Exclusive: Greer Blasts Democrat State Attorneys General For Choosing Foreign Sweatshops Over American Workers

August 5, 2026
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In a move that should alarm every American who still believes in economic sovereignty, twenty-five Democrat-led states have effectively green-lit the outsourcing of critical supply chains to foreign sweatshops, a decision that hits the firearms industry—and the broader manufacturing backbone that supports it—squarely in the wallet. When state attorneys general prioritize cheap overseas labor over domestic production, they’re not just chasing lower sticker prices; they’re eroding the very industrial capacity that keeps American gunmakers competitive. Every time a domestic forging plant or precision-machining shop loses a contract to a foreign supplier, skilled tradesmen lose hours, apprenticeships dry up, and the next generation of American gunsmiths finds fewer places to learn their craft. The ripple effects for Second Amendment supporters are immediate and tangible. A hollowed-out domestic manufacturing base means fewer American-made firearms, fewer replacement parts, and a growing reliance on overseas vendors whose quality controls and political reliability are questionable at best. When state purchasing power tilts toward foreign sweatshops, it also tilts the regulatory playing field: foreign producers rarely face the same blizzard of state-level environmental, labor, and permitting rules that already squeeze U.S. factories. That asymmetry doesn’t just raise costs for domestic companies—it hands anti-gun activists a ready-made argument that American gunmakers are “uncompetitive,” conveniently ignoring the fact that the competition was rigged from the start. For the 2A community, the takeaway is clear: economic policy and the right to keep and bear arms are two sides of the same coin. A nation that cannot make its own rifles, optics, and ammunition will eventually find itself dependent on governments that view private firearm ownership as a threat rather than a tradition. If state attorneys general truly want to “protect” their citizens, they might start by ensuring those citizens still have a robust, home-grown firearms industry to defend in the first place.

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The ripple effects for Second Amendment supporters are immediate and tangible. A hollowed-out domestic manufacturing base means fewer American-made firearms, fewer replacement parts, and a growing reliance on overseas vendors whose quality controls and political reliability are questionable at best. When state purchasing power tilts toward foreign sweatshops, it also tilts the regulatory playing field: foreign producers rarely face the same blizzard of state-level environmental, labor, and permitting rules that already squeeze U.S. factories. That asymmetry doesn’t just raise costs for domestic companies—it hands anti-gun activists a ready-made argument that American gunmakers are “uncompetitive,” conveniently ignoring the fact that the competition was rigged from the start.

For the 2A community, the takeaway is clear: economic policy and the right to keep and bear arms are two sides of the same coin. A nation that cannot make its own rifles, optics, and ammunition will eventually find itself dependent on governments that view private firearm ownership as a threat rather than a tradition. If state attorneys general truly want to “protect” their citizens, they might start by ensuring those citizens still have a robust, home-grown firearms industry to defend in the first place.

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