Of Fools and Fudds
BY Herschel Smith
1 week, 5 days ago
Per the Independent Voter Project, there are over 1.8 million registered Republicans in Virginia, and over 1million “Independents.”. And per Ammo.com’s “Gun Ownership by State,” 44.6% of households in Virginia own a gun.
Well, he has a point, but I’ll be even more direct and insulting (as if that’s bothered me before).
Several reliable sources now estimate that 10 million hunters and gun owners in the U.S. are not registered to vote. That figure comes from a Vote4America survey reported by American Hunter.
Digging deeper, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) highlights “critical swing states” where the numbers of unregistered hunters and shooters are especially high. For example:
- Pennsylvania: about 515,000 unregistered gun owners / hunters
- Michigan and North Carolina: around 370,000 each
- Georgia, Wisconsin, Missouri, Virginia: each with more than half a million unregistered hunters/gun owners
- Less so, but still significant: Arizona (~133,000), Nevada (~59,000), and Montana (~52,000)
Another critical point: since 2020, more than 22.3 million new first-time gun owners have entered the picture. Many of these are not yet registered to vote, but they represent a large potential voting bloc.
Let me be clear. While you older hunters may be making the calculation not to get involved if your ox isn’t gored and you get to keep your bolt action deer rifle, and upland bird hunters may be the same with your shotguns, there isn’t much of a divide between a scoped high powered bolt action rifle and a “sniper rifle” that the controllers want to ban. It’s the same with scatter guns which may be seen as assault “trench sweepers.” I like my bolt action rifles and shotguns too, but please, don’t be stupid and do try to think through this thing with your eyes open.
If you’re sitting this out and ignoring what’s going on around you in favor of being lazy, you’re a food or a Fudd, and maybe both. They’ll come for you too.
You’ve been warned.
Note: I’ve tried to speak directly to Virginian gun owners so many times over these pages that it would be tiresome to find all of the links.
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On May 4, 2026 at 4:05 am, Trotsky's Pickaxe said:
Did comrade kommissarina Spanberger carpetbag her way in or the collective voted her in?
They were warned about the CPUSA (D) who will never rest until the hammer & sickle is hoisted.
On May 4, 2026 at 6:15 am, MN Steel said:
I prefer the links that show the vote-shaving and additions in every state that only go one way, the international collusion from back-door openings to the electronic voting machines, the boxes of filled-out votes that are identical, the state referendums that are overturned by judges (epitomized by California) and the willingness of elected officials to ensure the voter rolls are not stacked with the dead, illegal aliens and fictitious names to assure voters that the system isn’t rigged.
OK, that last one should be unwilling, but looks better than saying most people don’t trust government as far as they can throw it and are willing to let it all burn down. The good news is it’s not just voting, it’s also medicine, technology, finance, food, and everything else government regulates that is rigged against anyone not taking the 30 pieces of silver in return for screwing your fellow man.
It’s all fake, gay and retarded and getting very flammable.
On May 4, 2026 at 1:06 pm, Wilson said:
Right after the Sandy Hook shooting, gun banners started calling scoped hunting rifles “sniper rifles“ and we’re calling for them to be banned. That effort didn’t last long, probably because the powers that be told people to shut up about hunting rifles. The priority at the time was “assault gun“ and the gun band leadership didn’t want to weaken their argument by bringing in hunting rifles.
On May 4, 2026 at 1:21 pm, Latigo Morgan said:
I bankrupted myself fighting the ’94 ban. I foolishly believed if I could just get the work out to my fellow gun owners, they’d be as incensed as I was about the proposed ban. I won’t bash the NRA – they sent me some bundles of flyers for my table at a 25,000 person gun show in Tucson. They also helped with a rally that included G.Gordon Liddy, Charleton Heston, Wayne LaPierre, and our congressional delegation that included John *spit* McCain.
At those gun shows, the law had not passed yet. It was still being debated. I wasn’t asking anyone for money. I was asking them to sign pre-written, paid postage letters to Congress. Everyone was panic-buying the guns that were about to be banned – at a time when there was little interest in such firearms. It showed, because I only got 11 people to sign the letters. I paid for a premium spot in that show. I left with almost everything I came with as far as flyers and such went.
The most common excuse given? “I don’t want to get put on a list.” I won’t say I learned to hate my fellow gun owners during that time, but I did learn they are pretty much a bunch of cowardly, selfish, pieces of garbage. We are not the same.
Paraphrasing Fred, in Shotgun News, “If you won’t fight the easy battle, then nobody can depend on you to fight the hard ones.”
On May 4, 2026 at 1:26 pm, Latigo Morgan said:
And all the Fudd hoarders who stocked up on everything during every gun grabbing event? Well, they are dying off and I’ve been buying their stuff at pennies on the dollar from their estate sales. I haven’t had to buy reloading supplies or factory ammo from the store for a few years, now. You really cannot take it with you when you die.
On May 5, 2026 at 12:19 am, Georgiaboy61 said:
To paraphrase the great Ken Royce, a.k.a. “Boston” of “Boston’s Gun Bible,” the ship of state that is our republic isn’t a cruise ship or a luxury liner where you can just sit back and relax and let someone else do the work. It is supposed to be a man-of-war where every man pulls his weight.
Royce devoted a lot years of his life, no small amount of money and time, and a lot of effort to waking up just the kind of people being discussed here. He finally realized that all of the guns, gear and training in the world mean nothing without the love of liberty and the will to use them if called upon to do so.
His newest series of books are so-called “modules of manhood,” directed at raising young men of sterling character and moral fiber.
Royce is onto something here, I think, and that is the crisis of manhood facing this country.
