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Muskets were the "assault weapons" of their day and yes, you have the right to own them.

Illinois governor JB Pritzker recently insinuated that the Second Amendment is obsolete because the Founding Fathers owned muskets. This is an insult to the intelligence of every American.

In the 18th century the citizen and the state were equally matched on the battlefield. Both fought with the same weapons. It was just a matter of who had more muskets and soldiers. This makes the musket the "assault weapons" of its day. The Second Amendment was not written to encourage the citizen to go to war with the state. Instead, it is the other way round to prevent the state from waging war on the citizen. Otherwise, the Second Amendment would only have protected those other methods of defense in the late 1700s: sabers, pistols and pitchforks.

The American citizen and U.S. government have not been equally matched with regards to weaponry since at least 1880. Nuclear weapons, submarines, F-22s, Reaper Drones, the state security apparatus and many other things make the modern state almost invincible. This actually presents new challenges to democracy and a clear danger for the citizen in our current era. Despite their reputation semi-automatic AR-15s don't stand a chance against these real weapons of war. But they still provide the material for the intent behind the Second Amendment: a deterrent against the state declaring war on the individual.

That fact should only worry tyrants.

DEAN CANNON

Sandpoint

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He also avoided endorsing any candidates in Vermont and Minnesota, two states Biden won handily in 2020. Here are the Trump picks who won Tuesday night.

Won with 51 percent of the vote.

Last week, Trump gave an endorsement to the Levy, the Republican National Committee member whom he nominated to be U.S. ambassador to Chile in 2020, though she was never confirmed. In his endorsement, Trump said Levy was a tireless advocate for the state but spent the rest of the time bashing Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthals fake war story from his time in the military and downplaying GOP opponent Themis Klarides endorsements from Republican governors.

Levy will defeat the corrupt Richard Blumenthal in November, and what a victory that will be, Trump said.

Won with 47 percent of the vote.

Trump threw his support in Wisconsin behind Michels, who has not been as specific about his stance on past and future election oversight as some other pro-Trump candidates running to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. But the former president had a problem with former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, the other main candidate in the primary, over an old tweet with her daughter with the son of state Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn a judge who has been a swing vote with Democrats on some election-related cases, much to Trumps chagrin.

Michels construction company was awarded a contract for the Keystone XL pipeline during Trumps administration, though assembly was halted after President Joe Biden canceled the project last year.

Tim Michels is the best candidate to deliver meaningful solutions to these problems, and he will produce jobs like no one else can even imagine, Trump said in his endorsement.

Won with 84 percent of the vote.

The senator did not have a serious primary opponent. He has been embroiled in Jan. 6 investigations over the last year in June, the House committee investigating the insurrection said a Johnson staffer was told to deliver fake elector slates from Michigan and Wisconsin to Pence before the certification process. Johnson has also dismissed the role of rioters at the Capitol, calling them agents provocateurs and fake Trump protesters.

Trump endorsed Johnson in April 2021, before he even announced a campaign to run, saying the senator has no idea how popular he is. Run, Ron, run!

Unopposed.

Democratic Rep. Ron Kind decided to retire from Congress this year after winning against Van Orden in 2020 by a few points in a pro-Trump district. The candidate attended the Jan. 6 protests outside the Capitol but called a Daily Beast report that he had entered a restricted area inaccurate, claiming later he was in D.C. for meetings.

In his endorsement, Trump commended his Navy history and fight for secure borders, the Second Amendment and farming industry.

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The fall political races will begin to heat up in earnest after todays primaries, which may prove competitive for a number of party nominations including the three candidates who sparred at the Republican convention for the partys endorsement to run for U.S. Senator against Democrat Richard Blumenthal, who is seeking a third term.

Other races include both parties choice of candidates for the Secretary of the State, the Republican candidate for the House 4th District and the Democratic candidate for Treasurer.A number of candidates are vying for nomination in state assembly seats check to see if your district is one of them.

Republican Themis Klarides, who won the Republican endorsement with 57 percent of the vote at the partys May convention and is seen as a moderate, will face two conservatives who split the remaining 43 percent of the convention vote: Leora Levy, of Greenwich, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump last week, and Peter Lumaj of Fairfield, who has previously sought a seat in the Senate, as Secretary of the State and as Governor.

