NYC’S SENECA SPORTING RANGE LEADS THE CHARGE FOR FFLs TO GET GUN OWNERS TO VOTE FOR TRUMP!
“As an FFL and gun range owner in NYC I want to do my part in getting the vote out for Donald Trump. It is especially important that gun owners vote to protect our right to keep and bear arms. Since August, I have helped over 300 people register to vote and hope to double this number before the election only a few weeks away. I urge every FFL and gun range owner in every state to follow my example and do the same. Together we will make a difference especially in the swing states that have so many gun owners that don't vote. A Trump win is critical!”
~Message from John Deloca, owner and operator of Seneca Sporting Range, located in Ridgewood, Queens, New York Included is a panorama of the range.
Getting Donald Trump elected this November comes down to a “numbers” game.
John Deloca, for one, is doing his part to ensure Trump wins this November but he cannot go it alone. He can only pave the way for others to follow. And he is doing that.
Over 10-million-gun owners have not registered to vote in this 2024 U.S. Presidential election. See the Arbalest Quarrel essay, “Millions of America’s Gun Owners Are Not Registered to Vote. Why?”, posted on July 17, 2024, on the AQ website.
Ammoland Shooting Sports News reposted a summary of this July AQ essay, on September 5, 2024, under the title, “Millions Of America’s Gun Owners Are NOT Registered To Vote. WTF!”
And see the September 28, 2024, Arbalest Quarrel essay titled, “You, The American Gun Owner, Will Determine Trump’s Victory This November 2024—But Only If You Vote!” As a lead-in to AQ’s September 28 essay, Alan M. Gottlieb, Founder & Executive Vice President of the Second Amendment Foundation and Chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, points out how disconcerting it is that——
“WITH AMERICANS’ FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO OWN FIREARMS UNDER DIRECT THREAT IN THIS ELECTION YEAR, IT IS AMAZING THAT 10 MILLION GUN OWNERS ARE NOT EVEN REGISTERED TO VOTE.”
Mr. Gottlieb continues with an observation about the Democrat Party candidate, Kamala Harris, and the inference to be drawn from that observation,
“ONE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HAS THREATENED TO IMPOSE MANDATORY ‘GUN BUYBACKS’ ON 100 MILLION LAW ABIDING AMERICANS. THAT IS RAW AUTHORITARIANISM, AND THE BEST WAY TO FIGHT IT IS WITH THE VOTES OF EVERY LEGAL GUN OWNER IN OUR BELOVED NATION.”
See also AQ’s follow-up essay, titled “NRA’s Doug Hamlin Is Right: Armed Self-Defense Extends To All Other Rights,” posted on October 13, 2024, on the AQ site.
Ammoland Shooting Sports News reposted a synopsis of the AQ “Hamlin” essay, on October 16, 2024, under the title, “Call to Action: Armed Self-Defense is the Key to Preserving All American Freedoms.”
But the preservation of our most important fundamental right is well-nigh impossible with millions of gun owners disdaining the act of voting—a form of speech that is not to be taken lightly. Is it preferable to take up arms against tyranny, when tyranny can be effectively defeated at the ballot box and at significantly less cost?
These 10 million unregistered gun owners (and there are likely many more), who act so dismissively toward the upcoming 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, probably include many of the same individuals who did not register to vote in the 2020 election.
Had they done so, the result would have been an election win for Donald Trump “Too Big To Rig.”
America’s gun owners lost their chance in 2020. They can make things right this go-around but only if they make a concerted effort—THIS TIME—to register to vote and cast their ballot for Donald Trump. Rarely, do people get a second chance. They better take it. They should not expect a third. There won’t be any.
THIS 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MUST BE AN ELECTION—AS TRUMP SAYS PLAINLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY— “TOO BIG TOO RIG!”
Democrats continually attack and poke fun at Trump’s use of “catch-phrases” that crop up at his rallies and in town halls and at other gatherings of his supporters, even as they ignore Harris’ use of catchphrases at gatherings of her supporters.
