And we are back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.

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John Comer Ford, NRA ILA executive director. I want to get a health check on the Second

Amendment on the eve of the United States of America's 250th birthday.

John, thank you so much for joining us in this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Really appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. And I guess let's begin there because, you know, no matter who is in charge in the White House, the Second Amendment is always under attack by the, you know, the gun control lobby, the leftist in this country.

And how are we faring those of us who still value a Second Amendment

in this country?

Yeah, you nailed it on the head. Look, we have President Donald J. Trump in the White

House. He's undoubtedly the most program president we've had in our lifetimes. And he's put the right people in the right places

to assure the Second Amendment's protected on the federal level. But we see constant activity

at the state level and in the courts. And in particular, you know, the Second Amendment is

constantly at risk in certain states because those anti-gun billionaires from the coastal big cities have a ton of influence with their unlimited checkbooks.

And we saw something happened in Virginia last fall.

You know, the Bloombergs of the world, SOROS has come in and they make their huge contributions.

We see a big swing in the election,

and voters and residents across the Commonwealth of Virginia

are living in a new reality than they were a year ago,

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