Klarides, 57, of Madison and formerly of Derby, served as State Representative for District 114 from 1999 to 2021 and was House minority leader from 2015-2021. As the Republican leader in the Connecticut House, we passed a Republican budget in a Democratic state that gave us spending caps, bonding caps, and volatility caps. I will take the same approach to Washington, she said on her website. She supports abortion rights, border security and public safety and is endorsed by the Connecticut State Police Union and the Fraternal Order of Police.

Levy, 65, of Greenwich, who born in Cuba and emigrated to the U.S. as a child with her parents, worked as a commodities trader in her twenties. She is a major fundraiser for the Connecticut Republican State Central Committee and the Republican National Committee, serving on the latter. On her campaign website, said she said she is a champion for the Pro-Life movement and has signed The Big Family Pledge solidifying her belief in the beginning of life from conception. She said she believes that closing our U.S. borders is paramount in the pursuit of safety and security for our country. She said she is committed to leading the fight for freedom in this country because she has seen what happens when you lose it.

Lumaj, was born in Albania in 1967 and grew up under Communism, according to his website. While studying at the countrys Agriculture Institute, he engaged clandestinely in anti-government protests, was arrested in 1989 and subjected to torture before being released. With two of his brothers, he later escaped to the U.S. where he became an attorney. He said he believes in protecting the Second Amendment and that Roe v. Wade was an unconstitutional decision when it was rendered by liberal activist judges in 1973. He said he believes in strengthening the U.S. Southern border and countrys military preparedness. He recently told CT Examiner, Im not afraid to be a Republican. Im a conservative. Im the only one whos an unwavering conservative. Never changed my positions.

In a field that became crowded with candidates after Democratic Secretary of the State Denise Merrill announced she would not seek a fourth term, and stepped down at the end of June to take care of her husband, Republicans and Democrats have narrowed their choices for primary day.

From as many as seven candidates, the two Democrats in the primary for Secretary of the State are Stephanie Thomas, a first-term State Representative serving the 143rd district in Norwalk, endorsed by Democrats at their convention, and Maritza Bond, the Director of Health for New Haven, who petitioned to be placed on the primary ballot. Hilda Santiago and Matt Lesser, among others, withdrew or were disqualified from the race.

Thomas, of Norwalk, a small business owner with a three-decade career as a nonprofit strategist and fundraiser, said on her website she will use her business and legislative experience, as well as her strong leadership skills, to champion transparency in government, streamline business processes, and strengthen trust in our elections and make voting more accessible and resist attempts to limit voting rights. She told CT Examiner she is a strong backer of expanding voting rights, including a proposed state constitutional amendment to implement early in-person voting, which will be a ballot question in the November election.

Bond, of New Haven, has 20 years of experience serving in public health. On her website, she said her priorities include bringing early voting to the state, restoring trust between local election officials and the Secretary of the States office, and restoring fiscal autonomy to the Office. She told CT Examiner that she is running because in these unprecedented times, we need experienced leadership ready to fight to protect our democracy.

From three Republican candidates at the convention, the two remaining contenders are Dominic Rapini, who won his partys endorsement at the convention with 50.25 percent of the vote, and Terrie Wood, who won 18.34 percent of the vote, which qualified her to primary without petitioning. Brock Weber, of Wolcott, won 31.32 percent of the vote at the convention but withdrew from the race.

Rapini, of Branford, an 25-year executive at Apple, told CT Examiner in 2021 that he was passionate about voting integrity issues and that he had been researching on election integrity issues for three years, partly in his position as a former board chair of Fight Voter Fraud, a 501(c)(4) organization. He resigned from his position in August 2021, after the State Elections Enforcement Commission dismissed a number of complaints filed by the organization. He recently cited a CT Examiner story about ballot fraud in Stamford, saying, Election integrity is not negotiable.

Wood, of Darien, has served as state Representative for District 141 since 2009. In an interview with CT Examiner, she said she wants to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. A self-described political moderate, she recently told CT Examiner, Theres nothing more important than protecting your right to vote. I will always stand up to flawed policies that put your vote in jeopardy. I will always fight to ensure free, fair, and transparent elections.

