By Chris McNutt
It’s been nearly eleven months since Republicans took control of Congress and Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Gun owners fought like hell to make it happen — knocking doors, donating, voting, and believing that, finally, the Second Amendment would get the bold leadership it deserves.
And what have we gotten in return? Nothing.
No National Constitutional Carry.
No move to Abolish the ATF.
No repeal of the Biden–Cornyn “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.”
Washington’s politicians are asleep at the wheel — and President Trump is waiting to act — but he can’t sign a bill that never reaches his desk.
We didn’t fight to put Congress in power just to watch them twiddle their thumbs and call committee meetings while our rights hang by a thread.
H.R. 645: The Bill That Puts the Second Amendment on the Path Toward Restoration
Congressman Thomas Massie’s H.R. 645 — the National Constitutional Carry Act — is one of the few real Second Amendment bills on the table.
It’s short, simple, and uncompromising: it repeals the unconstitutional federal gun-control statutes that turn the right to carry a firearm into a government-issued privilege.
If you can legally possess a firearm, you can carry it — anywhere in America.
No permits, no permission slips, no bureaucrats deciding which rights you get to keep when you cross a state line.
This isn’t a new idea. It’s the way our Founders intended it.
The Second Amendment says, “shall not be infringed” — not “shall not be infringed except where Congress forgot to pass a bill.”
Fifty Years of Inaction, and Counting
It’s been five decades since Congress passed a major pro-gun bill.
Five decades of excuses, compromises, and betrayal.
Every “movement” since then has gone the other direction — more regulation, more bureaucracy, and more power for the ATF to treat law-abiding Americans like criminals.
Earlier this year, weak Republicans tried to pacify gun owners with H.R. 38, a watered-down alternative to Massie’s bill.
It would’ve given us “reciprocity” for state-issued permits — but it still accepted the broken premise that Americans need government permission to exercise a God-given right.
President Trump even said he’d sign it — and still, nothing.
Just silence and cowardice.
No More Excuses
Congress has wasted almost a year doing nothing while the gun-grabbing Left plots its next attack.
Now, they’re not even working — hiding behind a “government shutdown” while refusing to lift a finger to restore freedom.
We’re done waiting.
We’re done settling for the “lesser of two evils.”
And if Congress doesn’t start fighting for gun owners with the same conviction we fought to elect them, they’ll have no one to blame when the grassroots stay home next election.
And we won’t let them blame the “shutdown.” They squandered away nearly 11 months BEFORE the “shutdown.”
It’s time for Republican “leaders” to grow a spine and take a stand.
Gun owners didn’t vote for excuses. We voted for action.
Now Is the Time for Boldness
The radical Left is waging an all-out war to disarm America — using every tool at their disposal, from the ATF’s backdoor “universal registration” scheme to blue-state governors pushing bans on nearly anything with a trigger.
Our response must be as bold as their attack.
That means passing H.R. 645, restoring the meaning of “shall not be infringed.”
As I’ve said before: “Gun owners didn’t elect this Congress to manage the decline of our rights — we sent them there to rip gun control out by the roots. If they can’t deliver, we’ll find people who will.”
The time for excuses is over.
It’s time for action — real, no-compromise, unapologetic action.
Click here to email Congress and demand passage of H.R. 645 — the National Constitutional Carry Act — and chip in below to help Texas Gun Rights crank up the pressure until Washington finally remembers who it works for.
