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RUSH: You knew the next thing that was gonna happen, bump stocks, the minute it was learned that the perpetrator here was using bump stocks to convert his semiautomatic rifles and guns and so forth to automatic, you knew that it wasn\u2019t gonna take long before somebody in Congress or the Senate was gonna move forward and suggest a new law banning bump stocks. And that has happened. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California has filed a bill to do just that.<\/p>\n

\"\"You have all of these leftists out there — and, folks, I\u2019m sorry. We must categorize and define the people who are saying what they\u2019re saying because they have something the common. Leftists have a view of this, the nonleftists have a view, the leftists are all now demanding we get rid of bump stocks. And the Republicans, as predictable, have members saying, “You know, we\u2019ll talk to you about that, we\u2019ll talk to you about bump stocks. Yeah, we can\u2019t find a legitimate reason for bump stocks, yeah. Okay, fine, you want to talk about that?” Republicans remain eager to cross the aisle and show that they are willing to work with lunatics rather than stand up to \u2019em.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what nobody is talking about. The bump stock green light received approval from the ATF during the Obama administration. The Obama administration authorized bump stocks. That\u2019s not supposed to be possible. Obama was supposed to be the one that was gonna get rid of the Second Amendment. Obama supposedly, \u2019cause he\u2019s a good leftist, a good liberal, he wanted to take guns away. Are you telling me that it was the Obama ATF that authorized bump stocks? Yes. Yes, Matilda, it certainly was.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: A couple things on bump stocks here. We don\u2019t know, we still don\u2019t know for a fact that Paddock used bump stocks. The Wall Street Journal said he had automatic weapons, and the Drive-Bys are reporting, based on anonymous sources, that Paddock had two or maybe 12 bump stocks in his hotel room. We still don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

\"\"One of the problems that people have with bump stocks, people that use them, is they cause rifles to jam because the rifles are not intended to be fired this way, and if they don\u2019t jam, they can overheat. If either happen, you can\u2019t use the weapon. Now, we know that Paddock stopped shooting on his own. He may have had to because his bump stocked rifle jammed or overheated, if in fact he was using one.<\/p>\n

Did you hear when Tim Kaine said? Tim Kaine with an asinine theory<\/a> that Paddock stopped shooting because he didn\u2019t have a silencer. I watched the video, the body cam video that\u2019s about three minutes long. It\u2019s eerie, it\u2019s chilling, you see this stuff on TV. You know it\u2019s not real watching it on TV. But every time you hear the gunfire on that video from the body cam of one of the cops in Las Vegas, you know people are being mowed down.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just chilling. It\u2019s just terrifying. And 30 seconds would go by and then it would ring out again and go for 15 or 20 seconds and stop, and everybody would run and it would come again. It was chilling. You couldn\u2019t see much, but you didn\u2019t have to. Just hearing it and knowing what was happening was chilling enough as it is.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Kerry in Tampa. I\u2019m glad you waited. Your turn. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s an honor and a privilege. Thanks for having me on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ll be quick. Now, just to start out, I am a conservative, I\u2019m a Trump supporter, I\u2019m an NRA member; but I think this whole bump stock ban proposal could end up being something Trump could use, and let me tell you how real quick. I would call Dianne Feinstein, and I\u2019d call her into a meeting, and I\u2019d have her bring Chuck and Nancy.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d probably even have him bring that little Pencil Neck Schiff in with \u2019em too for a media opportunity. And I\u2019d talk about how he supports this bump stock ban and how since 2010 it\u2019s used among MS-13 members and Chicago gangs have proliferated. And that it\u2019s sad that President Obama and his ATF approved the use of those bump stocks back in 2010, but he\u2019s here to (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, so you want Trump to call a meeting with Chuck and Nancy and say that to them?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I would talk about the Obama part after the media was there and make sure everybody\u2019s got the grin on their face that they\u2019ve won.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And what do you think would be the outcome of this? What would be the objective? Your strategy here, what is it meant to achieve?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, to call out the Obama administration to be at fault for the whole bump stock usage in the first place.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. That\u2019s true. That did happen in the ATF with Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was telling the audience what you say is true. That did happen under the Obama administration —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the ATF.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So this is your way of having Trump throw all this — they\u2019re out there raising hell about the bump stock, and you want Trump to call a meeting and agree with \u2019em, and say, “Yep, this bump stock thing is a problem. You guys gave it to us.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Absolutely. Use it against them. We\u2019ve gotta fight these people from the inside out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand that. But that means that the bump stock is gonna be gotten rid of. Are you prepared to lose the bump stock in this maneuver?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think the bump stock — in my opinion, it\u2019s not a big deal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So no big deal if they outlaw bump stocks?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, not to me at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Fine. So here we have an NRA member, an avowed, courageously self-claimed conservative and a pro-Trumpist claiming that what Trump ought to do is call their bluff. They want to get rid of bump stocks, make a public display out of a meeting.<\/p>\n

