Exercising the Right

Laura Loomer “Red-flagged”

Laura Loomer made a name for herself as a conservative investigative journalist and ran for Congress in 2020, but her controversial style of openly confronting Democratic politicians and operatives made her a big target for “deplatforming.” Loomer was banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, Venmo, GoFundMe, Uber, and Lyft, and Chase Bank once shut down her online banking. But it is what recently happened to her that should send chills down the spines of Second Amendment supporters. 

Loomer went public on January 19 on her website, loomered.com, that she “was placed in the Federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and I have been prohibited from ever owning or even touching a firearm.” Loomer explains that she believes it was the FBI who put her on this list and it stems from her confronting former FBI director James Comey at a book signing. Loomer wrote, “I had my 2nd Amendment Rights stripped due to my political views and activism. Given that the FBI is the only organization that can put you in the NICS database, I have reason to believe that I’ve been targeted by the FBI.” Loomer also explained how dire this is, since she is regularly targeted for harassment by Antifa and other far-left lunatics, and she is now unarmed and not able to properly defend herself. 

Loomer wrote that what happened to her is just a foreshadowing of what is to come for anyone in this country with conservative leanings. Loomer warned others that just “as conservative Americans are being banned from social media, banned from banking, and placed on No-Fly lists across the country right now, the next step is to designate them as ‘domestic terrorists’ and strip them of their gun rights.” 

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