Libertarian Presidential Ticket No Friend to Gun Owners

It's no real secret that many Americans are not happy with the choices in this year's Presidential Election.  Gun owners know that Clinton will continue the attacks on our rights that Obama opened and has continued since 2013.  Donald Trump has declared he supports our rights and has received the endorsement of the NRA, but since the GOP convention, he has made one misstep after the other.  Polls show Clinton with as much as a 9 point lead.

I've posted on this blog previously that the only real choice for gun owners is to be single issue voters and to pull the lever for Donald Trump.  For those who may be considering the Libertarian candidate due to the party's usual support for the 2nd Amendment, consider these comments from the Libertarian Vice Presidential Candidate William "Bill" Weld via Jim Geraghty at National Review Online:

“The five-shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle; the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, and those are independent criminal offenses,” Weld said. “That is when they become, essentially, a weapon of mass destruction. The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR15.”

Those kind of comments make you wonder how he ended up on the Libertarian ticket but as Geraghty points out, Weld has a history of being anti-rights:

While failing to keep his fiscal promises, Weld also managed to make some moves on cultural issues that are seriously inconvenient for a Libertarian candidate in 2016. In 1993, as governor, he endorsed a slew of gun-control proposals: a statewide ban on assault weapons, a waiting period for buying handguns, a limit on the number of handguns an individual could buy, and a prohibition on handgun ownership by anyone under 21. “The purpose of this common-sense legislation is to remove deadly guns from our streets and to take weapons out of the hands of many teens who themselves are becoming deadly killers,” he said at the time.

Just more proof, gun owners have only one choice this election it we don't want the Second Amendment to become irrelevant - pull the lever for Donald Trump.