“Silencers” Are Anything But Silent Zion Patriot, May 18, 2025May 23, 2025 Hollywood tropes are recurring themes, clichés, or storytelling shortcuts that filmmakers often use to quickly convey ideas or create drama. Here are some of the most common and recognizable Hollywood tropes, including the over-the-top ones like exploding cars: One of the most inaccurate Hollywood tropes is how silencers supposedly make…
2A News “It Could Never Happen Here” — Until It Did Zion Patriot, May 7, 2025May 8, 2025 For years, critics of the Second Amendment have dismissed concerns about government overreach as paranoid or outdated. “The U.S. government would never become tyrannical,” they say. “You don’t need an AR-15 to defend your rights.” To that, I respond with one word: COVID. What we witnessed between 2020 and 2022…
Here We Go Again Zion Patriot, May 5, 2025May 5, 2025 Two bills have been introduced in the House and Senate that appear to be attempts to ban assault weapons. HR3115 and S1531 have both been introduced in the House and Senate accordingly. The House bill currently has 117 Sponsors – all Democrats, while the Senate version has 41 sponsors, 40…
Six Laws Didn’t Work. Solution? More Laws! Zion Patriot, April 18, 2025April 18, 2025 Another “mass” shooting — and, like clockwork, gun control advocates are demanding more laws. Let’s look at what was already in place in this latest case at Florida State University: So again… what would more laws have done here? This wasn’t a failure of legislation — it was a failure…
Repeal the NFA Act of 2024 Zion Patriot, January 14, 2025January 14, 2025 H.R. 450 on Congress.gov H.R. 450 has been revived and is currently in the House of Representatives. This short bill seeks to repeal the NFA. But will it pass? The National Firearms Act (NFA), enacted in 1934, imposes strict regulations on certain types of firearms and accessories, including short-barreled rifles,…
2A News Trump/Vance For The Win Zion Patriot, November 8, 2024November 8, 2024 We will find out what it means when Kamala said on many occasions, “Unburdened by what has been”. Not only did Donald J Trump win the electoral college, but also it looks like he took the popular vote by nearly 4.5 million votes. And as if that is not good…
2A News Collapsible Stocks to Conceal AR-15? Zion Patriot, August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 According to FBI investigators, the Trump assassin may have used a “collapsible stock” in order to conceal his weapon. The photos show the firearm’s collapsible stock, which investigators say may have been used to conceal the rifle at the site. cnn.com Anyone who knows anything about the AR-15 Platform knows…
Democrat Congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee Passes Away Zion Patriot, July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 In other political news that has an impact on gun rights, the Texas Congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee passed away over the weekend. She was 74 years old, and while the cause of death has not been disclosed, she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this past June. While we disagreed…
Case against Alec Baldwin Dismissed Zion Patriot, July 12, 2024July 12, 2024 This is rather disgusting. The case was dismissed by the Judge due to mishandling of evidence (I’m sure President Trump would like to have his case dismissed for the same reason). At the end of the day, Alec was ultimately responsible for the death of Halyna Hutchins and injuring another….
2A News SCOTUS: Chevron Deference Overruled Zion Patriot, June 28, 2024June 28, 2024 In a 6 to 3 ruling, the Supreme Court has overruled the 1984 Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council decision that required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes. This is big news as Chevron Deference is one of the ways the ATF was getting away with…