Texas congressional candidate Isaiah Martin (D) is pledging to introduce gun control in Charlie Kirk’s name if elected to serve in the House of Representatives.
The gun control would create a red flag law, although red flag laws have failed to stop heinous high-profile shootings around the country, and would “mandate” background checks to purchase a firearm, although the United States has had a background check requirement since 1993.
Marin posted to X:
Gun Owners of America reacted to Martin’s plan by posting to X, “This is an insult to Charlie’s legacy as a 2A activist.”
Martin plans to include slain Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman’s (D) name on the gun control too, calling it the “Melissa Hortman/Charlie Kirk Gun Safety Act.”
Hortman was killed by a suspect who allegedly dressed as a policeman to carry out the act. But CBS News spoke with an ATF special agent who said the suspect in the Minnesota shooting “was legally able to purchase a gun.” Therefore, point-of-sale gun controls like background checks did nothing to prevent him from being armed.
Also, Minnesota has a red flag law, and that obviously did not prevent the murders either.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on X: @awrhawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