For the U.S. House Representative seat in the 4th District, held by Democrat Jim Himes since 2009, the Republican primary race includes Jayme Stevenson, who won her partys endorsement, and ophthalmologist and attorney Michael Ted Goldstein.

Stevenson was first selectman of Darien for 10 years and was a candidate in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut in 2018. In an interview with CT Examiner, she described herself as part of a new breed of Republicans and as a commonsense Republican, one that does not stand on ideology. She described herself as fiscally and financially shrewd, and prudent And maybe socially more libertarian.

Goldstein, of Greenwich, forced a primary by collecting the requisite number of signatures about 2,000 from registered Republicans in his district. He has not held political office before. In an interview with CT Examiner, Goldstein said his platform includes three categories: prosperity, liberty and security. He said he is running to fight for the people of Connecticut and the United States. And I want to make sure that this country remains the greatest country in the world and essentially keep us prosperous and safe.

Three Democrats will primary to run against the Republican candidate, State. Rep. Harry Arora, who received his partys endorsement for Treasurer at the convention.

Democrat Erick Russell, of New Haven, is an attorney specializing in the financing of municipal and state infrastructure projects. On his website, he said that much of his work has been directly through the Office of the Treasurer, allowing him a unique opportunity to gain valuable experience and the perspective to see how the position can be used to make meaningful change in our State.

Dita Bhargava, of Greenwich, is a hedge fund manager who lost to Wooden in the Democratic primary in 2018. On her website, she said that it has become more difficult for Connecticut residents to get ahead and that she has a plan for our future that will create the conditions for growth for our towns, families, and businesses, and that will form jobs for the middle-class without the burden of additional taxes.

Karen DuBois-Walton, of New Haven, is president of the New Haven Housing Authority and was appointed Chair of the State Board of Education by Gov. Ned Lamont. She said, on her website, that her priorities include ensuring the responsible growth of CTs investments and protection of the public pensions and guiding those investments in ways that benefit the hard working families of CT and stimulate equitable growth, as well as creating opportunities for CT families to save, build assets and enhance their financial literacy, and providing fair and equitable leadership that enhances morale, productivity and results.

State Senate, 23rd District (Bridgeport/Stratford): Dennis Bradley vs. Herron Gaston

State Representative, 16th District (Simsbury): Melissa E. Osbourne vs. Eric Wellman

State Representative, 34th District (Colchester, East Haddam, East Hampton): Kurt Comisky vs. John Olin

State Representative, 98th District (Branford, Guilford): Moira Rader vs. Andy Gottlieb

State Representative, 116th District (West Haven): Trenee McGee vs Joseph Miller

State Representative, 127th District (Bridgeport): Marcus Brown vs. Jack Hennessey

State Representative, 69th District (Southbury): Jason Buchsbaum vs Cindy Harrison

State Representative, 78th District (Plymouth): Joe Hoxha vs Aileen Abrams

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Utah company 'Lions Not Sheep' fined for replacing 'Made in China' labels

Utah-based company Lions Not Sheep has been fined $211,335 by the Federal Trade Commission for falsely claiming its products are made in the U.S.

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An apparel company known forinflammatory apparel championingthe Second Amendment and Donald Trump has been fined after the Federal Trade Commissionfound the companyfalsely claimedits imported apparel is made in the U.S.

Utah-based Lions Not Sheep and its owner,Sean Whalen, were slapped with a $211,335 fine last week after the FTC found the company removed Made in China tags, replacing them with fake Made in the USA labels, according to a FTC news release.

The fine comes on the heels ofacomplaintfiled by the FTC inMay.

According to the FTC, the company added phony "Made in USA" labels to clothing imported from China and other countries. The FTC release did not not identify the other countries.

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Theapparel company sells items including T-shirts, sweatshirts and jackets on itswebsite as well as through Amazon and Etsy.

Products, according to the FTC, are marketed heavilythrough social media channels, claiming that it would show people its possible to live your life as a LION, Not a sheep.

Some shirts on its website read give violence a chance, depict former PresidentTrump as the Terminator andfeature military-style firearms.

"You have two choices, to be lead or to be led," the company's website read on Monday.

Whalen said in a statement to USA TODAY the company does not agree with the FTC's ruling, but has "no choice but to accept it and move on." The statement said the company has been "very honest and transparent" about its business, citing an October 2020 Facebook video posted by Whalen in which he says the company buys shirts that were made inChina.

