration.
 

 

 

Very well said.

[davel501]

On 5/27/2026 at 9:54 PM, TRussell said:

Very well said.

 

Except the part where George Washington and his drinking buddies created the 2nd Amendment and kicked out the British so he could be the first president. 

[Quiet Observer]

On 5/28/2026 at 8:30 AM, davel501 said:

 

Except the part where George Washington and his drinking buddies created the 2nd Amendment and kicked out the British so he could be the first president. 

You have things backward. The Articles of Confederation were established in 1777 but did not directly address gun rights for the individual*. The American Revolution ended in 1784. The U.S. Constitution, which contains the 2nd Amendment, was ratified in 1788. 

 

*No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace, by any state, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the united states, in congress assembled, for the defence of such state, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up, by any state, in time of peace, except such number only as, in the judgment of the united states, in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such state; but every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition, and camp equipage.

Articles of Confederation (1777) | National Archives 

 

[Yeti]

On 5/28/2026 at 8:30 AM, davel501 said:

 

Except the part where George Washington and his drinking buddies created the 2nd Amendment and kicked out the British so he could be the first president. 

I agree with you the Founding Fathers were the GOATS in establishing the 2A and the right to bear arms.  I may have not articulated it clearly but was more specifically focused on who has done more to restore/reclaim what the FF gave us and what some voters have allowed to be restricted/removed over time.  
 

Since the FF, no administration has taken pro-2A steps like those listed above that I am aware of and that was my point of emphasis.  If anything, other administrations have done the opposite or, at best, done little-to-nothing for the 2A.
 

[Jeffrey]

On 5/28/2026 at 12:34 PM, Yeti said:

I agree with you the Founding Fathers were the GOATS in establishing the 2A and the right to bear arms.  I may have not articulated it clearly but was more specifically focused on who has done more to restore/reclaim what the FF gave us and what some voters have allowed to be restricted/removed over time.  
 

Since the FF, no administration has taken pro-2A steps like those listed above that I am aware of and that was my point of emphasis.  If anything, other administrations have done the opposite or, at best, done little-to-nothing for the 2A.
 

Love him or hate him, if the 2A is your concern, there has not been one better than the originals.  PICA would have only been their beginning if 2024 elected the cackling queen.  Then we'd probably have this same thread just the polar opposite discussion.

[Yeti]

On 5/28/2026 at 12:38 PM, Jeffrey said:

Love him or hate him, if the 2A is your concern, there has not been one better than the originals.  PICA would have only been their beginning if 2024 elected the cackling queen.  Then we'd probably have this same thread just the polar opposite discussion.

Yes we would.  The D party and Harris all said they would deliver more gun control.   I took them at their word and history backs that up.

[yurimodin]

I was very apprehensive last year when they did the stealth bomber attacks on their nuke sites and blew them back to the stone age. I was relieved when that was the end of it and we were moving on. 

 

Somewhere along the line he completely lost the plot on domestic policy(caves to every dual-citizen judge in the country and can't even keep out one thug in Maryland). He filled half his cabinet with dual-citizens and let them and Bibi use bad intel to talk him into this Iran disaster.

 

This just solidified to me that we don't actually run our own country. There is no voting our way out of this degenerate Weimar usury system where they spend the lifetime tax revenue of the next unborn generation each and every single year.

[soundguy]

On 5/29/2026 at 10:20 AM, yurimodin said:

Somewhere along the line he completely lost the plot on domestic policy(caves to every dual-citizen judge in the country and can't even keep out one thug in Maryland). He filled half his cabinet with dual-citizens and let them and Bibi use bad intel to talk him into this Iran disaster.

 

This just solidified to me that we don't actually run our own country.

 

I had to look this up, just for for fun.

 

The First Lady and her son are dual citizens. If the Presidents mother was indeed born in the UK, guess who else may be eligible for dual citizenship... he has not claimed it. Don Jr, Eric and Ivanka may also be eligible for dual citizenship in the Czech Republic.

 

Cheers,

Tim

[yurimodin]

On 5/29/2026 at 1:51 PM, soundguy said:

 

I had to look this up, just for for fun.

 

The First Lady and her son are dual citizens. If the Presidents mother was indeed born in the UK, guess who else may be eligible for dual citizenship... he has not claimed it. Don Jr, Eric and Ivanka may also be eligible for dual citizenship in the Czech Republic.