But “To Big Too Rig” is one phrase that worries and enrages Democrats because it is less a slogan and more a watchword.
It is one expressing an inner truth—a truth that the Democrat Party leadership won’t dare acknowledge publicly, but probably whispers among themselves privately—That the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election was in fact stolen from Trump and from a majority of the Electorate.
Democrats and their powerful benefactors did hatch a plot to secure Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. There is too much evidence pointing to that.
They could not remove him, try as they did, plotting to oust him from his first term, and they would not stomach Trump serving a second term. Thus, they hatched their final scheme to ensure he could not win the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
What they meticulously planned was no simple one-off criminal escapade. It was a major illicit undertaking. Their contempt for the integrity of our Electoral Process reverberates down to the present time to this present Election cycle. They concocted an elaborate scheme, one with many facets, to defeat Trump.
The Democrat Party Leadership engaged in a massive seditious conspiracy, one involving many individuals and groups, both inside and outside the Government, operating in unison, with a common interest: to defeat a person, whose one “unforgivable sin” was a fervent desire simply To Make America Great Again.
What could possibly be more commonsensical and rational than that? And that is what Trump aimed to accomplish, and he made great strides in achieving that aim during his First Term in office, even as so many forces sought to sabotage his efforts and to ruin him. Strengthening America was not something that his detractors wanted. That wasn’t their agenda. That wasn’t their gameplan.
They would have none of it. Their single-minded objective is to hobble the Country and, so, destroy it—true in the Obama years and true in the Biden-Harris years. And they have been doing a good job of it these past several years through their compliant instrument.
Can the destroyers of our Country cheat their way to an election victory in 2024 as they had done in 2020? It is not so easy this time.
With the upcoming election on a razor’s edge, and a Republican National Committee (RNC) proactively engaged in ensuring the integrity of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, Democrats and their proxies, must operate more circumspectly, less boldly, in attempting to rig this Election.
“Too Big To Rig” is Trump’s salient message. And it should be every gun owner’s mantra. That is how America’s True Patriots will take back their Country from those who seek to eviscerate it.
See, e.g., a clip from one of Trump’s many “Town Halls.” See also the article, titled, “Trump returns to Georgia determined to win in ‘too big to rig’ landslide” posted a few days ago in the Washington Examiner.
Georgia is a particular sore spot. Democrats flipped the State for Biden in 2020, by a mere 12,300 votes out of nearly 5 million votes cast!
In 2024, there were (and maybe there still are) over 350,000 unregistered gun owners in Georgia.
See AQ article in Ammoland, referred to above. How many of those Georgia gun owners failed to cast a ballot for Trump in 2020?
TOO MANY GUN OWNERS SHY AWAY FROM VOTING, UNLIKE THOSE WHO ABHOR GUNS AND WHO ARE CONTEMPTUOUS OF GUN OWNERS
Perhaps no topic divides voters more deeply than the role that firearms have in American life.
By overwhelming margins, Joe Biden’s supporters prioritize gun control over gun rights and say gun ownership does more to reduce than increase safety; roughly eight-in-ten Biden supporters (83%) say the increase in guns in the U.S. is at least somewhat bad for society.
By comparable or even somewhat larger margins, Donald Trump’s supporters express opposing views on all three measures [See Pew Research Study].
Although New York isn’t considered a “Swing State,” every State is important in this election. Trump hasn’t ignored any State, and no gun owner should either. Yet, many do. They take the position that their State will swing for Trump and therefore Trump does not need their vote, or they take the position their State is going for Harris, so their vote is tantamount to a futile gesture. In either instance, the gun owner’s logic is faulty. And that faultiness can mean Trump loses the election. And that entails a bigger loss for the Country.
John Deloca is not presuming Harris will take New York.
In fact, Trump is mindful that many Democrats in New York, and around the Country, are looking at the condition of their home State and the Nation. They are not pleased by what they are seeing. Many are rethinking their continuous commitment to their Party. But will those Democrats actually vote for Trump?
