The NRA once gave Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz an “A” grade. Now, he’s got an F. Considering the things he routinely calls for, that’s not exactly a shocker. The only surprise was that someone so vehemently anti-gun ever had an “A” to begin with.
Walz celebrates his anti-gun stance, bragging that he sleeps well at night knowing that he stabbed the NRA and gun rights advocates in the back. He claims that he supported the Second Amendment until it was clear that we needed some degree of gun control.
But Gun Owners of America aren’t buying that argument in the least.
Tim Walz built his career feigning support for the Second Amendment and fundraising as a “pro-gun” Democrat who backstabbed gun owners nearly every chance he got. Gun Owners of America first rated Tim Walz as a “D.” Later, we downgraded him to an F after a litany of anti-gun votes. So why did he earn such poor marks from the only No Compromise gun lobby in Washington D.C.?
Representative Tim Walz’s Voting Record
Tim Walz was first elected to Congress in 2006 and in his tenure up till 2018, he voted against gun owners consistently. In Congress, Tim Walz:
❌ Voted to create a national registry of concealed carry permit holders.
❌ Voted against the First and Second Amendments by attempting to force GOA to disclose our membership list (as a registry) to create a gun owner registry for the Federal Election Commission;
❌ Voted to expose gun owners’ personal medical history, leading to bans and confiscation;
❌ Voted to restrict the ability of Gun Owners and Hunters to use the Washington Rochambeau National Historic Trail area to create a 600 mile gun-free zone for sportsmen and hikers; and
❌ Voted to ban carrying firearms for self-defense in national parks.
These votes caused Gun Owners of America to rightfully downgrade Walz from a “D” to an “F.”
They also note that as governor, Walz supported universal background checks, red flag laws, and a ban on binary triggers.
He also supports things like the “no fly, no buy” list that bans people on the no-fly list–a list that has no due process involved, that people can’t even challenge their inclusion on and have no recourse should they end up on it–from buying firearms as well as things like mandatory storage requirements, national universal background checks that will create a de facto gun registry, bans on firearms on government land, and a host of other measures.
Keep in mind that the ban on guns on government land would include hunting. Walz likes to position himself as an outdoorsman, that he’s a hunter and supports gun control. We call people like that Fudds, but the general public may not be aware of the distinction, nor care about it. Yet here he’s also showing his fellow Fudds that the line in the sand isn’t quite where they might think it is.
He’ll stab hunters in the back given half a chance.
The truth is that Walz is only slightly less bad on guns that Vice President Kamala Harris, and when you consider that she called for mandatory confiscation of so-called assault weapons during her ill-fated presidential campaign in 2020, that’s saying something.