 

Cheers,

Tim

 

I was speaking of dual-citizens of the "ally" who can never be named and has never done wrong.

[mauserme]

Are you guys completely incapable of appreciating the things President Trump is trying to do for our Second Amendment rights?   I think those rights are why you joined the forum, no?

 

 

 

 

[SiliconSorcerer]

On 5/29/2026 at 2:54 PM, mauserme said:

Are you guys completely incapable of appreciating the things President Trump is trying to do for our Second Amendment rights?   I think those rights are why you joined the forum, no?

How about it!

[mauserme]

You cannot "do" until you first "try".  Achievement is not the first step of any accomplishment.

 

We have had several presidents of recent vintage who tried to, and succeeded in diminishing our 2A rights.  I would prefer a president that tries to protect these rights even if they were to fail, over one who seeks to further infringe them.  President Trump is perhaps the first in centuries that has worked to protect them.

 

I understand you have issues with him in areas outside the Second Amendment - issues that might be more appropriately vented on a forum devoted to those things.  We, IllinoisCarry, will remain a gun rights forum.

 

 

 

 

[ealcala31]

On 5/29/2026 at 5:13 PM, mauserme said:

You cannot "do" until you first "try".  Achievement is not the first step of any accomplishment.

 

We have had several presidents of recent vintage who tried to, and succeeded in diminishing our 2A rights.  I would prefer a president that tries to protect these rights even if they were to fail, over one who seeks to further infringe them.  President Trump is perhaps the first in centuries that has worked to protect them.

 

I understand you have issues with him in areas outside the Second Amendment - issues that might be more appropriately vented on a forum devoted to those things.  We, IllinoisCarry, will remain a gun rights forum.

 

 

 

 

On Point...2A

[TomKoz]

On 5/29/2026 at 5:23 PM, roundkot said:

Trump has a record of trying and not doing.

I do have issues with him outside of the Second Amendment -- and I am expressing an opinion (and not *venting*) that these issues are likely to result in him accomplishing nothing for the 2A, or even making things worse.  It took me half a year to see that after being his supporter.

If that opinion really rubs the Trump fans on the forum the wrong way, I'll be happy to let you have an echo chamber here and take my thoughts elsewhere.

 

Give him a Super Majority in the House and Senate - then the Left can’t stop him !!

[mauserme]

On 5/29/2026 at 5:23 PM, roundkot said:

Trump has a record of trying and not doing.

I do have issues with him outside of the Second Amendment -- and I am expressing an opinion (and not *venting*) that these issues are likely to result in him accomplishing nothing for the 2A, or even making things worse.  It took me half a year to see that after being his supporter.

If that opinion really rubs the Trump fans on the forum the wrong way, I'll be happy to let you have an echo chamber here and take my thoughts elsewhere.

 

 

If staying on the topic of gun rights is not something you can bring yourself to do, then taking your thoughts elsewhere might be a wise decision.  If you do decide to stay, do so with an understanding that there are expectations about the purpose of this site, and about respecting other members' desire to have a discussion that doesn't revolve around your personal dislikes.

 

 

[mauserme]

Admins, please delete my account on the forum. Thanks.

 

Done.

[John Q Public]

On 5/29/2026 at 7:56 PM, mauserme said:

 

 

 

Done.

 

Who asked to be removed?

[mauserme]

It's unimportant.

 

I'm sure he will find a forum home more attuned to his individual needs.

 

 

[John Q Public]

On 5/30/2026 at 12:43 PM, mauserme said:

It's unimportant.

 

I'm sure he will find a forum home more attuned to his individual needs.

 

 

It's not important to you, I have banned someone for years, and it IS relevant to me but, I guess, you are not going to tell us... If that's the case, why did you bother to quote the request and honor it, without elucidation?  It makes no sense not to reveal, otherwise, it should have been granted without commenting here.

 

 

Edited May 30, 2026 at 06:06 PM by John Q Public

[mauserme]

No one was banned.  A member simply made a request.

 

 

[yurimodin]

On 5/29/2026 at 6:30 PM, mauserme said:

 

If staying on the topic of gun rights is not something you can bring yourself to do, then taking your thoughts elsewhere might be a wise decision.  If you do decide to stay, do so with an understanding that there are expectations about the purpose of this site, and about respecting other members' desire to have a discussion that doesn't revolve around your personal dislikes.