John Deloca, for his part, is not relying on what disaffected Democrats may or may not do. He is actively assisting New York gun owners to register so they can vote for Trump and preserve their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Every vote of a gun owner counts in a major way. John knows that, and Trump knows that, and YOU should know that, too!
John is doing everything he can to make a Trump victory happen.
He blasted out a News Release, informing New Yorkers of a special meeting to be held at Seneca Sporting Range on August 17, 2024.
The purpose of the meeting was directed to explaining a notice issued by the NYPD and titled, “Adoption Of Emergency Rules Relating To Non-Resident Applicants For Carry Licenses And To Purchase And Registration Authorizations.”
The Arbalest Quarrel posted an article on its site on August 12 of this year. The article is titled, “The NYC Mayor And NYC Police Commissioner Suggest That ‘Non-State Residents’ Can Acquire A Concealed Carry Handgun License. But Is That True?”
Stephen L. D’Andrilli, President of Arbalest Group, LLC., and one of the Co-Founders of the Company’s weblog, “The Arbalest Quarrel,” (www.arbalestquarrel.com) was the presenter at the event.
Fortunately, John doesn’t stand alone in this critically important endeavor in protecting an American citizen’s right to keep and bear arms. One powerful voice in support of our cherished right is that of Sheriff Rich Giardino of Fulton County, New York.
During the presentation at the Seneca Sporting Range event, Stephen played a recent interview he had with Fulton County Sheriff Rich Giardino on the Rich Giardino Show, discussing the importance of having gun owners register asap and vote. Please watch or listen to the interview at the Rich Giardino Show, which can be found on X, Apple, You Tube, Facebook and Spotify. This is the URL: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwotncy5OJAxWHKVkFHTJvCB8QtwJ6BAgLEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0xl2Jt7oENw&usg=AOvVaw0o8DqyU4sUUmylfI1swkZI&opi=89978449
See also the AQ article posted on Ammoland about Sheriff Giardino’s efforts to protect New York gun owners’ Second Amendment right. The article, posted on March 20, 2023, is titled, “Fulton County Sheriff Giardino Stands Firm Against NY’s Unconstitutional Handgun Scheme.”
Please share the interview and subscribe to the Show on any of the platforms. The Sheriff is a strong 2A supporter and a former District Attorney and a Retired Superior Court Judge. The Rich Giardino Show, a podcast based on where the Constitution, Crime and Politics meet.
The purport of the event hosted by Seneca Sporting Range was not limited to an academic discussion of the importance of our fundamental, unalienable right to armed self-defense. For that means little if a powerful, treacherous Government can shred it. Americans must play an active part in protecting their cherished right.
The most important task one can undertake to protect one’s unalienable right to armed self-defense is also the easiest one to perform: Registering to vote and then making a point to cast a ballot for that candidate who will defend that right.
Of the two candidates for U.S. President in this election, one candidate will preserve and strengthen that right. That person is Donald Trump. The other candidate has made plain her intention to constrict exercise of that right to the point of eradicating it. That person is Kamala Harris.
At the event, John Deloca provided the attendees with a voter registration form and assisted them in completing the form and submitting it to the NYC Board of Elections.
He has since helped over 300 New Yorkers to register and is continuing in this endeavor.
There is a plethora of sites on the internet that assist citizens who reside in New York, in registering to vote. Links to a few of them are below.
https://www.vote.nyc/. https://elections.ny.gov/register-vote https://www.voteearlyny.org/ https://vote.gov/register/new-york Similar websites are easy to access for citizens who reside in any other State or who reside in the District of Columbia.
JOHN DELOCA HAS HIS HANDS FULL
Owning and operating a business in New York City is not an easy thing to do, especially running a full-service gun range.
The Government has made this difficult to do, by design.
New York has always had a negative view toward civilian citizen ownership of handguns. The State has for decades made it difficult to own a handgun for self-defense at home, and nearly impossible for a person to lawfully carry one for self-defense.
