Gun Rights Group Blasts Bondi for 'Ultimate Betrayal' of 2nd Am. for Making Argument That Could Ban EVERY HANDGUN

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Source: MEDIAite

Nov 21st, 2025, 6:59 pm


Gun Owners of America lambasted Attorney General Pam Bondi on its social media accounts for legal arguments her office made in a recent pleading, accusing the Trump administration of the “ultimate betrayal” of the Second Amendment.

GOA, a gun rights organization founded in 1976, calls itself the “no compromise gun lobby” and has sparred with the National Rifle Association, accusing the larger and older group of not taking as strong of a stance on gun rights.

At issue is a lawsuit filed by the Silencer Shop Foundation (SSF), GOA, and several other plaintiffs in July against the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), challenging the National Firearms Act (NFA), as it was amended in the “Big Beautiful Bill” Act, which eliminated the tax stamp for certain firearms and accessories like suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and the NFA’s “any other weapons” category, but still kept the paperwork and registration requirements.

The complaint argued that with the tax now at zero, the NFA was no longer producing revenue for the federal government and that eliminated the legal justification for the law. Now, SSF argued in a statement on its website, “[t]he law’s only effect is to create burdensome regulations, slow approval times, and a federal registry of law-abiding citizens who wish to exercise their rights,” making the NFA “nothing more than a restriction and registration scheme” and opening the law up to new constitutional challenges.

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Full headline: Gun Rights Group Blasts Bondi for ‘Ultimate Betrayal’ of 2nd Am. for Making Argument That Could Ban ‘EVERY HANDGUN IN AMERICA’

Link to Silencer Shop Foundation PRESS RELEASE - Silencer Shop Foundation vs ATF Lawsuit 2025
Link to Silencer Shop Foundation SUIT (PDF) - https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0961/7968/3696/files/SSF_One_Big_Beautiful_Lawsuit.pdf

[markodochartaigh]

1. To gun owners, guns are a tool.

To Republican politicians, gun owners are a tool.

When it is no longer useful to Republican politicians to have their voters armed, Republican politicians will snatch the guns away. Until then the chaos caused by having guns widely available is useful to Republican politicians.

[John Coktosten]

4. Yes

I couldn't say it any better!

[IronLionZion]

2. GOP removed a tax but kept the paperwork and registration

Republicans are super efficient like that. MAGA!

[travelingthrulife]

3. These people are so stupid to not realize it is the Trump's and Bondi's of the world that

will take your precious guns away.

[2na fisherman]

5. Phony Cowboy Mythology

"They can have my guns when they can pry them loose from my cold dead fingers.'" This was a quote from John Wayne, AKA, Marion Morrison. So no wonder guns have become a fetish for some men who try to conflate masculinity with the use of deadly force. As an actor he portrayed many characters in Westerns that dramatized gun battles. But acting is not real life and bleeding fake blood on the movie set presents a false narrative of what genuine gun violence really means to combatants and the often grossly wounded survivors of it. I support the constitutional right to self defense but should that day come when the Federal Government seeks to disarm everyone, they probably will be able to do that no matter what small arms opposition is aimed at the most powerful military in the world marshalled against its own citizens. But this will likely occur during a time of a protracted guerilla war in which lots of real blood will be shed.

[GReedDiamond]

8. Actually, that quote is from...

...Charlton Heston, but your point still stands.

[2na fisherman]

9. Origin Of Gun Slogan

"...bumper stickers were at that time [1976] sold reading "I Will Give Up My Gun When They Peel My Cold Dead Fingers From Around It." The stickers were sold by the Citizens Committee for to Right to Keep and Bear Arms, today the advocacy arm of the Second Amendment Foundation." (Wikipedia)
Both Heston and Wayne later paraphrased it as did many others. It sounds dramatic to say though I doubt many would really refuse to surrender their small arms if faced with the certainty of dying while fighting against an entire group of highly armed soldiers on their own.

[GReedDiamond]

10. Thanks for the info...

...I just remember Heston's NRA bullshit and hearing that quote attributed to him.

Also, fuck Heston and John Racist Wayne!

They were both overrated actors and professional assholes.

[Griefbird]

6. Gun rights discussions seem to always devolve.

Gun owners seem to oppose any regulation of guns, while gun violence opponents seem to want to outlaw all guns not intended for game hunting. Both resort to nitpicking the second amendment, which is vague to the point of meaninglessness. I don't think it is necessary to make it easier to get your hands on an illegal gun, nor on a silencer, a bump stock or any other accoutrement that makes guns more deadly.

[cstanleytech]

7. I don't see a truly comprehensive gun ban ever happening under the law unless the 2nd Amendment is modified.

[2na fisherman]

11. A WELL REGULATED Militia

Whether or not this gets amended is probably a key point of the second amendment. And modern definitions of exactly which arms needs to be covered because there were no machine guns back then, but we have somehow managed to ban them. Perhaps there's room for regulation of the kind and quantity of ammunition that citizens may have. If our country remains flooded with guns maybe some type of product liability legislation with a tax that can be passed which establishes a gun victim fund which pays for medical treatments of gun wounds would help if gun violence remains a fact of life.
If there was to be a comprehensive gun ban under a change to the 2nd amendment, it would also have to include some special enforcement provisions for taking them back from those (like Chuck and Duke) who refuse to give them up along with much stiffer penalties for using them while committing crimes. So a special "gun court" must be established to try all such cases on an expedited basis. And a buy-back program must be financed to pay those willing to part with their guns so there is a fair financial incentive to do so. This is the only way we will ever have a chance to live in a culture of less gun violence. But gaining the trust of the supposed "good guys" with guns and badges has a long way to go too.

[cstanleytech]

12. Yes, I know about that portion and I agree with it but the issue is the Courts.

Because of how it's written currently the Courts have leeway in their interpretation and until we amend the 2nd to remove that the Courts can block laws that try to address it as we have seen with SCOTUS.

[2na fisherman]

13. I Agree

We do need a sympathetic Supreme Court to provide legal standing for any Constitutional amendments to gun rights which we may be able to pass. So it may take generations and the expansion of The Court to get it done. It will be very hard to pacify this nation built on our TV glorification of fictional gun violence with folks who can't tell the difference between a movie theater and a hospital trauma center.

[cstanleytech]

14. A sympathetic today wouldn't even be enough as a future Court could reverse their decision.

That's why an Amendment is what we need if we want better control of guns in this country.