Rep. Andrew Clyde Represents What We Need in Elected Officials

I don’t think anyone out there is really happy with what we’re getting out of the Big, Beautiful Bill that’s not so beautiful anymore. We went from essentially gutting the National Firearms Act to just no $200 tax stamp.

Sure, it’s a victory, but compared to what we were going to get, it’s a letdown, to say the least. It’s a pyrrhic victory on the political stage, at best, and while I’ll take it, it’s not what we were looking at and what we should have gotten.

But Rep. Andrew Clyde isn’t quite done with the bill, either.

🚨 BREAKING: I just introduced an amendment to the Senate-passed budget reconciliation bill to remove the NFA registration requirement for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs.

I’m fighting til the very end to get as many 2A wins in the OBBB as possible. pic.twitter.com/1fqePj7D8t

— Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) July 1, 2025

Now, the ramifications of this are something that Cam talked about on Tuesday. I agree with his take on the viability and ramifications involved completely.

I don’t want to talk about that, though.

See, my thoughts here go beyond the proposal Clyde put forth. While there are problems here, what matters is what Clyde is doing for the Second Amendment community.

He’s fighting.

Far too often, we elect politicians to office who say they’re pro-Second Amendment, but what they really are–and I’m being generous here–is anti-gun control. What I mean is that they’re not interested in actually protecting the Second Amendment, which means more than just keeping new gun control laws at bay. Protecting the Second Amendment means restoring our rights to where they should be.

Too many people who get elected to Congress or other legislative bodies in this country make campaign promises about protecting the Second Amendment, but what they mean is that they’ll only prevent gun control from passing if at all possible.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a place for that. In a state like California or New York, that’s the best you can really ask of anyone realistically. They’re not going to restore gun rights there unless the courts make them. There, though, trying to block gun control is about the best that can be done. The difference between the two is invisible in such a situation.

But the makeup in Congress this year is such that we shouldn’t have had an issue getting pro-gun measures at least through the House. Some wheeling and dealing might get them through the Senate, even.

At least, that would happen if more lawmakers who claim to be pro-Second Amendment actually were, rather than just anti-gun control.

If more were like Rep. Andrew Clyde.

Clyde isn’t the only one in the House who is truly pro-gun, of course. He’s just a very vocal example of one who is. Rep. Thomas Massie is another notable example, and his pushing for national constitutional carry this term.

But these are the lawmakers we need to rally behind and support at all costs. We need to start supporting them in the primaries over establishment picks that will, at most, just keep the status quo intact. 

We need people who will keep the fight up and keep the pressure on.

And we, the voters, need to support them. We, as the community, need to throw our support behind those candidates who live outside of our districts and will do just that.

People like Andrew Clyde.