Talk is cheap among so many politicians today. At election time they start talking the talk about their support of issues their base cares about. Like Adam Kinzinger or Kevin McCarthy (or Mitch McConnell), they talk tough about their support for things like gun rights. They make all sorts of promises to do things they fully know they either cannot do or have no plans to do. Then, after the election, their “leadership” on things like guns evaporates faster than a freon spill in the summer sun.
Enter Mike Bost. In recent days he’s repeated his bromide that “When it comes to guns, no one’s a stronger supporter than Mike Bost.”
Putting aside for a moment Mike Bost’s support of gun control schemes like banning bump stocks and ending private gun sales between individuals nationwide (we’ll get to those in a moment), Bost has remained relatively silent about Pritzker’s gun and magazine ban. Yes, despite Bost’s pledge that “When it comes to guns, no one’s a stronger supporter than Mike Bost,” this same Mike Bost has remained mum on Pritzker’s gun and magazine ban and its requirement that existing owners register their self-defense rifles, pistols and shotguns before January 1, 2024.
Again, Bost has proudly proclaims: “When it comes to our guns, no one’s a stronger supporter than Mike Bost.”
Where is he on the PICA gun and magazine ban and his compliance with it? Or maybe he doesn’t own America’s favorite rifle? Maybe he quietly supports PICA “because nobody needs an AR-15.”
Why is this possible? Well, Mike Bost did support the bump stock ban.
When that gun control scheme didn’t have the votes to make it through Congress, Bost joined Adam Kinzinger to urge ATF to ban the devices through regulatory rulemaking. Nice! Nothing like supporting regulatory rulemaking with criminal penalties for stuff that didn’t have the votes to pass Congress. Thanks Mike Bost. Are you familiar with the history behind the word “Quisling?”
As if that wasn’t enough, Mr. “No one’s stronger on guns than Mike Bost” supports an end to private gun sales nation-wide. Thanks buddy.
And closer to home in Illinois, Darren Bailey took Mike Bost up on his “no one’s stronger on guns” challenge. Darren Bailey challenged Congressman Mike Bost to not only publicly condemn Gov. Pritzker’s PICA gun and magazine ban law, including the gun registration component, but to also tell folks that he too will not comply.
And Bost has remained conspicuously silent.
Again, Bost claimed as recently as January 3rd that “When it comes to our guns, no one’s a stronger supporter than Mike Bost.”
All talk, no action. Is that Mike Bost?
Talk is cheap, Mike.
Maybe Mike Bost is a “supporter” of gun rights like a jock strap is a “supporter” of athletics.
We’re tired of politicians who talk the talk but who do not walk the walk. Or worse yet, politicians who claim they’re staunch supporters of gun rights who then want to ban private gun transfers among law-abiding people.
We’re tired of politicians who make promises they can never and will never keep. “Mike will finish the wall and keep cartels out of America”? Really? You gonna promise whirled peas too, buddy?
Mike Bost is a lot like Adam Kinzinger. They campaign on supporting gun rights but then after drinking the water at the Capitol, they start advocating for gun control.
Mike Bost sure seems like a wolf in sheep’s clothing when it comes to guns and gun rights.
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