In addition to the fine, under a 12-page order from the FTC, thecompany and itsowner must"stop making bogus madein the USA" claimsand "come clean about foreign production."

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Also under the order, anyqualifiedMade in USA claims must include "a clear and conspicuous disclosure" about the extent to which the product contains foreign parts, ingredients or components, or processing.

It goes on to read that ifa product isassembled in the U.S., the company must ensure itis last substantially transformed in the U.S.,its principal assembly occurs in the United States, and that its U.S. assembly operations are substantial.

Natalie Neysa Alund covers trending news for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on Twitter@nataliealund.

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Dear Editor:

From the 1700s through Jan. 6, our unorganized paramilitary groups have a poor track-record of meeting the intent of a well-regulated militia.

The next clause, being necessary for the security of a free State, makes it clear that risks were evident in the founders era, that states rights needed to be accommodated and secured.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed drumbeat has created a powerful lobby, an accommodating arms industry, which together, and in concert with targeted political rhetoric, has driven many to focus solely on this clause, and to armor up. It has also empowered mentally unstable, largely lone wolves, to wreak havoc.

Per the Constitution, Congress can provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining militias. And for each state to appoint their officers and have the authority to train their militias within congressional guidelines.

Not to the professional level, but with specific training, including attitudinal indoctrination, to systematically equip members with the tools needed to combat hate and discrimination, and to evaluate and critique online toxic propaganda. Each militia a team, promoting guardrails, watching for outliers.

Members of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, relieved of active duty, get your militia card, and keep and bear. Citizens, until the sign-up is implemented, no changes to arms acquisition. After which, patriots must first join before arming.

Were worried about troubled citizens, medically or emotionally shaky. Militias would provide an inclusive environment, dedicated to our states and nation. Will there be incidents? No doubt. Problems will arise and adjustments needed. But with the right approach, those who may stray toward the fringes just may have comrades who, seeing troublesome signs, have Got Your 6, and raise a flag.

The SCOTUS (5-4) ruling in the 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm for self-defense, unconnected with militia service, minimized the first clauses, aka the prefatory.

Why cant Congress and each state implement the whole of the amendment?

Perhaps the idea of militias is worrying?

David Trigg

Ellsworth

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The Supreme Court last monthstruck down a New York lawthat effectively prohibited ordinary citizens from carrying handguns in public for self-defense.

As some New Yorkers joined gun control activists in decrying the decision as making them less safe, one young woman explained how, for her, the high courts opinion meant she was one step closer to sleeping soundly for the first time in months.

Laura Adkins, a liberal journalist living in New York City,described how, after a recent breakup, her ex-partners increasingly obsessive and harassing behavior made her fear for her life despite the temporary order of protection she got.

For weeks, Adkins said, she slept with a sheathed hunting knife under her pillow, fully aware that it would offer little protection against a man twice her size, but knowing she had few other readily available options for defending herself given the citys incredibly restrictive laws on handgun possession.

Despite her belief ingun control, Adkins came to understand that good policy is not just about preventing dangerous individuals from owning firearms. It also should empower vulnerable citizens to protect themselves.

Now, Adkins wants a gun. And she wants to carry it in public.

Adkins is not alone in this changed perspective. In the past two years,millions of Americanshave bought a firearm for the first time, many for the same reasons as Adkins: Theyve come to understand that the right to keep and bear arms offers the most meaningful defense of their inalienable rights.

Almost every major study on the issue has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between500,000 and 3 milliontimes annually, according to the most recent report on the subject by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For this reason, The Daily Signal each month publishes an article highlighting some of the previous months many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missedor that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read otheraccounts herefrom 2019, 2020, 2021, and so far in 2022.)

The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in June. You may explore more by using The Heritage Foundations interactiveDefensive Gun Use Database.(The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.)

These stories underscore the reality that Adkins helps illustrate: The Second Amendment belongs to everyone, in every part of the country, facing any type of imminent threat to life, liberty, or property. And we dont always know when our otherwise peaceful lives will be interrupted by serious danger.