If the Government could get away with it, the entire State would be converted into one massive “Gun Free Zone.”
The U.S. Supreme Court in a third landmark Second Amendment case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association versus Bruen, chastised the State Government for its handgun licensing scheme.
The State had crafted an unconstitutional “Proper Cause” standard to restrict the number of people who can qualify for a concealed handgun carry license.
The State has utilized that standard for decades to illegally constrain average, law-abiding, responsible, rational Americans from exercising their unalienable right to armed self-defense in the public sphere. The State struck down New York’s “Proper Cause” standard as facially unconstitutional.
In defiance of Bruen, the Democrat Party legislative majority in Albany passed a new set of highly restrictive handgun laws, referred to as the “Concealed Carry Improvement Act” (“CCIA”), and the Governor promptly signed it into law. This new set of laws operates much like the old “Proper Cause” standard, hardly masking the Government’s objective to constrain exercise of the right to keep and bear arms.
John Deloca fully complies with all State and Federal laws and requirements in providing services to New York City residents who seek to acquire a concealed handgun carry license and the Seneca Sporting Range is certified by New York State to conduct the required handgun safety course.
Although not required to do so, John goes a step further in one important respect. He supplements the practical safety course with a seminar, conducted by a New York State Attorney. He doesn’t have to do this, but he does.
The attendees become versed in the nuances of New York’s handgun law.
AMERICA’S GUN OWNERS MUST NOT SIT THIS ELECTION OUT
It is unforgivable for gun owners to sit out this election given the stakes. They must vote.
FFLs in New York and across the Country can and should take an active role in getting gun owners to vote.
These FFLs can take their cue from Seneca Sporting Range’s John Deloca.
“As of June 2021, the ATF has reported that there are 133,716 FFLs in all 50 states, districts, and territories across all nine different types that are available,” with 3,897 in New York alone. See the FFL Report. See also the article in Orchid Advisers.
Just imagine if every FFL dealer in New York alone would register just 10-gun owners to vote. That would amount to close to 40,000 additional citizens who could cast their vote for Trump.
And, if all FFLs in the Country would register just 10 voters that would mean close to 1.4 million additional votes for Trump. That is certainly doable and would make a difference in the election.
John Deloca has paved the way for other FFL gun dealers to follow. But time is quickly running out.
The upcoming U.S. Presidential election is only a few short weeks away.
The Democrats, plainly concerned that voter support for Harris/Walz is collapsing just a few weeks before the election, are hoping that voter turnout for Trump—millions of gun owners—will simply fail to happen.
If we lose this election, that will break the back of our Republic, and our Bill of Rights will be erased. That is unacceptable.
Americans must not let this happen, and it need not happen. But it will happen, and our fate will be sealed if ten-million or more-gun owners decide to sit this election out.
Simply wishing the best for Trump, and for our Country and doing nothing to ensure he prevails, is a major cop-out and the surest way to see the Marxist puppet, Kamala Harris, seated in the White House—a circumstance that most of the Electorate doesn’t want but a unhappy situation that will transpire if gun owners refrain from voting, whether due to laziness or through some lame excuse they concoct.
Each vote by a gun owner does count: one plus one plus one plus one. . . and so on. . . equals millions more votes for Trump, even tens of millions—a true landslide, a thing “Too Big To Rig.”
In 1984 Ronald Reagan won 525 electoral votes, crushing the Democrat, Walter Mondale. The Democrats took only Minnesota and the District of Columbia in that election cycle.
Republicans cannot be expected to duplicate Reagan’s feat. But a concerted effort by America’s massive base of gun owners can still result in a convincing victory for Trump and our Nation.
Every American gun owner who, by State or Federal Law, is not prohibited from lawfully owning a firearm and who happens to own one or more firearms, has a personal stake in the upcoming 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.
The momentum is with Trump. He can win this election, and he must win it, for our own sake, for that of our Country, and for future generations of Americans.
Let’s make this happen!