{"id":118012,"date":"2026-07-25T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118012"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:39:09","slug":"118012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118012","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018And do you have a permit for your AR, sir?\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

by Lee Williams<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard not to smile or even giggle a little bit when you see how badly President Donald Trump is scaring the country\u2019s paid anti-gun community, especially when you combine the President\u2019s efforts with those of the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

No one is feeling this pro-gun heat more than the youngsters working at the Trace, the propaganda arm of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg\u2019s gun control empire, who want the public to believe it\u2019s an actual newsroom comprised of actual journalists\u2014a fiction they\u2019ll go to great lengths to maintain.<\/p>\n

The Trace kids are extremely busy trying to stop this Second Amendment tidal wave that\u2019s washing across the entire country. They realize that they\u2019re losing, so they\u2019re rabidly coming up with new ideas to counter our coming freedom\u2014and some of their ideas are absolutely crazy.<\/p>\n

Two Tracers just released this tome: \u201cNew Jersey Just Lost Its Assault Weapons Ban. Here\u2019s Why That Matters for the Rest of the Country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story\u2019s last line is bedeviling. It\u2019s not a quote or taken from any report. It\u2019s completely attributable to the story\u2019s two anti-gun authors:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Supreme Court strikes down assault weapons bans nationwide next year, states could try other strategies, including putting semiautomatic rifles behind a permitting process,\u201d they actually wrote.<\/p>\n

Can you actually imagine that?<\/p>\n

The highest court in the country says you can legally possess ARs in every state and U.S. Territory, but then some blue state suddenly requires you to obtain a state permit\u2014regardless of the Supreme Court decision?<\/p>\n

Do they think that might actually work?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a Second Amendment right, right?<\/p>\n

It would be like requiring state permits before allowing someone to read a book or scour the internet, which are rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

The Trace is redefining desperation.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m picturing five-gallon pails of Zoloft, Prozac and Xanax scattered throughout their newsroom, each with a \u201chelp yourself\u201d label.<\/p>\n

It actually gets even worse. They\u2019ve actually run out of legitimate sources.<\/p>\n

The two authors wrote this:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unclear whether rescinding the bans will cause an increase in gun violence \u2014 or mass shootings in particular. Assault weapons have been used in most of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, and studies have found that assault weapons, combined with high-capacity magazines, may increase the death count in mass shootings,\u201d the story claims.<\/p>\n

The link takes you to another hilarious medical study, which falsely claimed that \u201cstate assault weapons bans are associated with fewer fatalities.\u201d The study based its findings on one particular source: \u201cData were abstracted from the Gun Violence Archive, an independent online database of US gun violence incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve nearly written volumes about the faulty data from the Gun Violence Archive\u2014so much so that it\u2019s hard not to laugh every time some academic clod uses it in their \u201cresearch.\u201d Suffice it to say, the GVA said there were 417 mass shootings in 2019. The FBI says there were 30, because it uses actual data and doesn\u2019t make stuff up.<\/p>\n

The two authors actually supported using the GVA\u2019s faulty numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trace uses the Gun Violence Archive\u2019s definition of mass shooting, which includes shootings resulting in four or more injuries or deaths, excluding the shooter,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

Trace history<\/p>\n

The Trace calls itself \u201cThe only newsroom dedicated to covering gun violence.\u201d Its staff refer to themselves as journalists, rather than anti-gun activists who are paid by Bloomberg to write propaganda.<\/p>\n

Since the Trace was founded about a decade ago, scores of newspapers, websites and other legacy media outlets have fallen victim to this ruse. What\u2019s left of Gannett\u2019s flagship newspaper, USA Today, has collaborated with the Trace multiple times, and has even allowed Trace activists to produce and edit content, which appeared in the newspaper under a joint byline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have partnered with more than 170 national and local media organizations,\u201d the Trace boasts on its website. \u201cWe\u2019re always looking to start new partnerships.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trace is nothing more than the propaganda arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, which is also funded by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

Both nonprofits share the same president, John Feinblatt. In fact, Feinblatt is also listed as the two nonprofits\u2019 principal officer. Federal tax documents show that the Trace and Everytown also use the same phone number, 646-324-8250.<\/p>\n

Both nonprofits were incorporated in Delaware, which is known for its stringent corporate privacy laws.<\/p>\n

Takeaways<\/p>\n

Now that New Jersey-compliant ARs are a thing of the past, and California-compliant ARs may soon follow, we should take a minute to relax, but only one minute, no more.<\/p>\n

The Trace and its followers will certainly come up with more whacky ideas, but they live in states whose judges support whacky behavior, especially if it harms the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

We remain in a constant battle for our civil rights, and anything can still go wrong at any time, according to Murphy\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned that Murphy is alive and well. He\u2019s in every drawer, under every rock and on top of every hill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Col. Charlie Beckwith said that. He should certainly know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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