The Second Amendment helps ensure thatall potential victimswhether a 93-year-old widower in California defending his home, a father in rural Kentucky protecting his daughters, or a young woman in New York City afraid of her ex-partnerhave not just the theoretical right but the practical ability to act in self-defense when faced with sudden threats.

To Adkins and every other New Yorker on the cusp of exercising your constitutional rights for the first time: Let us be the first to say, Welcome.

This piece originally appeared in The Daily Signal

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Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, with rising violent crime a top concern for voters, the vast majority of Democrats are now working overtime to distance themselves from their prior support for the Defund the Police movement. Increasingly, however, it appears that theyre linking this professed newfound support for law enforcement to another pillar of Democrats far-left agenda gun control.

After backlash to the defund movement contributed to dozens of House Democrats losing or facing closer-than-expected races in 2020, the party slowly began changing its tune on policing. While some, like Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush, have continued their calls for dismantling police departments, the White House and Democratic leadership are now saying that they in fact support police and have always supported police even accusing Republicans, who spent all of 2020 and 2021 vigorously defending police from attacks by left-wing politicians and news outlets, of not supporting them.

As Axios reported late last month, Democratic candidates in Ohio, Georgia, Florida, and other states are spotlighting law enforcement to boost their credibility on fighting crime. Party strategists are now privately admitting that the defund debate damaged Democrats reputation on crime, and many fear a voter perception that Democrats dont recognize the problem with violent crime and dont respect the role police play in keeping communities safe.

But as part of their effort to mask their complete reversal of position when it comes to support for police, many Democratsincluding Biden himselfhave attempted to make the issue of rising crime about guns rather than policing, implying that support for the Second Amendment is incompatible with support for law enforcement.

Take, for example, a recent ad aired by a group aligned with Stacey Abrams, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Georgia. In the 30-second spot, a man identified as a former Deputy Sheriff accuses incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp of making us less safe for signing a constitutional carry bill into law earlier this year. The ad accuses Kemp of making it easier for criminals to carry loaded guns in public, at the movies, in church. The implication is that by signing the law, which allows Georgians who arent otherwise prohibited from owning a firearm to concealed carry without submitting to a tedious and sometimes expensive permitting process, Kemp is undermining public safety and making it more difficult for police to do their jobs.

Notably, however, more than 100 sheriffs have endorsed Kemps reelection bid, and the sitting governor has broad support from the law enforcement community. Abrams, who now proclaims to support pay raises for police, has in the past called for reallocating police resources. Moreover, Abrams still sits on the board of the Marguerite Casey Foundation, a group that has supported defunding and abolishing the police.

Abrams is far from the only Democrat attempting to employ this strategy. At the federal level, Democrats in Congress led by vulnerable incumbents like Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey have pushed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass a number of supposed police funding bills that are intended to lend credence to Democrat claims to support law enforcement. But these efforts have all been tied to greater gun control measures, sending a clear message that Democrats view the two issues as inextricably connected.

The White House, meanwhile, has introduced a new initiative called the Safer America Plan, which purportedly increases funding for law enforcement. Once again, however, support for police is tied to gun control measures. In a fact sheet on the plan released by the White House, Biden calls for requiring background checks for all gun sales and banning so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

But as Republicans have long pointed out, Democrats assertion that restricting gun ownership will automatically lead to less crime isnt supported by the facts. As economist John Lott argued in his work More Guns, Less Crime, empirical evidence actually points to the opposite conclusion. Recent examples, like the shooting at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana, where an armed bystander stopped a mass shooting in progress, also support the idea that responsible gun ownership can be an effective crime deterrent. A similar case occurred in West Virginia in May, when an armed woman stopped a man firing indiscriminately into a crowd at a birthday party. These incidents are just two of at least 21 such cases since the start of 2020. As Republicans continue to point out, laws making it more difficult for Americans to own and carry firearms wont stop criminals from doing so but will stop law-abiding Americans interested in protecting themselves and their families.

At the same time, even as they work to restrict legal gun ownership, Democrats seem to have largely given up on prosecuting illegal gun ownership. New York Citys stop and frisk policy was originally designed in large part to get illegal guns off the street, and was quite successful at doing so yet former mayor Bill de Blasio ended the practice anyway. Democrat soft-on-crime prosecutors have also allowed criminals caught with illegal guns back out onto the streets, in some cases to commit more gun crimes.

