Aidan Johnston Profile picture
Director of Federal Affairs @GunOwners (Firearm Influencer), bump stock boating accident survivor, homemade firearm enthusiast, Likes/RT ≠ endorsements
Feb 10, 2023 5 tweets 6 min read
Why is @LinkedIn censoring ME over MY OWN QUOTE from the front page of @FoxNews this morning? What about ANY of it is misinformation? Big tech is out of control attacking & censoring @GunOwners!🤬

#SecondAmendment #WeAreNoCompromise #Censorship #BigTech #Section230 Here is @ATFHQ's internal "Zero Tolerance" manual they are using to drive as many gun stores out of business as possible⤵️
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Feb 8, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
The federal gun ban for #marijuana users is absurdly unconstitutional considering the legality & decriminalization of both medical & recreational marijuana at the state level

No one should go to jail for engaging in lawful activity & also choosing to exercise their #2A rights Similarly, the lifetime gun ban for "domestic abusers" is problematic as a ban on the right to self-defense for those who have only been convicted of a misdemeanor

In America, you don't lose your right to vote, serve on a jury, etc. for a misdemeanor. That's how we punish felons
Dec 23, 2022 12 tweets 7 min read
1️- Massive 14.1% ATF Budget Increase to Facilitate Biden’s Pistol Ban

By the time this bill is passed, @ATFHQ will have increased by nearly 25% since the Trump Administration. This money rewards the Biden Administration's tyranny over gun owners. 😠 2️- 50% Budget Increase for ATF’s Tracing Center that Maintains an Illegal Near-Billion Record Gun Registry

18 U.S.C. 926(a)(3) makes federal gun registration illegal yet @ATFHQ has nearly a billion firearms, serial numbers, & gun owners names in a digital searchable database🤔
Sep 20, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
ICYMI: The lawsuit challenging @ATFHQ's permanent Form 4473 record-keeping requirement (illegal gun registry expansion) is @GunOwners challenge of @ATFHQ's "Frame or Reciever" Rule Among other arguments, we point out that 18 U.S.C. 926(a)(3) explicitly states that @TheJusticeDept cannot implement a rule that requires (more) firearm transaction records be kept on a government facility.
Sep 19, 2022 10 tweets 4 min read
⚠️AMMUNITION BACKGROUND CHECKS using @FBI's NICS system is to be studied in @USGAO's FY 2023 appropriations unless gun owners tell Congress "NO!"

Call your Rep @ (202) 224-3121

🧵Background checks are dangerous, unconstitutional, and ineffective. Learn more⤵️ The House Report accompanying H.R. 8256 includes a GAO study on “Ammunition Background Checks.” Within one year, @USGAO office will submit a report detailing the following: (1/5)
Sep 19, 2022 17 tweets 9 min read
🚨@HouseDemocrats are proposing a 13% ATF increase to pay for:

📝"Amnesty Registration"
🖥️Gun registry upgrades
✔️Ammunition Background Checks plan
🤨Annual pay for ATF agents & family if killed or seriously injured on the job

GOA is fighting back! ⤵️ To facilitate its gun registration schemes, @ATFHQ has requested a 13% budgetary increase , including $14,400,000 to “modernize” the National Tracing Center (NTC), which is the branch that maintains, accesses, and searches ATF’s digital, searchable, gun registries
Jul 12, 2022 11 tweets 2 min read
🧵Gun Owners of America will be scoring any votes in favor of Steve Dettelbach’s confirmation to the role of ATF Director as anti-gun votes. Here's why ⤵️ At his confirmation hearing, Steve Dettelbach claimed that “politics can play no role in law enforcement.” However, Dettelbach’s past actions give this statement no credibility, and indeed suggest the opposite.
Aug 21, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨@GunOwners is aware of the Biden @StateDept Notice that:

"[n]ew and pending permit applications for the permanent importation of firearms & ammunition manufactured or located in Russia will be subject to a policy of denial."

GOA statement in thread⤵️
state.gov/fact-sheet-uni… We recognize the devastating implications these sanctions would have on individual gun owners amidst a national ammunition shortage.

@GunOwners is currently exploring administrative, congressional, and legal avenues to respond to these new sanctions.
Aug 20, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
ICYMI: @Rep_Clyde & @RepTedBudd ROASTED @ATFHQ for the new "proposed rules," which are actually gun control by executive fiat

Reps. Clyde & Budd are the only Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) in Congress! Check out their letter in defense of YOUR #SecondAmendment rights!⤵ "As federal firearm licensees turned Members of Congress, we see right through @ATFHQ's CHARADE to chip away at the #SecondAmendment & unilaterally expand its own influence and authority.

"We urge you to reverse course immediately. (1/7)
Aug 20, 2021 9 tweets 11 min read
BREAKING: 27 #SecondAmendment Caucus members provided public comments in opposition to @ATFHQ's Proposed Rule ATF 2021R-05 to:

🚫Prepare an illegal gun registry
🚫Regulate gun parts with background checks
🚫Serialize homemade firearms

🔗Link to comments:gunowners.org/wp-content/upl… The gun owners who submitted over 60,000 comments generated by @GunOwners are very pleased to be joined by these Representatives:

@RepThomasMassie @RepBoebert @laurenboebert @TXRandy14 @RepJeffDuncan @RepScottPerry @RepChipRoy @chiproytx @RepAlexMooney @replouiegohmert & (1/3)
Jun 7, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
🚨BREAKING: Pistol-braced Gun BAN Incoming

@JoeBiden’s @ATFHQ & @TheJusticeDepartment released new proposed regulations surrounding the popular accessory known as a “Pistol Stabilizing Brace”

Almost NO existing pistol-braced firearms pass ATF’s new arbitrary pistol test⤵️ Today’s proposed rulemaking on pistol-braced firearms represents a gross abuse of executive authority.

Millions of otherwise law-abiding gun owners now will be forced to destroy, register, or surrender their lawfully-acquired pistol-braced firearms.

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Jun 7, 2021 15 tweets 7 min read
🚨GOA Responds to ATF's Redefinition of ‘Frame or Receiver’& Identification of Firearms

"If @ATFHQ fails to withdraw GOA & GOF stand ready to challenge the agency’s resulting lawless actions every step of the way"

Read @GunOwners comments⤵️
gunowners.com/ATF-Comments "@ATFHQ repudiates its existing regulatory definition of “the frame or receiver," claim[s it] has never actually applied to anything[&]simply ignored it—deliberately misinterpreting & misapplying its own rule even while chiding federal courts for not participating in the charade"