\"\"He loves Chuck and Nancy anyway, so call \u2019em into the White House, have the media there, have cameras there and have Trump say, “You know what? I agree with you. And I don\u2019t understand how you people let this happen. This bump stock thing goes back to the Obama administration in 2010, whenever it was, and I can\u2019t understand how your party ever allowed this to become law in the first place. But I\u2019m more than happy to agree with you that we ought to get rid of bump stocks.”<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ll tell what is behind that strategy. Thank you very much, Kerry, for the phone call. This is a great illustration of how our enemy is the media. His whole strategy here is to stick it to the media, and secondarily to Democrats. But old Kerry is like everybody else. They\u2019re watching all this and they\u2019re watching the media talk about things they don\u2019t understand. And they\u2019re listening to all the bias, and they\u2019re hearing all the absolute caca that the anti-gun crowd is routinely bringing up, blaming the NRA, blaming NRA members, accusing them of murder saying they should be lined up and shot at a firing squad. So Kerry here wants everybody to know what a bunch of phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 rollers they are.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s willing to give up a certain aspect of gun law, the legality of bump stocks, in order to stick it to the media and then secondarily to Democrats, because what Kerry wants is for the American people to know that the only reason bump stocks are out there is because Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

Now, let me ask this. I understand that. Practically everybody I know is motivated by sticking it to the media, because the media does run the Democrat Party. This makes perfect sense. I\u2019m not criticizing this, don\u2019t misunderstand. The question is — and it\u2019s an open question — I\u2019m not asking it rhetorically — would something like that cause viewers out there to slap their foreheads, “Oh, wow, really? This whole bump stock thing, the Democrats are responsible for it? I should have known. Those people are worthless.” ‘Cause that\u2019s the reaction you want.<\/p>\n

You want people to learn the media is lying to them about the NRA. Would that do it? I understand the motivation. Would Trump do it? Look, I have a story in the Stack. I have to tell you something, folks. Now, it\u2019s the Drive-Bys and all that, but let\u2019s see if I can find it here rather than paraphrase it. The story is that many people are worried that Trump might make a deal with Democrats on gun control because he had such a great rollicking time making a deal with \u2019em on the debt limit.<\/p>\n

Here it is. It\u2019s from TheHill.com: “Dems See Trump As Potential Ally On Gun Reform<\/a> — Democrats fighting for tougher gun laws think they may have an ally in an unlikely place: the Oval Office. President Trump, since launching his campaign in 2015, has aligned himself squarely with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other pro-gun conservatives who oppose virtually any new restrictions on buying and owning firearms.”<\/p>\n

That is such a gross misstatement of what the NRA does and is. It is incorrect to call them pro-gun. They are pro-Constitution. If you\u2019re interested in gun safety, you know where you go? The NRA. The NRA is the place to go if you want to learn about guns. If you want to learn how to safely use them, safely store them. If you want to know how to use them for defensive purposes, if you want to become good at firing them, sharpshooting, the NRA is where you go.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t teach people to kill. They\u2019re not out urging people to buy guns every damn day. They\u2019re a human rights organization, civil rights, human rights, Amendment 2, Constitution.<\/p>\n

\"\"Anyway, “In previous years,” it says here, “Trump had supported reforms aimed at preventing dangerous people from getting their hands on guns — reforms similar to those being pushed by Democrats following the Las Vegas massacre. And on Tuesday, the president left the door open for firearm reforms, saying ‘we will be talking about gun laws as time goes by.'” Don\u2019t want to talk about it now.<\/p>\n

And then it says: “Trump\u2019s history has not been overlooked by the Democrats, who are already encouraged by a pair of recent agreements on government spending and immigration — the first finalized, the second tentative — between the president and,” Chuck and Nancy. “Hoping to build on that bipartisan cooperation, a group of almost 100 House Democrats sent a letter to Trump Wednesday urging the president to join their effort to combat the gun-violence plague that was highlighted so tragically Sunday in Las Vegas.”<\/p>\n

Because, after all, don\u2019t you know, my friends, the Democrats have been all about bipartisan cooperation with Trump from day one. Ha. So this is a very presumptuous article from the Drive-By left believing that they can possibly trick Trump into joining them. They think they can, because they think they\u2019ve tricked Trump into joining them on a couple of things within the past month.<\/p>\n

Now, Steve Bannon said in Trump does a 180 on the NRA and on guns, then it will be over. What he means by that is that would definitely be something that would cause Trump\u2019s supporters to abandon him, or get really mad. I think Bannon\u2019s right about that. Trump has been so appreciative and so loyal to the NRA that I just don\u2019t see it. I think these people are whistling Dixie. Oh, what I great insult to these leftists, whistling Dixie. But they clearly think they got a chance at it. They clearly think they have a way to get Trump to side with them on this issue.<\/p>\n

Mr. Snerdley, have I ever told this audience the efforts made — when I was gonna address the NRA in the early nineties, I was set upon by Washington media people and even a member of the Clinton war room that if I went to the NRA — I mean, they were all over me like white on rice for three weeks. That I could change the world, if I would go to the NRA and tell them essentially what the Democrats think of \u2019em.<\/p>\n

I have not told that story? Well, it happened. I was invited to dinner. I had carrots dangled about what doing something like that could mean for my career, meaning with them. These people were all leftists, or all media Democrats. My point in bringing it up is that I have no doubt that they\u2019re working on Trump this way and people within the Trump orb. I have no doubt that they\u2019d be working on Ivanka and Jared, for example. No doubt whatsoever to do just this kind of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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