Democrats and the mainstream media, meanwhile, have construed Republican opposition to gun control measures as evidence that the GOP in fact does not support police, attempting to completely flip the script on the popular perception of the two parties records on public safety. As American communities continue to suffer the tragic consequences of the lefts two-year war on law enforcement, however, Democrats complicity in their suffering will be a difficult memory to erase.

Andrew Abbott is the pen name of a writer and public affairs consultant with over a decade of experience in DC at the intersection of politics and culture.

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Chris Pritt owns his own law practice,Pritt Law, where he specializes in divorce, custody arguments and child support. But standing before the state legislature in West Virginia, his argument was a linguistic pretzel to justify eliminating all child support for the parent who gets custody of a child.

According to Pritt, there are fathers who don't want to be involved in the lives of their children.

"If she carries through with the pregnancy, he's going to have, possibly, some sort of child support obligation," said Pritt. "And, so, what he wants to do is, he wants to in a sense encourage her to go and find a way for her to get an abortion. Because he knows that a certain individual if he has any kind if familiarity with her, he knows that she might be of such a state of mind, she must be in such a vulnerable position that it's not worth everything that he's going to put me through to carry this pregnancy forward. It's going to be easier, it's going to be better, for me to just go and terminate this 'life.' So she goes over to Virginia or to some other state where she goes and gets the abortion. So, I think that's a really clear possibility if we enact the Second Amendment here, I don't want to be doing anything that is encouraging thugs to go and get an abortion."

"So, I think that's a really clear possibility if we enact the second amendment here, I don't want to be doing anything that is encouraging thugs to go and get an abortion," he said, referring to the second and competing amendment toHouse Bill 302.

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Republican Peter Lumaj is running to represent Connecticut in the U.S. Senate and has unsuccessfully run for statewide office three times.

Lumaj, 55, of Fairfield, is running for statewide office for the fourth time in 10 years. He dropped out of a Senate race before the primary in 2012, launched a campaign as the GOP nominee for secretary of state in 2014 and failed to qualify for a gubernatorial primary in 2018.

With a masters degree in law, Lumaj provides immigration services in New York, where he says he also invests in real estate with family.

During the 2018 race for governor, Lumaj told a Republican town committee he rejected an offer by the Trump administration to return to Albania as the U.S. ambassador, a claim the administration declined to confirm or deny.

Lumaj is an opponent of abortion and said he would not vote to codify reproductive rights in federal law.

He refused to say whether he would have voted for a gun safety bill Congress passed in response to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting that requires enhanced background checks for gun buyers under age 21, among other things.

Pressed for an answer about how he would have voted, he repeatedly riffed on myriad aspects of gun control and crime, never quite landing on an answer.

We need to go after illegal guns in this country, he said. And if there are mental illnesses and problems of people out there, we should absolutely go after these things. On the other hand, the Second Amendment is the Second Amendment. I believe in the Second Amendment. And the reason why I believe in that, my family was persecuted severely in the country that we didnt have a Second Amendment.

Lumaj opposed giving permanent legal status to the 800,000 young adults living in a legal limbo for a decade under DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Lumaj said he would support arming teachers, if they were trained.

Lumaj is a fan of Trump and free enterprise who views opponent Leora Levy as a conservative poseur, opponent Themis Klarides as an establishment Republican, and Blumenthal and Democrats as threats to capitalism.

Im a true conservative. I believe in God, family and country. I believe in the Constitution. I believe in the founding documents of this country, Lumaj said. Im pro life, Im pro Second Amendment. And these are things that I bring to the table that no one else does.

Lumaj has zinged fellow senate GOP candidates Themis Klarides and Leora Levy, as well as Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

During the senate GOP primary debate on July 26, Lumaj claimed to be the only true conservative. Im not afraid to be a Republican, he said.

When Klarides suspended active campaigning to mourn the death of her 89-year-old mother, Lumaj urged an end to attacks on her at least until after the funeral.

Klarides and Levy have largely ignored Lumaj, though Levy has suggested that, of herself and Lumaj, theres only room for onein the primary.

At the debate, Klarides central argument was that Lumaj (and Levy) may be more conservative, but are not electable in a state that last elected a Republican senator in 1982.

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