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U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis and Mary Miller are running in the Republican primary for Illinois 15th Congressional District on June 28, 2022. This race is one of six incumbent-vs.-incumbent primaries occurring in 2022 as a result of congressional redistricting after the 2020 census.

Davis has represented Illinois 13th Congressional District since 2013. Miller has represented the 15th Congressional District since 2021. According to data from Daily Kos, 28% of the new 15th Districts population came from the old 13th District (represented by Davis), and 31% came from the old 15th District (represented by Miller). Illinois lost one congressional district following the 2020 census.

The Herald & Reviews Brenden Moore wrote, The race has been among the most contentious incumbent-versus-incumbent primaries in the country. Davis and Miller have traded barbs over who is the true conservative candidate in the race. According to OpenSecrets, the primary currently comes in second in total satellite spending out of all 2022 U.S. House races, with over $7.5 million spent as of June 15.

Davis said, I stick with my core values and principles. I have always been pro-life and will continue to stick by those values and principles. Ive always stood up for the Second Amendment. I will continue to do that. But what separates me from my opponent is I have a record of actually governing. When people put Republicans in charge, at any level of government, they actually expect them to do the job. Davis criticized Miller for voting against the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, saying, All Mary Miller has to show for her time in Congress is quoting Hitler and voting with Democrats like [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and the far left squad to defund our military and block a pay raise for our troops. Thats shameful. Its clear that Mary Miller is all talk, no action.

The Illinois Farm Bureau, Illinois Fraternal Order of Police State Lodge, and Illinois AFL-CIO endorsed Davis, along with U.S. Reps. Mike Bost (R-Ill.) and Darin LaHood (R-Ill.).

Miller said, Im the only Republican member of Congress from Illinois whos fighting every aspect of the Biden agenda and putting America first. Im fighting for real election security so that voters decide elections, not the ballot counters. And Im proud to be the only Republican from Illinois to vote against the Biden-Pelosi gun confiscation bill which would have allowed firearms to be seized by the federal government. Miller criticized Davis for a bill he cosponsored in 2019 that would have provided grants for states to enact extreme risk protection order laws, or red flag laws. Miller said, I am the only candidate with an A rating from the NRA and Gun Owners of America because I support our Second Amendment! Everyone is tired of Red Flag Rodney Davis, who stabbed conservatives in the back by supporting federal gun confiscation.

Former President Donald Trump (R) endorsed Miller on January 1, 2022. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Club for Growth, the Conservative Political Action Coalition, and the House Freedom Fund also endorsed Miller.

Major independent observers rate the general election as solid or safe Republican.

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June 16, 2022Updated: June 16, 2022 3:10p.m.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) The National Rifle Association's longtime Florida lobbyist and first female president, Marion Hammer, will retire but remain an adviser to the organization, the NRA announced Thursday.

Hammer, 83, said in a statement that she served the gun rights group for 44 years and is proud of her record on Second Amendment issues. She is the first woman to serve as president of the organization, from 1996 to 1998.

When I was first hired in September 1978, I was given one mission: Do what you need to do, but do not let Florida become another California, Hammer said. For 44 years, I am proud to say that I faithfully delivered on that assignment with the help of our great NRA members.

Among many other things, Hammer is credited as a major force behind Florida's stand your ground law, which removes the duty to retreat before using deadly force in the face of serious danger.

Florida was the first in the nation to adopt such a law in 2005. Similar measures have been passed in other states amid criticism that they increase violent confrontations leading to fatal shootings.

Marion Hammer's name has become synonymous with the Second Amendment and with the NRA, said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the NRA. She is a dynamic and legendary advocate who has led the way with many laws that started in Florida and then served as a blueprint across the country.

Hammer is also a member of the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.

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Longtime liberal radio host Bill Press wrote an op-ed Thursday calling for the Second Amendment to be outright repealed.

"The only effective way to deal with the Second Amendment is to repeal it and then replace it with something that makes sense in a civilized society," Press wrote for CNN in an article titled "Theres no way to fix the Second Amendment. Lets just get rid of it."

"I'm hardly the first person to say that the Second Amendment has been a disaster for this country. In fact, two Supreme Court justices justices appointed by Republican presidents have said as much," he added.

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"Theres no way to fix the Second Amendment. Lets just get rid of it," radio host Bill Press wrote.

Press cited former Chief Justice Warren Burger, who in 1991 told PBS that "If I were writing the Bill of Rights now, there wouldn't be any such thing as the Second Amendment."

Burger, who also presided over Roe v. Wade, is quoted as calling the Second Amendment "one of the greatest pieces of fraud" in American history.

Press reiterated the claim and expounded on it. He wrote, "Indeed, you only have to read the Second Amendment to see what a fraud it's become."

He claimed that "there's no way you can logically leap" from the text of the Second Amendment "to the unfettered right of any citizen to buy as many guns and any kind of gun that they want, without the government being able to do anything about it."