On May 5, 2026 at 3:30 am, Plague Monk said:
The reason that a lot of gun owners no longer vote is that there is no difference between the major parties. I’m proud to be considered a Fudd; I have a large collection of vintage firearms, but no semi-autos. I’ve never fired a semi-auto, even when in the USAF a half century ago. I haven’t fired any gun in about 30 years and have no desire to do so.
My late father co-owned a gunstore in the 1960s-late 1980s, and he never sold semi-autos of any type. No sales to women or non-whites. He was part of the Old Guard at the Cincy NRA meeting when the ILA was formed, and quit the NRA as soon as he got home.
As the saying goes, the only voting that makes a difference is from the rooftops, or with high explosives. The ballot box is about as legitimate as Monopoly money.
Bring
On
The
Apocalypse!
On May 5, 2026 at 5:55 am, Joe Blow said:
After 52 laps around the sun, I’ve come to the conclusion voting isn’t just a rigged game, it’s a futile exercise meant to keep you passive by making you think your opinion is worth a damn.
They don’t care what you think and vote for, they’re going to do whatever the hell they want, you can fuck off, and go somewhere and die, they really, REALLY don’t care. IN FACT, it would immensely help their plans, if you would simply run off into the woods and expire somewhere’s. Grok that.
There is NO political solution to this problem, you’re retarded if you think you’re going to vote them out of office and return to lawful nation peacefully! Have you read a history book? Fucking retard… YOU HAVE TO SHOOT THE BASTARDS!!! THERE IS NO OTHER SOLUTION!!!!
On May 5, 2026 at 10:13 am, Ricky Bobby said:
@PM and @JB, same here. I take the George Carlin position on voting, “…if voting changed anything they would make it illegal.”
On May 5, 2026 at 11:12 am, X said:
The Left has been brilliant in exploiting the Fudd faction. Piece of shit that he was, Cuomo was politically brilliant when he shouted “No one needs ten bullets to kill a deeeah!” when the SAFE Act was passed. And he was 100% correct that it became the “model for the nation.”
They have been every effective at demonizing the tactical crowd, but the fact is that the “Evil Black Rifle” dates back to 1957. It’s not exactly a new or uncommon piece. And every single politician out there has a protection cadre of cop goons toting them at the very speeches where they crow “Weapons of war do not belong on our streets.”
The fact is that gun owners are not monolithic. The Fudds couldn’t care less if every semi-auto is banned. Most of them can’t shoot for shit anyway, and the walnut-stocked lever–action they have collects dust and rust 364 days a year except on Opening Day.
Frankly a LOT of people in this country care far more about porn, sportsball, and stuffing their fat faces than they do about the right (and the responsibility, and the skill) to have a gun to defend themselves with.
On May 5, 2026 at 12:31 pm, Fred said:
Elections are a mythological ceremony we pretend has some effect on our self-appointed gods. Voting hasn’t mattered since Lincoln.
On May 5, 2026 at 5:14 pm, Herschel Smith said:
No wonder Virginia elected democrats who believe in gun control.
Thought experiment.
What if Youngkin (or someone else who didn’t believe in gun control) was still on the ticket (and he had no history of gun control) versus the democrat they elected?
Would they be facing gun control laws now?
Simple question. Deserves a simple response. Nothing else. No other smoke or wordy words or mindless mantras like I see above. Just an answer to this simple question.
On May 5, 2026 at 9:02 pm, X said:
“What if Youngkin (or someone else who didn’t believe in gun control) was still on the ticket (and he had no history of gun control) versus the democrat they elected?
Would they be facing gun control laws now?”
It shouldn’t matter. The right to keep and bear arms is a constitutionally-enumerated right that “SHOULD” not be infringed without a constitutional amendment. It shouldn’t matter if a state has a referendum to ban guns that passes by 99%.
Imagine if a state legislature voted to ban defense lawyers, would we say “more people should have gotten out and voted Republican”? What of a state legislature decided to ban church (and ban synagogues, LOL)? Ban books and newspapers?
Of course, the text of the Constitution means nothing to the black-robed dictators who actually control policy. If Judge Ketanji from Uganda, Judge Elena from Israel, Judge Sonia from Puerto Rico, and Judge Roberts from the country club want to allow states to ban guns, they will be banned.
On May 5, 2026 at 11:28 pm, Herschel Smith said:
But you never even attempted to answer the question. You just gave me wordy words that said nothing at all.
Why do I even do this?
I’m tired of the Socratic dialog with people who can’t think past supper. Taking a break for a while.
It was once different with people who could think. It’s different now.
On May 6, 2026 at 7:04 am, Latigo Morgan said:
“What if Youngkin (or someone else who didn’t believe in gun control) was still on the ticket (and he had no history of gun control) versus the democrat they elected?
Would they be facing gun control laws now?”
Probably not.
White folks are going to turn out to support a White candidate. What the GOP has been putting forward has been stomach turning.
Watch Ohio. I will bet the blonde female democrat beats the barefoot Indian scammer in November. Then, they’ll face the same gun laws as Virginia.
On May 7, 2026 at 1:34 am, Henry said:
“What if Youngkin (or someone else who didn’t believe in gun control) was still on the ticket (and he had no history of gun control) versus the democrat they elected? Would they be facing gun control laws now?”
By “the ticket” do you mean the Democratic candidate, or the ballot in general? Because the Republicans WERE running a candidate who was even BETTER on the 2A than the previous Republican… and she lost. So what are you describing, other than the very election that just happened?
On May 7, 2026 at 4:37 pm, Steady Steve said:
I’m of the opinion that the majority of gun owners who do not vote are the type of people that just want to be left alone, don’t really believe voting matters, and could care less what ridiculous gun laws are passed. And if it came down to banning, registering, or confiscation of any type of firearm their response to .gov would be “FAFO”.