Such imagery has since become stock-in-trade. When Brian Kemp ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, a tongue-in-cheek ad showed him in a room full of firearms, leveling a shotgun near a young man wanting to date his daughter. This generated criticism, including from Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, who tweeted“This recurring and typical American ‘joke’ is exhausting.”
Mr. Kemp responded by dismissal with him own tweet: “I’m conservative, guys. Get rid of it!”
Groups such as the Firearms Policy Coalition have filed dozens of court challenges for gun limits, and conservative judges, some of whom have been criticized by former President Donald J. Trump, has won legal victories, including last month overturning a California law that had put the age of 21 at least. Purchase of semi automatic rifles.
Mr. Suplina of Everytown disputes the idea, citing some state-level victories including the recent Minor Gun Agreement in Washington and laws banning or limiting ghost guns in Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland It was an era of expansion of rights. , Nevada, New York and Rhode Island. At least four states – Delaware, New York, Rhode Island and Washington – have imposed new limits on high-capacity magazines that can hold large amounts of ammunition.
“The fighting is really intense,” said Mr. Suplina. “But for the first time in any recent period, the gun safety movement is visible, meeting them on the battlefield, and including in the House of State and Congress.”
Still, gun supporters are generally feeling optimistic.
“We are at the beginning of an expansion of gun rights,” said Mr Sensitsits of Gun Owners of America.
But lest its members become too complacent, Gun Owners of America has a very different message about the situation on their website: Fear.