 

 

Sorry, I have severe economic PTSD caused by graduating highschool into the 911 mideast war recession, trying to get established during the 2008 recession, getting gaslit by The Faultless GenerationTM all the way through the end of the NObama economy, only getting like 2 good economic years my entire life right before covid, and now this disaster. So I am a kind of over hearing the nonsense that we have to keep spending the lifetime tax revenue of the next unborn generation every single year fighting everyone else's wars or else America will disappear. 

 

Is his 2A work good?, kind of so far. TBH national reciprocity should have already happened in the first term but here we are. Just so everyone can get some perspective no one should get their hopes up. Trump couldn't even be bothered to stand up to one judge and keep one gangbanger from Maryland deported. 

 

I don't know what they have over him but this is not 1st term Trump. This isn't even half of what he ran on after Butler or what I voted for 3 times. Anyone actually being honest with themselves knows it deep down too. We are occupied.

 

 

[mauserme]

Yeah, sorry Congress hasn't sent him a reciprocity bill to sign.  But, kinda' like President Biden did what he could to enact gun control without Congress, President Trump is doing the same for gun rights.

 

If somebody better on gun rights comes along I'll celebrate that person's efforts, too.  So far no one has floated the name of such a person that I've heard anything about.  So I'll continue to be happy with President Trump's efforts in support of our rights, and will gladly be happy with the efforts of a better successor too, if that  person becomes president.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dumak_from_arfcom]

On 5/31/2026 at 4:24 PM, mauserme said:

Yeah, sorry Congress hasn't sent him a reciprocity bill to sign.  But, kinda' like President Biden did what he could took enact gun control without Congress, President Trump is doing the same for gun rights.

 

If somebody better on gun rights comes along I'll celebrate that person's efforts, too.  So far no one has floated the name of such a person that I've heard anything about.  So I'll continue to be happy with President Trump's efforts in support of our rights, and will gladly be happy with the efforts of a better successor too, if that  person becomes president.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think we've ever had a 2A section of the DOJ's civil rights division working for our side before. 

We will never get any pro2A bills through the Senate, especially with the RINOs.  

Trump could just start executive ordering 2A stuff, but that risks losses in court. 

[yurimodin]

On 5/31/2026 at 10:25 PM, Dumak_from_arfcom said:

 

I don't think we've ever had a 2A section of the DOJ's civil rights division working for our side before. 

We will never get any pro2A bills through the Senate, especially with the RINOs.  

Trump could just start executive ordering 2A stuff, but that risks losses in court. 

 

I guess he has absolutely no concept of hardball. You can't tell me that all of these senators are 100% squeaky clean as a choir boy. Start getting them arrested for fraud, tax evasion, campaign finance violations, DUI, whatever. Make Richard Nixon look like Jimmy Carter and this crap would turn around. Give them the James Traficant treatment.

 

 

[TomKoz]

The title of this Thread is very fitting.

[mauserme]

On 6/1/2026 at 11:05 AM, TomKoz said:

The title of this Thread is very fitting.

 

Building unrealistic expectations is part of the plan.

 

 

[yurimodin]

On 6/1/2026 at 11:16 AM, mauserme said:

 

Building unrealistic expectations is part of the plan.

 

 

 

He only has himself to blame for that.

 

We were promised:

20,000,000 deportations

Retribution regarding govt weaponizers

My energy bills cut in half within one year(drill baby drill)

Credit card interest capped at 10% while we recover from Covid & Biden

Actual release of Epstein info

No new wars

Physical Audit of Ft Knox

 

Now I know he can't deliver on all of these and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time. But GOOD LORD delivering on absolutely none of them because his (((central banker))) handlers are actually the ones running his administration is just a humiliation ritual for all of us usury cattle at this point.

 

I'm not trying to anger anyone here or get any arguments started but these are legitimate frustrations and absolutely nothing is going to change until several congress critters from BOTH parties go to prison for their various crimes. We are now approaching nearly 3 full generations being absolutely exploited, disregarded, and abandoned by their own country and its BEYOND SHAMEFUL.

 

I will be absolutely amazed if the GOP does not tank the midterms.......I will be even more amazed if they actually get some MAGA things done with their majority.