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With loaded firearms in hand and flags all around, people gather for a five-mile Open Carry March for Freedom organized by Florida Gun Supply in Inverness, Florida. (Reuters/Chris Tilley)

"It's clear from the wording of the Second Amendment itself that it has nothing to do with individual gun ownership; nothing to do with self-defense; and nothing to do with assault weapons. The amendment speaks, not to the rights of well-armed individual citizens, but only to citizens as members of a group, a well regulated militia," he wrote.

"The founders saw no need to mention guns in the original Constitution. As many constitutional scholars and American historians have shown, the Second Amendment was added later by James Madison as part of a deal to secure the support of Patrick Henry and other White racist Virginians for confirmation of the Constitution."

Press cited Carol Anderson, an academic who "describes the anti-Blackness at the heart of the Second Amendment."

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during the National Rifle Association's annual meeting on May 27, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

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He wrote that "the amendment has nothing to do with self-defense or allowing ownership of any kind of gun."

Press criticized Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as a "gun worshipper" for supporting the Second Amendment, which he claimed enabled the Uvalde shooter. "We are a sick nation indeed, if we allow that idiocy to stand," he wrote.

"We are condemned to more and more mass killings until we do the right thing: Stop arguing about the Second Amendment and just get rid of it."

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The corporate media is abuzz with news that senators have reached a bipartisan gun deal that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed on Tuesday but sacrificing Americans constitutional rights to hoaxing Democrats who have and will use their power to target their political enemies is nothing for Republicans to be proud of. Its the type of ideological surrender that they should lose their jobs and leadership positions over.

The bill text is still not available but from what Democrat Sen. Chris Murphys Twitter feed and the official framework indicate, the legislation could include sweeping measures such as problematic red flag laws that overstep too many constitutional bounds for Republicans to comfortably sacrifice.

Despite concerns that the legislation could compromise Americans Second, Fifth, and FourteenthAmendment rights, McConnell and 10 of his squishiest GOP colleagues including Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Rob Portman of Ohio, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Mitt Romney of Utah, Bill Cassidy of Lousiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania plan to join the Democrats anti-gun escapades. Together, they caved to the emotional blackmail wielded by Murphy and amplified by the corporate media.

Republicans have no good reason to trust Democrats to skilfully create legislation that is mindful of Americans rights. Nor do GOPers have reasons to support legislation that yields little evidence of actually deterring criminals from committing crimes that are already illegal.

After all, the leftist legislators supporting the gun deal are the same politicians whosupported spying on a president, falsely accused a Supreme Court nominee-turned-justice of rape, defended the Biden administration when it sicced the feds on parents who wanted a say in what happens in their childs classrooms, and so much more.

In the past, when Democrats have been given inch-sized opportunities to restrict gun rights, theyve sought to take miles and ban certain guns and gun parts altogether.

As my colleague Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi recently noted, historically, Democrats have not only tried to expand the definition of partner in domestic violence-motivated gun grabs but have also tried to broaden the reasons for losing your gun rights toincludemany types of non-violent misdemeanors.

Yet, some of the most powerful GOPers in Congress, even those who have sworn to protect the Second Amendment, are salivating to sign dangerously broad and likely deliberately unspecific legislation crafted by these same Democrats.

Congressional Democrats like Murphy and their allies in corporate media have already admitted that the gun deal includes considerably more than [Democrats] hoped for initially.

Thats because the Republicans involved in negotiations pressured for nothing, so they got nothing.

McConnells gun restriction lead negotiator Cornyn likes to brag about his A+ rating from the National Rifle Association but the Republicans former promises not to restrict Americans rights to guns have been repeatedly broken and will be violated if this new bill passes. Even Cornyns meaningless boasting about everything excluded from the Democrats bill signals theres nothing that was included that he found worthy of praising.

So not only have Republicans signed onto more gun restrictions but theyve also ceded constitutional ground to Democrats who have a history of abusing their self-assigned power to gatekeep who can access a firearm.

Yielding power to Democrats like Murphy who exploited the Texas tragedy to orchestrate a gun grab is nothing for McConnell or any Republicans to be proud of. As a matter of fact, thats something worth forcing them out of office over.

The people most at risk of losing in this bipartisan deal are Republicans who will never get the benefit of a winning compromise with Democrats and law-abiding citizens who under the Consitution have every right to own and use guns. Most congressional Republicans have sworn to protect these rights but right now, 10 of the ones closest to McConnell are not.

These Republicans were chosen carefully because most of them are not at risk of getting voted out of office soon, but the dozens of other Senate GOPers who see the problems with handing over control of Americans rights should do everything they can to bar them from leadership. If Republicans were willing to cave on the Second Amendment, how much emotional manipulation will it take for them to surrender on other key conservative issues?

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.

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